Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-30
The Church at Home.


The Alabama State Epworth League con-
ference has been divided to secure larger
gatherings and more effective work.
The Junior Union OF Capitol Avenue
Church In Atlanta Is the largest Baptist
Young Peoples Union in the world, having
over 400 members.
Over 1900 persons attended the opening
services of the summer season at Ocean
Grove. N J.. and the crowd has been SWELL
Ing steadily since then.
Work has started on the new st. Francis
de Sales Catholic Church in Philadelphia
which is to be one of the most imposing
structures in the city.
Although ten years in advance OF the
time. the diamond jubilee of Brother 1gna-
thus Boemeke g. j., who is eighty three
years old, has been celebrated at New
Orleans.
The efforts of women to raise funds for
the new edifioe of Congregation Temple
Emanuel In Brooklyn caused two of them
to be chosen to lay two of the three corner
stones of the structure.
A resolution has been adopted by the
Methodist conference Of Toronto calling
upon ministers who enter other calllngS TO
drop the title or resign from the ministry
while doing secular work.
On the site of the old log church from
which the battle of Shiloh derived its name
II Is proposed to erect handsome stone
and pressed brick place Of worship, al the
movement Is we'll under way.
Addressing the Methodist conference at
Toronto on it's lack of use of lay preachers,
r. w. Perks. NJ. p. declared that OF 2oOoo
sermons delivered IN England on the Sab
bath. 1900 are by laymen.
The Baptist Year Book for 1907, just is
sued shows that denomination in this coun-
try to have 1882 churches, with 80, $50
ministers and 4,s12,653 members, the total
value of the church property being $los,-
9e0010.
York has been extended to include a daily
meeting at noon on the steps of the Gus
tom house. several hundreds attending,
there being little good music ana d snort
address each day.
The tent meetings which are carried on SO
successfully in New York, Philadelphia and
other cities in the summer have been start
ed in Providence. R. L, under the Joint
auspices of the United Ministers Assocla-
ton and the Y. M. c. A.
To secure extra money toward a fund for
building new guild house, the united
States Congregational Church of Newport,
r. L. has determined to sell Its Elliott IN
dian Bible which 1t has owned for years
and which has been valued at $1,000.
Two very rich New York women have
given Rev. Henry Marsh Warren, the no.
tel chaplain of the metropolis, 100000 with
which he will establish mission and build
a parsonage on the West~Sde, but will first
take years trip to the Holy Land
The Catholic board for work among the
colored race has been chartered al Nasn-
vile, Tenn, four local priests being incor-
porators to resign In favor OF the Carolnai
Archbishop of Baltimore, the archbishops OF
Philadelphia New York and New Orleans
and the bishops of Savannah and Mobile
z. M. @. A-Y. w. c. A.
Over 400 members were added in a month
by the mems association Of Atlanta.
Members Of the women's association Of
Des Moines are arranging for the summer
camp.
A permit has been taken out in Balti-
more for the new $500. 600 building for the
mems association.
1t IL now expected that the new building
for the mems association In El Paso, Tex,
will be occupied by January l.
At Cripple Creek $25 600 has been raised
to put up a new building for young men and
re-establish the association.
Subscriptions for the new building for
coo mark, the money coming from many
surprising sources and generally not in
large amounts.
membership campaign, known as the
War of the Roses; closed at Savannah with
the new members attending as special
guests
Over $4,000 Is now on hand for the new
building for the womens association. at
Des Moines, but double that sum will be
required to prevent q mortgage the
structure.
The mems association at Troy, N. Y, has
reached the point where the members are
paying 81 for each 81 raised outside SO that
less than $1,000 will have to be subscribed
for this years work.
The annual conference of the womens
association Of the southern states At Ashe-
vile. N. c.. brought together over 300 dele