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QUESTIONS ANSWERED.

Any person may send any biblical ques-
ton to DR.. Gilbert, 1903 r street. this city.
and receive answer through The Star.
go. What references to future pun
ishment are there in the-New Testament?
Answer. Matt, xxv:4 40; John, v:29;
Mark xvi:16.
27l What passages in the New Tesla
ment refer to the immortality OF the soul?
Answer. Only a few verses specifically.
See Rom, ii:7; / Cor, XVII. But every
book of the New Testament is written with
an evident conviction of a lie beyond the
grave, for which this earthly life is a prep
aration. Time is the vestihule to eternity
in the thought of the New Testament
writer's To exhibit this fact would require
easily trace in the readings the point here
mentioned.
272. Is heaven a place or a state?
Answer. Both. John, Xiv:2; Rev, XXi:4.
273. May man be saved without Il
creed?
Answer. One article is certainly neces-
sary to salvation-a man must believe on
the Lord Jesus Christ. (Acts, Xvi:31) But
that belief is no iabby gushy sentiment
1t marks a high tabelaad intellectual
and spiritual alta -nment, and involves
many other articles of faith. Indeed, one
who holds this sincerely and earnestly will
find himself possessed OF quite an extern
sive creed. BY the way, why do men rail
at creeds? Can a man be anything in
religion. politics, science Occupat On with
out certain settled opinions, written or
unexpressed? Do not these opinions con-
is that men believe nothing and hence
have no resolution, no nerve, no fibre and
are tossed about on the wave of public
sentiment without chart or compass.
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REUNION AT PEN MAR.
1000 Presbyterians Gather on Noun
tain Top in Maryland

PEN MAR Park, Nd July 10 Tho at
tendance ut the annual reunion of the
Presbyterians OF Maryland, Virginia. West
Virginia. southern Pennsylvania and the
District of Columbia here Thursday was cs-
timated at 1000 persons Excursions were
run from many points. About =, 0No persons
Were hauled By the steam roads and about
LOCO by the electric road. Many persons
drove to the park in carriages. The re-
li"ous exercises were neld in the afternoon
in the auditorium.
About the time the program was to start
a terrific thunderstorm swept over ,te
mountain. and for more than an hour rain
fell in torrents.
The program was intcrsperscd with
Scripture reading, prayer and the singing
Of hymns. The hcned.ction Was pronounced
by Rev. Or. F.. T. letters of York "a
Prayer offered by Rev DR.. Wilson
pastor of the First u2ited Presbyterian
Church, Baltimore. Rev. DR.. George NJ
Reed, MELVILLE, Pa, lecd PsaIm cxx.i.
Rev. DR.. f. r letters, president of York
Collegite Institute Of York Pa made an
interesting address on Diluted Fresby-
terlaEiSnl'
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Superstition Losing Ground.
the New York tribune.

from the New York tribune.
Only about one superstition of the sea
still remains. and that Is losing ground
Iachtsmen and fishermen still whistle for
the wind, but the gasoline KICKER is max
ing even that lost art OF the other nau-
teal superstitions few remain No sal or
vii. refuse to snip these days because there
is a Finn on board. Films used to have
bad regulations as wizards in the old days
Ii any wind was wanted AL Finn had to
do, il was bel eyed, was to drive his knife
into the foremost. and the wind was forth
coming. to last as long as the knife was in
place
A corpse is still rather an Indesira bl ,
thing to have on board, but no sailor these
days objects TO having Il cat on board. In
fact, as Capt Rollo Southworth, the water
front expert, would testify, every vessel
which comes to grief around this port has
at Last one cat on board. No one worries
now when anybody snceZes on the port side
of q boat, although there are few Old
shippers left who would make ii unhealthy
for a sailoyman who passed to w.ndwartl
of them on the quarterd eek.
Crossing the line" is unobserved by any
body save landlubbers making their first
trip on a passenger vessel. and no one has
to pay his scot now to the crew the first
time he goes aloft, or similar tribute TO the
engine room gang.
The Flying Dutchman has not been sight
ed for many years, and, with Henry Hud-
sons pinnaCe, has probably long ago made
the port of missing ships. So has the SWIM
naer who used to paddle off the English
channel with his head under his arm, fore
lie ling disaster The stormy petrol has
lost caste as a weather prophet, and half
the sailormen of today could not quote half
dozen weather proverbs.
Equally lost are some OF the old customs
In the days of the windjammers, which
used TO round Cape Horn. no "Dutchman'
or Squarehead" dared help himself out
of the mess kit unit the Yankees and
Englishmen had served themselves When
too the cry of all hands sent everybody
put In front of the line. 1t being the Gus
tom for the third mate to knock down
the first man for not being out sooner. The
last man out was also always a Dutch
man. as he had to stand punishment for
~ in that nlara
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I'm Local Churches.

o clock by the Y. P S. G. T.. of Plymouth
Congregational Church The principal
,eature was addresses by all of the ex-
presidents of the Christian Ende: vor So
ciety of the church The meeting was
conducted by the prayer m letting COM
mittee. of which Miss A. Shorter is chair
nan.
The meeting tomorrow will be in charge
of the social committee, Miss Z. Bailey.
chairman.
Calvary Baptist Endeavorars held thin
Fourth Of July meeting last Tuesday even
Ing, the topic being, How Our Lives May
Be Consecrated to Our Country. The
singing of patriotic hymns was a feature
of the meeting. The Star Spanged Ban
mr. sung by Miss Ethel Ho!tzclaw, being
especially fine. The Battle Hymn of the
Republic" sung by Mr.. Walter b. Wooden
was also very Impressive. Bes des the sc
two solos the entire au iience sang Am er-
ica, the Christian Endeavor hymn writ
ten by the late Secretary Hay I'd a hymn
entitled THE Lord Setteth His Standard
written by Mr.. +. II. BristoW. the super
intendent of Calvary Sunday school.
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PEOPLE OF MARS?
Are Other Worlds Inhabited?
Theories of Astronomers.

From the New York Tribune.
Astronomers regard the hundred million
stars that stud the heavens as suns. While
they have practically no evidence that those
bodies have families of planets like those
which go Circling around the central orb
OF our solar system, they concede that the
suppostion is at least credible. In size,
Temperature and other characteristics the
satellites of other suns may d fer among
themselves, as do the sister planets OF the
earth. If, therefore, 1t could be demon
strated that any of the latter was the ABODE
of creatures endowed with intellect it would
not be unreasonable to believe that thou
sands-perhaps milions-of other worlds
were inhabited by beings akin to man. ms
stupendous poss .Diity, TO say nothlns OF the
feasibility OF communication with the resi-
gents of Mars--if it has any-lnvests the
study of that body with the proIoundest
ntercSt.
1t is particularly fortunate that the planet
which in its apparent fitness TO sustain ne
most nearly resembles the earth can DE
studied more adVantAgeouSly tnan the otller
members of the family to which 1T belongs.
Venus at times comes as close TO the eartn
as Mars does but il then presents It's dark
side for inspection. Since the oroia OF Mars
lies outside the earths, the rudy planet
offers brilliantly lllumina ted surface TO
terrestrial observers when tas is the case
this week. the interval between the two
is not enveloped as most of the other
planets seem to be, in veil of clouds, and
the absence of such a screen wonderfully
facilitates scrutiny.
The suspicion that Mars may DE inhaplted
is chiefly attributable to those singular
markings on it's surface which SChiapareli
called canals and some OF the character
istics of which are described on another
page of the Tribune. With true scientific
caution the distinguished Italian disavowed
any intention to interpret these lines by the
name he gave them, though he thought that
certain changes in their visibility, color and
breadth were associated somehow with the
succession of the seasons on Mars. Indeed,
as soon as it was understood that the lines
ranged in width from thirty to hendred
and fifty miles the absurdity of the not on
that they could be artificial highways be-
came manifest. That they represent an
exercise of engineering skill in the interest
of agriculture rather than commerce, and
that they consist of belts of vegetation
made possible through irrigation, are more
nlausible suggestions, no doubt. They ap-
neal more strongly to popular fancy than
the theory that the lines are crevices SINH
lar to those on the moon.
If there is little promise that the key to
the principal mystery will be found in the
near future, at least two disputed points
are likely soon to be cleared up. Photogra-
ply will assist in showing whether the lines
on Mars are imaginary or not. When the
-returns are all in from this years observa-
! tons IT ought TO be possible TO say with
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For the first time in its history the Shi-
loh Baptist Church, l. street near 18th
northwest. used at the celebration OF the
Lords supper last Sunday night the lndf-
vidual communion service The pastor,
Rev DIR. Waldron and the entire member
ship are enthusiastic over the comfort.
convenience and cleanliness of til s meth
cd of administering the communion. Mes
danes Mamie A. Jackson. Ella b. Walker.
Mary Dixon Laura ThOrAley and NJ sses
Kate Anderson and Ellen Payne were the
moving spirits in .he church in secur ng
this communion service
The midsummer meeting OF the Epworth
League Union of Washington city and vi
cinity. Methodist Episcopal Church South.
will be held at Rockville. Nd, Friday,
July IL. The general truiC . the even
Ing will be The Fourth Department of the
Epworth League" Music for the meeting
will he under the direction of c. w. Pref
lyman of Rockville. Or c. p. Clark, p es-
ident of Mt Vernon Place League, will con
duct devotional exercises. and Rev Harry
W. Burruss of Gaithershurg. Md, VIII
make the principal address. NJ SIS Marga-
ret Waesche. fourth vice president of the
League Union. will give notes and sug-
gestions In regard to the work. Arrange
ments have been made with the Washing
ton Railway and Electric Company to run
a sreCial car to Rockville OF the evening
of the 10Th for those who prefer to make
the trip In this way. The secretary or the
union DR.. Howard r. Moore. SHOULD. so
far as possible, he notified of the number
that may he expected from each leaTn".
Rev f. l.. Woolf is pastor of the Rockville
church and Mrs. r. c. Warfleid president of
the local league.
The pulpit Of st. Margarots Protestant
Episcopal Church. at Connecticut avenue
and Bancroft place northwest, VIII be oc-
cupied by Rev. G. ]. Wingate in the alb
sence of the rector. Rev. DR. Herbert Scott
Smith. who Is at Cambridge. Mass. TAX ng
Il course of study. In ahont two weeks,
1t is stated, DIR. Smith WIN leave Cam
bridge for Page county, Va. where he
will remain until the middle of September.
At that time he viii return to this city
to again take up his work in ST. Mar
earets parish.
At the evening service last Sunday at
Marvin NJ. r. Church South Miss Nc
Glnnis of the Westminster Presbyterian
Church sang a soprano solo Frederick n.
Whaliey, director OF the choir, has Sc
cured the Gurey quarter for the musical
portion of the evening service tomorrow.
The program as arranged, includes the an
thems savior, Breathe An Evening Bless
ing and 90 Holy Father by Marchett;
Children Pray This Love to Cherish. by
Spor. and Love Divine" by Statner. from
The Daughter of jarvis and solo. Ma
ture WORTH 10y Mr.. Howarth; Just for
Today" bl Miss Hanshereer, Jesus. Lover
of My Soul" by Mr.. Terry.
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How to Help the Leader.

Tell Of some experience of your own in
disc Overing secret idol. or in getting rid
of it. You may thus help some one els =.
Pray that your heart may be free from
idols
Parallel Passages.-Psalms. cxv:4. s:
Isaiah. Xlvi:6 4: Exodus. NXxii:1; II
Kings, xvii 6; Exodus Xii20; Leviticus,
xix4; Deuteronomy. viii19; l Kings, tx -;
Deuteronomy, Xxviii:I4.
Hints tp.the LeadNr.-The Endeavor Hymn
nal. II, SO. IL, 53. II. 50 So.
Print on the blackboard the first of the
two great commandments, Thou shalt love
the Lord thy God with all thy heart" etc.
Let your talk center around this. showing
only an elabora ton of the one even the
one cone arning the keeping of the Sabbat h
IS to make the rest Of the three possible.
Tell a few incid 'nts of how the first thing
the heather do when converted IS to give up
their idols and bring them to the mission
airy to burn. So we must be willing to give
up every Idol If W. would have the in
dwelling of the Holy Spirit. and claim the
precious promises. Show that the COM
mands are not given US to make us I'M
happy. but for best good In the end
else God would not have given them.
Oh. for closer walk with God
calm and heavenly frame;
light 10 shine upon the road
That leads to the Lamb.
The dearest Idol I have known,
Whateer that idol be.
Help me to tear il from Thy throne
And worship only Thee.
So shall my walk be close with God,
Calm and serene frame:
So purer light shall mark the road
That leads me to the Lamb
William Couper
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CHRISTIAN ENDEAVoR NOTES.

Many Washington Endeavorers are deeply
htereSted in the annual Christian Endeavor
convention which has been In session this
week in Spokane, Wash. Several delegates
from Washington have taken active part in
the meetings, and the various soc cites
are anxiously awaiting personal reports OF
the work and the results which were ac-
complished there.
At the opening of the convention Wcdnes-
day letter from Theodore Roosevelt to
William Shaw. general secretary of the
United Society of Christian Endeavor, was
read. The President in part:
Il wish to extend to the International
Christian Endcavor my heartiest good
wishes for the admirable work it is
doing. Let me in particular express my
hope that you will emphasize as one of the
features OF your convention the need that
the Endeavorers should take first rank
in good citizenship. l am CAD You are to
endeavor To bring this subject promi-
nently before this meeting"
President Roosevelt also accepted honor
AIRY membership in the Christian Endcavor
Patriots League.
In his annual report to the great conven-
ton Secretary Shaw compared the great
Christian EndeavOr movement of today
with the little group OF forty-eight strug-
Cling societies which were in existence
when he joined the ranks of Chris tan En-
deavor.
A a. not. ~
Mr.. Shayy sid. Iii ts INV nrtvitep, 10 ~.
port the present net enroIinent Of n, I2s
ocietics. a net gain Of 1856 societies. OF
hese iI,161 are Young Peoples. 2,26J are
Intermediates Iso1- arc Juniors ara Tbe
est are Heating societies and other classes.
Fron, rcuorts received fror, tho societies in
his country W.. Isar, MT ,,;T 5os r,,r,bors
nave united VIII Tho rbnrcbaS SrriTn ~
Dast wear A reasonabIe estinatn for all
The societies for I'll. two wears vo,,ia he
wear"
Rev DR. Francis T. Clarl- ,,-,s.,+ 9
the United Society i'm Mo .,,,y,i -, ~. ~
he fore TN, Spnk.ua convpnti,,, ', - -
lied Christian Endcayor as - vrIi ~;
train. ny school In cxnrassic- ~ S ~ " 'NJ
in fellowship nc ''''u
Tho C,bristf,, T-,,1.,,.o,. c,,f..,. - -
Lor,a parlz Prashvferia, cf1SS %i d
800 - - 3 - 't On On NiIuich H"id a
- 80 ,t+h -, AZ - 500 IoOih was
- ~ 1 - 80 ~ 80 - fus,ig APP
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Baptist Young People.

The sixteenth annual convention of the
Baptist Young Peoples Union was held in
Spokane. Wash. last week, about 1000 del
egates being present The sessions con-
unued for four days. Discussion Of propo-
s'tlons to change the emblem of the Union
and changing the name to the PIANIST
Young People Union OF the World con-
suned much of the time of the convention
The board of managers selected Cleveland,
ONO as the piact for holding the seven
teenth annual convention next July
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Fresh Butter,


From the Yorkshire Post.
If cooperative dairies We're started
throughout England and their butter was
sent to the towns the same day as it IS
made, breakfast would have n new SAVIOR,
and the British farmer would have a new
and enlarged profit. Good butter, direct
from the churns, Is food for the gods.
It's flavor fingers caressingly on the
palate
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Christian Endeavor Hour

Conducted by Grace Livingston Hill-i.ut2.
For sunday July II. 1907.
Topic: ''Present-Iay Applications Of the First Four
Commandments Exodus, IN LII.
/. And God spake all these words, saying:
brought thee ouJ of the land of Egypt, out
of the house of bondage.
3. Thou shalt have no other Gods before
Me.
4. Thou shalt not make unto thee any
craven image. or any likeness of anything
that is in heaven above, or that is in the
earth beneath, OF that Is in the water under
the Garth
). Thou shalt not bow down thyself 10
them. nCA them for the Lord thy
God am Jealous God, visiting the iniquity
of iha fathers upon the children unto tn
third and fourth generation of them that
hate Ne.
them that love Me ana keep My command
ments.
!. Thou shalt not take the name of the
Lord, thy God, in vain for the Lord will
not hold him guiitless that taketh His
name in vain
5. Remember the Sabbath day to keep it
holy.
0. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all
thy work.
-. But the seventh day Is the Sabbath
any work thou, nor thy son, nor thy
daughter. nor thy manservant. nor LILY
maidservant. nors thy cattle, nor the
stranger that is within thy gates
II. For in six days the Lordemade heaven
and earth. the sea and all that in them is.
and rested the seventh day; wherefore the
Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hal
lowed it.
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The Coming of Woman.
ON the Lady's Pictorial


One would immensely like to peep into
the futufe however, and see our giant
Observation-Disclosures sitting on the Wool
s SACK, commanding the forces, governing
the country, and, in short, reducing man
TO that position For which, on the au-
thority of a man himself. we are now told
nature designed him. AS our American
cousins would say. 1t is real mean" that
we shall See nothing of this state of af-
fairs"
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BROTHERHOOD OF ST. ANDREW.

Arrangements have been completed for
the meeting of the Washington Local As
sembly of Brotherhood Chapters which is
to be held next Monday evening in Trinity
Church, Upper Marlboro. Md The delega-
tion from Washington will leave Monday
afternoon in special car attached to the
Chesapeake Beach railway train leaving
Chesapeake Junction at $40 O'Clock, return
ing TO Washington after the meeting Rev
DR. Charles G. Pierce, chaplain. United
States Army. will deliver the address.
~ Y. Gray of the brotherhood chapter of
St AIban's parish, has been elected a men,
Der of the executive committee of the WASH
iar Local Assembly Of brotherhood Chap
tvIs.
The services held under The auspices OF
the brotherhood chapters of Washington In
rhc Union Chapel at Colonial Beach Will be
cJnduced tomorrow morning by DR.. Gabriel
/. Johnson of ST. Thomas Chapter.
Officers for The ensuing wear for the Junior
Brotherhood Chapter Of St. Agnes chapel
have, been e'ected as follows: Roman l..
Harding. director; Arthur &. Merriam. jr.,
vice director: Eugene Walter. secretary;
William kCehau. Treasurer.
The Junior brotherhood chapter recently
orranizcd al St NarN's Church was for
mally received at a meeting of the chapter
last Thursday evening by J. Lewis Gibbs,
president OF Junior LDCol Ascend V.
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some degree of certainty whether or not
Mars has canals and also whether any of
them ever appear double. If Mr.. Percival
Lowell definitely settles these questions he
will perform an extremely creditable service.
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Iupeio, southern wood, is now being
extensively utilized in the place of pine
garded of little value, bur under tba
pressure of increasing demand it is found
available for a great many purposes. hut
where 1t comes In contact with the ground
IL is Short-ltved.
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1t is claimed shat orr re out Of go, goo.
900 passengers on Il = railroad train.
meets with an acciueil.
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Applied Truth.

". F. Crafts. In his March of Christ
Down the Centuries" tells of sable sin
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for SUNDAY Scbool8.
STAR LESSON FOR JULY ID,
By Rev. ]. E. Gilbert, DID,,

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
TEN OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Exodus <. ill.
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ner who on his return from a journey said
In prayer meeting. I suppose brethren.
that II the truth were known has broken
every commandment since Use been away
from here. but I thanks the lord 1 hasn't
lost my religion There are gooa many
Christians who keep the commandments IN
about that way. but are serenely happy
nevertheless. that they still have their re-
igiOn, whatever that may mean to them.
There Is a Jewish tradition that a maker
and seller of idols named Terah one day
left his son Abraham to attend to his BUSH
After time an elderly man entered and
asked the price of a certain idol. Abra-
ham said in reply. "Old man. mayf be per-
mitted to ask thine age?" Threescore
years. was the answer. 'Threescore
years. exclaimed the boy. land thou
wouldst worship a thing that has been
fashioned by the hands OF nay father s
slaves within the last twenty-four hours?
Strange that a man OF sixty should be will
ing to bow down his gray head to the crea-
ture of a day. At these words the man
was overwhelmed with shame and went
away.
A missionary ard his wife went to the
Samoan Islands about thirty years ago
After a time box was sent to them from
some friends at home. and among Other
things there came a beautiful doll. with
an elaborate wardrobe, from an old servant
for the little daughter of the missionary
W hen the natives heard about the DOX tNey
tiocked to the missonarys house to S.
the wonderful things that had come. but
the most wonderful of all was the beautiful
dou that opened and shut its eyes. About
that time the Romansts were trying to
establish a mission there and among their
wares an image of the Virgin Mary
dressed in most beautiful garments The
natives had seen this. but when they looked
upon the doll and watched its eyes oper
and shut they said without the slightest
suggestion from the missionaries: 1--WE
have seen the god of the Roman Catholics:
we have also seen the playthng of the
English children; the plaything opens Us
eyes but the eyes Of the Catholic god are
fixed; greater is the playthng of the
Professionals than the idol Of the Romanists
What must the God of the Protestants be?'
Christian man once asked by his
employer to work the Sabbath Does
not your Bible say that if your ass falls
into pit on the Sabbath YOU may pull him
out? asked the employer Yes, said the
man, "but II the ass had the habit of fall
ing into the same pit every Sabbath
would either fill up the pit sell the ass"
good many Christians allow idols to be
set up in place of God through false rea
soning. We should be keen to study our
own motives. and to keep the idol of
worldly gain earthly pleasure or love
from Coos place.