Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-23

who had been to services at Notre Dame
OF several occasions.
Well" says the amt whose shocked
cars misinterpreted the Franco-American
pronunciation of the venerable cathedral
of Notre Dame. Il never thought of
our family would come back from Paris
swearing,
Paris is so much wickeder nowadays that
most people imagine the answer as the
good lady understood it would represent
the average church going of Americans in
Paris. They would be wrong. Tourists go
to The Church of the Madeleine TO hear one
kind of music. or to the Russian Church to
hear another. or to Versailles to see the
fountains play on the proper Sunday. But
some OF them remember the home proprie-
ties and join the resident colony in. at
least. morning attendance at one or other
OF the American churches of Paris.
The Three Churches.
There are three churches specially built
fox the use of Americans who reside on the
right side of the Seine in the neighbor-
hood of The long Avenue des Champs
FL! sees That is the quarter of the for
eigners VINO nave money, and the Ameri-
cans of Paris belong for the most part to
this class.
Evangelical Alliance. which usually has had
CONGREGATIONAL pastor. 1t dates back to
1871. when the empire and Empress Eu-
genie We're in full blast. making Paris the
Center of the worlds curiosity and fashion.
1t occupies the long narrow space between
Two tall apartment houses of the Rue dc
Bvrri. In front of Gothic facade Lecorous-
" shows TO the gay world driving UP TO
the nelShboiinS palaces of Princess Ma
1hlIde Bondparte that American spiritual
lelven fer1nants by the seats of the Pari-
sian mighty. But the street is not { her
wise noted or notorious. which is some
thing TO say in Paris
The American Episcopal Church of tine
Holy Trinity is more recent. For a long
time all the piety affiliated to the E.stab-
hshed Church OF England was contained IN
me small chapel of the English embassy.
Between twenty and thirty years ago a
lew American EpiScopalians desired that
President Gran; should be prayed for as
wen as Queen Victoria So they started a
little temporary chapel in side street
where the Scotch PrcsbyterianS still hold
Cut. IN a modest kirk.
Eleven years ago the Americans were en-
aDleG TO migrate into fine large Gothic
inildinS built for their express purposes on
the new Avenue de TAIma in one of the
most fashionable quarters. The church sits
with dignity in its own lot. There is a
church house Gottic enough To s,1t the
most enthusiastically inclined Anglican,
forming wiz behind a grass plot The
tower is not finished But the neighboring
apartment houses. among the richest OF
fdrls. cannot inciOse the lot SO far as to
obscure tie presence of an American
church in the fashionable avenue.
In Good Company.
Next door Nine. Ca-not. widow of the
rartyred president of the French republic.
has her apartment. and there are titled peo-
pie all along the street. In Paris as in
America. the EpiscopaIians are near very
near, TO the summit of the social pyramid
without. however, being in darger of going
OH at the apex. Their pastor. TO whom the
building of the church is mainly due is the
Rev Dr. John Morgan. one of the financial
Morga1s-
The Rev. DR. Thur5er is the pastor of the
Evanselical Church. His church building
Is IN street less fashionable and hot
nearly as beautiful. But he has scored
one Tor his weekly receptions by securing
an APARTMENT for his residence over the
nited States embassy. The new ambas-
sedor, General Horace Porter even at
tehds MS church. Which all goes to prove
1nt healthiness OF competition in religion
as IN politics and tradc. and also that
Americans in the communicating climate of
Paris are not much different from what
they are at home.
Roman Church fs Fashionable
The Roman Catholic Church. which is as
much for the English as for the Ameri-
cans. and which has mainly an Irish clergy
10 even up International complications is in
the Avenue Hoehe. where Minister White
law REID occupied a house with the most
expensive rental of Paris. 1t has good
music; its midnight mass al Christmas is
fashionable, and u has swell people in its
congregation. some of whom are converts
but do not care TO frequent the French
churches
Some have received titles of nobility from
the pope. which Is handy in Paris There
Is the Marquise d'Oyley. nee Evans, of the
Il mily of Empress Eugenies dentist; the
Marquise de Wentworth. who acquired
some reputation as a salon painter when
she was plain Mrs Cecilia Wentworth and
there Is the Comtesse de Spottiswood
Mackin. and doubtless others.
80 Tar as Americans arc concerned the
existence of this church is noteworthy only
10 snow now much they stard in need OF
the maternal tongue. fer the French Ro-
man Catholic churches ere otherwise all
mat could be desired. 1t is Lot the same
WIRE the French Protestant churches
where the sermons and singing aro varx,