Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-14
ings today. Special preparatory services
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day evenings of next week.

ings today. Special preparatory services
viii be held Wednesday, Thursday ana FRI
day evenings of next week.
Word has been received here OF the death
at Gettysburg, Pa, on Tuesday last, OF
Rev. DR.. e. J. Wolf, who had been pro-
fessor in the Theological Seminary there
for thirty-one years, from a complication OF
diseases involving especially his liver o ana
lists from Philadelphia, who We're with him
when the end came.
DR.. Wolf was a warm personal friend OF
President Roosevelt 1t was he who acted
as host when the President visited Gettys-
burg on Decoration day last year. He was
also chairman of the committee and acted
as spokesman when the President and cabi-
net were invited to attend the fortieth ami
versary of the battle, and acted as chair
man of all Gettysburg committees that
have been appointed in the last few years
to call on the President.
From coming in contact with each other
so frequently the President and DR.. Wolf
became warm friends. DIR. Wolf has been
an honored guest at the White House, and,
it is understood, whenever he visited the
capital city had a standing invitation that
he should be the Presidents guest.
A ceremony at Rome, In which former
Washingtonian is said to have taken part,
Is thus described in a cablegram, under
date of January s:
The Qualification of the venerable Vieany,
parish priest OF AIRS, France was celebrated
),
French pilgrims and several thousand wor-
Shippers Of other nationalities, and in the
presence of Pope Plus Y, twenty-five car
dfnals and the papal court.
The ceremony was rendered otherwise
notable by the attendance of the Duke of
Genoa. brother of the dowager queen, Mar
gherita; the Duchess of Genoa and her son,
Prince Udine, who were recognized by the
private chamberlain to the pope, Francis
McNutt of Washington, d. c., and con-
Quoted to special seats.
They knelt in the passage while the pope
made his procession. This is the first time
that members of the house of Savoy nave
assisted at religious function in the pres
ence of the pope.
A dispatch from London dated January
10, says:
According to the Herald movement
in favor of the canonization of Pope Plus
TX is making considerable progress IN
Rome. Documents and other evidence are
being collected. The pope is willing to IA
cilitate thu movement If Catholics genefally
desire the CanOniZat1on.
THE Influence of Japan is having more
and more effect on China" recently SAID
the Rev. Samuel Cochran, who is stationed
by the Presbyterian board at HWa1 fuen,
in central China, and the Chinese are
turning to Japan for their knowledge or
western literature, science, history, poll
tics, etc. In medicine, for example, chi
nese text books are few and poor, but win
a few months study of the japanese IAN
guage Chinese medical students gain ac-
cess to the medical works of Japan, which
are very good"
Japan is a pivotal country" says Mr..
Cochran, land it is easy to see how
Christian Japan might Christianize the
whole of eastern Asia. There is also to be
noted a new movement among the young
men of China, which corresponds in some
particulars to nihilism in Russia. 1t is
spreading revolutionary doctrines through
China and NAV be heard from IN
startling fashion before long. Christian
missionaries are careful to hold aloof from
the movement, which is political and in no
sense religious.