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Evening star., 1913-01-18
Ask, Seek, Knock.

To get the most from prayer We have
simply to take Christ at His word. He
said, Seek and ye shall find: knock and
it shall be opened and whatsoever We
shall ask in prayer. believing. We shall
receive"
He has made ample provision for all
things and He will make good all His
promises to the children of men.
What He asks of us is only a reasonable
service. He reasons with us about the
things concerning our own highest good.
Come. now. let us reason together.
saith the Lord; though your sins be as
scarlet, they shall be as white as snow
though they be red like crimson, they
shall be as WOOL.
When Christians really and truly be-
lieve what Christ has said they will not
come together with the prayer that He
may come and be in their midst. for they
will know He is with them. If they
truly meet in His name-in riis spirit-alI
things are assured to those who take
Him at His word.
These are His words. Where two or
three are gathered together in my name,
there am l N the midst of them
Think of 1t, Christ present and not have
a good meeting. then how cold and un-
loving must our hearts be.
How different from the attitude of the
psalmist. when he said: my soul thirst
eth for God, or again. my heart and
my flesh cry out unto the living God"
Through such a mind as these express
sions indicate come the largest results
of prayer. The consciousness of being
near to God and of knowing Him, gives
courage and assurance to the praying
heart.
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! gerture bp Reb. Dobbs


- Ev. GEORGE w. HOBBS Of Balti-
N more will deliver lecture on 1.-The
"reminiscences of a Circuit Rider in the
Memorial United Brethren Church. North
Capitol and r streets northwest, next
Friday at pm. A large attendance is
expected.
Rev. DR.. Montgomery will speak in
Metropolitan Memorial Methodist
Church tomorrow morning on tho sub
ject. 1.-The Divine Foolishness." aid in
the evening will give the third sermon
in the series, eff I Had My Life To Live
over" the special subject being THE
Present-day Greed"
The special evangelistic meetings now
in progress at the Fifteenth Street Chris
tan Church, corner 18th and D streets.
are increasing in interest. Ten persons
have been received into the church. Rev.
J. T. T. Hundly of Virginia is doing the
preaching. His style is vigorous. The
music has been of the inspirational type
and is being greatly enjoyed. The SER
mon last evening, on "The Inspiration of
the Scriptures" was unusually striking.
helpful and convincing. Every plan is
made to make the services tomorrow the
high tide of the meeting. The subject for
the morning will be 1.-The Meaning of the
Lords Day and It's Observance" The
evening subject will be "The Union Of All
Christians The public is cordially in
yited to the services.
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In the Prayer Closet.

The way to better our prayer meetings
Is to wrestle with God, as Jacob did, for
a blessing i'm the outpouring of the Spirit.
To this end there must be more private
prayer.
Christ enjoins us not to pray as the
hypocrites do, who love to pray standing
in the synagogueS and in the corners of
the streets, that they may be seen Of
men, and whose only reward is in the
notice and attention they receive from
men.
But thou" addressing His followers,
when thou prayest, enter into thy closet,
and when thou hast shut thy door pray
Father which seeth in secret shall reward
thee openly
To call meeting composed of those
who neglect the closet prayer prayer
meeting would be misnOmer. The spirit
of prayer would be absent, and without
the spirit the words and form of prayer
are unavailing. However charming the
service might be to human ears, in the
eloquent words spoken, it would not be
pleasing to Him who requreth truth in
the inward parts
Lip service is an abOmination to Him.
But the gathering together Of those whose
hearts have been quickened and purified
by private devotiOns is the occasion
power and love.
We are required to consider one an
other to provoke unto love and to good
works: not forsaking the assembling of
ourselves together, as the manner of some
is: but eXhorting one another; and so
much the more as ye see the day ap-
prOaching.
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ment of the social goal" He was not
one whit less clear as to it's nature. He
did not squander priceless time or be-
cloud the minds OF men with pratngs
about merely human institution-some
republic eventuating in democracy
He did not promise them Utopia
where laws we'll chosen and plans well
laid should cure the mortal wound which
sin had made. No. He gave the hungry
hearts of men prayer to pray: prayer
dom come, Thy will be done on earth as
1t is done in heaven.
Here. then. is the social goal: God S
will accomplished in the lives of men
that higher good which only comes where
Jesus Christ is King, and where His word
is law.
III. THE HUMAN ELEMENT IN THE
DIVINE SCHEME.
This kingdom contemplated in the
social gOar' is not to be a kingdom OF
angels. but a kingdom among men. and
its coming is to be born OF two I'M
portant factors:
First. There must be a just conception
of the kingdom of God. 1t is His king
dom which is Ito come" Here We find
order and harmony. holiness and activity.
and come at length to realize that the
law of heaven is the law of service; first
to God. and then to those whom God
would have served.
Second. There must be full co-opera-
ton upon our part with the divine plan
Only as men recognize Gods right to
rule in the affairs of men. and then,
with a full conception of personal obliga-
ton like unto that shown by the hosts
of heaven. go forth to serve the bur-
dened and oppressed. as they Were
served by Gods own Son, will this
kingdom come" or this will be done"
There is to be but one King; and we
who form 1.-The kingdom upon earth
must feel the fellowship of our common
need of divine help, and realize that the
aristocracy of that kingdom is an aris-
tocracy Of service: that it's royalty is
truly regal in proportion to its burden
bearing. Thus we come to grasp the
truth that the "social gOaP' is to be at
tanned, not by the work of minis
tering angels" but through the sympa-
thetic burden-sharing of those who, al
the feet of Christ, have learned the i'm
port and value, both to those who have
abundance and to those who have need.
that are bound up in this great petition.
Father, as those whose hearts Thy love
hath touched go forth to do Thy will give
them the faith to ask, and the diligence
to seek that social goal for which Thy
Son hath taught us to pray, saying
'Thy will be done on earth as it is in
heaven" for His names sake Amen!
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Gburfbman's Reag'le
lectures

~HE annual series of Lenten lectures
vi under the auspices of the Church
mans League, will be given Tues
day evenings during Lent, at pm. In
the Church of the Epiphany. as follows:
February 11-"Socialism and the Cos
pel," Rev. Howard Mellish of Holy Trim.
ity Church. Brooklyn, n. Y.
February 1S-"The New Democracy.
Rev. Walter Russell Bowie, st. Paul's
Church, Richmond. Va.
February 25-"The Name Of the
Church. Rev. Elliot White, Grace
Church, Newark. N. j.
March 4-Inauguration day, no lecture.
March 1.-THE Name of the Church. u
Rev. Richard w. Hogue, Ascension
Church, Baltimore, Md.
X X X
Genesis and Geology will be the sub
ject of a special sermon tomorrow morn
ing at the Vermont Avenue Christian
Church. by the pastor, Rev. Earl Whitley.
1t is DIR. Wilfleys purpose to discuss in
this discourse the supposed conflict be
tween science and revelation He holds
the view that the church should welcome
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at ST patrirk's

THE Children of Mary will attend the
w o'clock mass on Sunday at ST
Patrick's Church and receive holy com
munion. In the afternoon, at o'clock
their regular monthly meeting will take
place, which will conclude with bene-
diction.
There will be a solemn high mass at II
o'clock. Rev. William j. Carroll will be
celebrant and Rev. John NJ. Mcnamara
will preach the sermon.
At the devotions i'm the evening at 7:3C
O clock for the League of the Good Shep-
herd Mgr. Russell. rector of ST. Patricks s.
will conduct the services and preach the
sermon.
X < x
1.-The Heavenly Vision is to be the theme
of the sermon to be delivered by Rev. Dr.
w. r. Wedderspoon in Foundry Metho-
dist Episcopal Church tomorrow morning.
In the evening David and Absalom, or
the Play of the Passions" will be con-
sidered. Its modern application to the
fast young man and his wreckage'' will
be given by the pastor.
* x * *
At the Emmanuel Baptist Church the
pastor, Rev. HI. S. Pinkham begins to-
morrow series of morning sermons on
1.-The Beatitudes,'' or "Christ's Seven
Secrets of Happiness
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"Tbe Urutb 5ball
@ake Dou free"

n OR the third time. tomorrow after
- noon. in new Masonic Temple, Pas
tor Charles T. Russell will address the
sectarian) on the biblical texts on the
his special subject 1.-The Truth Shall
Make You Free
The preceding texts have been Thou
Hast Put All Things Under His Feet
and "The Desert Shall Rejoice and Bios
som as the Rose. The attendances
which have come out have been espe-
cially gratifying to Pastor Russell, prov
ing. 1t is declared. that there are many
people in Washington who are ready to
welcome into their midst a non-sectarian
congregation, where the doctrine of
Christ and His love for mankind is
preached at every service with especial
emphasis.
After the service tomorrow afternoon
Pastor Russell will, in all prOba bility not
be able to preach again in Washington
for some weeks, and it is expected that
an especially large audience will come
out.
On the succeeding Sundays and until
he is able to come to Washington again
various evangelists of the Peoples Pulpit
Association of Brooklyn, Of which he is
the head, will preach to the local con-
gregation.
x i: +
AT the Sunday school Of the Vermont
Avenue Christian Church tomorrow
morning Mr.. Guy L. Carter will speak
on The Child and His Periods of I'm
folding" with the subject matter that
should be presented in each period.
Mr.. Carter has recently been appoint
ed to foster the Sunday school interests
OF the Disciples of Christ in the ca ST
After spending a week or two in and
around Washington he will proceed
to Baltimore. and then to eastern Penn
sylvania and New York.
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the supreme and all-absorbing thought
These familiar words of Christ are often
quoted by those who have very little
understanding of their import:
If two of you shall agree on earth as
touching anything that they shall ask
1t shall De done for them of my Father
which is in heaven. For where two or
three are gathered together in my name
there am l in the midst of them
The words were spoken to His imme-
diate and loving disciples. who would not
ask anything that was not in harmony
with Gods will If any two of them
agreed in petition IL would be granted.
Christ was with them not in name
merely. but in person.
They We're talking to Him directly
When His true followers now or in
any age, can commune directly with
Christ. being in fuu harmony with His
will. their prayers will be granted
God is present everywhere. but His
presence is not in the sense of commun-
ion and fellowship with those out of
harmony with the mind of God.
The potency of Individual Or united
prayer depends uron the understanding
heart
If the heart ia not right 1t is impos-
sible to meet in His name.
Too often our meetings fof prayer are
largely in our own names
There are many who have the feel
ing that the service is never good
one unless they take part. a word of
kindly comment on the appropriateness
of their wordc fills them with a glow
that they are fain to attribute to re-
Ggious fervO-, instead of to gratified
vanity-they were thinking not OF
"His name" hut of their own. There
are few, indeed. who wholly lose sight
of self and that is the reason our
prayPr meetings and all religions Sery-
ices are so barren and unfruitful.
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ity, and which is recorded in symbolical
language in our lesson, is typical of all
our sins. 1t is not only consistent with
our experience. but it is corroborated by
the traditions that have been preserved
among ancient people concerning the ORR
gin of sin in the race. The Assyrians,
Arabs, Chinese. Egyptians, Greeks.
Hindus and Persians all have their leg
ends Of the serpent tempter and the trees
of life and knowledge. These ancient
traditions all are based upon the truth
concerning mans first sin. that has been
obscured and overlain with the grossest
superstition. Our historian does not seek
to give in the Genesis record the solution
of the mystery of the origin of sin. He
does give us true picture of the real
nature of sin and the principle upon
which it entered human life when the
tempter trapped man in the temptation.
Tempter, Temptation, Trapped.
The fall. in all OF its details. finds an
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|: Gospel @ission 0@ ork

q PECIAL services are to be held at
- the Gospel Mission this evening
with Mr. f. c. Cummings in charge.
Tomorrow evening a special musical
service will be held. with Mrs. Madison
Clark and Messrs. II. D. Gordon and w.
II. Evans participating.
X =
"Lfe's Successes" will be the subject
of Rev. DR.. Charles Woods sermon i'm the
Church Of the Covenant tomorrow even
ing. The chorus choir of 100 voices will
participate in the service.
Pastor Z. Hez Sven of Centennial Bap-
tist Church will baptize. Thursday even
ing, in Temple Baptist Church, a number
of candidates for membership in his con-
gregation. .'Can Washington Folk Get
Into Heaven" is the question he will an
swer at his preaching service tomorrow
evening.
In compliance with request from the
national child labor committee. the
Bishop of Washington has called the at
tention Of the Episcopal clergy to the fact
that they may in their sermons either
January % or some other day speak OF
the work being done for the children who
toll.
'"The Serpent in the Garden is to be
the subject of Rev. Dr. Wallace Rad
cliffe's sermon in the New York Avenue
Presbyterian Church tomorrow evening.
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Absence of Self.

We are such selfish beings that IL is
hard for the very best to grasp the
Christ idea of life. He came not TO be
ministered unto. but TO minister to.
lie pleased not himself but others
The nearer we come TO Kidding our
selves of selfish thoughts the nearer
we approach the divine mind.
Look not every man on his own
things but every man also on the
things of others. Let this mind be in
you which was also in Christ Jesus"
Selfishness leads TO presumption con-
cerning the great promises of God to men.
ASK and IL shall he given unto $ou,
said Christ
II is clearly right not only to ask, but to
ask for great things that He has prom
fsed II must be for what is promised:
vet even James and John, His apostles.
made the presumptuous request, Grant
unto us that We may sit. one on Thy
right hand and the other on Thy left. in
Thy glory.
The wreaths of honor, stations of pow
or are alluring things and many Chris
tians have had their eyes dazZled. Seek
ing pre-eminence in station and power Is
not set down as one of the topics for
prayer: yet these apostles prayed that
they might be granted the highest con-
ceivable distinction. They doubtless had
an erroneous notion Of Christ's kingdom.
in that ii resembled the kingdoms of this
world; and conceived that when He arose
again He would be king and the
apostles would be peers in His realm, and
James and John desired that one of them
should be the premier and the other be
next in authority IN His great dominion
Evening star., 1913-01-18
More Faith in Prayer.

What wonderful prayer meetings we
could have if Gods people came together
in the true spirit of love to one another
and devotion to God!
1t is the spirit of worldliness that must
be. exercised before our prayer meetings
can be improved. Our faith must be
increased-faith in the power and
efficacy of prayer There is so much
fOrmality-words of prayer uttered, with
out thought about the petitions being
heard or answered. There is no use i'm
praying unless We believe it will be ef-
fective. Nothing is promised to the un-
believing. Believe. believe much, is the
burden of the gospel message
We. must believe not only in prayer
generally. but in it's certainty of being
effective when offered in accordance
with Gods revealed will.
What things soever you desire when
We pray. believe that We receive them
and ye shall receive them
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Bolp Same feast

~ HE Feast Of the Holy Name will be
w celebrated tomorrow in the Holy
Name Church by special devOtions and
by an especially prepared musical pro-
gram at all of the services.
At the o'clock mass the Holy Name
Society members of the church will re-
ceive holy communion in a body, and ap-
propriate hymns will be sung by the con-
gregation during the services.
The junior choir, directed by Miss Anna
Doyle and accompanied by Miss Marie r.
Melting, will sing at the o o'clock mass,
and the high mass. at 1920 o'clock, will
be sung blythe senior choir, accompanied
by Mrs. Charles Hughes.
The male choir, which has rendered
most efficient service throughout the sea-
son, will sing Stern's "Vespers in the
evening, directed by Mr.. James Duncan
and accompanied by Mrs. Hughes.
Evening star., 1913-01-18

~ EEP interest is being aroused i'm
>4)a church missionary society circles
~ of the National Capital i'm the
coming of Rev. DIR. Isaac I. Headland,
missionary of Picking, China. who begins
Monday in the New York Avenue Pres
byterian Church series of seven lee
lures on various phases Of the Chinese
missionary effort.
The lectures are under the auspices of
the women Of the Presbyterian churches of
Washington. the dates and subjects be-
ing as follows: January 10. Child Life
in China: January Il, Chinese Wom-
en-: January ~, Americas Part in the
Making of China: January 2S. Religion
and Literature in China; February 3
Evening star., 1913-01-18

of Christians the kingdoms of this world
are to be changed and become the king
dom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
God has ordained that He will be in
quired Of by the house of Israel to do
for them the wondrous work of restoring
the waste and desOlate places of earth
to the beauty and bloom of Eden.
God is willing so to bless the fellow
ship Of His redeemed" said Andrew Muir
ray, that the assembly shall be crown
ed with fuller sense Of His love and
presence than can ever be found in soi-
tary approach to Him.
Yet there must be the solitary approach
first of those who meet in a united serv-
ice of prayer before we can have good
and uplifting prayer meetings.
Each one trying to do better by cOnse-
Grafton of his thought and life will be the
meeting.
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More Earnestness.

The first and most important prayer to
make is, Lord. teach us how to pray"
II we really know how to pray there is
nothing impossible to us. But we do not
know how to pray as we ought
1t is much more than asking. plead
ing. claiming. though that is included.
1t is putting ourselves in loving touch
with the heart life and spirit of Christ.
This touch. this harmony with Him is the
very heart of prayer.
When in this spirit of knowledge and
communion with the Master the other
requirements are that we pray definitely,
persistently and in unwavering faith.
Then, as has been said, Our prayer
room is the spirit switchboard like that
In the electrical power house. You have
turned this button and that handle, and
the unseen current has gone out. and has
gone in. and is being felt at the other
end"
Evening star., 1913-01-18

4th street and Virginia avenue southeast.
tomorrow morning. Large congregations
manifest the general interest that is
taken in this subject.
The evening service will be informal-a
quarter of an hour of song, using the
new books. Coronation Hymns" lately
installed, and short sermon on The
First Law of Heroism."
The lecture room was well filled again
at the midweek service.
At the annual business meeting of the
church Tuesday encouraging reports
were heard from all officers and COM
mittees, and a full quota of officials elect
ed for the ensuing year.
* X * X
Last night Rev. DIR. Wedderspoon of
Foundry Methodist Episcopal Church de-
livered a humorous lecture on 1.-The Real
Aristocracy" at Hamline. under the aus
pices of the Epworth League. The lee
ture was preceded by concert,
arranged through the efforts of Mr.. Ed
gar I. Booraem, one of the official men,
bers of the church.
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Take Heed.

The words of Christ in teaching us how
to pray have special force as regards
public prayer.
Take heed" give thought.
In no other way can the power Of re-
ligious worship be so largely experienced
as by giving thought to the services of
public prayer. 1t is through thoughtful
ness that spiritual preparation Is attain
ed. This thoughtfulness gives explicit
ness, less prolixity, shorter prayers. the
avoidance of vain repetitions. and thus
tends to increase the devotional spirit and
make the prayer meetings attractive.
BY taking heed-giving thought-our
prayers will promote earnestness. graft
tude and alteration, and give enlarged
life and power to all the moral and
spiritual faculties Of our nature.
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Minminter Meetinq
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS,

THE midwinter meeting of the Church.
W mans League will be held at the
Highlands, Connecticut and California
avenues, Monday, January %, 1913, at 8
pm. An address will be made by Dr.
Howard A. Kelly of Baltimore, Nd, on
the topic, The Church in Social Service -
X X X X
Rev. DR.. Samuel II. Woodrow, pastor of
the First Congregational Church, will ad-
dress the Sunday afternoon assembly of
the Young Mems Christian Association
tomorrow on THE Church and the Ma
tion.' Following the service, which is
open to all men, fellowship tea will be
served.
X = X
"Pilate's Heresy' will be the subject Of
the sermon tomorrow morning in Hamline
Methodist Episcopal Church, 9th and p
streets northwest, by the pastor, Rev
Joseph M. NJ. Gray. At the evening serv-
ice the theme of the discourse will be
1.-THE Highway Of Tomorrow"
Rev. r. w. II. Weech Of Baltimore VIII
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missionarp gertures.
Disfourses 0@bitb jar. Deaolanb Is to
Deliber in Aen Dork abenue Cburtb
ArousimQ Alucb 9mterest.

"By-Products of Missions: February Z.
Medicine i'm China" and February 10.
THE Perfect Man"
Rev DR. Headland. who Is a native OF
Freedom. Pa. has often been referred TO
as dynamo a live wire and the
Chinese Britannica" He was educated
at Mount Union College of Ohio and at
Boston University. and later was for six
teen years a teacher of the sciences in
the University OF Peldng. China.
He is a member Of the Authors Club OF
London and the Twentieth Century Club
of Boston. He has lectured before many
of the learned clubs of the country, as
well as art clubs OF the big cities, been
much in demand at chautauquas, hut for
two or three years past has given his
time mainly to the Laymens Missionary
Movement.
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Kehihal @eeting planneb.
Gbangelist Dabinson of louisville Coming
to Kbone 9slano Abenue M. %.
Cburrb Tomorroln.

ANGELIST ALEXANDER b. DA-
WI VIDSON of Louisville, Ky, is to
start a revival meeting in the
Rhode Island Avenue Methodist Protest
ant Church, 1st and Rhode Island ave-
nue. northwest, tomorrow. and from the
present Indications it is believed it will
be especially successful.
Under the direction of the pastor, Rev.
f. T. Benson. series of gospel meetings
have been held in the church each even
ing of this week, the list of those partici-
pating including Mr.. MyrOn Jones of the
Y NJ c. A. and Rev. W. \. Melvin, pas
tor of the First Methodist Protestant
Church.
Evangelist Davidson is regarded as a
particularly strong evangelist. and from
the past successes he has had in the
evangelistic field the leaders of the Rhode
Island Avenue Church feel assured that
their congregation will be greatly bene-
fitted by the meetings he is to conduct.
Pastor Benson says of Mr.. DavidSon:
Gle believes in the power of the Holy
Spirit. and that God nightly speaks to
men through prayer and gospel song.
Mr. Davidson is also SOlOist, and dur
ing the meetings will render number
of vocal selections