The Washington herald., 1913-06-07
WITH THE CHURCHES IN WASHINGTON .s5 ss 1 sa

cideut-the presentation to Mr.. Dudley
Of a silver dish or basket. in which were
some so gold pieces for each year OF his
rectorship. Canon Dudley responded In
feeling terms, which were as appropriate
as anything we have heard In that way
for some time. and exactly expressed the
ideas of those present. The Bishop also
made an address, which was greatly APP
preciated by the large number present.
One of the pleasing incidents of the
evening was the insistence by the en-
thusiastic friends of Canon and Mrs. Dud-
ley that Mrs. Dudley herself say few
words, which eventually they succeeded
In having her do. Her brief and excel
lent address could not have been ex-
celled, and the reluctance of Mrs. Dudley
to mount the platform reminded one OF
the attitude OF great singers toward an
invitation to exhibit their powers. Ice
cream. cake, &c, followed. which were
distributed by the young ladies of the
parish. st. Stephens, by the way, being
essentially a young peoples parish. There
were some older heads present, but the
young were in evidence everywhere.
There is a young peoples society in exist
ence at this Slfurch of over 200 members.
ST. Stephens is one of the hourishing
parishes of the city, and the celebration
of Thursday night last was but the out
ward and visible symbol Of the good
work that has been going on under the
present administration.
The Rev. DR.. and Mrs. Roland Cotton
Smith and Mr.. John Cotton Smith sailed
for Europe last week on the Lapland. of
the Red Star Line.
Mrs. ]. J. Dimon, wife of the rector of
ST. Andrews Church, Corcoran and
Fourteenth Streets. has gone with her
children to Cleveland. Ohio, where they
will spend the summer. A short while
ago Mrs. Dimon's father. Mr.. Thomas
Cook Atwater. died at his residence there.
On account of the illness which terminate
ed in his death, Mrs. DImon left the city
earlier than usual.
Mr.. Edward Lowe Temple, one of our
literary laymen. through his publishers.
B. F. johnson, Inc. Pennsylvania Aye
nue., Washington, Is about to issue a new
work, one on which he has been en-
gagged for some time. and one which II is
said erhbodies a good deaI of literary re-
search. under the title of The Twen-
tieth Century Outlook Upon Holy Scrip
ture"
During the summer Epiphany Church.
between Thirteenth and Fourteenth
Streets. on G Street. will have some con-
siderable improvements made to II,
chiefly connected with the floor Of the
church There will. in fact, be new
floor built on brick pillars with re-en-
forced concrete work, which will be all
done under the plans of r. II. Brooke.
st. Margarst's Church, Bancroft Place
and Connecticut Avenue, will soon. from
the indications. have its new parish han.
The excavation work is about done; ap-
parently It will not be long before the
foundations are laid and the superstruc-
ture of the building raised thereon. This
iourishing parish has been much handi-
capped by the want of a parish hall, and
II is to be fully expected that whom II has
that most necessary adjunct to its church
building it will do even better work than
1t has done in the past. The rector, DR..
Herbert Scott Smith, is to be congratu-
lated upon the prospects OF soon having
the hall built and in use.
The Boy Scouts of Epiphany Chapel.
Rev Charles F. Edwards, vicar are
meeting every Tuesday evening at Q
o'clock in the Sunday school room. Any
one passing the chapel at that hour will
probably hear a great sound as of many
voices singing heartily. and IL moved by
curiosity to step within, he would find
the boys singing their scout songs. II is
remarkable how that organization has
grown. but its rapidity of growth only
shows that it filed a want which had
been felt and which much needed filling.
exercises of the National Cathedral
School for Boys. with field day exercises
on Satterlee Field at $50 O'Clock, fol-
lowed by the awarding Of medals and
athletic prizes in Lane johnson Building
at $50 o'clock
Tomorrow the holy communion will be
celebrated in the little sanctuary at
7:45 o'clock. The baccalaureate sermon
will be preached at 4 o'clock. followed by
the dedication OF class window at $50
o'clock.
On Monday the commencement in the
Bethlehem Chapel will take place at IL
o'clock.
st. Johns, Georgetown. has just held a
concert in its parish han, the proceeds Of
which are to go to the expenses of the
annual camp of the choir boys on the
Severn River, near Annapolis. The camp
will be pitched in July next, and the boys
They will be in charge of the choirmas-
ter. but the rector of the church. Rev.
Canon Howden. and the assistant, Rev.
w. r. Bushby. will each spend a week
there This annual camping out of the
choir boys has gone on for several years,
and has in fact become one of the recog-
nized institutions of the parish.
There are few churches in the diocese
where the spirit of improvement shows
itself more perseveringly than at st.
Johns, Georgetown. Any one looking at
the church and parish house now and
contrasting it with what it was a few
years ago, both inside and out, would at
once see this. The latest improvement on
hand is the thing of the entire church.
for which the money is already in hand.
The work Is to be done by the American
Mosaic Company. and viii be begun just
as soon as possession of the church can
be gotten for the purpose.