Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-07-24


Campbell as a Polemic:'' Rev. F. d.
Power, LID, pastor of the Vermont Ave-
nue. Christian Church. "Campbell's Inner
Life" There ID to be another meeting In
August.
ladies benevolent society is in process
OF organization among the members of st.
Teresa's Catholic Church, and the follow
Ing ladies have been appointed q commit
tee to draw up constitution and report
at the next meeting: Mesdames Shreve,
Downey Handy. Osterman and Norton.
Rev. J. McLain Brown, home missionary
OF the Maryland conference of the Meth
odist Protestant Church. has taken up his
Quartars In Washington for the summer
months and has started q campaign Of
evangelization.
Mr.. W. B. Millar. field secretary of the
International Young Mems Christian Assoc
citation, left the city the first of this week.
The pastor of Wesley Methodist Church,
Rev J. Fred Heisse. expects to leave the
LIST Of August for Washington county, Nd,
for four weeks vacation
Inc position of choirmaster at the Pro-
Cathedral Church of St. Mark until re-
Gently filed by DR.. John E. Parker. will
be occupied in future beginning with the
first Sunday in September, by Prof. De
Oneo Brown. who received his training in
the choirs of New York city, and 1t is said
of the choir
Bishop Satterlee is expected to return
to this country the 18th of next month. but
will go Immediately to his summer home
al twilight Park, Catskills. where he has a
cnapel IN which he will conduct services
during the rest of the summer DR. SAT-
terlee IS expected to return to this city in
ime TO preach the first Sunday in October
AZ Rene she p BRO . 9smae of St, Mark.
OF 81. Paufs p. E. Church, Rock Creek
parish, has improved sufficiently to be able
10 take charge of his services again.
"a Iaily mas been arranged for the Luther
an christian Endeavorcrs, to take place
a T.,,fba
rial Church 1t is to be in the nature Of a
san Francisco echo rally"
"A mass meeting of the Brotherhood of
st. Andrew has been arranged for tho lat
ter part of this month at st, Margaret,s
u. Church. at which several addresses will
be made on the coming convention of the
organization.
The pastor of Metropolitan NJ. E. Church.
Rev. Hugh Johnston, DID,, has gone to
Europe DR.. Johnston expects to spend the
most of his time in London at the British
museum. studying Assyriology, in which he
has already attained some fame as
scholar
Upon his return to America Dr. Johnston
VIII spend two weeks with his family at
their summer home near Niagara Falls.
ana return to Washington about the last
or September. The services at Metropoli-
tan Church during his absence are to be
conducted by various ministers in the
morning, and in the evening by the Ep-
worth League.
Archbishop Martinelli returned to the
city this week from Plattsburg, where he
formally opened the regular sess q I of the
Catholic Summer School of America
A recent guest at the pastoral residence
OF st. Paurs Church. Rev. Father Mackin,
has been the Rev. w. E. Starr pastor of
Corpus Christi Church, one of the largest
parishes of Baltimore
The sixteenth annual reunion of the rail-
road Young Mems Christian Associations
In this section of the country is to be held
next Thursday at Harper's Ferry. The
music is to be conducted by Mr.. George W.
Havell of this city. and the representatives
on the reunion committee from here are
Messrs. George w. Wheeler and George
W. Havell. Rev. E. D. Bailey will make
an address.
The pastor of lions Lutheran Church.
Rev. Albert Homrighaus. with his family,
has left for the mountains of western
Maryland, to spend the rest of the summer
A special meeting of the Lutheran Min
isters Association was held on Monday
morning at st. Paufs Church to consider
the question of how the annual meeting of
the Maryland synod in October is to be en-
tertained, and also how the future sessions
OF the synod will be cared for. No decision
was reached at this meeting, but another
one Is to be held with the same object in
view.
The directors of the Lutheran Home for
the Aged, appointed at the recent meeting
OF the general synod Lutherans. met on
Wednesday. out at the home, near Ivy
City. and elected the following officers to
serve loT one year. PRESIDENT Kew. w. T..
Parson. DID, pastor of the Church of the
reformation: treasurer, Mr.. Albert F. Fox
of ST. Paul's Church. and secretary Mr. l.
c. Slater of the Church of the Reforma-
ton. There Is also an organization of la
dies acting in conjunction with the direc-
tors
Rev. Samuel Domer of ST. Paurs Church
has purchased a country home near East
Washington Heights. and is spending the
summer there with his family, coming into
the city on Sundays.
Vesper services have been substituted at
Grace Methodist Church, Rev. George V.
Leech, for the regular Sunday evening SER
vice.
Rev. DR.. Teunis s. Hamlin Of the Church
Of the Covenant has left for his summer
vacation. and will be gone until late in
September. Dr. Hamlin is to spend several
weeks at number of places. and will then
join his family at Nantucket.
Rev. Paul A. Mcneil of the Gomez rdia
German Evangelical Lutheran Church will
leave the LIST Of August for a two weeks
stay on the eastern shore of Maryland
Rev. F. D. Power LII. D., of the Vermont
Avenue Christian Church of this city will
speak at the meeting of the American
Christian Missionary Society in Indianapo-
lis on Home Missions"
The Epworth League of Wesley NJ. e.
Church has been conducting services at the
jail for some time past. Among those who
are active in this work are Mr. A. A.
Taylor and the Misses Fowler
Rev. Charles F. Hayes curate of the
Pro-Cathedral Church of 81. Mark, is visit
ing his family in New Jersey, and later will
spend some time in the Adirondacks, re-
turning to Washington in the latter part of
September.
Rev. DR.. George v. Leech Of Grace
Church expects to spend a portion of his
vacation at Ocean Grove, N. J., and will
be accompanied by his son, Rev Hedding
B. Leech of ST. James Church, Newark
formerly Of this city. who is contemplating
taking the course in the Summer School of
Theology, which begins there in August
The standing committee of the diocese of
Washington met this week and acted IA
vorably on the election of bishops coadjutor
for the dioceses of Virginia and Rhode Is
land. The committee will not probably
have any more meetings until the return Of
the bishop.
The Luther League of St. Marks Church,
South Washington, has placed a memorial
transom over the front entrance of the
church. and is negotiating for the purchase
OF a handsome memorial window In memory
of the father of the pastor of the church.
Rev. George w. Lee, pastor of the Yer
mont Avenue Baptist Church, is in charge
of the Liberty Baptist Church, pending the
selection Of a regular pastor.
The congregation of Salem Baptist
Church. located on Champlain avenue, have
chosen a minister successor to the Rev.
8. Geriah Lamkins in the person of Rev.
]. A. Edgerton, who has accepted the CALL
Dowr H.