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THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D.’ c, SATURDAY, JULY 22, 1922, ° Samaritan Race Dwindles Down Until Only 156 Members Survive Claim Temple Bible Written 13 Years After Moses. Revise Views as fo Other People En- tering Heaven. BY JUNIUS B Woob. Correspondence of The Star Chicago T News.) NABLUS, Palestine, June 20 having seen any bona fide Sa tans, I motored over the parched. and (Special rock-strewn hills from Jerusalem to- | day to see all that remains of the powerful race sent from Babylon twenty-five centuries ago to populate the Holy Land. I elicited the infor- mation that today there are only real Samaritans—men. women children. The high priest said t during the war fifty were conscripted by the Turks and never returned. He was insistent, too, that the tribe wa increasing. rather than dying since it had only sixty members years ago. The Samaritans a; the real Jews, the only chosen peopl and that they alone are privile enter the kingdom of heave recently the Samaritans haye le that there are several miliion « persons in the world—the high p; has made three trips to London; now agree that the worthy in the re of the world may enter paradise thelr servitors. Being good t in this world is the chief requisite | frar Mo | I tor a menial job. Lecture on the Roof. The Samaritan high priest,” Jacob aron. and his brother Isaac. both dis- «inguished by the Samaritan purple turbans and the latter by the most luxuriant crop of whiskers in Pal tine. were at the hotel before I had finished lunch. They were ready to escort me to the Samaritan quarter. one of the least prosperous corne! of the town nestling al the base of the mountain. Through devious streets, many of them long. dark arched tunnels under the building: wo reached a wooden gate. climbed some stone steps and were in a little 10 by 12 court—the world center of the Samaritans. “Won't you come into our e.” a soft. girlish voice one of the the court. However. the fringe of black, ivy-like tendrils around the face from which that voice issued dis- pelled all romance—it was the high priest's son, Abou Il Hasan. who had spoken. He learned English in the Samaritan school. ‘The high priest's brother starteq a lecture. It was as unending as an automoatic piano filled with nickels. Only by my shouting could he be aalttd occasionally to answer a ques- on. . house. mvited Men Exceed Women. Since the war, he told me, there ars twenty more men than women. There is one of their strictest customs. The high priest's office is heredita They Samaritan by marriage, as intermar- riage among their dwindling numbers is one of thelr atrictest customs. They do not approve of Zlonism or of other Jews, but consider all others apostate. They have a language and a script of their own, alleged to be the same as in the time of Solomon. but they apeak Arabic for local necessities. Nablus is fanatically Moslem and eve BY HIRAM K. MODERWELL. (Bpecial Correspondence of The Star Chicago Daily News.) LONDON, England, July By a combined effort, blessed by many peers who are honorary members of the committee, London is daily being made “brighter.” And the man whom the: efforts are aimed to please is, above all others, the American visitor. By a tradition which has usually been acceépted without examination, Paris is “the home of joy" while London is “dull.” England has long suffered from this tradition. The American tourist has too often pur- chased his steam- er ticket direct to Paris, and forgot- ten all about Lon- don. London thinks this should be corrected. Your Londoner will never admit that London is “dull.” “Paris, of course. tor a pleasant holida: he says, “but London for solid pleasure.” Yet he has begun to understand that the visitor who arrives in London for the rat time may be forgiven if the city ems to him cheerless. Hetels Ave Co-Operating. So the committes has undertaken. first, to make London “brighter” for the and Mary's well, near the xite of the car- penter shop at Nazareth. Women still draw water from the well that was used by Mary of Na reth, talner is replacing the earthen pot. ionists have refrained from lo- out, | {temple | tan: them | roofs surrounding ' f jon | group. ny of their people or even icemen in that district, the il are unmolested. in the little bare stone with a single ¢ t But the two Bgbles, on B work, wh o be pawed rief exh her | st | they | boand in two mounte The e thirteen and this year is r being handled that a remar The translated its into Arabic and the Rev. Wil- Barton of Oak Park, Ill, had slated and published in an pamphlet, which, Abou Ll cxplained, is sold in Chicago cents. He said the brass cover years old. Pose for Camera. The trio consented to be photo- graphed. When they were marshaled nother roof, a fourth venerabie white beard joined the s urer, said it w A in ears old ong is pre fat seript liam E. it tra Snglish Hasan for was 50 high priest with a sp a barb Abou E! voice ution would bs phic privileges, encourage an ot of one -r becon: gent contri proper rehi- neighbor. haired stouter black-haired girl came down the sten aking, 1 su ed a photograpn of the fair amaritans. Abou asked them and said their husbands might be Ty Any there v a more gencrous display of neck and breast than is approved by puritani- cal postal inspectors and the fiim wasted. The Samaritan women wear veils as Mosiems, be- e of custom and because thdir n is fair and their features differ- ent from the other inhabitants. When I started to leave the Samari- tan center I found that my pipe, which I bad left on the coping outside the aple, had gone before me. does not prove the insecurit erty under the British m affect the merits of the Zio: ndate least, as to whether all Samaritans LONDON BEING MADE CITY OF JOY FOR SAKE OF AMERICAN TOURISTS deserve the prefix “‘good foreigner whenever that can bew done, and second, to let people know about it. The best hotels are co-operating and have given a solemn e to refrain from “special prices” for Americans and to g ry courtesy to the tourist. A central office, the effectiveness of whose ministrations is yet to be proved, under- takes to represent the visitor in any complaint he may have against his hotel. Through the efforts of this central office the drinking hours have been lengthened and special privileges have | been granted to hotel guests. Though the bars close at 11 p.m., one may have wine with one's supper up to 12:30 and drink in one’s room at any time. Privileges of Clubs, Perhaps the most surprising part of the effort to make London bright is that which aims to extend to visiting Amer- icans guest privileges in_some of the best clubs. Through the tactful media- torship of the central committee, Amer- icans of standing in their own commun- ities, their presence having been made known by the hotel proprietor, find them- selves the reciplent of guest cards for which many a worthy Londoner sighs in vain. !f the scheme comes to fruition, as the committee expects, the American will surely have to revise his prejudice concerning the ‘“cold reserve” of the Britisher. In the matter of brighening up the London weather, the committee has not yet made much headway. In recompense, therefore, however, it issues certain charming bits of poetry to the effect that “London is like a pretty woman. She has her moods; she weeps when you least expect it and then smiles through her {ors, but you love her all the more for STATUE 2,000 YEARS OLD FOUND UNDER WATER PIPE #“Pure Greek” Buried Thirty-Eight Years at Samuel Untermyer's Country Place. YONKERS, N. Y., July 22.—Buried three feet below a water main which had not been disturbed since it was laid, thirty-eight years ago, work- men have found a statue, declared to be re Greek and 2,000 years old,’ at tone, Samuel Untermyer's couptry. place. - lfi’don Kontl, sculptor, after a careful examination, declarsd that in his_opinion the work not only was real Greek, but it was too good to have been done by any but a real master. The statue is of a woman and stands about four feet six inches without the head, which had been broken off. he S The head was found first. Later-the of $4000,000,00% left hand was found and still later the rest of the body, all intact. No theory for the presence of the statue has been advanced, either by the police or art experts who have seen it. —_— TAKES UP HOOVER PLAN. Durgin to Explain Standardizing Dimensions to Lumbermen. CHICAGO, July 22.—Attitude of the government on the proposals of the Na- tional Lumber Manufacturers’ Associa- tion to standardize lumber dimensions, organization of the national lumber in- spection service under the direction of the producers, and several other con- templated changes In the lumber indus- try will be discussed by W. A. Durgin, assistant to Secretary of Commerce Hoover, .at the convention of the lum- bermen, In session here, it was an- nounced today. ‘The delegates represent lumbering in- terests credited with an annual output but the tin oll can as a con-| | | | !side of Passaic. N. J. to Near East | tains, | | 1 With | rnited {h ble state of|ioned at Linchow. dead HebleW | ¢pat the mis | ! idently no Samaritan has | tablishment L = Ha. | has resulted in the assembling under gested that a our flag of the largest group of lepers The | appeal stated house | be dis d for its higher | large portion of the lepers there, and amaritan | probably cure many. {matron with a fat white naked baby | jand o ‘watch the picturs | at Culion I feel confident that money < | the_anti-lepros | treasurer. | i i i 1ts removal | tional of Prop- | Church previous to the me. or | general convention of the church in st move- | Portland, Oreg., September 6. at which ment, but it brings doubts. to me atia new council, to serve for the ensu- {by Right Rev. Thomas ibishop of Tennessee and president of i ed’in rags and without food or shoes i MISSIONARIES IN GHINA |drawing to a close. 1ton, Rev. | cart; SUFFERING OF CHILDREN IN NEAR EAST DEPICTED American Worker Says Millions Will Die if U. 5. Relief Is Discontinued. | “I never realized that there is in| the world so much suftering as I have | seen out here during two years,” con- cludes a message from George L.Gar- Relief officials here. Mr. Garside has arrived in Constantinople after a win- ter spent in piloting motor _truck loads of rellef supplies from Samsoun, Anatolia, into relief stations in the interior. Mr. Garside was an eye-witness to the sufferings during the past few months of Greek deportes in Turkish | nationalist territory, and mentions one Incident on a trip, “in the bit- terest kind of winter.,” of encounter- | ing a thousand Greek refugees, dress- of any description. They were di- | rected to the nearest relfef station.} On the same trip, in the Tarus moun- ‘where the wind and slcet cut | our faces like a knife,” Mr. Garside | found an eight-year-old Greek girl, ' half clothed and starved. Wrapping | her in his fur coat and giving her some food, he took her to a Near East Relief station and handed her over to | the director. “If' the Americans pulled out.” de- clared Mr. Garside, “this army of children would certainly perish.” Contributions are being received by John B. Larner, treasurer of the lo- cal Near East, at Room 316, Bond building. REV. TROTTER DISCREET, WITNESSES DECLARE Defending Mission Head, Friends Testify Wife Labored Un- der Delusion. By the Associated Press. GRAND RAPIDS. Mich., July 22— Mrs. Lottie M. Trotter, wife of Rev. Melvin E. Trotter, was laboring under a delusion when she suspected her husband of indiscretiol witnesses for Rev. Trotter testified yesterday in the opening defense in Mrs. Trot- ter's sult for separate maintenance. Miss Tink Brummeler, formerly a fonary ip the City Rescue Mission, hich Rev. Trotter was the head, testified the minister had conducted himself as a gentleman. She denied Mrs. Trotter's allegation that Rev. Trotter had subjected his wife to harsh treatment. Other witnesses said Mrs, Trotter's suspicions were unfounded. REFUSE TO QUIT POSTS U. S. Gunboat Sent to Rescue Americans and Canadians Finds Them Safe. The tates gunboat Pampanga has returned from a dash up the West river to Wuchow. where an appeal for p had been made by eight Amer- an and Canadian missionaries sta. The Pampanga brought back word sionaries were safe, and that they -did not care to leave. ASKS AID FOR LEPERS. Wood Says American Flag Flies Over World's Largest Colony. MANILA, July 22—Gov. Gen. Wood has made public an appeal for funds for the Culion leper colonies. Fs-! of the Culion colonies anywhere in the world, Gen. Wood's It is believed that treatments will overed which will benefit a “If the American people could only see the great band of unfortunates would pour in from all sides to the Philippine Anti-leprosy Society. Gen. Wood is honorary president of society and William | T. Noting, former insular auditor, is| PAY HONOR TO BISHOP. Dr. Freeman Has Part in Tribute to Dr. Thomas F. Gailor. At the final Couneil meeting of the Na- of the Episcopal ting of the | | ing three yvears, will be elected, reso- i lutions were adopted in New York in ccognition of the services rendered Gailor, D. D., the first three years of its existence, which are now i the council during | | i The movers of the resolution, Rev. | Dr. James E. Freeman of. Washing- Dr. Stires of New York and John Stewart Bryan of Richmond, were named as the committee to 'y out the resolution. WILL SUPPLY PULPITS. Y. M. C. A Speakers to Go to; Many Churches. The religious work department of the Y. M. C. A. will supply the fol- lowing pulpits tomorrow: H street Christian Church, 11 a.m., Rev. S. M. Croft; 8 p.m., Rev. William S. Webb. Garden Memorial Church, Anacost D. C.. 8 p.m., William A. Eisenberger, religious work secretary, Y. M. C. A. Davis McCahan, insurance expert of the United States Chamber of Com- merce, will address the meetinz at Camp Letts, the Y. M. C. A. Boys' camp on Rhodes river. This will aiso | be visitors' day at the camp. MASS FOR LATE PASTOR. Rev. John R. Roth to Be Honor- ed at St. Mary's. In memory of the late Rev. John R. Roth. pastor of St. Mary’s Church, a month's mind solemn requiem mass will be sung Monday morning at 10 o'clock at the church. The officiating clergymen will be Rev. Charles J. Trin- kaus, celebrant; Rev. A. Camp of Holy Cross Church, Baltimore, deacon, and Rev. Leo Otterbein of ~St. Joseph's Church of Fullerton, Md., will be sub- deacon. The sermon will be preached by Mgr. C. F. Thomas of St. Patrick’s Church. F —_— 600 AT CONFERENCE. Delegates Start Sessions to Last Until July 29. EAST NORTHFIELD, July 22— More than 600 delegates are attend- ing the conference of religious edu- cation here, which lasts untll July 29. This conference is the successor to the old Sunday school conferences, and -is_mainly made up of Sunday school leaders and workers. OPEN-AIR SERVICES. Special open-air services are to be held at the headquarters of the Help- ers of the Hills, Incorporated, 1400 Rhode Island avenue northeast, next , Saturday and Sunday even- 1 i —_— The world production of sugar is now estimated at 18,000,000 tons, which is about equally divided be- tween cane and beet sugar. jand congregational jorganizations, the Y. M. C. A., the Y. i Rock. Latest ' Announcements of Church Activities GUNTON-TEMPLE CHURCH 1S SOLD Presbyterian Congregation Accepts $70,000 Offer for 14th Street Building. The congregation of the Gunton- Temple Memorial Presbyterian Church had a meeting Thursday evening and unanimously decided to accept the offer for the church building at 14th and R street. The sale price is $70,- 000, permitting the congregation to retain all the furnishings such as organ, pews, stained-glass windows, | etc.. bringing the offer up to approxi- mately $100,000. The parties who have purchased the property will convert the building into an automobile salesroom and : service station. The congregatiol will continue to have its morning service in the church building until the details of the sale have been completed. The evening services are held in the basement of the new bullding at 16th and Newton streets, which was completeq several months ago at a price of $40,000. The church has a membership of 900 and the new location has great promise of growth. The bullding committee, of which George Prevost is chairman, will proceed at once to secure bids' for the new building. Rev. Bernard Braskamp. the pastor, will leave the city next week to spend his annual vacation with his parents in Towa. _ . RACIAL UNDERSTANDING HELD HOPE OF NATION Luther Place Memorial Pastor Tells of Spread of President’s Suggestion and Co-Operation. The gospel of a better understand- ing—theme of an address by Presi- dent Harding previous to the confer- encé on limitation of armament—is spreading among the people of the black and white races in the south and north, says Rev. G. M. Diffen- derfer, pastor of the Luther Pla Memorial Church, who adds that it is “the bright hope for the future se- curity of our nation.” Atlanta, Ga.. says the minister, has what is known as the Atlanta plan of interracial co-operation, composed of the Evangelical Ministers' Association and institutional W.C. A and the Salvation Army. Out of this and similar organizations, Rev. Diffenderfer explains, has grown what Is now known as the commis- slon on Interracial co-operation which has organized county and city interracial committees and has spread over many of the southern states. Their reports on rural prob- lems, tenantcy, housing, land, owner- ship, prison labor, domestic service and other problems are ful lof helpful suggestions. Rev, Diffenderfer savs: “These bodies are frequently calied into service by the state when trou- ble has arisen between the races. Im- mediately after the riots at Elaine the Governor of Arkaneas called into con- ference leaders of both races at Little One of the white men asked the negroes, ‘What shall we do to relieve the irritation? The reply was that they thought negro men were treated with unnecessary roughness on street cars and by the police. The white men immediately took steps to correct the abuse. “The Y. {32 is taking a promi- nent part in carrying out the plans of these inter-racial co-operative committees. They have been admin- istering the Rosenwald, Slater, Jeanes and Rockefeller funds for the better- ing of educational and home life of the negroes. The Red Cross has also been very active in bringing about a better understanding among the races in their efforts to help cement the feeling of helpfulness which is its fundamental principle. “The question of courts of justice has been carefully investigated and much progress has Dbeen made all over the southland in bettering the conditions under which the races settle their disputes misunderstandings. The universities throughout the south have organized committees among the student hody and faculties which aim ta help in the matter of spreading the gospel of a better understanding among the peoples who so largely constitute the citizenship of the south.” HOLY NAME SOCIETY- MEETS MONDAY NIGHT Forty-Two Organizéd Parishes to Send Delegates to Next Quar- terly Session. The quarterly meeting of the Wash- | Ington section of the Holy Name So- ciety will be held next Monday even- ing at 8 o'clock at the Immaculate Conception Auditorium, Sth and N streets northwest. Delegates will be in attendance from the forty-two organized parishes in the Washing- ton jurisdiction. The meeting will be presided over by Joseph T. Fitzgerald, president The speakers will be Rev. Thomas G, Smyth, pastor of the Blessed Sacr: ment Church, Chevy Chase, Md., and former judge of the juvenile court, Willlam H. DeLacey. The business of the convention will have largely to do with the arrange- ments for the coming great golden Dbilee parade and demonstration, LS will be held in Washington October §. ‘Archdiocesan President P. J. Halti- gan will_give a report of his work Siring the past two months. Mr, Haltigan has officially extended in- vitations in person to the Holy Name unions of Philadelphia, Delaware and Virginia, where he has succeeded in arousing much enthusiasm over the Washington demonstration, So that thousands of participants will come from these places to march in the parade, He estimates that not less than 25.000 men and boys will march in the procession. —————— BIBLE SCHOOL TO CLOSE. Central Presbyterians to Show Handicraft Work. daily vacation Bible school, wr?;lc‘; o Been in session at the Cen- tral Presbyterian Church, will hol.d its closing exercises next Friday. There will be a program in which the various departments will take part, showing the Wolrl‘(l thltufi:'l“l;e‘el:dl::n: epar in these several P Ry about twenty Sl.‘nl:evr!e :{ll be an exhibit of handi- craft work which the members of the school have done. period of work the During_ this O aatuge of children have had the spacious .;llyxroundl of the church, which adjoin the church prop- erty and which have been equipped with tennis courts, basket ball court, see-saws, slides, tether ball and a sand box. sixteen by ten feet, con- taining three tons of white ocean sand. While the school work bas closed, the playground will be kept open all summer. At the closing ex- ercises of the school on“Friday morn- ing Dr. James H. Taylor, the pastor of the/Central Presbyterian Church, will preside. = —_——— _A strike of Nova Scotia coal miners 1s threatened as a result of & dis- pute over wages. S 4 Iynching and | nd | GUNTON -TEMPLE MEMORIAL PRESBYTERIAN SOLD FOR $ CHURCH IS | 1 AUTOMOBILE SALESROOM AND GRDVE WEETIGS TOLAST TENDAYS The annual camp meeting at Wash- ington Grove, Md., will begin August 3, continuing through Sunday, August 13. Rev. Dr. John R. Edwards, super- intendent of the Washington district of the Methodist Episcopal Chureh, is in charge. His chief assistants are Rev. Chagles F. Boss of Boston, and Dr. Albert Osborn of American Uni- versity. Subcommittees Named. The following subcommittees have been appointed: Finance—G. H. Griffin, A. H. Sorg- enfrei, Clarence F. Welch, Willium Hunt and C. H. Becker. Publicity—C. H. Becker, M. ML Browning, Robert McP. Milans, C. F. Welch and E. E. Cissell, Music—M. M. Browning, T. L. Mc: Cathran, Chas. E. Myers, director; | Mrs J. B. Sappington and Miss Netta Craig. and_girls' hour—Miss Dora F. Hendricks, Mrs. C. F. Welch, Mrs. G. H. Griffith, Mrs. joe Brake, Mrs. M. M. Browning and Mrs. Paul Lynch. ‘Athletics—C. F. Welch, Stewart Sea- Wayne Mills and William Watkine. oung people’s meetings—Mrs. J. B. | Sappington, Mrs. C. F. Welch, Miss Mabel E. Becker, Miss Elsie Sorgen- trei and John Lacey. Hospitality—Mrs. Hunt, Mrs. G. H. Griffith, Miss Heil, Mrs. James Mount and Mrs. Albert Osborn. Speakers Prominent. Prominent speakers have been se- cured for this entlre series of meet- R 5. W. Dawson of Trinity M. E. Church wiil be the first speaker, on August 3. Shecial days have been arranged as follows: Sunday School day, Saturday, st 5; Anti-saloon League B mesday, August 9; Sabbath Ob- gervance day, Thursday, August 10 | Epworth League day, Sunday, August 112 GLENARDEN, MD., CHURCH TO LAY CORNER STONE B 1 | Rev. L. S. Flagg to Preach Sermon for United Christian Meth- odist Congregation. he corner stone of the United Chontian Methodist Episcopal Chureh, at Glenarden, Md. is to be lald at 13 oelock tomorrow afternoon. Rev. 1. S. Flagg will preach the sermon at _the exercises. The church is now holding camp meetings, which are to continue four weelrs. There will be a preaching service at 11_o'clock tomorrow, and at 7:30 o'clock Rev. Mr. Brown will preach, with Rev. T. L. Fendall in charge of the excrcises. Services are to be held each night throughout the week. DR. NELMS ENDS FIRST YEAR IN RECTORSHIP | Grace Church, Silver Spring to Note Anniversary To- morrow. { Grace Church, Silver Spring, Md. parish, will celebrate tomorrow, the firs anniversary of the rectorship of Rev. Dr. J. Henning Nelms. Special music will be rendered by the double quar- tet, and the rector will preach a ser- mon especially adapted to the occasion. Rev. Mr. Haig from Bishop's University, of which Dr. Nelms is a graduate, will be in the chancel, and will take part in the anniversary service. The Silver * Spring Parish Sunday schogl will send five delegates to the summer school of religious education at the University of Virginia, beginning July 31. The delegates elected are: Dr. and Mrs. Nelms, Frank Cook, Miss Mary Deffinbaugh and Miss Helen Yaeger. These delegates are attending the ses- sion from July 31 to August 11. PENTECOSTAL MEETING. Pastor 09mer to Speak Tomorrow at Gospel Assembly Hall. There will be a Pentecostal meet- ing, conducted by Harry L. Colller, pastor, tomorrow at 2:30 p.m. at the | Gospel Assembly Hall, 930 Pennsyl. vania avenue northwest. _Tonight at 8 o'clock Herbert W. | Kline, rescue mission worker, will conduct an evangelistic service. Miss Ruth Kernan will speak and the An- derson sisters will sing. A healing service is being conduct- ed at Faith Hal, 509 3d strset, eaoh Tuesday at 8 p.m. 2 “lat 8 o'clock by Garnett January. 70,000. % SERVICE MOVES I EVERY CHURCH PLANNED “Every preacher a moving picture operator” is the slogan which Charles N. Lathrop, secretary of the social | service department of the Episcopal Church, will carry with him to the general convention of the church, which theets in Portland, Ore., Sep- tember 6, where a large part of Mr. Lathrop's time will be given to demonstrating the use which can be made of the movie in promoting the work of the church. Invoking the aid of Will H. Hays, generalissimo of the movie industry, Dean Lathrop has had placed at his disposal all the resources of the Hays organization to illustrate the spir- itual values that lie in the films. He has secured a large hall in the Port- land auditorium, adjacent to the room in which the c¢onvention delegates from all over the world will lunch daily. Plans Daily Exhibits. In this room there will be daily ex- hibits of moving pictures illustrating various phases of church work in the United States as well as in China, Japan, Africa, Alaska and elsewhere. Mr. Hays donated to Mr. Lathrop the use of a series of films on religious subjects and, in addition, has turned over to him for first run several new films of a secular nature which will {llustrate the character of moving pictures which it is aimed to produce in response to the demand for & “cleaning up of the moviesa.” Besides these there will be films showing various phases of social service work — medical, -charitable, social, sanitary, etc.—and there will be on hand various makes of moving picture machines adapted to Sunday school and church work, with com- petent men to Imstruct rectors in their use. Social Service Work. In connection with this feature of the convention there will be daily class conferences in social service work with special references to parishes and illustrated with moving pictures, led by Mr. Lathrop, Miss Mary Van Kleeck, director of the department of industrial studies of the Russell Sage Foundation, and Rev. Charles K. Gilbert, secretary of the social service department of the diocese of New York. i At the convention mass meeting of the department the principal addre: will be delivered by the Rev. Dr. J Russell Bowle, rector of St. Paul's Church, Richmond, Va. PULPT AND PEW. Rev. Reginald Rowland will preach the sermon hind conduct the services at the New York Avenue Presby- ferlan Church tomorrow at 1} a.m. TRev. Mr. Rowland will be absent from the city during the month of Aug: supplying pulpits in New Jersey and suburban New York. i ‘The following additional announce- ments of pulpit supply have been mad October _1—Rev. William Carter, pastor of Throop Avenue Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, N. Y. October 8—Rev. J. Ross Stevenson, president Princeton Theological Sem- Tatiry, Princeton, N. J. October 15.— Rev. Wallace Radcliffe. "\t the young people's service to- morrow, at 6:45 p.m.. John P. Penne- Dbaker, baritone, will sing, Bennet Myers will lead, and reports will be heard from conferences at Blairs- town, N. J,, and Chambersburg, Pa. At the midweek service next Thurs- day, at 8 p.m.. Rev. Mr. Rowland will Cpeak on the “Fhrable of the Trees. * k ¥ % Allen Tupper, Baptist Church, will preach at “The Science of Rev. Dr. Henry pastor of the First 16th and O streets, 1 a.m. tomorrow, on lservh-e." and at 8 p.m., “The Art of Attraction.” * ¥ % rrow night. in the Metropolitan M’:‘:n‘gl?lal M. E. Church, the minister, Rev. Dr. Harry D. Mitchell, will give a ‘lecture on “The Passion Play of o mmergau. The sermon will be Ilustrated by stereopticon slides. Dr. Mitchell visited Obesammergau in 1910 and witnessed the play. The theme in . the morning will be «pwakening to a Sense of Sin.” The ¢ School Meets at 9:30 a.m. and S the care of Mr. Oscar Allen ihd will continue during the summer without interruption. Thlny‘ mem- Ders of the Metropolitan Epworth PehEue will leave Monday morning to attend the institute at Mountain rk. 1hke Pa . Rey. W. F. Harkey will preach at the 11 o'clock service tomorrow at the Wallace Memorial United Presby- terian Church, on “Some Things Tend- ing to Obscure the Reality of God Today.” In the evening a union serv- jce with the Petworth Baptist Church Wil be held, at which time Rev. Mr. Harkey will speak on “Ways of En- tering the Kingdom of God.” Union evening services are being held by the Wallace Memorial and the Pet- Ihe th Baptist churches during the summer, the ""nk“n:l“m“m‘ “be- e two_churc tween thi fShurches orge A. Miller will preach Sinth Street Chrl;(lu; Ctl;llrch. d D streets northeast, tomor- o AN me subject of the morning Sormon will be “The Old and the New.” The night sermon will be on . arth an n. Ths EEE Soclety, 300. Homer buildin, 611 13th street northwest, will have a special lecture By Mrs. Annle M. Westfall of Fresno, Calif., tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. Mrs. Westfall Was one of the Bpeakers at the Con- gress of the Intérnational New Thought Alliance, held in Atlanta, and is lead- er of the Truth Center in Fresno. Practical lecture Wednesday evening Rev. at the NI Unity ’ STATIUN TO nccurv} BUILDING AT 14TH AND R STREETS. lSunday School Lesson EY REV. HUGH T. STEVENSON. DANIEL AND THE LIONS— Danlel, 6.1-25. Golden text: Who through faith | subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained prom- ises, stopped the mouths of lions,—Hebrews, 11.33. = = .Reports of Daniel's courageous ac- tions at Belshazzar's feast would reach Darius, the commander of the conquering army of the Medes and Persians, very soon after he assumed control of Babylon. Daniel's character and capacity would be appreciated by the sensual and sordid soldier. The fact that fully fifty years previous the venerable Hebrew had prophesicd that a new world power would rise, which would be the hammer God would use to destroy the Babylonians, would appeal to a superstitious orien- tal. It is not surprising that Darlus should be impressed by the preson- ality of the eminent statesmen, who had been recalled to power the night Babylon was conquered, and who probably, with the death of Belshaz- zar, may have welcomed the conquer- ing commander to the palace as the military governor of the land. Darlus, whose identity has not been completely and satistactorily estab- lished, reveals one of the elements of i his successful leadership by his selec- | tion of Daniel to be the chief premier | “to whom the viceroys were to give accounts 50 that the king might not suffer loss.” Darius, who was prob- ably “Gobryas,” realized that Daniel's executive experience and uprightness of character would relieve him of all worry concerning the civil adminis- tration of the kingdom, which Cyru had divided into 127 provinces, whose viceroys were to share in the govern ment of the new world power. While Daniel had enemies, whom he had ex- posed in their grafting plans during his services in_connection with Babylonian kingdom, his elevation by Darius served to increase the number. Eminence arouses envy. In the case of the chief premier, or president, the fact that he was an alien, who had not fought in the ranks of the co: quering army, and that his monoth istic faith kept him from worshipping their national gods would serve to increase their animosity, which grew largely out of the fact that he would not share with them in any grafting quickly in oriental courts. Dan enemies could not find anything in could not stand the searchlight of publicity. They recognized that their only hope to ensnare him was through his religious fidelity. It was a tribute to Daniel's un- blemished religious life and spiritu- 1ality when his enemies based their calculations upon his devotion to J jhovah. They expected that he would {obey God rather than man if they |could succeed in securing an edi from the king prescribing that none of his subjects for the next thirty days should make any request of any the penalty for disobedience would be consignment to the lion’s pit Darius was informed that the Presi dent and the other officers favored this law. This would indicate that Daniel was outvoted and that Darius was not informed concerning the true purpose of the la They had ap- pealed to his vanity and to the Per- sian custom of worshiping their kings among their gods. face of it the edict appeared to call Babylonians to worship the king as the representative of the Supreme Power and invested with his dele- gated authority. Daniel understood that this decree was practically his death warrant, but he did not hesitate to continue, as his custom had always been to pray three times daily toward Jeru- salem. He did not wait for the storm to blow over. | private devotions or change h not be seen when at his devotions to Deity. The habits formed in |the test of trial. He had found, nearly every executive of the United States has in trying timies, help in prayer. “The secret of the Lord is with them that fear Him.” When the test of Daniel’s love, loyalty and life came, the eminent servant of Jeho- chamber and facing Jerusalem. proved his faith as a true worshiper of Jehovah, the God of the Jew: strength and~help. The enemies of the great statesman, who probably was at the time of our |lesson about ninety vears of age. ! had rushed when the edict was to advantageous positions to watch Daniel's movements. It was not be- \‘.‘“se he did not respect the edicts of | the king, for Darfus had no more loyal subject and truer friend than the dangered by his command that in- fringed upon the soul liberty of the great executive and others of his faith. He 4@id not believe that the state should. dictate in matters of re- ligion. “He was a puritan. He lived had been dead for 2,000 years when that compact was signed in the cabin of the Mayflower. He had never read a line of John Milton: he knew noth- ing of Oliver Cromwell. But he was a puritan none the less. He insicted science as against the dictates of day afternoon at 4:10 o'clock is a spiritual healing meeting. * k kX Dr. John E. Briggs has returned from his childhood home, in North Carolina, where he has been visiting relatives and taking a brief vacation, and will preach at both services at Fifth Baptist Church tomorrow. * ¥ % * Dean William A. Wilbur of George Washington University will speak at the Tenleytown Baptist Church to- morrow morning at 11 o'clock. Dean Wilbur is chairman of the mission committee of the Columbia Associa- tion. ¥ * kK K “A Woman Caught Me With Her Hair!” is a personal experience which Rev. E. Hez Swem relates tomorrow night at Centennial Baptist Church, 7th and I streets northeast. The 11 o'clock subject is: “Brother-Bless- ings." > * % % ¥ At Trinity Diocesan Church tomor- row, Rev. David Ransom Covell will préach at 11 a.m. on “The Circle of Friendship.” The open-air service on the church lawn at 8 p.m. will be held | by Rev. R. R. Stevenson, who is speaking to Increasing numbers each Sund: night in this short and in- formal service. * % x Dr. J. J. Muir, pastor of the Temple Baptist Church, will preach tomor- row with the following interes! ing topics of discourse as his subjects. 'In the morning: “A Notable Because, and in the evening, “Historic Books. The services of the church will be 'continued through the summer sea- son. * % % ¥ “Walking With God” will _be the subject of Rev. Dr. Earle Wilfley's sermon tomorrow morning at the Ver- mont Avenue Christian Church. ‘the evening service Dr. Wilfley will preach.a brief sermon and the church choir wiil give a special musical aervice. ERRE Dr. Herbert F. Randolph will lec- ture at Foundry Church tomorrow ‘evening on “A Midsummers Night | XVith the - World's Great Drcamer,” fllustrated with fifty views. In the ‘morning at 11 o'clock he will preach on ‘*The. Value of a Vacation.” Thursday night, midweek service of prayer with an address by the minis- ter of the church. * K % ¥ Tomorrow morhing at Immanuel Bap- tist Church, Dr. Loren A. Clevenger will preach on “The New Humanity.” In the § proposition. Hostile intrigues develop | his public record or private life that | god or man save the king, and that | Upon the | upon the new subjects won from the ' He would not stoup to | I method of praying so that he could | his | ¢ youth of communing with God stoad ! vah opened the windows of his prayer | Peril sent him to the mercy seat for | premier, whose life the king had en- | a long way from Plymouth Rock; he | upon the rights of the individual con- | e At arbitrary authority.” His inner life calied for its own self-realization. He turned toward Jerusalem with a faith in the return of his brethren from the bondage of exile and confidence in Jehovah's sustaining and saving power. He cried to Him not simply &8s the Supreme Being, but by turning his face toward the site of that by its sacrifices the coming of the cated that he was pra; the eternal God who by sacrifices. His facing Jerusalem was substantially the same thing for Daniel and other pious Jewish exiles as it is for modern Christians 1o seek forgivencss through Jesus Christ When the enemies re ported to that his chief executive was guilty of sobeving the royal ediets concern- ing public worship. then the kin irecognized that he bad been caught tthe snare of politicians, who b {framed u a program 0 sec niel’s death. They demanded that They insisted tha e holding such an eminent as the premier was allowed to viols the nation that their v tion would perish. We recognize saneness of their argu 0 when the greatest danger modern civilization is th people 1o wink at the vio nation’s constitution and | realized too late that been voted by Daniel no intention of requir ience but to secure the noblest servant and true tried thorughout the day way by which he e statesman, but the were unchangeab no way to hin imposed the law ng fo Him as ax propitiated fus Darius law had mics with ablic obed t frie to fi the = 1d find could did ht a conferenc ordered the riing It was probably with Daniel t cdict carricd o message to the ve prayer that Jehovy and deliver When the Daniel walked qu soldiers to the den he reached it he leaped do the savage bheasts w the blood of men v demned to die. T about the look of the mastered the fieree | the stone by the { did not seal D < {that he possessed in grace of God 1o prote from death. or 1o en { for his giory. filled t with sueh e master of t 8 | the watches of the {has suggested that not ect Daniel thirds bone. v redit for his protection uarded him with t Darius r and his o fate. T sustainis His serv hle th throu { on's den. Darius worried. His {remorse. His him fro om b f horrors. | canting for his to the den. w | been impriso | spectacle for kingdom to b he had c previous fo worshiping deep di nxiety, answer brought troubled sover. jordered the pri { Upon his acli | den. the aged and ! God for his triumph | praised Him when he faced the {ger of the prayer test. ( {%irst results of the triump [was seen in th vage j that Darius took i spirators. The j the wicked falling t repar: ve brings back - with which t 1 trouh just e pit others. Darius ord s to b slumbers | summoned an t ¥y th i planned to | The wonder serva | know { which th t f | reigning mc | “Peisistratus ervius Tullius | the Cathagini e of phr ‘Ol‘ll) 1 | 1 rel ties when D fony ¢ ing, God | up o aimed to the nmoned the truth, which he n ms of the eart tha 1 as it does us, to put our trust in the Lord, who ¢ the proph “throug to subdue kingdoms’ land to mouths of lions™ the evenin 1w “Private A the Public Both of these 4 eresting | will be filied by Dr. Towa. At Bethany Chapel, 13th_and streets, tomorrow at § pm.. Rev. sir R. Jophet will preach on “The Key Which Opens the Scriptures” CHURCH CORNER STONE TO BE LAID BY ELKS Two Lodges to Conduct Services at First Unit of 12th Street Christian Church. The corner stone of the first unit of the Twelfth Street Christian Church, 1812-1816 12th street north west, is to be laid at 2:30 o'clock to- morrow afternoon. The stone be laid by the Eiks Lodges. . 85 and 4B " Rev. Do Earle Wilfley, pastor of the Vermont Avenue Christian Church, is to de- iliver the principal addres: Music will be furnisk Community Center Band. PLAN FOR ELECTION. The Intermediate Christian 13 deavor Union meeting was held re cently at Rhode Island Avenue Mcth- odist Protestant Church. Vice President Perry Jacob sided and many important were discussed. It was decided 1 each society should send to the nom nating committee a list of the propl they thought best fitted for the vari- ous offices. The nominating commit- tee should select “rom these lists two names for each office to be voted on by the union. i “After the business meeting games were played and refreshments were served. The Young People’s tian Endeavor of Wallace Memotial United Presbyterian Church save a surprise birthday party for Rev. J A. Campbell Tuesday night. The meeting was held at the home of Miss Adeline Haggerty. pre 1 the society The Senior Christian ciety of Keller Memorial Luther Church is holding cpuu-uir services this summer. the by pre- tiers 1t | Bociety Chris- o So-