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IEOR the many business girls and Wom-
~ en- who have not been able to at
tend the sessions Of the Friday morning
mission study class, which has just closed
it's very successful series of lessons al
the New York Avenue Church, being at
tended by over 200 women. the religious
work committee of the Young Women S
Christian Association has arranged to
have an evening class on the same order.
meeting on the four Tuesday evenings of
February at 8 o'clock.
The class will be under the direction
of Mrs. NJ. V. Richards, who is chairman
of the home mission study committee of
the Presbyterian Church, and will be
open to all women. Of whatever denomi-
nation. The subject will be Mormon
be as follows: February 4. History of
the Mormon Church; February II. ''The
Sacred Books and Doctrines of the Nor
mons; February Is, Life Among the
Mormon People; February %. Mission
airy Work of the Mormons and Among
the Mormons."
AT the regular vesper service at the
Y. w. G.. A. tomorrow afternoon at 4:30
o'clock Mrs. d. Elmer Wiber will give a
talk which will be of the nature of an
being Present Conditions in the Mormon
Church"
X X x
Angels Are Coming to Washington" is
Rev. E. Hez Swems subject for tomor-
row night in the Centennial Baptist
Church, Sth and 1 streets northeast
x X x
At the First Baptist Church. 18th and
o street, the pastor, Rev. w. w. Nc
Master, commences tomorrow evening
a short series OF fifteen minute talks
on"The Fundamental Baptist Principle
and Its Relation to World Progress"
These services will be opened with q
ten minute Dong service led by NOM
bers OF the Young Peoples Society OF
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"progressibe Creation

"A INCONSISTENCIES in Bible study is
to be dealt with by General Secre-
tary Brenneisen of the Peoples Pulpit
Association of New York in his sermon
to the Washington Temple Congregation
(non-sectarian in New Masonic Temple
tomorrow afternoon at o'clock.
He will take for his subject, Progress
i've Creation" and on account of his deep
study into biblical teachings and his repu-
tation as a pulpiteer it is expected that
a large attendance will hear the sermon
Since the Washington Temple Congre-
cation has been established it has pro-
crossed steadily until last Sunday, when
an audience which taxed the big auditori-
UNI or New Masonic Temple heard Pastor
Charles L. Russell discuss the text over
the entrance to the Union station, 1.-The
Truth Shall Make You Free
{: X
Representative Dick T. Morgan of Okla
homa will deliver an address in the H
Street Christian Church, H street near
412 street southwest, at both the II am
and 7:4o pm. services.
X X
What is regarded as the most helpful
and successful meetings ever held in
Fifteenth Street Christian Church closed
Thursday night. Rev. John T. T. Humid
ley of Virginia preached at all of the
meetings. He is vigorous speaker and
his sermons were both inspiring and con-
vincing. The results from the services
are most gratifying. The spiritual life
of the church has been deepened and
many persons professed conversion and
have been baptized.
Special services will be held tomorrow
morning and evening. The hand of fell
lowship will be given the new members
In the morning, and there will be bap-
tisms at night. The pastor will preach
at both services.
+
Mgr. William L. Russell, rector of ST.
Patrick's Church, is to be the celebrant
of the solemn high mass tomorrow at II
clock at that church. The sermon will
be delivered by Rev. William ]. Carroll.
He Will also conduct the vesper services
In the afternoon at o'clock at which
the mixed choir, under Miss Jennie Glen
mans direction, will render the music.
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A Living Gospel.

The gospel is an important message to
all kindreds. tribes and tongues. 1t will
live when all earthly things have perish
ed.
In all our way through life the gospel sheds
Its kind and healing beams DER all our woes;
And when our days done it lights the path
That leads us to brighter, happier scenes.
And il Will live and shine when all beside
Has persisted in the wreck Of earthly things.
In the promise that "the earth shall
be filled with the knowledge Of the glory
of the Lord as the waters cover the sea-
is the warrant for Christian optimism
concerning missionary success at home
and abroad.
The Christian, above all others. should
be optimistic. 1t is all wrong to think
that everything is going TO ruin. 1t is
not
Everything is going to salvation, not to
ruin.
Paradise was lost. but is regaiaed
through the atoning blood Of Calvary.
The world was ruined. but is being re-
deemed, purified and made holy.
The church, instead of laying aside her
garments to lie down for the dark night of
Oblivion, In just arising at the dawn and
putting on her beautiful robes TO enter
upon a joyous service IN the brightness
and beauty OF an eternal day
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a sinner. Ramsay well says that "Abeis.
being of the flock, such animals as had
from the first given their skins for cloth
ing. was confession of sin. petition for
acceptance in spite Of sin. and expression
OF Gods grace to sinners. Being firstlings.
the best and with their fat. il espresso
all that any gift could express of sub
mission and gratitude: but its peculiar
significance grew out of the association
of ideas established by Gods making gar
ments of skins taken from such animals
to cover the sense of shame arising in
the transgressions.
His offering was typical of Christ's sac
rifice for sin. Gains was typical OF the
modern attitude of substituting reason
for revelation, pride for piety, self will
for the will of God. Cain was rebellious
and unwilling to surrender his life to God.
He substituted his personal program for
the sacrificial system found In all faiths,
that is evidently traceable to divine ORR
gin.
The refusal of God to accept any man.
made substitute for his command that
evidently had been well understood In
the family Of our first parents aroused
the evil that was crouching in his heart
ready to spring into action. The anger
of Cain showed itself in his face. reveal
ing in its dark and lowering character
jealousy, malice hatred. ill-will ard the
gloom of despair-all the result OF his
defiance of God. The heart OF the
Father showed itself I'm seeking to show
Cain his error. God always desires tn
reason with us. and although our sins
shall be as scarlet. yet they shall be-
come blotted out and forgiven, if We pre-
sent the blood of the Lamb Of God az
our sin Offering. Cain refused TO listen
to Gods voice and conquer. while ha
could, the evil heart OF unbelief Cain.
hardened and implacable, both toward
God and his brother. lures Abel into thu
field under false pretenses and then In
a moment. when the younger brother was
not on his guard. Cain carried out his
hellish purpose by lifting up his hand
and numbering his brother. No man can
escape from the results Of his sin, and
almost Immediately the murderer was
summoned to meet the consequence OF
his crime.
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sin when We see it appearing in the
conduct Of our children presents diff
ferent aspects to us than when We COM
mitted the trangressions against the Lord
and broke His law.
The first born child of the sinful par
ents, whose sin furnished the subject OF
ment of crime in children whose parents
were violators Of divine law. Courts con-
slider carefully, today the antecedents OF
the criminal. The child, whom Eve vel
coined as "the one that shall be- the
conquerors of. the serpent, became the
first criminal of the world. The sin of
disobedience in the parents becomes MUIR
der in their son.
Our lesson covers the beginning Of the
fatal operations of sin on huuan So
ciety. 1t traces not only the growth of
sin but also its terrible power to break
up the family life, parting man from
man, just as in last weeks study We
saw how sin separated man from God.
The first recorded act of religious Wor-
ship became the occasion for the highest
crime against mantle taking Of life,
without whose security nothing else can
be safe. The protection of human life is
the fundamental law Of nations. Sin
poisoned the very springs Of worship and
made what ought to have been the
great unifying force, binding men by
sacred and spiritual service into holy
unity and harmonious fellow ship, the
great separator The bitterest foes and
feuds found in history have started in
enmity to goodness that has been gener-
ated by sin. The black-hearted capacity
for sin was the source of Gains crime.
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4em Tppe of minister.
Bale Dibinitp 5rbof
Gust CHRISTIAN,
Religious Boop.

- EN. ANDREW LEITCH. a Yale
m divinity student. stands alone as a
new type of minister. He has just
been ordained at a service held i'm New
Haven, and ordained merely Christian.
On the examination he was asked il he
believed Jesus Christ to be Lord and Sa-
vior. If he accepted the Bible as the word
of God. and if he would pledge to preach
Christ and the gospel as contained in the
Scriptures. He gave the pledge. but, I'M
like all other men ordained to the minis
try, he gave no pledge OF loyalty to the
doctrines and authority of any organized
church.
He was then ordained by Rev. DIR.
Charles r. Brown, dean of the Yale
School and a Congregationalist. and Rev.
DIR. Peter Ainslie of Baltimore. former
president of the General Convention of
the Disciples of Christ, and now chairman
of that body's commission on Christian
union. 1t is admitted that fifteen or twen-
ty years ago a minister of these bodies,
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taking part I'm such a service. would
bring controversy. Now IL is stated that
none will follow. At least that much
progress toward unity has been made
The new minister. of a new type. viii con-
tinue his studies at Yale.
In Australia. on these same lines. IL has
been agreed by the bodies cooperating
that. beginning with the year 1921, all
men ordained to the ministry shall he or
dained in all ways-that is passing ex-
aminations to suit their examiners, they
shall be ordained by an Episcopal Church
bishop. Then taking another examina,
ton, they shall be ordained by Presby-
terrain ministers: then Methodist. aud then
Congregational, these four bodies sntering
into the plan Having ordinations in all
forms. the candidate will be available to
, enter the pastorate of any of the bodies
desiring him, and, having entered, to COS
operate with all others. This plan Is be-
lieved in Australia TO be the one that will
lead to church union. Many Christians IN
! the United States are also coming to hold
the same view. Rev. Mr.. Leitch. Dean
Brown and Rev. DIR. Ainslie of Baltimore
ii is pointed out, lead the way I'm Amer,
lea in this new unity demonstration.
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! pa8tor' and pfople N ~

SON of Louisville, KY. have proved par
ticularly successful. The meetings will
continue for two weeks.
* X X X
The patronal feast of st. Paul Is to be
observed in st. Paurs Roman Catholic
Church at special services tomorrow.
X X X
Mrs. Cranston, wife of Bishop Earl
CranstOn. gave a talk on Professionalism
and Methodism i'm the Balkans at the
weekly prayer meeting at Hamline Meth
odist Episcopal Church. 9th and P streets
northwest, Thursday night. The lecture
was based on recent visit made by Ker
to the territory which is now the sqene
of warfare.
X X X X
Services In the Swedish language will
be held in the chapel of Luther Place
Memorial Church tomorrow evening at
S:15 O'Clock. Rev. A. J. Eustam, in
charge Of the mission, will preach:
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and another line across the lower tip Of
this triangle. one-f1fth of the distance, or
about $50 miles, from the point, and you
will have your general boundaries of pop
ulation. All north of the first line. and
extending for $500 miles from east to
west, will be Moorish or mixed peoples.
while those to the far south OF the sec
ond line and reaching from sea to sea
will be European in birth or descent.
But in between the lines there will lie
a vast extent of territory, almost or quite
as large as North America, whose In
habitants are black and savage, by Tar
the lowest in the human scale. Ev0l
among these, however, there is great
range of variety, both in appearance and
intelligence, embracing as 1t does some
of the finest specimens of physical de-
velopment and the tiniest and most saw
age of forest dwarfs.
Those above the first line are largely
Mohammedans, fierce and fanatical.
Those below the second are Christians,
both in government and practice; but
those inhabiting the great central zone
are. with a few exceptions, savage in
instinct. habit and forms of worship.
This has ever been the case with refer
ence to the inha bitants of 1.-The Dark Con-
tinent'' Ethiopia has always been the
synonym for the home of darkened Wis
age and benighted mind. Upon the coin
age of the nations that have ruled the
world during the past fifty centuries,
upon the monuments to their own glory,
erected by the world conquerors OF that
same period. We know not of one single
coin or monument that bears an Ethio-
plan name or image. All history, sacred
and profane, agrees in this, that Ethiopia,
or Africa, is a land of intellectual dark
ness and spiritual gloom. Thither came
the SLAYER to ply his evil trade, and but
for the richness Of her possessions, In
ivory, gold and slaves. she would in
deed have been but little visited.
But the people of this land had souls.
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to the present generation of the nom
Christian world.
Student Volunteer Movement was organ
lied. with the watchword The evangel-
ization of the world in this generation
This conception appeared to many as
visionary and not within the range of
possibility. But there has been a change
in the thought of the church. Steps are
being taken by all the churches and mis-
sion boards for large and comprehen-
sive plan of operation for the evangelical
ton of the world.
What seems impossible to men is not
SO when God is taken into account. If
He wills a nation may be born In day.
"A little one shall become a thousand
and a small one a strong nation" isaiah,
6O:22
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each Sunday to the primary department
Of the Sunday school,
x 4
Rev. Dr. James S. Montgomery will
preach in the Metropolitan Memorial
Methodist Church tomorrow morning on
THE Inspiration and Power of the I'm
seen." and In the evening will give the
fourth sermon in the series, IF / Had
My Life to Live Over" the special SUBJ
ject being. THE Apron String"
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year just
note evidences OF
progress in the spir-
itual awakening or
the churches.
The increased IN
terest in the organi-
zation and develop
ment in higher and
more instructive lines
of the mission study
classes throughout
the country. the gen.
eral and enthusiastic
observance of home
mission week: the
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Children s Serbire

ut ST. Marks Lutheran Church. corner
~ 9Th and B streets southwest. special
service will be held tomorrow morning
at IL o'clock for the children Of the con-
gregation.
The children will attend in body, and
the pastor. Rev. William A. Wade. will
preach an appropriate sermon to them
They will furnish the special music for
the service.
Rev Mr. Wade IL emphasizing the i'm
portance Of training the children In
church work. He makes . brief visit
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! 5etolrn Baptist 0@ork

<1zFr HE Mind of Man is the special
W theme which Rev. Hinson v. How
lett will use for his fourth sermon on
"a Man and His Religion" which he will
preach in the Second Baptist Church to-
morrow morning. The topic for the even
ing service will be Awaiting an An
swer" Mr. and Mrs. John E. Dawson
of Bethany Baptist Church made in
structive and interesting talks before the
Teachers Club there. Thursday evening
on the Bible school lessons for Sunday.
Mr.. ]. Walter Edelin,. chairman of the
devotional committee, led the midweek
service and, although the weather was
many took part in the Service.
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ice is designed, according to the pastor
to be bright, brief and brotherly.
X X :.
4 series of good cheer services will
be held at Waugh NJ. E. Church, Sd
and A streets northeast, beginning to-
The gospel story will be told in SER
mon, song and testimony. Monday is
girls night" Tuesday, boys night"
Wednesday. parents night; and
Thursday, mystery ni~ht"
All meetings are to be open to the
public.
These services have been proceeded
by cottage prayer meetings during
the present week.
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@bserbing Annibersarp
@lemorial Mniteo Bretbren Cburrb 5men1=
hers passing Ubrougb Tmentietb
Bear of Congregational Lite.
. HE twentieth anniversary or the
N Memorial United Brethren Church.
North Capitol and r streets, IS

HE twentieth anniversary OF the
I'll Memorial United Brethren Church
~ North Capitol and u streets, Is
now being observed at special services
Rev. III. J. Fischer conducted the frs'
service Wednesday evening, while last
evening Rev George ". Hobbs gave
lecture on "Reminiscences OF Circul'
Rider" Rev. Charles E. Fultz, the pas
tor. is in charge.
Tomorrow. at both the IL ana f0o
o'clock services Rev. c. l. 3. Brane of
DAYTON, Ohio. former pastor of the
church. will preach
The balance of the anniversary pro-
gram is as follows:
Monday January 21-Around the Fire
side. former members and friends with
Rev. c. l. B. Brane. Tuesday. January
2@W NJ A. and ladies' night. Mr.. w.
f. Daugherty. Wednesday. January ~
Senior and Junior C. e. night. Rev F.
Berry PIummer Thursday. January 80
With the Sunday school. Rev. j. r. Jones.
Friday, January 31-With the pastor and
his friends Rev E. W. Leech. Sunday,
February $50 a. M, Sunday school an
niversary: IL am. and 80 pm. Rev. w.
II. Washinger.
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century has put forth her hand to gather
"a present for the Lord of Hosts
AS we think Of the age-long degrade
ton of 1.-The Dark Continent with it's $780,
600 Of unchristianized human beings,
we can well understand the soul hunger
for these that has existed in so many
great missionaries of the last century. AS
we are about to celebrate the centenary of
that prince of missionaries and godly men.
David Livingstone, we remember that 1t
was Africa that claimed his life and love,
as it has also claimed the life of so many
of his kind, such as Lull, Moffat, Cox and
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and because Of their refusal of light,
when light was offered them. the Prophet
Isaiah proclaims his message against
them, but even in his hot indignation,
even in his declaration of the judgments
to come upon them, he holds out the
promise that God should have His rem
nant," even from Ethiopia.
When Jesus came, to bring again His
erring children to their Father, God, for a
brief period He sojourned in Egypt, as
though to show that God could, and did,
care about the land of the shadowing
WINGS" and Christianity during the last
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had this, that or the other thing / would
do so much for Christ They forget that
a cup of cold water given in the name OF
a disciple, il that is all they could do,
secures as rich a reward as the founding
of an empire. The highest measure or
standard of excellence is doing what We
can, whether it be much or little.
The grandest encomium ever pro-
nOunced about any one was, She nath
done what she could"
There is so much in evangelism that
Is attractive that it should draw all men
to service as evangelists,' and 1t will In
time. If 1 be lifted up ! will draw all
men unto me-"
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@usical 5erbice

MOMORROW evening the New York
w Avenue Church choir, under the lead
ership of Mr. J. Porter Lawrence, organ
list. will give for its usual monthly mu-
steal Interpretation a study of Gounod's
Mass OF st. Cecilia, one of that COM
poser's brightest and most popular works.
The numbers given will be 'kyrie.'
"Merciful Lord Hear Our Prayer"
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enlarged efforts Of our missionary organi-
cations and committees in the churches
to arouse activity and unity of endeavor;
the marked success of the Lords DAY
alliance movement, and the establishment
of system for securing competent ieaoer-
shin. and fuller information by surveys
and Investigations of strategic points for
mission work: all give promise of great
things to be expected in the near future
Some are saying that the spiritual
dearth i'm the church is appalling: that
the people have gone mad after money
making. pleasure and luxurious living
and that it is a perilous time for the
church
There is no doubt that society is. suf-
fering from late h0Irs and extrava-
gance." but l am not pessimistic. If the
zeal and faith of the church are in keep
ing with the outlook of today, there Is
good reason to believe that the year OF
our Lord 1912 will be the greatest OF all
the years in evangeiistic achievement.
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sin or parents regis
tiers itself in the
crime of their chill
dren. The effects OF
sin are propagated
in ever widening cir
cles in the lives OF
others. Evil cannot
be segregated OF
fenced in by restric-
tive legislation. II
perpetuates itself
along every possible
channel presented by
human contact. The
consequences Of our
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A CONFERENCE OF chairmen of SUM-
"a day school boards and field secre-
taries OF the Methodist Episcopal Church
South IL TO be held I'm Mount Vernon
Place Church. from January - TO Feb
ruary 9
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side by the Atlantic
and its e a 8 t e r n
shore skirted by
the Red sea and the
Indian ocean, and
you have a fair idea
of the continent of
Africa.
n ow dr. a " a
straight line across
the triangle, one
third of the distance
from the top, and
just at the southern
edge of its great
desert. the Sahara,
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Practical Preaching.

II is the spreading Of this gospel of
good news that constitutes the mission
work at home and abroad. There is a
great deal of evangelism in the schools
and dispensaries OF the missionary as
well as i'm preaching the word The Chris
tian teachers and physicians in mission
fields are great preachers OF Christ s
evan-els. They are practical preachers of
the Christ. whose words and acts were
FOR the instruction of the mind and the
healing OF the body.
10 we cannot in person go teacher.
doctor or preacher i'm the mission Held.
either at home or In foreign lands. we can
efve our prayers and means To aid those
VINO 20 aud to Increase their number. and
thus hsve part In their great work OF
evangelism.
or the good ship Evangei money Is the