Evening star., 1897-03-13
IN THE C-HgU RCHES


named Calvary, and is in charge of Mr..
Haffer, young man from Baltimore Mr.
Hafrer has undertaken the work on his own
responsibility. The school, which is now
using the Brookland town hall, numbers
about a hundred scholars.
The new main altar of st. PEERS Catho-
lie Church is completed and was used last
Sunday for the first time. 1t is to be for
mally consecrated some time in the latter
part of April.
The Rev. William Everett johnson. rec
tor of the Church of the Redeemer. New
York city, has promised the brotherhood
of st. Andrew of st. Paufs +. L. Church
to conduct special services for men in that
church, April {, 5 and >.
The new officers of Calvary Baptist Sun
day school are as follows: Superintendent.
Pierson Fl. BriStow; secretary, Miles NJ
Shand; treasurer, Waring e. Evans, and
librarian, David A. Chambers. There are
besides six associate superintenden.s of de-
partmentS and nineteen assistants to the
officers. The total enrolment of the school,
including all departments. is about seven
teen hundred, making 1t the largest in this
city, and one of the largest in the coun-
try.
The Women's Foreign Missionary Society
of the northern Baptist convention is to
hold its annual meeting in this city, We'd
nesday and Thursday. April p and - The
sessions are to be held ir Calvary Baptist
about six hundred delegates present rep
resenting a large number of the states of
the Union and several foreign countries
The Washington committee of arrange
ments is headed by Mrs. f. w. Bliss as
chairman.
Among the visitors in the city last week
was w. N. HaPtshorn of Boston, editor of
The Home, and well known as a member
of the executive committee of the Inter-
national Sunday School Union The MEM
bers of the executive committee have been
notified that the worlds Sunday school
convention, which was to have been held
in London this summer, has been post
poned to next year at the same time on
account of the celebration of the queens
jubilee taking place this summer.
Rev Father NJ. c. Dolan of ST. Aloysius'
Church left for New York this week to
conduct mission in the Church of the
immaculate Conception in that city, which
will not close until the 22d of this month
The Rev. D. J. Stafford of ST. Patrick's
Church is delivering a course of Sunday
evening Lenten sermons
Preliminary Preparations are being made
by the American Society of Religious E1u-
cation for its annual banquet. which is to
be held next month, to which are invited
the regents and members of the society
ard each an invited guest. The society is
also endeavor1ng to raise funds with which
to open its Bible training school. Plans
nave been fully completed and approved
fer this institution, and when the neces-
sary funds are on hand the school will
open up IN the DulldlnS OF the Central
Union Mission, having already the names
of prospective scholars.
An Improvement has been made in
Epiphany Chapel, Rev Albert NJ. Hiiiiker,
sion of the choir platform. The addition
makes possible an enlargement of the
choir membership.
At St. Domnic's Church located iii South
asnington, an interesting ceremony is to
occur tomorrow when Rev. L. p O'Rourke
or the Order of st. Dominic is to celebrate
his first mass at the morning service Rev
rather ORourke who was formerly Of this
CITY, was ordained to the priesthood Fri
day at Somerset. Ohio, and comes back to
Washington especially to officiate for the
hrst time in his new position at his old
parish church.
nomination in this city and vicinity met
Monday at Mt. Carmel Church. corner Of
4th and J. streets northwest. and of which
the Rev. j. H. Gibbons is pastor, 10 listen
to an address by Rev. W. Bishop john
son, ID, on The Relation of Baptists to
the Reformation"
Rev. Father Foley, first assistant to
Father Mackin. at st. ,Paurs Catholic
past, caused by overwurk, and has just
returned to the city, after snort rest
The Christian Endeayor Society of Grace
Eaptist Church. Rev: 4: F. Anderson, PAS
tor, has arranged to have one meeting each
month devoted to lecture. followed by a
social half kour and the other three even
ings to the study of Shakespeare, and the
regular pursuits of the organizattoD The
frst iii the course of lectures was one On
Venice, delivered by Mr.. z. Hilton Jack
son, young member of the District bar
Kew. Chauncey r. Botsford of Susuue-
hanna University. Selinsgrove Pa was r
Washington last week and a portion of
tfls. Last Sunday he preached in the
me rning at the West Washington Lutheran
Church and in the evening at the Keller
Memorial Church. Rev Mr. Botsford vas
for some time in charge of ST. Marks
Lutheran Church, C street near 18th south
west.
The District of Columbia Sunday School
Union has started on tie Preparatory work
preliminary to the house-to- house VISITATION
or this city, which they are concentrating
making. The plan is to have the city
divided into districts with each district in
chafge or superintendent and CORPS of
assistants, and then on given dav have
every residence in this city canvassed and
It's inmates classified for religious purposes
me names SO secured will be turned over
to the committee and they, in turn. will
sort them and then send them to the var
lous local pastors. SO that they may look
after the people in their respective neigh
borhoods more thoroughly. Those minis
ters to whom the plan has been submitted
give 1t their cordial approval and 1t is
expected that if all work together it will
result In immense good, not only to the
pastors themselves, but to the city at large.
II ls estimated that about one thousand
persons will be required for the work, and
they will be in charge of a committee Of
the union. headed by Mr.. Plerson H. Bris-
Tow as chairman, and Mr.. Jerome f. John
son as secretary, and having a membership
of sixteen
The wife of Rev. George o. Little, pastor
OF the Assembly's Presbyterian Church
was critically i'll this week, but is now
somewhat improved The illness of Mrs.
Little prevented DR.. Little from occupying
his pulpit last Sunday, and it was filled by
the Rev. Henry P. Higley, DID, of Beloit,
Wis.
Not long after the publication of The
star last Saturday. Rev. Fl. Fields Saume-
mig VINO, it was then announced in The
Star, had been appointed temporary assist
ant at Epiphany Church, received a note
from Bishop Satteree asking him to con-
tinue In charge Of Grace p E. Church,
from which he had just been relieved
Rev. Mr.. Saumeng will therefore continue
at Grace Church until the 1st of May It
Is rumored that he has succeeded in pleas
Ing the people of that church so we'll that
II by that time the rector of the church
mas not improved in health, he will be
elected to succeed him. The rector, Rev.
Thomas Q. Tongue, has been in North Car
DINA for some weeks for the benefit of his
health, but at last accounts had not much
improved.
Officers of the Sunday school of the Fif-
teenth Street Presbyterian Church have re-
Gently been elected as follows: Superin-
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