Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-28
1oung Mems National Union is to COM

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mence next Tuesday at Boston and contin-
ue In session several days. The president
OF the union Is Rev. Father McGuierl, and
he has in the course of a number of visits
to Boston made excellent arrangements for
the accommodation of the delegates. Dur
ing the course of the discussions at the
convention 1t is expected that a resolution.
already prepared, will be introduced and
carried turning over the Brownson memoir
ial fuEd to the Catholic University of this
city. to be used to establish chair of phil
osophy.
The experiment of keeping the Sunday
school open at Epiphany Church during the
summer at 10 o'clock in the morning has
been tried with gratifying success this sum-
mer. The superintendent, DR.. l.. w. Glaze
brook, has met with the teachers once a
week for the study of the lesson, followed
by social hour and this has proved of adj
vantage in making the lessons interesting
Tor the children. Notwithstanding the heat.
The Fourteenth Street Branch of the &c n
trail Union Mission is holding street meet
ings on several evenings of each week
Among those who have taken part have
been Messrs. Grant Leet, president of the
District Christian Endeavor Union; Clay
ton and Davies.
Archbishop Chapelle of the diocese of
Santa Fe, N. NJ, formerly pastor of St.
Matthews Church of this city. is soon ex-
pected on visit to his old parishioners on
his way back from Rome, where he went to
obtain an increase for his mission work
While here he will attend the meeting of
Beginning with September, the Brother
hood of St. Andrew of Trinity p. E. Church
is to resume its regular meetings interrupt
ed by the warm weather.
Work is progressing favorably on the
new house of worship of the Ninth Street
Christian Church, and the congregation is
hoping to get into the lower floor of the
building before cold weather. They are
now worshiping in a tent: but this cannot
well BE heated, and the congregation will
move into a hall IL portion of the church
is not completed in time.
Rev. Frank Sewall of the New Church
(Swedenborgtan) will take his place in the
pulpit of the church the first Sunday in
September, after an absence of two months
spent, principally, at the ancestral home of
the Sewall family, Coventry Hail. York
Village, Maine.
The American Society of Religious Edu-
cation. with headquarters in Washington
is holding its northern Biblical assembly
this week at Round Lake, N. Y, near
of this city, secretary of the society, is
conducting the exercises, and among those
who have made addresses are Rev DIR.
Rankin. president of. Howard University;
Gen. John Eaton and Prof John M Greg
DRY.
The Woman's Home and Foreign Mission
airy societies of the Baltimore conference of
the Methodist Episcopal Church are to hold
their annual meetings in October. The
Washii gton district quarterly meeting is to
be held about the middle of this coming
month, and at this gathering 1t is possible
that an address will be made by Mrs. s. L.
Beiler. wife of the vice chancellor of the
American University, who has returned
home from Alaska where she went last
June to inspect the missions there Of the
Methodist Church.
Preparations are being made to open
Wayiand Seminary for another year in this
city even though 1t has been said that Il is
to be moved to Richmond. The latter
movement Is not relished much by the pas
Do
nor even by those of the white churches.
and among the former 1t is probable that
an effort may be made to keep it here The
new president, Prof. Hovey has made sew
eral changes in the curriculum which. IL Is
thought, will be for the benefit of the in
stitution.
st. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church is
closed during this month, but will probably
be reopened for services next Sunday week
the pastor, Rev. Stowell L. Bryant, is maxi
ing an extensive tour this month, embrace
Ing the New England and central states,
but will probably return here next week
While nothing definite has been done yet
the congregation is looking around for new
quarters, and may make a move before the
next conference. 1t has been announced
several times that the new owner of the
property was to build residence on it.
and this he b likely to do during the next
six months.
The rector of St. Luke's Protestant Epis-
copal Church, Rev. Owen NJ. Waller. has
next week. Rev. Mr.. Waller has spent the
last two months with his family at Sea Isle
City, N.
The choir Of the Fifteenth Street Presby-
terrain Church. Rev. Francis ]. Grimke,
pastor, Is to commence rendering the mu-
steal portion Of the church services next
Sunday week, at which time the pastor viii
have returned from his summer vacation
spent at Point Pleasant, N. j.
The Sixth Presbyterian Church is tc have
three more elders, to be selected after the
pastors. Rev. D. w. Skellenger. return,