The Washington herald., 1913-10-12
EPISCOPAL.

st. Johns Sunday school, Lafayette
Square, opens next Sunday. at $3.50
a m. Formerly st. Johns Sunday
school met in the afternoon In hav-
ing its sessions at $3.50 o'clock, it is in
| line with the usage of most of our
churches. which find $50 to be. on
the whole, the most convenient hour
| The repairs and improvements at
st. Johns are nearly completed. These
repairs. so far as the heating arrange
ments are concerned. have been quite
| extensive. This year. as last, the
choirmaster has secured the services
| as soloists OF Paul Bleyden and
Charles Tittmann. who will prove con-
siderable additions to the choir.
The rector of st. Jonh's, the Rev.
| Roland Cotton Smith, D. D., is one of
| the deputies of the convention, and is
of course. at present in New York
along with the other clerical and lay
deputies from Washington. Rev. E. S
Dunlap, curate of ST. Johns, will be
! there next week as a visitor A good
many OF our clergy expect to fill this
role during the session of the General
Convention, and II is certainly very
desirable that as many as can go be
| present at this great triennial leEis-
| lative council.
The mems meetings at Epiphany Chapel.
v
are quite important features. 1t was dur
ing DR.. Parets time that Mrs. Hodges
and some other ladies of Epiphany
went down into the southern part OF
the parish and started a small social
gathering of the men who work on
the railroads. These meetings grew
until there were often fifty or sixty
men present on a Tuesday night
These meetings are really a combina-
tion of a social gathering with a Cos
pei meeting. The men sit about the
large room reading or playing check
ers and other games, while Gospel
hymns are sung by a small choir, or
instrumental or vocal selections are
rendered. At the close a short serv-
ice is conducted, which is entered into /
heartily by all present. Afterward re-
freshments are served.
For thirty years these meetings
have been conducted from the first :
Tuesday in October to the first Tues |
day in May. Last year the average |
weekly attendance was over thirty.
The Rev. William s. Bishop. D. D. |
who was lately chaplain at Perugia, |
Italy. formerly one of the professors OF |
the University of the South. Tennessee, |
has been spending & few days in Wash |
ington. Last Sunday afternoon at the |
AIS service Mr.. Bishop preached at St !
Thomas Church, near Dupont Circle.
Another visitor to our city, who has |
gone to New York is Bishop Funston, |
of Idaho. who while here preached in |
st. Johns Church. Lafayette Square.
The first meeting of the fall season OF
the Social Service conference Of the arch
deacOnry of Washington waSheld Tues
day last in the Willard Rooms. Epiphany
Parish Hall. at 1880 a. m. The meetings
will be held fortnightly hereafter on the
first and third Tuesdays of the month
The conference is endeavoring to enlist
in united work all church people in
terested in the improvement of the pres
ent social conditions in the District of
Columbia. The maintenance and develop
ment of social center on church lines.
the survey and regeneration of degraded
alleys, employment problems, reform Of
public amusements, and cooperation in
the administration of church charities and
relief. are the goals OF the Social Service
Conference.
1t must be something of a disappoint-
ment 10 the clergy and people of St
Margaret's Church. Connecticut Avenue
and Bancroft Place. that the builders
have not yet turned over to them the
Parish Hall This is the time when a
start is made in parochial work, and some
tines HuCn depends on a RoOd start |
The authorities of the parish are now
hoping that they will have possession
next week.
The Rector Rev. Herbert Scott Smith.
d. D., has gone to New York to attend
the sessions of the general convention
as one of the visiting clergy.
A new curate has been attached to
Epiphany Parish. the Rev. Fl. N. falling
hast, who comes to lis fron VirQipia |
where he has held one or two parishes.
Dalton Baker, who occupies a premier
position among barytones in England,
will sing at the Church of the Epiphany
tomorrow morning. Mr.. Baker is con-
nected with the National Cathedral
School for Girls. He will have a studio
in the city.
HOAIHDEG ATIOA1AI