Evening star., 1899-01-28
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ReV Paul Kennolds, formerly one of the
assistant priests at st. Matthew's Catholic
Church, this city, has been appointed by
Cardinal Gibbons pastor Of the church at
Barnesville, Md. He succeeds Rev. NJ. j.
Riordan, who has been placed In charge of
a church near Baltimore.
The bible College a Home" department
Of the American Society of Religious Edu-
cation has just ,entered upon the fourth
year of its sxisHbce. The object of the de-
partment is tosprovide a three years course
of study that shall be taken by individuals
at home covering the whole Bible, chrono-
logically and fobfcally. The department is
under the supervision of a committee COM
posed of Rexs. -Drs. a. Mackay-Smith, T.
De Witt Tafnage, w. R. Stricken. J. w
Duffey, F. D Power. ]. J. Muir. and ]. G.
Butler. Rev. DRY J. E. Gilbert is seere-
tary of he}depaGtment, and he States that
there is total membership of nearly ., 400,
of whom more than 200 live in the District
of Columbia.
Rev. W. Fash3p johnson, DID. pastor
Of the Second Baptist Church, this city,
and Rev. E; G Norris. ID, president of
s Bapsist TratG syahna5 M X
Ca. and A j. Stokes, DID, pastor of the
First Baptist Church, Montgomery, Ala.
nave been appointed special commission
Cuba They will leave this country the
latter part of February. The work of the
committee will be to select fields for mis-
sionary effort under the auspices of the
convention, and report to the executive
board on their return They viii visit San
tiago- and Havana
Dr, Johnson said to Star reporter, re-
ferring to the troubles of the negroes:
one reason why the negro is having
40 in !,
he has lost faith in God. He does not pray
as ne used to. He is busy chasing every
shadow and trying to catch every butter.
ny and leaving mis- duty to God untouched.
ihe ~ord OF. God says: When a mans
ways please the Lord He maketb even his
enemies to be at peace with him. Races
must please Cod as we'll as indiyfdua1s
AS long as israel remembered Jehovah His
arm was outstretched in her behalf but
when she sought other gods He left her OF
the mercy of her enemies. We must put
more OF God into our souls; more of prac-
-tical religion into our lives
An eCumenical conference To consider tho
subject Of foreign missions has been called
TO meet In New York during April 1t will
be similar to the general missionary CON
ference held in London in 1885, at which
every section of the globe. and almost
every country. The approaching confer
ence will represen' every phase of the work
of some 200 boards and societies through
out the world
The Woman's Christian Temneranne
Union is very much interested in some of
the legislation now before Congress The
Ellis bill, which Is intended to do away
with the army canteenS and stop the sale
of liquor in all government buildings meets
with the hearty approval of the members.
Much interest is also felt regarding the
proposition to repeal prohibition in Alaska
The seating or the Mormon representative
in the House is also awakening earnest in
terest among the women. Petitions have
already been sent in to the members of
the House by local unions and letters writ
ten to President Mckinley by the officers
of the National W. C. T. T., protesting
against it. but as action probably cannot be
taken by the House with regard to this un-
til next December the national oreantza-
ton will probably delay its agitation un-
til later, effort at this time being a little
premature.
Some church people Of Washington have
received letters from preacher at Sumter,
S. c., which state that "a colored man
(whose name is given) is running an alleged
Industrial school near Sumter. His plan of
this he is a success. The checks / saw to-
day came from PittsbUrg Pa and thera
are persons in Washington who have given
him as much as $500 per year. The man
gets all this money on the plea of running
an industrial school, whereas the whole
story is ~ frpm beginning to end His
ddzsn s es sdTea pnd tbs of from one to
selves so disgusted with his rascalitv
that they will have nothing to do with him
Some time ago he hired all the little ne
gro children in the town to stand before his
barn of a school, and their picture was
taken. This picture he is showing in the
north as representing his oyercrowded
school. He began work as Methodist, and
when repudiated by that denominat tion
claimed to be a Baptist. The latter church
having turned from him he now claims to
be independent
Regarding the proposition to consolidate
the two great brancI-es of the Methodist
Episcopal Church a letter received here
from a prominent southern Methodist in
Kansas City says: Whatever some ad
herents of the two Methodisms may urge
1t is evident the head men or the two bodies
do not wishpryexpect actual conselfdat tiou
Bishop Bowman of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church and Bishop Hendrix of the M
f. Church South so indicated at a fraternai
meeting of the two divisions in this CITY a
few days ago. There were present over ION
delegates, gathered to promote fraternaI-
ism. Bishop Bowman was the chief smokes
man for the Methodist Episcopal Church.
He said: r
I'm regard to union Of the two branch
es I am not working to bring them to-
gether But If they do so / shall say
Thank the lord. land I believe there is q
growing spirit toward that end not toward
positive union, perhaps, because in these
two there are varfeusly 'orta iifzefI societias
that. are doingZEreat work, but to a closer
Bishop Hendgix. said: The churches
should agree on BOUNDARIES even in some
cities. In some places the branches right
accomplish more as q unit tebut believe
the work wouldibe more widespread as sem
arate bodies u HErs =
Bishop Abram Grant Of the African