Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-05
News

the Episcopal clergy. Rev. James D. Mil
Ter, who has been assistant minister OF
the Chapel Of the Advent in Baltimore,
has been called to the rectorship OF
Grace Church. South. Washington. Mr..
Miller has been in the ministry about If
teen years and has done good work
wherever he has been. He is a graduate
of the Virginia Theological Seminary.
Another clergyman from~Baltimore is
also in request Rev. ]. Taylor Chambers
has been invited to take charge OF the
services in All Saints parish st. Mary
county.
A long-sta nding vacancy at Grace
Church, Georgetown, has been filled by
the appointment of the Rev. Walter VIII
liams, who was ordained at the Trinity
ordinations, Alexandria. and who as
sumed charge Of the work last Wednes-
day. He Is to preach his first sermon to-
day. The parish does not promise any
great things In the way of expansion, but
ways. and it Is believed that under Mr..
Williams pastoral care it will be we'll
developed.
1t is understood that the work now
going on to complete the sewer system
at the junction of Massachusetts and Wis
consin avenues will not be Of any prac-
teal benefit to the boys school. which
for many mopths past has stood idle
owing to the lack of the sewer system
Local schools are busily engaged in MAX
ing their arrangements and planning for
the opening Of the next year in Septem-
Der. Even IL the diocese Of Washington
had a bishop to take up the matter OF
the appointment of a head master it could
scarcely be expected that anything very
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service this year. Hence for another year
the choir school will still be only build
ing.
The girls school on the other side OF
the Cathedral Close is going concern,
and its great success argues, 1t is held a
like success for the boys school whenever
1t is opened. These two schools Bishop
Satterlee lived to see completed Had his
life been spared few years more it
seems reasonable to believe that he would
have seen the cathedral itself completed.
or the three memorial sermons which
have recently been published as in me-
moriam notices Of Bishop Satterlee, name
~, those OF Rev. Dr.. McKtm in the
Church Of the Epiphany, Rev. Mr.. Hhine-
lander in st. Johns and Bishop Mckay
Smith in the Church Of the Ascension. the
latter is strictly the official in memoriarn
sermon. as 1t was preached by request Of
the authorities of the diocese Its publi-
cation was delayed until May and its dis
tribution 10 the end of June. but friends
OF the bishop will be glad to have it.
st. Marks parish. Capitol Hill, OF
which Rev. DR.. William l.. De Vries is
rector, is one Of the active parishes OF
fO fo;r
loss- In the retirement, September l. OF
Mr.. William B. Trott. who for several
years has been organist and choirma ster
without salary. Mr.. Trott's services to
the parish have not been simply those OF
cholrmaster and organist. Possessing
great musical ability and knowledge and
wide experience, he has freely given him
self in the training Of the boys. always
manifesting unfailins interest in their
welfare. and setting generally a noble ex-
ample of Christian services in the parish.
The choir boys Of st. Marks always
go into camp about the 1st of July.
Their camp this year is on the Potomac
In st. Mary county. They are to 60
next.
The rector of st. Marks Church thinks
his parish has had quite unusual ex-
perience in that when he came there It
poSSSSScu SOME -,UUO more houses than
1t possesses now. This is due to the
improvements made in connection with
the building Of the Union station and
the other public buildings in the i'm
mediate neighborhood, the parish rapid
ly becoming a parish of magnificent
public buildings.
Associated with the rector in the
work of this active parish are the Rev
P. M. Prescott and the Rev. ]. H. Deis.
In addition to these. there is quite
small army of active church workers
whose energy is by no means restricted
to the ordinary parish work. Among
these there is Miss c. A. Dom, head Of
the committee of the Washington
branch Of the National Plant. Flower
and Fruit Guild, which distributes
every week flowers. fruits. plants and
jellies among the sick in hospitals, in
charitable institutions and in private
homes. OF her ten helpers. nine belong
to st. Marks. Misses Bullough, Marion
Brooke, Mary Gall, Lucy and Roberta
Grant. Margaret D. Miller and Edna
Stahl. and Mrs. Cyrus Bright and Mrs.
Frederick Roberts. The rector is one
of the vice presidents.
A new east window has been put in
st. Thomas Church, in memory Of the
mother Of the donor. Miss Sophie D.
Wentworth.
The window is practically an exact re-
production Of window recently put
into Southwark Cathedral. London,
England. and was made by Henry Holi-
day HamnStead London The 3nhiect