Evening star., 1916-01-01


home amounting to about $50 in money,
together with several boxes of good
things to eat. The pastor of the church,
Rev Henry T. Cousins. was presented
with a silk umbrella from the Bible
class. Mrs. Ladue E. McGin and Miss
| Carroll were in charge of the enter
| tainment
for the unsettled condition of things
| incident to the war. While detained In
this country he is visiting the churches
OF the south and awakening interest in
| Ogbomosho. West Africa.
Dr. j. T. Henderson of Tennessee will
speak to men Tuesday evening. On
this occasion several Baptist pastors
| win groups of their man members will
| Join with men of the Fifth Church The
subject discussed by DR.. Henderson
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| waugh Epworth League on Sunday
evening heard lecture on Africa, de-
livered by Mrs. Springer, wife of Rev.
| Springer, a returned missionary. The
lecture was illustrated by eighty slides
| all of which were colored. At the regu-
lar church service Rev. Springer told
some of his experiences in Africa
| dwelling especially on the Christina ses
spent there.
Tomorrow evening the league will be
led by Mr.. NARROW, one of it's members
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| Rev. Howard I. Stewart begins to-
morrow evening in the Second Baptist
| Church series of Sunday evening
| sermons. They will be studies of GER
| tain characters and events, under the
| general title of "After You Are Dead.
| or Plain Talks on Practical Theology.
| The following is a list of dates and
subjects: January .. The First Five
! Minutes After Death: January ., Does
| a Death Bed Repentance Hold Good?''
January is. The Great Judgment Day,
or the Books Opened; January 20.
| Hell in the Light of Common Sense
and January 80. What 1 Don't Know
| About Heaven"
| Tomorrow at the 7:30 o'clock mass at
| St Dominic's Church the Third order
| of the parish.will receive holy commun-
| ion in body. They Will assemble
again at 4:3o pm. for the recitation
| of the office and the beads, the exer-
| cises closing with benediction Of the
blessed sacrament. Rev. Edward j.
| Farmer, o. r., officiating.
|
T.! In st. AIMS Church tomorrow the
| sodality will receive communion in a
| body at the 7:15 O'Clock mass. The
evening from to O'Clock. when Rev.
| r. G. Smyth Will preach. the hymns
will be sung and the benediction of
| the blessed sacrament given.
The school will resume classes Mon
day.
| Sunday. January 9. two-week mis-
sion will open in Holy Trinity Cath
olic Church. with a solemn high mass
at II O'Clock. II will be conducted by
Rev. John Walsh. S j.: Rev. F. Goen-
ing. S. j.. and Rev. William McGivney,
S. j.. from the Mission House at Key
ser Island, New York.
! The first week will he for the wom-
en- and the second for the men. Mission
services will be held as follows:
| Masses at and O'Clock, at which a
short instruction will be given. Every
evening at 7:30 there will be the reci-
| tation of the rosary, mission sermon
and benediction of the BLESSED sacra-
! ment.
| The Holy Name Society of Holy Trim
ity Church will hold its annual cleo
tion of officers Thursday evening in
the parish hall at 7:30 o'clock, and
| great interest is manifested in the
| outcome by the 500 members
! Rev. Edward J Magrath. S J.,
m moderator of the Holy Name Society
of Trinity Church, is absent from the
quentiy will be unable to be present at
the vesper service tomorrow evening.
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| Pope Benedict XIV encourages in
/ every way, it is said, the work of the
Vatican Observatory, in which the tw o
preceding pontiffs had also specially in
| terested themselves The special work
which the observatory has on hand is
the Photographic representation of the
heavens, which it is carrying out in
| conjunction with those of Mount
| Hamilton Lick). Mount Wilson Car
negie), William Bay (Yerkes), Cam
bridge (Harvard) and Stonyhurst (Eng-
land).
Rev. Hagan. S. j.. the director of the
| observatory, has had much experience
! in this work. Some years ago he was
| engaged in making a Photographic
| star map of the heavens at George
town University Observatory. when he
had as colaborers Rev. Hedrick. S. J..
and Rev. William Rigge, now of
Creighton University;
The Wesleyan Pentecostal Church. D
street near Sd northwest, Will have a
cremation service" tomorrow night
Eight notes representing total of
ls2771 will be placed in a casket. spe-
cially provided for the purpose, by
eight different persons, who will quote
appropriate verses of Scripture. after
which the whole casket will be burned
in the presence of the congregation.
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| A special New Year service is to be
held in Westminster Presbyterian n
IChurch tomorrow evening at o'clock,
Happy New Year" will be solved.
The pastor. Rev. r. E. Davis. has Sc
cured from twenty men and women
from various walks of life in Washing
ton answers to the question How to
Make a Happy New Year," and these