The Washington herald., 1915-07-25
WHAT CHURCH PEOPLE
ARE SAYING AND DOING

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tional or representative church of the
Southern Methodists for which a site
has been secured on the west side of
Ninth street, between Massachusetts
avenue and K street northwest. A re-
cent communication received in Wash
ington from Bishop Gambler, who is
chairman of the commission on the
representative church, indicates that
definite announcement may be look
ed for in the near future as to the
removal of the residences which now
occupy the site of the new structure.
Southern Methodists throughout the
country have been interested for years
in the project of a great national
church. to be located in the Capital,
and only recently has il been decided
that the location of the building
would not be in the outlying residence
section of the city, but that it would
he a down town church, conveniently
situated for the use of visitors to
Washington. The congregation of the
present Mount Vernon Place Church
will form the initial membership of
the new church and the abandoned
building will be sold.
Rev. c. Everest Granger. pastor of
Gunton Temple Memorial Presbyterian
that church a summer letter convey
ing the pastors greetings approprI-
ate to the vacation season and bring
ing to their attention some of the op-
portunities for Christian service which
the summer will provide. He says:
Let me, with all earnestness and
in real Christian affection, offer few
summer suggestions:
Remember the duty and privilege of
sSl inir oil -,
all places Summer outings. visiting
new places and meeting new people.
often afford brilliant opportunities for
Christian example and influence.
DO not forget your home church,
in your prayers. in your plans, in your
financial obligations. Our spiritual life
can largely be estimated by our de-
rotion to the church for which Christ
died.
spend restful and peaceful sum-
mer. full of praise and gratitude to
God for his many blessings. and look
forward 10 a happy return of a fresh
season of activity in the church of
our choice and love"
\ number of Washingtonians are
expected to attend the annual Bible
conference at Mountain Lake Park,
Nd. the week of August l, to be con-
Quoted by Rev. DIR. James NJ. Gray.
dean of the Moody Bible Institute of
Chicago, assisted by members of the
faculty of that institute and others.
Among the speakers will be: A. c. Gae-
belein. editor of Our Hope" New
YORK; Evangelist Bob Jones. of
Montgomery. Ala: Prof Melvin Grove
Kyle. of Philadelphia: Rev. DIR. Don S
colt. Baltimore: Rev Edward A. Mar
shall. director of the missionary course
Of the Moody Bible Institute: Fred L.
Eosemond. of Cambridge. Ohio: Prof
r. Q. Sellers. of the Moody Institute;
Miss Angy Manning Taylor. and
charles c. Trumbull. editor Of the
Sunday School Times.
Rev, A. r. KuldeI of Washington.
supplied the pulpit at Northminster
Presbyterian Church. Baltimore, for
the past three Sundays.
II has been the custom in Presby-
fcrian churches to elect elders for
life. For long time this was regard
cd as an essential feature of Presby-
terianism. This practice has led to
enbarrassments in many churches
where the elder has ceased to be
worthy leader without becoming
proper subject for church discipline.
\ leading journal of Presbyterianism.
the Continent. has opened a symposium
III iNS COluIllHS, on the WlSOOm OF con-
iinuing this practice. The advocates
of life eldership insist that regularly
recurring elections make the eldership
the object of a political scramble in
The local church.
Suggestions are to he made to the
nominating committee of the Hall OF
si"naries be considered at the next
election uhiCl, faL n1o in not
Of this year. There are one hundred
electors who decide whose names are
to be admitted to the hall. The final
total of names (of Americans who
have become famous) which will be
admitted is to be one hundred and
fifty. So far the list contains the
names of only three ministers of the
Gospel. There are as yet no names of
missionaries on the list. Baptists will
make a strong effort to have the name
of Adoniram JudSon chosen.
DR.. A. Piatt Andrew, known in
Washington as a former assistant sec
rotary of the Treasury. is now serving
as the head of the American Am
DIR. Royal Lincoln Writ tells in the
current number of the Congregational
ist and Christian World.
AS ambulance after ambulance
came in with its grim load | was proud
OF those American college boys who
had brought these wounded men from
the trenches, as tcnderly as they
could, through the night: running
without lights. picking their way over
roads choked with ammunition wagons,
food transports and marching men.
Shells had broken about them. There
was one ambulance with shell hole
torn in its top just above the drivers
head. They vie with each other in get
ting their patients to the hospital
wounded but eight or ten hours be-
fore. That seems a long time, but in
reality il was quick work. More often
II is much longer for. after an attack,
unless the wounded fall back in the
trenches, IL is necessary to wait until
merciful darkness covers the battle
field and the intrepid stretcher- bearers
can steal forth between the fighting
lines to gather up the wounded and
carry them behind the trenches. Here
they receive hasty first aid and are
then committed to our boys and their
waiting ambulances.
II was proud of the way they lifted
each man from his ambulance at the
door of the receiving room, deftly re-
moved his clothing and passed him
on to that mighty Frenchman in
charge of the bathroom with it's sin
gle, large porcelain tub. I was proud
of that Frenchman, the only paid
member of the hospital staff. For
twenty-eight hours he bent over his
task, and when at last he Strengthened