Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-18


! City, Utah, has informally accepted the
call to the pastorate of the Western Pres
byteran Church, on II street between 10Th
and goth streets northwest. DIR. Bailey is
residing at present at Herndon. Va, but
comes to the city frequently. He is ex-
pected TO assume his new duties the first
Sunday in March.
The congregation of the Gunton Presby-
terrain Church has received word from Rev.
DR.. Allison of the Westminster Presbyterian
Church of Baltimore, accepting the call eX-
| tended to him some time ago. On the first
Sunday in March the Baltimore minister
is scheduled 10 preach his first sermon as
pastor of the Gunton church.
st. Marks Lutheran Church, corner of
Sth and E streets southwest, is rapidly
nearing completion. 1t is expected that it
will be ready for dedication by the second
or third week of March.
Prof. VIM. A. Wilbur, deon of Columbian
College, has been secured through the Sun
day school of the Mount Pleasant Congre-
gational Church to conduct a class for
Sunday school teachers each Saturday from
1880 to $50 pm. The sessions will be held
in the Sunday school room of the church.
Columbia road near 18th street, commence
ing promptly at 1:30 pm. The teachers of
all Sunday schools where the international
lesson is taught have been invited to take
advantage of this opportunity.
Arrangements have been completed for a
special choral service to be held at Christ
Church, navy yard, at O'Clock Thursday
evening of next week. The choir of the
parish will be assisted by Miss Amy Law
Ormsby, soprano; Miss A. Salome Wynn
gate, contralto; William King, tenor, and
Chas. F. Roberts, baritone, in the presenta-
ton of Spohr's sacred cantata, God, Thou
Art Great"
At the enthusiastic convention of the
Religious Education Association, in ses
sion at Boston this week, President w. Fl
p. Faunce of Brown University delivered
an address on the work of the past year,
in which he said:
The past year has been marked by I'M
usual evangelistic effort the part of
many churches, both in America and in
Great Britain. Such movements are sure
to be followed by zeal in education. One
of our great needs is to achieve in Amer
lea what has long been seen in Great
Britain - the union of candid, patient
scholarship with genuine fervor in re-
ligious and philanthropic endeavor.
"A second noteworthy tendency is the
growing sense of the underlying unity of
all agencies aiming at moral and re-
igiouS development.
Organizations not mentioned in any
church council, destitute of ecclesiastical
recognition, have sprung up in many
places this past year, for Bible study, for
training of teachers, for study of mission
fields. In some states the federation of
churches has assumed educational func
tons
1.-The place of the home in our national
scheme of education is now receiving
greatly increased emphasis. There is
pronounced reaction against the extreme
secularization of the schools. In the south
the conviction persists that the Bible
should have some place, not yet fully de-
fined, in school life.
third ph r. n eriSfic of the
is the growing demand for contact with
reality in religious as in intellectual edu-
cation. In the intellectual realm the
change in this direction has been the
most noteworthy advance of the las
quarter century.
The year has been notable for its pub
LEGATIONS dealing with the principles and
methods of religious education
A dispatch from Cumberland, Md, on
the 18th says:
A Y M. c. A. was organized at Pied
mont, w. Va, last night. Interstate Sec
rotary George +. TibbettS of Washing
ton, D. c., was present. The meeting was
very enthusiastic, and success is assured
The following directors were elected:
Thomas Luke, Robert Smith, Capt. Geo.
w. Harrison, n. U. Bond, w. II. Sigler, J.
D. Thomas, NJ. A. Patrick and w. a. Sea-
Der.
Rev J. B. Clayton will deliver one Of
his characteristic addresses at the services
tomorrow evening at the People Mission,
go Pennsylvania avenue northwest, 1t is
announced. There. will be other addresses,
experience talks" and a special program
of music by the Peoples Mission orchestra.
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVoR NOTES.
The reception given to the Christian En-
deayorers and the members of the Young
Women's Christian Temperance Union by
the managers of the Florence Crttenton
Home Friday evening of last week was
pleasant affair. The parlors of the home