Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-01-26
IN THE CHURC HES

Word has been received at the apostolic
legation that. after having closed the JUDI
lee of the holy year in Rome, at st. Peters,
the pope issued bull Of Christmas day
extending the privileges of the holy year
to the whole Catholic world outside of
Rome This extension is granted for six
months from the date of publication in each
diocese The indulgence OF the jubilee may
he gained by all who comply with the con-
ditions, even though they may have gained
it already last year by pilgrimage to Rome
or by some of the special concessions in
the publication of the jubilee itself last
year.
The only conditions for gaining the ju-
bilee indulgence are: The visiting each day
for fifteen days, either consecutively or
separately, four churches to be designated
for each locality by the bishop of the do
cese In those places in which there are
not four churches the bishop is empowered
to make such arrangements as he thinks
best
The second condition is, that in these
visits the faithful shall pray for the eE-
altation of the church. the overthrowing of
| hereSy, peace among nations and the sal
walton of the Christian people.
The final condition is the making of con-
feSsion and the receiving of holy com
munion. The confession and communion,
however, cannot take the place of the pas
II.
the confessions of those making the jubilee
| have been given the most extraordinary
| powers for abSolving.
Brother Leo will be the name by which,
after this week, William Gallinger. the eld-
est son of the senator from New Hamp-
shire. will be known to the religious world
| of the Episcopal church. Today his no.
| vitiate began in the Order of the Atone
ment at the monastery at Graymore, three
miles from Garrison-on-the-H Hudson.
At the end of two years Brother Leo will
be formally ordained a priest of the Epis-
copal church, and after that date he will
go out upon his chosen work a mission
airy.
Members of the Congregational churches
in the District of Columbia are much In
terested in the reports made at the twen-
tieth century meeting of the Congrega-
| tional Church Building Society, which was
held in New York few days ago. The
society, it is stated. has been the means
of putting into use $500 buildings for
church purposes, 734 of which are par
sonages. This society has also secured
$2,1SO,651 for this work, and property VAL
| ued at the time it was brought into use
at not less than S15,415,67S a feature Of
this work is that the money placed in the
churches and parsonageS secured III the
end returns to the treasury Of the So
ciety to go out again to accomplish re-
suits similar to those for which and to
which each donation was originally appre-
priated.
The society began in 1853 with the con-
| trfbutionS of a very small number OF
churches amounting for the year 70 S1,76G
and closed the century with total receipts
of S213.159 from 3,15S Congregational
churches With the exception of the year
1897. in which the board was busy dis
bursting the Stickney fund, this year has
been the best of the whole forty-eight.
Loans amounting to 100000 have been
voted to forty-nine churches; grants
amounting to $76,9l2 have been voted TO
r,ip oh hos nd
grants have been voted to twenty-siX
churches. The sums returned by aided
churches are: In the church building de-
partment loans refunded. S241,21o; in the
grant department. 1886. 1G2, and in the par
| sonage building department, S20I,935; total,
SS35,373. Not less than $50, 900 insurance
has been paid to the society since 1t began
| its work.
In 1880 the number of houses of wor
ship that had been secured through the
aid of this society was 2,O44. Today ii Is
3,1S6. At the former date 1t had secured
the erection of go parsonages. 1t no" has
on its record 734. To accomplish this the
society has put into church buildings in
the form of loans and grants 81, to6, 40;
into parsonage buildings, S233.33S. The
number of contributing churches in 1880
was 2,051. The number during 1900 was
3,1os.
Washington will, 1t is expected be rep
| resented in a proposed tour of Baptists to
the Holy Land and the prominent cities of
the old world. and which is to start shortly.
| The party will be under the personal
| charge of Rev. DR.. ]. NJ. Sitter, who is
well known here. DR.. Sitter is regarded as
one of the most prominent Bible scholars
| of the world.
The excursionists will rendezvous at New
| York, and from there proceed to Gibraltar.
Naples. Pompeii, Sorrento, Rome, Brindisi
Ionian Islands, Patras, Olympia, Corinth,
| Athens, Eleusis, Piraeus, Alexandria,
Cairo, pyramids, sphinx, Sakharah. Mem
phis, Suez canal. Jaffa. Jerusalem. Bethany,
| Brook of Cherith, the Jordan. the Dead sea,
Bethlehem pools Of solomon H9aa a ne s
| lee, Tiberias Sea of Gallee, Capernaum,
Chorazim, Bethsaida, Magdala, returning
| to Caifa, Beyrout. Baalbec. the mountains
| of Lebanon and Damascus, TripoH. Latakia
| (the port of Antioch), AleXandretta (the
| port of Aleppo) Mersina-the port of Tar
| sus, birthplace of St. Paul-the Island of
Rhodes. Chios. Smyrna. skirting the plains
| of Troy, Constantinople, the Bosphoros,
| the Golden Horn. Black sea, Costanza.
Bucharest, Pesth. Vienna, Munich. Nurem-
berg, Heidelberg. Bale, Paris. Canterbury,
| London, New York.
| 1t will require 10 days to visit the places
| marked out on the tour.
The revision of the hymn book of the
| Methodist Episcopal Church is subject
which is receiving the attention of many
| of the ministers and leading laymen of the
| 1900, which met in Chicago in May last,
| authorized nine revisers. and they are to
prepare a hymn book for the church to
| supersede the present one.
On this subject a leading minister said to
| a Star reporter: "It might require q civil
| war and many individual surgical opera
| lions to induce some churches to admit
| that it's hymnal and prayer book should be
| changed textually, in any respect, since
! both regarded as monumental and his
toric. They are both. but often as cold as
| monuments in the expression of the living
| singers religious experience. I confess to
| the force of the argument that 1t is we'll to
| sing about the courage and constancy Of
| saints and martyrs who died in the faith
| long ago, but the burden of song of wor-
| ship should have respect to certain other
| angels in the great matter of personal dis
| cipleship, and be almost like ones pray
| ers-a talk with God. The saints and mar
| tyrs have had their splendid day and share,
| and it often is well for them to make room
| for their successors, the hymns them
| selves in our hymnal are about to do again.
i Like all revision committees this one
| Is sure to catch it. Some will tell it that
i 1000 or 1900 hymns must be in the new
/ book, so as to have a variety for all geo.
| graphical sections. differing people. special
| occasions and on: Others will tell 1t
| to be sure and prepare about 400 hymns,
| so that the hymn book may be cheap and
| thereby defeat the sale Of the unauthorized