Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-16

circular wall put in its place, thus giving
opportunity to build circular stairs. which
has been done, and very greatly charging
the exit.
Great improvement has also been made
in the stairways leading to the audience
room at the other corner of the building.
northeast corner of the building opening on
H street. There are six communicating
passageways between the church and the
Sunday school house, which, with the other
points mentioned, give this auditorium
probably the best exits Of any church in
Washington.
A beautiful oak wainscoting has been
put into the audience room, and, In fact,
everything which could beautify the place
has been done. The lower room of the
church has also been thoroughly overhauled
and redecorated making a fine room for
Sunday school purposes. Back of this room
arrangements have been made for the con-
venience of candidates for baptism, and
fine robing rooms with all the convenences
necessary have been provided for their use.
Between these rooms and also back of the
main lecture room is another, twenty-one
by twenty-siX feet In size, which has been
set apart for one of the large primary
schools. 1t will accommodate about one
hundred and twenty-five scholars, and adds
very much to the capacity Of the building
for charging the Sunday school. This be-
ing completed gives Calvary Baptist Church
a well-adapted building for church work
in all its different branches.
A HemurkaDle hecOrO.
Calvary Church has had somewhat Of
remarkable record in the past, and 1t is be-
lieved that IL its opportunities are wisely
improved 1t will accomplish even greater
things in the future. From small begin
nings it seems to have had life and great
activity from the first, which has continued
almost without interruption. 1t has been
little more than thirty years since the
church was organized, and almost thirty
years since they entered the first house OF
worship, that was destroyed by fire, rebuilt
and again occupied in 1869 The fortunes of
the church were varied for ten years, when
the present pastor, Pew. Samuel H. Greene,
d. D., was called to the field. For sixteen
years he has ministercd to the people with
marked success. From a membership of
only four hundred, the church has grown
until at present it numbers nearly fifteen
hundred. Beside these many hundreds have
come into it's membership and gone out
again to almost every state and territory in
the Union, SO that its influence reaches far
beyond the limits of the city of Washington.
DIR. Greene has the happy faculty of draw
ing around him the strongest men and wo-
men of the church and of setting everybody
to work. and keeping all in their respective
places. The entire church and congregation
is thoroughly united in him, and he min
listers to a people who waste no energies in
dispute, but reserve all force for the prose-
cution of the work to which they are called.
Services on Sunday.
The service tomorrow morning will be
beautiful one, and the sermon will be by
the pastor The new organist, Mr.. Frank
Gebest, recently of Berlin, will be assisted
in presenting the music of the day by
chorus organized among the young people
of the church, and one of the best quartets
which could be secured in Washington. The
singers in the quartet will be Mrs. Dorothy
Rogers Noyes, soprano: Miss Eleanor U.
SimondS, contralto; Mr.. Perry Turpin
tenor; MIR. William D. Hoover, basso. The
singers in the chorus will be: Sopranos, Mrs
Joseph Chunn and the Misses Katharine
Stickney, Bertha Bristow, Bertha Loucks,
Carter, Fanny Jacobs; contraltos, the Misses
Helen Mckeever, Elizabeth Tabler, Ethel
Foster, Laura Walker, Rosamond Stickney
Irene Cowman; tenors Messrs. Samuel r
Smith, Fred Hoskins, George H. Judd DR..
Frank A. Swartwout; bassos Messrs. j. r.
Mothershead, L. c. Brown, Frank Mothers
head and Mr.. Broaden.
1t is only fair to say that while almost
every member in the congregation has
done all that has been possible to do in
financial way, yet the splendid contribu-
ton of one member of the congregation has
made 1t possible to accomplish the great
work done in SO short a time When Dr.
Greene. on the gloomy Sunday of January
l. 1888, set forth the possibilities of the
work in the church in his eloquent way
and called for subscriptions to prosecute
that work, enthusiasm was kindleI at
once by the subscription of $4,000 by the
member referred to. and that enthusiasm