Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-11-06
Pulpit and Peu

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a number Of new churches and has
greatly built up the work at H Street
Church. In little more than two years
| the membership has been doubled and
the work made self-supporting. He
| conducted wonderfully successful lawn
services this summer with the help OF
the boys band that he organized and
instructed.
| Maj. Pullman. superintendent of po-
lice, is to deliver an address to the
Roberts, Bible class of ingram Me.
10 O'Clock. The class is composed OF
young men and women.
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The Home branch of the Woman's
Missionary Society of the Metropolitan
| Presbyterian Church met at O'Clock
Wednesday.
The devotional services were con-
Quoted by Mrs. Troutman. The sub
Hospital Work at Haines, Alaska" and
| THE Hebrew in Our Midst" presented
by Miss Jennie Kimball and Mrs.
Brooks, were of unusual interest.
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The Y. NJ. G. A. gospel team will have
Westminster Presbyterian Church to-
morrow. The meeting will be evan
gelistic. The male quartet will have
charge Of the musical program, which is
one OF the features of these meetings.
Homer ]. Councillor will deliver the ad-
dress. his subject being Tho Harbor
Lights
The mems Bible class, led by DR..
Frank W. Collier at the Y. NJ. C. A, will
IrN INV T. ~ II r1,f -
Jesus" and tomorrow afternoon will
discuss the topic, What Is 1t to Be
Righteous"
Meetings in the car barns for street
railway men will begin next week I'M
der the auspices of the Y. NJ. C. A.
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| There are a few vacancies in the
Cathedral Choir School for boys with
good voices. and candidates between
the ages of nine and eleven years can
make application in writing to Edgar
| Priest, 1900 Wisconsin avenue north
west, before Wednesday.
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The Phi Mu Sigma National Sunday
School Fraternity will hold a meeting
Church tonight. Everyman class in
the Sunday school of that church will
be taken into Zeta Chapter of the
fraternity.
| field class, taught by Alton G. Grin
nell: and this class has recently con-
solidated with Everyman class. taught
by Rev. Earle Whitley. pastor of the
church. The exercises will be presided
over by DR.. Clifton P. Clark. supreme
! master of the fraternity, and Mr..
Charles w. Heider, president of Zeta. A
large delegation from the twenty-one
local chapters will be present.
The basket ball league schedule of
no Fra TO " ic
games are played every Tuesday night
in the gymnasium of the Church Of the
Advent (EpiscopaD. Last Tuesday night
Sigma defeated Chi % to ~ H. and s;1r r.,
team consisted of Messrs. Perley,
Cramer, Grigsby, Thompson and Coe.
with Pierson substituting for Cramer.
Chi team consisted of chambeTia n
Tuesday night the events will be be-
tween Sigma and Alpha of Maryland,
and MI and Chi. Quite large at
tendance is expected to welcome the
Maryland chapter.
The bowling league is moving along
smoothly, and great interest is shown
by the contesting chapters and their
respective boosters over the outcome
of the games.
The evangelistic services which have
been in progress for the past Two
of Washington, white and colored- led
by a corps of about twenty evangellsts
and almost as many singers of the
home board Of the Southern Baptist
Convention, will, so far as the con-
certed movement is concerned, end to-
morrow with a mass meeting in the
afternoon at Calvary Baptist Church
and a late night meeting, beginning at
1926 o'clock and ending at midnight,
at the Cosmos Theater.
The afternoon meeting will be in the
nature of a jubilee service and partic-
ular attention will be directed toward
the giving of proper advice to the
many hundreds of new members re-
ceived by the various churches as a
result of the meetings. The night
reaching the people not ordinarily &C
cessible to church influences.
DR.. Weston Bruner, secretary of
evangelism for the southern Baptists.
is much gratified with the results &C
complished during these meetings.
in most of the southern cities. he
thinks the Washington campaign holds
| the record for things accomplished. All
the churches have had marked addi
tons to their membership. and all the
communities report an awakening
along religious lines. The evangelists
go from here to Knoxville, Tenn, to
engage in similar city-wide cam
paign. DR.. Bruner and few of the
speakers will remain in Washington
for another week, continuing the serv-
ices at the Fifth and one or two other
churches for that time.
At the regular monthly business and
social meeting Of the mems Bible class
held at the Mount Rainier Christian
Church Wednesday evening. the ques-
ton: Resolved. That large army
and navy is conducive to national
peace" was debated with C. F. Doane,
II. B. Lanning and S. E. Oberlin in the
affirmative and Rev. H. L. Ice. C. H.
RAIDER and A. L. Homer in the Mega
| tive.
Fred D. Tillman. NJ p. Caskey and T.
c. Webb acted as Judges and William
E. Rider. president of the class. as
timekeeper.
The decision was rendered in favor
OF the affirmative debaters.
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In the resolutions adopted at the clos
ing session of the District Sunday school
convention in New York Avenue Presby-
Jterian church during the week the pastor,
Rev. Dr. Radcliffe, and the session of the
New York Avenue Church were thanked
for the hospitality, and 1t was urged that
the members of the convention "remem-
Der the Sabbath day and keep it holy"
by ''refraining from degrading it into one
Of idleness and worldly amusements and
by making 1t, on the contrary, a day of