Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-23

Tomorrow Is Palm Sunday. Many thou
sands of heads of palm from Florida and
other southern states have been bought by
the churches of this city. Each head or
palm means from ten to twenty strips
In the Catholic. Protestant Episcopal and
churches of other denominations Palm
Sunday is celebrated. In Methodist
churches the day is set apart as decision
day for the children OF the Sunday schools
Holy week and the Sunday following, which
is Easter. will be celebrated in almost all
churches Practically every local church
is preparing a special musical program
to be given Easter Sunday.
Rev. F. =, Little DID, president OF the
Maryland annual conference of the Metho-
dist Protestant Church. will make his OF
fciaI visit to First NJ. p. Church. 4th street
between f and G. streets southeast, TINS
city, tomorrow and preach at $50 pm
This will be Dr. Little's last off1cial visit
as he has served for five years, the unit OF
the term, and new president Will De
elected at the next session, which Will De
held in Rhode Island Avenue Church. this
city. The session will begin the sd OF
April and continue for one week.
At the annual meeting of the congrega-
ton of the Fourth Presbyterian Church,
18th and Fairmont streets, last Wednes
board of trustees showed an unusually
fourishing state of affairs throughout all
the activities of the church. In addltlon
to the current expenses, the sum or Si,oVp
was raised for benevolent purposes and
$500 was added to the salary OF the pastor
Rev. DIR. Joseph t. Kelly
Henry w. Frost, American director of
the China inland mission, will conduct
series of meetings for the deepening OF
spiritual life" In the Fourth presbyterian
I~rt, - ctr
week. beginning with Tuesday evening al
1:3O clock
In New York Avenue Presbyterian
Church tomorrow evening will be pre-
scented a celebrated and impressive musical
Interpretation of passion week II con-
sists of Mercadante's Seven Last WORDS
Upon the Cross" being musical setting
of our Lords last utterances In succession
as follows: Father, forgive them; To
day Thou shalt be with me- Woman,
bt my son farsalsS me? thirst.
TT is finished" Into thy hands I COM
mend my spirit" The choir consists OF
Mrs. w. H. shir-Cliff. SOPRANO; Miss Whit
aker. contralto; Mr. w. c. Mills, tenor; MI
A j. Hudson, bass, and Mr.. j. Porter
Lawrence. organist. There will be brief
introduction and few familiar hymns.
There will he evangelistic services at the
First Baptist Church next week. The pas
tor, Rev. C. F. Winbigler. will speak to.
morrow morning on NearneSS 10 SniiS
and on "A Fundamental Truth of Chris
tianity and Nature" in the evening
Rev. ]. C. Ball. Rev. Geo. E. White
house. Rev. E. Hez Sven, Rev. c. r
Staley and Rev. F. W. Johnston will speak
during the week
1--WE have too many ministers for this
country and not enough for foreign mis-
sions" said Bishop W. A. Gambler of At
lanta Ga. at Mount Vernon NJ. E. Church
last night. Bishop Gambler recently return
ed from Japan and Korea, his address deal
ing with the need of those and other east
ern countries OF Christian missionaries.
II have never yet, he said. sent a
hrst-class man 10 a foreign mission without
wrestling with the presiding elders and
associated. 1t reminds me of my fishing
experiences in Georgia. l don't mind sit
ting all day without getting bite, but
when am after sunfish it rifles me to catch
nothing but devilfsh which always swal-
low the hook, and II takes me fifteen min
utes to get it out. / unable to get the
kind Of missionaries | want and l can't get
the hook out of those I don't want
There is need of earnest workers In the
eastern countries. and If We believe that
Christ died to save all men We must re
spond to it,
Evangelist John n. Quinn will conduct
service in the Capital Heights Town Hall
tomorrow evening at 1870 o'clock. His sub
ject will be Heaven: Its Location and
ton" Mrs. Miller will be present as solo
list and a mixed quartet will render a Sc
lection. The services each Sunday night are
omen q every