Word: vespers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Greater New York Federation of Churches began its radio activities by broadcasting Bishop Herbert Shipman's sermon from a public meeting in Manhattan. Since then the Federation has broadcast daily morning prayers, a weekly Youths Radio Conference, a weekly interdenominational service, a weekly hymn service, a Sunday vesper service. Last autumn, the sermons of Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, of Union Theological Seminary and of the Park Avenue Baptist Church in Manhattan, were added to the vesper services. Last week, these were formally organized as the National Church of the Air. A representative of the radio committee of the Federation...
...meantime, there is nought but a sordid hole in the sidewalk with a row of vesper lanterns being burnt as an offering to the soul of the departed and, as Bob remarked, looking at the upturned cage with its iron spikes, "to save the boys pants from being torn on Saturday nights...
...school teachers of the U. S. made out the term grades, dusted their blackboards, shut their desks, drew their pay, boarded trains for Washington, D. C. There they swarmed upon the steps of the National Capitol for a vesper service that opened the 62nd annual meeting of the National Education Association. That organization now has 140,000 members, of which 80% are classroom teachers...
...Notice: No student shall allow his taper to burn later than the sixth mark after the going down of the sun. The rounding of tabors, laragytes, zithers, calipantas, tom-toms, or other musical instruments, is forbidden during the noon and vesper hours of contemplation...
Morning Service, 10.30. Church School 12 M. Vesper Services, 4.30. Young People's Alliance, 7.15, followed by informal hour...