Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1912-01-26
A BIG MEMS MEETING
Guild Of Saint Anne's Parish
Reaches High Water Mark in
Bringing Men Together
For Church.
PROMINENT SPEAKERS THERE.
Judge James Alfred Pearce Of Appeals
Court Bench Holds Attention Of
Fellows ENJOYABLE Smoker
Follows.

With one of the most thoroughly
enjoyable and beneficial meetings
of men of Annapolis ever held which
was followed by a smoker and the
serving of delightful light sumner.
was held in ST. Anne's Parish
Chapel. corner of East and Prince
George streets last night, when the
Mems Guild of the parish reached
its high-water mark of popularity.
The Chapel was more than COM
fortably filled and not only the vocal
selections by Mr.. Clarence l.. Glenn
son, of the church choir and the
instrumental music by Prof. Adolph
Torovsky's orchestra, but the inter
esting addresses by prominent men.
including Judge James Alfred Pearce
Of the ourt of Appeals Bench. were
heartily applauded.
The meeting was opened by Presi-
dent Thomas Fell, of ST. Johns
College, who as Master of the
Guild, presented the rector, the
Rev. Joseph P. Comas, who, in an
address of welcome to the men, spoke
forcibly on the subject of men "get-
ing together" and mingling and
inowing each other and helping each
other in a manly, everyday scrt of
way in the work of the church.
Judge Pearce, who, through long
service on the Appeals Court Bench,
is almost as well known in Annapolis
as any native of the city, made a dis
tinctive impression in his forceful
mans talk to men, while particular
interest was manifested in the inter-
esting description given by Comman-
der Bainbridge Hoff, U. S. NJ, of a
recent trip made by himself and a
party Of naval officers to Jerusalem,
and his description of the Biblical
points of history to men there.
A history of the origination, growth
and present program of the Men and
Religion Forward Movement, that
was listened to with fiattering atten-
ton, was given by Commodore w.
H. Beehler, U. S. N, and the work
of the Guild with the hope of the
members that other men might join
in the manly everyday work of the
church, was explained by President
John Writ Randall, of the Farmers
National Bank and vestryman of
the Parish.
While in sense not religious meet
ting, the smoker unquestionably re-
suited in unifying of the men of
Annapolis in the advance of the church
and church work among every class
Of the men of the town. 1t was a
truly representative gathering, and
after the regular program a gather
ing of those present about buffet COL
lation of good things, followed by
good cigars and other "smokables, ="
showed the height of good-fellowship
and Christian good citizenship.
The only mark of regret was that
an important dinner engagement in
Baltimore called away Governor Colds
borogh and the unexpected adjourn
ment of the Legislature took out of
town Senator Blair Lee and Judge T.
j. c. Williams, of the Juvenile
Court, in Baltimore, all of whom had
intended being present. However, it
was explained by President Fell that
all three had expressed the hope that
they may be given later opportunity
to attend one of the gatherings and
all we're down for interesting talks.
A pleasing feature of the meeting
was the presence of number of St.
Johns College cadets and even more
candidates for the Naval Academy,
whose enjoyment of the whole occa-
sion was too manifest to be mistaken.