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= 10 ____ UNITED BRETHREN. Memorial United Brethren L Church North Capital and R Rev. CHARLES E, FULTZ, D. 0:40 &, Sunday achool 11300 3. Serm. - “THE NEW PATRI- T Eriend< (ORTHODOX Friends ° 13th_and Irving Sts. N.W. B.—9. Meeting for worship, 11 ALL WELCOME. Friends Meeting 1811 Eye St. N.\W. Meeting at 11 a.m. Tirst day (Sunday) school 10 a.m. ALL ARE INVITED. “METHCDIST EPISCOPAL (White) Rosedale M. E. Church REV. C. E. LINGER, Sunday school: 11 ™ Epworth League. Evening service, 7:4 NORTH CAROLINA AVENUE N. 0. Ave. Sth and B Sts. S.B, REV. P. 'W. CROSBY, Pastor. 8 p.m ~Sunday school. nd Preaching by the astor. :16 p.m.—Tntermediats Christian Endeavor, TRINITY M. E. CHURCH 5th St. and Pa. Ave. S.E. Joseph Dawson, Ph. D., Pastor Sunday school, 9:80 a.m. Commiunion address, 11. ““Self-Examination.” Twillght sersice, 7 o'clock. Subect— ‘Scenes in the Life of Christ’ Iliustrated with stereapticon. Grant Circle and New Hampshire Ave. N.W. “THE CHURCH WITH A PROGRAM.” Rev. EDWARD HAYES, D.D., Pastor. Bunday school, 9:30 orth league, 7 pm 1 am. of ‘new Subject— D ramental e members. Da: « and reception or prs come city, Circle bus dir ldiers' Home car to € ew Hampshire ve.l 1ith and H Sta. Douglas Memorial "tz 1 5 Rev. J. 0. WRIGHTSON. D.D., Pastor. to ail, and worship—11 Twilight services—7 to § p. Thursday, § p.m.—Prayer meeting. *“The Church of the Big Welcome. METROPOLITAN MEMORIAL M. E. 4% and C Sts. N.W." (John Marshall Place) Harry Dawson Mitchell, D. D., Minister. 11:00 a.m —Communion “Washing Off the Dust of Travel” 8:00 p.m.—Mioister will preach. “Why Do You Believe in Future Recognition?” Sundax school at 9:30 a.m. aud Epworth League ut 7:00 pm . Visitors Cordially Invited. The National Methodist Church “THE FAMILY CHURCH," Dumbarton Ave. M. E. Church Dumbarton Ave, near Wisconsin Ave, N.W. Rev. B. I. McGowan 9:15 a.m.—Graded Sunday School. 11:00 a.m.—Holy Communion. Reception of members. 7:00 p.m.—Epworth League. 8:00 P.M. Patroitic Service “The Man Without a Country” —Hale. Members of patriotic orders espectally invited, {\ RN CALVARY Rev. James Shera Montgomery, D. D, Minister Bible School win Dice, Supt et ol ool el 9:30— Calvary Men's Bibie Class. Special teacher every Sunday. Mr. Roy H. Wolfe, President. 11,00 Public REV. WILBUR H. NORCROSS, D. D. of Dickenson College, Carlisle, Pa. worship with sermon by £:00—Public worship, with sermon by REV. WILBUR H. NORCROSS, D. D. of Dickenson College Special -music_at all Quartet cted by Mr. H. ncted by i Zootoatestostoatuatestontralesoalsaleasalsatints WESLEY Methodist Episcopal CHEVY CHASE Connecticut ave. and Jocelyn st. REV, J. 0. NICHOLSON, D. D, 0 u.m.—Sacrament of Lord's Supper. unday seliool. No evenlug service acation Bible Schooi, week_days. "WAUGH M. E. CHURCH 3rd and A Streets N.E. Rev. Howard F. Downs, Pastor 11:00 a.m.— vices. Miller. SACRAMENT OF THE LORD'S SUPPER | AND RECEPTION OF MEMBERS, 700 p.w.— “William Penn’s Text” 9:30 am. SERMONS TOMORROW. Assistant Pastor to Occupy Calvary Baptist Pulpit. At Calvary Baptist Church tomor- row niorning the associate pastor | Rev. Dr. A. Freeman Anderson. will speak on “Through Fire to Fineness {und In the evening on ‘“‘Wonderful Surgical Work You Can Do.” At the cvening service 250 young people, representing various Baptist churchies of Iowa, Minnesota, Illinols and Wisconsin, will attend in a body. These young people will be en route (o the Baptist Young People’s Union in Boston. A cablegram received here by W. W. Everett, president of the Calvary Buptist Church board of trustees, an- nounced that the pastor of Calvary Raptist Church, Rev. Dr. William 8. Abernethy, and family had landed safely on English soil.” While in Eu- rope Dr. Abernethy will attend the sessions of the World's Baptist Al- llance in Stockholm, Sweden. . UNDENOMINATIONAL. Highlands Community Church Rrightwood Masonfc Temple. Georgla and Colorado Avenues. Rev. Maurice S. White 5214 14th St. a.m,—Sunday school. 0 American Church” Y.rs CE “he 7:00 p.m.— CHRISTIAN. Fourteenth Street Church of Christ 14th_and Meridian st Bible study, 10 a.m. Preachiog and Communion, 11 a.m. and T:45 p.m. Wels to_Everybody. 2 g w0 B n.w. 6TH AND II STS. SOUTHWEST. H St. Christian 9:45 a.m.—Bible school. you vool and a he VERMONT AVENUE CHRISTIAN CHURCH . <o, north of N et. REV. EARLE WILFLEY. LL. D., Pastor. . —Bible school. “Faith and Feeling” "“Great Hymns” An illustrated service. music At boti serric eople’s tea: 7. C. av. 7:80 p.m.. midweek pray NINTH STREET CHRISTIAN CHURCH oth’and D sts. n.c. C. R. STAUFFER, Minister 9:30—Bible School. 11:00—Morning Worship. 6:45—Y. P. S. C. E, 7:45—Evening Worship. Park View Christian Church Park rond enst of Georgla ave. WALTER SMITH, Minister. ‘The Heavenly Vision.” 'he Parable of the House- r sersice. & Colum| Park Road West of 14th Street N.W. BENJAMIN H., MELTON, Minister. ing service at 11 a.m., Rev. B. H. W 8 pn., Dr. PRESTON A. CAVE, Bible school at 9:30; Christian Endeavor services, 7. RYBODY WBLCOME. METHODIST PROTESTANT. | RHODE ISLAND AVENUE Rhode Island ave at 1st st. n.w. REV. JAMES H. STRAUGHN, D. tor. Services 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. Christian_Endeavor—7_P.M. METHODIST EPISCOPAL Union Wesley A. M. E. Zion Church ird bet. L and M Sts. E. D, W. JO. *Colored) LW, . Pastor and Bible classes. GOSPEL OF HAPPI- (Junior-Tntermediate) Mrs. Randall, jr. 8:00 p.m.—"GIVE WAY TO JESUS." Miles Memorial C. M. E. Church 8rd st. bet. L and N. ¥ WILLARD L. BREED Sunduy school Holy Communion. E. onsecration, ave. n.w. . Minister. to the *‘House- . by the Pastor. | YOU ARE WELCOME. Haven M. E. Church Mass. ave. hour. Come. —Communion 240 . S ¢ program. friends strangers are welcome. | John Wesley A. M. E. Zion Church | (Corner 14th and Corcoran st R REV. W, 0. CARRINGTON, Sotan ot s Tiole ‘His Unfailing Compassions. weistian, " Endeavor Meeting. These Services. Will Help YOU. METROPOLITAN WESLEY A. M. E. ZION CHURCH D strest s, bet, 2adasd S s REV. H. J. CALLIS, Pastor. 11:00 2. ! 0 aul's Commission.” * | | Galbraith A. M. E. Zion Clll‘ll'dli 6 st. be. T, wnd M sta. nw. ‘WM. D. BATTLE, Pastor. Sunday_scheol and Rible classes, —“HIGHER OR LOWER; WHICH HALL WIN. Ak Clatian Eadeasor, SATETy OF TAE Chume 28 R SERVICH i i METHODIST EPISCOPAL. | Ebenezer M. E. Church Corner 4th _and D Sts. §. H REV. J. W. WATERS, Minister. | 9:30 a.m'~Sunday school hour. | Rally Day Services. a . P. v XOU AR FOUNDRY CHURCH Sixteenth Near P Street N.W. Green Busses REV. HERBERT F. RANDOLPH, D. D., Minister 11 A.M.—Dr. Ra “RESTORING 8 P. M.—Doors open at 7:30. Lecture— “Shrines of the Amerian Revolution” —with illustrations. Patri congregation. CHURCH SCHOOL, 9:30 a.m. : THURSDAY, Midweek Service at 7:45 p.m. VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL DAILY, except Saturday, 9:30 a.m. to 12 noon. The Finest Music Pass the Door ndolph Preaches— - OUR SOULS” otic music by the choir and The Heartiest Welcome CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR PROGRAM ELABORATE Des Moines Expects 25,000 Visitors at Convention—Bryan to Be Speaker. DES MOINES, Towa, June 30.— Everything Is In readiness here for the opening of the twenty-ninth in- ternational Christian Endeavor con- vention, July 4 to 9. The 25,000 visit- ors expected here from every state in this country, from Canada and from foreign lands, will find Des Moines gayly decorated with flags, bunting and pennants, fine inspirational pro- grams arranged and an elaborate re- ception and entertafiment program in offect. During the convention meetings will be held morning, afternoon and evining, with speakers of national reputation dellvering addresses. A “loud speaker” installed in the huge Coliseum will make it possible for all to hear distinctly. Big features of the conventlon in- clude: s Outdoor picnic the state fair Erounds, Sunday, July 8, with speeches in the afternoon by William Jennings Bryan and Dr. Ira D. Land- rith, and with addresses at night by Dr. Francis . Clark, founder of Christian Endeavor; Dan Poling, soclate president, and Abraham of New York. Tt Is expected 50,000 persons will attend this p A Dbig street parade, with 20,000 marchers, {s scheduled ' for Suturday evening, July 7. The parade will form at the state house grounds and march past a reviewing stand near the civie center. There will be a pageant, “The New Life,”” in which 500 Des Moines people will_participate, and for which a chorus of 600 voices wlill render music. The pageant and chorus are under the direction of Prof. H. Augustine Smith, dircotor of the fine arts in rellgion department of Boston University. WILL FILL LOCAL PULPIT. In the absence of Rev. James Shera Montgomery of Calvary M. E. Church, who 15 on his annual vacation, Rev. Wilbur H. Norcross of Dickinson Col- lege will preach. at t . CHRISTADELPHIAN. Christadelphian Ecclesia 2@ NAVAL LODGE HALL. Every Suaday. 1 m. All welcome. Christadelphian Chapel Brethren, meet evers Sund CHURCHES OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST BRANCHES OF THE MOTHER CHURCH, THE FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, IN BOSTON, MASS, First Church of Christ, Scientist, Columbia road aud Enclid st. Second Church of Christ, Scientist, N.E. Masonic Tewple, 8th and F sts. Third Church of Christ, Scientist, Masonic Temple, 13th st. and N. Y. ave. Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist, The Arcade, 14th st. and Park rd. SUBJECT “ 2 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SERVICES- 1 and 8 p.m. will hold to Sunday eve. ning services during July and August. SUNDAY SCHOOL-11 WEDNESDAY NG MEETINGS— oclock. READING ROOMS: 1319 F ST. N.W., Room 08— 9 to ® (except Wednesday. and Sundays and holida, 10 148 EAST CAPITOL ST.— Hours, 12 to 7 (except Wednesda: o 6:' S 30 to 3 holidays| EVE 14th and G Stw— 0 to 7, aud Sua. 10 to O week days except Wednesdays, 10 to 5:30. METHODIST EPISCOPAL. SOUTH. Marvin M. E. Church South 10th and B sts. CLAUDE M. HESSER. 11:00 a.m.—Holy Communion, THE: EVENING? STAR, WASHINGTON \ 380 Churches Own$14,000,000 157,000 Members There are 380 churches, with a religlous community of approxi- mately 157,000 in the District of Columbla, and with church and parsonage property valued at §14,- 000,000, according to a report in “Where Washington Worships, just issued by the Washington Federation of Churches. The new church directors for the District of Columbia is of 162 pages, illustrated throughout. It is claimed to be the most complete directory of all religious Institu- tions hore. There is a brief his- . torical sketch of many of the prominent places of worship. The foreword says: “This hand- book of the religious forces of the District of Columbia represents an effort to bring together within the compass of a convenient volume that information about the churches and spiritual activities of the District of Columbia for which the community finds need. It is an extension of the idea of that sterling clergyman and citi- zen, Dr. J. Henning Nelms, put forth in his ‘Where Washington Worships,’ published some vears ago, and seeks to present, in an entirely non-sectarian way, the things about every. religlous organi- zation and church in the city that the average seeker after such in- formation wants to know.” FINDS JEWISH REFUGEES IN POLAND DIMINISHED Reported Reduction to 10,000 From 150,000 for September, 1821, . Rumania Shows Decrease. LONDON, June 30 (Jewish Tele- graph Agency).—The number of Jewlish refugees In Poland has been reduced from 150.000 in September, 1821, to about 10,000, and in Ru- mania from 45000 in March, 1922, to 11,000, according to a report submit- ted by Luclen Wolf, on behalf of the Jewish joint forélgn committee, to the Jewish Colonization Assocla: tion. Most of the refugees having for- feited their rights as Russian citi- zens, owing to their fllegal Might from Russia, the soviets refused to receive them. In consequence they were tossed backward and forward Letween the Russian and Polish fron- tier guards, and many were left to die through want and exposure in the neutral zone, after they had been robbed by the expulsion officlals. Fgually harrowing storics were rom the Rumanian frontier. however, mass _expulsion the Russian frontler from Poland need no longer be feared, the report states, and there are no seri- ous causes for complaint with regard to Rumania CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR PICNIC Members of the Senior Christian Endeavor ety of the Vermont Avenus Christian Church will picnic this afternoon at the Miller Cabin in Rock Creck Park, the committee on arrangements including Cant. A. G. Grinnell. Edward A. Krause, Le Roy Barnard and Miss Louise Moddelmog. 1 THEOSOPHY. United Lodge of Theosophists 812 17th Bt. N.W. BUNDAY, 8 P.M. “Let Us Go into Retreat— Or a Journey to the Mount” Open for Study Tuesdays. 7:30 to 9 p.m. SALVATION ARMY. CAPT. WESLEY BOUTERSE WILL CONDUCT special united wervice fn the chapel of the Salvation Army Social Service Center, at 1 16 B «t., on Sunday at 10:30 a.m. Sun- day evening at 8 o'clock Capt. and Mrs. Bouterse will give farewell addresses at _Corps No. 1. 806 E st. n.w. NAZARENE. Church of the Nazarene Seventh and A Streets N.E. LEEWIN B. WILLIAM: Pastor. 5: preaching, 1 o b LY Pastor: Young Peo- ‘Thursday. Dprayer meeting, ALL_WELCO) “THE GOOD-WILL CHURCH." M. E. Church South 13th ST. AT N. CAROLINA AVE. N.E. Rev. John Paul Tyler, D.D., Pastor 9:30 a.m.—Sunday School. 11.00 a.m.—Morning Wor- ship. Sermon by the pastor. 7:00 p.m.—Epworth League. 8:00 p.m.—Evening Wor- ship and Sermon Large Chorus Choir and church home are nvited to unite with "* Yisitors Cordially Welcomed. NEW CHURCH (Swedenborgian.) | Church of the New Jerusalem Jobm, saw the Holy City, New Jerusalem. (Revelation, xxi.2.) Sixteenth st. above Q n.w. Regular morning worship at 11 o'clock Yith sermon by the pastor, the Rev, Paul Sperry. Every one will be weleor Free lending libracy. open dai SEVENTH-DAY ADVEN'HS‘I‘S. The People’s Tabernacle " 3.7 8t X | LEWIS C. SHEAFE, Minister, Open Air Service Sunday. 8 p.m. Subject: “THE SONG OF CREATI( i Y. M. C. A, Open Air Service—Lincoln Park Sunday, 4 P.M. Rev. Wm. H. Pettus, Speaker Auspices Y, M. O. A. and Interchurch = CENTRAL UNION MISSION. MT. PLEASANT M. E. CHURCH SOUTH 16th St. Lamont. REV. CLIFTON K. RAY, Minister. school and RBible classes. worship. Sermon by the With the Lord’ (Guonod), Mr. gnd Mrs. Heart- will. L oto—Come _ Tnto s Mixs Koontz. (Coenen), ue. *“Sermon by the m & Pilgrim, T'm 8 Stranger” i 'm a grim, I'm & anger’ T“)_(Mnr-n»lul. Mr. ‘and Mrs. Heartaill ua’ Koonts: o—Xbwthe Dy 15 Over” (Speakm). Mr. Heartall: o —Midweek prayer service. trangers 'and_visitors are cordially in: Vited fo worship with u ST. PAUL Second > £a, gl Second N.W. . JUDSON RINGER. Pastor. s G. W. 0OBB, Associate Pastor, 9:30 CHURCH RCHOOL: G MEN'S CLASS, R. 0. Mullikin, teacher. BIRLE CLASS. A Phillips, teacher. Sermon and Communion. Twilight Service. 8 p.m., Prayer and Praise. ¥ Hl 11:00 a.m 7:30 p.m “Thursday, | “CENTRAL UNION " MISSION i 622 Louisiana Ave. N.W. | JOHN S. BENNETT, Supt. The Mission of the Churches Services evary week night at 8 o'clock. Sundays, 3 and 7:45 p.m. ‘Sunday, July 1, Open Air Serv- ice, 6:30 p.m., corner 7th and Louisiana avenue northwest. Auditorium Service at 7:45 p.m. }Miss Tillie Nelson, Speaker | Special Music Everybody Welcome METHODIST EPISCOPAL SOUTH. THE REPRESEN (M. E. Ch .. Clovis G. Chappell, Pastor. 11 am—Sermon by MOUNT VERNON PLACE CHURCH 9TH AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE. 9:30 am—Sunday School—Classes for All 'TATIVE CHURCH urch South) M. Leo Rippy, Asst. Pastor DR. J. M. ROWLAND of Richmond, Va. 7:00p.m.—Epworth League. Visitors Cordially Invited. 8:15 p.m.—Sermon by DR. ROWLAND. g Dafly vacation Bihle School, July 9 to August 4 9 to 13 daily. Courses 1n sewing, hammock making, crocheting, knitting, basketry, ntry, pienic, swimming, music; story telling, Bible, calisthenics, health and habit talks. All free. Call church office and register your children. D. . C., .SATURDAY, Sunday School Lesson BY REV. HUGH T. STEVENSON. JOHN THE BAPTIST. 3.1-17, 11.2-165; Mark, Luke, 1,5-80, 3.1-22; .18-28; John, 1.6-37. (A survey of the life of John the Baptist.) Golden Text—Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel; for He hath visited and wrought re- demption for His people.— Luke,)1.68, Our studles of the great men and women of the Bible during the com- ing quarter are taken from the herolc personalities of the New Testament. It is appropriate that we commence the lessons for the next three months with a study of John the Baptist, whose life s unique In that it links up the Jewish dispensation of the Old Testament with the Christlan era. Mark, with a historian’s sense, makes “the beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ” to commence with the min- istry of John the Baptist, who gath- ered up the teachings of the past, re- vived the prophetic order, fulfilled the predictions of the prophets by preach- ing In a language that aroused the | nation by its startling and courage- ous denunciation of sin. We have it on the authority of the Lord Jesus, that “Among them that are born of women there hath not arisen a great- er than John the Baptist.” 1f we are to form a correct opin- fon of this colossal personality, who filled such a unique place in the his- tory of the two religlous dispensa- tions, we must consider his predes- tined life. Three passages from the prophets concerning John the Baptist are referred to in the New Testament as predictions that were fulfilled in the life of the herald of the Christ. Isaiah prophesied of “The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord.”" Mi cah told of the coming of “the m senger,” und the Prophet Elijah, near- 1y four hundred years before Gabrlel, the angel of the Lord, startled Zach- arias, while engaged in the perform- ance of his duty as a priest, with the announcement that his aged wife should bear a son, whom they would call John. Luke, who was a physiclan, had learned in his professional practice the significance of hereditary and the right of a child to be well born. He saw the importance of the prenatal emotions and parental desires of the plous parents. He refers to the sacred theme with fervor, yet with a delicacy as he reverently points out the part that the ancestry of John the Baptist had in moulding acter of their God-given son, who was a child of pra prohecy and promise. His parents had llved a blameless life for many years in their effort to follow the commandments and ordinances of Jehovah. They gave him a physical, mental and spiritual endowment for his greatness. George Ellot has well sald that “In the man whose childhood has known saresses there lives the fiber of memory that can be touched to gentle issues.” The home, where John grew up In the hill country of Judea, was one filled with the atmosphere of religion, reverance and refinement There he received instruction in the fundamental principies of the Hebrew faith, the history of their race and the precepts of the law. One of the memories that inspired John's life was the recollection of his father's devotional life and constant study of sacred rolls of Scripture. The spir- itual conversations around the family table and the moulding power of the family altar helped shape the destiny of the developink boy, who would re- call how “The priest-like father reads the sacred page, How Abram wis the friend of God on high; Or. Moses bade eternal warfare wage With Amalek’s ungracious progeny: Or, how the royal bard dif groaning lie Beneath the stroke of avenging cry; Or Job's patnetic plaint, and walling cry; “r. rapt Isalah's wild, seraphic fir . other holy seers that tune the sacred lyre.” There Is no record as to when the ttes binding the Baptist to his home life were broken. Probably it came with the death of his aged parents. Possibly it was at that cruclal hour that young John sought and found in the solitude of the desert life com- fort from the presence of the Holy Spirtt, who completed the required preparation of the Baptist for his coming ministry during those epoch making desert days. Solitude, sorrow and suffering had their part in mould- ing the heroic personality of John, the forerunner of our Lord. Some have suggested that he became at: tached to the Essenes, a religious and Heaven's LUTHERAN. Bth AND P SIS, N.W. ZION Rev. RICHARD SCHMIDT, Pastor. Bible school, 9:30 a.m. Worship and ser mon, Germsn, 10 a.m.; Evglish, 11 a.m. FEvening, 7:45. Program of Children's Day to be repeated. Evening services to continue Luther League, business, Thurs- Friday, July 8, excursion to lfifingdful Lutheran Church (Onio Bynod.) 13th and Corcoran Preaching. 11 a.m. and 8 dsy school, B5m% CENSK1. Pastor. Keller Memorial Lutheran MD. AVE. & 9TH BT. N.E. S. T. Nicholas, D. D., Pastor ing service at 11:00. Feeaing service on the Church Lawn at 7:00. “THE HOMELIKE CHURCH. Grace B and Sth sts. s.w. REV. H. D. EAYES, D, D,, Pastor. ““The Church Where You Feel at Home." Sunday the lat. :45—Bible_school, 1?1’;-?-:‘ Service with Holy Communion. Christ Lutheran Church New Jersey ave. bet. M and N sts. (Missour} 8ynod.) J. FREDERIC WENCHEL, Pastor, Services, 11 a.m. 9:45 a.m.—S. . and Bible class. Eplphany 16th AND G STREBIS Northwe: HEV. W. C. WALTEMYER, Pastor. Bible school..... 9:30 a.m. Morning worship. e iess, Thaiaiay, S0 p. Concordia Evangelical Lutheran 20th and G n.w. C. W. LOCHER, Pastor. m.—Bible_school - n’ German: ™ALL WELCOME. 9:45 11:00 the | »-JUNE . 30,..1923. ' fraternal communistic order that had their monastaries in that section, but there is no satisfactory proof of it. John faced his life problem there un der the guldance of the spirit of th living God. Finally, when his prin ciples had become fixed and his char- acter established, he responded to the lel.l" of God Inc{emered upon his min- \‘;/yhen John, filled with the con- lousness that God had given him a definite mission, lifted his volce in the suburbs along the Jordan, he soon secured the attention of the nation. The personal appearance of the messenger of God, with his ral- ment of camel's hair fastened by a leather girdle, was strikingly sug- gestive of Elijah, who centuries be- fore had pointed out the nation’s in- fidelity and restored the worship of God. John's demand of repentance and his warning for them to prepare for the kingdom of God gripped the multitudes who flocked from the cities to hear the lay preacher attack with his pungent and pointed ser- mons the sins of the nation. His demand for repentance called for more than sorrow for sin, which may produce repentance. Godly sor- row, which is the result of the con- templation of the goodness of God, always produces _conversion, or change of mind, which is' the New Testament meaning of repentance. John required the evidence of their conversion to be established by a change in their lives. He sought to eradicate the selfish, profiteering spirit by insisting that there should be a division of personal property, hoth of food and clothing, to be dis- tributed among them that lacked. His message to the soldiers was in- dividualistic and not national. He condemned the militaristic spirit of his day that looked upon the army as & means of making profit by !violence and forcing anything wrong- ully. He charged the soldiers to be content with your pay, as you agreed to it when you went into the service: let it serve you.” Phillips Brooks has defined preach- ing to be the presentation of truth through personality. It was the man behind the message that made the Baptist a preacher of power. His simplicity, courage and spiritual in- sight made him an interpreter of the passion of his age. He was en- |dued” with power from on High |that enabled him to start a mass | movement that reached the con- science of. men and aroused them to [their personal danger, so that they | repented and made a public confes- |sion of their sins before being bap- | tized. | Possibly the most distingulshing |&race possessed by John was his {humility. He referred to himself as & volce, showing that he expected to |pass out of sight and out of mind like a volce that dies upon the air and is forgotten. He revealed his {humility when, in the zenith of his | power, 'he waved aside the applause | of men when they desired to accept {him as the Messfah. He had vision that enabled him to see beyond his jown work, which he considered to be superficial because of its negative character, when he pointed to the coming of the One who would prove His Messiahic clalms by baptizing with the Holy Spirit. He claimed that he was not worthy of being a slave to the Messiah, He was attracted to Jesus by his moral character. He recognized by his spiritual vision the Master's sin- lessness. The Baptist's clearsighted- ness enabled him to see more than the purlty of Christ's humanity, for he Tecognized the Lord's divinity when he saw the Spirit of God descend upon Him in the form of a dove at his baptism. He.testified that Jesus was the Son of God, which has been the subject of dispute. In the Old Testament the title referred to a fa- vorite of God, but in the ¥hought of John it probably referred not only to the Master being the Messtah, but His divinity. His Inner spiritual con- sclence enabled the Baptist to detect a change in the appearance of the Christ after His forty days’ tempta- tion in the wilderness. He saw the fulfillment of Isaiah’s prophecy in Christ's sacrificial death, when he pointed Him out as “the Lamb of God.” The real test of hls greatness came when one of His disciples ob- jected to Jesus' growing popularity as a preacher and His disciples also of baptizing. A small man would have been peeved, but John again showed his humility by pointing out that he had served the Lord as groom to help win the nation's love for Jesus, whom he pointed out as the bridegroom. The tragedy of the life of the Bap- tist is seen in the fact that while he was in prison his faith wavered. Jesus had not done what he expect- ed. so he sent a delegation to the Master with a question that was al- most one of faith. Christ sent a re- | ply that He judged would comfort John and fill him with courage born of confldence in Jesus as the Mes- slah who fulfilled the prophecy of the prophets concerning His word and work. Evidently there broke upon John the truth that the Man of Mercy was the Messiah, 80 that when death suddenly confronted him, as a young man of thirty, whose life ended in the midst of his greatness, he died with an unshaken faith in the Lord Jesus, who had called the multitude’s attentlon to the fact that the uncom- promising prophet of righteousness, who refused the opportunity to “cash in" on his greatness, was the greatest of all the prophets (Coprright, 1923.) “NATIONAL SINS,” TOPIC. Pastor of Shiloh Baptist Church | Arranges Tomorrow’s Sermon. | 1 Shiloh Baptist Church is planning to hold patriotic services tomorrow morning, when Rev, Dr. Waldron, the pastor, will preach on “Some National Sins and How to Get Rid of Them." The choir will render patriotic selec- tions, and at night the Lord's supper will be administered and the hand of fellowship will be given to a number of new members. LUTHERAN. Church of the Incarnation Northeast Corner 14th and Gallatin Sts. N.W. REV. HENRY MAN. A KEN, Pastor fl5(5—§|ble‘ "hw"'l O PRTe GoRDIALLY mNvITED. Church of Reformation 8nd and B Bts. 8.E, BEV, JOHN WEIDLEY, D.D, Pastor. EVERY SUNDAY. Sunday_schoo) Morning servi Eceniag scteice Christian Endea 6:45 D1 You are invited. No seats reserved. St. Paul’s English Lutheran Church Eleventh and H Streets N.W. John T. Huddle, D. D., Pastor. :30—Sunday school. 11 )O—Pub'llc ‘worship with eermon by the 7:00_Lhristian_Endeavor meeting. No eveniug service. LUTHER PLACE MEMORIAL (AT THOMAS CIRCLE N.W.) G. M. DIFFENDERFER, Pastor 8:00 a.m.—Holy Communion. 11:00 a.m.—Holy Communion. 7:30 p.m.—A UNIQUE PATRIOTIC SERVICE. Senior and Junior Endeavor Societies. PAGEANT ON AMERICA’S PRIV- ILEGE BY JUNIORS, directed by Miss Katheryn Gault. Leader, W. McK. Stowell. HON. JAS. DR. W. J. SHOWALTER | were James N Woman to Head Lutheran Church Sabbath School MISS BESS D. SCHREINER. Miss Bess D. Schreiner, believed to be the only woman Sunday school superintendent in the District of Columbia, tomorrow assumes her duties at the Sunday school of the Luther Place Memorial Church, 14th street and Thomas Circle. Miss Schreiner has been assistant superintendent for some time and was recently clected to head the school. Other officers elected we) John R. Martin, eri tendent; . and Rufus Weaver. treasurer. 1t i5 the plan of the new, superin- tendent to make an cffort to de- velop the junior and intermedlate departments of the school through religious pageantry and dramatics. In this connection Miss Schreiner has placed Miss Katherine Gault and Miss Helen H. Thontas in arge. to be assisted by Misses na’ Norman, Judy Lythe and Dorothy Cable. The primary department charge of Mre. Frank H. PLANNING FOR VISITOR. Bainbow Veterans to Entertain Gen. Gouraud of France. The D. C. Chapler, Rainbow Division Veterans' Association, in order to per- fect arrangements for the entertainment of Gen. Gouraud of the French arms, who is coming to the United States for the national convention of the asso tion, to be held in Indianapolis next month, and who is to be the guest of the local chapter July 5, 6, 7 and 8, will hold a_epecial & Room' 1 House Office buflding, tomorrow morn- ing at 10:30. All members are urgently requested to be present. is in Burges. v, Robert Fotter, Arnold and John W. Kline. t regular meeting delegates were elected to represent the D. C. Chapter at the convention. Those chosen Curtin, Morris Dow and CHINESE TO BE BAPTIZED. Three Young Converts to Join Cal- vary Baptist Church. Three young Chinese will be re- ceived in baptism and church mem- bership at the Calvary Baptist Church tomorrow evening, by the assoclate pastor. Rev. Dr. A. Freeman Anderson. They are: Chin Wing, Chin Ung and Chin Fon. The last-named was converted in his native land. Upon reaching Washington, he applied for baptism and admission to membership in the Calvary Baptist Church, but was unable to make his desires unde stood. Finally, David Lee, a young Christian student at Denison Uni versity, at the difficulty, translated Chin Fon's request, and’ the ceremonies tomor- rew evening will mark the culmina- tion of his ambition to be baptised into the Christian faith and to unite with a Christian church in his adopt- ed land. —_— GIRLS GIVEN OUTINGS. Episcopal Children Taken to Holi- day House. The litvle girls of the candidates classes of the Girls’ Friend branches of several churches in Washington have spent the last week at Hollday House, the vacation home clety on the Potomac river near Mount Vernon. Miss Ella May Monk of the English department of Eastern High School has had charge of activi- ties during the week. Candidates from the St. Columbia’s Chapel, Ten St. Patrick’s Chapel. Conduit and Emmanuel Church, will go to Holiday House week’s outing. Tomorrow afternoon Backus, assistant minister at the Church’ of the Epfphany, will conduct the open-air service at Holiday House at 5 p.m. to which all interested per- sons are invited. Those taking the elec- tric car leaving 12th and D streets northwest at 4 p.m. will reach Holiday House In time for this service. T e WOOING, PULPIT THEME. branches Rev, Rev. E. Hez Swem Will Preach at| Centenary Baptist Church. “A Man's Strange Way of Getting a Sweetheart.” will be divulged by Rev. E. Hez Swem tomorrow night at the Centennial Baptist Church. Potter will e the soprano soloist af night. The morning _subject “Baptist Success—the Secre HERE FROM BALTIMORE. Rev. Percy Thomas to Preach at H Street Church. Rev. Percy Thomas. pastor of the Immanuel Christian Church of Balti- | more, Md., will preach at the H Street Christian’ Church, 6th and H streets southwest, tomorrow morning and night. Rev. Thomas Is a graduate of Bethany Coilege and Yale Theo- ligical Seminar NON-SECTARIAN. NOON SILENCE DAILY—HEALING, DIVINE laws made plain. Ciasses for select few in symbology and eastern laws. Concentration. Meditation und Rreath Control. Legare Bowles Tine. 871 110 East Capitol at. * Gospel Mission John Marshall Place and 330 C N.W. CALLS FOR WORKS OF MOTHER SETON Archbishop Curley Orders That All Her Writings Be Delivered to Him. Archbishop Curley has Issued an o der that all Catholies in the arch dlocese of Baltimore having In thei: possession any writings of Mothcr Elizabeth Ann Seton shall forwarq such documents or duly authenticated coples of them to the archepiscopal residence under ecclesjastical pena ties. The order also requires all Catholics who know of the existence of such documents to notify the Rev. William J. Hafey, chancellor -of the archdlo- cese, where such documents can be uch persons are to tell the the name of any person attempt to conceal such documents he order pertains not only to documents in Mother Seton's handwriting, but also to any docu- ments containing words dictated b: her. The order is issued in the Cath olic Review Canonization Possible. This order is one of the most in portant ever issued by a Catholi prelate in the United States, 1t mean that the steps leading to the beatifi cation of Mother Seton are w way, and that Rome is amine every pa by Mother the Sisters of Charity in_the United States. She is burled at Emmitsburg Md. It is possible that she will be ome the first canonized saint of th United States. The process of canonization ofter takes eral hundred years. Th methods pursued by Rome in sucl processes are strict. There is ap- pointed for such proceedings a pre late, who is known as the devil's ad vocate. It is that advocate's duty t ascertaln the least possible thing that may hinder the canonization of an proposed for sainthood. The beatifica tion process precedes canonlzation. Documents to Be Examined. Everything thut Mother Seton ever wrote or ever dictated is to be ex- amined. No person can be canonized in the absence of proof of miracles wrought through the int on of the one proposed for sainthood. If Mother Seton i3« eventually it may mean that land has produced the first s the United States. The form posal for Mother Setor was made in 1998, Cardinal Gibhons convened an or clestastical tribune to collect testi mony-concerning her life. Since tl time special messengers bearing doc- nonized Mary- int of pro beatificatior when the late anville, Ohio, learned of | maintained by the so- | at! Jabez | Ruby | Speakers All denominations co-workers Seeking, Saving, Serting We minister to body and soul Meeting Every Night, 7:30 Come, Hear, Help T. LLOYD THIS CHURCH WELCOMES YOU uments Mother Seton's life have been sent to Rome. CHURCH BIBLE CLASSES GATHER AT LEESBURG Meeting to Close Tomorrow With Mass Meeting in Court- house Yard. One hundred and fiftecn delegates from the adult Bible classes of local churches left Washington last even- ing for Leesburg, where they will at- tend a conference on Bible class work ‘The conference will remain in session today and tomorrow and close with a mass meeting in the courthouse yard, at which Dr. Isaac Ward, pas- tor of the Fourth Presbyteriarn | Church, will speak and the Glee Club jof the Vermont Avenue Christian Church will sing under the leadership of William E. Braithwaite. Mrs. Henry F. Lutz will preside at the women's conference and Homer J “ouncilor will be the chairman of th conference for men. All sessions wi be held in the Methodist Episcopal {Church South and the headquarters of the conference will be at the Lees- burg Inn The following delegates are in_at tendance at the conferencs Mrs. J. Db Ashford, Miss Florence O. Babcock E. Becker, Nelson M. Blake, E. M Bryan, William H Butler, Dr. A. A enay. Dr. A. W. Cummings, Mrs H, Dewey, James T, Ellett, Everett M. Ellison. Mrs, . Fessenden. J H swler, Mrs, Mamie Gardiner Miss Mattie Hitt, Mrs. Roy L. Har- low, J. M. Hodge, H. T. Houston, G. S, Janieson. Thomas ¥. Jones, George O | Kraft, Allen M. Laster, Mrs. Henry {F. Lutz. Llovd Maxwell. R. J {Mears, Dr. M. E. Miller, I. L Mitchell U. G, Perry, Mrs. Charles W. Ricketts, Jr.; Mi Margaret Ringrose, Mrs. I 1. Roge Maurice San John T sikinner, ith, Thomas C. E. Warner, Mrs, Harvey Wine, H. Wright, Mrs. M. L. Anderson. C A.H. Bailey, C. E. Beckett, Carl E Bogardus, Mrs. M. B n, Lester 1. Charlton, Robert B. Cotton. Mrs A. W. Cummings, Miss N._A. Durfee James T. llett, Page McK . John rll"ar,l Fr')‘tnh! A st, Harv am, . L. arlow. Mot PUHei® D, K. Hornbeel, Miss ¥ E. Huntt, Wiibur Jeffreys, R. C dd, William H. Labofish, Miss Lenu George L. Myers. T V. Millan. H. Miller. . John A Patter . R. Robinson Rundles, ‘Mrs. R. A, Sauer kinner, Jesse C. Smith J. B. Welden, C Ravmond . Miss John C. hel L. Bil ¥ Brown. Miss Mar orie W. Bump 1377 Councitor, Mrs. ¢ El . Wil liam L. Ford . J. F. Gregory P. Hickox, Mrs Miss Hutchinsor . Harry C. Kim Leonhardt. Miss_Flor- eridge Miller Herbert D. Orms atterson, Miss Mars P. L. Rogers, Mrs, Georg Stdell, Clifford ¥. Smith h, A. E. Ulig, James 1. John D. Wolcott. A Green. ver, B. D. E. Mrs. Wilbur, | McDorn . Minor, L. Ray L. Smi Wilmeth and BIBLE CLASS PROGRAM. July and August Sunday ‘Evening ‘Exercises Announced. Sunday evenings during July and August a Bible classs will be held from 7:30 to 8 p.m. in the Chapel of the Good Shepherd, 6th and I streets .ortheast, conducted by Rev. Joseph Manly Cobb, followed by prayer fromr » to 8:30 p.m., without sermon. ‘The Bibie class is_under the aus pices of the Young Peoples’ Fellow- ship and the topics are as follows July 1, “The Bible”; July 8. “The Prayer Book”; July 1 “Baptism July 22, “Confirmatio Ju!y “Obedience”; August 5, “The Creed” August 12, “The Church”; August 11 ; August 26, “The Holy Com-= munion.” PLANS SHORT SERMONS. First Baptist Church Pastor Ar- ranges July Schedule. Rev. Dr. Henry Allen Tupper, pas tor of First Baptist Church, 16th and O streets, will deliver a series of special twenty-minute sermons on Sundays in July, as follows: 11 a.m.. “The Founder of the Greatest Na- tions”: 8 p.m., “The Perplexing Prob- lem of Prohibition.” During the absence of John Ruth ven, superintendent of the Sunday school, at the B. Y. P. U. conventioi in Boston, Elgin Smith will conduct the services. L