Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-03
IN THE CHUR HE S

thorized the publicatI lion Of a decree of cam
onization of Jean Baptiste de la Sale. the
| founder OF their order.
The newly created saint was born in
| Rheims in 1851 of a good family. He be-
| came a priest and was made canon OF the
| cathedral Of his native city. A man OF
great piety, he renounced his paternal In
| heritance and family advantages ana lived
| an humble and austere life. He founded
| Tree primary schools and started the order
| OF the Christian Brothers to teach them.
| he also outlined normal school course
| for his teachers. The superior general Of
| the order resides in Paris. and there are
| more than 1900 members OF the order scat
| tered over the world teaching I'm the Cath
| Ollie parochial schools.
| The brothers were introduced into the
| United States in 1876 by Archbishop Eccle-
| stou Of Baltimore. They have four general
| divisions here. with about 1000 brothers
| teaching 3o.oW pupils. one Of the rules
| that De La Sale laid down in the constiiu-
| ton of his order was that its members
| should not teach the classics in their
| schools. He did this because he wanted
| them to remain the free primary schools
| and devote their whole energies 70 them.
] He held that unless they did this they would
| wander away from the ideal he set up when
| he founded the order.
| In The United States the brothers have
| not kept this rule, They started colleges in
| which the classics were taught The trouble
| that this engendercd for them with their
| sllperiars abroad has received much pub
| iiCity. Almost with the news 81 the coming
! canonization Of their founder there has also
| been received from Rome the Information
| that the ideas Of the American brother
looking to an abrogation Of the old rule
| have not been sanctioned.
| The most that can be secured Is that the
| Christian Brothers in the United states
| must not open any more schools In which
| the classics will be taught, and the schools
| i'm which they now teach the classics viii
! be tole rated. at least for the time being
| Mrs Clara L. Roach Of Washington. n.
C. las been engaged 10y the Womau's
| Home Missionary Society Of Rock River
| conference to visit thu various churches
| within it's bounds during the month ~
| June. in order TO awaken interest and or
| ganize auxiliary societies in the churches
| II IS stated that for some time past there
| has not been enough money coming in from
| the societies in existence to meet current
| expenses. Mrs. Roach is expected not only
! to accomplish a reformation in this direc-
ton. but to devise means Of raising S2.'"o.
! in order to enable the trustees OF an inst-
| tuition in Chicago TO avail themselves OF
| promised donation Of similar amount.
! which is conditioned upon the raising oi
S2.J0o by the churches interested in the in
! stitution.
| Members Of the Womans Christian Tenn
| perance Union are interested in circular
! which ii is learned viii soon be sent out
| by a high official Of the government on
| the carteen question. lnterrogatories are
| to be sent. ii is said, To military officers of
| various grades TO get their testimony as u
| the effect of liquor upon the hfaltn. habilS
| and morals of the soldiers. and especially
| TO ascertain whether it is better for the
| soldiers to get their liquor under the reEu-
| lations Of the army canteen or 10 Obtain IL
| from the outside saloons that may be near
| their quarters
A church conference was held at the
Second Baptist Church. Rev. w. Bishop
! johnson. d. D.. pastor. Monday last for
| the purpose of ordaining Rev. a Gum,
who has been called to take charge OF a
ID. 20, ,Rrfaa
| sentatives from many city churches were
present. The candidate answered all the
| constitutional questions correctly ana was
authorized to take charge OF the church
above mentioned.
The semi-annual meeting of the Wash
churches viii be held Tuesday next at
| Falls Church. Va. The officers OF the or
ganization are Rev. B. A. Duncan of the
First Congregational Church, this city.
president: MT. W. H. Belt Of Baltimore.
secretary, and Mr.. L. L. Howard Of Hern-
don. Va, treasurer.
The membership of the conference is as
follows: District Of Coumbia-t1rst
Church. Rev. DR.. S. NJ. Newman and Rev.
b. A. DUNN Lincoln Memorial. Rev. A.
p Miller; Mount Pleasant, Rev. NJ Ross
Fishburn; Plymouth; Rev A c Garner;
Fifth Church. Rev. n. f. Kirby: Peoples
| Church. Rev. J. H. Daily; University Park
Temple Rev. Sterling \. Brown. From
Baltimore there are: First Church. Rev.
y.
II. Crawford; Canton. Rev. T. NJ. Beaden-
koff, and Fourth Church, Rev. Mark Wells.
The remaining members of the conference
are: Frostburg, Md, Rev. G. W. Moore;
Monterey, Pa, Rev 3. B. James, formerly
pastor Of the North Carolina Avenue
Methodist Protestant Church. this city:
Herndon. Va. Reys. DR. J. X. Mason and
| Augustus DAVIDSON.
Mr. d. L. Moody has written letter to
a friend in Washington. in which he says:
| Il am very anxious that the Christian
| public generally should understand the
| character of the students conference to
be held at Mortified Mass. June 30 to
July . Some have thought the meetings
are open only to the student delegates.
| but this is not the case. All the platform
meetings are open to the public and are
yearly attended by hundreds OF men and
| women who ara not delegates.
| ut seems to me that this conference af-
fords a splendid opportunity for pastors
| and others To help young men. There are
| hundreds in cur churches who might be
| stirred up to come. and it would prove the
| turning point in the lives of many of them.
| There are many things 10 make the
| conference attractive. Some of the most
| widely known teachers in this county ara
| TO be present among them DIR. Faunce and
DR. Schauffier of New York. Dean Hodges
Of Cambridge, Mr. Robert f. Speer Mr..
| r. p Wilder and Mr. John r. Mott while
| others still are promised.
Rev. George II. Corey. d. d. Of this city
| mas accepted an invitation TO htllNEE lie
annual sermon before the Christian Assoc
| Citations at Dickinson College. Carlisle, Pa,
| tomorrow evening.
| Considerable regret is felt by many Pres
| byterians here that the Presbyterian gem
| eral assembly, at its recent session N
| Minneapolis, took adverse action on the
| question of organic union between the
| northern and southern churches. 1t is
| claimed that this action was taken not be-
| cause of opposition to a closer union be-
tween the two great bodies. but because it
| was felt by the majority Of the delegates
| that having several times petitioned the
members of the southern branch with a
l view of bringing about organic union, and
! these offers having been declined II would
| be better to wait until the southern church
| had made overtures indicating a desire for
| resumption of the relations existing be-
| tween the northern and southern Presby-
| terfans previous to the division which led
| to the formation of the present bodies.
| A committee, consisting Of Rev J. A
| Hopkins, Clayton, Nd; j. Irwin Bitner Of
| Hagerstown, Nd, and Rev. F. d. Power