Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-03-16
IN THE CHU RC HE S

The announcement made few days ago
that Vice President Roosevelt had taken
pew in Grace Reformed Church and
would, with his family, attend service there
when in Washington has attracted more at
tention throughout the country than almost
any event connected with church work
here for long time. The church was re-
ferred to in some of the dispatches rs the
German Reformed Church. and it was fur
Their stated that he had taken pew there
because there is no Dutch Reformed
Church in Washington. A gentleman who
takes much interest in such matters said
to a Star reporter:
1.-The words German and Dutch are very
misleading and really misnomers now as
applied to these two branches of the his
toric Protestant Church Of reformation
days. These prefixes were officially omit
ted long ago. Both denominations are pre-
eminently American, and the English Ian
guage has been in prevailing use in both
for many years.
1.-The Dutch Reformed Church was found
ed in New York in 162S Peter Minuit, the
first and ablest Dutch governor of New
York and of Delaware, was a ruling elder
of that first Reformed organization on
Manhattan island N3 years ago. The Ger
man Reformed Church was established
Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio and the mid
die west. In 1747 German Reformed con-
gregation was established at Frederlck'
Md, by Rev. Michael Schlatter, of which
Thomas Schley was ruling elder. He was
the ancestor of Admiral Schley and many
other persons eminent in the history or
Maryland, Georgia and the nation at large.
The next meeting of the Itinerants Club,
which is composed in large part of Meth
odist Episcopal minister's and laymen OF
Washington, will be held in Baltimore,
commencing May IA Among those who
have promised to take part in the exer-
cses are the following from this city:
Rev Stowell L. Bryant, Rev DR.. A II.
Ames, Rev. E. l.. Watson, DR.. Merrill E:
Gates. Mr. w. T Harris, commissioner of
education and Rev. Dr. F. H. Wines.
The program is as follows:
Tuesday-"The City at the Dawn of the
Twentieth Century, Rev Charles E. Guth-
rie; 1.-THE Healing of the City" Rev. DR..
James NJ. King; illustrated lecture, 1.-THE
Battle With the Sums Mr.. Jacob A
Riis.
Wednesday - Practical Society" Rev.
Stowell l.. Bryant: Elements of Sociolo-
gy." Rev. DIR. Ames; What Is the Social
Problem?'' Rev. DR.. Lee Grand Powers;
general discussion, opened by Rev. d. l..
Watson; Attitude of Protestant Church
Toward Divorce" symposium; 'Di-
vorce," Rev. DR.. Samuel w. Dixie; open
parliament, conducted by DR.. Dixie; lecture,
1.-The Hallowing of Education" Rev DIR.
Charles Cuthbert Hall.
Thursday-'The Church and Education"
Rev DIR. J. F. Goucher; Education, the
Foundation of the Republic DR.. NJ. E.
Gates; "How the School Teaches Morals
DR.. w. t. Harris; Causes of Crime Mr..
Anthony Comstock; Cure of Crime" Mr..
John F. Weyler; Modern Methods of
Treating Criminals Rev. DR.. Wines; lee
ture, Acres of Diamonds" Rev. DR.. Rus
sell Connen.
The exercises of each day will be inter-
spersed with music
The members of the Baltimore synod, of
which the Washington city presbytery
forms a part, will learn with regret that
Rev. Robert n. Taylor, one of the leading
young ministers of the body, has rendered
his resignation as pastor of the Second
Presbyterian Church, Baltimore where he
has been stationed for nearly seven years.
The history of the Second Church is one
of exceptional interest from it's organiZa-
ton, in 1903. Its first pastor. Rev DR.. Jas.
Glendy, was called to the field from his
home in Ireland. Few churches have had
many distinguished pastors. Rev. DR..
John Breckenridge, for a time co-pastor
with DR.. Gendy, became his successor to
be in turn followed in 1892 by his brother,
Rev. DIR. Robert ]. Breckenridge, who
through his aggressive life and numerous
works and widespread influence left a
name everywhere known.
Rev. DIR. L. W. Green became pastor in
1916, but after two years he was called to
the presidency of Hampden-Sidney Col
lege, Virginia, later becoming president of
Center College, Kentucky. The next pas
tor, Rev. DIR. Joseph T. Smith and his sue
cessor, Rev. DR.. George 2. Hays, were
both honored at different times by cleo
ton to the moderatorship of the general
assembly The succeeding pastors were
Rev. DR.. Jonathan Edwards, Rev. DR.. Rob-
ert H Fulton, Rev. DR.. Alexander Proud
fit and the present pastor. Mr.. Taylor.
Rev. Dr. A. w. Rudisill, formerly a pre-
siding elder here, and who recently visited
Washington, is about to return to India
which country he has made his home for
several years past. While DIR. Rudisill is
still in the active work Of the ministry it
Is as a missionary publisher that he has
attained an international reputation, and
made himself one OF the most striking fig
What he has accomplished In India was
never accomplished by any one before, and
when all his plans are completed he will
have been the pioneer Of one Of the great
est enterprises ever undertaken.
DR.. Rudisill has had a singular career.
He was born in York. Pa, and early in
life began preparation for the ministry.
From the very first he evinced strong
adaptability for mission work and q de-
cided originality Of method. For a number
of years he was connected with the Balti-
more conference and became marked as q
man Of exemplary life and was Intensely
Industrious.
The first five years Of his work in India
was as presiding elder of the Madras dis
trict, which embraced the largest part Of
southern India and the dominion Of the
Nizam. While in charge he extended the
work among the dialect tribes Of the Hin
dustani Canares, Tamil, Marathi and IT,
lugu. 1t was he who instituted the first
mission work in the walled city of HYDRA
bad. He erected parsonages. amicably ad-
justed disputed boundary lines, established
the validity of alleged invalid titles, inau-
gurated the work of the Woman's Foreign
Missionary Society in that section OF the
country. and for the first time secured con-
tributions from the parent board for the
field in south India.
While engaged in this work he saw the
need for better facilities for printing, and
he established a plant at Madras, from
which he disseminates missionary printing
embossed literature for the blind and por-
tions Of the Scriptures in half a dozen dia-
lectS.
From the Niroku Shinpo Of Tokyo.
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