Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-11-27
DISTRICT EPWORTH LEAGUE
First Session Of Annual Meeting at Hamline
Church Last Evening.
DR.. Lucien Clark Talks Of s'HerOcs
ON Grained for Service"

The seventh annual convention Of the Ep-
worth League of the District OF Columbia
began last evening at Hamline Church, cor
ner of 9th and P streets northwest, Rev. w.
r. Stricken, D. D., pastor. Mr.. w. s. Dew
hirst, president of the District League. oc-
cupied the chair. After song service led
by Mr.. William ]. Palmer, with Mr.. o. D.
SWEET as organist, Rev. DR.. L. B. Wilson,
Iresiding elder of Washington district, Bal
timore conference, conducted devotional
services, following which Rev. DIR. Lucien
Clark, pastor of Foundry Church, delivered
an address on Heroes Wanted"
After stating that in most instances the
life of a person was influenced by his
course of reading, DIR. Clark said. in part:
"One who has for himself studied the
Bible sees before him high and noble char
acters and ambitions. true hero is the
highest type of a man. There is a great
deal of spurious manhood and womanhood
in the world. 1t would take a strong cleo
trio light to find a true man In some por-
lions of our modern society. There are
more worthless men than women; there
are more women than men in the Epworth
League and in the church; nevertheless the
material cut of which true heroines are
made is not so plentiful as we might wish
it to be-
Birds and Pug Dogs.
DIR. Clark then read aloud letter written
by young lady to lord bishop in Eng
land, in reply to request from the latter
that the young lady engage in some kind
of Christian work. The writer of the letter
stated in detail how she was engaged from
early morning until late at night, and APP
pealed to the lord bishop to know If he
thought, after what she had told him, She
had time to do anything else. A part of
the young woman's duties was stated by
her to be to feed the canaries and parrots,
and DR.. Clark said he believed that if some
of the young ladies in society in Washing
ton were asked to engage in Christian
work they would not only reply that they
have canaries and parrots to feed, but also
pug dog to look after.
Continuing, the speaker said I'VE can
easily see the need of hero in the days of
Daniel and Elijah, and some of the other
prophets. and again in the days of Wesley
and Asbury and other pioneers of Meth
odism, when bravery required to stand
up for ones belief in the doctrines taught
by the Methodists but it is more difficult
to realize that there is still a demand for
heroes.
1--WE need" said the sneaker. "a heroic
spirit to be true Christians. Jesus said Fol
low me-. and if to be Christians
must follow Him even If we have to en-
counter opposition and reproach.' The
speaker instanced cases in support of this
statement, and said: There Christians
who are greater heroes than Napoleon
Wellington. There are opportunities today
for heroes and heroines.''
Training for Duty.
Rev. W. L. Mcdowell! of Baltimore made
an address or. Trained for Service" He
urged that it was impossible for the
church to get the highest type of service
from it's followers unless they were trained
for the work. no matter how earnest and
Il val the Christian might be-
The chair announced the appointment of
two committees, as follows:
Messrs. J. S. Hough, j. F.
Engle and J. S. Barker.
observation-disclosures w. c. Eldrich, s. A.
Terry and T. B. Stahl.
Tie second days proceedings OF the con-
Iention began this afternoon at / 80
o'clock. The program for the day and
evening was printed in The Star of last
evening. The convention will close with
junior rally tomorrow evening.