Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-11

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Churches
President Roosevelt is expected to be
present at II o'clock tomorrow morning
at the Washington meeting of the Amerl-
can Tract Society in Grace Reformed
Church, 18th and streets northwest, ana
If is nrobab BILE that he will deliver short
address. Justice Brewer, honorary vice
president of the society, will preside. A
report will be made by Rev. Judson swift
field secretary.
A series of eyangelistic services mas peen
arranged by the Ministers and Elders AS
ISOLATION of the Washington Presbytery, 10
he held in the Assembly's Presbyterla'
Church corner of 9Th and streets north
west. beginning tomorrow morning. Ihere
will be preaching every night except Thurs
days and Saturdays.
At opening service tomorrow Rev. G- r.
Wilson will preach On the foilo"lns
nights various city pastors VIII occupy ene
pulpit. and after the principal address tneie
will be special appeals 10 the ulicohsei 81 81
lows: March ID, Rev. Wallace RaocnAe
and Rev. c. Allen Smith; March IA, KeV.
Albert Evans and Rev. Joseph L. hel-
ley; March 10, Rev. 7. s. Hamiin ana heo.
Titus 70. Davis; March II, Rev. d. Z. Mac
Ieod and Rev. C. T. Thompson; March ~
Rev. G. p Wilson; March 20, Rev. W. =.
Alexander and Rev. A. w. PltZer; March
q, Rev T. c. Easton and Rev w. ID. Dex-
ter: March %, Rev J. l.. Allison and Judge
S. ]. Peelle; March "a, Rev. d. W. skellinger
and Mr. f. L. Middleton.
A series of special evangelistic services
will be held in the Temple Baptist Church,
10th and n streets northwest commencing
Monday evening next at 1:4o o clock. Kew.
Dr. Weston Bruner, pastor OF the ruin
Baptist Church, will assist the pastor Rev.
DR. Muir. Dr. Bruner has been very sue
cessful in such meetings, and great good IS
hoped from these services. He will preach
each evening excepting Saturday.
One of the officials of the Presbyterian
board of foreign missions, speaking in New
York of the work of that organization IN
West Africa just north of the equator, told
of one station where work of an unusual
character was carried on The station is
I,olodorf, which is the headquarters of the
German government in the Ngumba coun-
try. Here the mission station is on great
highway almost cosmopolitan in Its char
acter for not only do there pass constantly
native carriers, bringing ivory from the in
terror and carrying trade goods on the re-
turn trip, but Germans and other Euro
peans going to and from the interior. Many
of the native carriers, both men and wo-
men, have never before come into contact
with the missionaries nor have they heard
of Christianity. An opportunity to prea CHI
to and teach them is often afforded by their
staying over night in the missions ''palaver
house" The women among the carriers are
much less cheerful than the men, and
plainly show the effects of the difficult lives
they led. The Rev. DR.. A. W. Halsey of New
York, one of the Presbyterian mission sec
retaries is now visiting the West African
field, where he has been holding confer
ences with the missionaries. He is to re-
turn about the LIST of May.
The season of Lent began this week with
Ash Wednesday, and the series of services
in the liturgical churches commemorative
of the period Immediately before the death
and resurrection of Christ has been ushered
in.
During Lent in addition to the daily
services, there will be special evening serv-
ices in the Catholic churches twice a week
Tuesday or Wednesday and Friday even
ings being the nights selected. Special ad-
dresses on themes appropriate to the sea-
son are arranged for the service at the be-
ginning of the week. with benediction and
the stations of the cross on Friday even
ings.
Each season is accompanied by a more
general observance of the penitental period
in the non-liturgical as well as the ritual
istic churches in the Protestant denomina-
tons, and many special series of services
have been arranged for the next few weeks
The usual midday services of the Church
of the Messiah were begun at Old ST Paul
yesterday and will be continued there
throughout the Lenten season.
series of business mems MONDAY Len
ten services, under the auspices of the
Brotherhood of st. Andrew will begin Mon
day next in the Church of the Epiphany, G
h 1t,1 l.
west. The meetings will close at 12.35
The series will be inaugurated by Bishop
Satterlee.
The fe,, speakers for the other services are
Mckim, DID,, Church of the Epiphany:
March 10, Rev Edwin b. Niver. Christ
Church, Baltimore; March 16, Rev. Pere-
Crime Wroth, Church of the Messiah. Bal
Church Of the Good Shepherd; March 90
Rev. j. II. Eccleston. DID,, Emmanuel
Church, Baltimore: March 81, Rev. George
W. Dame, DID,, Church of the Holy limo
cents, Baltimore; March %, Rev. George
Williamson Smith, DID,, ex-President Trim
1ty College; March %, Rev. Clement Brown,
pro,Cathedral; March "a, Rev. Jno d. La
Mothe, Church of the Epiphany; March 81,
Rev. Fred b. Howden, ST. Johns Church,
Georgetown; March IS, Rev. Herbert Scott
Smith, DID, St. Margaret's Church; March
20 80 and 81, Rev. John McGraw Foster,
Church of the Messiah, Boston; April g.
Rev. Roland Cotton Smith, DID, St Johns
Church, Washington; April 4, and 6, Rev.
VIM. Howard Falkner, st. Peters Church,
Baltimore; April z. Rev G. F. Dudley. ST,
Stephens Church; April 10, Rev. g. r. Bra
tenahl, ST. Adams Church; April II, IL and
ID. Rev. Joseph p. McComas, st. AIMS
Church, Annapolis, Nd; April IA, Rev j.
A. Aspinwall, chaplain local assembly.
Rev. Charles Warren Currier pastor of
st. Mary's Catholic Church, has arranged
to hold a series of Tuesday evening confer
ences, especially appropriate to the Lenten
14th street and Whitney avenue north
west, beginning with Tuesday next On
these occasions this gifted clergyman will
deliver what might be called lecture SER
mons on topics of timely interest.
The list Of subjects is as follows: :.