Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-23

Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church held
it's regular monthly meeting in the lecture
room of the church last Monday evening
The program in charge Of Mr.. Il. NJ. Sui
Ivan. chairman of the entertainment COM
mittee, included a discussion of important
current events and topics Of general In
terest by members OF the club. Among
those who spoke were Mr.. M. II. Bum
phrey, Mr.. George +. Trims, Mr.. E. l..
Harvey. Mr.. w. E. Wright. Mr.. II. O.
Hall, Mr.. w. c. Eldridge. DR.. ]. w.
Hodges. Mr.. II. X. Griffith. Mr.. w. A
Posey, Mr.: B. J. Northcott Mr. Joseph
Dewhrst and DR.. c. W. Cuthbertson.
The program was different from that
usually carried out and was in the nature
of an experiment. 1t proved such sue
cess. it is declared. that it was voted to
repeat it in the near future.
James W. Poe of this city has received
from Bishop G. W. Clinton a certificate Of
reappointment as missionary in the Phila-
delpha and Baltimore annual conference of
the A. NJ. f. Zion Church. The confer
ence includes churches in Delaware
Maryland part of Pennsylvania. part of
Virginia and the District of Columbia
Mr.. Poe Is authorized to organize societies
sions within the bounds of his conference.
and is required to report his labors and
collections to his annual conference.
Many leading Catholic clergymen and
professors of this city attended the dis
cussion of Catholic doctrines at the Jesuit
House of Studies at Woodstock last Mon
day. The defenders of the propositions
were Rev. Richard Tierney and Rev
Tracy Langan, both students at Wood
stock College, and they were opposed by
the Catholic prelates Of Baltimore. WASH
ington and other nearby cities. The dis
cussiOn was in the Latin tongue. The
object of these public disputations is to
l. - 0ufs, 1>,,t I,
main object of the discussion Of yesterday
was to prepare the two fathers who acted
as defenders for the chairs Of theology in
the Jesuit colleges and also to put them
on their guard against the prevailing
theory of modernism" which was lately
condemned by Plus X.
Cardinal Gibbons presided over the gath
ering. Among those from Washington
were Mgr. Diomede Falconio, papal
delegate to this country; Mgr. Bona
venture Cerretti, auditor to the apostolic
legation; Very Rev. Bede, o. F. NJ, Olde-
geering. commissary of the holy land and
superior Of the College of the Holy Land,
Catholic University, Washington. d. c.;
ton: Rev. G. M. Suavage. c. S. c.. Catho-
lie University; Rev. Aloysius P. Brosnan,
s. j., professor Of logic and metaphysics
in the collegiate department of George
town University and Of ethics in the
medical department of Georgetown Uni
versity: Rev. Charles B. Macksey, S. j..
vice president OF Georgetown University;
Very Rev. d. J. Kennedy, o. F., Wash
ington, D. c.
1t is announced that Mrs. NJ. ]. Hull of
Calvary Baptist Church will lead the
meeting for prayer to be held Monday
morning at 1890 o'clock in the chapel of
the Luther Place Memorial Church. under
the auspices of the Woman's Interde-
nominational Missionary Union of the
District.
1t is desired that this hour for con-
certed prayer will become general in
other cities and throughout the country.
and plans to bring this to pass will be
discussed and formulated at an executive
session of the ational union
10 be held early in April.