Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-06-09
N r4E CHI cHES


N r+E cA,uR CHE s
Rev DR.. F. M. Bristol and Mr.. Alexander
Ashley Of this city. who in part repre-
sented the Baltimore conference Of the NJ
E. Church at the recent session of the
general conference at Chicago, have re-
turned home. Another gentleman, who
was also delegate to. the body named,
said to Star reporter that itywas the con-
sensus of opinion that the following list
comprised the most important business
transacted by the confefenee:
Four new bishops elected, two to serve
general superintendent and two as mis-
sionary bishops; abolition of the time limit
on pastorates; withdrawal of the subsidies
Of. the Northern Christian Advocate, pub
lished at Syracuse, N. y, and the San
Francisco Christian Advocate; admis-
sion of laymen as delegates to the gen.
eral conference; consolidation of the Cen
trail Christian Advocate, ST. Louis, the
Christian Advocate, Omaha and the Rocky
Mountain Advocate and removal of the Of
flee of publication and also the book de-
pository from st. Louis to Kansas City;
Endorsement of change in the Book Of
Discipline, which will make women eligible
for election to the general conference; con-
solidat1on OF the office of general secretary
of the Epworth League with the editorship
of the Epworth Herald ordering that the
bishops should be assigned to stations in
stead of permitting them to choose their
episcopal residences, as formerly; reduction
of the number of secretaries of official be-
nevolences; tabling a committee report re-
affirming the prohibition on dancing, card
playing and theaters, as previously stated
in the Book of Discipline; fixing the pen
sionS of superannuated bishops at half the
salaries paid effective bishops; giving lay
men seats in the japanese annual confer
ence, thus paving the way to lay represen-
W
ing unordained ministers the right to per-
form the marriage ceremony; emphasizing
the worldwide scope of Methodism by
establishing episcopal residences in Zurich,
Switzerland. and Shanghai, China. and
making an earnest movement toward fed
GRAFTON with the M. E. Church South by
ordering that the establishment Of new
churches in fields already occupied by the
southern church shall be passed upon by
the pastor, the presiding elder and the pre-
siding bishop.
The members of the brotherhood of the
Western Presbyterian Church Chapter No.
49,, assisted by their wives. will be at
home to the men Of the congregation We'd
home of the pastor. Rev. DR.. Gerhart A.
Wilson, No. POI F street northwest The
program of exercises comprises music by
Mr.. Warren S. Young, Mr.. c. 8. Bell. jr.,
singing by the church quartet. Miss Mabel
Cla1in, Miss Emma V. Brandenburg, Mr..
w. Spencer Armstrong and Mr. r. G. SUIT
ton and a talk the operations of the
weather bureau by Mr.. A. R. Thompson of
that service.
One week from tomorrow, at o'clock in
the afternoon Right Rev. A. A. Curtis, CO.
adjutor to Cardinal Gibbons in the Of
flee of the latter, in his capacity as arch
bishop of Baltimore, will administer at
Holy Trinity Catholic Church the sacra-
ment of confirmation. In the morning
Bishop Curtis will pontificate at the 1890
o'clock mass in commemoration of the fif-
tieth anniversary of the new Trinity
Church. The sermon of the occasion will
of Gonzaga College. Mass will be cele-
brated by Bishop Curtis. with Rev. " alter
Caughy of ST. Stephens Church, Wash
ington. as assistant priest.
The other officers of the mass will be:
Rev. DR.. Edward X. Fink. president of
Gonzaga College. deacon; Rev. Joseph Nal"
Ion of St AIMS, Tenleytown. subdeacon;
Rev. William J. Scanlon. formerly OF Holy
Trinity. now of St. 1gnatius' Church, New
York, deacon of honor. and Rev. James
Mullan of Gonzaga College. master of cere-
monies.
At vespers the same day Rev. Edward 1.
Dewitt Of Georgetown College will deliver
a lecture upon the History of Holy Trim
ity Parish. Among the ministers other
than those named who are expected to at
tend the various exercises of the day are:
Revs. Aloysius Roccofort and Father
G;rsche of Philadelphia
Mr. John A. McGeary, who was formerly
a member of Immaculate Conception par
orders at Wilmington. Del. today. will eel
citrate his first mass at Immaculate Con-
ception Church tomorrow. The sermon OF
the occasion will be delivered by Rev. DIR.
Stafford of st. Patrick's Church.
AS heretofore mentioned in The Star. the
bi-monthly mass meeting of the Epworth
League Union of Washington city and vi
,i,,it xt,fl ha hold (hllrrh
South, Rockville. Md, Tuesday evening
next The exercises will begin at 1:"O
o'clock with song service. Devotional
exercises will follow, and after the transac-
ton of routine business Rev. E. V. Reyes
ter Of Alexandria, Va, will make an ad-
dress on THE Need of Reminding the Old
Methodist Fire Rev. J. W. Duffey of
Mount Vernon Place Church, Washington,
Movement
During the afternoon of the same day
there will be a conference of first depart
ment workers, conducted by Mr.. H. A.
Reach 1t Is expected by those having the
| matter in charge that every chapter con-
| nected with the union will send representa-
| tives to this conference.
The officers of the union, elected recently
| for the ensuing year, are: President, DR.
W. R. Andrews of Rockville, Md; vice pres
| idents, Fl. A. Beach of Falls Church, Va.
! Charles w. Haislip of Savage, Md, and
A. w CLANCY of Epworth. Washington;
Il
| treasurer, Gilbert d. Fox of Hyattsville,
Md; superintendent of junior league. Miss
Laura Collision of Branchville, Md. There
are thirty-one chapters in the union.
The regular camp meeting service at
Washington Grove will this year last ten
days and will be begun with a rally of the
Epworth League the evening Of August 1,
closing the morning of the 10th with the
administration of the holy communion.
Rev DIR. Lucien Clark. presiding elder of
Washington district. will have general
charge of all the various exercises.
The Ladies' Home Missionary Society of
the First Congregational Church, Rev. DR..
S. NJ Newman, pastor, will soon send sup
plies to the Kowaligna Industrial Institute
in Alabama. The members of the society
are DESTROYS of receiving contributions of
clothing and household articles for this
purpose.
Delegates from the District of Columbia,
Delaware and Maryland will be present at
the annual meeting of Chesapeake con-
ference of Seventh Day Adventists, COM
mencing in Baltimore the 2lst instant and
continuing until early next month. A lot
in the suburbs Of that city has been leased
and on it there will be erected several large
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