The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-06-13
What Church People
Are Doing and Saying

of police, Rev. DIR. John Weidley, pas
tor of the Church of the Reformation
says: Mr.. Pullman has been deeply
interested in our Sunday school for
a number of years and has met with
good success as its superintendent. He
intends 20 continue in this capacity
though the SUPPLEMENTARY of the
Washington police force is very
heavy task-one of the most Impor
lant in the District and Mr.. Pullman
is the youngest man ever appointed
TO this position. Of course, il makes
US Lutherans feel elated while our
best wish follows him for successful
tenure of office.
Mr.. Pullman encouraged the forma :
ton of a baseball team in the Sunday
school and did some other startling
things during the first year of his
SUPPLEMENTARY there. DR.. Harvey W.
Wiley. Clifford Pinchot and other prom
inent men were brought to talk before
the school until the membership be-
came so large that an addition TO the
Sunday school room had 10 be built.
The school now mas one of the most
modern and complete equipments in the
city.
DIR. lisa bella Mack Patton, missionary
of the New York Avenue Presbyterian
church, writes from kochow, China.
under date of April l.:
The NictTola has arrived AT last
and we have just unpacked it this aft
ernoon. 1t came in perfect condition
and is surely beauty. Thank you all
so much My microscope escaped all
injury from the floods in our absence
and is constant reminder OF the
Smith College women and other friends
in Washington"
Delta Chapter of the Phi Mu Sigma
Fraternity held its annual election on
Tuesday evening at Douglas NJ. L.
Church, choosing the following OFF,
GERS: Bayne Brown. president; Melvin
T. Lederer, vice president; Samuel
Baxter. secretary: Edward Elliott, as
sistant secretary; Paul Brattain, finan-
cial secretary: Benjamin Elliott. treas
urer, and Henry Jack Hickman, mar
shall.
4 vote of thanks was extended by
the chapter to all the retiring Off
GERS for the sincerity shown in the
past years work. The new cabinet dis
cussed many interesting features for
The summer work. among them the
chapter excursion TO be given on next
Tuesday evening.
An illustrated lecture will be dcliv-
cred in Luther Place Memorial Luth
eran Church on the evening of June
Is by Dr. w. A. Granville, president OF
Pennsylvania College at Gettysburg.
The lecture will be under the auspices
of the Washington Woman's League of
Pennsylvania College.
Twenty-threc years ago. when the
American University was planning to
open its work, the nomination to the
first post graduate scholarship was
rendered to Rev. J. W. +. Bowen, then
pastor of Asbury Church in this city.
circumstances prevented its accept
auce, but the minister and his wife on
their knees vowed that they would
work, sacrifice and pray" that their
infant son might some day have that
opportunity. Their dearest hopes were
fulfilled on May %, when the Ameri-
can University announced among it's
first appointments to fellowships John
Wesley Edward Bowen. jr. The young
scholar studied at Phillips En-
cter Academy, and took his b. A. with
honors at Wesleyan. He is now a grad
uat student at Harvard. where he has
already earned his NJ. A. and by the
bounty of the American University
Will continue his studies in American
history and civics at Cambridge, lead
ing to doctorate. The father. now
vice president of Cannon Theological
at Atlanta. thinking of his
own boyhood. which goes back to
and remembering his renun
citation. says, We thank God and take
courage"
The Foreign Christian Missionary
Society makes announcement of the
plans of Dr. 6. J. p. Barger and wife. |
who were for many years members of |
the Vermont Avenue Christian Church |
DR. Barger has finished his work in |
Harvard. He has been giving special !
attention 10 the study of tropical dis !
eases and their treatment. He and |
Mrs. Barger expect to leave for the |
'ongo about the first of August In
thc meanwhile. DR.. Barger will visit |
A number of churches and talk to them
a bout the work to which the Lord has
"a lied him and 10 which he is devoting
his life.
Many representative college presi-
lents. paroChial school supervisors
and instructors will attend the twelfth
annual convention of the Catholic Edu
'ational Association in ST. Paul. MINI.
July / \ number of problems to be
presented in papers by leading educa-
'ors will he discussed by the dele
gates. These essays will he issued
eventually in large book by the as
ISOLATION.
The conventions viii he opened with
at address by the president-general.
Bishop Thomas J. Shahan. rector of
lie Catholic University. Washington.
'ther prominent educators who will
cad essays are Very Rev. Matthew
{. $ c, president of the
olleEe department.. University of Notre
Dame: Very Rev. J. +. O'Mahoney. G.
:. V. president of ST. Niator's College,
III; Rev. John \. Dill
on, Newark. president of the parish
chool department: Rev. II. {. Boyle.
of parish schools of
Mgr +. II. McDevitt. su-
of parish schools in Phil
delph:a: Very Rev. II. Moynihan.
resident of ST. Thomas College, 81.
'aul: Rev. J. A. Quincy, superintend-
nj of parish schools. Albany; Rev Ed
vim V. O'Hara. chairman OF the In
ustrial Welfare Commission of Ore
:. president of Holy Cross College,
Wash.
Objects of the Catholic Educational
association are to keep before the
minds of the people the necessity of
eligious instruction and training as
he basis of morality and sound edu-
alton: to advance the principles and
afeguard the interests of Catholic
ducation; to encourage the spirit of
cooperation and mutual helpfulness
mong Catholic educators: to promote
y study. conference and discussion
he thoroughness OF the work and to
elP 1t by the publication and circu-
alton of such literature as will fur
her these ends. II
The national convention of the Anti. /