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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-27

Out of Weakness Made Strong


impressed me in reading his articles is
not much the vast good he has already
accomplished as the fact that Denver
owes its civic awakening to just this pc
cullar type of man. For what was he at
the beginning? A tfmid, shrinking boy,
obliged to make his own way. lawyers
clerk for time, and. when admitted to
the bar, not in any way commanding
figure Even when he entered politics he
was unschooled in the arts and schemes
that are the stock in trade of the average
boss or ward heller. But one day
Lindsey saw Theodore Roosevelt face a
great hostile sullen throng of men in a
Denver auditorium and heard him chal-
lenge their political views by his opening
sentence: I'VE are for the gold standard
From that moment Lindsey had the cour-
age of a lion.
1t is no discredit to you, my friends. If
YOU feel weak and inadequate to your
task But it is to your discredit if you do
not aspire for greater strength ana ex-
pect to get it. Some of the greatest ne
roes of history, Moses. Isaiah. Paul,
shrank from the tasks devoved upon
them. But the command had come ana
in due season they girded themselves ana
went bravely forward.
My word to timid people today is: do
not underrate your capacities. MY mes
sage is not now to those VINO rush III
where angels fear to tread, but to the lar
larger number who draw back Where men
not angels-ought to tread. The very
fact that a plain duty is laid upon you in
the state, the church, the nelghborhood,
the home. is primary evidence that you
are able to accomplish it. And If you go
forward trusting in yourself and your
God. YOU will be able to say what l heard
n modest but courageous mother of a
large family once say. II have done what
l thought I couldn't.
The best kind of strength is that which
is evolved from weakness. That is one or
the differences between a real man and
an OK
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-27
Week of PRAYER.

Final preparations for the inter-brother-
hood week of prayer. beginning tomorrow.
have been completed. Prayer services
throughout the week will be held in the
following churches:
Monday-Subject. agreement in Pray
err" Calvary Methodist Church. Columbia
road and 18th street: John b. Sleman, jr.,
leader: Rev Dr. j. T. Kelley, speaker.
Congress Street Methodist Church, 31st
street near n northwest: l.. .. Mallory as
leader and Rev. w. Fl. Balengee as
speaker.
Tuesday-Subject, Prayer and the Will
of Cod
Ryland Methodist Church. 10th and D
streets southwest; Rev. L. E. Davis,
speaker.
Ninth Street Christian Church. 9th and
D streets northeast; r. A. Carpenter,
leader.
ST. Johns Episcopal Church, 10th and
H streets: Bishop kinsman OF Delaware,
speaker.
Wednesday-Subject Prayer in Christ S
Name
Grace Baptist Church, Seward square;
Rev A. H. Thompson, leader; Rev Paul
Hickok speaker.
United Brethren Church. North Capitol
and r streets northwest: Washington
Topham, leader: Rev L. o. Baker, speaker.
hursday-Subject. Prayer and Work. .
Church of the Ascension. 18th street and
Massachusetts avenue, WIN Kew j. He'll
ming NelmS. speaker.
Friday-Subject, Prayer and Sacrifice
Anacostia Methodist Church, Miles NJ.
Shand, speaker
Brookland Baptist Church. Rev w. J..
D. Thomas and Rev. +. c. Powers, speak
erS.
First Presbyterian Church. John Mar
shall place, Dr. l.. A. Sadler leader and
Rev E. E. Marshall as speaker
Saturday-Subject, Prayer and the
Road to Unity
Union meeting at the central Y. NJ. G.. A.
building with Commissioner Henry b. F.
Macfarand as the leader.
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Help Our Fellows.

Our lives should help. not hinder, our
fellows.
This appeal of Pauls is rendered more
emphatic and more impressive by his
reference to the Judgment. 1t is as though
he would say, since all men must pass
through this dreadful ordeal. and since
we are so related to each other that the
conduct of one man helps or hinders his
fellows, let it be the business of each
and all of us to avoid everything that
might be a stumbling block or an occa-
sion to fall in his brothers way"
This exhortation was important i'm
Rome in the time of Paul. 1t is no less
important now amid the contentious and
rivalries of the twentieth century. The
peculiar form of temptation will change
with the centuries, but temptation there
will ever be. Human influence is as real
today as 1T was nineteen centuries ago.
and men will be led upward or downward
by the example of their fellows until the
end of time.
The burning question with the early
Christians was whether they should eat
meat that had been offered to Idols. They
were mainly converted heathers. They
had been accustomed to offer sacrifices
to their gods. From childhood they had
been used to sit at the table and to par
take of the food thus offered in sacrifice.
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Angel Court
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of children crying for food are the calls
of God to our own hearts for prompt ana
kindly assistance.
Angel court needs the hopefulness. en-
thusiasm and the idealism of youth. When
tie young go into such gloomy areas OF
life their coming has the freShening Ell
feet of sunshine. In our own city, WIN
all its advantages and beauties. there are
Angel courts where a loaf of bread would
be welcome and where young faces and
fresh voices would be of more value than
the visits of angels from heaven. For An
gel court needs people more than 1t needs
angels In the earlier days of the Saliva
ton Army it was perhaps greater pow
er than 1t is noW-at least in some re-
spects-for it confined its work to Angel
court and kept away from Gilt Spur lane
1t had power for good because the lassles
went with bread in one hand and a WASH
pail in the other and cleaned Things UP
before they talked religion. We may not
he able to ina CINE an angel ScrubDlnS a
floor but Angel court sometimes needs
floor scrubbng. and there are children
whose faces need the cleansing touch OF a
Young girls hand more than they need
the touch of an anglers wing.
Through hardest of hard work, and
often through sickness brought on by
hard work and exposure, the women folk
in Angel court cannot always meet tne
demands upon their time and strength
The Salvation Army and kindred organic
i'm Angel court but there is still room for
visits from Christian people who can al
ford and enjoy the best appliances and
ceremonies of worship, but whose ears
are not so completely filled with Christian
music and eloquence that they cannot
hear the signing and sobbing of the poor.
II is d noble thing to think the great
thoughts of life, and to cherish the high
est ideals that grow out of those thoughts.
but there is more remedial power In put
ting into practice in lOwly ways the SIM
pie lessons of the eVangel than in simply
dreaming of ladders reaching to heaven.
The charitable organizations of our city
cannot meet all the. demands made upon
them and their appeals to our benevo-
lence ought to meet with ungrudg1ng re-
sponse but even after such response there
is still left the method of personal con-
tact. Giving by proxy is better than not
giving at ALL but personal visitation to
Angel court not only carries more per-
sonal expression of sympathetic interest
than giving alone through organiZa lions
wise as such giving is. 1t brings to the
heart such realization of the needs OF
our poorer brothers and sisters as nc
words can do, and aWakenS those SYM
pathies which alone can keep us from be
coming incrusted in the selfishness sc
often seen in those of us who do not know
from personal experience the real meaning
of want. Those who climb the crum-
bling stairs to visit the sick, clothe the
ragged or feed the hungry learn that Il,
Is more blessed to give than to receive,
and that blessedness amply repays them
for the time and effort spent in finding
and serving Angel court.
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Christian Endeavor Hour
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of our doors, and how Indifferent we are
to them
Some one has said that the hopeless
ness of the battle of the slums is that
it is one confused mass of human beings
of the worst classes of all nationalities
and before we can make any impression
for good upon them another lot are min
Sled in, and SO the confusion grows
greater.
We read about the degradation in At
RIGA. the want of civilization, the mis-
cradle shacks and huts that serve as
the only home these human beings know
and we long to teach them better, and
to show them how to build beautiful
coy homes like ours and to live sweet,
pure life. Yet miserable as those grass
mat huts are. they are infinitely better
than the crowded tenementS, where UP
innumerable flights of miserable utterly
dark stairs live thousands of people hud-
died together in drOves like cattle, with
no sight of the blue sky, no sound of the
songs of birds or winds or waters, only
the rolling grinding horrors of the city
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Application to Temperance.

AS to the application of this to the
question of temperance, by temperance |
mean the use of intoxicating liquors as
beverage. Do the Scriptures permit
such use? This is "A most important
question. 1t is one that is fronting the
church and the people of this country as
never before. 1t is a question that will
not down. And whatever an interested
part of our people may think it is a
question that will never be settled until
it is settled according to the purpose of
God. But what is the purpose OF God?
There are those who deny that the Bible is
total abstinence book And il must be
conceded that, SO far as the O.u Tesla
ment is concerned, large liberty was fle-
quently given to the Jews concerning the
use of alcohol. But the Old Testament
was given i'm a time of ignorance and
of spiritual weakness. To men in such
conditions the higher spiritual require
mentS are not given; because to such the
higher spiritual attachments are not pos
sible. The New Testament Is a book of
principles. No attempt is made i'm II to
cover each case with Thou shalt"
But can any one believe that the use of
intoxicants as a beverage is in harmony
with the teachings of this chapter? 1t
is impossible.
Take the uselessness of alcohol as
beverage. The time was when men be-
lieved it to be indispensable. 1t was a
to. But that time is past, never TO re-
turn. The light of science has been turn
ed upon it, and science has shown that
as beverage alcohol is not only useless
to the human system, but 1t is positively
injurious. Even when used In modera-
ton it deranges the system-it units the
system to bear the strain of excessive
toll or of prolonged exposure. Neither
Cook or Peary would have dared to use
it when struggling with the tempests Oh
the frozen fields of the arctic regions.
1t predisposes to disease. DR.. Cartwright
of New Orleans, writing to the Boston
Medical Journal of the epidemic of yellow
fever which visited that city in 1858. said:
About 1000 of them (habitual drinkers
died before the epidemic touched single
citizen or sober man, far as l can
get at the facts.
1t leads to poverty and crime.
The home of the drinker is almost IN
variably forlorn. The money that is
needed for food and clothing goes to
crafty the unquenchable thirst. There
is no happy home life. 1t is but too often
training school for the SlumS and the
prison. Three-fourths of the crime is
the result of the drink habit. Its vic
tins crowd almshouses. jails and peni-
tentares. Its extensive use destroys
the moral fiber. 1t vitiates and degrades.
1t exiles its user from all respectable So
ciety 1t destroys hope. and at last it
1t is quite true that many persons use
alcohol as beverage who never got to this
excess, but it is equally true ii Is the
path of danger. The danger line Is al
ways crossed unconSciously. Beyond II
we bid adieu to hope.
The question is Can you set an exam
pie that will lead to such an end?
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est of the poor that shames many who
live in better quarters and in better con-
ditionS than prevail in Angel court They
cling to one another. they exhibit an I'M
seltishness in their dealings with each
other, and there is a patient submission
to conditions that would make those bet
ter born and reared miserable But while
poverty sickness and uncontrolled trou-
bic exists in Angel court The Founder of
Christianity, who became poor FOR hu-
manitys sake. calls upon lis through His
example and precept To visit Angel court
and exercise there. not the gifts of elo-
uuence nor the functions of a censor. but
sympathy, benevolence and kindness, a
ministry which angels might covet.
K IigIoUS life = more than dreaming
rr professions uD Gilt Spur lane to Sc
elusive church. The religion whose name
we homer in cur houses Of worship and its
founder whose love we believe In. DidS
us 20 forth to unseltiSh service wherever
the emaciated hard of hunger lifts thin
fingers to God in hope of clutchinS bread
from the empty air, ard where the voices
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| wyn societies. Mr.. Hicks of Riverdale in
| charge
! Monday evening, November 20, O'Clock.
Sixth Presbyterian Church. 9th and G
| streets southwest. in connection with the
| First Presbyterian and the Westminster
churches and Faith Chapel, Miss Alice
Hercus of the Sixth Church in charge.
| Tuesday evening, November 30, o'clock,
Metropolitan Presbyterian Church, 4th
and B streets southeast, in connection
with Eastern and Anacostia societies,
Miss Edith Church in charge.
! Wednesday evening, December /, 8
o'clock, Western Presbyterian Church. H
street between 18th and Goth. in connec-
| ton with the Covenant West Street, Peck
| Memorial. Washington Heights. Chevy
| Chase and Fifteenth Street churches. w.
II. H. Smith of Western Church in charge
Thursday evening. December 2 7:45
O'Clock, in the New York Avenue Presby
terrain Church, in connection with Beth
any Chapel, Edward Tarring of New
/ York Avenue Church in charge.
Friday evening, December 3. O'Clock,
in the Gurley Presbyterian Church. Flor
| ida avenue near 9TH street northwest, in
connection with lexington. Northminster,
Gunton Temple. Fourth and Tacoma
! churches Mr.. Merwin in charge
/ Monday evening. December g. dinner
| will be given to DIR. Lawrence by the
Presbyterian EndeaVorers. 1t will be
served by the ladies of the First Presby-
| terrain Church. 1t will take place at q
| o'clock in the lecture room of the First
! Church. All of the Presbyterian pastors
well as large number of the active
young people in the different societies and
many others are expected to be present.
| There will be good program. including
several addresses. DR.. Lawrence will tell
about the people and present situation in
| Persia.
The Presbyterian Christian Endeavor
! Union of the District of Columbia, con-
! sisting of all the Presbyterian Christian
| Endeavor societies, has the arrangements
| in charge. w. h. Handy is president of
the union. Edward Tarring has charge
=. of the arrangements for the dinner.
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Parish Hall for Nativity Chapel


Gooch treasurer. Thanksgiving evening
the Boys Senior Guild, under the direc-
ton of Mrs E. NJ Thompson, gave a sup
pe.. All of these organizations are thor
oughly acquainted with the movement to
raise the funds for the proposed new par
ish hall and are expected to render val
liable service.
Tomorrow is Advent Sunday, and at
the morning service Rev. Mr.. Thomp-
son will deliver the sermon of the oc-
casion. Bishop Harding. who has
deep interest in the success of the
chapel, will be present in the evening
and deliver a sermon.
In all of his teaching and preaching
the rector of the chapel strongly en-
phasizes the catholic and apostolic
character of the Episcopal Church.
Large congregations attend each serv-
ice, and the work bids fair to prove
one of the most successful among the
| church enterprises in Southeast Wash
ington. Up to the present time there
have been 100 baptisms, IS confirma-
tons and 125 enrolled communicates.
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How to Help the Leader.

to lull them to their sleep Of stupor after
they have extracted from their solid days
every stroke of work possible.
How to Help the Leader.
Go and visit midnight mission, or a
breakfast mission, or college settle
ment or find out about the big brother
movement or read some of Judge Lind
says articles about the boys in the
juvenile court and then tell about them
Parallel Passages.
Mark. 12:37: Mark, PIT; Psalms, 25:s:
Psalms, 81 :13; Luke. 1910: James, $50;
Psalms 1924; Ezekiel, 1874.
Hints to the Leader.
The Endeavor Hymnal, 81, 13o, 142. IA,
145.
In few words make plain the fact
that the Indifferent who have heard the
invitation of Christ and have not taken
the trouble to accept 1t are all about us,
and if we cannot reach them the message
presses upon each servant of the King
and we must 60 out into the highways
and hedges and compel others to come In
that His house may be filled. The COM
mon people heard Him gladly two thou
sand years ago and they will do so yet.
1t is our business that they hear Him.
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Mount Pleasant Congregational.

The Mount Pleasant Congregational So
ciety will present the District School at
Burberry Corners" revised and brought
up-to-date, Friday evening, December ,.
for the benefit of the society's mission
funds The following are some of the
members who will take part in the play:
Misses Pearl Calhoun, Frances Clements,
Catherine Cleveland, Clara Belle Weiele.
Catherine Laing, Grace Middleton, Wilmot
Michael, Ruby Nevins, Jane Pidgeon,
Edith Larimore and Ethel LASER; Messrs.
d. Cady Davis, H. III. Gordon, Roy Carly,
Arthur De Riemer. Bruce Cleveland. c.
c. Pidgeon, Benson Thomas and Charles
Collins.
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day, is of the greatest interest
10 the Presbyterian Christian
t,ndeavorers of the District of Columbia,
as all of the foreign contributions of the
local branches go for his support. He
will be here for series of meetings COM
mencing tomorrow and closing with a
dinner and reception to him Monday. De-
.ember g.
DR.. Lawrence. while quite young man.
mas been in Persia for long time. and
has just come home within the past few
months on a furiough. He is not only
fully conversant with the situation along
the line of missionary work, but has had
good opportunity to observe the changes
and disturbances that have occurred re-
Gently along political and national lines
n the Persian empire.
The meetings that he will address have
oeen arranged for in different locations,
and all the Presbyterian Endeavor So
cieties have been grouped in such man.
ner that d number of societies will sup
port each meeting and arrange the details
of the program. There is naturally a
friendly rivalry among the different
groups to have the best meeting, and
special efforts are being made to have d
large attendance. 1t is hoped that many
societies will attend the meetings in a
body thus adding interest to the Occa-
sion. Special music will be arranged for
and most interesting and helpful meet
ingS are assured by following out the
program arranged.
The churches in which the meetings will
be held the societies which will attend
them and the persons III charge of the ar
engagements are follows:
Sunday evening. November IS. O'Clock,
at the Riverdale Presbyterian Church. III
connection with the Hyattsville and Ber-
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week except Saturday DR.. Neil is an
evangelist with wide experience. known
all over the country for his chapel car
work He is at present district secretary
of the American Baptist Publication So
ciety. His district embraces the states OF
Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland Vir-
ginia, West Virginia, New Jersey and the
District of Columbia. DR.. Neil is known
as The Scotch Singing Evangelist" the
brogue being in evidence in both song and
speech. AS a preacher and lecturer he is
described as "a persuasive, Scriptural anu
convincing preacher" The meetings will
close December with the administration
of the Lords supper and reception of new
members
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By Rev. DR.. James B. Clayton.

the Oldest part of London and al
most within a stones throw of ST.
Pauls Cathedral. one of the oldest,
p largest and greatest churches in
Christendom. is very narrow court
or alley, which for centuries has borne
the name Angel Court" Why this
name was given no one knows, although
there is an old legend that once upon a
time an angel was seen there, but it is
one OF the many strange names which
survive in the great metropolis of the
British empire. Not very far away is
closed road. short block long. which,
over GOO years ago, was named Gilt
Spur Lane. AT the upper end of this
lane is little church. still in use, where
the crusaders resorted to pay their last
devotions before going to Palestine in
quest of the holy sepulcher This lane
Is not. and never was, thoroughfare;
it could be used only by knights of high
degree, who wore the gilt spur, and by
them only on great occasions. AS for
Angel court, anybody could go there,
and, if poor enough. live there. and there
almost under the shadow of the great
cathedral and within sound of its organ.
thousands have been born in squalOr,
lived in dire want, and died without hope,
to the reproach of the Christian religion.
Austin Dobbn. the English poet, speaks
of the contrast between the name and
the conditions that prevail in
ANGEL COURT.
In Angel court the sunless air
Grows faint and sick; TO left aud right
The covering houses shrink from sight
Hudding and hopeless. eye|ess. bare;
Misnamed. you say. for surely rare
Must be the angel shapes that light
In Angel court.
Nay. the etcrnites are there:
Death by the doorway stands 10 >ntc
Life in its garretS leaps to light,
And love has climbed that crumbing stair.
In Angel court.
Angel court has its pitiful message to
English Christianity, which our brothers
across the sea are needing; it has its
message to American Christianity, which
we. too. are needing as never before.
and Christians every where are beginning
to realize that there is more of the re-
ligion of Jesus in climbing the crumbling
stair of Angel court on errandS of mercy
than in riding in pomp along Gilt Spur
lane The call of the poor at this season
of the year is an echo of the Masters
words, The poor We have always with
YOU" and in needing that call We ex-
emplify quality of religion worth all
the pompous parades of which Gilt Spur
lane can boast, and thousandfold more
besides.
Affection often exists among the poor
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Gives Bishop Cross.

The Bishop of Washington has been
presented with an exceedingly beautiful
pectoral cross under exceptionally inter-
esting circumstances. The donor of the
cross is a church woman whose children
the bishop baptized when he was rector of
ST. Paurs parish Before his consecra-
ton as bishop she told him that she would
give him such cross. Shortly afterward
she left for Europe and was unable at
once to fulfill her promise. AS soon as
she could do so she had number of beau
tiful amethysts gathered together by an
Armenian expert--seventeen of them in
all. quite perfect and rare-and under her
own supervision the cross was made and
then forwarded to the bishop, who has
since received 1t safely.
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Peoples Popular Services


at each service it is planned to have a
special invited speaker
The services are being held principally
with view of securing the attendance
of an increasing number of permanent
residents in the vicinity OF Trinity Church
The general details of the undertaking
are under the supervision of the rector
of the parish. Rev. Richard P. Williams.
and the Rev. George w Atkinson, jr,
who has recently become attached to
the clergy staff of Trinity Church.