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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-23

O. What did Christ have in anind
when he said In reference to children:
If one causeth one of my little ones to
stumble it were better that milestone
were tied about his neck and he were
cast into the depths of the sea?"
| A. Unlike Wordsworth, Jesus did not
believe that the shades of the prison
house begin to close in upon the grow
ing boy or girl. Nor did he teach that
the vision splendid" which first at
| tends the child's way, must quickly fade
into the light Of common day.
His own boyhood was transcendent-
ly happy one and doubtless He felt
deeply grateful to His blessed mother
and all others who had helped to make
His tender years so pure and beneflcent
| Hence, in the words you quote, He SOL
EMMY warns His hearers against injur-
| ing In any way the impresSionable souls
of children. This may be done by in
| stilling in them false views Of life and
behavior or by presenting for their emu
| lation examples which are either vulgar
| or vicious. Better were it, said Christ
| for these corruptorS of infancy and ado
| lescence to be summary dismissed out
of existence than to remain alive to be
stumbling blocks in the path of the ris-
| ing generation, which has the inalien-
cbIC anu otCiCu liEIJ vi Lice dpplOdCL
| to all fine and worthy ideals and to the
| God who inspires them
The Masters saying should be placed
where purveyors of the profane and the
bestial for the sake of mere money, and
all who pollute innocent hearts and
thWart them in their search for the
true, the pure and the just, may read
and ponder it while engaged in theiI
loathsome business.
Q. What are the seven spirits of God
referred to In Revelations v6?
A. The following are some of the in
terpretations OF this expression, The
seven spirits of Cod:
Swete and other scholars regard them
as the sevenfold energies of God or OF
the Holy Spirit Here the spirits are
seven because the churches in which
they operate are seven. Since the seer
who wrote Revelations viewed these
spirits as concrete beings, they cannot
be regarded as impersonal energies.
Some commentators identify the seven
spirits with the seven archangels and
link the conception with the cult of the
seven Babylonish star deities. DIR
Charles, the latest and best exponent OF
the book, thinks that the spirits stand
for angelic beings, probably the arch
angels
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-23
PALM SUNDAY SERMON
TO BE ILLUSTRATED
Chevy Chase Baptist Pastor to
Breach on at Believe in
- Jesus" Tomorrow.

The third sermon in the series on
landmarks of the Christian faith, en-
titled Il Believe in Jesus" will be given
at the Chevy Chase Baptist Church at
II O'Clock tomorrow by the pastor, Rev.
Edward o. Clark.
A Palm Sunday illustrated sermon
will be given at 7:45 pm
Special evangelistic services will be
held each evening next week, with visit
ing pastors preaching. The ministers
assisting are the following Monday,
Rev. J. Wesley LOFTS, pastor of the
Silver Spring Baptist Church; Tues
day. Rev. Percy L. Vernon, pastor of
the First Baptist Church of Alexandria.
Va: Wednesday. DR.. A. Freeman
Anderson. formerly connected with the
Calvary Baptist Church; Thursday. DR..
]. Madison Hare of New Jersey; Friday,
DR.. Rufus w. Weaver, executive secre-
tary of the Education Board of the
Southern Baptist Convention. Services
will convene at 7:45 o'clock.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-23
CHURCH WILL OBSERVE
FOURTH ANNIVERSARY
st. Alexander's Russian Orthodox
Attendance Increases-Now Lo-
Gated at 1917 Twelfth Street.

The fourth birthday anniversary of
St Alexander's Russian Orthodox
Church in this city, located at 1917
Twelfth street, will be observed March
81, at z pm.
The church is under Jurisdiction of
the Russian Metropolitan Platon, head
of the Orthodox Church in the United
States and Canada, who in 1925 desig-
mated Rev. Father Viachislav Gundlin
as rector of, the. new parish here.
Through Bishop James E. Freeman, he
held services in the chapel of ST. Adams
School. Later, services were held in
the chapel of the Church OF the AS
cension, Twelfth street and Massachu-
sets avenue, following which meetings
were held in an apartment and thence
to the present location.
AS result of the increased attend
ance services are held at times at the
Church of the Epiphany.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-23
OBSERVE SACRAMENT
OF LORDS SUPPER
Chevy Chase Presbyterians Will
Celebrate Ceremony Thurs
day Evening.

"The Cross the Power Of God" Will
be the subject of the sermon tomorrow
morning at the Chevy Chase Presby-
terrain Church by the pastor, Rev. ].
Hillman HOLSTER.
Paul L. Kirby, assistant director OF
public welfare, will be the SPEAKER at
the senior Christian Endeavor meeting
Sunday evening at 7 O'Clock in the as
sembly room. The topic of the discus
ton which he will lead will be Serving
My Neiehbor.' High school young
people are invited.
Getting Along With Others" will be
the subject for discussion at the Young
Peoples Round Table at z o'clock in
the Parish House.
The Sacrament of the Lords Supper
will be celebrated Thursday evening.
All those who are TO unite with this
church Easter morning. either by letter
from other churches or for the first
time, will meet the session after
communion service.
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Bible Questions
OF the Day
THE ASCENSION.
By Harloto r. Hoyt.

Questions.
I. When and where did the ascen-
sion occur?
2. How long was it after the cruel
ffxion?
3. Where did Jesus meet His apostles
previous to the ascension?
4. What did He caution them at
that time?
5. What followed this?
S. What question was Jesus asked by
His apostles and what did they mean
by it?
:. How did Jesus answer them?
8. What happened at the close OF
the conversation?
9. What miraculous message was
given the disciples?
10. How did the apostles obey the
injunction of Christ?
Answers.
/ The ascension was from the
Mount of Olives, near Bethany, short
distance outside Jerusalem, on Thurs
day, May 10. 80 A. D.
@ Forty days.
81 Jesus met His apostles in the
room of the last supper in Jerusalem.
4. Jesus commanded His followers
to remain in Jerusalem until the Holy
Ghost evidenced itself.
S. As Jesus finished speaking He led
the apostles to the Mount Of Olives.
s. Lord. .dost Thou at this time re-
store the Kingdom of Israeli" Many
of the disciples believed that the King
dom of Israel would be restored as an
earthly empire. They did not fully ap,,
preciate that Christ ruled spiritual
kingdom. -,
4. Christ answered that all power
had been given Him on heaven ana
eartl that the apostles were to preach
the Gospel throughout the world, ana
that they were to be witnesses as TO
what had occurred. ,x, ,,,u
g. AS He ended. Jesus lifted HIS
hands and blessed the gathering. AZ
this time he slowly rose from eartn
and assembled into heaven.
o AS Jesus assembled two angels APP
reared. This Jesus, whom you nave
seen ascending into heaven, shall come
again" they declared.
10. The apostles returned to the room
of the last supper Ten days later. at
Passover, the Holy Ghost evidenced
itself and they received the gilt OF
tongues.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-23
ST. PAUL'S TO OBSERVE
HOLY COMMUNION SUNDAY
Last of Special Evening Services
Will Be Held Tomorrow
Ns - Might.

At st. Paul's Church. Rock Creek
Parish. tomorrow holy communion will
be observed at $50, followed BY the
church school at $50 o'clock. There
will be a service and sermon at IL
o'clock. The young people will meet in
the parish house at pm. The last Of
the special Sunday evening services will
be held tomorrow, for which the rector
has taken for his subject, THE Church
and Its Relation to Confirmation. "
The rite of confirmation will be admin
istered by Bishop James E. Freeman
May 5.
The. Woman's Auxiliary will meet in
the parish house Wednesday at 2
o'clock. Luncheon will be served at l
o'clock. At recent meeting OF the
laynien of the church it was voted to
have a father and son dinner the third
week in April. Edwin Whitcoinb was
appointed chairman, with Lewis t.
Miller and Beatty Overman. The Girls
Friendly Society will have vaudeville
April 10 at o'clock in the parish audi
forum,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-23
SERVICES TO CLOSE.
Farewells to Feature Full Gospel
Tabernacle Program.

The special services, which have been
conducted at Full Gospel Tabernacle
the past three weeks by Evangelists
willard and Christine PIERCE and Mat
tie q. Kerr of the Evangel Temple, To-
ronto, Canada, will close tomorrow with
farewell services at 10:45 am. and 1880
pm. A number of new members have
been added to the church.
Mrs. Kerr will speak at 10:45 a m. on
THE Once for All Faith of the Saint"
and Mrs PIERCE will preach the farewell
message at 7:30 pm. on The Marriage,
supper of the Lamb Services next
week will be Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday evenings. The pastor, Rev.
Harry L. Collier, will speak Good FRI
day at 7:45 pm. on "Meditations on the
Cross"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-23
SERVICES ARE LISTED.
First Baptist at Hyattsville Plans
Special Meeting.

Special services will be held at the
First Baptist Church, Hyattsville, Nd,
tomorrow. The pastor, DR.. B. P. Rob-
ertson, will speak at IL am. on THE
Evangelistic Passion" and at 8 pm. on
Danger of Sliding"
The following program will be fol-
lowed during the week: Rev. c. r. Fur
geson will conduct class IN the study
Of "A Search for Souls every evening
at tbs o'clock. Special addresses will
be delivered each evening at O'Clock
as follows: Monday, March IS, Percy S.
Foster, subject. THE Place of Music in
Evangelism: Tuesday, DR.. Rufus w.
Weaver, subject, The Place of the
Word in Evangelism; Wednesday, DR..
w. s. Abernethy, subject, THE Place of
Prayer In Evangelism; Thursday, Dr..
H. w. o. Millington. subject, The Place
Of the Holy Spirit in Evangelism; Fri
day. DR.. Henry J. Smith, subject. THE
Place Of the Christian in Evangelism. -
March 81 will be observed in the Sun
day school as Decision day. DR.. John E.
Briggs will preach every night the fol-
lowing week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-23

much of an idol as was the colossal figure
CT Diana in the pagan temple After all,
never have bowed the knee to an idol made
with hands. So far back as you can re-
member, you may have daily bowed the knee
to God. And yet you may have been an
bow the will mans true worship is not
necessarily the worship which he performs
in a public temple. It is that which he
offers down in that little private chapel
where nobody goes but himself.
Johns warning was against the idol of
the letter that killeth" the idol of petrified
traditions and stereotyped forms in which
there may be no breath of life. Is there a
,,,nro ,i1id Illustration of that roSsihiitv
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-23
DR.. DENNY TO CONDUCT
SERVICES IN CAPITAL
Presiding Bishop Will Preach at
4. Francis Asbury M. E.
Church.

Dr. Collins Denny. presiding bishop
of the Baltimore Conference, M. E
Church South. will conduct the Sunday
morning service at Francis Asbury NJ
E. Church South, Sixteenth. near La
mont street. Rev. J. H. Balthis, presid-
ing elder of the Washington district.
Baltimore Conference, will preach at 8
pm.
Services will be held every night dur
ing Holy week at o'clock, conducted
by Rev. J. J. Rives, pastor.
The Epworth League subject tomor-
row at 7 pm. will be What if Jesus
Came Into Our Community" led py
Miss Bertha Fletchall.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-23
STEWARDSHIP AND MIS-
STONS.

Genesis, kills; Deuteronomy.
viii.17,18; Jonah. iii1-10; Mala-
chi, iii.7-I2; Matthew. xviii 18-
20: Acts, i.6-8, kills, xxvi12-20;
Romans, i14-16: I Corinthians,
xvi.2; II Corinthians, WILLIS,
tx lis.
Golden text-"It is required in
stewards that a man be found
faithful. Il Corinthians, iv.2.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-23
BACK FROM HOLY LAND.
DR.. Councillor Will Teach Bible
Glass Tomorrow.

DR.. Homer j. Councillor has returned
after an absence of two months in the
HOLY Land and will teach the Bible
lesson tomorrow at the morning session
of the Vaughn Glass of Calvary Baptist
Church at the Hippodrome Theater'
SO8 K street, The class is meeting here
each Sunday morning at $50 o'clock
during building operations at the
church.
The class club will hold ladies' night
wednesday evening at the cnurcn'
when DR.. and Mrs. Councilor VIII re-
ceive the classmen, their families and
friends.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-23
TRIUMPHANT ENTRY"

At the Cleveland Park Congregational
Church the pastor. Rev. George L.
Farnham, will preach on THE Trium-
phal Entry" tomorrow morning. The
evening service with Bible. study and
motion pictures is. at, $50 o'clock.
Good Friday at $50 p.m church
supper will be held with Easter COM
munion service following.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-23
A Lenten Warning
BY DIR. FREDERICK BROWN HARRIS,
Pastor, Foundry Methodist Episcopal Church.

last word Of the last apostle who Looked upon Jesus
This last warning which flashes its red light the
pathway of would follow the Christ is Little
children yourselves idols This last word from the
heart of the apostle is the thing needul for these
Lenten days.
BY idol John meant anything which takes the place
of God in life He knew that the symbols and para
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-23
Bantisms at PetWorth.

For the Palm Sunday sermon, the
pastor of Petworth Baptist Church,
Rev Henry j. Smith. has chosen Re
vealed Divinity" There will be baptisms
at this service. The evening sermons
subject is Realized Affiuence."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-23
Grace Baptist Services.

At the Grace Baptist Church, Ninth
street and South Carolina avenue south
east, Clinton O. Howard Of Buffalo
N. Y, will preach tomorrow morning
In the evening the pastor will preach
on How to Be Happy. and Useful"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-23
Rev. w. D. Jarvis to Preach.

Special services at New Bethel Bap-
list Church, Ninth and streets, tonnor-
row: Rev. William d. Jarvis will preach
at IL am on THE Power of Memory"
Christian Endeavor meeting, $50 pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-23
AT ALBRIGHT MEMORIAL,
Palm Sunday Will Usher in Week
of Services.

Palm Sunday will usher in a week of
services at Albright Memorial Evangel-
ical Church, Fourth and Rittenhouse
streets, Rev. George E. Schnabel, the
pastor. will use as his subject tomorrow
morning THE Religion of the Big
Parade and at night, Dare We Be
Christians?" e-s..
The services during Holy week will
be patterned after those conducted dur
ing the past two years. Hymns. sermon.
periods of silence and the Scripture
readings will be built around an old
rugged cross. Thursday night the
sacrament of the Lords supper win be
observed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-23
THE ASCENSION


porty days sfter
hs crosse from, the
dead, Christ aP-
per,e6 70. his
disciples IN Jeru-
sL0d, dost thou
&C this time re-
sesS S'. eF:rss .!71a7
T,ey esked.
% shsH receive
power. Whsn the
Holy Spirit is =
coma uron you,
Jesus . hewsrsd.
sAn6 Ye shen
Ha es
unto he A<eAr-
moaA Per& OF
tho earEh.
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bargain, they would move out and leave him in
possession.
Nick felt he wouldn't draw free breath
till it was over. All the glamour of the adj
venture was gone. He'd never go in for this
sort of stunt again.
But he'd been desperate. The ranch hadn't
paid, the ranch he had bought with the little
inheritance his widowed mother had made
over to him. His father had been country
doctor, killed at the close of the war. Ult-
mately the mother had gone to live with her
sister till Nicky could send out for her
fortunes were so soon made in that golden
Africa of opportunity.
That had been five years ago, when Nick
was 81. He had bought little place in Toro,
jolly rolling acres in a country that was
very Eden of smiling fertility. Anything,
everything, would grow there. 1t would and
did. Cotton was the thing-the empire was
encouraging cotton plantng-and Nick's acres
bloomed like snowfields.
But there were no pickers. Natives worked
for the government and they worked for their
chiefs because the old tribal authority still
held; but they wouldn't work for the planters.
few came, but they were too few The
chiefs made the money; they grew cotton and
got it picked, all right, and grew rich selling
it to India and japan. They could buy motor
cars and European clothes. OF course, one
always hoped that by the next crop things
would be different but there was always some
thing.
Nick had tried tobacco: cigars dropped to
f. the thousand. Cheese; tsetse killed his cows.
This year his coffee was bearing, and he had
fields of sweet potatoes almost ready for har-
vesting when the elephants had broken in,
gorging themselves upon his potatoes and
tramping riotousy across his coffee plants; and
the government forbade him to fire gun.
Send for the government elephant killer.
Then tell him about it, and over your ruined
fields gesture him to the mountains where the
rogue herd had gone.
The bitterness of that, the ranking smart
of what he felt to be injustice was the thing
that made him listen so readily to Byfeld, his
neighbor.
Cad, the country owes us an elephant
Nicky-what say we go get us one?"
That was the beginning of it, Nick had
laughed it off, at first, but after his mothers
last letter with it's revelations Of cramped de-
pendence and its sorry little appeal-perhaps
dear Nicky didn't realize?-he had been more
than ready to go.
Stony broke, and no hope from the ranch
for months now. Byfield said he could do
with bit more of the ready too. No sense
wasting money on costly licenses on the chance
they would have luck-that was for visiting
hunters. They belonged to the country, put
ting their lives into it, and the country owed
them living
Encouraged, Byfeld produced some well
thought-out plans ..s.....,t a..
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porters coming with the last loads-a violence
that was another of the things Nick had not
been able to prevent on the Safari, and Byfeld
stood by watching the scene with those
pleased-looking gray eyes of his
For once Nick didn't mind seeing the koboko
in action. Served them right, he thought;
they had so much more respect for the man
who dashed than the one who tried to prevent
it. Strongarm stuff-they appreciated that.
Byield took hand himself piing the last
loads in the top-heavy canoe; he didn't shirk
his end Of it-Nick had to give him credit for
that. He never worked when it wasn't neceS-
sary, but when he was needed he pitched in
like a dozen men. He was strong, that fellow.
His stiff finger didn't bother him in anything
but shooting.
Ready" the major was shouting at him,
and Nick scrambled down the muddy bank
and stepped gingerly into the place left for
him, before the native in the stern. He
crouched low between the high, narrow Sides
for the canoe rolled like the log it was, and the
least move would send it completely over. He
held his gun carefully upright in front of him,
its butt on his foot to keep out of the water
that was stopping about the bottom
THERE was native in the bow and one in
the stern, with poles so long that they
SteeO ul4ldLdScdple, DuC The DldckS uSeQ tIleIIl
with wonted skill, propelling the canoe for some
time upstream, close to the bank, before send
ing it out into the powerful current that raced
madly through the middle of the channel.
An ugly river, the Semliki, Nick thought,
staring out at the swirling brown waters tear
ing past him, hot streaming, unlovely river,
between its high mud banks overgrown with
rank business of tall graSs-but decidedly
important one, for all its smallness here for it
was the boundary between the Belgian and
the British territories.
Once on that other shore. with all their stuff,
they would be out of the Kongo and free from
the worrying fear that had been secretly nag
ging at them ever since the day Nick had
brought down the big tusker.
Not that they would be wholly safe, even
there. If they ran into the safari of some
British ofhcial-an unlikely chance-they would
have sweet time explaining the presence Of
those tusks. Tusks that were still green-ivory
utterly unstamped with the export mark of
the Kongo!
Nick didn't know what the penalty was for
bringing in smuggled ivory from over the
border, though probably it was not as great
as the penalty for poaching, if caught on the
Belgian side. But anything would be disaster.
However, by nightfall they would have those
tuskS safely buried. Then they'd camp while
Byfeld got word to the Hindu trader up there
at Fort Portal, five days away-three, as the
native goes; and, once they had made their
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"a WICK whirled at the yelp of his
~ dog. Somebody had caught Scrap
!/V/ Misunderstanding with boots
on. The laughter of the porters
was only half-checked as he turned
holly on them; they knew well enough that it
was Byfield who was master of the safari.
Hossan, Byf1eld's own black, stood grinning
insolently as Nick approached. He was big
brute of fellow, with muscles of a gorilla, a
lowering, overhanging forehead and small,
iYnpudent eyes. There was the worst sort OF
Arab blood in him, heritage of some old SLAYER,
giving a sinister arrogance to his truculent
black face. He wore European clcthes-Byfelds
old khaki shorts and shirt-and, as special
flourish, strips of ragged wool puttees and
heavy English oxfords. 1t was enc of those
oxfords, Nick knew, that had caught his dog
IN the ribs.
what did you do to my dog?" said the
&Oung Englshman furiously.
Softly, softly, Nicky." Byfeld, ubiquitous
as ever, had sauntered up and taken in the
situation. He spoke with that touch of patron
age which made Nick grind his teeth every
infection of it was drunk in appreciatively by
the grinning blacks, on whom the words them
selves were lost.
Better keep your dog from annoying the
nen-nuisance, you know that dog! Remem-
Der this chap of mines MISUNDERSTANDING
s-e unclean to him"
"He doesn't bother over native ours in the
yi1age-its my dog he wants tc hurt!'
"Now why should he want to hurt your
'dog?"
Byfeld spoke with soothing season, as to
fractions child. He was big, high-colored
man. with military-looking gray mustaches
that went with the title of major he had car
ried over from the war. In spite of the
grilling march they had made that day under
the heat of the African sun, he looked fairly
immaculate in his sun-bleached khaki; there
was bland ease, physical and mental, about
him; he had an unruffled air of good-humored
authority.