The Washington herald., 1907-08-04

KEY. Ut hOlauu cotton smith, rector
OF st. Johns Church. at Sixteenth and II
streets. is enjoying his season Of rest in
the neighborhood Of Amherst. Mass. He
expects 10 return TO the city the first CT
October. During the month Of July. ST
Johns pulpit was filed by the Rev. VIII
liam r. Turner. formerly rector Of St
Michael and All Angels, and II afforded
his old friends great pleasure % hear
him preach again. He and Mrs. Turner
To the Holy Land. On the first Of Au-
gust they left the city 10 spend some
time among the pine trees Of Maine. Upon
his return next fall he will assist Dr.
Childs, at All Saints Church. Chevy
Chase.
One OF the most notable among Wash
ngton's vested choirs is that OF Epiphany
Church. composed Of men and women,
whose thirty voices. blended and led
by the great organ. fill the edlflce
with harmonles beautiful and inspiring
20 those who go there 70 worship. The
choir has disbanded for the month Of
August during which time the music VIII
be in charge OF their barytone. Mr.. Otto
Luebkert. Last fall the choir was enter
tanned at Great Falls by Dr. Randolph
II. McKim Though not able 70 be with
them in person. as he Is spending his va
cation abroad. his kindly though was Wis
ible throughout the day, nothing having
been overlooked that would help make it
enjoyable. They went thirty strong so
one Cf the participants told me, feasted
their eyes on tie beauties OF the scenery.
and took part in the diversions With
the arrival Of dinner time, that ever at
tractive hour n a days outing. they
found Epiphany's rector understands the
things necdful for mans physical as well
as spiritual upbuilding. for one of
Dickey's most delicious repasts was wait
ing for them. On the return trip at 1C
o'clock, the universal verdict was that
DR. McKim had furnished one Of the red
letter days on the summer calendar.
To those who are fond OF Mrs Mar
garet Mackay's simple touching old
hymn, Asleep in Jesus" and who have
felt the comfort Of its strong, sweet faith,
this little sketch of the way it came to
be written will be interesting. It was
told by Mrs Maekay about year be
fore her death, in 1857. She was of Eng
lish birth, and one day when driving
through Devonshire's exquisite green lanes
paused, attracted by a rural burying
ground, and went in to look at the graves
It was a place Of such sweet. entire re-
pose that 1t left a lasting impression on
her memory. On one of the stones were
the words, Sleeping in Jesus" and she
says:
1T was in such keeping with the love
ly and peaceful surroundings that II
elung to my thoughts. On arriving home
! took d pencil ard commenced writing
the hymn. little thinking it was destined
to find so much favor. and that Part OF
1t would be inscribed on so many tomb
stones"
Like so many of the clergy, Bishop
Clarkson had wonderful store of anec-
dotes. One he loved to tell, and very effec-
tive it was, when occasion required. is the
following: A devout colored preacher
whose heart was aglow with zeal for mis-
sions, announced to his congregation that
in the evening an offering would be taker
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tribute literally. Among his members was
a well-to-do man, noted for his stinginess
who said to him before the service:
Yer gwine to kill dis church ef you
goes on sayin', Give, give" No church
can stan It. Yer gwine to kill it"
/ Prior to taking the collection. the min.
| ister remarked:
Before the sermon tonight Brother
Jones tole me I was gwine to kill dis
/ yer church ef / KEEP on askin' you tC
/ give, but my brethren churches dom
/ die dat way. Eff anybody knows of {
church dats died cause it's givin toe
much to de Lord, I'll be much obliged e
my brother will tell me where dat church
Is; fur Fse gwine 10 visit it. and II
climb up on de walls Of dat church, vndel
Ge light OBJ de moon and cry: Blessed ar,
de dead dat die in de Lordr y
ELIZABETH FRENCH.