Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-07-24

hospice Of the St Lucy in Manresa, going
from there to Rome to begin his opera
souls
The subsequent life Of st. Ignatius
Roman Catholic authorities say, is mar
ration of almost unbelievable obstacles
and sufferings, overcome step by step. until
one sees at its conclusion the triumph
and wonderful growth and progress OF
the society he had founded
He was thirty-f1ve years old before he
began his studies, but this fact daunted
him not in the least. At the University
of Alcala he was arrested and thrown
into prison for his activities among the
| students, and at Paris four years later
he was accused of heresy in Rome. In
all these difficulties Loyola was vindi-
pleted. and in 1888. when forty-seven
years of age. he celebrated his first mass
| in the subterranean chapel of the
! Basilica Of st. Mary Major, in Rome.
year the Pope officially recognized the
Society of Jesus as an order of the church.
DR.. H. NJ Canter. presiding elder OF
the Washington district, Southern
Methodist Episcopal Church. will con-
duct the prayer meeting at ST. Paul
Methodist Episcopal Church South. I'd
night. and will hold the quarterly con-
| ference Immediately following the
prayer service.
DR.. John Scott johnson of Oklahoma
City spoke at the St. Paul prayer meet
ing last Thursday night and gave some
! very interesting experiences OF his
| work in the western city.
Tomorrow morning the pastor, Rev.
D. L. Blakemore, will tell his congrega-
| ton some interesting missionary facts
and plans discussed at the meeting OF
the conference missionary secretaries
of the Methodist Episcopal Church
South this week at Lake Junaluska'
North Carolina The missionary task,
lions. but the response Of the church
to the great appeal that is everywhere
| being made In behalf of the non
Christian peoples, while nowhere near
reaching adequacy, Is yet hoperuliy
growing.
The report of the board Of missions
to the secretaries conference shows
that the receipts for the month OF June,
| 1915. were s51 ,46442. as compared with
$34,356 for June. 1914. and $21.s5s for
In fact, the receipts for June of this
year exceed the income for the same
| month of any year in the history OF
the board from the ordinary sources
| of revenue. This showing Is especially
gratifying.
By the will of the late Mrs: Ida R;
Shipley of Baltimore, Md, the board OF
missions shares in her requests to the
manent endowment for its work.
Rev. Herbert Booth Smith, pastor of
tho SECOND preshvteria" 'h"rrh
Knoxville, Tenn, who occupied the pulpit
of the New York Avenue Presbyterian
arrived in the city and will begin ms
term of summer service tomorrow at
II o'clock.
For the next six weeks Rev. Mr..
Smith will have charge of the morning
services and the Thursday evening
PRAYER meetings, there being no even
ing service He will preach tomorrow
morning on THE Unconventional
Christ" and at the midweek services
he will give a series of studies on ihe
The pastor is an enthusiastic motor
list, having made the trip from the
south overland this year. as he did last
summer, in a 1915 Hupmobile. Mr..
Smith left his home about ten Gays
ago and motored up through eastern
Tennessee to the Virginia line and then
through Virginia and up the Shenan-
doah valley to Winchester and thence
northeast from Winchester to Cumber-
land and Bedford, and from Bedford
due west over the Lincoln highway to
Pittsburgh, where he preached last
Sunday. Monday he motored from
Pittsburgh to Washington. a run OF
225 miles. The best run of the trip
Abingdon to New Market. Va. spin
Of 283 miles.
The entire trip has developed only
one puncture. and the arrival in Wash
ington showed a mileage Of 975.
The pastor expects to spend the sum-
mer, between engagements at the New
York Avenue Church, to exploring all
the roads leading out Of Washington.
Last summer he had only one pune
ture in 1900 miles. and he hopes to
X X X
Yho is to supply the Fourth Presby-
terrain Church in the absence OF DR..
Joseph T. Kelly, Is meeting with favor
in the work Both morning and even
ing services Of last Sunday were well
attended.
The congregation of the Gunton-
Temple Memorial Presbyterian Church
has been invited to unite in worship
with the congregation of the Fourth
Presbyterian Church. 18th and Fair
mont streets, during the absence of DR..
Granger. who has left on his vacation.
The invitation has been accepted.
At the Union Methodist Episcopal
Church, goth street near Pennsylvania
avenue northwest. tomorrow morning
at II o'clock. the pastor. Rev. John
MacMurray, by request. will give an
other special sermon talk on Jones'"
The special topic will be THE Kind of
Jones the Preachers Like"
In the evening In the Sunday school
room at o'clock the informal summer
Sunday nights service of sacred song
there will be a twenty-minute talk by
the pastor on the them :. The Third
Form of God"
illustrated sermons on Bible lands in
the great war are being given by Rev.