The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-19
BAPTIST.

fefldne nave naQ IQr 6OIuc years. Ah0
Collegiate Baptist Church. on the West
Side. quite near to the Pennsylvania Sta
ton, offers its site worth $4,000 ana an
endowment of $4,000. with conditions
that $4,000 additional be raised, that
s150,O00 be set aside as endowment. ana
that auditorium and psrlors be allowed
TO be used by the Collegiate Church and
congregation. The metropolitan baptist
Union has received and adopted the pro-
posal with enthusiasm, and feels certain
of being able to comply with the con-
ditions. Headquarters OF the Baptist
Home Mission Society are in New York
and Foreign and Publication Societies
have branches All are In rented quar-
tiers. Some Baptists are said to feel
that the location ought to be in Fourth
or Fifth Avenue, while others declare
that the new Seventh Avenue subway
will create a new West Side center. just
the place for such structure. The Col
legiate Church is a consolidation OF the
old Epiphany Church in Madison Avenue,
from which its endowment was received.
The pastor at present is Rev. DR.. Oscar
Haywood. Without mortgage Baptists
would have $750, 900. including site. The
Presbyterian building cost 81 100000.
A few days ago prominent daily news
papers in New York announced the con-
sclidation of the Fifth Avenue and CAL
vary Churches. New York City. They
announced the very evening on which the
consolidation took place; they declared
that the Fifth AvenGe building would
be sold; that the consolidated congrega-
ton would worship in the present Cal
vary Church, and that DR.. Cornelius
woelfxin would be the pastor OF the
united church. The consolidation OF the
two churches has not taken place. NO
official meeting of the churches has beeis
called to consider the matter. 1t 10 true
that many members in both Of the
churches consider the consolidation de-
sirable. and il is Furthermore, true that
such a consolidation may be brought
about in time
The senli-annual meeting of the CO.
lumbia Association Of Baptist Churches
will be held on Wednesday afternoon
and evening at the Brookland Baptist
Church. The programme, as previously
announced in this column, will INCLUDE
devotional exercises from to in the
afternoon. dinner from to z. and an
evening devotional meeting, beginning at
7:45. The evening meeting Will begin
with a song service, led by Mr.. Percy
S. Foster. and Rev. DR.. J. j. Muir will
preach the sermon.
DIR. Samuel H. Greene, of Calvary
Church, is temporarily absent from the
city for short rest, and his pulpit Will
be filled at both the morning and even
ing services tomorrow by Rev. DR.. o.
S. c. Wallace pastor of the First Bap-
fist Church, of Baltimore. Rev. DR.. Wal
lace is the successor of Rev. DR.. Laws
at that church and is known as an able
pastor and preacher.
The news of the death of Prof r. w.
Prentiss, of Rutgers College, New
Brunswick, N. j., is a shock to his many
friends in this city and especially to
the members of Calvary Church, where |
the deceased was at one time Sunday |
school superintendent and where he al |
ways worshiped on his visits to this
city. cit was just recently" men, |
Der OF Calvary says. that his voice |
was heard in prayer meeting in his /
usually happy and edifying way" At
his funeral in the college chapel at Rut-
gers President Demarest. of the college. |
paid a high tribute to the work of the
deceased, both as a professor of as
tronomy and as a Christian minister.
Prof. Prentiss was superintendent at
Calvary from January, 1890, to october,
1891, and filled the Office with con-
spicuous fidelity and ability.
Rev. f. Hez Sven will take for his |
theme tomorrow night at the Centennial
Church, THE Biggest Washington Sim"
In the morning he will preach on the |
subject, Beside the Morn
The month of April has been set aside
by the West Washington Church for a
special campaign to win men for Christ |
and the church. Evangelism has been
the prominent note sounded in all of the
regular services thus far, and there
has been a response from many men,
women. and children. Beginning with
the morning service tomorrow the church
will conduct special revival services for
two weeks Pastor Cav will preach at
each, meeting. The pastor will be aideo
with music rendered by a chorus Of from
fifty to sixty voices. In addition, at each
service there will be singing by Miss
Meta Craig, the soprano soloist Of the
church, whose rendering of Gospel mes
sages in song at Ocean Grove and. WI
mona Lake, has been markedly success
full. For tomorrow morning and evening
the pastors subjects will be, respective
ly, "A True Heart" and Him thar
Heareth.''
The Sons of Jonadap will be present
in a body at Temple Church tomorrow
evening, when Pastor Muir will preach
to them by special request The pastor
will preach on the subject, Tent and
Cake In the morning his theme will
be, THE Singing Season The ordi-
nance of baptism will be administered ST
the evening service. At the midweek
service on Thursday evening there will
be an election of deacons.
Pastor Hinson W Hewlett will preach
at the Second Baptist Church tomorrow
morning on the subject, Those Who
Never Die" In the evening there will
be baptism, and an address by the pas
tor The right hand Of fellowship will
be extended and the memorial supper
observed.
Pastor John E. Briggs, of Fifth Church,
will preach on The Unjust Steward" in
the morning At night there will take
place the chiIdren's day exercises OF. the
Sunday school. There will be becoming
decorations and special marches and
music The subject Will be David Liv-
ingstone, the Missionary"
On Sunday night, April %. at p. m,
DR.. David Heagle, OF Chicago, will give
IN the above-named church his celebrated
lecture on ''Solomons Tenn
ple and Jerusalem" This is said to be
the finest thing of the kind in the world.
II is the whole story Of the temple from
beginning to end including its architec-
ture, services incidents from its history,
ruins, and everything connected with 1t.
DR.. Heagle has already given this lee
ture some 1000 times, and he was the
originator and manager Of the great
temple exhibit at the Worlds Fair in
ST Louis