Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-10-12
IN THE HURCHES

| Paurs Protestant Episcopal Church are
row completed, and the congregation is
worshiping in the edif1ce. All of the old
pews were removed. and new ones of light
oak have been substituted in their place.
i The chancel, and, in fact, the entire wood
| work of the interior of the structure, has
been made to conform to the coloring of
| the pews, The walls have been decorated.
The services of the vested choir have not
| been forgotten in making the improve
| ments, as the upper story of the parish hall
| has been fitted up to be used by them as a
reading room. The number of choristers is
| now about thirty, and Mr.. Warren S.
Young is the director. Mr.. Young has also
| received the appointment Of lay reader in
the parish and superintendent of the Sum-
day school.
The Society of Christian Endeavor con-
nected with the Eastern Presbyterian
Church is now in charge of one meeting
each month at the northeast branch of the
Central Union Mission. Another work that
the society is doing is personally canvass
ing that section of the city, inviting people
to attend church.
Practically as an outcome of discussions
at the last few meetings of the local coun-
Gil, brotherhood of st. Andrew, Trinity
Chapter of the order organized Bible class
last Sunday under the 1attering circum-
stance of a large attendance. The class is
taught by the assistant rector of the
church, Rev. Alexander M. Rich The
chapter has also begun the work of visit
ing hotels and leaving printed invitations
for strangers to attend services.
The fall meeting of the Columbian Bap-
list Association is to be held from the
the Brookland Baptist Church. Rev. &. C.
Meador, d. D., is the moderator and Mr..
Samuel NJ. Yeatman is the stated clerk
The Thursday evening before the conven-
ton the young people of the local Bap-
tist churches are to hold mass meeting
IN the same church. which will be address,
ed by Miss MacLaurin of Boston, topic
not decided. This address will be the prin-
cfDal feature of the gathering; the first of
the new church year.
The Sunday school of St. Paurs Catholic
Church opened last Sunday with a large
attendance. ard win continue its sessions
under the direction of the Rev. Joseph
Foley, one Of the assistant rectors of the
parish. Officers have been elected as fol-
lows: Superintendent. Charles A. Dunn;
assistant superintendent, Andrew H. Sher-
idan; secretary. Miss Daisy Dyer; treas
urer, Frank d. Heron; librarian, Miss
Mary O'Driscoll, and organist, Miss Mamie
Byrne. Hereafter there will be a special
mass celebrated in the chapel for the chill
dren belonging to the Sunday school.
Extensive work has been going on dur
ing September and the summer months to
Waugh Church and the parsonage attach
ed. The improvements consist of a fine
church building and also the wood work
of the interior, new carpeting to both the
main auditorium and lecture room and
new furnace. The parsonage was treated
in similar way. The cost of the work
has been about three thousand dollars, all
of which has been raised.
Rev. A. w. Pitzer, d. D., of the Central
Presbyterian Church has commenced a
series of Wednesday evening addresses
the DEVELOPMENT of the Old Testament
Beginning With the Book of Judges"
Pastor Edward E. Bagby is well supplied
with fruit of various kinds for winter use
by means of a fruit social which the
members of the church to the number OF
nifty rendered him and Mrs. Bagby Monday
evening by way of surprise. The affair
was gotten UP by the Ladies' Aid Society of
the church
Friday. October % has been fixed upon as
the date Tor holding the autumn rally of the
Junior Christian Endeavor Union. and the
Luther Memorial Church as the place
Every superintendent who had charge of
party at the Country Home at Falls Church
Va, Will make report in which he or she
! viii detail her experiences. An effort is
also to he made to have every child Who was
recipient of the hospitality of the horne
present on the occasion. The home closed
the first of this month, and was 4 success
financially as well as in other ways, there
remaining to the credit of the union a COM
Portable balance after the payment of all
debts.
The Presby Alliance has appointed
centennial celebration of the First Church.
Mr.. Foster to speak, with others, on the
topic, Pre- sbyterianism in the District of
Columbia
Rev. John E. Fout, pastor of the United
Brethren Memorial Church, at the corner of
r and North Capitol streets, left Monday
on vacation. Rev. Mr. Fout will be absent
frcm the city about two weeks, all OF which
time he Will spend at his former home in
West Virginia.
The Ministerial Association of the NJ. E
Church South has changed its day of meet
ing from Tuesday to Monday 1.-The place
| of meeting, Mt. Vernon Church, remaining
the same as heretofore AT the session this
| week Rev. nr Isaac w. Canter lectured on
The Pastor in the Home;" next week
Rev. John o. Knott will talk about The
Pastor in the Study" and will be followed
by other speakers on the Pastor in the
Pulpit, in the Society, in Revival Meet
lngS, etc.
The revival services at the Del Ray NJ
T.. Church have closed. after being contin-
ueu for three weeks, under the direction of
the pastor, Rev. ID. w. Kern. AS result
the membership of the church has increased
and also the attendance at the Sabbath
school.
The Christian Endeavor Society of the
North Presbyterian Church has formed an
Ell Geavor choir under the leadership OF
Miss Florence K'dvyell.
Gonzaga College Sodality has reorganized
for the year with the following officers:
Robert Fl. Achstter, project, and Albert
koi'iitll anu " SouSfilIl as ASSISTANTS. ne
society has as its spiritual director one of
! the priests attached to the college.
The Methodist Ministers Associa ton held
meeting Monday morning at Foundry
Church which was devoted principally to
addresses on foreign missions. Talks On
the subject were made by DIR. Hugh john
ston of the Metropolitan, DIR. Henry Baker
who has just returned from year of travel
through the east, particularly in China,
Japan and India, and by d. w. Potter, the
Chicago evangelist, now in the city. The
| members of the association welcomed in
their midst after an absence of some time
Rev. Julius Soper, presiding elder of the
Japan conference. DR.. Sopcr is former
Washington!an.
Rev. f. H. Smith, pastor of the Tenley-
town NJ f. Church, has been ill for two
weeks of typhoid fever at the Johns Hop
kins Hospital, Baltimore; but is now on the
read to recovery. Rev. j. r. Schultz is
| another Methodist minister down with ty-
phoid. He was very low for a time, but is
now getting better.
The ninth annual meeting Of the Wo-
| mems Synodical Societies for Home and
| Foreign Missions of the Maryland Presby-
| terian Synod will be held in the First
| Church, Baltimore. Thursday, October IL.
Representatives will be present from many
| of the churches of this city.
The Sunday school committee of the
Vermont Avenue Christian Church Chris
| tan Endeavor Society is canvassing in the
neighborhood of the church for scholars
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