The Washington herald., 1913-10-18
CONGREGATIONAL.

On Sunday at II a. m, the Rev. J. w.
FrizzeIl, minister OF Ingram Memorial
Conversational Church. viii give a char
acter study of Judas Iscariot. The sub
| feet of the Sunday evening lecture At
s O'Clock will be ''The Goal OF the Way"
Prof. Newton W. Preston. who now has
charge of the music, viii lead the choir,
with John B. Wilson at the organ. The
morning offertory will be solo by Miss
Ruth Ayler entitled by the Waters. of
Babylon" The choir will render an
anthem, "Send Out Thy Light" by
Gounod- The evening oflertory WIN De
sung by Prof. Preston, Now the Day
Is Closing" by Briggs. The choir win
sing, Tim a Pilgrim by Marston.
DR.. Frizzell will attend the annual
meeting of the National Council Of Con-
gregational Churches to be held In Kan
sas City, Mo-, beginning October =
A lyceum course has been arranged for
the coming season, the first number OF
which will be given on November L by
DR.. ]. s. Montgomery on John Ruskin's
Message TO the Twentieth Century"
The Rev Andrew B. Chalmers. ID. D..
Of Worcester Mass win occupy the pull
Dit of the First Church tomorrow. His
evening topic is ''The Prodigal's Father.
and the morning. --our Debt of Love.
The following musical numbers will
be rendered on Sunday at the First Con-
gregational Church. At the morning
service: Organ prelude in r. Faulkes;
anthems, ''The Lord Is My Light"
parker, Morning Hymn" (WagneD;
offertory, tenor solo. 80 Was There Ever
Loneliness Like His" (Maunder), Mr.. Og-
den; organ postlude, Dethier. At the
evening service: Organ prelude. "Barca-
role in F." Sterndale Bennett: anthems,
30. Taste and See" CGoss). In Heavenly
Love Abiding CBischofD, 20 Saviour OF,
the World" 0Schumann); organ postiude
March in Flat" Silas.
Next Sunday evening the choir VIII
give a choral service under the leader
ship of Mr.. Faber.
At the Washington Association Of Con-
gregatfonal Churches annual meeting on
Tuesday, the Rev. DR.. S. NJ. Newman was
elected president, the Rev. L. E Perdum
secretary, and A. v. Skinner treasurer.
The meeting at Frostburg is reported to
have been a very satisfactory one
The 1O4th annual meeting of the Ameri-
can Board will be held at Kansas City.
Mo-, October 26-2s. in the First Congrega-
tionaI Church. The annual sermon on
Sunday, the 26th, is to be delivered by
the Rev. Charles E. Jefferson, New York.
Mondays meetings are to be opened by
the Rev. Raymond Calkins, Cambridge
Secretary Cornelius H. Patton, Boston.
speaks for the year at the Home Base;
Secretary James L. Barton gives Sur
yey of the Non-Christian World" and
Associate Secretary Enoch F. Bell the
Introduction of Missionaries" The aft
ernoon bookings are: "One Hundred
Years of American Missions, by George
Sherwood Eddy, general Y. NJ c. A sec
retary for Asia: Medical Work in Cey-
ion," by DIR. Thomas B. Scott. of Name
pay; Experiences in Pagan Africa" by
the Revs. Charles H. Maxwell, of Natal;
Merlin w. Ennis, and William c. Bell.
of Angola: Finances and Missions" by
Secretary Edward Lincoln Smith, OF New
York; Foreign Missions Under the
Flag" by DR.. Charles T. Sibiey, of the
Philippines; Mexico in Revolution" by
the Rev. John Howland, of Guadala-
lara; ''womans Part in World Eyangel-
ization." by Mrs George NJ Clark, presi-
dent w. B. NJ. /. In the evening. Free
Albania: What Is Americas RESPONSE
bility and Opportunity will be dis
cussed by the Rev. Charles T. Ericl1-
son, of Albania; Hon. Charles r. Crane.
of Chicago, and Secretary Barton.
Tuesday morning the Reys. Lyman p.
Peet, of Foochow, and Charles E. Ew-
ing, of Tientsin. will speak on "China's
Great transformation the Rev. John
X. Browne, of Harpoot, on Turkey,
Christ's Own Land" the Rev. William
Sperry, Fan River, on The Best Way
to Interest Young People;" the Rev.
Irving M. Channon, Micronesia, on THE
Gospel in the Little Islands," the Rev.
Harry p. Dewey, Minneapolis, on The
Need of a Broader Horizon in Prayer"
Associate Secretary Brewer Eddy, Bos-
ton. on How TO Pray for Missions
Tuesday afternoon, elections and an
omen uarllament will occupy the time. The
closing addresses Tuesday evening will
be on "Recent Movements in Japan, by
the Rev. Sidney L. Gulick, Kyoto. and
American Board Missions at Close
Range" by Fred B. Smith. New York;
farewell words by newly appointed mis-
sionaries will be given and the closing
words said by President Edward ID.
Eaton, BeIoit. Wis. The American Board
Male Quartet will render selections from
time to time during the sessions
Coneregationalists will meet in Kan
sas City in their National Council. This
council is an advisory body. put " Is
found that Christian people obey
advice, when given in the right spirit.
about as generally as they do lawG.
and SO q National Council of congrega-
tionalists accomplishes in Its way about
as much as a Presbyterian General As
sembly or Reformed General Synod
does by their law-making power. The
council has been meeting once every |
three years but is likely now to change |
to biennial sessions. II wiz. without |
doubt. readjust its benevolent ma
chinery. and so in time Save three So
eieties instead OF seven, greater efi-
cheney and less cost being the aim. and |
there is almost certain to be created a |
on missions that may give !,
better coordination. Leading up to the |
expected radical recommendation of |
this Kansas City Council there have |
been many conferences and much dis
Gu ission. but the air is now clear ana