Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-10-31
THE CHURCH CONGRESS-
An Important Gathering Of Episcopal Clergy
and LaNmen Next Month

An Important Gathering Of Episcopal Clergy
and Laymen Next Month.
notable gathering of prominent clerical
and lay members of the Episcopal church of
this country will take place in this city, begin
ming November II. 1t is known as the church
congress and is a deliberative rather than a
legislative assembly. The arrangements for
this meeting are in charge OF q committee of
which Rev. DR.. McKim, the rector of Epiphany
Church, is chairman. There is every indica-
ton that the congress will not only be largely
attended, but that it will be one of the most
important ever held.
Preceding the first session, which will be
held on Tuesday evening, there will be a relig-
ious service in the morning of that day at
Epiphany Church. Communion will be cele-
brated and then the newly consecrated bishop.
the distinguished Phillips Brooks, will deliver
| an address. The general secretary of the last
Congress, Rev. DIR. Wildes, will then deliver an
address In memorial of the members of the con-
gress who have died since the last session. All
the subsequent sessions will be held in the Rifles
Armory hall on q street near 9th street. There
will be two sessions each day.
THE PROGRAM OF THE CONGRESS-
The program of the subjects to be discussed
with the names of those who hate been as
| signed to deliver written or oral speeches is as
follows:
Tuesday p.m.-"Theism and Evolution ~
Writer'S Edwin HARDWOOD, DID,, of New Haven;
S. ID. Mcconnell, ID. D., of Philadelphia.
Speakers, H. l.. Zeigenfuss, d. D., Pough-
keepsie. Ny; Prof Edward Worcester. South
Bethlehem, Pa.
Wednesday. 1890 a.m.-"Socialism." Writ
ers. Reese F. Alsop, DID,, Brooklyn; Rev.
Parcel Narrower. Staten Island; Rev. H. NJ.
Bartlett, Delaware. Speakers, Rev p. W.
Sprague, Charleston. Mass: Rev VIM Prall
Ph.D., Detroit; Prof Il. I. Ely, Johns Hopkin
University, Baltimore, and possibly Henry
George.
8 p.m.-.'Relation of Clergy to Politics"
Writers Jas. Mulchahey, d. D., New York; Rev.
h. L. Myrlck. Sing Sing. n. Y. Speakers. Gen.
Morris Schaf of Massachusetts; Rev. ]. W.
Kramer, NJ. D., Rev. c. H. Baker, Brooklyn.
Thursday, 1880 a.m.-"New and Old Paro-
chial Methods" Writers, G. w Shinn, ID. D.,
Newton, Mass; E. A. Bradley, d. D., Brooklyn;
Speakers, Rev. H. A. C. Adams Buffalo: Rev.
L. NJ. Morrison. Chicago; Rev. H. L. Jones
p.m.-'Catholic and Protestant Tendencies
in the Life Of the Church" Writer'S Prof. C.
E. Grammer. Virginia; Rev. Stewart Means,
New Haven. Speakers, Arthur Brooks. DID,.
Rev. ]. o. s. Huntington (Father Huntington
Bishop Doane, Albany, and bishop Satterlee
Friday, 1880 a. m.-''True Policy of Diocesan
| Missions" Writers, E. r. Atwell, DID,, Kan
sas City, NO.; Rev. J. A. Christensen, New York.
Speakers, Rev. ]. t. Earn. Morristown, n j.;
| kev. Geo. c. Foley, Willamsport, Pa,
2:30 p.m.-"Personal Religion" Writers.
Bishop Whitaker and Bishop Coke. Speakers,
Rev. ID. Parker Morgan. New York Rev. L. W.
Baker. CovingtOn, NY, and Rev. Henry Notice,
New York
Rev. DR.. Huntington, the rector of Grace
| Church, New York city. who will be the guest
of Rev. DIR. McKim, will preach at Epiphany
Church Oh the Sunday evening preceding the
| meeting of the congress.