Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-02-11

| SocletyS late president The National Tenn
perance Society of New York and other
| organizations will share in it.
| The third anniversary of the rectorship
Of Rev. owen VI. Waller at st. Luke's p. Z.
| Church was observed Sunday last. The
| statistics for that period show gains as fol-
| lows: Baptized-lnfants, A; adults, IS. Con-
| firmed-Youths, 81; adults, Is; marriages,
Z; burials, %; communicates received, 80;
| added otherwise, 15; died, 10; dismissed, !;
| present number, $50; increase, poo Re-
| ceipts from all sources, s1l 1891 80; from the
| congregation alone, S9,136; expenditures,
| about $11,S00.
| According to information received in
| Washington it is not certain that Rev. DR..
| Lindsay of Boston, who Is well known in
| this city and who was recently elected gen.
| eral secretary of the Foreign and Domestic
| Missionary Society of the Protestant Epis-
| copal Church, will accept the honor sought
| to be conferred upon him. His acceptance
| of the office would require his resignation
| of his present charge. and this his parish
| toner's do not want him to do.
! The adoption by an overwhelming vote
| of the Rock River conference proposition
| providing for an equal lay and ministerial
| representation in the general conference OF
| the Methodist Episcopal Church made 1t
| certain in the minds of many Of the minis
| tiers that the question would arise whether
| or not a sufficient number of provisional lay
| delegates to equalize the representation will
| be elected and apply for admission TO the
| general conference of 1900. The last gen.
| eral conference submitted a similar propo-
| sition for equal representation, when con-
| tanned also a provision for the election OF
| provisional delegates in the event OF Its
| abortion by three fourths vote of the an
nual conferences. This proposition was de-
| feated by a large majority. 1t is stated
| that the trainers of the Rock River propo-
| sition believed that equal representation
was more likely to carry If presented alone,
| and that the question Of provisional dele
| gates could be settled later. The church
was prepared by the action of the general
| conference of 1896 for equal representation
| in the general conference of 1900.
The long-pending dispute between Arch
| bishop Kahn and Rev. Father Tuohy OF
| st. Louis has at last been settled ny Mon
| signor Martineli. to whom the questions
| were referred by the parties Interested
| Almost two wears ago Father Tuohy was
| removed from the charge Of his parish by
| the archbishop for alleged INSTRUMENTATION
| He was also forbidden to preach IN any
| n1,lnit From these orders Father TuOhy
| appealed. and he has fought the archhishop
| at every step, both in the civil and church
courts. The case has been passed I upoh
| sfsnor Martinelli and the authorities at
! Rome. The latter returned the papers 10
| the apostolic delegate in this city and ne
| has announced that Father Tuohy must
| vacate the parochial residence now being
| held by his mother. must recognize the au-
| thorfty of Archbishop Kahn as supreme In
| his diocese and must enter monastery
and make a ten days retreat. When he
| has done penance and Is shown to be
| contrite for his defiance of lawful author
| ity in the church the archbishop on his
| part must absolve him from contempt and
| provide him with good pastorate In the
| diocese in the archdiocese of st. Louis, one
| adequate to his attachments.
For the first time in the history of the
! Baptist denomination thu May anniver-
| saries of the national societies will be held
| on the Pacific coast. The anniversaries
will open in the First Baptist Church, San
| Francisco, Wednesday, May "a, commenc-
| ing with the women's societies, to be fol-
| lowed by the Education Society, Publication
| Society, Missionary Union and Home Mis-
| sion Society, closing on Thursday, June l.
A program is in preparation. In order
| to make the journey across the continent
one of mutual pleasure and comfort 1t
has been planned to have the delegates
| from this section of the country leave
| Washington by special train service Mon
| day. May Is, and delegations from the sew
| eral eastern states. will join the official
| train en- route or at Chicago, and will all
| travel together from that point to desti-
| nation
The several secretaries of thu national
| societies, together with a number of prom
| inent convention speakers will accompany
this train. For the benefit of the party
| it will be arranged to make several stops
including Denver, Manitou and Colorado
! Springs and for full days rest Sunday
| at some convenient point.
The Seventh Day Atlventists Of this city
| will be represented at the general confer
ence of the denomination, which meets
in South Lancaster, Mass, Wednesday
| next. to continue until March s. In former
! sessions the president of the conference
| has tried to work to a program duly ar
ranged beforehand, but as an extended
| program cannot be relied upon to provide
| for unknown contingencies, the attempt
| has always proved a partial failure. 1t has
| therefore been decided not to make a pro-
| gram covering the entire session of the
! conference, but to formulate that docu-
| ment day by day, as circumstances seem
| to demand
| This will be the thirty-third session of
| the conference, it having been organized
| as an annual gathering in 1861. 1t was
conducted such till 1889 when, on the
| score of economy, it was voted to hold its
| sessions biennially. Its executive board
| consists of thirteen members, whose duty
| is to supervise the various branches of its
| work in all the world. Its missions are
| established throughout Africa India China
Japan, Australia and the islands of the Pa
cific, as well in every nation of ElIrope
| In most OF these countries publishing
houses have been established, from which
| literature is issued in thirty-five languages
UNCONVENTIONAL schools of various grades
nourlsh under its management In England
| Ireland, Norway, Germany, Switzerland
| Cape Colony, Calcutta and Sidney besides
| in various parts of the United States In
| tHSSS ScHoOlS young 1Hen ana women
| being constantly trained for missionary
! work, and each year witnesses the sending
out of many to different quarters of the
! earth. The matter of distributing mis-
| sionaries will be one of the questions to be
considered at the coming conference 1t
| will also consider plans of finance and
| utility, as we'll as boards of the various
| branches of the work, such as superin-
| tendents of districts, executive heads of
| foreign work, international Sabbath school,
| tract society, medical. missionary and be-
| nevolent work and religious liberty branch
| Rev. DR.. Atwood of New York, who has
| been appointed general superintendent of
| the Universalist Church in the United
| States. is expected to soon visit Washing
| ton. He is now in the south, where he has
delivered a number of sermons in various
| large cities and towns. DIR. Atwood is re-
| garded as one of the foremost thinkers in
| the denomination. 1t is DIR. Atwoods mis-
| sion to study the conditions and ascertain
| the needs of the different churches and
counsel and advise with the authorities in
| all the states as to the best means of pro-
| noting the work to which the church is
committed. There are now 1000 parishes
and churches in Universalist fellowship
and MANY others which stand indenand-