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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-04
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THE Presbyterian Minister'S Associa-
W ton of Washington and vicinity
opens it's course for the new year Mon
day morning with paper by Rev. DIR.
q. S. Duncan on 1.-THE Minister'S Ii
brary.' The program. so far as it is
made out. calls for paper Monday.
January 13. by Rev. DR.. w. H. Bates on
1.-The Integrity of the Old Testament His
torically and Critically Considered and
by Rev. DR.. S. S. Laws, Monday. Janu-
airy 20, on THE Virgin Birth of Our
Savior" The meetings begin at 1920
am. and are held in the lecture room of
the New York Avenue Presbyterian
Church
The text, over the main entrance of
the new Union station, chosen by DR..
Charles Eliot. president emeritus of Har-
ward University and a relative of Mr..
Thomson of the congregation's business
committee, will be Thou Hast Put All
Things Under His Feet
The Bible school of Emmanuel Baptist
Church is now launching a project to
The school will be divided into groups
Of thirteen. and each group vii! endeavor
to obtain thirteen members during
1913. thus making good it's motto double
enrolment.
In Foundry Methodist Episcopal Church
tomorrow the pastor Rev DR.. Wedder-
SPOON will deliver a brief sermon on The
Stranger or the Friend" Communion will
follow. In the evening at O'Clock the
theme will be "A Happy New Year"
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Personal.

SDSecTItInn - personal.
< Heans more than the offering of all
possessions, whether great or small \
forcibIe illustration of this is given in
tho Incident related Of a missionary and
d proud and powerful Indian chief
The chief was convicted OF sin and was
seeking pardon and peace Under his
sense Of guilt nc approached the mis-
sionary. and proffored his belt of wam-
pun To be freed from his burden of sin.
No" said the missionary. that is not
The sacrifice that Christ viii accept"
The Indian departed. but soon returned.
otCIinS his rifle and the skins he had
taken in hunting.
No, WAS the reply. Christ cannot
accept such Il sacrifice
Again the Indian Went away but soon
returned, with "a troubled countenance
and offered his wigwam, wife. child and
everything he had. for peace and pardon.
NO. was still the reply, Christ can
no. accept such "a sacrifice"
The chief was deeply oppressed with
surprise for moment. then lifting up
fearful eyes To the face OF the mission
AIRY, he. feelingly, cried out: Here. Lord,
take poor Indian TOO
II Is not tie wampum belt of the Ied
man, nor the girdle of wealth of the
white man: il is not the wigwam and
possessions Of the red man. nor the
houses and lands OF the white man, but
IL is the life itself with all it's belongip Is
that constitutes an offering of consec.a-
tion on Gods altar.
Take poor Indian. too. was the ex-
preston of personal conservation. and
SO il must be with all of us to say
take poor white man. too" for all are
equally poor in the sense OF needing par
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-04
Emblem of Conservation.

Sturgeon has given us beautiful
emblem Of the Christians consecrated
heart.
travellers have said" he declared,
that they have discovered gardens of
Solomon which We're of old inclosed
as private places. wherein the king
walked in solitude; and they have also
found wells Of most deliciously cold
water. deXterously covered, SO that
no person unacquainted with the stone
in the wall, which either revolved or
slid away with Il touch, could have
found the entrance to the spring.
AT the foot of some lofty range
of mountains reservoir received the
cooling streams which flowed from
melted SHOWS. This reservoir was care
fully guarded and shut out from all
common entrance, in order that the
king alone might enter there and
might refresh himself during the scorch-
ing heats.
such is the Christians heart. 1t is
spring shut up, a fountain sealed, a
garden reserved for Jesus only. o
come, Great King. and enjoy Thy
possessions"
Conservation means all for Christ;
and to attain to the stature of the
ideal Christian the dedication of self
must be entire. There are no promises
of blessing for halfhearted service.
Half way toward Christ is no way.
Take my life and let it be
COnsecrated, Lord, to Thee:
Take my moments and my days,
Let them flow in ceaseleSs praise.
Take my voice and let me sing
Always only for my King;
Take my lips and let them be
Filled with messages from Thee.
Take my silver and my gold
Not a mite would withhold;
Take my intellect and
Every power as Thou shalt choose.
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ent story to tell. There was third type
of prayer. which it would be folly to
overlook, and that is His prayers OF
communion.
Not in all the prayer life of the world
has anything approa ,hed the prayer re
corded in the seventeenth chapter of st.
John. He is talking with the Father
about their mutual love and interests.
Their souls, their interests, their work be
come one, and under the spell of the very
reading of that prayer We long for like
communion with our Father The mys-
terry of Gethsemane is found in the rec
ord of Jesus prayers there. 1t is the final
lesson upon the nature and purpose OF
true prayer. The Son of Mary takes the
humanity of the entire race into lonely
garden, and apart from human aid or the
infiUence of stirring event, by night. IN
the depressing shades of darkness lie
prays that humanity around to the
complete surrender to the will and pur-
pose of God and brings it forth. saying,
.Thy will he DONE" This is prayer.
The young people of the Churcn OF
Christ will do well to begin early the
practice of self-conquering prayer There
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will be many a toilsome day, after which
relaxation of spiritual tension, even to
the point of mild dissipation, seems quite
the only way in which to regain our nor
NAL poise and power. Jesus regained His
strength and fitness, through communion
with His Father. and, after all, much OF
our WEAKNESS is soul-weariness, and
prayer is the sure cure for such a con-
dition.
There is a practice in prayer which
gives us power as does no other method.
and that is the practice of early morning.
preparatory prayer. There, with the un-
sulied day before us, may ask of God
such guidance i'm our planning. and such
fitness for our task. that all he busy
day shall be according to His will. and
when the night comes down our rest and
recreation shall be found In that restor-
ing communion with our God that proved
so comforting to Jesus Christ. Thus
preparation, recreation, communion
shall be ours.
u Thou. by whom We come to Cod
The Life. the Truth. the Way:
The path of prayer Thyself hast trod
Lord teach how TO pray. Amen.
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Light Before the Sun.
A Difficulty Solved.
By Rev. DR.. William H. Bates.

I'm THE Sunday school lesson tomor-
row light is represented as produced
~ on the first creative day Gen,
1:3-J) and the sun not until the fourth
day Gen, 1:14-19). Light prior to the
sun presents a difficulty over which very
many thoughtful readers have stumbled
AMI which unbelief has exploited to the
discredit of the Bible.
The difficulty grows out of the COM
mon exemption that only the sun is the
source OF our light. Let us see.
There are two theories of light. The
first is the emission or corpuscular the
ory of Pythagoras and Newton. accord
ing to which light is an attenuated. i'm
ponderable substance emitted from the
sun and, by it's impact upon the retina
of the eye, produces the sensation which
we call light" The second is the I'M
dulatory theory, according to which there
is throughout the universe an exceed
ingiy subtle elastic medium known as
..luminiferous ether and the fluctuations
or waves of this substance produce IN
one mode light, in another mode neat
and in still another colors. tSee Iyn-
dalrs Mine Lectures on Lightly The
first theory is that Of solar light the sec
ond of cosmic light. The second is now
the accepted one.
Thus science comes to the V1ndlcatlon
of the Genesis record as against the
common erroneous assumption. The fact
is light, so far from being derived solely
from the sun or stars, exists IN and can
be educed from almost any known sub
stance The surface of our earth may
early have been u source of light. even
az it now is near the poles. flashing its
aurora borealiS and aurora auStranS.
which, according to an annual OF sclen-
tfic discovery, are claimed to De tel
luric (earth) phenomenon.
In PHILLIPS lectures on the Cumulative
Evidences of Divine Revelation" he says:
1T was always Il difficulty in this ac-
count of the creation that it represented
light as being created before the sun and
the stars, which are to US our only
sources of light. Now science tells us
it is not the sun that brought light and
heat, but the energy of which light and
heat are modes formed the sun. In short
had the writer of the first chapter OF
Genesis placed the sun first, any man
writing the history out of his own eX-
perience and judgment almost certainly
would have done, he would have been
contradicted by that modern science
which now. in this particular at least
confirms the account"
Understanding that the Hebrew "or."
light, of verses :, 4, s. has reference to
coSmic light, and that ''maor." light, or
light-bearer, of verses II, II and Is des-
isnates that which affects solar light, the
difficulty disappears.
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Commencement, Creation, Creator.

The universe is the product Of the WILL
word and work Of God. He thought it
through and brought matter into being
when He originated the heavens and the
earth The opening verse. that is almost
miraculous in it's concise, comprehensive
and clear statement, tells us that In the
beginning God created, but does not state
the time when He commenced the work
of creation. The historians object was to
show the connection of God with nature
and not to make scientific statement of
the process His words not only leave
open for the investigation OF science the
mysteries of nature, but they even APP
pear by their pregnant meanings to mark
out the line of coming scientific state
ment 1t teaches what science. as SUCH
cannot discover the relation of the uni
verse to God Science testifies that all its
data proves that all things are created
corroborating the scriptural statement
that I'm the beginning God created the
heaven and the earth. The three points
in Genesis where absolute creation is in
troduced. namely. the origin of matter
life and man. are the three points where
the modern champions of evolution find
it impossible to make their connection "
The great facts presented IN the opening
verse of our lesson caused an eminent
Japanese scholar to say Il find more phil
osOphy of theological character and
more satisfying to the mind and soul in
that one sentence than in all the sacred
books of the east" 1t gives us the ear
Hest revelation of the first principle of all
religion-the existence. unity, personality
and moral government of God. No ration
al explanation of the fact that the key
note of the Jewish faith. the unity of God,
taught in this remarkable verse. has sat
isfactorily explained why only the Jewish
nation held this monotheistic conception
of God, while all other tribes and nations
were polytheistic in their belief, except
that God gave to the Jews this glorious
reveal ton of His character. The triunity
of God is implied by the use of Elohim
Gods plural word in the Hebrew with
bara (created), singular verb while we
also see the trinity in the creation, The
Father. the source of creation, the Son.
through whom all things were made, and
the Holy Spirit. who has brooded over
chaos from the first.
lesson is in contradiction to pantheism,
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Being and Doing.

Entire conservation said Mcdonald,
embraces three thngs-being doing and
suffering. We must be willing TO be, to
do, and to suffer all that God requires
This embraces reputation. friends, money
and time. 1t covers body. mind and
soul. These are to he used when, where
and as God requires, and only as He
requires.
Our bodies are TO be presented as a
living sacrifice.
Paul, in writing to the Romans, said ::
Il beseech you. therefore, brethren, by
the mercies of God that We present your
bodies, a living sacrifice. holy, acceptable
unto God, which is your reasonable serv-
ice. And be not conformed TO this word !:
but be We transformed by the renewing
of Your mind. that We may prove what is
that good. and acceptable. and perfect
will of God
The first step in becoming Christian
Is in conservation of ourselves to God 5
service. IL is a duty not alone for min
listers or for those who have some great
special work to do, but for every Chris
tan.
1T is a blessed word said Macgregor.
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Spirit of Conservation.

1t is well to know and understand the
spirit of conservation. Confidence in God
is its basis and INSPIRATION
Blessed is that man that maketh the
Lord his trust, said the psalmist
There must be conception of Gods
wonderful and merciful dealings with
ana or His generous thought toward men
before the spirit of conservation can be
awakened
Unless We realize that God is worthy
or all honor ard all service we can
nave no inclination to dedicate ourselves
to Him.
We must know that reverence is due
before 1t can be given. We must under
stand as David did that Many. o Lord.
my God are thy wonderful works which
Ihou hast done. and Thy thoughts which
are to us-ward. They cannot be reck-
oned UP in order unto Thee If l would
declare and speak of them they are more
IMAM can be numbered"
me reason for consecration is found in
!; the iirst and great commandment Thou
shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy
heart and with all thy soul and with
all thy mind
ne observance of this commandments
Is impossible in the unconsecrated life
and the most devout and sincere Chris
tians realize that their conservation to
COD S service is very imperfect.
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Gpipbanptioe Rallies

ACCORDING to announcement of lead
~ ers of the Episcopal Sunday Schooi
Institute, the annual Epiphanytide mis-
sionary rallies will be held as follows
January -:
L. Sunday schools in the central sec
ton of the city at the Church OF the
Epiphany at i pm. Speaker. Kew. Paca
Kennedy of the Virginia Theological
Seminary.
. Sunday schools in the eastern sec
ton of the city at st. Marks Church at
i pm Speaker. Rev. D. Wellington Cur
ran, rector of All Faiths Parish, st.
Marys county, Md.
3. Sunday schools of the Georgetown
and st. Adams parishes at Christ Church
at 10 am. Speaker. Rev. u. Wellington
Curran.
Rectors. superintendent and teachers
are earnestly. requested to use every eff
fort to bring out a fine attendance Of the
pupils and to give out notice at services
and in Sunday school January and y.
Week of prayer services of the Wom-
ans nterdenominational Missionary
Union will begin Monday at l 1 o'clock. in
the parish hall of the Church of the
Epiphany, when Rev. DR.. r. H. McKim
will give brief missionary address. The
services will be held each morning OF the
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Rev. c. VI. Butler of Columbia Heights
Lutheran Church will not be able to con-
duct his services tomorrow owing to i'll
ness. He has been confined to the house
the whole week. most of the time in bed
owing to a heavy cold, bordering on pneu.
monia. He is improving and expects to
be out early in the next week.
=
The pastor of the Second Baptist
Church. Rev. Hinson Vernon Hewlett has
extended special invita- ton to the men
of the community to attend the services
at that church Sunday. He will preach
consideration of men, The morning topic
will be "A Man and His Religion and
that of the evening. Resolutions A
special effort is being made to increase
the attendance at the midweek service
Thursday. The topic will be Life
Touching Life There will be special
music at both services.
In the First Presbyterian Church to-
morrow evening the choir will render a
special musical program. DR. Macleod
will speak on 1.-The Other Wise Man.
illustrated with forty colored slides.
X 4
The week of prayer will be observed in
Foundry Methodist Episcopal Church by
services each evening next week Except
Saturday, at s o'clock. The following
topics will be discussed by DIR. Wedder-
spoon under the general topic, The
Christian Privileges and Duties: Mon
day. 1.-The Duty of the Minister; Tues
day, THE Purpose of Methodism'; We'd
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H Rbunoap SCHOOL 1esson|
MI Up Reb. Nugb a.. 5tenfnson

whether materialistC ar idealistic, which
recognizes the immancnce of God in the
world. but denies His trapscendencc for
the Creator must he distinct from lis
creation. The omn.potrnce of the Al
mighty over the handmade idols. which
the nations of the heather world worship.
Is seen in the power by which He brought
the universe into being. Science may de-
termine the process 10y which God origt-
mated and formed the universe. whether
by direct creative act or he process or
evolution. the significant thing l. that God
did the act. or is behind and within ihJ
process. The thought. VIII ANA cha racter
of God revealed i'm the marble tablets 81
nature are true and viii harmonize with
the tablets upon which Genesis was writ
ten. The creation and conversion of tina
chaotic earth eliminating in man. tho
last for which the first was made. reveals
Gods eternal purpose. power and progress
sive policy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-04

of Genesis One short, striking, sug
gestive sentence--in the beginning God
created the heaven and the earth-is all
the introduction that we have to the
Oldest written history that we possess.
Other and more ancient records are in
complete, and are Of fragmentary char
acter. lacking the inner unity that links
the various epochs to one another in any
history. The tic that binds the various
books of the Bible into an organic unity
has been its teachings of eternal life and
the great principles of religion.
The historian, who in all probability
was Moses, has given us history that
views all events in their relation to the
growth and fortunes of Gods kingdom
on the earth. Genesis is a history of be-
ginnings written by inspiration that en-
ab!ed the author to use in correct way
all facts and ideas. There can be no
question but that he used the sources that
were then available, for many scholars
have pointed out that the cosmology that
is presented in today's lesson is related
to the records found upon the tablets of
other nations. especially Babylon. The
superiority, sublimity and power To in
fiuence human life, by its constructive
ideas. more than all the other historic
records ever penned. is the testimony of
history to the value of Genesis. The He
brew account traced back all events to
their origin, and recorded the spiritual
source of all history, a secret not discov-
cred in the same lofty, beautiful and ele-
waiting character in any of the other
records and concealed by Nature in her
autobiography. The child finds the ac-
count of the creation interesting and in
telligent because it was written in a
simple style for a primitive people i'm an
unscientific age The scholars of the
world have not penetrated the depths of
it's sublime statements. which the laws
of modern science corroborate. The sue
cess of the scientific investigators in
tracing back the history of the world
many thousand years. has made neces-
sary that we abandon as a working hy-
pothesis the chronology of Archb' shop
Usher. that appears in many Bibles i'll
the margin. although 1t is not a part of
the Scriptures. but the same scientific
success furnishes us with the key to the
inspired record of Genesis that chronicles
with terse sublimity and grandeur the
Creators commencement of creation.
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but people seem to have an idea that
conservation means coming every now and
then to give ourselves up to God anew.
We cannot consecrate and recOnSecrate. y
once for all each Christian should be
able to say, with Charles Wesley:
Lord. In the strength OF grace.
With a glad heart ANA free,
Myself my residue If days
conSecrate To Thee.
Thy ransom'd servant. |
Restore Thee Thine own,
And from this moment live die
To serve my Cod alone.
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were supported by special stipends, which
ALWAYS caused them to be hated by the
Chinese. and i'm fact was one of the
causes of the recent revolution.
One Of the first measures of the new
government was the Punishment of these
Manchus from the army and the abolish
ment OF the stipends. thus leaving them
without any means of support To help
these people and especially the women
and girls an interden ominational industri-
al work has been started, in which Miss
Hartwell is interested and OF which she
will speak. Mrs. Melville ID. Lindsay
will be the soloist, and the service to-
morrow will be followed by the usual
acquaintance hour.
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~@H ASH NGTON PreSbyterianiSm is
OQ united in a masems ,s,! to MAKE
wv Rev. DR.. Charles Wool. pas
tor of the Church of the Covenant. mod
orator of the General Assembly of the
Presbyterian Church in the United States.
which meets at Atlanta. Ga. the third
Thursday in MAY.
Already various pastors of the denom-
nation here have sent letters TO in
fluential leaders of the denomination III
different uarts of the country requesting
them To Il" all in their power to nave
the delegates from their respective sec
tions give their support to the effort to
elect the Washington pastor
In Philadelphia where DR.. Wood was
serving a passionate vixen called to the
Church of the Covenant. "a strong effort
has been begun and it is declared is MAX
ing splendid progress in the work of in
fHencing leaders of other sections to vote
for Dr. Wood when his name is presented.
Rev. DIR Wallace Radcliffe. pastor of
the New York Avenue Presbyterian
Church was moderator of the assembly
in l>:,s and the ability he displayed in
guiding what is declared To be one OF
the greatest bodies of representative men.
II is averred should naturally lead the
assembly To choose. again for it's next
moderator. one of WashinStons leading
clerSymen.
Rev Dr. Mark Allison of Seattle.
WASH will retire as moderator at the
assembly. His predecessor was Rev. Dr.
Carson of Brooklyn-the former from the
far west the latter from the east-nOw
il is said the Capital city should be hon
ored.
man of the ability of DIR. Wood. it
is declared. is needed at the coming
gathering as during the sessions the Cen
eral Assembly of the United Presbyterian
Church, as we'll as the Southern Presby
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Constance.
From the London Chronicle.

FrOin tht IIOnuOn Chronicle.
Constanza, which has sprung into fame
as a city Of refuge for The Daily
Chronicle war correspondent in flight
from the Turkish censor is an important
marine asset for Roumania 1t was also a
place of interest in Roman days. Ira
JAMS wall ran down to the outskirts of
the town, which had another name then.
and afterward became kustenji. But the
Office Window will rather care to note
that Ovid in his Punishment used to seek
hrs recreation i'm the society supplied by
the few distinguished compatriots set
tied by the little harbor on the Black
sea. 1t is not an unpleasant place Just
the middle of November. Oyid's com
plants of Toni seem somewhat exagger-
ated
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childhood that we
have in the account
of the creation as
signed. for our les
son stands unpar-
alleled in the rec
ords so far discover
ed. Other accounts,
surprising in age the
Hebrew record. have
been discovered 10y
the explorers of an
cient oriental civili-
alton. but they all
lack the simplicity,
sublimity and style