The Washington herald., 1912-09-30
CAPITAL PASTORS
RETURN TO WORK
Churches and Bible Schools Resume
Regular Schedules Except
in Two Instances.
BIBLE STUDENTS ARE ACTIVE

With the exception Of Rev. DR.. Samuel
II. Greene, pastor of Calvary, and dean
OF the Protestant clergy by reason Of
years OF continuous service here, and
Rev. DIR. Charles Wood, Of the Church
OF the Covenant, all Washington pastors
occupied their pulpits yesterday. DR..
Greene returns this week from his sum
mer's rest in New England. and DR.. Vos-
burg, who has been supplying the Call
vary pulpit so acceptably, returns to
Denver. DR.. Wood returns this week
with Mrs. Wood from Germany. where
they have been spending several weeks,
sermons at the Church of the Covenant
next Sunday. Mr. Braskamp. assistant
to Dr. Wood. left this morning for a vaca-
ton in his home State Iowa
At st. Johns Church. Lafayette Square,
the second annual presentation service
OF the united Offering" was held yes
terday afternoon at AIS o'clock. A large
congregation was In attendance. many
OF the women of the church especially
interested in the missionary work being
present. Rev. John Jay Dimon. rector
OF st. Andrews. preached the sermon.
This morning the Pastors Federation
OF the District held its first meeting at
II o'clock In the Y. NJ. c. A. Building.
sunday schools Resume.
A good many OF the Sunday schools in
gational churches resumed regular ses-
sions yesterday. With a number It was
observed as rally day" Others have
fixed the first Sunday in October for their
rallying OF the Bible school. New York
Avenue Presbyterian. St. Thomas Epis-
copal and Epiphany were among those
schools resuming work yesterday. In this
connection the announcement of q spe-
cial Sunday school clearing house to be
maintained by the Episcopallans of the
District indicates the growing disposition
toward organized methods of handling
church problems of the larger cities.
OF the clearing house which has been
established in the diocese of Washington
Mr.. F. F. T. Marge. whose ofice is in
the Hibbs Building. is secretary. He
says OF the new venture:
For some time there has been an evil
dent need in our diocese of an efficient
means of insuring the enrolment OF
those Sunday school scholars moving
from one parish to another into the Sun
day school OF the parish to which they
have moved. For this purpose the Sun
cay School Institute, by formal action,
has created the Sunday school clearing
house. committee OF three TO look after
this work.
10 carry out the ann OF this commit
tee II will be necessary to have a repre-
sentative in each parish who can be re-
lied upon to manage the details in that
parish. The person most actively inter-
ested in Sunday school work, whether
the superintendent, the rector. an active
teacher, or even q worker outside of the
Sunday school organization. is the most
desirable person. The only requisite is
that he or she shall be in a position to
know when any scholar leaves the par
ish and to what address he has moved
Our representative will also be called
upon. either in person or through an as
sistant. TO look up those pupils who may
be reported by US to have moved into
another parish. We feel that many have
been lost by neglect of such action as
this in the past, and We hope TO reduce
such cases TO a minimum in the future"
Among Bible students.
Among the organized adult Bible
classes there is considerable activity this
fall. especially in classes of young men.
Forty men have registered in the Delta
Class at First Congregational so far.
under the teaching OF William Knowles
Cooper. and the Vaughn Glass at Cal
vary, under the leadership of that tire
less worker. Vaughn. who, as a lay
man. devotes every moment OF his time
outside OF business TO the personal Serv-
ice of its members, gives promise of a
larger enrolment than last year.
Evening services have been resumed in
OF the Protestant churches.
Rev. DR.. Woodrow. at the First Con-
preaching his first evening
sermon for this season last night. and
Rev. DR.. Goodwin. OF Mount Pleasant
Congregational, announcing a series of
sermons to begin next Sunday evening
At the Ingram Memorial. where the pas
tor is devotng his evening service to
popular education, especially on social
economic lines. Mrs. Florence Kelly. of
the Consumers League. spoke last even
ing on Health and Wages"
Methodist and Baptist pulpits gener-
ally have been occupied morning and
evening by regular local pastors since
the middle OF September, while the Lu-
therans and Disciples have very gener-
ally held two services since the first
Sunday In the month.
The Young Mems Christian Associ-
alton. it is announced. begins its fall
and winter Sunday afternoon meetings
for men next Sunday.