Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-02-07

spirit methods and pnen6mena, ETC.
The conference Will be Held at the various
Baptist churches In the city during next
week. The series of meetings was planned
by committee appointed by the Baptist
ministers conference Of the District Of CO.
lumbia. consisting Of DR.. g. H. Greene. DR..
c. C. Meador and DR.. Q. ]. Muir.
This committee has worked In co-opera-
ton with the American Baptist Missionary
Union and the foreign missionary board of
the southern Baptist convention, from
which organizations speakers. have been
sent.
Special services have been arranged for at
several of the Baptist churches tomorrow
when addresses will be delivered by speak
ers from other cities. The appointments
for the various pulpits IN the morning at
II o'clock are: Calvary Church. Rev., VIII
P. Upcraft; Temple Church. Rev. H. c.
Mabie; Second Church. Rev. r. J. Willing
ham; Metropolitan Church, Rev; F. 8. Dob
bins; Fifth Church. Rev. L. W. Cronkhite
In the evening at 1880 o'clock special
services will be conducted in Baptist
churches as follows: First Church. Mr.. Up
bic: Grace Church ME- .Dobbins: Maryland
avenue Church. Mr.. Cronkhite; Brookland
Church DR.. Willingham.
The first meeting ofsthe conference will
be held Monday night at 7:30, at Calvary
Church, 9Th and H streets northwest. S.
w. Woodward will preside. Addresses will
be made by Revs. Cronkhite and willing
ham.
In the same church women's meeting
will be held Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock,
with addresses by Reys. .Willingham and
Upcraft. Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 at
Fifth Church Rev. Samuel II. Greene will
will make addresses on THE Deeper Needs
Of Our Churches" Tuesday evening in Cal
vary Church, at 7:30, ]. J. Darlington will
preside, and Revs. B. "A. jackson and Ma
bic will speak.
A meeting will be held in Temple Baptist
Church Wednesday afternoon at 2:30
o'clock, when addresses will be made by
Rev. Cornelius Woelfking and Rev. Henry
G. Weston on 1.-The Permanent Sources Of
Spiritual Quickening."
The afternoon meeting will be presided
over by Rev. E. Hez Sven; The confer
Calvary Church, with Mr.. H. Kirke Porter
presiding. Addresses will be delivered by
Rev Mr.. Woelfking and Rev. Mr.. Upcraft.
be held Thursday afternoon in the First
Church. Rev. Mr.. Poteat will preside and
Rev. Willard Dobbins and Mr.. Upcraft will
speak
The missionary meeting which has been
arranged for at the Fourth Presbyterian
Church for tomorrow evening will be ad-
dressed by Mr.. Henry w. Frost, acting
secretary of the China inland mission.
This mission was founded by Hudson Tay-
lor, and 1t Is said 1t has accomplished q
great work in inland China. Mr.. Frost VIII
tell the story Of the founding and develop
ment of the mission and its work among
the Chinese. It Is stated the mission has
declined to prefer any claims for damages
in consequences of the Boxer uprising, ano
although several of its missionary workers
were killed during that trouble the work
has been taken up again with renewed
vigor az,
The evening session Of the Primary Sun
day School Teachers Institute, which was
held last evening at Mount Vernon Place
M. E. Church South, was preceded by a
supper served to the members OF the union
at 6 o'clock Rev. b. ]. Prettyman con-
Quoted the devotional exercises, and Mr..
w. W. MILAN extended greetings on behalf
Mr. w. N. Harthon, chairman of the inter-
national executive .c0mnFittee OF the Sun
day School Workers Association. address
ed the assembly with Ianfew remarks en-
couraging the Sunday sciSool workers.
Miss Florence DARRELL 81 Philadelphia ex-
planned the use OF chalk IN illustrating the
lesson points on the blackboard and Mrs.
mental work. During, the evening solo
was rendered by Miss Mabel Reeves The
session closed with congregational singing.
The bicentennial of the birthday of the
late Rev. John Wesley. the founder OF
Methodsm, will occur June Is. Extensive
preparations are being made to celebrate
the event in this country. The Sunday
School Union of the Methodist Episcopal
Church has requested all Of the Sunday
schools Of the denomination to celebrate
the day In an appropriate way. The scnoois
are requested to avail themselves OF TINS
opportunity to commemorate the birth OF
Rev. John Wesley in such Wa as to I'M
press the young pc pie connected WIN
them with the importance of the great
Methodist movement and the Indebtedness
Of the world to this great man. 1t Is re-
garded as probable that the Sunday School
Union will prepare a. program as guide
to the schools in preparing for this cele-
bration. ,..,
1t Is said the Methodist board Of educa-
ton will base its Children's day program
on the school days Of John Wesley and
celebration of the bicentennial. The pro-
gram will be called School Days-Old and
New" and will be elaborately illustrated
with actual scenes from Charterhouse
with several suggestive pictures of MT
Wesley himself. What is known as the
Cokesbury Guild certificate will also be
memorial and a souvenir Of the bicenten-
NAL observance.
Mr.. Charles F. Weller. secretary OF the
Associated Charities has recently been
giving lectures on charity work In Wash
His lecture, How the Other Half Lives"
Is illustrated with stereopticon views. He
will tell this story tomorrow evening in
the Church of the Reformation. Rev. Dr.
take the place of the usual services and is
open to the public.
The fourth quarterly conference Of Ham,
line M. E. Church recently decided by
unanimous vote to request Bishop Fftz-
gerald to return the pastor, Rev. DR.. Luz
Glen Clark, for the third year and to con-
tinue the appointment Of Rev. DR.. H. K.
Naylor as presiding elder Of Washington
district.
The Mems Club Of st. Paul's English
Lutheran Church has secured the services
of Frederick Truman, who will present
Dickens Cricket on the Hearth" at
meeting of the club next Tuesday even
ing. The evening will be designated as
ladies' night. q. ~
Baptismal services were conducted last
Sunday morning at :. the First Baptist
Church of Bladensburg by the pastor. Rev.
G. w. M. Lucas II There was large au-
dience present at both morning and even
ing services. The hpastor has recently
been made principal of1ethe new school
opened at Brentwood It Is stated that
the prospects for a. large school in the
community are bright.
A festival of music to aid the Columbia
Polytechnic Institute, located at 1903 H
street northwest, this city, was given at
Gorsuch M. E. Church., last Wednesday
evening. There was a large audience pres
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