Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-16
MEETING OF CHURCH CLUBS.
Delegates to the Episcopal Church
Convention in Pittsburg.
/ Correspondence Of The Evening Star.

Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star
PITTSBURG, Pa, January 10, 1903.
The banquet at the Schenley rendered by
the delegates to the eleventh national cons
ference of Church Clubs of the United
States was one long to be kept in memory
by the $50 participants therein. While the
menu showed the Pittsburg hospitality for
the material man, the addresses were way
above those usually heard upon such occa-
sions
"Salus Diocesana'' was the theme of the
bishop, who promised that his text was
low Latin.
THE East was assigned to Col Jacob L.
Greene of Hartford, Conn.,, who, with that
facility well known to the veteran after.
dinner speaker, ignored his subject and de,
nvered most polished and logical address
upon christian Duty"
Mr.. Frederick c. Morehouse, editor of the
Living Church, Chicago, responded to The
West, and after humorously sketching the
march Of the west from our Atlantic
coast line to the Philippines he, in serious
vein, pointed out the prominence being at~
tanned by the west In the Protestant Epis-
copal Church.
The South was the topic Of Rev. Wil-
liam A. Query, D. D., who had come from
far-away Suwanee. Tenn, on purpose to
speak of his beloved southland, of which
he could not speak In the light vein of the
usual after-dinner speech, but Of which he
Rev. James H. McIlvaine rector of Gals
vary Church, Pittsburg closed the speeches
with one I'm Medals Res which he said q
friend, an eminent Latin scholar, told him
was the Latin for Pittsburg.
The intensest moments Of the occasion
was when the band Struck up the old fa-
mliar medley. AS Maryland, My Mary.
land, fioated on the air, the District dele
gates, who were scattered about the room,
began with eager eyes to search for one an
other. My Old Kentucky Home caused
eyes to glisten, and the delegates from the
southland felt their hearts pulsate, but as
the music turned to America" the conI
course sprang to its feet, and, with wav-
ing of napkins, the old hymn of the re-
public, dear to all. was sung with a swing
and vigor which are only found when our
apparently impressive American tempera-
ment yields to the influence of our cons
mon patriotism. But old Dixie received a
like ovation as the walls echoed the tune,
which, crossing the Potomac, has almost
become national tune.
The second days session Of the confer-
erce opened with a paper on Giving as q
Secular and Religious Duty, From the Lay
mans Standpoint" by Mr.. John S. Cons
nor of Cincinnati. The paper, which was
well prepared and substantial in tone, urged
more especially that the laymen should ar-
range for the finances and collections, and
that the services of the church should not
be marred by appeals from the chanceI.
Personal Service Of the Churchman in
Contrast With Service Through Parish Orr
CARNATIONS paper prepared by Mr..
Rathbone Gardiner of Providence, R. l., in
whose absence it was read by Prof. Joseph
Remington Of Philadelphia.
The officers for the next conference were
elected as follows: President John S. Con-
nor Of Cincinnati; vice president, w. H.
Singleton, Washington, D. c.; secretary and
treasurer Maj Taylor E. Brown of Chi-
cago. w. H s.