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the things that appeal more greatly to
our senses, SO that really tne WoIiuiy
man, as he is called, is unworidly; ne Is
only half living: there is beyond him
range of aspiration, a range OF expert
ence and enjoyment which as yet ne mas
not touched. and it is this seif-Nmltlne
purpose that 80 often blinds ourselves 70
the reverence of the real world. we snan
not take the shoes from or our ieet:
we shall not walk the earth more reverend
and more tenderly until we discover Tor
ourselves that having good time. Deins
occupied or pre-occupied are not tne
whole of life. These things 90 NOT see
the whole range Of experience; there are
higher chords in the heart to be struck.
as every serious-minded man knows. 1t
is something to be reminded of this but
1t is something more and greater II one
now and again considers 1t.
Or observe again that we are kept from
this finer reverence too often by mere
thoughtlessness. One sometimes thinks
that the larger per cent Of mischief IN
the world Is done, not by people VINO
mean to do it. but simply by people who
are too stupid to think. We say to our
had thought" OF course. we would not,
but there is the very condemnation to
ourselves, that, thinking people as we are
supposed to be, We go through the World
without thought. We see the sun rise
and say to ourselves: How many CANDLE
power does that representa-" We say to
ourselves: ''Yes. but all Of its beauty Is
due to the atoms Of dust in the air" We
walk out on the fair earth on q spring
morning, and say the earth Is moving
sunward; the cold. damp earth Is ab-
sorbing the rays OF the sun. and now
will come the green grass. The thought
lessness of 1t all to enjoy all this mystery
of life, to behold 1t in our homes and
to see that it is shamed by us that we
do not match 1t by finer spirit OF deeper
reverence!
Or, lastly, we are too often kept from
this proffered reverence by the assert
ing phrase which rings in our ears ano
to many people seems to correspond to q
reality. namely. the law Of nature. The
laws OF nature! That little phrase comes
between us and the living. palpitatlng
universe, and robs us OF the personal
and undimmed union with the Most High.
But think of it for moment-laws OF the
universe! What does that mean? IL
means nothing to the thinking man un-
less you also add that these laws are
laws which enforce themselves. where
upon at once you transmute 1t into the
realm of spiritual reality. Laws are only
the habits Of God. 1t Is simply the OBJ
served way that things come to us. and
to apostatize and to defy this: as Il the
laws of nature could bring spring; as II
the law of nature could make trees and
perfect man: as to robbing us OF what
is our inheritance, namely, the sense OF
personal union with the world-spirit
whom we call our Father. We are In the
region of law, for God Is the author of
peace, not of confusion. but 1t Is the law
not of an arbitrary monarch, 1t Is the
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spec,.I Correspondence Of The Star.


TORONTO, Canada. April "a. 1909.
The past winter has witnessed a num-
ber of record-breaking events in the re-
ligious realm-the Roman Catholic con-
gress in Chicago, the formation Of the
National Federation of Churches. the
getting together of the UNCONVENTIONAL
brotherhoods and several unusual mis-
sionary conventions. Now Canada has
set a new mark by the Canadian Ma
tional Missionary congress, which closed
it's sessions in Toronto two weeks ago,
having brought together more than 1900
registered delegates from all parts OF the
dominion as we'll as a considerable de-
tachment of honorary delegates FROM
the United States.
There is no precedent for this meeting
in religious history. 1t Is unique In sew
eral particulars. First. 1t marks the
gathering Of the churchmen Of nation
to consider in business fashion just what
is their responsibility for the civilization
and chrstianization Of the big world-in-
cluding a systematic effort to meet the
new moral and social conditions which
have arisen in the great cities and In the
northwest. In the second place. II Is the
most effective agency for Christian union
recorded in Canada's annals The dele
gates represented all branches Of Protes-
tantism-Anglican. Baptist, Presbyterian.
Methodist. Congregational and all the
smaller bodies. In the third place, II
brought together the most representative
company of Canadians ever assembled on
any occasion-farmers, business men.
professional men and officials from VIC
toria to Nova Scotia.
10000 American Immigrants.
Canada has so many political. social
and religious problems OF her own that
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Men and Women Should Finer Sense of Reverence Decla

Tradition IL good, but tradition and rev.
erence are two different things. Rover
ence does not relate primarily to the past,
neither to the future: but 1t concerns the
life that 10 here now, and In the flesh, and
when one stops to think how wrapped up
In the life that now is lies the prom
ise and potency Of all that Is to come
reverence Listen to the words from
Herbert Spencer: 1.-THE more we have to
do the more the mystery grows on us
that we are living In the midst Of an In
finite and eternal energy from which all
things proceed
Take tho shoes from of thy fest, for
tho place whereon thou standest is holy
ground We have been able to grow from
children to men; we have been able by
civilization. Why? BY the mere laws of
society? Never. But because 1t is God
who worketh IN us to work out His will.
Therefore every new discovery, every
fresh disclosure Of what we call natural
law: every new reach Of art. poetry. mu-
are holy things. They are not breaking
away from the reverence: they are just
laying hold OF It. Indeed. so true Is this
that IL one really wishes to be irreverent,
| the surest way is in some way to inter-
cept this law Of personal and organic de-
velopment too sudden, or to limit his own
growth. and to assume that what the
past has done IL all that can be done to-
O0y. XNO. 1O0 40 uOS NOu VI VH0 OcdOp Ouk
Of the living. and the growing child. the
growing man who is increasing in wis
dom and stature. In spiritual perception
and In Righteousness, Is himself the living
temple wherein the Most High does dwell.
Lastly. We shall find this newer and
finer reverence coming to us not only by
the perception that the world in which we
now live is a spiritual world. not only in
the truth that the development of our lives
individually and socially Is a part of the
divine process. but furthermore in the per-
ception that the end Of creation so far as
you are concerned Is the perfection Of
your own personality. There IL some-
thing terrible about that as well as beau
tfful. The Bible tells US In some place
| about the sin against the Holy Ghost.
and the Master says: 'If any man shall
speak slightingly of me (and there have
been plenty to do IT. shall forgive him
that does not alter the fact in the case),
but II any man sins against the Holy
Ghost they shall never be forgiven" Has
1t never occurred to you what that must
be? That 1T Is the self-disparagement Of
your own personality: that by underesti-
mating your own personal worth you are
deliberately setting back the hands Of
time SO many ages. Here comes q new
and finer kind Of reverence not only in
the reverence that we feel toward the un-
folding of the world, but also in our per-
| sonality that 1t is a holy and sacred thing.
that the most courageous and most holy
thing a man can do Is to be himself
Take the shoes from OF thy feet. You
are In q common world, among common
people engaged in common tasks. You
are not living far from your Fathers
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the first service. The mission In two
years grew into st. Marks parish. Mr..
Olds Was born in Circleville. Ohio. Janu-
ary II, 1923: studied law with his uncle.
Chauncey Olds, of Columbus. He be-
came register of the land office in Min
nesota in 1852, was baptized and con-
firmed in Holy Trinity Church, ST. An
thony, Mimi; ordained deacon by Bishop
Kemper, 1859; priest by Bishop Whipple,
1861; missionary for one year In Mime
sofa valley, assistant to DR.. Knicker-
booker, afterward Bishop Of Indiana;
rector of ST. Luke's Church. Hastings;
rector of Trinity Church. Trenton. n. j..
in 1864. where he remained nine months,
and then became rector of Washington
parish, where he died September Is, 1868,
short time after the mission was
started.
The new parish. beginning with the
Olds Mission, was organized In June.
1869, with Davis Baker, II. N. Chapman,
L. D. Charles. r. K. Eliot. r. W. Walker,
Mai c. T. Garder. w. T. Kent. and q.
NJ Smith as vestrymen. and Rev. A. r.
Steele, assistant minister Of Washington
parish, was In charge.
The forming of this new Episcopal
parish on Capitol Hill Is said to have
been due in q great measure to the ex-
traordinary work of Miss Mary Beebe,
who had become convinced that the time
had come for the establishment Of the
new parish, which was named by the
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"Take the shoes from of thy feet, for
the place whereon thou standest is holy
ground" Exodus. iii:O was the text OF a
recent sermon by Rev. Ulysses G. 3.
Pierce, minister Of All Souls Unitarian
Church. The minister said the great
need of the world today, as in all days.
Is In men and women a finer sense Of
reverence This is the finest flower Of
humanity, the latest to bloom and bios
som and the easiest to wither and to
wilt, so that our one great need Is a
deeper and richer sense of personal rev.
erence. For 1t is true, as Mrs. Brown
ing has sung Earth Is crowned with
heaven, and every common bush the fiow-
er of God" But only he who sees takes
off his shoes, the rest sit round and pluck
blackberries.
This is Gods word and none others.
We are living. every one OF US, in the
midst of the divine process; the Heaven
ly Father was never nearer to any soul
In the world than he is to each one OF
us this minute. What we need In men
and women of this age is the perception
of this truth and the adjustment OF our
personal relationship to this infinite and
invariable machinery of life. And for
that purpose 1t may serve a negative
aim, IL no other, II for q moment we re-
call the two or three things which Dl1nd
us to this reality. and which. as 1t were.
shut out the light Of the sun from our
own eyes. Why Is 1t that living in the
midst of this divine process we lose too
often that delicate reverence: wish to
trample on holy spaces and sacred places,
and resent the command to take the
shoes from off our feet.
The first reason, I am sure you will
agree with me in assigning, is that Of
absorption in the interests OF material
things. We forget that men and women
were not made for business, though
business naturally and inevitably enough
has q large and honorable place in our
affairs. We forget that after all the
things Of the senses do not exhaust the
realities of the world. This type of mind
has been called in religious language
petuated it in these lines of his:
1.-The world is too much with US. late and soon,
getting and a-spending, we lay waste our
powers.
Worldliness! But one cannot let the
word pass without a protest. 1t is too
good a word to be corrupted: too good a
word to be soiled by an ignoble use and
then to be disregarded. Worldlness!
WHY should 1t not be the finest thing
in our nature? Why should not the man
of the world be the real man? Indeed
he should if we do not limit the world
to the things that we touch with our fin
gers, see with our eyes or taste or smell.
But there is a larger world than that
the regions of hope, OF aspiration. OF
divine affection are not less real but
equally real. and perhaps more real than
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regularity not of a machine, but 1t is the
warm, regular. palpitating heart OF the
soul.
It Is not pleasant to be called these
lives I am sure you will agree with me
that it is precisely these three things
our absorption in the affairs of life to
the exclusion of other things. mere stupid
thoughtlessness and this tendency to defy
that rob us Of this richer sense of
personal reverence; and now. men and
women, that we are living In the twen-
tieth century. what can we do to cult
vate this spirit? In tho first place. we
important thing. for again and again we
remind ourselves that we are living in q
spiritual world. We are spiritual beings.
We are not dwellers in q suburb far on
from the Fathers home; not 80. We are
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Toronto lawyer. N. w. Rowell. K. c., pre-
sided, there were large draughts made
states Among these were Robert E:
Speer OF New York, ]. Campbell White Of
New York, Bishop Thoburn Of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church, Rev. DR.. Samuel
M. zwerner. +. r. 9: g.. Of New York;
Sleman. jr.. Of Washington: Joshua Lev
ering Of Baltimore. Charles A. Rowland
OF ATHENS. Ga: J. Lowell Murray Of New
York. DR.. S.las McBee Of New York. Con-
Haskell Of Boston. John r. Pepper Of
Memphis and Harry Wade Hicks of New
York.
The high character Of tho speakers and
their varied types have appealed strongly
And what a platform that was yester-
day! A preacher from the Baptist de-
nomination. bishop OF the Anglican
Church. the captain Of a great Canadian
man. a leader Of the New York bar, two
wealthy philanthropists, the provost OF an
Anglican university. consul general
who has represented the United States In
consul Of the empire. with the star OF In
dia on his breast. telling Of nearly forty
years Of high administrative service un-
der the crown. all presided over by one
the law Is there any other cause under
the sur that could bring such q combina-
ton Of men together to minister from
one PLATFORM
America to Do Likewise.
Now that the. Canadians have made q
triumphant SUCCESS Of this national con-
gress, fresh attention 10 drawn to the plan
to hold a similar meeting in st. Louis
next March. The scope Of the American
congress will be somewhat larger than
the Toronto meeting, for In addition to its
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in the midst of the Divine. GAS I was
with Noses" says the Divine Spirit, 80
will I be with thee" The place whereon
we stand now Is holy ground. To per-
ceive that is to I'LL our hearts with q ten
der reverence, and in the appreciation Of
the meaning Of life, to a richer sense Of
its mastery, and he is somewhat less Of
a man than he who, having come into this
perception, does not now and again take
the shoes from of his feet.
Or, again. observe that the second con-
tribution that religion makes to this en-
richment OF personal reverence Is the
progress, Is Thea law Of our nature. We
sometimes think Of reverence as II It
were something which bound us to the
past, or to the happenings OF the future
This Ia not Reverence. This Is tradition.
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tary OF this department, and has held a
conference with the presiding bishop of
the sixth episcopal district. Bishop Smith.
about the note due from one of the local
churches.
The local ministerial delegation consists
of Revs. C. c. Alleyne, H. c. P. Baker.
W. w. Barton, S. L. Corrothers. G. q.
Ferris. W. H. Ferguson. Logan Johnson,
William Johnson, Daniel Landin, J. w.
Martin, W. A. Ray. John H. Saunders
and II. w. Smith. The district lay dele
gates are James w. Poe. Josephine Pat
terson, NJ E. Brown. and their alter,
mates are Edith Johnson. James bosWeil
and Elizabeth Ayers The ex-officio dele
gates are John C. Dancy. Mrs. Ida V.
Smith, district president of the A. NJ. 2.
Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary
Society, and Miss Sarah J. Jenirer' re-
cording secretary of that society.
The conference will be In session Tor
one week at Williamsport, Pa. 1t will
convene May 10.
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General Religious Notes.
Tho Baptist Brotherhood Of Ohio has
recently been organized.
Christian Scientists have 1885 ministers
or readers, 06S churches and s., ,006 men,
bers.
The Salvation Army reports 4,765 min
listers, 1.016 churches and 2s.OOO members
in the United States.
Tho polygamous Mormons have In all
the states and territories Of the Union
about $4,000 adherents.
In tho six years since the Boer war
10000 natives have been baptized by wes-
leyan missionaries in the Transvaal.
The International convention Of the Ed
worth League Of the Methodist Episcopal
Church will be held at Seattle, July liz
The Roman Catholics Of Berkeley, Cal.
are erecting what IL to be known as
Newman Hall In that city. at q cost OF
$100, 1000.
There are twenty-four Lutheran, eight
cen Methodist. fourteen Baptist, twelve
Presbyterian, twelve Mennonite and nine
Catholic bodies In the United States.
The general committee Of the Foreign
Missionary Society Of the Methodist Epis-
copal church voted to appropriate 81. .O6O,-
678 for its work for the coming year.
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Temperance Mass Meeting.

A temperance mass meeting will be held
at the First Congregational Church, 10th
and G streets northwest, this afternoon
at o'clock, to be addressed by DR.. C. H.
Mead of New York city, a prominent pro-
hibition speaker and organizer.
This is the beginning Of a series OF pub
lie meetings to be held under the auspices
of the Good Templars of the District.
Special attention will be given to the work
of obtaining improved temperance legisla-
tion
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The general church extension board OF
the Methodist Episcopal Church South
will meet in Memphis. Tenn, tomorrow
and will take up at once the matter OF
raising the sum of 100000 for the rep
rcsentative church ediice of that de-
nomination To be located in the Capital
city A special representative of the de-
nomination will be appointed to canvass
the Methodist Episcopal churches OF the
southland to arouse the churchmen in
an effort to raise the fund.
The church will be located at the in
tersection of Massachusetts avenue, *
and 9th streets and will be occupied by
the Mount Vernon Place Church con-
gresatiOn, which will raise the sum OF
$4,000 to pay for the site
The proposed action of the general
church board TO begin the active work
of the raising the 100000 was discussed
by several of the speakers at a reception
given to Rev. J. Howard wells. the pas
tor. Friday night. Rev. Mr.. Wells Is one
of the active workers in the movement
for the proposed new church.
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Guest Of Father Lyons.

Rev. Thomas j. McCluskey. 8. j., pres
ident of ST. Francis Xavier College. New
York city. is the guest Of the Rev. Charles
w. Lyons, S. j., at st. Aloysius rectory.
The Rev. ]. Havens Richards, s. j.,
former president of Georgetown Univer
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tidings we'll for Lydia the purple SELLER
Areopagite
Ppp the elect lady for the widow Dorca
the beggar at the beautiful
household
Stephanas"-Bshop Andrewes.
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Christ Child Society Meeting.

The nresident and the board of man.
ayers of the Christ Child Society have
issued invitations for their annual meet
ing and exhibit Of work. which Will De
held at Rauscher's. 1904 Connecticut ave
nue., Monday afternoon. Rev. WhAam
j. Kerby of the Catholic University Will
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yestry st. Marks in memory of the holy
evangelist.
The program of services at the church
today Is as follows: Holy communion,
1880 a. M; festival service. special SER
mon by the rector. and holy communion
at ii q. m.: festival service. sermon by
the Bishop Of Washington, and confirma- l.
ton at 7:3O p. m. Rev. w. l.. Devries 10
the rector Of the parish. Rev. r. A.
Curtis IS the assistant.
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Auxiliary Societies Inn the Capital City

and propose some plan by which the club
may render material financial aid In the
proposed improvement on the church and
parish hall. Messrs. Redd. Winterwarp,
Harnish. Gicker and Pollock were -ap-
pointed as committee.
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home in some suburb; you are living i'm
medfately In His presence. The laws of
nature, as we call them. are footprints to
His door. Your personality is not mere
whim; 1t is sacred thing to the creation
and enforcement OF which all previous his
tory has contributed. It would be a great
thing II IN our busy career we could reg
lister the vow that occasionally we should
stop and take the shoes from off our feet,
that we would consider these things. II
was Milton who says. perhaps In his
"Comus":
And Wisdom's self
OFT seeks to sweet retired solitude.
Where, with her best nurse contemplation
She plumes her feathers and let's grow her wings
That. in the various hustle Of resort,
Our salvation Is In snatching from the
busy days, not necessarily Of physical
solitude, but when the man Is with his
own best self and sees himself as he
imagines the Most High must see him.
One reason why the Master in Galilee
was able to so about doing good was be-
himself to think these things over. and
you will remember the picturesque In
stance when. after healing the sick and
raising the dead, He goes Off weary and
exhausted, we may infer, and He comes
back the next day with His face trans
to the common task-casting out evil
spirits and making 1t easier for men to
come to the kingdom OF God.
The more business we have to do the
more we have to find ourselves. John
Wesley's Journal says:
To-day is to be the busiest day in my
career. therefore 1 must spend more time
than usual in prayer"
That does not necessarily mean that
the task shall be left undone, the work
unfinished. Nothing OF the kind We can
pray while working quite as well as be-
fore working or after working, and he
Is q poor, miserable man who let's him.
self become SO ruff1ed that there Is no
time in the world for his wings to grow
It Is a shame for us to have claws but
no wings. This Is what every church
stands for. Sunday Is the day when we
relinqudsh the common. though necessary,
tasks OF life and go with US to ourselves
In our accustomed place OF worship Here
for brief moment day down the warp
and the woof OF my Nfe-that is, before
the light OF the life I mean to live, and
precisely SO 1t is now. We 60 to our
tasks. our ordinary business, each man
to his home and each man to his burden,
30 laid out by God. Is there. too. But let
US go with this new spirit, that somehow
God is to be found, not by hearsay. not
by far-from report, but He IL to be found
by the reverend recognition Of Him in
the life that now Is in the task that is
here. There Is nothing SO menial, moth
ing 80 noble but that the listening spirit
still hears the divine Injunction: take
the shoes from of thy feet. for the place
whereon thou standest is holy ground
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Missionary
Interdenominational
Union.

Rev. and Mrs. Paul A. Menzel Of Con-
cordia Lutheran Church will lead the
meeting Of the Womans Interdenomina-
tional Missionary Union Monday morning
at 1870 o'clock in the chapel Of the
Memorial Church. Thomas Circle. It Is
expected that a number Of the Lutheran
ministers OF the city will be present at
the meeting.
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Fortieth Anniversary Of st. Mark

Fortieth Anniversary Of st. Marks
p. E. Church.
The fortieth anniversary of the found
ing Of st. Marks Episcopal parish, Sd
and A streets northeast, will be cele-
brated today. st. Marks day. The orig
inal mission was first organized in 1861
by the Rev. Mark L. Olds. rector Of
Washington parish. The meeting was
held in the parlors Of the Soldiers and
Sailors Orphan Home. on the northwest
corner of Maryland avenue and I'd street
northeast Five persons were present at
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Arranging for Zion A. M. E. Con
ference.

The completion of the reports OF the
local Zion Methodist Episcopal churches.
to be made at the Philadelphia and Bal
timore annual conference. which includes
churches In southern Pennsylvania, Del
aware, Maryland. northern Virginia and
the District of Columbia. was considered
by number of Zion ministers and lay
men yesterday. Bishop ]. W. Smiths 8
appeal to the Washington churches to
raise 50. 100 by May to liquidate a note
due then was also gone over, and an eff
fort is to be made to raise the money.
1t was decided to call on the general
church extension department to aid In
the matter. DR.. W. H. Coffey is secre-
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DR.. Grinnan Declines Call.
Rev. Andrew Grinnan, rector OF Berk-
eley Springs. w. Va, to whom the rec
torship OF All Faith parish, st. Mary
county, Nd. had been rendered. has de-
clined the call.