Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-14

preacher being Rev. Robert A. Goodwin
Richmond. Va. Both Thursday and Fri
| day the seminary keeps open house with
true Virginia hospitality; it also furnishes
! transportation from the station for all
the alumni and visiting clergy. This year
the unusual number of twenty are leav.
ing the seminary at one time. that being
the number of the senior class whose
| college course is now completed.
These are the members of the class
Middleton Stuart Barnwell, Kentucky
| Walter Russell Bowie, Virginia: Benjamin
| Duvall Chambers, Maryland; Charles
Clingman. Lexington; Mills Colgate
Doughtrey. southern Virginia; James
Davis Gibson. West Virginia: John James
Gravatt. Virginia: Levin Irving Insley
Easton: John Long Jackson, Maryland
Herbert Jukes. Boise; Thomas hewitt
Lawrence, southern Virginia; James
| Raleigh Noe, east Carolina; Eugene Sc
| bastian Pearce, Maryland: Lionel Bligh
| Perry-Ayscough. Maryland; Wallace Mel
| son Pierson. WashingtOn: Clinton S.
Quin, Kentucky; Henry Vaughan saun-
ders. Maryland: Charles William Sydnor,
southern Virginia. and Walter Williams,
Washington.
The last mentioned, Mr. Walter Will
lams. has announced his acceptance OF
Grace Church, Washington. to which he
was called some time ago. and to which
he has now been nominated by the stand
ing Committee of the diocese. the acting
ecclesiastical authority until the election
and conservation of bishop.
Despite Mr. Williams acceptance of
Grace Church, Washington, there are still
four parishes in the diocese without rec
tors, they being Grace Church, South
Washington. which is depending upon oc-
casional clerical services and the services
Of an efficient lay reader; st. Michael and
All Angels. on odd street. which is in
charge of a locum tenens. Rev. s. B..
Pond. until August /; Takoma parish,
which, however does not actually become
vacant till July 1, but at that time will
need TO look around for a rector, and All
Saints parish, st. Mary county, which
has been pastorless for several months.
An effort was made by Bishop Satterlee
one of the last things he did-to reunite
both parishes having formerly been but
one. Bishop Satterlee felt, and the rectors
who had ministered there also felt, that 1t
was great pity that the parish was ever
divided. Since the bishops death, how
ever, nothing could we'll be done save to
supply the parish with a rector, but so far
no success has attended the efforts made.
The Colonial Danes were out in con-
siderable force on ST. Barnabas' day.
Thursday last, in St. Barnabas parish.
Prince George county. The Baltimore
chapter. which is chapter No. / of the
Colonial Danes of America, had given
q bell to the old church, and Thursday
last witnessed the formal presentation and
acceptance Of it in the presence Of great
conversation Some of the Washington
clergy were there and the vested choir OF
st. Andrews parish sang.
The Rev. W. NJ Morgan-Jones has been
detained at home and did not sail for Eu-
rope, as had been expected, Mrs. Morgan
Jones' health being the cause of his
change of plans. She is better now, but
he does not expect to leave until about
the LIST of July.
Mrs. Barbour Walker one of the dele
gates to the missionary congress In Lon
don representing the wOman's auxiliary,
also failed to leave at the appointed time,
and she will not leave until the oath.
The Rev. Dr. Wilkins of Los Angeles is
now starting out as secretary of the
S., 600 600 pension fund for the clergy. His
bishop has this to say about him:
DIR wilkins is a man of exceptional
ability as a preacher and organizer and
the scheme which he has outlined will in
dictate his fitness for the work upon which
he has entered. He proposes campaign
OF education py winch every ciuTciiIndH
is to be made to realize his responsibility
to do something for the clergy. forced
by illness or old age to retire from actual
service. He believes in the method he
has suggested. as success of a very ex-
ceptional kind has attended il in every
parish in which he has worked. .He has
raised quite a half million of dollars but
has never had but three gifts to such
funds of 81 coo, and only one of those gifts
reached the sum of $1,000. His policy has
been to get into touch with a great many
people. seeking to secure for any object
In which he has been interested contribu-
tons from every man, woman and child