Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-04-09

James McCauiey. The financial statement
OF the church made at meeting a fe.'
during the passionate of Rev. DR.. Hartsock,
whose term there recently expired, amount
ed to $27. 800.
Great interest is being taken among the
drew in the preparations for the general
convention, which Is to be held in Balti-
more from September % to October 2. in
elusive. An unusually large attendance Of
members from distance is expected.
Among them will be representatives of the
Brotherhood OF st. Andrew from Canada,
Scotland, Australia, England. West Indies
and South America. This body is compos-
ed of representative layInen and many OF
the clergy of the Protestant Episcopal
Church. 1t was organized out of the Young
Mems Bible class in ST. James Church.
Chicago, November 80, 1888 and from
small beginning has grown to many thou
sands of members throughout the United
States and foreign lands.
Rev. DR.. Richard Harcourt Of the Balti-
more conference. and well known In this
city. has been appointed corresponding sec
rotary of the American Tract Society. 1t
was understood that DR.. Harcourt would
become pastor OF the Peoples Church in
Boston. bet that congregation. retains its
present pastor for another year. At the
end of the term, 1t is understood. DR.. Har-
court will be appointed to that place.
Friends Of DR.. Harcourt say his present
appointment will afford him q much-need-
ed rest and give him the opportunity which
he has long desired for travel in the east
and in the Holy Land.
Sister Augusta B. Shaffer, who, as here
tofore stated in The Star. has been aD-
pointed to take charge Of the Muhlenberg
Mission, Liberia. sailed for that distant
land Wednesday. Sister Shaffer was until
recently head sister of the mother house
of the Lutheran deaconesses of the genera:
synod. She goes via England, and will be
accompanied by Miss Van Leer Of Bridge
ton. N. j.
Active preparations are being made by
Il aiding Baptists of the District of Column
bia to attend the forty-third session OF the
Southern Baptist convention, which VIII
be held in the Freemason Street Baptist
Church Of Norfolk beginning Friday. May
6. and continuing about a week. The an
nual sermon will be preached. 1t Is ex-
pected, by President B. L. Whitman. DID,
OF Columbian University, or. In his alb
sence by his alternate. Rev. ]. j. TAYLOR of
Alabama. The American Baptist edaca-
ton board will hold it's annual meeting
in Norfolk the afternoon and evening of
May 8.
Rev. Dr. Walter H. Brooks of the Nine
teenth Street Baptist Church, this city,
has accepted an invitation to speak at the
annual meeting next week in Baltimore Of
the Maryland State Temperance League.
DR.. Brooks theme will be 1.-The Principles
OF tho Anti-Saloon League and Its Work
in Washington
The annual collection for the students OF
St. Charles College will be taken up in the
Catholic churches throughout the arch
diocese of Baltimore at all the masses to-
morrow. This collection is exclusively for
the education of those who are preparing
themselves to exercise the duties of the
ministry in this archdiocese. Cardinal
Gibbons has expressed the nope that this
Easter collection will meet in part at least
the growing demand Upon the archdiocese
by the multiplication of parishes and the
death or retirement by reason of age of SO
devoted DrieStS
One of the most prominent personages
who will attend the general conference Of
the Methodist Episcopal Church South i'll
Baltimore next month will be Rev. Dr.
Young j. Allen, who has the reputation OF
being probably the best known white man
in the Chinese empire, where he has labor
ed for the last thirty-five years a mis-
slonary. Dr. Allen. Is expected TO visit
Washington in the course Of few weeks.
Mr.. l. l.. Blout,- president of the Wash
ir Gton Hebrew Cor gregation. has returned
from visit to Baltimore, where he went
for the purpose of inspecting the arks of
the different temples there, with view of
deciding upon the best plan of adjoining the
Interior Of the new temple in Washington.
movement Is on foot among some of
the leading Baptists of this city and var
ious northern cities to establish at Black
Mountain, the home of the late Senator
Vance, a community, the general plan of
which is similar to that of Ocean Grove,
Nj. but under the direction of ministers
and Christian people of several denomina
tons. The community will be on the line
Of the Southern railway, about twelve
miles east of Asheville, NC. and a cor
responding distance from Biltmore, the
estate of George Vanderbilt.
A charter has been obtained from the
North Carolina legislature with special
privileges. The grounds of the association
contain over 800 acres. and the altitude of
the settlement is 200 feet above the sea
level This is the highest land east of the
Rockies. and there are twenty-three noun
tains in the vicinity higher than Mount
Washington, N. II. Schools, stores and
exceptional religious privileges are already
being provided, and the sale of liquor is
forever prohibited by legislative enact
ment.
Some of the most prominent of the Sal
walton Army people of this city expect to
visit New York week after next to attend
the series of farewell meetings which are
to be given there in honor of General
Booth. who is about to return to England.
He will reach New York the 10Th instant
and remain one week. The mass meeting
in his honor in Carnegie Hall is scheduled
for the evening of the 10Th, and on the 10Th
and 21st he will meet officers of the army
from all parts of the United States to the
number of thousand. The evening of
April y a banquet is to be given In the
Lenox Lyceum. Sunday, 24th, General
Booth will make two addresses 81 the head
quarters and one in the Academy of Music
Other meetings have also been arranged
for him. His final address will be delivered
on tire Social Work of the Salvation
Army"
Gen. Booth will be accompanied down
New York bay on his departure on We'd
nesday, 9th, by four five small vessels.
each of which Is expected to be loaded with
Salvationists. On account of the general.
advanced age it Is considered unlikely
that he will again come to this country
and II Is the intention of those connected
with the national headquarters to make
the occasion of his farewell visit memo
rable.
At the recent congregational meeting of
the lexington Presbyterian Church the
following officers were elected: Messrs s.
Garnet Wise and William Ii Richards
were chosen as ruling elders and Messrs
Carl A. johnson, George W. Morrison and
Edward c. Finney were elected deacons
Mr.. William A. Taylor was selected as a
trustee. The reports of the various lines
Of work for the year were most encourage
ing. The contributions have more than
doubled. The pastors salary has been in
creased. and in few weeks the church
will have new pews placed in 1t by the
Ladies' Aid Society Irwin B. Linton will
be a commissioner to the general assem-
bly, at Winona in May.
Rev. DR.. T. c. Billheimer, D. D., OF Get
tysburg, Pa, is assisting his son, Rev.
Stanley Billheimer of West Washington