Evening star., 1900-10-27

In the management of the American Uni
| versity:
"Dr. Beiler was appointed to his present
post buffalo, N. " in April last and found
| a membership of $40 persons demanding his
| ton he began to be impressed that the spe-
! ciai need of the church membership and
| the expressed want of many among them
| was want to do something. From time to
! time he was asked and even entreated by
| Individual persons to suggest something in
| the way of personal work. In reading the
call OF the forward movement commission,
Dr. Beiier states that something like inspf-
ration came upon him to get all his people
engaged in active work of some kind
4 without further delay he mounted his
plcycle and in the course of a few hours
had arranged places of meeting for twenty
| one cottage prayer meetings, and had also
| secured a leader for each meeting. Lists
| OF the members living near each place
| were given to the leaders of the respective
| meetings, and these either sent invitations
| or called personally upon those near them.
| A wave of blessing came upon nearly every
| meeting. Members who had not taken part
! In any service for years prayed spoke.
! The people of their accord arranged
| for nineteen cottage meetings to be held
| the following week. The whole church felt
| the impulse, and the Wednesday evening
| prayer meeting of the following week was
the best in the history of the church, in
! point of numbers at least 1t is expected
| that rally services will take place during
| the present month and all workers are to
be enrolled who will agree to try and win
| " ioAipSl VI sOuiS lOI liiS CduSe.
The week beginning tomorrow will be OBJ
served in many of the various churches of
| thlS city as a week of prayer for missions.
| While the program will not be the same in
| all, it is understood that in response to a
| request from joint committee which has
| charge of the matter there will be offer
! ings taken in each for the purpose of re-
| building the property belonging to the mis-
| sionary societies of this country which
| was destroyed during the recent Boxer
| troubles in China.
The executive committee of the United
| Society of Christian Endeavor has decided
to accept the invitation of the Cincinnati
| Endeavorers and hold the convention of
| 1901 in that city The hall in which the
convention will meet is located on Walnut
Hills, the highest point in the suburbs Of
| the queen city of the west"
Rev DR.. F. D. Power pastor of the YER
mont avenue Christian Church, has re-
! turned from Kansas City, Mo-, where he
went to attend the annual conventions of
| the three allied missionary societies of the
| Christian Church. The denomination now
! has mission fields in the United States, ia
! ma1ca, India, Mexico and Porto Rico.
A vesper service for the especial accom-
| modat1on of the District Chapter of the
knights of Columbus will be held tomorrow
In st. Aloysius Church. Rev. Charles
warren Currier of st. Mary's Church will
denver the sermon and all taking part in
order. The knights will assemble in Con-
| zaga College Hall and march in a body to
the church The music of the occasion will
| be Gregorian, and will be rendered by a
selected choir under the direction of Pro-
! fessor Cannon.
The members of st. Augustines parish
are making arrangements for a Thanksgiy-
ing sociabe on the eve of THANKSGIVING
| day Mr.. B. q. Wade is chairman Of the
committee of arrangements and Miss Sarah
| Roster is secretary
The Baltimore conference of the NJ E.
Church has asked it's members to raise
COO as a twentieth century thank Of
fering. To do this it recommends % that
S3oOOOO of the amount be divided into
shares of $40 each, and that pastors secure
enough money to average that sum from
each member and probationer; CD that
Sabbath schools and Epworth Leagues
raise an, average of 81 per member for the
scholarship endowment fund; go that ras-
tors observe Sunday as twentieth cen
tury thank-offering day." and set forth the
great subject of the Woman's College and
its claims upon their people.
Rev. DR.. Ernest Lyon. pastor of a large
colored church in Baltimore who was in
Washington recently, expressed, in conver-
sation, deep regret at the ignorance of
! many of the people of his race in matters
of its history.
THE colored race" he said, has failed to
instruct the present generation in the his
tory of It's past. One result has been that
even an attempt among us to celebrate the
emancipation proclamation is received with
disfavor. Colored people will, he declared
&C miles out of their way to witness an
Italian celebration or French fete, while
even the churches in our land, with but a
few exceptions, fail to hold any public SER
vice in commemoration of the great day Of
our deliverance from the most CALLING and
bitter bondage Of the century,
Washington has been selected as tho nl,oo
for the next meeting of the Woman's Mis-
sionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South, Baltimore conference The
following are the officers for the ensuing
year: Mrs. c. H. Brown of Middleburg, va
honorary president; Mrs. A. w. Wilson.
wife of Bishop Wilson. president; Mrs J.
7. Williams of Keyser, W. Va, vice presi-
dent; Miss Nina Wilson of Baltimore cor
responding secretary; Miss Julia Hayes of
Baltimore, recording secretary; Miss V. c.
Massie of Front Royal. treasurer.
The Potomac synod Of the Reformed
Church held its 2Sth annual session in Mer-
cersburg, Pa, this week. One hundred and
twenty ministers and elders were in attend
ance as delegates from the eight classis in
cluded in the synod. They came from
southern and central Pennsylvania, Mary
land, District Of Columbia, Virginia, West
Virginia and North Carolina. The baptized
membership of the churches which they
represent Is GO,06S.
Inc corner stone OF the United Brethren
Church at Frederick, Md, of which Rev
c. w. Stinespring, formerly of Washington,
is to be pastor was laid Sunday afternoon
last. The church is to be erected as mem
orial Of the one hundredth anniversary Of
the founding of the congregation.
Revs John Gloyd J. F. Mackin, Martin
O'Donoghue and Philip Mcclure of Wash
ington attended the exercises incident to
the laying of the corner stone of the new
ST. Mary's Catholic Church at Barnesville
Nd, Sunday afternoon last.
Rev. A. B. Simpson, who for some years
was pastor Of church in Washington and
Is now president of the Missionaries ALI
ance, has just made his annual report. He
states that about 100000 was raised dur
ing the year for religious purposes. It is
said Mr.. Simpson was born in Canada He
has never allowed photograph of his to
appear in a newspaper. His parishioners
know him only by sight. AS soon as the
service is over each Sunday he makes a
hasty exit at the rear entrance never
stopping to speak to any one. No social
entertainments are ever held in the church
of which he is pastor. The people from
which he draws the large sums of money
for use in the missionary enterprises of the
alliance are said to be poor people Some
of the working men and women set apart
as much as 81 week from their earnings