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Evening star., 1925-01-31
FEAR AS MISSION
BASIS HELD WEAK
Is "TragicaIIy lnadequate''
Motive, Conference Dele
gates Are Told.

Fear" as motive for foreign
missions was described as terribly
and tragically inadequate" by DR..
Hugh T. Kerr, pastor of the Shady
side Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh,
at the foreign missions convention
today.
Fear presses on all sides" he de-
bic rising tide of color. economic cal
and Industrial fear, fear lest the
great surplus OF raw material in Asia
and Africa and the unlimited supply
OF cheap labor may in time slow down
the wheels OF our own industrial life.
political and military fear. fear of
arming millions of the East who can
count hundreds to our units. Love
of Christ is the only adequate motive.
The pastor is the key to the for
eign missions enterprise" he said
IF his light burns clear. his whole
church is full of light. If he is a
smoking flax, his people are apt to
be spiritually asphyxiated
There is nothing that will SIM
plify the minister's kit like the mis-
sionary program. The pastor, there
fore. is faced with a fourfold respon-
sibiIity.
The devotion TO Jesus Christ that
sends men and women to the ends of
the earth and keeps them there is
the only sufficient motive to inspire
the church to send them and to SUD
port them there, and II is that burn
ing and shining light held aloft in
the pulpit that lights the path to tri
umph, and when that light burns true
missionary education, missionary re-
cruiting, missionary budgets will all
De adequate for the business of the
Kingdom"
Evening star., 1925-01-31
NEW YORK AVE. CHURCH
TO HEAR THREE VISITORS
Missionary Leaders to Occupy Pull
pit at Morning, Afternoon and
Evening Services.

At the services tomorrow at the
New York Avenue Church the SER
mons will be preached, morning, af-
ternoon and evening. by delegates to
the foreign missions convention.
This church is the denominational
headquarters for the Presbyterian
Church in the United States of Amer
ica, the Reformed Church in America
and the Waldensian Society. At the
morning service, IL am, DR.. Robert
e. Speer. secretary of the board of
foreign missions of the Presbyterian
Church, will preach the sermon.
- university mems mass meeting
will be held at o'clock. at which
DR.. Samuel NJ. Zwemer, an authority
on the Mohammedan world, will
speak.
At the young peoples evening tea
and fellowship meeting, from 6:15 to
7:45, IN address will be made by DIR.
Guido Comba, who has just come
from Italy in the interest of the Wal
densian Church. There will be with
him four young people in the native
costume of the people of the Wal
densian Church
At 8 pm. the sermon will be
preached by Rev. DR.. william J.
Chamberlain, who is a member OF the
missions council and it's vice presi-
dent
Monday at 2:30 o'clock two stimuli
taneous denomlnational rallies will be
held in the church. The Reformed
Church delegates will meet in the lee
ture room of the church and the dele
gates of the Presbyterian Church will
hold their denominational rally in the
auditorium.
Evening star., 1925-01-31
FIRST REFORMED CHURCH
GETS $4,000 TO BUILD
Reports for Year Presented and Of
ficers Are Elected at An
nual Meeting.

The annual congregational meeting
of the First Reformed Church, Thir-
teenth and Monroe streets, was held
Tuesday evening. Dinner was served
at $50, after which business was
transacted.
Reports of the different organiza-
tions were read. A check for $4,000
was turned in by the treasurer of a
special committee to raise money for
the building fund. Addresses were
made by the heads of each organiZa-
ton, giving in detail what had been
done in the past year, and plans for
the ensuing year. Election of Off
GERS and committees were as follows:
Trustees-Thomas E. FARRELL. Chris
Rammling and Ralph H MCCARTHY.
Consistery members-George c. Ba-
kersmith, Henry G. Nau, Edward w.
Sanders, Chapman n. Thompson and
Charles c. Wenrich.
Finance committee-Thoma E. Jar
rell, Chris Rammling. Louise r. Stam-
baugh, Ralph H. MCCARTHY and Cath
crime Loff1er.
Missionary committee-Mrs. Thorn
as E. FARRELL.
Evening star., 1925-01-31

can be answered, IL it refers IN a
poem which Is quite familiar. So in
response to the request for a poem
which had something about She
taught me all 1 know about women ;
kiplings The Ladies' with the re-
curing last line of the stanzas. AN
I learned about women from her
was supplied.
When something Is known about
the author of the poem it is usually
possible to give the definite quota
tion quickly. Recently a newspaper
man telephoned to have the quota
tion They say the Lion and the
Lizard keep the Courts where jam
shyd gloried and drank deep Since
he knew this was from the 'Rubaiyat'
IT did not take long to find it in
the eighteenth stanza, and read it
to him over the telephone.
"A government department needed
the familiar little poem, Little drops
of water, little grains of sand,
Franklins saying about the horse
shoe nail, and a poem, 'Moo-cow,
Moo by Edmund Vance Cooke, all
of which were readily found"
Evening star., 1925-01-31
MISSION DELEGATES
WILL OCCUPY PULPlTS
Rev. DR.. Burnham and r. A. Doan
to Speak at Vermont Ave
nue. Church.

Rev. Dr. F. W. Burnham of st.
Louis, president of ,he United Chris
tian Missionary Society, will preach
tomorrow morning at the Vermont
Avenue Christian Church. At the
evening service r. A. Doan, a promi-
nent layman of the Disciples OF
Christ who is attending the sessions
of tie missionary convention, will de-
liver an address. The music at both
services will be in charge Of william
E. Braithwaite.
Ten missionaries from different
fields who are attending the mission
airy convention will speak briefly at
the rally OF the Disciples of Christ
at the church Monday from TO 5
o'clock Among the speakers will be
President F.. w. Burnham, Stephen
J. Corey, Fl. 3. Mccormick, Mrs. Anna
r, Atwater and DR.. Royal ]. Dye. A
social period will close the program.
Rev. DR.. Earle Wilfiey, teacher of
the Everyman Bible Glass, has an
nounced a series of lectures TO the
class on How We Got Our Bible" !"
his subject for tomorrow morning
being The Pentateuch."
Daily prayer topics are being dis
tributed to members Of the church as
part of the preparation for Easter.
Scripture readings and prayer
thoughts for each day in February
have been arranged with the sugges-
tion that they be used at the time
of some meal during each day.
The Crusaders Glass of young
women, taught by DR.. Wilmer Souder,
will be addressed tomorrow morning
by a missionary from Africa
The Woman's Society will hold its
monthly sessions next Tuesday, meet
III
gram led by Mrs. ]. G. Cross, presi-
| dent. After luncheon at 1890, which
Will be served at the church the
work department, led by Mrs. Mabel
Sterns, will hear reports and an ad-
dress
Evening star., 1925-01-31
DIOCESE OF MARYLAND
EXPERIENCES BEST YEAR
Bishop Murray Outlines Progress
of Church at Episcopal Con-
vention in Baltimore.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch TO The Star
BALTIMORE, January 31.-The year
just passed was the most successful
materially and spiritually, for the
diocese, since he has been in charge,
Bishop John Gardner Murray de-
clared at the session of the annual
convention of the Protestant Episco-
pal Diocese of Maryland here this
week
The bishop continued with sta
tistical reports of the progress in
the diocese during the year, fnan-
cially and enthusiastically The finan-
cial condition of the national church.
the Maryland diocese and individual
parishes was also discussed
A resolution was adopted in which
the diocese authorized the executive
council to take active steps to con-
tinue the building OF the cathedral.
and in particular of the completion
of the synod hall. The work, it was
announced, probab bly, will begin again
early in the Spring.
Evening star., 1925-01-31
CAMPAIGN is PLANNED,
Church to Observe February as
Attendance Month"

February will be observed as
Church Attendance month at the Sixth
Presbyterian Church, of which Rev.
godfrey Chobot is pastor. 1t is ex-
pected that all members of the con-
gregation will make special efforts to
attend all the morning and evening
services. Tomorrow at II o'clock the
communion service will be held, at
which time new members will be re-
ceived. The evening service, at 3
O'Clock, Will be in charge Of the
young people.
Wednesday evening at $50 O'Clock
the Father and Son banquet" will be
addressed by Rev. Homer J. Council
or and Representative NJ Clyde KeI-
ly and the singing will be under the
direction of George Muth. The
Thursday evening service will be de-
voted to continuation of the mis-
sion study, under the leadership of
the pastor and Mrs. ]. r. Y. Savage.
Evening star., 1925-01-31
REVIVAL TO CONTINUE.
Young Workers of Gospel Assem-
bly, Still on DUTY.

The revival led by the young
workers of the Gospel Assembly, $50
Pennsylvania avenue northwest. con-
tinues nightly and Sunday afternoons
to February 4, and there will be a
new preacher each service from the
delegation of missionaries and min
isteEs of the Assemblies OF God in
attendance upon the great foreign
missions convention. II is announced
by the pastor, Rev II. L. Collier The
Gospel Assembly has been chosen as
the headquarters of the Pentecostal
delegation.
Rev. J. w. Welch will preach to-
morrow a 3 pm. and Rev. Vernon q.
Gortner of New York at 7:45 pm.
A missionary rally and convention
echo meeting of Pentecostal bodies
in the District OF Columbia, Alexan-
dria, Va, and Baltimore, Md, will be
held Tuesday at 1880 pm, with an ad-
dress by Rev. J. W. Welch, general
chairman of the Assemblies of God
Missionaries will give 5-minute talks.
Evening star., 1925-01-31
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR

The Flying Squadron will meet
with the Christian Endeayor Society
at Friends Church tomorrow at Z
p.m. A special program has been
arranged. The next Sunday the
squadron will meet with the Chris
ttan Endeavor Society at First Re-
formed Church, Thirteenth and Mon
roe streets northwest.
The dinner of Christian Endeavor
presidents held at the Evangeline
last Wednesday evening, was a sue
cess. One of the prominent activities
revealed at this dinner was the fact
that most of the societies were doing
some sort of missionary work in the
District.
The February meeting of the union
will be held at the Church of the
Covenant tomorrow evening. The
study classes will be held at 7:45 pm.
Following the study classes the
meeting will consist of a series of
conferences on Christian Endeavor
methods.
The Intern ediate Christian En-
deavor Union will hold it's annual
banquet at the Calvary Baptist
Church February G at $50 Pm.
Evening star., 1925-01-31
AURESTUS S. PERHAM
DIES OF PARALYSIS
Prominent Resident and Union
Veteran Had Served 40 Years
in Pension Bureau.

Aurestus S. Perham, 80 years old.
formerly employed in the United
States Pension ONCE for 40 years and
prominently identified with organiza-
tions in the District died at his resi-
dence, 1915 Harvard street, yesterday.
Death followed a stroke of paralysis
" ednesday. Mr.. Perham was a mem
ber of the Association of Oldest In
habitants.
Mr.. Perham was a son of the late
Sidney Perham, who was a Repre-
sentative in Congress from Maine
during the Civil War and later Gov
0rnor of Maine.
A veteran of the Civil War, Aures-
tus S. Perham was member of
burnside Post, No. s, G. A. r., and of
the Society of the Potomac. He also
was a member of the Sons Of the
American Revolution.
In addition to his connections with
patriotic organizations, he had been
identified prominently in literary cir
cles, having been a member of the
Abracadabra Club.
Soon after the Civil War Mr.. Per-
ham was appointed a clerk to the
pension committee of the House of
Repres sen tatives, and he also held the
position of secretary to Hannibal
Hamlin when the latter was SEN
ator from Maine. He was retired
from his last position at the Pension
Office soon after the retirement act
went into effect in 1920.
Mr.. Perham is survived by his wife,
Mrs. Della c. Perham; two sons, Err
nest a. Perham and Sidney H. Per
ham; brother, william Perham,
and two sisters, Miss Frances Perham
and Miss Georgia 5. Perham, all Of
this city.
Funeral services will be conducted d
at the First Congre gational Church
Monday morning at 10 o'clock. Rev.
DR.. Jason Noble Pierce, pastor, will
officiate. Interment will be in Airing
ton Cemetery.
Evening star., 1925-01-31
PUBLIC INVITED TO JOIN CHASE
FOR MISSING AUTHOR OF VERSE
Library, While Not Admitting Self Stumped, Con
siderabIy Puszled by Many Requests for
Quotation O,Uners.

he gave vent to the following: I have
hauer, Nietzche and Whitman as
ever took from them. That they are
dead and cannot receive my gifts in
exchange for theirs, is not my fault
$50, there you are! Ebert Hub
bard evolved the Emersonian dictum
from the depths of his own 'cosmic
consciousness and put the credit
where he believed it belonged"
This we believe to be the correct
answer-that Elbert Hubbard wrote
it and attributed 1T to Emerson The
quotation is sometimes attributed, we
believe wrongly, to DR.. John r. Pax
ton of the West Presbyterian Church
of New York City.
One From the Prolific Wells.
THE following selection from H. G.
Wells was recently looked for with
out success, since there was no way
of finding 1t except reading the
works of Wells. Joan and Peter
and The Story of a, Great School
master were read through, without
bringing it to light. Perhaps some
reader can locate it. The quotation
is: The driving force that makes
I for either peace or war Is engendered
where the young are taught The
teacher-whether mother, priest or
schoolmaster-ts the real maker of
history; rulers, statesmen and SOL
diers do but work out the possibil-
tiles of cooperation or conflict that
the teacher creates. This is no
rhetorical flourish; it is sober fact.
The politicians and masses of our
time dance on the wires of their early
education
"A little poem which sounds very
familiar and which has no doubt
often appeared in print has so far
eluded the search for its author. 1t
runs something like this:
If you sit down at set of sun
And count the deeds that you have done
And counting find one act. one word
That eased the heart of him that heard
Then count that day as one well done.
"A second verse follows, in con-
trast to the first, ending with the
line. Then count that day as worse
than lost 1t sounds like Ella
Wheeler Wilcox--is it?
Lines taken from the middle or
the end of poem by an unknown
author are almost hopeless to locate,
unless by good fortune they come to
the attention of one to whom the
poem is familiar. Such may be the
following:
Ou may RrlnO tnelr Souls IN tne Sel1-Same mill.
But the poet will follow the rainbow still
And his brother will follow the plow.
Sonnet Still Authorizes.
"a valiant sonnet, of which we have
not found the author, is:
shall 90 forth one day, to joust with death
The little brittle chains that hold me tied
To rusted hopes to visions cracked and dried
Shall break, and l shall hear the trumpet s
breath
Go clamoring across the barren heath
And, for flaming moment, l shall ride
The lists brief course TO meet the undehed
And take the blow that l shall fall beneath
Each day 1 make this single fervent prayer:
May then the blood of Bayard be my own
May l ride hard and straight and smite him
square,
And in clash Of arms be overthrown,
And, as l fall. hear through the evening air
The distant@horn of Roland family blown
Sometimes a very vague inquiry
Evening star., 1925-01-31
DR.. WAL LDRON SUPPORTS
RACE RELATION SUNDAY
Says He Will Be Glad to Exchange
Pulpits With Any
White Pastor.

The recent action of the Federal
Council of Churches in designating the
second Sunday in February as Race
Relation Sunday" and the suggestion
that white and colored pastors exchange
pulpits that day, and discuss in their
sermons means of bringing about better
race relationship in this country, has
been indorsed by the Shiloh Baptist
Church, of which Rev. DR.. ]. Milton
Waldron isspastor.
DR.. Waldron said he would be glad to
exchange pulpits with any white pastor
in this city, and that his church will
support the movement.
Az the service tomorrow morning DR..
Waldron will give away copies of the
vest pocket edition of the Gospel of ST
Mark" His sermon topic is "The Life
of Christ as Given in the Gospel of st.
Mark" The Lords supper will be ad-
ministered in the afternoon. At night
he will preach a special sermon on
Hell or Heaven-Which Shall 1t Be ?''
Evening star., 1925-01-31
From star-crowned Gerizim
Or Ebal's lofty crown
We call the dews OF blessing
Or the bolts of cursing down

Or the bolts of cursing down.
If there is any one in the District of
Columbia or elsewhere who thinks he
knows who wrote the above lines, or
whether they are quoted correctly, he
should get In touch with DR.. George
r. Bowerman at the Public Library.
A high Government official has ask
ed the library to identify and verify
the quotation, and intensive search
has been made by the reference de-
partment of the institution for sew
eral weeks.
Books of quotations, old hymn books
and books of religious verse have
been ransacked without success, but
the Public Library has a reputation
for running down quotations of this
kind and is still hard at work.
Public Aid Invited.
The general public is now tied
to join in the chase, which. in Sine re-
spects, is more exciting than a cross
word puzzle.
1t is not often that the reference
department has to admit itself stump
ed, although it has occurred before,
of course. When the great mass of
fugitive verse is recalled IT is no Won
der that the precise quotations can
not sometimes be found.
Discussing this little known branch
of the service given by the Public Lii
brary, an official said:
zone of the most thorough searches
ever made by the reference depart
ment in an effort to verify a quota
ton was about 1911. when the staff
ran down the source of the well
known mousetrap quotation: If a
man preach a better sermon, write a
better book. or build a better mouse
trap than his neighbor, tho he hide
himself in the wilderness. the world
will make a beaten path to his door
This is nearly always attributed to
Emerson, but search of his writings
did not bring 1t to light. One memb Der
of the library staff read practically
all of Emerson in the attempt to find
II. The son of Mr.. Emerson was ap-
pealed to, through a friend WHO knew
him, and his reply was interesting,
but not conclusive. This is my
answer: 1 don't believe it occurs in
the printed works but all the
essays were originally delivered as
lectures and when they were printed
they were strictly pruned. I think
the internal evidence is strong for the
sentence or the like of it having been
my fathers In the meantime. a
search had been carried on by the
Fl. w. Wilson Co. of New York, who
had used the quotation in a publica-
tion and now tried to verify Vt. A let
ter was sent to Mr.. Elbert Hubbard,
and a letter from Mr.. John T. Hole,
assistant superintendent of the Roy
crofters, settled the matter.
Finally Found Author.
"'We, too, have spent several sleep
less nights poring over our Emerson,
our Thoreau, and even Robert Louis,
the beloved; but all to no avail-nary
a sign of a mousetrap. Suddenly it
occurred to us to ask Mr.. Hubbard
himself. since we had seen it used by
him several years ago He smiled
a far-away, quizZical smile-and said
nothing. Noting the eXpectant look
Evening star., 1925-01-31
BISHOP EDWIN D. MOUZ0N
TO PREACH TOMORROW
Nashville Prelate Will Occupy
Pulpit at Mount Vernon Place
M. E. Church.

Bishop Edwin d. Mouzon of Nash
vile, Tenn, bishop of the fifth Epis-
copal district of the Methodist Episco-
pal Church, South, will preach to-
morrow morning at II o'clock in the
Mount Vernon Place Church. His
topic will be The Lost Leader"
In the evening, at o'clock, Rev.
DR.. Marion Nelson Waldrif, pastor
of the Central Methodist Church of
Kansas City, will take as the topic
The Missionary Way" The pastor
of the church. Rev. DR.. W. A. Lam
beth, will be in charge of the service
The Junior Church will meet at IL
am in the Sunday school auditorium.
The Senior League will also hold its
service in this auditorium at 6:45
pm. Rev. DR.. z. " REGISTER, pre-
siding elder of the Baltimore annual
conference OF the Southern Methodist
Church, will preach at the Thursday
evening prayer meeting at o'clock.
Evening star., 1925-01-31
COURSE FOR TEACHERS.

The Board of Religious Education
of the Episcopal Church in the Dio-
cese of Washington announces that
a new series of classes for Sunday
school teachers will be inaugurated
February II.
A class in the principles of teach
ing, method course in scientific
pedagogy for beginners, will meet
every Thursday afternoon at 4.45 A
second class will meet on THURSDAYS
at pm. for a course in how to
teach the missions of the church
Both courses will continue for 12
weeks and will be taught by Rev Ed
ward Pinkney Wroth, a member of
the Board Of Religious Education.
Evening star., 1925-01-31
DR.. ]. H. APPLE HERE.

Rev. DR.. J. II. Apple, president of
Hood College, Frederick, Md, will
preach tomorrow morning at the H
Street Christian Church, Sixth and Fl
streets southwest. At 7:45 pm. Rev.
DR.. Herbert Smith will tell of his ex-
periences during the 15 years he was
in the Belgian Congo.
Rev. Harold Z. Dickins, the pastor,
will address a mass meeting, tomor-
row evening, of churches of Fred
erick Nd.
Evening star., 1925-01-31
DR.. PORTER ASKS PARlEY

DR.. Samuel Judson Porter will oc-
cupy the pulpit at the First Baptist
Church. Sixteenth and o streets, to-
morrow morning at IL o'clock, having
for his subject, Reproducing the
Pattern" At O'Clock Dr. Benjamin
Otto of Chicago. one of those attend
ings the big missionary gathering in
this city the past and present week.
Dr. Porter has issued his first call
TO the advisory board of the church
for Monday night, at o'clock to de-
vice plans for actively entering into
the large field of work before him
here
Evening star., 1925-01-31
DR.. Ralkin to Lecture.

DR.. Harry Fl. Balkin, character
analyst and vocational adviser. will
give a series of three free lectures at
the Playhouse, 1914 \ street north
west, tomorrow, Monday and Tues
day evenings He also will deliver
lectures on Character Analysis and
Self development" Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesda and Sunday afternoons.
Evening star., 1925-01-31
MEET IN CATHEDRAL,
Washington Committee Will Have
Session Monday.

The Washington committee of the
National Cathedral Association will
meet in Diocesan House, 1929 K
street, Monday, at $50 pm. Rev. Dr.
Henry Lubbock, canon of the
Cathedral, will make the address.
The National Cathedral Association
is composed of friends Of the
Cathedral project in all parts of the
United States, and 1t is to the asso-
citation that the chapter looks for
the fund necessary for the running
expenses of the services while the
building of the edifice is going for
ward. The Washington committee is
one of several committees of the
association in the larger cities. All
persons interested in the building OF
the Cathedral are invited.
Evening star., 1925-01-31
AT CALVARY M. {. CHURCH.
Man Who Said "I Haven't Time,''
DIR. Montgomery Topic.

At the Calvary Methodist Church
tomorrow evening Rev. DR.. James
Shera Montgomery will deliver a ser
mon-lecture on THE Man Who Said:
L Haven't Time" In the morning
Bishop Herbert Welsh of Korea will
preach
Monday evening free gospel serv-
ice will be conducted by the Students
League. Eighteen nationalities will
be seen in an evening gospel service.
The public invited.
Evening star., 1925-01-31
FARM PARLEY CALLED.
Will Discuss Effects of Machinery
on Agriculture.

A conference on the effects Of ma
chinery, motor and electric power on
farmers, farming and wage earnens"
viii convene here February II at the
call OF the Farmers National Council.
Officials of the Department of Agri-
culture and of the American Fedora
tion of Labor were announced as
among the speakers
The council indicated the purpose
of the conference in stating that 1.-The
undlrected flight of hundreds of
thousands of farmers a year into in
dustry, mining and TRANSPORTATION
viii seriously hurt these farmers, and
impair lab bor's standards"