Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-06-15
IN THE RCHES

The tenth annual meeting Of the wo-
mans Home Missionary Society Of Balti-
more conference, NJ E. Church South.
was held this week at Hamilton, Loudoun
county, Va This society is auxiliary to
the woman's board Of home missions,
which met recently in st. Louis, Mo.
While many Of the women Of the confer
ence were previously interested in the
work of the society. 1t was not until the
summer Of 1891. at Wesley Grove camp
ground. between this city and Baltimore,
that a conference organization was effect
ed. Four women composed the society at
that time, and they went to work, and
many auxiliaries were organized the fol-
lowing fall. Since then the reports show
that the movement has a strong hold upon
preachers and people. all the leading
churches Of the conference having flourish
ing auxiliarieS. The conference has forty
four auxiliaries and between 800 and 800
members.
OF the various lines Of work done by the
Home Mission Society none appeals more
strongly to the women of the conference
than the parsonage department, which has
fer Its object the building and furnishing
OF homes for Inherent ministers. Quite a
number of parsonages have been aided by
the FUNDS of the society and strong con-
nectional spirit has developed throughout
the conference. The supply department is
clothing and groceries has found it's way
to the western frontier, where it has sup
pied the needs Of some preacher.
very naturally the Baby Roll" comes
IN Tor large share of attention from the
women. Mrs w. ]. H. Robinson Of Mount
Vernon Place Church. this city. Is the SUI
perintendent Of this department She has
the names Of between 400 and 500 little
ones enrolled upon her books, and their
small offerings aggregate a goodly sum for
the home mission cause.
The Inauguration Of the Catholic Sum-
mer School Of this archdiocese will take
place at Bolivar Heights, Harper's Ferry
w. Va. July IA. with Bishop Van de Vyver
OF richmond. Va, as celebrant of the high
mass OF the occasion Rev. Father Daniel
McDermott Of st. Mary's Church, PhiIa-
delphia. will deliver the sermon. An ex-
celient program of lectures has been ar
ranged: During the first week the morn
ing lectures will be delivered by Dr. Mark
+. Vallette, president Of the BROOKLYN
Catholic Historical Society, and Mr. Henry
Austin Adams: DR.. Vallette will lecture
Will be lectures by Henry Austin Adams
and Rev. H. c. Gauss The theme of the
latter will be Music"
The second week Of the school will be
opened Sunday, July %. by a sermon from
Rev Martin O'Donoghue of Baltimore The
Following are the lectures for the week:
M,ornings-Dr. BENJAMIN F. De Costa,
American and Egyptian Archaeology
the Very Rev. Herbert Farrell Of West
burg, N. Y. shakespeare" Evenings
DR.. John c. Sundberg Of Norway, former
United States consul at Bagdad. "Asiatic
Herbert Farrell. Shakespeare" and Rev.
Michael Riordan Of Pikesville. Md, Rome"
The addresses Of the third week Of the
session will embrace a wide diversity of
subjects. The lectures will be: Morning
Prof. James A. Mitchell of Mount St.
Mary's College. Physical Geography"
DR.. Sundberg, Asia" Monsignor Rocker
and Prof. Des Garennes Of the Naval Acad-
envy. "Cervantes and Don Quixote." Even
ings-Prof. James Mitchell, Astronomy
and Geology" Jean F. Des Garennes of
Washington. "A Comparative Study of
Shakespeare and the French Drama" and
Monsignor Rocker,
According to the general minutes of the
annual conferences of the Methodist Epis-
cCpal Church for the year just ended, there
has been an increase during that period in
the total membership of 53617. The min
utes for the previous year showed a de-
crease from the preceding year of 10, $40.
The report for the last year Is therefore
considered most gratifying and indicates
that the causes which were operating to
bring about a decline in membership have
in some measure, at least. ceased to oper-
ate. and that a reaction has taken place.
The tables Of increase and decrease in
conferences show the change more striking
ly than do the aggregate figures. The in
crease in membership in 1900 was g. S24,
as compared with 22.s31 increase In 1890.