Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-31
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per VIII be administered. A league mass
meeting will be held in the church at I:3O
o clock in the evening, at which DIR. j. n.
Weser, president of the District Epworth
sistant secretary of the Young Mems Chris
tan Association, will make an address. The
benediction will be pronounced by Rev.
Charles H. Butler. president of the Luther
League of the District.
The Rev. DR.. Joseph Edmond Smith. pas
tor of Grace Methodist Episcopal Church.
9th and 8 streets northwest. will begin to-
ing lectures on the Women of the Old Tes-
lament" These lectures will be brief
studies of the characters Of the women
whose names and deeds have become so ia
will be Eve the Mother Of Mankind"
This will be followed by Sarah: the Faith
full. "Rebekah. an Idyl:" Rachel. the Be-
loved" The Daughter Of Pharaah, Benev-
Ruth. the Alien" and michel, the Power
of Scorn."
Rev. Thomas Needham, Bible evangelist,
is now in the midst of series Of meetings
in the Church of the United Brethren in
Christ. corner r and North Capitol streets.
The meetings began one week ago. and
much interest has been manifested. Mr..
Needham has had unusual experience as
an evangelist. For more than twenty
years he worked with D. L. Moody and has
of late years been in evangelistic work in
connection with Rev. j. Wilbur Chapman
His large experience in travel. full of
startling episodes by sea and land, and his
marvellous escapes from death in South
America. furnish large fund Of practical
Illustrations with which to interest his
hearers.
Tomorrow, Sunday. will be the feast of
All Saints. Rev. Thomas 8. Dolan will
preach the sermon at the II o'clock mass
IN st. Patrick's Church. In the evening at
7:3O there will be special vesper service, it
being the eve of All Souls day. A sermon
will be preached by Rev. Dr. Stafford on
Devotion to the Dead" Monday being
the feast Of All Souls. there will be low
masses at and O. clock and a high mass
Of requiem at 8 o'clock.
The Gunton Temple Church has secured a
Rev. Elmer E. Fife, who has been for sew
eral years a missionary in India previous to
his present commission for service there.
Owing to illness in his family contracted by
his residence in that country, he has been
for the past few years doing service on
home mission fields, and is now ready to re-
turn to the foreign work. The board of for
aign missions has commissioned and as
signed him to the Punjab district. whence
he sails about December 1. 1903. Mr.. Fife
is just in the prime Of his strength. and
having already acquired the language and
learned the customs Of the people he will
Oc dDio " tdhe nOlQ OF the Work with VlgOr.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fife will spend several days
In Washington about the middle Of Novem-
her. getting acquainted with the members
OF Gunton Temple Church. and the public
will have the opportunity of hearing Mr..
Fife preach.
The Ninth Street Christian Sunday school
held rally day services according to it's
yearly custom Sunday last. The school as
sembled In the Sunday school room at $50
o clock in the morning, and, after the OPEN
ing exercises were held, the classes
marched to the auditorium of the church.
where program was rendered which con-
sisted of the following numbers:
Song of welcome by the young ladies of
Mrs. Jones' and Miss Nelson's classes:
prayer by the pastor: Face to Face" by
Miss McLeans, Miss Davies and Dr.
Quinn's classes; Let the Gospel Shine Out
by Miss SCOTS and Miss Nichols classes;
"On to Victory" by the young mems Bible
class. known as the Bereans. Then came
the calling of the names Of 1O8 babies on
the cradle roll by the pastor, Rev. E. B.
Bagby. Many Of the mothers were present
with their little ones to answer and this
proved an interesting as we'll as amusing
part of the program
The superintendent. ]. E. Nichols. made a
few remarks concerning the future work Of
the sGhool. These were followed by a talk
defining the Gold and Silver Contest
which is to begin November /. i The CHURCH
was tastefully decorated with cut flowers
and pOtted plants. and canary birds helped
to enliven the occasion. Mrs. Zura Reeves
had charge of the decorations.