Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-01

Rev. 81. r. johnson.
and later president of Blairsville College
for Women. at Blairsville. Pa, where his
work met with much success.
The pastor is much pleased with the
prospect for service at Chevy Chase. He
Is enthusiastic about the building of the
new church. which 1t Is expected will be
under way within a short time.
Graduating from Richmond College of
Ohio in 1878. Rev. Mr.. Johnson the fol-
lowing year took UP an advanced course
of study at Washington and Jefferson
College. where he received the degree of
A NJ.
A Feast Day.
The Feast of Our Lady of the Snow
will be observed Thursday at st. Mary's
Catholic Church. High mass will be
sung at o'clock by Rev. Father Wun-
nenberg, and will be followed by bene-
diction of the blessed sacrament. Next
Friday being the first Friday of the
month, the usual league devotions will
take place, and the Feast of the Trans
figuration of our Lord will be observed
which there will be exposition of the
blessed sacrament.
Rev. Mr.. Bennett on Vacation,
Rev. f. l. A. Bennett, priest in charge
of Calvary Episcopal Chapel. is ill and
has gone on vacation. The new chapel
now building will hold some $50 persons,
and has cost $4,000. most of which has
been met by the congregation itself. A
memorial pulpit has been erected. Bishop
Harding gave a sanctuary choir in
memory of Mrs Harding, while the
splendid oak altar was the gift of the
Rev. Mr.. Bennett and Charles E. Lane.
st. Margaret's New Altar.
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ret's Episcopal Church before the time set
for the opening services. which will prob
ably be the first Sunday in October. It
was given by parishioner. The same
member has given an east memorial win
dow. though this is not expected to be In
place before All Saints day. The cost of
the addition TO the building will be in the
neighborhood of 5000.
A Memorial Window.
A. p. Crenshaw has given a memorial
window, the first of course illustrat-
ing the history of the church from its
beginning until now to ST. Thomas,
Episcopal Church The window will il
lustrate st. Joseph of Arimathea as one
of the traditional founders of the Anglo
American Church. st. Joseph will be
represented with model of the holy
grail the chalice in which Christ is said
to have celebrated the Holy Eucharist
the night he was betrayed and which
St Joseph carried into Britain to Glas-
tonbury, where he founded the church
and planted the Glastonbury thorn the
tree which blooms at Christmas time
Both Glastonbury Abbey or church and
the thorn, as we'll as the holy grail, will
appear in the window, which will begin
the series of sixteen in number.
New General of Paulists.
Rev. John j. Hughes. c. s. P, has
been elected superior general of the
Congregation of st. Paul by the general
chapter OF the Paulists. in session in New
York. Father Hughes was born in New
York city, and has been pastor of the
Church of st. Paul the Apostle for the
last twenty-five years
The conSultorS were also elected
Rev. Walter Elliott. c. s. p, dean of
the Apostolic Mission House. Brook
land, d. G.; Rev. Thomas Bailey, c. S.
r.. now treasurer of the community
and one of the founders of the order
of the knights of Columbus. and Rev.
John j. Burke. {. S. p, editor OF the
catholic World
Fathers Bailey and Burke were grad
uated from st. Thomas Aquinas' Col
lege in Brookland and from the Cath
Ollie University of America.
Splendid Record Of Priest.
Rev. Martin Callaghan, who repre-
scented the Canadian Sulpicians at the
Catholic Missionary Congress- held last
month In the Apostolic Mission House,
Brookland. has acquired an unusual rec
ord during his forty years in the priest
hood.
He is accredited with the conversion
OF nearly 5000 persons and has baptized
more than 5000 non-Catholics. In re-
lating his experience with converts Fa-
tier Callaghan gives the secret of his
success with non-Cathoiics in one short
sentence, Il positively loved them"