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Evening star., 1914-12-27

o'clock, Tuesday evening. At that time
shoes, stockings and warm clothing vii.
be given to the most needy children and
mothers and all who attend will receive
a generous gift Of nuts, ruits, candy, etc.
and the very small children will be also
supplied with toys and picture books a
program of Chr stmas music and recita-
tons will be rendered by the childr en-
ment Associa ation, under whose auspices
| the alley children's Christmas tree has
been given annually for six years. Brief
addresses will be also delivered by Revs.
George w. Cabaniss and Mesdames
Stansberry, Boyce and NJ. M Waldron.
Arrangements have been made whereby
the friends of the work and others inter-
ested may be admitted to the exercises.
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Rev. George w. Davenport, secretary
Of the New England province, will
preach at Congress Heights Episcopal
Church this morning. In the evening
Rev. William Oscar Roome, rector of
Emmanuel Episcopal Church, will take
the service and preach, Rey. George w.
Davenport preaching at Emmanuel.
with his father. who Is rector emeritus
Of Emmanuel. conducting the service.
X \ x i
Rev. U. G. B. Pierce, pastor of All
Souls Unitarian Church, announces
that at the services this morning the
quartet choir will render special
Christmas music.
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During the absence from the city OF
Mrs. William Jennings Bryan her Sun
day afternoon Bible class at the Young
Women's Christian Association will
be in charge of Mrs. Redf1eld. wife OF
the Secretary of Commerce. This class,
which is studying the life Of Christ, is
one of the unusual opportunities offer
ed by the association this winter, and
seems to be especially popular with
the business women of Washington.
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ut ia a huge and gaseous four-flush
The time has come when 1t must
he unmasked and compelled to
4 stand blushingly before horri-
0ed public while, in whimperins ac-
.ants. It admits that it Is a fake
PROGRESS demands this
mt II is not done without sigh
and a salty tear. Parting with this
.eA friend. the New Year resolution,
a almost like parting with a brother.
fsood old New Year Resolution-what
"a .nlendid fellow he was! How many
t4mes has he not given wild young
men a chance to rip things up by the
roots:
The Observer has saved New Year
..,toons for years There are now
1Is sss of these cartoons in his collec-
.,on and each one has it's own particu-
i., brand of water wagon. Men are
-,,mbtne on. Men are falling off This
a unimportant. The main feature is
the wagon, symbolic OF the Ne" lear
resolution.
The Observer also has 9S.514 sketches
of young men, in a state of great dis
nrder. humorously lifting their hands
and saying, Never again."
And 1t Is all delusion.
The other day the Observer went
n,,t upon the Avenue to And men who
are going to resolve. There were so
many opportunities this year for the
establishment of pledges that he fig
ured he would return staggering under
a bale of paper AS such an occasion
to ay1da an a u.
the Observer hunted up an old co1ored
man who has for years been doing
open-air shoe shining in the down
town district. He Is known TO thou u
Its proper position, the Observer. with
out delay, opened the conversation.
"Unk," said he. as he leaned back in
the chair, ARE you going to make
New Year resolution this year."
Uncle, busy with a recalcitrant bot
"The pursuit Of the ideal is a glo-
ssous thing" mused the Observer.
Uncle had begun the exercises. He
could now afford to talk.
"Wass dat you wus sayin about
heal?" he inquired.
II. asked you. Unk." said the OBJ
server, "if you intended this year to
make New Year resolution"
Uncle shook his gr1zZled head v1Sor-
ously- os .o. ,,o
suh.'
.:why turn down this annual oppor-
tunity to lead better life?" asked the
Observer.
Oats awri'. suh,' returned uncle,
clinging mulishly to his original prop
osition: 1T don't make no pledge dis
year. No suh.''
OF course. the Observer got the rea-
son. If you'll; only cluck sympatheti-
cally a man with grievance will usu-
ally relate it.
when I was deacon in de Inmate
rial Baptist Chu'ch," began uncle, II
went to the mourners' bench on the las
Evening star., 1914-12-27

Mike was located in the back room of
cigar store. His battered hat rest
ed beside his feet on table and his
chair was tilted we'll back. No sooner
ject of New Years resolutions than
Mike grinned wide grin of derision.
"Phwat would OF beo maxim thin
resolushuns for??" he inquired.
Ever since I've known you." said
the Observer, you have been making
things. if gathered together. would
reach--
"sur-re.'' admitted Mike. "Phwa'
He shifted his cue and awaited de-
velopments.
well, as you are the greatest reso-
luter. I assumed that you would surely
| be doing business at the old stand on
New Year eve.
Not bit" said Mike. "Thot is the
time whin I sthart to bust 'em. New
Year is no time for me to be shwearin
off"
He continued in a confiding voice;
"Ye1 see. Oi have to sthraighten out a
, work. fer me tips and me prisints
But whin New Year day arrives Oh am
free fer another year. OF bust livery
resolution Oi made before Christmas
and Oi don't begin to put thin together
before April.
The Observer threw up both hands
Despairingly he went out of the place
resolved to hunt up the New Year reso-
| luton and tell it what he thought of 1t
He reached a crowded street corner
Wonderful how you can meet people
If you don't look for them. The OBJ.
server had not loafed around for more
than ten minutes when he beheld q
venerable prospector who has run the
gamut Of human experience. Tall
| wrinkled and grim-faced. he came
slouching down the street with his
hands in his pockets and his huge
black hat pushed well back on his
head.
The Observer rushed to him for the
aid and comfort which the philosophy
| of long experience alone can bring.
| "Howdy," grunted the veteran pros.
| pector. The Observer was in no mooo
for formalities.
| Haven't you a resolution concealed
about your he cried, and there was
wild appeal in his voice. isn't there
some little pledge, some covenant thai
you renew each year? Isn't there
"son," said the prospector. impress
sively, there is.
The Observer heayed a windy sigl
of relief. The goal was in sight. Tht
! end of the journey was near. the
| search had been tedious, long and
seemingly futile, but now
"For thirty-four years." began the
prospector, .I have not killed a. China
man. ! have been tempted. but the
i, ; strength of my resolution, renewed
each year, has saved me. And thai
"Tbirty-four years ago me n jim
| Blodgett were roofing around in the
Funeral range. We were stylish. ever
in them days. Most prospectors woulo
| do their own cooking. but Jim n me
never could manage that-mostiy De-
caus- we couldn't cook.
1--WE had with us a Chinee that jim
| had picked UP somewhere, and let me
! say that that Chinee was the greatest
Evening star., 1914-12-27
Superstitious Cures.

From the London Chronicle
At Barry inquest on five-month-
old child the mother was said to have
given 1t a decoction of snails and De-
merara sugar as a cure for whooping
cough She put the snails, alive, into
the sugar in a muslin bag, and the
liquid filtrate was the medicine. 1t
seems that the "snaif' remedy is
known in other parts of the country.
Hot lemonade, hot treacle and elder
berry syrup are also given by the poor
as a cure. and a sugared infusion OF
snails may be just as eficacious as
any of them.
Walks round the gas works with the
suffering children are still practicea.
Old women were great believers in this
method of cure, and they used to. be
laughed at for their. faith in it: There
madness; and one of the best known
cures today is the vaporizing Of fluids
that give off compounds similar to
those emanating from places where
they make gas.
Evening star., 1914-12-27
Cburcb @nion's .funns to
5prean peaee Gospel

War will not interfere with the
peace program Of Andrew Carnegie's
recently organized Church Peace
Union. Just ending its first years
work, the union voted to spend in
1915 the sum Of $4,000 in peace educa-
ton in the churches of America. Eu-
rope and Japan. The unions work is
limited to the churches-Protestan
Jewish and Catholic. It's field Is the
world.
Out of the 100000 a year income
from the endowment fund Of $4,000, 900.
the sum of $4,000 was appropriated
for work among the churches of Eu-
rope, regardless of the war. A peace
congress is planned to be held in Lon
don next August. The sum of $4,000
was voted for the use Of special COM
mittee. to arouse the American people
to regard the present time as most
opportune for work by them for peace
in Europe. and knowledge by them OF
the dangers and futility of militarism
Evening star., 1914-12-27
Begins effort of Aihing
Gitp anb Gountrp Gburrbes
Laymens Missionary Movement Leaders Join Federal
Council of Churches in Work to Solve Rural Congre-
cation Problems and to Make City Effort Com
munity Service Center.

Christian organizations, some of them
heretofore engaged in other work, are
rushing into new lines, one of them
made more promising because of the
war. the other development from for
mer work. Even to the neglect OF
earlier plans, several Of these organiza-
tions are putting forh wholly new plans
covering these new lines.
The laymen's missionary movement
at first foreign missions, later all mis-
sions, is now joining the federal coun-
Gil in efforts to solve the problem of
the country church, and in making the
city church a community service CEN
ter.
The movement has just held its first
ministers missionary convention. and
plans many more such. Growing out of
this convention, just held in Rochester.
the movement has issued an address to
Protestant ministers of the country,
setting forth phases of rural problems,
especially how ministers ought to make
themselves educational, social service
and even labor relief leaders of their
towns.
Old ideas OF churches. worship of God
and raising money for missions, are
being retained. but all of these new
ideals are being grated on. Men e4,
pressly trained. and larger fnancia!
support to maintain them, are proposed
and steps being taken to provide them:
Missionary movement, federal council
and all missionary societies In Amer
lea. home and foreign. several ofhciaI
governing bodies of denominations, are
starting plans for religious reyivals:. >.
A scale never before attempted Is
outlined. New methods of efficiency
have been adopted.
Is a seriousness In the public mind.
brought about by the war. that must
be taken advantage of. This condition
Evening star., 1914-12-27

stage a grand party. Far as I'm con-
cerned it might be any old day. There
was a time when a man that runs a
restaurant used to celebrate the fall
of the Bastile. Now don't know who
or what the Bastile was or why 1t
fell-don't want to know. But, be-
lieve me, I never missed one of those
parties. Same way with New Year
eve
He grew philosophical
Resolutions? Huh. The end of the
year comes with you year older, with
the high cost of living on your hands
and a war playing thunder with trade
and you just one jump ahead of the
poorhouse.
"Ain't that enough without going out
and making q pledge that you'll cut
out the little fun you've been having?"
perhaps few resolutions would add
to the number of jumps between you
and the poorhouse?"
Il amt going to waste my time ex-
Evening star., 1914-12-27

1t was stated that able leaders are to
be called upon to prepare literature,
and that churches will be asked every
where to take advantage OF this mo-
ment to impress American ideals OF
peace and good will upon all the world.
A very important step was taken at
the annual meeting to end the agita-
ton against the Japanese and the pos
sibility of war with that nation. The
sum of $4,000 was appropriated for
this work, which will be carried on by
the Federal Council. The Rev: DR..
Shailer Matthews of Chicago will be
sent to Japan by the Church Peace
Union as the bearer of messages of
good Will from the churches of Amer
lea to the churches and the people of
Japan. A careful study of conditions
in California as affected by the Jap
anese was ordered to be made. and the
Rev. DR.. S. L. Gulick will be continued
for another year in his work for better
Japanese relations.
The sum of $4,000 was voted to pre-
pare and introduce into Sunday schools,
Bible classes and mems clubs of
churches a course of study on the sub
ject of peace.
Evening star., 1914-12-27

The Federal Council of Churches. rep
resenting all Protestant bodies. has just
decided to send an American deputation
to the churches Of Japan.
Members of it are Rev. DR.. Shailer
Matthews of Chicago and Rev. DR.. S. L.
Gulick, long resident in Japan.
They will sail on their mission early
in January.
The council has also taken other i'm
portant steps, including plans for a
world congress of Christian churches in
London next summer and the further
ing of plans for a world religious re-
vival, made possible in larger measure,
SO the council believes, by conditions
growing from the war.
The council has just created a COM
mission on the church and country life,
with Mr.. Clifford Pinchot as chairman.
1t has located it's headquarters at Co
lumbus, and will take up first a survey
OF rural life in the state of Ohio.
Evening star., 1914-12-27

The choir of Ingram Memorial
Church, William Starnell. organist and
director, is to give it's December mu-
steal service tonight, when program
of Christmas music is to be presented.
Christmas music is to be sung at
both services today at First Methodist
Protestant Church. The choir of the
church is to be assisted in the even
ing by the choir Of the Hyattsville
Episcopal Church in the presentation
of it's December musical service.
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At the West Washington Baptist
Church. 31st and N streets. George
town. the following Christmas music is
to be sung by the choir at the morn
ing service: Sing. o Heavens. by
Tours; Sanctus, Messe Solonelle, by
Gounod, and the Gloria Tibi, from Mo-
zart's Twelfth Mass.
At the evening service the Christmas
cantata, The Shepherd King, which
was presented the evening of Decem-
ber II, is to be repeated, the solo parts
being takn by Miss Meta Craig. So
prano; Miss Margaret Ella Allen. con-
tralto; Taylor Collision. tenor; Fred
Marks. baritone, and Royston Sabean.
bass. The music is to be directed by
Miss Craig, with Miss Elizabeth Colli-
son at the organ.
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Advent services will be continued at
Shiloh Baptist Church-"Strangers'
Home"-today. Rev. DR.. Waldron will
preach at IL am. from the subject,
Redemption and Sonship the Results
Of the Incarnation and at night upon
Greatness Through Service" The
church will hold watch night services
from to IL o'clock on New Year eve,
at which time the pastor will announce
the watchword for the year, and ap-
propriate services in honor of the New
Year will be held.
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The Christmas tree for alley children
and mothers living In the northwest Sec
ton will be held in the lecture room
Shiloh Baptist Church, L street between
10th and 18th streets northwest, at 8
Evening star., 1914-12-27

who has been a chronic celebrant Of the
arrival Of the New Year. He is the great
est little year-ender In the city. Decem-
ber 81 you'll always find him in bril-
liantly illuminated restaurant at table
| nearest the orchestra, and he will peri
odically arise and drink toasts to any and
every thing. About midnight his state of
illumination rivals that Of the restaurant.
Then he goes home in hack.
Approaching this man the Observer
opened the conversation.
! II suppose you are going to make
the annual climb this year," said he.
Annual climb" In tones of mild
surprise.
"The water wagon and all that sort
of thing"
"Whaddya think I am?" snorted the
celebrant. You don't think 1 take
stock in that good-resolution CUFF,
d'ya?"
Then he went on to explain.
New Year eve is just chance to
Evening star., 1914-12-27
The Bodleian Library.
From the London Chronicle.

From the London Chronicle.
No other library in the world can
compare with the Bodleian in the charm
Of its setting. The British Museum, the
Bibliotheque Nationale. and the Library
Of Congress at Washington are great
institutions of state, making little or
no appeal to sentiment. The Bod
Ieian, as Mr.. ]. B. Firth remarks,
| makes an intimate and personal ap-
peal to all who climb the winding stair
case which gives access to its ancient
galleries and halls. The spirit of Sir
Thomas Bodley pervades them; one
feels instinctively that here is the ham
diwork of single man, and that sim
gle brain devised the whole magnificent
scheme. The librarian is still Bodley's
librarian. Bodley is, and must ever
continue to be, the presiding genius Of
the place.
Evening star., 1914-12-27

, For a time the council has main
| tanned a temporary office here, Cooper
ating with the home missions council.
representing all home mission societies,
or nearly all.
The council has now, on its own ac-
count, made the Washington office per-
manent, and from it will hereafter di-
rect some lines of Its national work.
The council takes up and pushes also
the plan for the use of part of public
school hours. probably Wednesdays. for
religious instruction of children. the
same to be given In parish houses, not
in public school Buildings, and under
direction of pastors of the churches.
Larger measures have been decided
on for religious work during the Pan
ama-Pacific exposition: for more ef-
fective work by chaplains of the navy.
increased in number recently from
twenty -four to fifty-two. and for cele-
brations of anniversaries of great
events. like the martyrdom of John
Huss, coming next July, and the start
of the Protestant reformation. occur
ring in 1917.
Evening star., 1914-12-27

perimenting." persisted the celebrant
stubbornly. New Year resolutions
never done nothing for me and l amt
going to begin fooling with 'em now"
The score was now three to nothing
against the New Year resolutions. 1t
was time to start a batting rally.
There was one man he had been count
ing on all the morning and he was
Mike. Mike is totally incapable of
concentrated effort. He does odd jobs
and between whiles he is constantly
amending and revising his course of
existence. One day he will have quit
alcohol, the next will mark the end of
chewing tobacco as far as Mike is con-
cerned, the next, Mike, candidate for
the Nobel peace prize, loudly announc-
ing that he will never fight again.
Evening star., 1914-12-27

Unitarians are the first to announce
their cross-country trip in connection
with the Panama-Pacific exposition,
and the stop-of conferences, with Pull
man car service of travelling experts
and speakers.
Former President Eliot of Harvard
is head of the Unitarian conference
having the project in charge.
The dates announced are August, and
the elimination of the trip is a ses-
sion of the Unitarian general confer
ence.
This conference is the central body
of Unitarians, and is just now enter
ing upon the second quarter century
of it's existence.
Foremost ministers and laymen
among Unitarians, both of New Eng
Evening star., 1914-12-27

land and the middle west. will make up
the party of travelling speakers.
Railroads cooperate in stoff off priv
fleges, and conferences and public
meetings are planned in Winnipeg,
Vancouver, Seattle and Portland on
the way out.
On the return journey the same are
fixed for Los Angeles and Denver.
Some sightseeing Is thrown in, but the
main idea of most of the stop-offs is
the conference, held to reach people
who could not be reached otherwise,
and by speakers who could not be
commanded under other plans.
More than a dozen similar tours by
other bodies will be announced later,
and already cities to the number of a
hundred or SO are bidding for stop-offs
by leaders going to or returning from
San Francisco. Not only Christian. but
political and social topics are to form
motives of these conferences.
Evening star., 1914-12-27

$50 grotesque," he purled. $50 un-
usually grotesque"
The Observer, feeling that little ac-
ton was needed, interrupted.
II don't see anything ridiculous or
grotesque attached to a New Year reso-
lution," he said.
But why should I?'' asked the pious
man, speaking in the tones of one who
has reserved seat in the Pullman car
Of the de luxe train to the next world.
Not at ALL" apologized the Observer.
II merely
II never make resolutions" stated the
other coldly. Il find it unnecessary.
Totally unnecessary
And after this fiat throwdown he
marched calmly away, walking like an
elderly and self-conscious turkey.
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Not long after this experience the OBJ
server happened upon a stout gentleman
Evening star., 1914-12-27

journey onward INTO death Witn1n the
skirts Of that far-reaching shadow the
infant enters with the first breath 1t
draws. and on. on, on, ever deeper into
the shadow. must we travel, until the
grim tyrant at length holds US In his
arms and claims US as his prey. Our
whole life is a walk through the valley
Of the shadow of DEATH
This does not mean that there is no
sunshine on life's pathway. There
could be no shadow in the absence of
all light. 1t means that the colossal
form Of death casts a shadow upon the
whole of life's pathway. But. notwith-
standing the shadow that is over all,
the psalmist teaches that one may walk
the path of life without fear.
II will fear no evil" He states why
he Is fearless. For Thou art with me-"
In the company of Him who abolished
death and brought life and Immortality
to light the shadow disappears and
there is nothing to fear. But many
walk on and on In the ever-deepening
shadows of the path of life because
they do not seek Gods company. Some
walk in the gloom with stolid indiffer-
ence-some with a gay and frivolous
step and some again with a slavish
fear and dread of the end of their jour-
ney. They are afraid of the grim spec
tar in whose shadow they are walking,
because they Will not believe In Him
who came to deliver them who through
fear Of death were all their lifetime
subject to bondage
How many. 1 wonder, of my readers
whose attention Is here called to the
psalmist's way of walking the path of
life in safety and without any fear of
evil will start out on the new year
without the rod and staff he found es-
sential for his comfort and safety?
There is fear. dread and danger amid
the shadows OF the valley Of life unless
you walk In cqmpanionship with God.
All u well IT He Is with us. He Is an
infalEble guide, an invincible pro-
tector. His rod guards against every
conceivable peril His staff supports
Evening star., 1914-12-27

, is regarded as SO timely that mission
ary and similar movements are side
stepping their former plans for these
new ones. The war in Europe is caus-
ing greater changes in plans for Pro-
testant Christian work in America than
anybody could have dreamed of SIX
months ago
Evening star., 1914-12-27

but of the whole path of life shadowed by
death. The psalmist is contemplating actual
human life and not actual death. He was not
death when these words were penned He
was probably in the vgor of youth attending his
fathers focks. Z. He did not say, though, I may
or should or must walk but though walk in
the valley of the shadow of death' Walking
now. The thought is that not the dying, but the
living-those in the bloom of health all from in
Evening star., 1914-12-27

dying suggests reflections the end of things We
familiar with and their from the
past life different exit the future The
path of life has end but not life
Evening star., 1914-12-27

1ancyare walking the shadow Of death It lie itself that
the shadow.
In full illustration of the thought quote the words
Conceive long valley glen shut either side
impossible and along the which
At the further end sits the form OF DEATH grim dark
puve filling the whole shutting from view the bright
that lie beyond and projecting his gloomy shadow all
the valley its 1t picture Of life which
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@nitarians to Dabe Gross Gountrp
Gbangtlistir Grip in august

Will Have Stop-Of Conferences in Various Cities of
This Country and Canada-General Meeting of
Representatives of Denomination to Be Held at
Close
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Ameritan Reputation to Start
OFT Tisit to Gturrbes of 3apan

Federal Council of Churches Decides to Send Repre-
sentatives to Nippon in January-Gifford Pinchot
Made Chairman of Commission on Church and
Country Life.