Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-21
GIVES ANNUAL DINNER
Congregational Club in Mt,
Pleasant Church.
SOCIAL FUN CTION
ADDRESSES AND MUSIC INCLUD-
ED IN PROGRAM.
Treatment Of Prisoners by Japan Dis
cussed by DR.. Gulick-The
Guests Present.

More than one hundred members and
guests of the Washington Congregational
Club attended the forty-second annual
meeting of that organization at the Mount
Pleasant Congregational Church, Columbia
road last evening. An interesting program
was given, music being interspersed with
the set addresses. Prior to the dinner
which was served by the ladies of the
church, a reception was held in the rooms
above the Sabbath school hall, which was
later the scene of the regular meeting.
Grace was said by Rev. D. w. Montgom-
cry and the speakers were introduced by
the president of the club. Charles S. Clark.
The music was intrusted to the Misses Mira
Chittenden and Elton Ronsaville, violnists;
Ethel LASER, piano accompanist; Mist
Pond, mezzo-soprano. and Miss Beatrice S.
Goodwin soprano. The vocal and instru-
mental numbers were enthusiastically en-
cored
The speakers included Rev. Sydney L.
Gulick, D. D., of Japan, whose topic was
THE Treatment of Prisoners by the Japan
csc in the Presnt War;" Prof Andrew c.
Mclaughlin, on Companions of the Inau-
guration of President Roosevelt with that
Of President Jefferson" Professor Tyler.
president of William and Mary College and
a son of the former President of the United
State, and Rev. DR.. Davis. of Japan. the
promptu remarks.
Review Of College History.
Professor Tyler reviewed briefly the his
tory Of his college and told Of the famous
men who had graduated from that institu-
ton. He told his audience that this great
republic was one people and that there
could be no caste distinction here because
Of creed. In illustrating this he told of a
preacher who refused to refer to the king
dom of heaven in his prayers. always re-
ferring to that future life as 1.-THE great re-
public Of heaven, where there was no such
thing as caste known" Among the men
whose alma mater had been William and
Mary College, he said were Presidents JEFF
ferson. who gave to his. country the great
territory Of Louisiana: Monroe. who gave it
Florida and John Tyler. who gave it Texas.
Rev. DIR. Davis, who for many years has
been missionary to Japan. and where he
was recently professor Of systematic theol-
ogy, told Of his work there after he had
seen much service in the west. before the
days of the transcontinental railroad. From
the west he went to Kobe, In 1871, and has
since then been resident of that country
DR.. Gulick. who was born on an island in
the Pacific ocean. came to the United States
and received his education at Dartmouth
and Amherst. He has been an active mis-
sionary in Japan for many years. He re-
lated some interesting stories of the treat
meat accorded the Russian prisoners by
their Japanese captors, and 1t was not dfffi-
cult to see that his sympathies were with
the people among whom he had worked for
many years.
Dr. 0ulick's Address.
"Japan." he said. has deeply modified
her mode OF thought since the great REFORM
alton Of thirty years ago. She no longer
thinks ~ she did before that time, ana
eve4 her young mer nov afo Unaware Of