Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-01
DUTY OF CHURCHES
"Greatest Good for ALL" the
goth Century Slogan.
POWER IN SOCIAL SERVICE
Theme of Addresses at Monday
Evening Club Banquet.
PROBLEMS TO BE SOLVED
Remedies for Failures in the Civic
Life-opportunities Of
the Laymen.

The churches are asked not only to hold
divine services, but to render divine serv-
ices.
Washington has been called 1.-The City
Beautiful; let it in the future be called
THE City of the Social IDEAL
The slogan of the nineteenth century
was THE greatest good for the greatest
number; let the slogan of the twentieth
century be THE greatest good for ALL
Such were the sentiments of the speak
ers at the annual banquet of the Monday
Evening Club. held in the Y. NJ. c.. A.
banquet hall last evening. Paul E. Sic
man, chairman of the program committee
for the evening, acted as POSTMASTER,
and over 200 guests sat around the festive
board.
General Topic Considered.
THE Church and Social Service" was
the general topic under discussion. Rev.
William j. Kerby. professor of sociology
Of the Catholic University, spoke on
THE Field of Social Service; Charles F.
Nesbit discussed 1.-The Layman's Oppor-
tunity"; Rev. DR.. Charles Wood, pastor
of the Church of the Covenant. made an
address on THE Minister'S Opportunity,
and Rabbi Abram Simon of the Wash
fngton Hebrew Congregation presented
''Washington's Opportunity" The formal
addresses were followed by a brief dis
cussion of the general topic. and as the
climax of the evening, upon motion OF
Rev. DR.. John Van Schaick. jr., the club
authorized the appointment by the chair
man of a special committee to suggest
practical means for bringing about the
cooperation of the churches in social
service.
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the failures in our civic life. DR.. Kerby
the first formal speaker declared meet
tngs like that of last night are held, and
the discussion centers around the preven-
ton of these failures in the future.
Divided Into Glasses.
Those who have power to remedy the
failures in the civic life, he declared. are
divided into four classes. First, there are
those who know nothing concerning the
weak; of the problems, the sufferings, the
misery of the weak; and they need to
have the facts presented to them by ex-
pert investigators. Second. there are those
who know the facts, but feel no moral
responsibility, who can stand by and see
the misery and suffering of the weak and
feel no impulse to extend a helping hand;
and these need a moral awakening. Third.
he said, there are those who are morally
awakened to their responsibility, but who
do not know how to help; and for them
efficient organization is needed. Fourth,
he declared, there are those who are
awakened, but who are working unwsely:
and they need to be shown proper meth
DDS of working.
Laymen's Opportunity.
ITO paraphrase Abraham Lincoln. God
must have loved the laymen, he made so
many Of them.'' began Mr.. Nesbit when
No ~, To-,
tunity for social service.
The glory of America, he continued, is
that it's minds are SO practicable. And the
| laymen of American feel that heir re-
| ligion must be practicable. So there is
needed In the church new feature-a
meeting place where the men of different
| lines of work can get together, each pre-
sent his specialized knowledge and from
all the discussion evolve a practical
working plan for their service to their
/ fellow men.
| 1T is said" began DIR. Wood. in his
address on the minister's opportunity,
| that mans extremity is Gods oppor-
tunity' 1t is also the opportunity for
all those who are on Gods side"
Much Expected.
| Much is expected of the minister of to-
day, DR.. Wood continued. When a
| woman has a nervous headache, she goes
TO ner pastor, ana she CITES the ne"
doctrine of psychic healing in justifca-
| ton. The ministers are going to be So
| busy looking at tongues and feeling
pulses, he declared. that there is need
! for asking when they are going to have
time to prepare their messages to the
people.
| "Washington's Opportunity was Rabbi
Simon's subject. He was the next speaker
! introduced.
THE city of Washington gives hearty
welcome to every honest effort to uplift
| society,"" he declared. 1T is glad to well
| come the modest efforts of the Monday
Evening Club. The District Is proud of
| her three institutioDs-the Associated
Charities, the Citizens Relief Association
and the Association for the Prevention of
tuberculosis. The District Is tremendous
| ly rich in schools, libraries, art galleries,
churches, and proud of them all. Despite
all this pride, there courses down the
| cheek of the fair city tear, because
it's face has it's deep lines and burrows.
| There is q sense of sorrow for the
thousands of boys and girls born with
hollow chests. for the thousands Of those