Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-10

terbury will participate. shall be in behalf OF
Christian unity. The prayers. hymns. psalms,
and Scripture lessons. have adj been selected
with that end in view. and unity Will De
the preachers theme in the sermon Among
the hymns will be the four great Jefusa-
lem hymns of Bernard of Clairvaux, The
World is Very Evil" Brief Life is Here
Our Portion" For Thee. o Dear, Dear
Country and Jerusalem, the Golden.
THE Church's One Foundation All
Hail the Power of Jesus Name" Onward
Christian Soldiers and the national hymn
are the popular hymns chosen that Will
sound like battle cries of the church on
the lips of the great congregation
Washington clergyman of the Episco-
pal Church said today:
Many men of reflection and learning feel
that the Episcopal Church has unique
office to fill in relation to the ultimate union
in one great body of all the DIVIDED por-
tions of ChristendOm
In her polity and worship she is essen
TALLY at one with the ancient order OF the
undivided church. and so in sympathy WIN
the fundamental principles of the great
churches of southern and eastern Europe
and western ASIA the Roman. Greek. Rus
sian and Armenian churches whose mem
bership compose a vast proportion OF ChriS-
tendon. In her doctrine and ethical stand
ards and ideals, her attitude toward life
and conduct, toward religious. intellectual
and political freedom, she is in substantial
agreement with the great Christian bodles
that have grown out of the Reformatlon
the Lutherans Congregationalists, Bap-
fists and Presbyterians. In touch, there
fore. on either side with the two great di-
visions of Christendom, the so-called Catho-
lie and Protestant elements, she is IN the
position of a mediator and holds a trust
for the benefit of the world.
Toward this high end she is vastly helped
by the great principle for which her peo-
pie and clergy are coming more and more
to stand. and has been the ideal of her
hopes for many a year-the principle ex-
pressed in that thousand years old dictum
of st. Vincent, but ever fresh-in essentials.
unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all
things. charity.
In other words, in order to insure to all
men everywhere in every age the minlStra-
ton of truth and grace in order to the
growth of the race into a perfected man
tween all Christians a united and vital
loyalty to Christ and His fundamental
teachings. But in view of the varying dis
positions and temperaments of men, the
race must be at liberty to express and apply
the fundamental truths differently in differ
ent ages and countries. And over all and
through all love must reign supreme.
with this possession the Episcopal
Church. once the most exclusive of
churches, has struggled valiantly for unity
of late years, and has become so inclusive
that she is teaching all sorts and condi-
tions of men. And in especial at Chicago
in 1850 and at Lambeth in 1885 she has
offered a basis for approach to unity which.
while it has not yet united any great.
Christian bodies. has, however, produced
friendliness where before there was hos
tility. and by procuring concord and amity
has advanced the cause of unity by many
steps. There is now, for instance, in this
country friendship between the Presby
terians and Episcopalians. which our grand
nov hold 10
and their grandparents in England and
Scotland. 100 years ago. would have termed
scandalous. The times have changed, and
We with them.
it has come 10 be called, proposes that the
Christian bodies of the world should unite
on the basis of an adherence to the Holy
Bible, and Apostolic Creed the Holy Sacra-
ments, and the Apostolic Ministry. In
other words the Bible as the only infalible
code of faith and conduct the Apostles
Greed as the sufficient rule of faith, the
two sacraments of Baptism and the Lords
Supper, unfailingly administered in our
Lords words of Institution. as the means
of grace and life. and the historic episco-
pate. presbyterate and diacOnate as the
sential element in the polity and order of the
church. These are the fundamental princi-
pies of unity for which the Episcopal Church
in her seven or eight branches stands. And
this high cause, the harmony, peace and
vital unity of the church. in order to
of regenerating and uplifting the world, is
the end for which the archbishop, the Bish-
op of Albany and the clergy and people
invited by the Bishop of Washington to
Mount ST. Alban on the afternoon of
September %
Sunday services have been resumed in
the chapel at the Government Hospital for
the Insane, st. Elizabeth. These services
are conducted for ten months of the year
by Washington ministers. Rev Emerson
w. Bliss will be in charge for the next two
months.
Thursday began the three months period
appointed for the celebration of the golden
jubilee, to commemorate the solemn defini-
ton to the world of the doctrine of the i'm
ma culate conception by Pope Plus TX, De-
cember 8, 1854 In addition to the usual
conditions requisite for plenary indul-
gence, there is imposed upon the faithful
who desire to gain this jubilee indulgence
the further condition of keeping a strict
fast for one day and-for residents of the
city of Westinghouse making three visits
to the Immaculate Conception Church. cor
ner Sth and streets northwest, during
the allotted time
The jubilee was formally opened Thurs
day evening at 7:30 o'clock at the church
with appropriate services and a sermon by
the pastor. Rev. J. d. MARI.
The Roman Catholic residents of this city
who spend the summer months at Colonial
Beach are making efforts to raise the
funds necessary for the building of a Catho-
lie church at the Beach. number of en-
tertainments have been given at the Beach,
and quite sum has been raised for the
object.
1t is believed the church will be built the
opening of the next excursion season. The
land on which it is to be placed has. it
is stated, been donated for the purpose.
Rev Father Coleman of Fredericksburg
will have charge of the new church.
Miss Bertha Sanford. known as the 'Dea-
coness Nurse" will, it is stated, take part
In the services at the Peoples Mission to-
morrow evening. in the auditorium at 90
Pennsylvania avenue northwest. She will
make an address and sing, accompanying
herself with the either. Miss Sanford is
a graduate of the National Training School
of this city.
Rev. E HeZ Sven. pastor of the Second
Baptist Church, is member of the Interna-
tional Lyceum Association. and attended
its sessions this week in Philadelphia.
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR NOTES.
The District Christian Endeavor Union
has arranged to hold it's September meet
ing Monday night at O'Clock at st. Pauls
English Lutheran Church, 18th and H
streets northwest This will he tho annual