The Washington herald., 1912-03-09
Gpiarnpaltart

The noon day preachers al Eplpnany
Church at the services for business peo-
pie this coming week are:
Monday, the Rev. ]. J.~Dimon. rector
OF st. Andrews parish, Fourteenth and
Corcoran streets; Tuesday and Wednes-
| day, Rev. II. L. Burleson, assistant sec
retary of the board OF missions; Thurs
day. Rev. r. Cotton Smith. d. D., rector
OF st. Johns parish, Lafayette square:
Friday, Rev. F. B. Howden, rector OF
81. Johns, Georgetown.
The Bishop OF Western New York. Rt.
Rev. William d. Walker. d. D., has been
in Washington this week In attendance
on the sessions OF the Indian compisslon,
of which the bishop has been fof many
years one of the best-informed members
on the Indian question. He acquired this
knowledge while Bishop of North Dakota,
where he had large numbers OF Indians
under his spiritual Jurisdiction. II was
during his episcopate in North Dakota that
Bishop Walker invented the cathedral
car, or church on wheels, by which he
could bring the church's ministrations TO
the most distant points. The idea has
been taken up since then quite generally,
and churches on wheels have been seen
in various parts of the country. but Bishop
Walker was the Edison Of them all.
call the attention OF generous church
men and churchwomen to the excellent,
well-managed. and deserving charities car
ried on in Washington by the Episcopal
Church. AS a matter of principle. the
church does not ask or receive any finan-
cial help from the government for any
of them. Therefore, the bishop believes
that member Of the Episcopal Church
should consider the claims Of their own
charities first in making disposition of
their gifts for benevolence, and he will
be glad to receive and acknowledge sub
scriptions for any OF them.
The special cause for which Bishop
Harding pleads are for work among the
unfor tunate, represented by the Prisoners
Aid Department OF the House Of Mercy:
work for orphans and other dependent
children, represented by st. Johns Or
phanage. In F street, and the Episcopal
Home for Children, Anacostia: work
among the AFFLICTED, represented by the
Episcopal Eye, Ear. and Throat Hospital.
and work among the aged, represented by
the Epiphany Church Home, in Massa-
chusetts avenue.
The third and last Of the three con-
ferences OF the Girls Friendly Society
conducted by the Rev. C. r. Stetson, rec
will take place at Ascension Church,
Twelfth street and Massachusetts, ave
nue., on Wednesday next, at 4:i0 o'clock.
The missionary service, with the Bishop
Of Nevada as the principal speaker.
announced for Thursday last, was well
attended, and did its part well toward
arousing still further interest in the do
cese in our church extension work. Bish-
o - hA1 At NtNo NJ
the Ascension on the Sunday morning
previous, and won many friends for the
cause.
On Wednesday next Archdeacon Percy
&c. Weber will hold a retreat for women
at St Thomas Church. Eighteenth street,
near Dupont circle. All women ef the
city and diocese are invited to be present.
the retreat being intended for the benefit
and help of all the churches. Sister Doro-
thea, of the Sisters OF the Epiphany, has
the matter in charge.
The first annual meeting of the Con-
sumers' League OF the District OF Colum-
bIa will take place at Rauscher's on
March L. at AS p. m.
Mrs F. Kelly, secretary OF the Ma
tional Consumers League. will speak on
the National task OF the Consumers
League All who are interested in light
ening fhe burden of working women and
children are cordially invited 10 be pres
ent. Mrs. Kelly is said to be speaker OF
rare interest and sympathy-qualities
which are the result Of twenty years OF
contact with the hardest side of the life
Of the poor in New York and Chicago.
From Monday. March IL, to March 1e,
there will be held at 1S2S F street Con-
sumers' League exhibit which will be OF
samples Of sweatshop work and photo
graphs, &c. OF tenement industries. Many
members of the Episcopal Church are
deeply interested in this work. as being
cne effective means Of rescuing the per-
ishing.
The Bishop CIaggett Club held its usual
monthly meeting last Monday. The es-
say was by the Rev. ]. W. Clark, rector
OF ST. James Church.
The Rev Henry Parkman, presideflt Of
the club, has recently been elected rector
|of a Pennsylvania parish, to the regret
Of his many Washington and Maryland
friends.
Bishop Spalding, Of Utah, did full JUS
tice to his subject at the Churchman's
League lecture, on Tuesday last. The
bishop is a very effective speaker.
The next lecture in the Churchman'S
League series will be given on Tuesday
next. 1t will be by the Rev. Hugh L.
Burleson, of the board of missions, New
York City, whose subject, appropriately
enough, will be Foreign missions" Like
the others, II will be delivered in Epiph-
any Church and at s p. m.
Rev. Patrick Murphy is circulating q
little book on St Patrick, his name saint,
through Epiphany parish. The little book
answers effectually the questions who he
was and what his creed was. Every one
knows that st. Patrick was missionary
to Ireland, but not many know the won
drously interesting life of the saint, be-
ginning with his vboyhood in the home OF
his father, a clergyman Of the old British
Church.
In view OF his marvellous missionary ca
reer, everybody should read all that is
recorded Of him.
March is the month when the congre-
CATION OF the Church Of the Epiphany re-
spends to an appeal which comes to il
the ten little beds In ''the Epiphany ward
for children.
The committee in charge OF the ward
invites direct contributions for the work,
and TO this end, as the best way OF ac-
complishfng the same, they invite all in
terested to pay the ward visit, feeling
sure that when they see the many happy
faced little children saved from life-blind-
ness or iife-deafness. they cannot but
help the work most generously.