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Evening star., 1923-04-07
Sunday School Lesson

ity. They gave Abram in their first
divine revelation the assurance that
God planned to make of His friend 9
seed great nation. 1t called for
faith to accept such a promise that
was opposed to all human experience
Abram believed God and made a
covenant with Him. There was an
error in his accepting his wife's pro-
posal in reference to Hagar. although
1t was in accordance with the ethics
Of that age.
When Jehovah appeared again to
His friend 1t was to change His
name and that OF his wife as a token
of His promise that in her old age
Sarai would be a mother of an heir
who would be the forerunner of a
new race. The birth of Isaac was
a striking proof that God was faith
full to His promise. In the third
revelation of Jehovah there came the
climax Of Abraham's faith. There
was an immediate response and he
prepared to offer his beloved son.
Pagan neighbors could point to their
sacrifices of their children as an evil
dence of their loyalty to their tribal
gods. Abraham was not behind them
in his devotion to Jehovah. When
Isaac Abraham proved that he was
willing to give God hrs best.
Jehovah spared His friend from
offering up his son. Under the SYM
Dol Of stained animal the demand
that Abraham heard God speak was
satisfied. He showed by his atti-
tude and action that he possessed
profound religious life. He was not
to be child sacrificer like his pagan
neiehbors Jehovah called him to be
the founder of a new faith and race
that was destined after many
struggles under the leadership OF the
prophets to free itself from even the
occasional practice of such barbarous
acts While this noble figure rises
from the mists of the past, history
has placed him among her great men
OF all the ages. Well may Israel be
proud to have him as their founder.
We ought to rejoice that we can claln,
him as our spiritual father. even II
we cannot trace our physical descent
from the friend of God.
Evening star., 1923-04-07
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY
SOCIETY WILL MEET
Fellowship Program Is Planned for
Gathering at Calvary Bap-
tist Church.

The Woman's Missionary Society of
Calvary Baptist Church will meet
next Tuesday morning at IL o'clock
In the adult room of the Sunday =
school building. A fellowship pro-
gram has been arranged which is to
Include a three minute talk from a
representative woman OF practically
every denomination in the city, each
having the same subject, which is.
The Most Worthwhile Thing That
My Denomination Is Doing for HUI
manity."
resenting the Methodist North, Mrs. .
William I. Mcdowell; Methodist :.
South. Mrs. Thomas A. Grower;
Presbyterian, North, Mrs. Wallace
Radcliffe; Presbyterian South. Mrs.
Oscar wilkinson; Catholic, Miss Maria. =
Ewing; Congregational, Mrs. William,
E. Chamberlin: Christian, Mrs. Earl
Wilf1ey: Episcopal, Mrs. Archibald
Small; Friends, Mrs. Lindley D. Clark:
Jewish. Mrs. Abram Simon; Lutheran,
Miss T. E. Nelson: Reform. Mrs.
Henry H. Ranck; United Brethren.
Mrs. Thomas A. Moore; Unitarian.
Mrs. Richard Fay Jackson; Untver-'
salist, Mrs. Clarence f. Rice; Bap- !.
tist, Mrs. William s. Abernathy
Mrs. William Allen Wilbur will lead
the devotional service, her topic being
For We Are Workers Together" A .
solo will be sung by Miss Mary
Wheeler, accompanied by Mrs. E.
Clock Luncheon will follow th6 =
morning session, which closes the 4
meeting. Members of other churches =
are cordially invited.
Evening star., 1923-04-07
EPISCOPAL BISHOP BIDS
DR.. TIKHON TO PARLEY
Invites Ex-Patriarch Of Russian
Orthodox Church to Aid in
Solving Differences.
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK. April THE Most
Rev. DR.. Tikhon, former patriarch Of
all Russia, who is now in Moscow
has been invited by Bishop Thomas
f. Gailor. president of the national
council of the Episcopal Church. to
come to America to assist in settling
differences in the Russian Church in
this country, 1T has been officially
announced. The invitation was ex-
tended with the full knowledge Of the
United States government, a state
ment said, and the soviet government
had been requested to permit him to
visit America.
A dispatch from Moscow stated that
DR.. Tikhon would be placed on trial
before a soviet court on April II. ac-
cused under articles of the criminal
code. including the counter-revolu-
tionary article, which permits the
death penalty should the court so
decree.
Dr. Tikhon was formerly arch
bishop of the Russian Orthodox
Church in America, and in May, 1922.
1T was reported he had abdicated as
patriarch.
Evening star., 1923-04-07
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS
TO FIGHT SPIRlTUALIsM
Council Decides to Launch Cam
paign Against Conan Doyle's
Teachings.

An international campaign in oppo-
sition to the teachings of Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle and other spirftualists
Will be launched by the Seventh-day
Adventist Church, 1t was announced
at the spring council of the denomi-
nations leaders, who are meeting at
Takoma Park. Claims that spirits
can be materialized will be denounced
the church heads declared.
The campaign will largely be one of
anti-spiritualistic literature The en-
tire constituency of the church, in
every civilized nation of the world.
Will be asked to distribute the cam
paign pamphlets. Their teaching will
be: The dead know not anything,
neither have they any more a reward
for the memory of them Is forgotten. y
Z. F. Peterson, who recently re-
turned from missionary work in Bo-
liVia, told the council that 800 men
and women in that country had al
ready been converted from spiritism
and other forms Of paganism," as a
result of proper distribution of litera-
ture.
Evening star., 1923-04-07
DON'T WANT OLD PEOPLE.
DR.. Little Says Young Married
Couples Shunt Parents Around.
Special Dispatch to The Star


BALTIMORE. April THAT the
average young married people do not
want the old people in the home was
emphatically brought out by Dr. F.
T. Little of the Evergreen Methodist
Protestant Church Of this city yester-
day at the Maryland annual confer
ence of the Methodist Protestant
Church, which is being held at St.
Johns Church
The boys do not want their wives
mothers and the girls do not want
their husbands mothers or fathers in
the home" DR.. Little said. 1T is a
matter of everyday experience that
mother is shunted from the house
of another. She Is pushed around to
the convenience of her children.
Therefore, 1t is very necessary for
the Methodist Protestant Church to
odist Home for the Aged at Westmin-
ster. Md. Old mothers and fathers are
very much more Independent in this
home than they are when placed in
the. different children's homes" DR..
Little said.
That the entrance fee be increased
from $500 to $400 was discussed at
great length by various ministers. DR.
e. c. Makosky. of Newark, n. j., and
the Rev. j. Q. Nichols of Westminster.
Md, made the same urgent plea that
DR.. Little did for the care Of the old
people.
A resolution was adopted by the con-
ference that the entrance fee be in
creased to S400. An amendment was
made that serious consideration be
taken of a graduated entrance fee.
The Rev. c. c. Day of the Wilton
Heights Methodist Protestant Church
conducted the devotional service.
DR.. G. o. Humphreys of Washington,
newly elected president, presided.
Reports benevolent work and the
election of new board of trustees for
hn mn iy Df c
session.
The personnel Of the newly elected
board Is Rev. DR.. George W. Hadda-
way, Rev. E. D. Stone, Rev. ]. H. Rob-
erts. Rev. Edward H, Ellis and Mrs.
E. B. Fenby.
The list of ministerial appointments
probably will not be announced before
MOnday,
Evening star., 1923-04-07
Church EDUCATION
! URGED BY BISHOP
More Schools and Colleges
Needed, He Tells M. E.
Conference.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
ROANOKE, Va, April 7-Expansion
of the church's activities in the field
OF education was urged at yesterdays
sessions of the Baltimore conference
Of the Methodist Episcopal Church
South. several speakers. among them
Bishop w. A. Gambler, declaring that
the church is falling behind in this
respect
Deploring the lack of educational
institutions in the southern states,
Bishop Gambler declared that the
church had not spent as much for
education as 1t might have spent. He
called attention to the financial abil-
fty of the church. and declared that
more for education if they would
match the expenditures for luxuries
with contributions TO the church
Dr. II. H. Sherman. president of the
conference board of education, ex-
pressing the belief that the Christian
education movement, started two years
ago, ultimately would result in success
and the full payment of pledges de-
clared that renewal Of interest is nee
essary at this time. DR. Sherman said
the membership of the church appar-
entity feels that the movement will
be put over" in some way. but with
out special effort on their part"
Bishop Gambler announced the ap-
pointment of r. L. Fultz, C. N. Con-
rad. r. NJ Maxwell ]. r. Jacobs and
-. H. Balthis members of the con-
ference hospital board
The following were admitted on
trial into the travelling connection OF
the conference: W. w. Stevens and J.
l. Hobson of the Baltimore district
L. III. Richcreek, c. w. Kicker and H.
NJ. Lindam Wood. from the Moorfield
district: c. A. York and j. l.. Schwartz
of the Washington district, and w. J.
Russell and D. c. Calvert from the
Winchester district
DON'T WANT OLD PEOPLE.
Evening star., 1923-04-07
MExICANS SAY PL0TTERS
WERE ITALIAN PRIESTS
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MEXICO CITY, April Flight of
forty-three alleged conspirators against
the government who were arrested at
Santa Julia, a suburb Of Mexico City,
are being, held for further examination.
Among those still in custody is Antonio
Gardini, described by the police as an
italian priest. An order for the deten-
tion of another Italian, who is called
by the police Father Maldotti, has been
issued. Maldotti is described further
Is director Of Salesiano College at
Santa Julia.
Those arrested declared at a pre-
iiminary hearing that meeting at
which they were arrested was held for
the purpose of making Santa Julia an
Independent suburb. According to the
police 1t was fascist meeting, the
raiding party, claiming to have OBJ
Virgin of Guadaloupe, the Mexican
patron saint, as an emblem. -.
Evening star., 1923-04-07

Rev. DR.. Charles F. Aked. preacher
and lecturer. of England New York,
San Francisco and now pastor Of the
First Congregational Church of Kan
sas City, No, will deliver four ad-
dresses at the First Congregational
Church. Tenth and G streets north
west. as follows:
Tomorrow. IL am, The Story of
Christ. by Giovanna Papini, the Book
by an italian Atheist That Has Set
All Europe Talking; 8 pm, Wood
row Wilson at His Best-A Tender
and Beautiful Idealization of the
Great Failure in an Imaginary Por-
trait by an Englishman."
Monday and Tuesday. on the gen
eral theme of Hearts. Ancient and
Modern" The Monday address, at
4:45 pm, will be "A Study of La Fol,
a Dream of Egypt in the Time of
Tutankhamen. by Eugene Brieux."
The Tuesday address. at 4:45 pm,
will be The Next Religion. a Drama
of Modern London. by Israel Zang-
will" The admission is free.
Evening star., 1923-04-07
PLAN BIBLE INSTITUTE
TO LAST ELEVEN DAYS
Sessions, Beginning Tomorrow,
Will Be Held at Mt. Vernon
Place M. E. Church.

A Bible conference under the aus
pices of the Bible Institute Of Wash
ington is to be conducted in the
Mount Vernon Place NJ. E. Church
South. 9Th street and Massachusetts
avenue northwest, beginning tomor-
row and continuing to April Is.
The theme Is Christ in History
and Prophecy and In the Victorious
Daily Life of the Believer" The
speakers will be DR.. A. c. Dixon,
of Baltimore, and Mr.. and Mrs. j..
NJ. Harris of Chicago. The public Is
invited
Evening star., 1923-04-07
TALK ON RED CROSS.
Miss Mabel Boardman to Be Heard
at Church of Covenant.

Miss Mabel Boardman. national sec
retary of the American Red Cross,
will address the members Of the
church Of the Covenant evening
branch of the Red Cross auXiliary
under the auspices Of the Everygirls
Monday evening, in the All Corners
classroom OF the church. Her subject
will be RED Cross Volunteer Service.
She will explain this new department
of Red cross work. whereby girls ana
women are pledged TO devote eishteen
hours of service each year for four
years choosing their preferred de-
partment Of work. such as sewing.
Canning, motor driving, hospital ana
recreation service, etc. Miss Myrtie
Wood, chairman Of the Covenant heo
Cross auxiliary, will preside.
Evening star., 1923-04-07
NEARS $1,000 GOAL.
Central Union Mission "Brick Sell
ing" Team Now Has $7O5.

Going "over the top" in the .'brick
selling contest" which the Central
Union Mission is conducting, with
the, sale Of bricks aggregating $705,
Jackson A. Winner, captain of one of
the teams, announced this week that
he expected to report a sale Of 81 900
worth Of bricks at the weekly lunch
con on Wednesday. Each OF the
teams is striving to gain permanent
leadership. The sale Of bricks is
known to be well up into the thou
sands. and Supt. John S. Bennett who.
with Mrs. Bennett, Is in charge Of the
campaign, feels sure that the $4,000
required to complete the fund Of $780,
900 to begin work on the new build
ing will be forthcoming.
Evening star., 1923-04-07
PLAN SPECIAL SERVICE.
Girls Friendly Society to Meet
Tomorrow Evening.

The annual admission service for
members of the Epiphany Parish
Branch of the Girls Friendly So
ciety will be held tomorrow at 8
pm.
Epiphany branch is the largest
chapter of the society in the diocese
of Washington. The members Of the
society include little girls. who are
known as candidates." and older
girls, who are known as probation
ers," as we'll as regular members
When girl has reached the age
and had the experience to become a
member she is admitted at an annual
service and given the badge Of the
society.
Evening star., 1923-04-07
GIRLS TO GIVE TWO PLAYS
Church of Advent Class Will Ap-
pear Next Friday Evening.

The candidates class of the Girls
Friendly Society Of the Church of the
Advent will present two dramatIc
performances in the Parish Han,
ed and L streets northwest. next
Friday evening. The first play WIN
he an operetta entitled Mistress
Mary" the parts being taken by the
little girls of the candidates, class
assisted by one or two Of their eld-
ers.
The second play is without nusie
Ali interested persons are invited to
attend. The proceeds will be used
in part to assist in the furnishing
of the new Holiday House for work
ing girls near Mount vernon, va.
Evening star., 1923-04-07
WILL TALK ON INDIA.

Mass Movements in India" Will be
the subject of the meeting of the
Evening Mission Club Monday at 7:45
O'Clock at Calvary Baptist Church.
supper will be served under the d.
rection of Mrs Carrie c. Allnut. Miss
Phoebe George will be in charge of
the later program. >-,
Evening star., 1923-04-07
JOINS CHURCH FEDERATION.

At meeting of the session OF the
New York Avenue Presbyterian
Church Thursday night 1t was agreed
that the congregation should become
q member of the Washington Fedora
tion of Churches. This action has
been contemplated for some time, but
has not been officially, taken until
QOWs .Ia.
Evening star., 1923-04-07
REVIVAL SERVICES CONTINUE

The revival services at the Full Cos
pei Assembly, $50 Pennsylvania avenue.
are being attended by large congrega-
tions nightly. Rev. George Bowie and
wife and Miss Nell Mays and Mrs. /. F.
Nesbitt are among the speakers invited
for the coming week.
Evening star., 1923-04-07
PLAN INTERMEDIATE DAY.

Intermediate department day will
be observed in the Sunday school of
the Vermont Avenue Christian Church
tomorrow morning, when that depart
ment, under the leadership of Mrs.
Alton G. Grinnell, superintendent,
will conduct the opening exercises of
the school.
Evening star., 1923-04-07
Y. w. C. A. SERVICE.
Bibliophilae Class to Conduct
Vespers Tomorrow.

Vesper services at the Y. W. C. AS
F street building tomorrow afternoon
will be under the direction Of the biblio-
philae class. one of the oldest classes
in the associations school Of religious
education. Miss Freda Steffen. presi-
dent Of the class. will preside. The
tinvities Of the class. such as its course
in Bible study. It's social service and It's
teacher training course, all Of which are
typical Of the work OF the department
as whole.
Mrs. L. Elaine Rising. director Of the
department, will attend as delegate the
convention OF the Religious Education
Association, which will be held next
week in Cleveland.
Evening star., 1923-04-07
HOME MISSIONS, TOPIC.
Mrs. Harvey S. Irwin Will Address
Church Society.

Mrs Harvey S. Irwin, president OF
the Washington City Presbyterial
Society. will speak on Home Mis-
sions" at the meeting Of the Society
Of the Covenant. which Is the woman
the Covenant, in the lecture room OF
the Church. Tuesday morning at IL
o'clock Mrs. w. Il. Bryan. president
of the society. will preside: Luncheon
will be served following the meeting
Evening star., 1923-04-07
MEL MORRIS IS HERE.
Maryland Evangelist Is Assisting
Rev. e. Hez Sven.

"The Billy Sunday of Maryland"
Evangelist Mel Morris. is assisting
Rev E. Hez Sven at the Centennial
Baptist Church, and will preach to-
morrow morning and night and each
night next week except Saturday.
Evening star., 1923-04-07
BY REV. HUGH II. STEVENSON.

ABRAHAM. THE HERO OF
FAITH"
Genesis, 12.1-25:S; Hebrews,
1913.
"a Survey of Abraham's Life)
Golden Text Abraham be-
lieved God, and 1t was reckoned
unto him for righteousness
Romans, 4.3.
Evening star., 1923-04-07
WILL VISIT CHRIST CHURCH.

The diocesan order of the Daugh-
ters of the King of the Episcopal
Church will visit Christ Church. 31st
and o streets northwest next We'd
nesday at pm. Making one vista
tion a month the diocesan officers of
the order are able to visit each parish
branch about once in two years
Evening star., 1923-04-07
TO GIVE SPRING PLAY.

The annual spring play by the
young people Of the Vermont Avenue
Christian Church will be given at
Pythian Temple next Friday at 8
p.m.,- under the direction of Mrs.
Daniel B. Lloyd.
Evening star., 1923-04-07
BIBLE CLASS TO SEE PLAY.

The mems Bible class of the Dunn
barton NJ E. Church Is to present an
entertainment on Easy Terms" by
the Micanee Players Tuesday at 8
pm. for the, benefit of the. parsonage
fund, in the Sunday school room.
Evening star., 1923-04-07
LECTURES ON EGYPT.
DIR. Ball to Give Series at Con-
gregational Church.

greghtlonHl CHuICa'
Dr. Carleton r. Ball will give a
series of three lectures on Egypt.
tomorrow, at the Gates
Bible class, which meets SUNDAY
forum of the First Congressional
Church, 10th and G streets northwest.
The first of these lectures VIII be
The Religion of Egypt" which will
be given this Sunday. April 10 ne
speaks on THE History of Egypt
Including the Place Of Tutankha-
men" and April % on Egypt and
Old Testament History" All men and
women are invited.
Evening star., 1923-04-07
GIRLS FRIENDLY TO MEET.

The Nativity and Resurrection
Girls Friendly Society will have their
annual missionary entertainment
Tuesday evening at o'clock in their
parish house, 14th and A streets
southeast.
Evening star., 1923-04-07
DR.. JOHN WHITE TO TALK.
Southern Clergyman Will Address

Rev DR.. John E. White of South
Carolina, minister and educator. will
address the Baptist Pastors Confer
ence Monday morning at II am. on
Peculiar Conditions IN the South, =;
in Calvary Baptist Church building,
Sth and H streets northwest
The Washington times., 1923-11-21

Continued from First Page.)
demonstrate native capacity
abroad.
They chose a new scratch
from which they might race
ahead, unrestrained, except by
limits of talent and endurance.
The Northwest and the "a
cific hold the remaining scratches
Of the Continent. The least
of their resources has not yet
been touched. The Great Dl-
vide protests these last store
houses of energy and materials
from hampering precedent ana
it's obsolescences.
Washington, Oregon, Cali
fornia. Idaho and Montana are
looking forward, not backward,
carrying on from the peak
noints Of prior achievement.
Thev aren't burdened with an
tiouated machinery and out-of-
date plants; they aren't clut-
tered with ramshackles, tere-
ments and deteriorating invest
They begin at Identification.
The Washington times., 1923-11-21
Wide World

motor trucks, automobile, power
cranes, trip-hammers-with all
the time-savers and distance
shavers already on the work
bench.
The Northwest has no bad in
dustrial judgment to write OFF.
Her natural wealths are prac-
tically available in original vol
UNDERWRITING for exploitation
by the shrewdest and most in
tensive practices.
She can make more goods for
less money because she has the
immediate observation-disclosures
less water power-super-abun-
dant larders-cheap realty and
a twelve months open season,
as against congestion, deartns,
long hauls, fuel scarcity, and
interruptiye climate in crowded,
resourceless, rent-mounting ter
ritory.
For lower cost of living's
sake, let's send more capital
and competence yonder to speed
her growth and so reduce our
Overheads.
(copyright, 1898, King Features SYM
dictate, 1no.. and Herbert Kaufman.)
The Washington times., 1923-11-21

prices, put it into storage ware
houses to keep up the prices to the
consumers and who are now seeking
to have the American public's
money guarantee them high prices
for what they take out of storage
and sell abroad.
Senators Norris, Republican, and
Wheeler, Democrat, and others have
united in advising him that the best
plan of all would be to advance the
bankrupt farmers credit to begin
their planting, then to purchase. at
least, the estimated surplus of their
wheat and thereby to fix the price
on all Of it. Some one recently adj
vised him that the farmers, knowing
all their surplus wheat was to be
bought, would raise a crop of reck.
less size. When he recommended
maternity benefits back home, some
cautious soul expressed the fear that
the women, feeling. the State would
pay the bills, would start out reck-
lessly to raise a bumper crop OF
babiesi
Lower freight rates on wheat, q
higher tariff and gradual extension
Of cooperative buying and selling to
relieve them OF the usurious profits
VI lAAC AA4OuIeIlcI, WHO lOlI IIOt
neither do they spin, are among
other measures of relief recon-.
mended to him.
Freight Rates and Russia.
| If he does anything less than re-
duce freight rates generally he will
hear from La Toilette, ct al, and II
he does anything less than allow the
roads to maintain the status quo HI
will be besieged by the gentlemen
who exert so much influence in the
average Republican national convAn
| ton.
Russia is believed to have about
as much chance of recognition BY
this administration as 1t did under
Harding. Hughes is still in the
Cabinet. While reinstatement hold
up their hands in horror when the
name of Russia is mentioned, and
perhaps, secretly hope France OF
/ some other country will clandes
! timely finance another military ex
petition against Russia, American
business men have gone in there
intrepidly and already have cap
tured 25 per cent of the import
| business. They are taking the
money which Mr.. Hughes said was
tainted and which Mr.. Mellon will
probably not decline to receive
when they pay their income taxes
The people of the Northern
States are anxious that President
Coolidge should provide that M
coal be sent to Canada when they
are suffering from the cold, thai
the prices be reduced by Fedora
supervision and that about forty
nine Of the fifty middlemen be
! wiped out since each takes his BIZ
of profit between the time the Goa
| leaves the ground and arrives in
| the consumers cellar. A steadily
| growing demand for public owner
ship as the only lasting solution is
beating down upon Washington.
President Coolidge is writing now
Unlike Wilson, he does not tyne
out his message on a typewriter
He will throw one leg over the
other, rest a pad of paper on his
knee, and go to it with a pencil OF