Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-24
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Special services will be held at the WASH
lngton Heights Presbyterian Church. Kalo-
rama avenue and Columbia road. tomorrow
morning, celebrating the third anniversary
of the call of the pastor. Rev. E. Lawrence
Hunt, to his present charge. A select pro-
gram of vocal music has been arranged
and Rev. Mr.. Hunt will deliver a discourse
appropriate to the occasion
The following musical program is an
nounced:
L Will lift u mine eyes to the hills y
Baldwin. Miss Cecilia V. Murphy, soprano;
Mrs margaret n. Martin, alto; Charles F.
Myers tenor; John H. Nolan, bass: trio,
Praise We the Lord" by Verdi; bass solo.
The Palms. by Faure. ]. H. Nolan; duet
The Crucitix, by Faure, Messrs Myers
and Nolan; tenor solo, Fear not We. O Is
rael,' by Dudley Buck, Mr.. C. E. Myers;
quartet, Savior, when night involves the
sky by Shelley, Miss Murphy, Mrs. Mar
tin, Mr.. Myers and Mr.. Nolan
The regular morning services which were
discontinued during the summer months
at Washington Heights Presbyterian
Church have been resumed. Tomorrow
evening the praise service will be conduct
ed by Mrs Margaret Nolan Martin.
During the past summer ST. Margaret's
has been substantially enlarged. The
church has been completely turned around
and the seating capacity increased from
800 TO nearly 300. handsome three-man-
ual organ, which will be one of the finest
in Washington, is soon to be installed
with Mr.. Arthur 7. Robinson, formerly as
sistant organist of Worcester Cathedral,
England, as organist and choirmaster. The
first regular service in the new church will
not be held until November, when it is
hoped Bishop Satterlee will be present and
preach.
The services at the Peoples Mission
Wednesday evening were attended by an
unusually large Congrega ton, and en-
braced several interesting features. The
principal addresses were delivered by Major
Fred. Gardner of Brooklyn. N. Y; Rev.
Mr.. Nevins of Gorsuch NJ E Church and
Rev. Mr. Marshall, pastor of the Warner
Memorial Presbyterian Church of kenslng-
ton. Miss Bertha Sanford, the deaconess
nurse rendered several vocal selections, and
Miss Ida Tacey presided at the piano. Mi.
J H. Barnes was leader of the service,
with Mr.. w. H. Evans as precentor
Rev. Edward Lawrence Hunt. pastor of
the Washington Heights Presby terian
Church corner of Columbia road ana Kali
Drama avenue has sent from Ottawa, Can
ada. to members of his congregation, a
communication, which is headed, From the
Washington of the North Pastors Word
of Greeting" Among other things Rev.
Mr. Hunt says
The spiritual progress of the past will in
cite the faithful to more jealous constant
effort. by secret and family prayer, by con-
sistent living, by persistent personal and or
ganized work, by kind enthusiastic word, to
make the coming year yield vastly greater
spiritual results The membership may
easily be doubled in the church, the mis-
sionary society, the Sunday school, the
Christian Endeavor, the mems club. We
must enlarge our borders. To this end we
hearts. God hath provided some better
thing for u.s.
The Rex w c. Handy, pastor emeritus
of the Reformed Dutch) Church of Scho-
harie, New York, spent August and Sep
TENDER in the city at the house OF his son.
Mr.. r. B. Handy, of the Department of
Agriculture. During his stay in the city he
occupied for one or more Sundays the pull
pits of the Metropolitan, the Central, the
lexington and the Gurley- Memorial Pres
byterian Churches, during the absence from
the city OF the regular pastors. His SER
mons, Ii is said, gave more than usual sat
isfaction to the rather large summer audi
ences which were present and added greatly
to the number of those who consider Mr.
Handy a strong, scholarly and original
thinker and pulpit speaker of eloquence.
Although Mr.. Handy has been connected
with the Reformed Church for thirty years.
ming important pulpits in the state of New
York, he was originally a member of the
i ASSpS teri CHuTCn, Deink a princeton Col
lese graduate and studying theology under
the late Rev. Dr. Robert ]. Rreckinridge
afterward his father-n-law at Danville
(kyo Seminary. and for seventeen years
devoting his energies to pastoral work in
Delaware, Mississippi kentucky and Mary
land.
lie was a classmate and has been a life
long friend Of DR.. Alexander W. Pitzer of
the Central Presbyterian Church. this city
ana no small part of the pleasure of his
Visit TO Washington was the renewal of old
associations with that venerable and we'll
known Presbyterian divine
Important changes have been made in
the class room of the Vaughn class of CAL
vary Baptist Church. The room as now
arranged is an amphitheater, seating com
iortably lao. This arrangement enables all
the members TO see the teacher and also
permits those sitting on the rear seats to
see the speakers on the platform of the
Sunday school auditorium
The class Will inaugurate its work for the
winter with muster to be held tomorrow
morning. Following the class exercises
the members will attend in a body the
morning services of the church. Monday
October 3. the fall informal banquet will he
given. Mr., Vaughn and his co-worker
Prof. Mitchell Carroll have returned to the
city and will assume their respective du-
tics In the class.
You have failed to appreciate the valuc
OF pubic opinion in your dealings wit
capital. declared Rev. DR.. w. j. Kerby
Of this city in his address to the Interra
tionai Trades Council, Sioux City, low
following banquet at the Mondamin H9
tel recently
Without public opinion at your bach