Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-22

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! August. will occupy the home of DR.
vincent. 1916 Columbia road.
ton Will conduct the religious service
at Camp Good Will tomorrow evening
| at o'clock.
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check for $427s1, amount of offer
lngs IN the Church of the Epiphany on
! sent to the treasurer of the Belgian
French British permanent blind relief
fund to aid in the effort for soldiers
blinded In the European war trenches
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Special Friday evening services are
being held in Shiloh Colored Baptist
| Church. beginning last evening and
continuing through August. A large
part of each meeting is devoted to in
! tercessory prayer. while Rev. j. Milton
Waldron. the pastor closes with a
| thirty-minute sermon on what he de-
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! day His topic last evening was The
Sleep of the Dead and the Annihilation
of the Wicked
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Dr. James Shera Montgomery has re-
turned from Minneapolis and will
preach in Calvary Methodist Church to-
morrow morning and evening. The
theme for the morning is one appro-
pirate to the season. THE Lure of Sum-
mer."
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day progress in invention and discov-
cry, and more especially the unprece-
denied trip Of the German submarine,
DR.. Montgomery will preach a special
sermon in the evening on cit Cannot
Be Done, or the Art of the Pessimist.'
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Rev ]. NJ. Waldron, pastor Of Shiloh
Baptist Church, is preaching a number
of sermons Sunday mornings upon the
general subject, "The Christian Graces."
His subject tomorrow will be THE
Grace Of Giving
International arbitration has great
future as an aid to diplomacy, Prof.
Philip Marshall Brown Of Princeton
University and former minister to
Honduras told several scores of
ministers who are studying inter-
Auburn Theological Seminary at
Auburn. N. Y, yesterday. He added,
however, that arbitration is not gen
eral panacea for international ills and
it must not be expected to carry
greater burdens than it is yet able to
bear.
THE number and the nature Of the
international cases settled by arbi-
tration in accordance with the arbi-
tration convention signed at The
Brown. encourage us in the belief
that arbitration as an effective means
of adjusting the disputes of nations
has a great future. In our anxiety and
for war we must not make the mistake
of placing on arbitration burdens 1t is
not prepared to bear.
Where the rights are all on one side
there is nothing to arbitrate. You may
be willing to arbitrate the right of a
thief to the possession of your watch ;
the thief naturally has nothing to arbi-
trate. Also it must be remembered
that nations do not prefer to settle
their dispues by the horrible means Of
modern warfare.
Arbitration, far from being a gen.
eral panacea for international ills, is
to be regarded merely as an aid to
diplomacy. Limited in its nature and
with international commissions of in
auiry. such as have been proposed by
Mr.. Bryan, as a welcome helpmate to
diplomacy in times of special stress
and need. Arbitration is capable of
great service and is not to be de-
spised."
Less than 500 was paid for the first
locomotive in China. It weighed
twenty-five hundredweight. The rails
were about the size of walking sticks
and lay thirty inches apart. One day.
operating only few months. tres
passer was run over and killed by the
little engine. The rails were prompt
ly torn up and shipped to Formosa
to rust. thus ending the fate of the
first railroad in China.
That was only forty years ago. Now
China has more than 5000 miles of
railway, with net revenue of more
than 100000 year.
And C. C. Wang of the government
railroad bureau stands sponsor for
this prophecy:
1T is no exaggeration to say that
there will be more railways built in
China during the coming twenty-five
years than in all the rest of the world
combined"
"a large majority of the student
body in the Philippines are without
faith in their old system, and are
out on a sea of religious unbelief
statement is made by Rev. J. L. Nc
Laughlin, who is making an earnest
effort to inject the Bible into the lives
of the young people of the islands.
as part of his work as secretary of
the Worlds Sunday School Association.
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What are the characteristics Of the
Chinese people?" Bishop Wilson S.
Lewis Of China was recently asked.
They are mixed race" he replied.
probably made by merging of peo-
pie from Japan, Korea and China.
There Is no race suicide among them,
and hence they are increasing rapidly.
in spite Of the present density of the
population. They respond quickly to
ethical appeals. and therefore give
promise of making stable Christians.
They are very honest in business deal
Ing and contracts.
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The New Mexico Baptist Convention
was organized in 1900 with 1000 mem
bers in the territory The number is
now 5000 grouped in 1913 churches.
There are literally hundreds of New
Mexican villages in which no evan
gelical services are held, it is said.
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A writer in the Survey in relating the
social improvements which have taken
place in Indiana, pays high tribute to
the Quakers and their work for prison
reform. Among the results largely and in
some cases almost wholly due to the
Friends may be mentioned the establish
ment of the boys reformatory. the wom-
ems prison and girls reformatory, the