Evening Star Newspaper, January 31, 1925, Page 11

THE EVENING STAR, 'WASHINGTO D. €, SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 192 11 SPEAKER EXPLAINS TEACHING OF SIS Gives Christian Science In- terpretation of Words “Kingdom of Heaven.” A lecture on “Christian Science and the Kingdom of Heaven” was deliv- | ered last ht in First Church of Christ, Scientist, by [Paul Stark Seeley, C. S. B. of Portland, Oreg.| Mr. Seeley ix w member of the board of lectureship of the mother church, | the First Church of Christ, Scientist in Boston. He was introduced by Elmer 1. Baldwin. The le Christ Jesus began His epoch-mak- Ing ministry with the imperative com mand, ‘Repent. for the kingdom of | heaven Is at hand | Stitement of Jesux. t us note that Jesus statement | concerning the presence of God and | His kingdom could not have been| made if He had had no other evidence | of existence than that which His eves saw and His ears heard. These senses | saw an order wherein His countrymen were under the Roman yoke, the Pharisees w in Moses' seat :‘ the human race was in subjection to| sin, diseass and death. Jeus gavel no weight to this order, but with H thought fixed on & hig tor of existence He confidently said. ‘Repent for the kingdom heaven is hand' Jesus well knew the truth later declared by Paul, ‘Eve hath not | seen, nor car heard the thing which God hath prepared.’ if. then we cannot perceive God and His king dom with our eves and ears. how are we to find Him and His tion Through spiritual sense “One of the happy things ab Chris- tian Science is that it explains now near God is simply by showing that God is nd, the author of every good thought Our bodies do not have to move an inch But we do have to make a move in our | thought. The move is from the wrong | to the rght point of view of exist | from the material to the spiritual s | of thought. One mentally emig { from the Land of Bad, where the giants | of Poverty, Fear, Hate and Sickne seem to rule, to the Land of Good, where the orily lawgiver is the all loving and | all-wise God Dental of Evil. A Christian Science treatment inciudes | denial of the claims of evil and mation of the facts of being as known 1o God. A lie when answered by truth becomes silent, whether the lie be a slander or a sickness. In Revelation, | John saw that the dragon, typifying all evil and sickness, was cast out not by drugs, nor by a surgeon's knife, but ‘by the word of the testimony.' This is the method of { Christian Sclence, the bearing of true testimony in thought and word. testi- fying aright of God and His man. “Christian Science is applicable every human need. Poverty and lack may be overcome the same as sick- | ness. When confronted with the false | arguments of limitation, if we would turn our thought to the God-appoint- ed order of existence instead of l0ok- ing into the bottomless pit of error— the unfounded beliefs of evil—we would find that love has already pr vided fully for man's every need. Th provision becomes evident in the pro- portion that love reigns within us Limitation denies wisdom and im- pugns love. Limitation is the essence | of matter and evil. Evil argues lim- ited supply, limited happiness, limit- ed life, limited activity, limited un- derstanding, limited capacity, limited everything. It is the firm of Evil and Company, Limited! This evil partnership has been adjudicated by Christian Science and found bank- | rupt. It has no assets, no place of business, no reliable business connec- tions and its dissolution is rapidiy being accomplished.” PUBLIC INVITED TO JOIN CHASE | FOR MISSING AUTHOR OF VERSE! Library, While Not Admitting Self Stumped, Con- siderably Puzzled by Many Requests for Quotation Owners. From star-crowned Gerizim ! Or Ebal's lofty crown We call the dews of blessing Or the bolts of cursing down. Tf there is any one in the District of | Columbla or elsewhere who thinks he | knows who wrote the above lines, or | whether they are quoted correctly, he should get in touch with Dr. George F. Bowerman at the Public Library. A high Government official has ask- | ed the library to identify and veri the quotation, and intensive search has been made by the reference de- partment of the institution for se eral weeks. Books of quotations, old hymn books and books of religlous verse have been ransacked without success, but the Public Library has a reputation for running down quotations of this kind and is still hard at work Public Ald Invited. The general public is now to join in the chase, which, in s spects, is more exciting than a cross- word puzzle It is not often that the reference | department has to admit itself stump- | ed, although it has occurred before, | of course. When the great mass of fugitive verse is recalled, it is no won- der that the precise quotations can- | not sometimes be found. Discussing this little known branch by the Public Li- | ited e of the service give brary, an of 1 sald: “One of the most thorough searches | ever made by the reference depart- | ment an effort to verify a quota- tion was about 1911, when the staft | ran down the source of the well| known mousetrap quotation: ‘If a man preach a better sermon, write a better book. or bulld a better mouse- trap than his neighbor, tho' he hide | himself in the wilderness, the world | will make a beaten path to his door.” | This is nearly always attributed to | Emerson, but rch of his writings | did not bring it to light. One memb rary staff read practically | 1 of Mr. Emerson was ap- | pealed to, through a friend whp knew | him, and his reply was interesting | but not conclusive. ‘This is my | answer: I don't believe it occurs in the printed works * * but all the essays were originally delivered as lectures and when they were printed they were strictly pruned. T think¢ the internal evidence is strong for the sentence or the like of it having been my father's.” In the meantime, a search had been carried on by the | H. W. Wilson Co. of New York, who | had used the quotation in a publica- | tlon and now tried to verify #. A let- | | | | ter was sent to Mr. Elbert Hubbard, and a letter from Mr. John T. Hole, assistant superintendent of the Ro; crofters, settled the matter. Finally Found Author. * “We, too, have spent several sleep- less nights poring over our Emerson, our Thoreau, and even Robert Louis, the beloved; but ail to no avall—nary a sign of a mousetrap. uddenly H‘ occurred to us to ask Mr. Hubbard | himself, since we had seen it used by him several y s ago * * * He smiled a far-away, quizzical smile—and said nothing. Noting the expectant look | States Pension Office for 40 years and | sentative | ars. [ for eithor peace or war is engendered | | ities of co-operation or confilct that | the Dies at Home Here | | AURESTUS S. PERHAM BIES OF PARALYSIS Prominent Resident and Union Veteran Had Served 40 Years in Pension Bureau. Aurestus ham, 80 vears old mer he United | yminently identified with or s in the District, died at b 1316 Harvard street Death followed a stroke of Wednesday ber of the habitants Mr. Perham was a son Sidney Perham, who was a Repre in Congress from Maine during the Civil War and later Gov nor of Maine. A veteran of the Civil War, Aures- v aniza- s resi- | yesterday. paralysis Mr. Perham was a mem- Association of Oldest In- the late tus S. Perham was a member of Rurnside Post, 8, G. A. R., and of the Society of the Potomac. He so was a member of the Sons of the American Revolution. In addi 1 to his connections with patriotic organizations, he had been identified prominently in literary cir cles, havin en a member of the Abracadabra Club. Soon after the han pension Repres position Civil War Mr. was appointed a clerk to the committee of the House of atives, and he also held the of secretary to Hanibal Hamlin when the latter was a Se ator from Maine. He was retired from his last position at the Pension ot after the retirement act went into effect in 1920 Per- Mr Perham is survived by Delia C. A his wife, two sons, kr- Perham and Sidney H. Per- a brother, William Perham, Miss Frances Perham and Miss Georgia S. Perham, all of this city Funeral services will be conducted Perham: nest bha at the st Congregational Church Monday morning at 10 o'clock. Rev. Dr. Jason Noble Pierce, pastor, will officiate. Interment will be in Ariing- ton Cemetery Rev. Dr. J. H. Apple, president of Hood College, Frederick, Md., will preach tomorrow morning at the H Street Christian Church, Sixth and H streets southwest. At 7:45 p.m. Rev. Dr. Herbert Smith will tell of his ex- | periences during the 15 years he was in the Belgian Congo. Rev. Harold E. Dickins, the pastor, will address a mass meeting, tomor- row evening, of churches of Fred- erick, Md he gave vent to the following: ‘T have glven as much to Emerson, Scopen- hauer, tzche and Whitman as I ever took from them. That they are dead and cannot receive my gifts |n1 exchange for theirs, is not my fault.' “So, there you are! Elbert Hub- bard evolved the Emersonian dictum from the depths of his own ‘cosmic consciousness' and put the credit where he believed it belonged.” “This we believe to be the correct answer—that Elbert Hubbard wrote it and attributed it to Emerson. The quotation is sometimes attributed, we belleve wrongly, to Dr. John R. Pax- ton of the West Presbyterian Church of New York City. One From the Prolific Wells. “The following selection from H. G. Wells ‘was recently looked for with- | out success, since there was no way of finding It except reading the works of Wells. ‘Joan and Peter and ‘The Story of a Great School- master’ were read through, without bringing it to light. Perhaps some | reader can locate it. The quotation is: ‘The driving force that makes where the young are teacher—whether taught. The | mother, pr.est or schoolmaster—is the real maker of | history; rulers, statesmen and sol- diers do but work out the possibil- teacher creates. This Is no rhetorical flourish; it is sober fact. The politiclans and masses of our time dance on the wires of their early education.’ A little poem which sounds very amillar and which has no doubt often appeared In print has so far eluded the search for its author. It runs something like this: If you sit down at set of sun And count the deeds that you have done, nd counting find one act. one word That eased the heart of him that heand, Then count that day as one well done. “A second verse follows, in con- trast to the first, ending with the line. ‘Then count that day as worsa than lost’ It sounds like Ella Wheeler Wilcox—is it? “Lines taken from the middle or the end of a poem by an unknown author are almost hopeless to locate, unless by good fortune they come to the aftention of one to whom the poem is familiar. Such may be the following: You may grind their souls in the self-same mill, But the poet will Zollow the rainbow stlil, And his brother will follow the plow. Sonnet Still Authorless. “A valiant sonnet, of which we have not found the author, is: 1 shall go forth one day, to joust with death. The little brittie chatns that hold me tied To rusted hopes, to visions cracked and dried, all break. and I sball hear the trumpet's breati Go clamoring across the barren heath, d. for a faming moment, I shall ride st brlef course (o meet the undefied e the blow that I shall full beneath y 1 make this single fervent prayer: iay then the blood of Bayard be my own, May 1 ride bhard and straight and smite him square, And in & clash of arms be overthrown, And, as 1 fall, hear through the evening air The J‘wda\. FEAR A MISSION BASIS HELD WEAK Is “Tragically Inadequate” Motive, Conference Dele- gates Are Told. “Fear" as a motive for foreign missions was described as_ “terribly and tragically inadequate.” by Dr. Hugh T. Kerr, pastor of the Shady- side Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh, at the foreign missions convention r pre es on all sides.” he de- red— fear, fear of a possi- ble rising tide of color, economical and industrial fear, fear lest the great surplus of raw material in Asia and Africa and the unlimited supply of cheap labor may In time slow down the wheels of our own industrial life, political and military fear, fear of arming millions of the East who can count hundreds to our units. Love of Christ is the only adequate motive. “The tor is the key to the for- eign missions enterprise,” he said. “If his light burns clear, his whole church is full of light. If he is a smoking flax, his people are apt to be spiritually asphyxiated. “There is nothing that will sim- plify the minister's kit like the mis- sionary program. The pastor, there- fore. is faced with a fourfold respon- sibility. g devoti sends men and women to the ends of the earth and keeps them there is the only sufficient motive to the church to send them and to sup- port them there, and it is that burn- ing and shining 1ight held aloft in the pulpit that lights the path to tri. umph, and when that light burns true missionary education, missfonary re- cruiting, missionary budgets will all be adequate for the business of the Kingdom. MISS NESS LANHAM DIES. Native of Indiana Lived in Capi- tal 18 Years. Miss Nesas Lanham, 74 vears old, a resident of this city for the last 18 years, died at thd residence of her ‘sister, Mrs. Jessie L. Beard, 3471 Fourteenth eel, vesterday. Miss Lanham was a native of In- diana. She was the daughter of the late Bryant Neal Lanham, for many years prominent in that State X he is survived by two sisters, Mrs Beard and Mrs. L. L. Barton, also of this city Funeral services will be conducted at H. Hines' funeral parlors Monday afternoon, at 2 o'cloc Interment in Rock Creck Cemetery. FARM PARLEY CALLED. Will Discuss Effects of Machinery on Agriculture. A conference on the chinery, motor and electric power on farmers, farming and wage earnens’ will convene here February 17 at the call of the Farmers' National Council Offictals of the Department of Agri- culture and of the American Federa- tion of Labor were announced as among the speakers. The council indicated the purpose of the conference in stating that “the undirected flight of hundreds of thousands of farmers a year into in- dustry, mining and transportation will seriously hurt these farmers, and impair labor’s standards.” DR. PORTER ASKS PARLEY. Dr. Samuel Judson Porter will oc- cupy the pulpit at the First Baptist Church, Sixteenth and O streets, to- morrow morning at 11 o'clock, having for his subject, “Reproducing the | Pattern.” At 8 o'clock Dr. Benjamin Otto of Chicago, one of those attend- ing<the blg missionary gathering in this city the past and present week Dr. Porter has issued his first call to the advisory board of the church for Monday night, at 8 o'clock, to de- vice plans for actively entering into the large field of work before him here. BISHOP WILL PREACH. Rev. B. T. Badley of India to Be at Foundry Church. Bishop Brenton Thoburn Bradley of India will occupy the pulpit of Foundry Methodist Church tomorrow evening and Rev. Dr. Lucius Bugbee, pastor Hennedin Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church in Minneapolis, Minn., will preach at the morning service. During the missionary conference Foundry Church is headquarters for the delegates from Canada. - COURSE FOR TEACHERS. The Board of Religious Education of the Episcopal Church in the Dio- cese of Washington announces that a new series of classes for Sunday school teachers will be inaugurated February 12, A class in the principles of teach- ing, a method course in scientific pedagogy for beginners, will meet every Thursday afternoon at 4:45. A second class will meet on Thursdays at 8 pm. for a course in how to teach the missions of the church Both courses will continue for 12 weeks and will be taught by Rev. Bd- ward Pinkney Wroth, a member of the Board of Religious Education. —e Rev. E. Hez Swem Continues Series “Winter Story IX: What T Saw in a Rallroad Car!” will be related Sun- day night, 8 o'clock, by Rev. E. Hez Swem, “effects of ma- | pastor Centennial Baptist Church. . New Tube in Prospect. A vacuum tube of radical and startling design is about to be manu- factured for public use. The new tube | does not look like the tubes in use at ‘resent and operates on a different principle. —_— can be answered, if it refers to a poem which Is quite familiar. So, in response to the request for a poem which had something about ‘She taught me all I know about women,® Kipling’s ‘The Ladies,’ with the re curring last line of the stanzas, ‘An’ I learned about women from “her,"”* was supplied. “When something s known about the author of the poem it is usually possible to give the definite quota- tion quickly. Recently a newspaper man telephoned to have the quota- tlon ‘They say the Lion and the Lizard keep the Courts where Jam- shyd gloried and drank deep.’ Since he knew this was from the ‘Rubatyat’ it did not take long to find it in the eighteenth stanza, and read it to him over the telephone. “A government department needed the familiar little poem, ‘Little drops of water, little grains of sand,’ Franklin's saying about the horse- shoe nail, and a poem, ‘Moo-cow, The distant¥horn of Roland faintly blown.™ “Sometimes a very vague Moo, by Edmund Vance Cooke, al inquiry lof which were readily found.” n to Jesus Christ that | inspire | | chairman INEW YORK AVE. CHURCH TO HEAR THREE VISITORS Missionary Leaders to Occupy Pul- pit at Morning, Afternoon and Evening Services. At the services tomorrow at the New York Avenue Church the ser- mons will be preached, morning, af- ternoon and evening, by delegates to the foreign missions convention. This church is the denominational headquarters for the Presbyterian Church in the United States of Amer- ica, the Reformed Church in America and the Waldensian Society. At the morning service, 11 a.m., Dr. Robert E. Speer, secretary of the board of foreign missions of the Presbyterian Church, willepreach the sermon. A university men's mass meeting will be held at 3 o'clock, at which Dr. Samuel M. Zwemer, an authority on the Mohammedan world, will speak. At the young people’'s evening tea and fellowship meeting, from 6:15 to 45, in address will be made by Dr. Guido Comba, who has just come from Ttaly in the interest of the Wal- densian Church. There will be with him four young people in the native costume of the people of the Wal- densian Church At 8 pm. the sermon will be preached by Rev. Dr. William I Chamberlain, who is a member of the executive committee of the foreign missions council and its vice presi- dent Monday at 2:30 o'clock two simul- taneous denominational rallies will be held in the church. The Reformed Church delegates will meet in the lec- ture room of the church and the dele- gates of the Presbyterian Church will hold their denominational rally in the audlitorium DR. WALDRON SUPPORTS RACE RELATION SUNDAY Says He Will Be Glad to Exchange Pulpits With Any ‘White Pastor. The recent action of the Federal Council of Churches in designating the second . Sunday in February as “Race Relation Sunday,” and the suggestion that white and colored pastors exchange pulpits that day, and discuss in their sermons means of bringing about better race relationship in this country, has been indorsed by the Shiloh Baptist Church, of which Rey, Dr. J. Milton Waldron isgpastor. Dr. Waldron €aid ha would be glad to exchange pulpits with any white pastor in this cit; and that his church will support the movement, At the service tomorrow morning Dr. Waldron will give away copies of th vest pocket edition of the “Gospel of St Mark.” His sermon topic is “The Life of Christ as Given in the Gospel of St Mark.” The Lord's eupper will be ad- ministered in the afternoon. At night he will preach a apecial sermon on “Hell or Heaven—Which Shall It Be?" ) CONTINUE. REVIVAL TO Young Workers of Gospel Assem- bly Still on Duty. The revival led by the workers of t spel Assem Pennsylvania avenue northwest, con- tinues nightly and Sunday afternoons to February 4, and there will be a new preacher each service from the delegation of missionaries and min- istess of the Assemblies of God, in attendance upon the great foreign missions convention, it is announced by the pastor, Rev. H. L. Collier. The Gospel Assembly has been chosen as the headquarters of the Pentecostal delegation. Rev, J. W. Welch will morrow at 3 p.m, and Rev Gortner of ew York at 7 p.m. A missionary rally and convention echo meeting of Pentecostal bodies in the District of Columbia, Alexan- dria, Va., and Baltimore, Md., will be beld Tuesday at 7:30 p.m., with an ad- dress by Rev. J. W. Welch, general of the Assemblies of God. Misslonaries will give 5-minute talks. WILL TALK TOMORROW. Two Missionaries to Be at First young preach to- Vernon G. Presbyterian. Dr. Jonathan Goforth, who has been in mission work in China for many years and closely identified with the work of Gen. Feng, famous Christian general, will speak in the Fourth Presbyterian Church tomorrow morn- ing. In the evening, Rev. Arthur J. Bowen of the South Africa general mission, a mission united with the work of Andrew Murray and Spencer Walton, will give a lecture on Africa, with lantern slides. MEET IN CATHEDRAL. ‘Washington Committee Will Have Session Monday. The Washington committee of the National Cathedral Association will meet in Diocesan House, 1329 K street, Monday, at 3:30 p.m. Rev. Dr. Henry Lubeck, a canon of the Cathedral, will make the address. The National Cathedral Assoctation is composed of friends of the Cathedral project in all parts of the United States, and it is to the asso- ciation that the chapter looks for the fund necessary for the running expenses of the services while the building of the edifice is going for- ward. The Washington committee one of several committees of the assoclation in the larger cities. All persons interested in the building of the Cathedral are invited. . AT CALVARY M. E. CHURCH. Man Who Said “I Haven’t Time,” Dr. Montgomery’s Topic. At the Calvary Methodist Church tomorrow evening Rev. Dr. James Shera Montgomery will deliver a ser- mon-lecture on “The Man Who Sald ‘1 Haven't Time'” In the morning Bishop Herbert Welsh of Korea will preach. /" Monday evening a free gospel serv- ice will be conducted by the Students’ League. Eighteen nationalities will be seen in an evening gospel service. The public invited. BISHOP WILL PREACH. Right Rev. J. S. Caldwell to Visit John Wesley A. M. E. Zion Church. Bishop J. S. Caldwell of Philadel- phia, Pa., will make his Episcopal visit and preach at John Wesley A. M. E. Zion Church, Fourteenth and Corcoran streets northwest tomor- row morning. The pastor, Rev. H. T. Medford, will fill the pulpit at the evening service: The Willing Workers' Club of the church will hold a special pew serv- ice at 3 p.m. Theosophists’ Services. At the United Lodge of Theoso- phists, 1731 K street northwest, at 8 p.. tomorrow, the subject is “Con- centration.” The public is invited. The study class will be held Wednes- day at 8 p.m., when “The Sevenfold Nature of Man” will be discussed. BY REV. HUGH T. STEVENSON. THE VINE AND THE BRANCHES.—John, xv.1-27. Golden Text—He that abideth in Me, and I in him, the same { | Peareth much fruit—Johx, xv.5. Palestine is a land of vineyards and vines. There are two ways for us to consider meaning of the vine. In one case we can study the vine and fol- low it out through its branches, or we may begin with the tip of the leaf and trace it back to its connection with the vine. One shows how one becomes many; the other reveals the many becoming one. Both of these processes are found in the life of the vine. Its life flows both outwardly and inwardly. The vital fiuid ix drawn up from the soil to be diffused through the ramifications of the vine and branches, and there is a return tide of aerated element from the leaves to build up the central structure. When Jesus spoke of the vine and the branches He indicated the twofold nature of all spiritual life—its tend- ency outward from Him to His own, and inward from the branches to the ine, or from every Christian to Carist This parable is big in meaning and has been used to teach many things which the Master did not intend to teach. Its primary meaning was to impress upon His apostolic band the secret of success in Christian life. It clearly points out the source, support and service of a spiritual life. He had comforted them by the assurance that although He was going away from them, He would be present with them through the abiding presence of the Holy Spirit, and through them He planned to carry on His work. He, by the use of the vine. is pressing home a similar lesson. Evidently He wished them to understand that the final outcome of His life and labor depended upon their bringing forth fruit as a result of their vital union with Him, that would not be destroy- ed by death. The impending separa- tion, He insisted, could not destroy their relationship because they were inseperatedly incorporated into Christ Union With Christ. Unfon with Jesus was vital. real. Ten times He refers to their abiding, or dwelling deep, in Him. The close relationship was well fllus- trated by the vine. Its continuity was evidently not to be destroyed by the \pproaching trial that would test cheir faith. The Master depended upon that spiritual relationship to fmpart His life unto them and throush them to the wonid. Christ and the Christians are one, just the vine and the branches are one. Apart from Him the Christians are powerless. Death would not destroy Him, and therefore it could not interfere per- manently with His relationship with His own. He understood the weak- ness of His apostles. He knew the ignorance and slowness of their hearts, the narrowness and, often, the unworthiness of their motives, and, in the face of all this, He declared that they were members of Him, branches of the vine of God. He knows all who have become one with Him to- day. Ho understands our faults, fail- ures and farawayedness of life, yet He has made us partakers of His life in a close and constant relationship that is real and vital, as much as that It was enjoyed by these, whom He called His branches. The unfon is a living one. It is a spiritual connection in which love, pure, simple, infinite, 1s revealed. Our life In Christ was born of the Fa- ther's love for the world. If we are to dwell deep in Him, so that from Him there flows to us the vital sap {of the spiritual vine, we must abide in His love. He desires our affection and friendship. No one can measure the wealth of love that Jesus poured out upon and into the hearts of His disciples in an effort to assure in re- turn from them their love. During His days in the flesh our Lord com- forted Himself and glorified Himself in His Father's love. He points out by referring to Him as the Husband- man, the fact that the unity existing between the Master and all who love Him is a oneness, which necessarily results in & oneness of their relation to God. In Christ's relation to Him He {8 the Son, and we come through our life in Jesus to possess the privi- leges of sons of God, to pass on to all who enjoyed the abiding union with Him all the fullness of the Fa- ther's love to Himself. BISHOP EDWIN D. MOUZON TO PREACH TOMORROW Nashville Prelate Will Occupy Pulpit at Mount Vernon Place M. E. Church. Bishop Edwin D. Mouzon of Nash- ville, Tenn., bishop of the fifth Epis- copal district of the Methodist Episco- pal Church, South, will preach to- morrbw morning at 11 o'clock in the Mount Vernon Place Church topic will be “The Lost Leader.” In the evening, at 8 o'clock, Rev. Dr. Marion Nelson Waldrif, pastor of the Central Methodist Church of Kansas City, will take as the topic “The Missionary Way.” The pastor of the church, Rev. Dr. W. A. Lam- beth, will be in charge of the service. The Junior Church will meet at 11 am. in the Sunday school auditorfum. The Senior League will also hold its service in this auditorium at 6:45 p.m. Rev. Dr. E. V. Regester, pre- siding elder of the Baltimore annual conference of the Southern Methodist Church, will preach at the Thursday evening prayer meeting at 8 o'clock. «y” CHIEF TO SPEAK. Secretary for Turkey to Be at Church of Our Father. Asa K. Jennings, national Y. M. C. A. secretary for Turkey, will preach tomorrow morning at 10:45 am. at the Church of Our Fatlfer, Thirteenth and L streets. = Miss Glenn Goding ‘will lead the Y. P. C. U. meeting at 7 p.m. and Rev. Dr. Clarence Rice will speak on Heaven.” A concert and entertainment will be given at the church Wednesday evening. CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR Squadron will_meet The Flying n with the Christian Endeavor Society Church tomorrow at 7 pm. A special program has been arranged. The next Sunday the squadron will meet with the Chris- tian Endeavor Society at First Re- formed Church, Thirteenth and Mon- roe streets northwest. The dinner of Christian Endeavor presidents, held at the Evangeline last Wednesday evening, was a suc- cess. One of the prominent activities revealed at this dinner was the fact that most of the societies were doing some sort of missionary work In the District. The February meeting of the union will be held at the Church of the Covenant tomorrow evening. The study classes will be held at 7:45 p.m. Following the study classes the meeting will consist of a series of conferences on Christian Endeavor methods. The Intermediate deavor Unfon will hold its annual banquet at the Calvary Baptist Church February & st 6:30 Pam. at Friends Christian En- Sunday School Lesson His | In the developing of thé vine the husbandman uses ornly one tool, the knife with which he prunes the vine, cutting off all that is dead. “If a man abide not in me he is cast forth as a branch and is withered.” This warn- ing contains a wholesome lesson. It teaches clearly that there are two kinds of branches. One of which is dead and frultless, which is finally to be “taken away,” “cast out” and “burned.” There has been consider- able discussion as to who is repre- sented by the “frultless vines.” Some insist that they represent the hypo- crites, who never had any vital unity with Jesus. Others claim that they are professors, or nominal Christians, who have professed, but never have possessed any spiritual life. Our re- lation to the Lord is a voluntary one. 1f we cease to abide in Him it is a matter of our own decision. Failure to dwell decp in His word, love and life would indicate that one may have been grafted into the vine, but failed to become permanently attached to Him. The fruitless ones are probably the “stony-ground hearers” The miseion of the vine is to bear frult. It is almost valueless as fuel. 1f the husbandman did not prune the vine it would cease to bring forth fruit. The self-denial and sacrificial serv- ice that Jesus requires of all His followers is one way that the pruning is carried on, %o that we can grow in grace and in_the knowledge of our Lord. 'The Master informed them that the husbandman had lopped the wild branches of their earthly hopes. smitten them with sorrow at the thought of His departure, and cut them deepl by exposing and cutting their pride back into humility.” They had experienced through the word the benefits of the pruning knife. Peter suffered it when Jesus told him that he would deny Him thrice, and his heart was heavy that night when he was left alone to his weak- ness after he had denied the Lord and looked into His eyes of love, as he went out alone to pace the streets of Jerusalem in the darknes The pruning experience removes the ex- cess growth of the natural man so that there will remain only that which will turn the sap that comes from the vine into the fruits of a character like Christ. Being one with Him, all we are to things. Spiritual Service. The vine exists for fruit bearing. The Christian lives that he may re- veal by his development of his life in Christ the fruits of the spirit. We can not dwell deep in the Lord with- | out growing in jhe things of the | Spirit. The first evidence of spirit ual progress will be revealed in one' {love for hers, who love Christ Jesus. By obeying Him we prove our loyalty to Christ. If we keep His commandments we “shall abide in His love,” which will enable us to unlock the gates of heavenly bless- ings through praver. Every one become like Him in who lives in | glorifies the Father through bearing [ much truit. The development of one's spiritual life through service in the fruitage of spirituality in one’s Christ is seer life. Christian service develops dis- tinctively Christ-like qualities. “The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peac long suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness and temper- ance” “If we live by the Spirit, we walk in the Spirit,” which gives power to our efforts to win others The character of every Christian is the potent factor in their success in service. What we are speaks louder than what we say to men Although Christ honors us with His friendship and opens up His heart to us He “would rather see his vines bleed than see them barren He counts on our obedience He has selacted us to be His friends so that through He could secure perma- nent results from our service. If we follow His footsteps, do His will abide in His' word, keep faith with Him, then we shall glorify the Father, and in return be filled with the joys of the Christian life. Our service for others and work for God's glory returns to us, just as the return tide of aerated element from the leaves | helps build_up the central stock of the vine. We grow by helping ex- pand the power of Christ and His church. Our life comes from Him. It is our mission to pass on our knowl- adge of Him and Hig life to others, for His life is the light of the world All who lose themselves in His serv- ice and in Him will glorify the Father and bear much fruit as a result of their dwelling deep in Him. FIRST REFORMED CHURCH | GETS $3,000 TO BUILD Reports for Year Presented and Of- ficers Are Elected at An- | nual Meeting. ‘The annual congregational meeting |of the First Reformed Church, Thir- |teenth and Monroe streets, was held | Tuesday evening. Dinner was served at 6:30, after which business was {transacted. Reports of the different organiza- tions were read. A check for £3,000 was turned in by the treasurer of a special committee to raise money for the building fund. Addre: S were made by the heads of each organiza- tion, giving in detail what had beer done in the past year, and plans for the ensuing year. Election of ofii- cers and committecs were as follows: | Trustees—Thomas E. Jarrell, Chris | Rammling and Ralph H.' McGarity Consistery members—George C. Ba- | kersmith, Henry G. Nau, Edward W.| Sanders, Chapman N, Thompson and | Charles C. Wenrich. Finance committee—Thomas E. Jar- rell, Chris Rammling, Louise R. Stam- baugh, Ralph H. McGarity and Cath- erine Loffler. Missionary committee—Mrs, Thom- as E. Jarrell, THE LAW OF GOD Aro the Ten Commandments Abolished! Wilkinson Lectures, Sunday Nightx | B. G. WILKINSON, PH. D. b3 fl.‘m,ur::.“{lf the Bible — Ao the | T"DR. B. G. WILKINSON Dean of Theology, Washington Aigaionary College Musical Program, P. M, Professor T. H. rrett with his Musical Saw, Oboe, Musical Chimes and Musical Tumblers. CAPITAL-MEMORIAL CHURCH 5th ahd F n.m'.ulx.w, MISSION DELEGATES WILL OCCUPY PULPITS Rev. Dr. Burnham and R. A. Doan to Speak at Vermont Ave- nue Church. Rev. Dr. F. W. Burnham of St Louis, president of .he United Chris- tian Missionary Society, will preach tomorrow morning at the Vermont Avenue Christian Church. At the evening service R. A. Doan, a promi- nent layman of the Disciples of Christ who is attending the sessions of tle missionary convention, will de- lMver an address. The music at both services will be in charge of Willlam E. Bralthwaite. Ten missionaries from different fields who are attending the mission- ary convention will speak briefly at the rally of the Disciples of Christ at the church Monday from 2 to & o'clock. Among the speakers will be President F. W. Burnham, Stephen 3. Corey, H. B. McCormick, Mrs. Anna R. Atwater and Dr. Royal J. Dye. A social period will close the program. Rev. Dr. Earle Wilfley, teacher of the Everyman Bible Class, has an- nounced a series of lectures to the class on “How We Got Our Bible” his subject for tomorrow morning being “The Pentateuch.” Daily prayer topics are being dis- tributed to members of the church as @ part of the preparation for Easter. Scripture readings and _ prayer thoughts for each day in February have been arranged with the sugges. tion that they be used at the time of some meal during each day The Crusaders’ Class of young women, taught by Dr. Wilmer Souder, will be addressed tomorrow morning by & missionary from Africa The Woman's Society will hold its monthly sessions next Tuesday, meet- ing at 11 am. for a missionary pro- gram led by Mrs. J. G. Cross, presi- dent. After luncheon at 12:30, which will be served at the church, the work department, led by Mrs. Mabel Sterns, will hear reports and an ad- dréess DIOCESE OF MARYLAND EXPERIENCES BEST YEAR Bishop Murray Outlines Progress of Church at Episcopal Con- vention in Baltimore, Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, January 31.—The year | passed was the most successful, | just materially and spiritually, for the diocese, since he has been in charge, Bishop John Gardner Murray de- clared at the session of the annual convention of the Protestant Episco- pal Diocese of Maryland here this week. The bishop continued tistical reports of the the diocese during the year, finan- cially and ecclesiastically. The finax cial condition of the national church, the Maryland diocese and individual parishes was also discussed. A resolution was adopted the diocesc authorized the executive council to take active steps to con- tinue the building of the cathedral, and in particular of the completion of the synod hall. The work, it wa announced, probably will begin again early in the Spring. CAMPAIGN IS PLANNED. Church to Observe February as ‘“Attendance Month."” February will be observed as Church Attendance month at the Sixth Presbyterian Church, of which Godfrey Chobot is pastor. It is ex- pected that all members of the con- gregation will make special efforts to attend all the morning and evening servies Tomorrow at 11 o'clock the communion service will be held, at which time new members will be re- ceived. The evening service, at ¥ o'clock, will be in charge of the young people. Wednesday evening at 6:30 o'clock the “Father and Son banquet” will be addressed by Rev. Homer J. Council- or and Representative M. Clyde Kel- ly and the singing will be under the directlon of George Muth. The Thursday evening service will be de- voted to a continuation of the mis- sion study, under the leadership of the pastor and Mrs. J. R. Y. Savage. “ASIA AT C?OSS;(JADS.” Dr. Bible Announces S8ermon Topic with sta- progress in at Covenant Church. At the Church of the Covenant to- morrow morning the sermon on “Asia at the Crossroads” will be preached by Rev. Dr. Frank W. Bible, who spent 15 years as a missionary of the Presbyterian Church in China, and who is now district secretary of the foreign board in Chicago. Rev. Dr. Robert E. Speer, secre- tary of the Presbyvterian Board of Foreign Missions, will preach at the evening service at 8 o'clock. Next Thursday evening at the mid- week service Rev. Dr. Charles Wood. pastor of the church, will speak en “Echoes from the Missionary Con- vention.” THREE FAMOUS By Dr. Harry H. Balkin America’s Foremost Character THE PLAYHOUSE 1814 N St. N.W. (Near Connecticut Ave.) Sunday Evening, February Ist, 2nd, 3rd, at 8 P ANALYZING CHARACTER Including Practical Public Demonstrations The Fascinating Art of Reading Character at Sight and Putting the Right Person in the Right Job Special Afternoon Lectures The New Science of Analyzing Character Monday, Feb. 2nd; Tuesday, at 4:45 P.M,, and Sunday, Feb. 8th, at 3:15 P.M. Admission, 25¢ Under the Auspices of the College and University Group New York Avenue Presbyterian H Church Congrossman C. Ellis Moors, Ohie SPEAKER DR. SAMUEL ZWEMER Special Music Columbian Male Quartet All Seats Free. SUNDAY FREE FEB. 1 Besrs Opem T:00 P, W. MISSIONARY WORK VALUES EXPLAINED Women’s Boards Hear of Re- sults Achieved in Oriental Nations. Through the Federation of Women's Boards of Foreign Missions, in a large measure, many changes have been made in the Near East and the Far East, among which were the unbind ing of Chinese women's feet, lifting the veils from Moslem faces and the abolition of harem in Turkey, i Was pointed out at a session of the women's body yesterday afternoon As .a factor of law enforcement these women, according to Mrs. E. H Iverthorn, the president, have ac- tively engaged in the furtherance of American ideals in America, for it was their feeling that unless America proved herself a law-abid- ing nation she would have little ir ence upon these women in foreign lands with whom the federation works. Mrs. William F. McDowell gave the invocation, following which Mrs. Sil« verthorn introduced the president( of the various denominational boards, as follows: Mrs. Herb Goodman, Miss Margaret Hodge, Mrs. F. F. Stephens, Mrs. Thomas Nichol- son, Deaconess Goodwin, Mrs, Ernest Evans, Mrs. Jepner and Mrs. John McGillivray. Fach gave short talks on the contribution of Christian mis- sions to international relations Dr. Balkin to Lecture Dr. Harry H. Balkin, charac analyst and vocational adviser, give a series of three free lectures at the Playhouse, 1814 N street nort west, tomorrow, Monday and Tues- evenings. He also will deliver tures on “Character Analysis and self-Development,” Monday, Tuesday Wednesday and Sunday afternoons. in which | Rev. | No Tickets. Foreign Missions Convention of the United States and Canada The Washington Auditorium New York Avenne, E Nineteenth Streets 28 to Feb. 2, 1925 Washington, D. C. Saturday Evening. January 31 8100 to 10100 O'Clock in the Auditorium Jan. Presiding Officer—The Rev F. H. Knubel, D.D., New York. il sSpeakers: | The Rev. J. H. McLean, D.D., Chile The Rev. Bhaskar P. Hivale, Bombay. Bishop H. St. George Tucker, D. D., recently of Japan The Rev. Harris E. Kirk, D.D., Baltimore. Sunday Forenoon, Frbruary 1 9:00 O'Clock in the Auditorium (Hour of service at ® o'clock to avoid conflict with church services.) Presiding Officer—The Rev Paul de Schweinitz, D.D., Beth- lehem, Pa Prayer—The Rev. William T Haven, D.D., New York. | nvention Sermon— “The chable Riches of Christ \ Rev. Canon H. J. Cody || p.0. Toronto | Intercession—"Spiritual Qual- ifications for M nary Ser- vice at Home and Abroad’— Robert P. Wilder, M.A, New ] York Benediction—The Rev. R. P. Mackay, D.D., Toronto unday Afternoon—3:00 to 5:00 0'Clock in the Auditorinm Presiding Officer—Th ank Mason North, D.D., York. Fraternal Messages from Hol- land, Scandinavia, France, Ger- many and Great Britain Response by the Rev. William I. Chamberlain, Ph.D. Address—Dr. John New Yor! Rev New R. Mott, Sunday Evening—S:00 to 10:00 0'Clock iIn the Auditorium Presiding Officer — Principal Alfred Gandler, D.D., Toronto. Testimonies by Missioners— “Why Go As Foreign Mis- sionaries.” Addresses by The Rev. F. F. Goodsell, D.D., Constantinople The Rev. Samuel M. Zwemer, D.D., Cairo. FREE LECTURES Analyst and Vocational Advisor and Self-Development Feb. 3rd: Thursday, Feb. 5th Young People’s Mass Meetings Foreign Missions Convention SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1st—3:00 P.M. High School Group Calvary Baptist Church Sth & H N.W. Dean Wilbur, George Washi: Taiversity. Brosiding SPEAKER DR. BREWER EDDY Furnished by Paul G. Ledig, Ist. Tenor ] Raymond G. Moore, Ist. Bass l W.'E. Bralthwaite, 2nd. Tenor John C. Smith, 2nd. Bass Mr. Carl Carbaugh All Young People of College and University or High School Age Urged to Attend No Charge for Admission