Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-08
CHURCH TO MARK
z ANNIVERSARIES
st. Luke's Golden Jubilee
and ReCtor'S 25th Year
Next Week.

The golden. jubilee of st. Luke's
Protestant Episcopal Church and the
twenty-flfth anniversary of the rector
ship of DR.. T. j. Brown will be observed
with special exercises beginning tomor-
row at IL o'clock and continuing
through February Is.
The sermon at IL o'clock tomorrow
viii be delivered by Canon Arson Phelps
Stokes, while at pm. Canon G. Free
land Peter will be the special preacher.
Founders day services will be OBJ
served Monday at 8 pm, when DR..
George F. Bragg, rector of st. James
Church, Baltimore, will be the preacher.
A memorial tablet for DR.. Alexander
Crummell, founder and first rector of
the church, will be unveiled.
st. Luke'S night will be held Tuesday
at o'clock under the auspices of the
organizations of the parish.
The young people of the parish will
nave special exercises Wednesday at 8
pm, when pageant and entertain
mene VIII be presented by the Girls
Friendly Society, assisted by members
OF the sunday school. Citizens night
WI have the special program for
THURSDAY at 8 pm. DR.. and Mrs.
BroWn VIII be guests Of the parish at
evening.
ExerciSeS February Is.
The closing exercises will be Febru-
airy Is, when the rector will preach at
the II O'Clock service and Bishop James
z. Freeman will preach the sermon
and confirm class at pm.
Up until 1879 the church was
known as st. Mary's Chapel of st,
Luke's Parish and was a flock wor-
Shipping in chapel of st. Johns
Church. DR.. Alexander Crunnmell
took charge Of the congregation on
June is, 1873, regular canonical or
ganiSation was effected, a veStry elected
and the church was admitted to the
diocesan convention. st. Luke's
November, 1879, for divine service. and
migration Of the people of st. Mary's
took place. DR.. Crummell resigned and
was succeeded in 1895 by DR.. Owen
M. Waller, who served nine years, dur.
ing which time the parish hall was
erected and rectory bought. Follow
Ing DR.. Waller the present rector, DR..
ruary 8, 1905.
DR.. Brown is a native Of Columbia
3. c., where he was born August is,
1865. He was educated at the Howard
School at Columbia, st. Augustine
School at Raleigh, N. c.: st. Stephens
College at Annandale- on the Hudson,
N. Y, and did his theological work at
Seabury Divinity School at Faribault,
MINI, where he won the B. d. degree
He was ordained deacon June Is,
1898, at Faribault, MINI. On January
~ Of the following year he was adj
vanced to the priesthood by Bishop r.
q. Dudley in the Church ot Our Mer-
ciful Saviour at Louisville, KY, which
he had been serving since his ordina-
49, l. =
IN charge Of that work until January,
1905, when he resigned to become the
rector Of the church here.
Married Second Time.
Dr.. Brown has been married twice.
His first marriage was on August Is,
1894, to Miss Sallie Wilder Richard
son. She bore him two children, Nellie
Wilder and Thomas Jacob Brown. jr.
subsequent to the deathStof !. Mrs.
Brown, DR.. Brown was married the
second time on June 20, 1905, to Miss
Lucretia Morris Minor, daughter of
Prof. and Mrs. John L. Minor of
Louisville. OF this marriage was born
one child. Lucretia Estelle Brown.
The members Of the vestry are z. F.
Ramsaur, senior warden; H. L. Dixon,
Junior warden; z. A. Baker, C. T.
Brooke. Rolandus H. Cooper. Daniel w.
ilton, G. L. Harris, T. D. Bradford,
Ralph Qualls and c. T. Brooke, regis
trar.
Those arranging the celebrations are
Col. Hamilton, chairman; Mrs. Emily
Green Allen, treasurer; Charles L.
Harris, secretary; L. L. Whaley, Nor
val Pelham, Ernest r. Amos, Mrs. Anna
Cromwell, Henry L. Dixon, Henry P.
Slaughter. N. B. Staley, Mrs. K. w.
Harris, Rolandus H. Cooper, zed F.
Ramsaur, H. L. Dixon, Shermont w.
Lewis and Rev. Thomas j. Brown.