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20 THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, AUGUST 28, 1897—24 GES. ‘THE K 240 as IND YOU HAVE ALWAYS BOUGHT. ——-SEE THAT ‘THE FAC-SIMILE SIGNATURE O0F— DUMBARTON AVENUE CHURCH. NEW CHURCH EDIFICE The Dumbarton Avenue M. E. Con- gregation Rebuilding. AN ELEGANT STRUCTURE DESIGNED Work to Be Completed by Middle of December. SKETCH OF THE BUILDING eee nae ee The project for the rebuilding of Dum- barton Avenue Methodist Episcopal Chur West Washington, took definite shape in the spring of last year, when a committee of the congregation was selected to take the matter in charge, but for certain good reasons the matter went over until this spring, when the committee got together, with the result that a cor tractor has been at work for about & week on the new edi- fice. About a month ago an article was published In The Star stating that the congregation contemplated rebuilding, but since then the pastor and people have been 80 successful in getting subscriptions for the work that when the church is com- pleted no one will be able to recognize old Dumbarton in the new and elegant struc- ture now in course of erection. In fact, the only part left of the old house of worship will be the-two side walls, and even of those very little is to be used in the process of rebuilding. When the architect, Mr. William J. Palmer, and the building committee, which is composed of the pastor and six laymen, met to consult, it found that the side walls and the foundations were in an excellent state of preservation, good for many years to come, so that the congregation has not been put to the ex- pense of starting from the very founda- tion, ugh, as it is, the remodeling of the chi will cost in the neighborhood of fifteen thousand dollars. Of Greater Capacity. The new edifice will have a larger. ac- eommodation than the former one, and when completed will be of the following dimensions: Length, ninety-three feet; width, fifty-six feet; height, about seventy feet. The increase in the dimensions of the edifice is to be accomplished by extending it to the rear and raising the height of the lecture room and main. auditorium each three feet. The design is to have a lecture floor and an auditorium floor, but, like the former building, it will not have a cellar, except a small one for storing the coal ard similar purposes. The skill of the architect is being dis- played for a large part on the front, and kere Dumbarton Church will be unlike any other house of worship in the District, in that it will be built of cream-colored brick. The cream effect will not be so predomi- tant when quite near, for a large portion of the lower story, including all the space between the two towers, is to be built of Indiana limestone. Both’ the brick and the stone are capable of striking decorative ef- fects, and consequently the Romanesque has been chosen as the style of architec- ture. The main entrance is to be through @ large stone Romanesque arch, under which there will be two double doors, the whole flanked on either side by square towers. Height of Towers. The tow-r at the southeast corner of the edifice is to be eighty feet high, while that at the corresponding corner will be but sixty feet. The larger tower will not have much ornamentation at the base, depend- ing mainly on its air of strength and solid- ity, but at the top there are to be friezes of several designs, and the whole ts to be finished off with a high pitched roof. The ether tower will resemble somewhat the larger one, though it will be minus some of the decorative features. Directly above the main entrance there ere to be large triple arches, which will contain three windows filled with cathedral glass, the lower half of each being used for small windows in the prevailing style of architecture, and the upper as rose win- dows. The rest of the edifice, and the tow- ers as well, will be furnished plentifully with windows, all of which are to be filled with a high-grade of cathedral glass. One of the towers, that at the southeast cor- ner, is to contain a small entrance, leading into the vestibule. This vestibule is to run the width of the building in the front, and will have a staircase in each corner, in the towers, leading to the floor above, while another entrance will lead into the lecture room. The Old-Style Gallerics. The lecture room, used for Sunday school purposes, will present an expanse unbroken by class rooms, except that at the farther end there are to be movable partitions, which can be used te separate a portion from the main body, for use as.an infant class room. In the aucitorium on the floor above the three old-style galleries running around the sides of the room are being re- placed by one large and roomy one, which is to be erected at the south end. Tie seats in this gallery, together with those in the enlarged auditorium below, will ac- commodate about a thousand people. * Several years ago the congregation pur- chased handsome walnut pews, and as these are nearly as good as they were the day they were bought, they will be used in the new church. The chantel, organ and choir gallery are to be moved back into the en- larged northern end, and the space thus provided is to be filled with pews. Special attention is to be paid to the decoration of the main auditorium, and in fact to the en- tire interior of the edifice, but as the con- tractor will not be ready to work on this for some time, Architect Palmer has not yet completed his plans for this portion of the work. In a general way it may be said that it wiil consist of a handsome paneled ceiling for the auditorium, while both au- ditorium and lecture room are to be elabor- ately frescoed. Culinary Facilities. In the rear of the church there is to be a small building connected with the lecture room, which will be used as a kitchen and refectory for the ladies of the congregation. The parsonage belonging to the congrega- tion is in the rear of the church, facing on P street, but it will not be touched, having only recently been painted thoroughly and otherwise improved. Toilet rooms are to be located under each of the stairways in the front. The lighting fixtures will be for both gas and electricity, while the heating apparatus is also to be of the latest design. The work of construction is in the hands of Victor Montgomery, and he expects to have the building finished by the middle of December, so that it may be occupied Christmas. Pastor Stitt is conducting the services of the congregation in Linthicum Hall, but ex- pects to leave the Ist of September on his vacation, intending to spend his time, for the most part, in the mountains of western Maryland. =e A Work of Japauese Art. From the Baltimore Sun. A remarkable as well as beautiful addi- tien has been made to the Peabody Library. It is a book on Japan by Japanese writers and artists. The text is translated into English. The book is published by a Bos- ton firm, and is to be issued in ten parts, at a cost of $500 for the whole. The ‘first two parts are now at the Peabody. Instead of being bound in the usual way, the book is held together by two skeins of heavy embroidery silk, heavily knotted and with loose ends on the outside. The cover of the book is of garnet satin exquisitely embroidered in go!den silk, and is a picture in itself, with its golden pea- cocks gleaming against the rich satin and the word “Japan’’ embroidered near the top. The first illustration is an example of painting on cut velvet, by Giokushu, a Japanese artist, showing the sacred moun- tain of Japan, with its top covered with snow. A familiar name below another illustra- tion is that of Mississippi pay, near Yoko- hama. Buddhist priests in their ceremonial robes and a geisha girl playing an instrument re- sembling the jo are among the striking Mlustrations, but perhaps :he most re- markable is a life struggle between a’ man and an octopus, making a picture dramatic and tragie in the extreme. A beautiful picture of two varictier of Japanese cities is an example of realism in Japanese art. Of this_picture Dr. er said: ‘When a Japanese artist sits down to sketch he puts in every hair that is on the leaf of a lily. It would not be artistic from our point of view, but it is realistic.’ Dr. Uhler considers this book the s immit of Japanese art, and says the Japanese people pride themselves upon the volume. “It is one of the most remarkable books the world has ever produced,” he said. “It is not likely that it cofd be produced out of Japan—it could be copied, but not made. ‘The photographs look as if a delicate mist had been thrown upon them, and yet every leaf stands out distinct and clear,” ——— 02 ——__-= Blood Will Tell. From the Kansas Oity Journal. “The Quenemo Republican” recounts the case of a widower down there with two children, who married a widow who also had two children. To this union was born two children, and the other day thé man went into the house and “Sarah, It want anything, try an ad. in The Star” It anybody bas what you wish, you will get an answer, ‘ THE JEWISH CONGRESS| Will Not Benefit the Rave, According to Mr. Wolf. The, Idea of'n Jewish State Visionary : -What:the Progressive and Think- ing Men Believe. To the Editor of The Evening Star: I noticed in your paper of Saturday, the 2ist, an article on the Jewish congress, which was to have convened in Munich, but which, in consequence of decided op- position on the part of the Jews of Ger- many, has now been called and will con- vene on Sunday next at Basle, Switzer- land. This meeting has been very much talked and written about, not only in Europe, but in this country, as there was a general invitation extended by its pro- geritors to have American Jews send rep- resentatives to this convention. In looking the matter over very carefully I cannot see why it should have received the ex- tensive advertisement it has, for it is founded on the most illogical premises, and the result will be, I am sure, utterly use- less to any one, except to confirm in a more decided manner the notoriety that Dr. Herzl and Max Nordau already enjoy. Neither of these men has done anything in the world of Jewry to entitle him to recognition. Their ancestors, no doubt, were Jews, but they themselves are inno sense regarded or held up as devotees of either the ancient or modern phase of Judaism. Their ideas are ephemeral, not even ideal, and while they no doubt are imbued with pure motives, from their standpoint, yet ‘they have not advanced one single line of practical recommenda tion for the betterment of the individual Jew or the elevation of the oppressed Jews in the countries where they are being ill- treated- There is an evident shrinking on the part of the Jews of Europe from commingling or having anything to do with this move- ment. It is not in constantly holding up the Jew to public view and criticism that the cause of the Jews or the advancement of Judaism is bettered. The belief has taken firm root in the minds of thinking Jews all over the world that the best way of downing prejudice is to be, as other men are, citizens of the,respective countries in which they reside; to be patriotic, intelli- gent, industrious, sober and zealous in the betterment of all men, irrespective of faith. To throw off the badge of contumely; to no longer. recognize the ethics of ‘the Ghetto, but to exhibit in a broad, compre- hensive manner the cosmopolitan spirit of the age, an@ fo lend every aid in our power as men to the elevation of the state, and thus indirectly. the condition of the individual JeW, afid as a mass, will be en- hanced and ‘impfoved. This idea being firmly implantedin conservative as well as reformed)gninds of the Jews, naturally this dream gf Zionist visionaries will fall to the ground will only be tolerated and talked by those of our own faith, as welf.as those of other faiths, who yet believe in the coming of a Messiah, the rebuilding of a temple at Jerusalem, and the rehabili mn of the Jews as a nation. ‘We, the Jews of the United States, take no stock in any Auch ideas. We are citi- zens of this e sire to to any other, certainly not to Jerusalem. for we have ever re- garded, and-all thinking men so regard it, that the United States is the Jerusalem spoken of by: theoprophets and looked for- ward to. by tthe hopeful. The Jewish state would be am anomaly, in fact, an impos- val Jews ing in common and be out oe sympat the liberal, progressive Jews na, er Germany and the reside can be made more happy and be made to contribute more to the betterment of the state in which they reside, so that wholesale emigration need not be resorted to, and so that the Jews of the United States will be spared the necessity of con- tinually aiding and helping the unfortunate victims of tyranny and oppression. In this direction there is a large field, and to that end, no doubt, the Jews of the United States would cheerfully contribute, for it were cheaper to send money to Europe to aid in the regeneration and to bring about a modification of strict and unnatural laws than to have them thrust wholesale upon us into the great centers of our country, where there are already too many. We, however, shall go on, no matter what the eventual result may be, working on the lines laid down by those who aided in up- building this great country, thoroughly centent and happy to remain where we are, to educate our children to a still higher appreciation of the privilegés and liberty they enjoy, and to do nothing that shali in the remotest degree betray a desire to build up a Jewish state. 8. WO! IN THE CHURCHES A call has been issued for a convention of the laity of the Baltimore conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, to meet at Eutaw Street Church, Baltimore, Oc- tober 8, for the purpose of forming a per- manent ‘“Laymen’s Association” to pass upon the prominent topics before the church. The well-known “Bacon resolu- tions” will form one of the principal themes under discussion at this convention, and in the other Methodist conferences of the United States similar associations are being formed for the adoption of the reso- lution, though under another name. Among those from this city who are prominent in the Baltimore conference movement are Messrs. Alexander Ashley and E. F. Simp- son. Rev. George 8. Duncan, Ph. D., has re- turned from his summer vacation and will occupy his pulpit in the Eckington Presby- terian Church tomorrow. The pastor of the North Presbyterian Young Men's National Union is to com-| mence next Taesday at Boston and contin- ue in session several days. The president of the union is Rev. Father McGuierl, he has in the course of a number of v! to Boston made excellent arrangements for the accommodation of the delegates. Dur- ing the course of the Giscvssions at the ccnvention it is expected that a resoiution, j already prepared, will be introduced and carried turning over the Brownson memor- ial furd to the Catholic University of this city, to be used to establish a chair of phil- ceophy. The experiment of keeping the Sunday school open at Epiphany Church during the summer at 10 o'clock in the morning has been tried with gratifying success this sum- mer. The superintendent, Dr. L. W. Glaze- brook, has met with the teachers once week for the study of the lesson, followed by a social hour, and this has proved of ad- vantage in making the lessons interesting for the children, notwithstanding the heat. The Fourteenth Street Branch of the Cen- tral Union Mission is holding strect meet- ings on several evenings of each week. Among those who have taken part have been Messrs. Grant Leet, president of the District Christian Endeavor Union; Clay- ton and Davies. Archbishop Chapelie of the diocese of Santa Fe, N. M., formerly pastor of St. Matthew’s Church of this city, is soon ex- pected on a visit to his old parishioners, on his way back from Rome, where he went to obtain an increase for his mission work. While here he will attend the meeting of the archbishops at the Catholic University. Beginnirg with September, the Brother- heod of St. Andrew of Trinity P. E. Church is to resume its regular meetings interrupt- ea by the warm weather. Work is progressing favorably on the new house of worship of the Ninth Street Christian Church, and the congregation is hoping to get into the lower floor of the building before cold weather. They are now worshiping in a tent; but this cannot well ‘be heated, and the congregation will move into a hall if a portion of the church is not completed in time. Rev. Frank Sewall of the New Church (Swedenborgian) will take his place in the pulpit of the church the first Sunday in September, after an absence of two months, spent, principally, at the ancestral home of the Sewall family, “Coventry Hall,’ York Village, Maine. ‘The American Society of Religious Edu- Church, Rev. Charles B. Ramsdell, D. D., | cation, with headquarters in Washington, is expected to return from the Blue Ridge mountains next week and conduct the services at the church the first Sunday in | Saratcga Springs. is holding its northern Biblical assembly this week at Round Lake, N. near Rev. Dr. J. E. Gilbert September. Dr. Ramsdell is to assume the | of this city, secretary of the society, is acting presidency of New Windsor College | conducting the exercises, and among those for another year. Recent donations have given an opport who have made addresses are Rev. Dr. u-"| Rankin, president of: Howard University nity to a large number of the children of | Gen. Jchn Eaton and Prof. John M. Greg- St. Ann’s Asylum for an outing at the sui mer home prepared for the asylum inmates under the auspices of St. Joséph’s Union, an organization of well-known Catholics of the city. The two months in which the home has been us ory. ‘The Woman’s Home and Foreign Misgion- ary societies of the Baltimore conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church are to hold their annual meetings in October. The have demenstrated its | Washi: gton district quarterly meeting is to utility, and during the coming fall and | be held about the middle of this coming Winter St. Joseph’s Union will endeavor f™month, and at this gathering it is possible to arrange plans by which the home may | that an address will be made by Mrs. 8. L. be enlarged in the spring and its usefulness | Beller, wife of the vic2 chancellor of the consequently increased for the ensuing summer. = American University, who has returned home from Alaska, where she went last The affairs of St. Thomas’ Protestant | June to inspect the missions there of the Episcopal Church are being looked after by the associate rector, Rev. W. G. Ware, in the absence of the rector, Rev. John A. Methodist Church. Preparations are being made to open ‘ayland Seminary for another year in this Aspinwall, who is at his summer home at | City even though it has been said that it is Shelter Island, N. Y. When the rector re- turns in the course of the next two or ! movement is not three weeks Rev. Mr. Ware will go for a| tors of the local short vacation. The following have been appointed by their respective churches standing. commit- to be moved to Richmond. The latter hed much by the pas- olored Baptist churches, nor even by those of the white churches, and among the former it is probable that ‘an effort may be made to keep it here. The tees on the Central Union Mission: The As- | ew president, Prof. Hovey, has made sev- sembly’s Presbyterian, Judge O. B. Brown and Miss Ella North Capitol Methodist, Edwin William- I. G. Kimball, | ral changes in the curriculum which, it is c. Lyman: thought, will be for the benefit of the in- stitution, St. Paul’s Methodist Episcopal Church is closed during this month, but will probably of ttering their conditions, there be Crcontieuar friction which would ‘end in dissolution, and oat would which will make the board of elders consist of six. From letters to members of his congrega- tion it is learned that the Rey. D. L. field, pastor of Central Methodist Protest- ant Church, is much improved in health The Methodist Episcopal Church at Woo side, Md., will be rededicated on Sunday, F Preaching by Dr. ison, presiding elder. Rev. Dr Joseph B. Stitt of Dumbarton M. E. Church is to take his vacation dur- ing the month of September, spending the major portion of it with his daughter, Mrs. M. L. Keedy, at Hagerstown, Md. Two of the ieaders of Wesley Church Methodism are to resume their positions next Sunday week, when the pastor, Rev. Fred. Heisse, is to occupy his pulpit after an absence of four Sunéays, and the superintendent of the Sabbath school, Mr. W. Redin Woodward, after an absence of about three months. The opening meeting of the Presbyte Ministerial Association will be held M day, October Is, at the Church of the Cov- enant. All the officers will then havo reached the city from their vacations, while the secretary, Rev. John Van } pAStOr of the Takema Presbyterian Church, will have prepared a program. The Chapter of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew of Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church, through its rector, Rev. Richard P. Willams, and its secretary T. Amos, has invited the Dioc to hold its annual meeting on St. Andre day in the Parish Hall of Trinity Chu The coducil is considering the matte: following precedent, which usually ‘gi the honor to the chapter first extending invitation, will probably meet at Trinity. The committee of the Universalist Church appointed in June to select a pastor of the church as successor to the Rev. Prof. J. W. Rogers, who is now pastor of a Scran- ton church, have three or four names u der consideration, and it Is expected th: they will announce their decision about 15th of next month. No regular services have been held at the church since Dr. Rogers left, but the organization of Uni- versalist Young People have been holding meetings in lieu of services. The rector of King Hall Theological Seminary, Rev. E. W. Tunnell, is about to leave Boston on his return to Washington. Dr. Tunnell has spent the summer in the north, collecting funds for King Hall, under commission of Bishop Satterlee, and it is understood that he has been success- ful, particularly among the Massachusetts churchmen. The Epworth League chapter of Trinity M. E. Church will hold an echo meeting of the Toronto convention tomorrow evening at 7 o'clock. Addresses will be deliver: by T. B. Stahl of Trinity Chapter, Fre Woodward of Epworth and Miss Duara Mitchell of Waugh, delegates to the late convention. A nice program of music has been arranged. Rey. Allen Macy Dulles will preach in the New York Avenue Church tomorrow an mornii subject, “The City Without Wallis. Youngest “Real Daughter” of the Revolution. From the Hartford Courant. My attention has recently been called to a letter in the Courant, in which the writer claims,for Mrs. Jane Brown Hollister of East Hartford the honor of being the youngest living daughter of a revolution soldier in the state of Connecticut. It is stated that Mrs. Hollister was born on the 3a of May, 1833. There are in this state thirty-seven chapters of the society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, with a total membership of 2,600. Among them are fifty-six “real” daughvers—daugh. ters of revolutionary soldiers. They rang: in age from one hundred and three down to fifty-eight years. Mrs. Elisha B. Av: (of Hebron, I think), was born July 16, 1 and has, therefore, but recently passed he fifty-eighth birthday. She is a member and honorary regent of the Anna Wood Elderkin Chapter, D. A. R., of Willimantic. Mrs. Avery is the daughter of Solomon Loring, » when nearly fourteen years of age, entered the revolutionary army as aid to Colonel Bost of Massachusetts, and remained in service till peace was de- clared. 12 Angeline (now Mrs. Avery) was the daughter of a third wife, and was born when her father was past seventy. At the age of sixteen she received a minor's pen- sion, and was informed that she was the youngest child of a revolutionary soldier on the pension records. + 0+ -____- A Quiet Game. Father—“Say, mother, our Mary must want to marry that feller she has in the ” Mother—“What makes you think so?" Father—“Why, she never sings the piano when he calis!” ——

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