Evening star., 1897-05-15
IN THE CH U C H E S

Cardinal Gibbons has appointed Rev. A.
B. Haneke assistant pastor of st. Mary's,
Mother. Of God, Church, to succeed Rev.
Henry s. Nagengast. transferred to Bal
timcre Father Haneke has been in the
Catto olic priesthood seven years, having
served the entire time at Holy Cross Par
ish, Baltimore, in which parish he was
| born and reared.
The Northern branch of the Baptists are
to meet in annual convention at Pittsburg
next week. Among the ministerial dele
gates vino will represent Washington will
be Revs. S. H. Greene, Theron Outwater
and A: F. Anderson, besides a number of
laymen:
has organized a senate, with the following
officers: Lloyd NJ Tillman. pI esident; Ed.
A. Beekman, vice president; e. Maurice
Cox, secretary and reading clerk, and
Charles L. Smell, sergeant-at-arms.
The new pastor of Trinity German Luth-
eran Church will arrive in Washington
| next week from his previous home. Port
Richmcnd, Staten Island, and is to be ten
dered a reception on his arrival by the
members of his new congregation. He is
to be formally Installed the Sunday follow
ing. -
Philip of the Western Presbyterian Church
has organized base ball nine and BIZ
cycle club.
Rev Mason Campbell Stryker of Prince
Georges county, who has been assisting
the rector of st. Paurs p. E. Church, has
retl rned to his own parish.
The tenth anniversary of the pastorate
of Rev. James H. Lee of the Third Iap-
tist Church. cOlored. was celebrated by
special services and other exercises dur
ing the first three days of the week.
1t has been decided to postpone the cele-
bration of the seventy-ifth anniversary
of fOnnJtnQ of Peter'S
tie early fall. In the meantime the me-
mortal of the anniversary. the handsome
| marble altar roedred from Italy is in place
and is being used. though it will not be
formally blessed until the anniversary Gel
ebratfon
st. Johns and Ascension p E. churches
have united in having a service for deaf
mutes every Sunday evening in the lecture
room of the latter house of worship
The Young Peoples Society of the Cur
ley Memorial Presbyterian Church, Rev.
J: Russell Verbiycke, pastor, has elected
the following officers to serve during the
ensuing year: President. Miss Gertrude AL
list n; vice president, Miss Alice Carpenter;
secretary. Miss Annie Henderson; treas
urer, Miss A1nie Brane; chairmen Of the
committees, prayer meeting, Miss Allison;
social, Miss Carpenter; lookout, Miss Hen
derson; Sunday school, Miss King; litera-
@ture, @ Miss Griffin; good citizenship, W. A.
WcGGfin; music F: j. Metcalf; flowers, N.
L. Hammer: missionary, Miss Lowe, and
callirg, Miss Watt.
Rev. DIR. Alexander Crummell. former
rector of st. Luke's P. E: Church. sailed
last week from Philadelphia for Europe to
spend the next six months in travel and
study on the continent.
The congregation of Wesley NJ E. Church
are having the parsonage on Sd street
newly papered and painted.
The Methodist Union has decided to hold
a large bazaar some time in the fall in
aid of the church extension fund and Dea-
eoness Home. and for this purpose has
President, G. w. F. Swartzell; first vice
president. Rev. Luther B. Wilson. D. D.:
second vice president DR.: Richard Kings
treasurer, w. F. Rodrick These officers
and the chairmen Of the twenty subcom-
mittees constitute the general committee.
The Fifth Baptist Church has decided to
support home missionary. under the
superntendency of the home mission board
of the southern Baptist convention
The pastor of the Fifteenth Street Pres
byterian Church, Rev. Francis J. Grimke
is preaching series of Sunday morning
sermons on marriage
On the subject of How to Get Children
to the Church Services" discussed at the
Methodist preachers meeting on Monday.
remarks were made by Revs. L. B. Wilson
Henry Baker E., D. Huntley. S. Reese
Murray, A. James. Page Miiburn, W. I.
McDougall and John Evans
Rev. Herbert Scott Smith minister In
charge of the Episcopal Chapel of the
Good Shepherd, is spending this week at
cape may, out. IL expected to return to
Washington today. Rev. Albert M. Hill
liker, also connected with Epiphany parish.
has returned from a two weeks rest in
the mountains Of Pennsylvania.
Fifty-five new members were recent1v re-
ceived into the Sodality of st. Augusfine's
Church. The officers elected by sthe So-
daltty are as follows: Prefect of uen
Thomas Stewart; prefect of women. Mrs.
F. Frelinghuysen; secretary, Mrs Annie
Devaul, and assistant secretary, Miss Leila
Tudy.
The general convention of the New Jeru-
salem Church is in session this week at
st. Louis. r.
A mass meeting of the Baptist Young
Peoples Union OF the District Of Columbia
Is to be held next Friday evening at the
Metropolitan Baptist Church, corner of 9th
and A streets northeast. The meeting is to
be a Chattanooga rally" with special
reference to the international convention
Of the Baptist Young Peoples Union. to
be held this year at Chattanooga, from
the 18th to the 18th of July. The local
union is entitled to a delegate for each
twenty members or fraction thereof and ii
Is expected that nearly the full number
Washington is entitled to will go. The
president Of the local union, Mr. R. A.
Ford. Is also chairman of the transports
fion committee.
South, Rev ". F. Locke % moved M = yester5en Gan5en
into house on 9th street southwest. leased
by him as his church parsonage. The 6af-
sonage has been fitted up from top to bot
tom by the ladies' OF the congregation.-an
next week it is to be the scene Of a house
warming.
Mrs. s. NJ Hartsock. the wife Of Rsv.