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" CHURCH EXTENSION BETS 2500000 Flgures for Home Mission Work Announced at Syra- cuse Meeting. L SYRACUSE, N. Y., November 27.— More than two million and a half dollars were received by the Board of Home Missions and Church Ex-! tension during the year ending Oc- tober 31, according to the report made at the recent annual meeting in S ~use by the treasurer, William G. El- liott, Philadelphia. Bishop Joseph F.| Berry, Philadelphia, presided. The treasurer's report showed that isbursements were made of $1,690, 6 to home missions, $65 church extension, $: to leader- ship and training, $73,988 to co-opera- tion with other boards and $191,314 to other appropriations and general ex- pense. | The board issued an appeal to the | 5,000,000 membhers and 8,000,000 ad- herents of the Methodist Episcopal | Church, which _was prepared by | Bishop Charles E. Locke, St. Paul, Minn, Dr. Ernest H. Cherrington of West- erville, Ohlo, was elected correspond- ing secretary of the Board of Home Missions and Church H q the Board of Bishops to su D. D. Forsyth, who Dr. Cherrington Is a gra law school of Ohio Wesleyan, at Del ware, Ohio. —e DR. HERSON TO PREACH ON “SOUL EDUCATION” | = | Pastor of Hamline M. E. Church| Announces Program of Serv- ices for Tomorrow. Rev. Dr. Joseph T. He: ter of Hamline Methodisf Church, Sixteenth at will preach tomorrow morning on *“Soul Education.” In the evening he will preach the first of a series of ser- mons on “The Pilgrims.” The church school meets at 9:30 o'clock, with cl s for al The women of the church ning their annual in the So. Tuesday son, minis- Episcopal Allison _street, e plan- ar, to be held 11 Hall of the church next | nd Wednesday. { MISSION HEAD HERE. i | i Dr. Hinman to Study Chinese Re- ligious Situation. Dr. George W. of the committee on Orien ssio f Home Missions Council, will be in | ‘ashington tomorrow and Monday to | ke a study of the Chinese situation | from the rel the inv Hinman tion of | Churche 1 in the | watter. He will v the city or which is in it the Sunday inized fo ! 0on and Monday of honor at a luncheon, include members of | with -4 having ps Christian work be the gue will ular int uwmong the Chin WILL MEET IN THEATER. | First Universalist Church to Hear Rev. Dr. C. E. Rice. Dr. Clarence E. topic Rev Rice will have | his v 11 a.m. the Am- et lumbia gation of the I° is meeting pen the new chur t list Church ing the completion of | ) edifice. Kindergarten at the same hour. Cl s of the | church school will convene at the | theater immediately after the morn- er re Young People’s Christian Union will continue to holgd its 7 o'clock eve- | | | morrow by by Miss C BAZAAR IS ARRANGED. | e | Woman’s Guild of Calvary M. E.| Church to Entertain. The Woman's Guild of Calvary ! Methodist Episcopal Church will hold a bazaar X 1 Wednes- | day ng in Hall, tween i i Four- | | = dent, Mrs H. W, Fowl BAZAAR IS PLANNED. St. Margaret’s Aid Society to Con- Miss H ry, duct Annual Christmas Sale. Rev. Dr rector of St i Sunday a:30 rector pm the Holy PRESBYTERIAN SERVICE. Dr. Sizoo to Preach at New York Avenue Church. Av preach services At 11 “Life's tce will courtesy « In the ever merfes of st “What WILL TALK ON LABOR. Rev. Dr. Pierce to Preach at All the subject It G there will be 1 This will be at 5:30 o' The film to be s picture hour at Hall is “Kivalina of at the motion | ) pm. in [ the Iceland 1 C 15,000,000 Jews in Eastern and Central | DRAMATIC EVENTS IN BIBLE HISTORY—Gideon and the Three Hundred. THE numbe) thirty A OF CHRSTIANS SOUEHTFOR S Protestants and Catholics Will Be Asked to Help Starving People. armm;) NEW YORK, November 27.—Active plans to enlist 50,000 Protestant and “atholic clergy in efforts to save Zurope, who face starvation, were launched here. The movement is sponsored by the American Christian Fund for Jewish Relief, of which Dr. S. Parkes Cad- man, president of the Federal Council of Churches, and Judge Victor J. Dowling, a representative Roman holic layman, are joint chairmen. Archbishop Hayes of New York has pproved the fund. Owen D. Youns, | n authority on economics, who was | associated with Vice President Dawes | in working out the Dawes plan, and George MacDonald are vice chairmen. Pointing out that one-third of the Jewish population of the world is in desperate distress, and that in some parts of Europe the death rate among Jewish babies is almost 100 per cent, the call to the clergy urges all Chris: tians to aid. o PARIéH HALL MEETING. Dennis Whittle to Talk at Ascension Church. | Rev. Dennis Whittle, rector of Lu- ray Parish, Il address a meet- iscopalians in the parish hall hurch at Twelfth street avenue next Wed- y at 8 pm. This meeting is last of those arranged for the Autumn months by the educational | committee of the Woman's Auxiliary of the Diocese. he meeting is held in the evening so that men and women may attend. The subject of | his add will be *“The Church’s Answer to the Call. Early in the new will be held to dis itions. After Easter there will be other | meetings in the interest of the church’s work in other fields. WOMEN WILL MEET. Prince Georges County Will Have | Episcopal Gathering. The annual meeting of the branches of the Woman's Auxiliary of the Episcopal churches in Prince Georges | County, Md., will be held next Friday at St. Barnabas' Chapel, Oxon Hill. The day will begin with a celebrat] of the holy communion at 10 o'clock, atter which there will be conferences ! through the day. Luncheon will be served for the delegates present by the women of the parish auxiliar The Woman's Auxiliary of St. Barn- abas’ Chapel is the most recently organized parish branch in the diocese of Washington. Rev. ear study classes | uss rural cond- | CATHOLIC CELEBRATION. Immaculate Conception Church| Will Novena to Blessed Virgin. | A novena in honor of the Immacu- | late Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary and of the miraculous medal will > held at St. Mar Church from k until December 8. Prancis L. Meade of the Con- gation of the Mission, or the Vin- centiun Fathers, will have charge of : The novena mass will ach morninz at 7 o'clock | intentions of those making the | novena. In the evening at 7:30 there will be a sermon, prayers and benedic- on. After benediction there will be | blessing and investing in the miracu- lous medal. PAGEANT TO BE GIVEN. | Shiloh Baptist Church Women on Program Sunday. i he pulpit committee of Shiloh t Church, assisted by other . will render a candle pageant the church, Ninth and P streets, rrow at § pm. ordination of A. of the church will take place This service will be par- representatives from nt Baptist Churches, aldron will preach the, " tion sermon. At the 11 o'clock worvice the pastor will give a black- | voard sermon. RECEPTION ANNOUNCED. D. C. Brax1éh of Card;m\l Gibbons Institute to Be Host. A. C. Monahan, executive secretary ¢ the hoard of directors of the Car- \al Gibbons Institute, and William airman of the Washing- ittee, will he guests of honor shington Branch of the Car- hons Institute committee to- w evening at 5 o'clock at the h of the Holy Redeemer. o reception will be followed by & The public is invited | prings as a husical s Thanksgiving Season Program. The Thank ving season will be ob- served at the m ervice tomor- | yw at Memor! ed Brethren arch, North Capitol and R streets, | )n by the m lerty. on He will ! Owner's ’ 1l pre ns have been prepared for the churc hool at 9:40 m. and for the C. E. Socieiles at BIBLE LEAGUE ELECTS MASON VICE PRESIDENT Miss Elsie Wade Stone Is Named Corresponding Secretary at Meeting on Wednesday. Nelson A. Mason was elected vice president and Miss Elsie Wade Stone sorresponding secretary of the Commu- nity Bible Readers’ League at a meet- ing Wednesday at the headquarters, in the Mills Building, with Mrs. Louise Harding Barll, the president, presiding. Miss Stone gave a survey of the aistory, aims and activities of the Sem- inary and Collegiate Bible Institute, of which she is a faculty member. It was voted to change the time of meeting from the fourth Weinesday | to the fourth Tuesday of each month, with the quarterly conference meeting the first Monday, Tuesday and Wed- | nesday of each quarter, beginning with January of each year. It was also decided that the members of the executive body be appointed a ' committee gs a whole to meet soon to confer upon plans that are being pro- moted to extend the work of the organ- | zation still further. For a half hour preceding the ses- sion a Thanksgiving prayer service was held. This was conducted by Mrs, ‘William E. Chamberlin, EPISCOPAL CHILDREN WILL HOLD MEETING Church School Service League to Hold Session Next Saturday Afternoon at 2:30. ‘The Advent meeting of the Church School Service League of the diocese of Washington will be held in -St. Paul’s Church, on Twenty-third near T street, next Saturday at 2:30 p.m. ‘Throughout the United States chil-| dren of the Episcopal Sunday school are engaged in many forms of Chris- tian good works in accordance with a general plan known as the service program of the church schools. There are four principal activ program, the Christmas boxes, the children's Lenten offering, the birth- nk_offering and the little ' offering. In addition to services are performed with nd prayer by fellowship, work in the five fields of service: ish, the community, the dlo- cese, the nation and the world. In the diocese of Washington the groups of Sunday school children working through the service program | are organized under the department of religlous education into the Church School Service League. Two diocesan meetings are held annually under the presidency of Miss Emma W. Abbott, san director, speaker at the meeting cher in St. n. Her ad- will be preceded by a church a_busines: meeting and will be followed by light refreshments for the delegates from | the parish branches of the league, who will be in attendance to the number of about a hundred. Arrangenents are in charge of Miss Istes, di- rector of religious education in St. Paul's Church and vice president of the Church School Service League in the diocese of Washington. SERVICES TOMORROW. Dr. Porter, Pastor, to Preach at First Baptist Church. Dr. Samuel Judsof Porter, pa of the First Baptist Church, at i teenth and O streets, will have his subject tomorrow morning ‘"I Universal Chorus,” and at 8 o'cloc there will be an evening with the choir. vedish services will be held at 3:30 p.m. by Pastor O. M. Lind of Brooklyn, N. Y. Dr. George W. Leavell, a medical missionary in China, will speak Thurs- day at 8 o'clock at this church under the auspices of the Woman's Mis- sionary Societ: pecee o TALKS ON GOSPEL. Rev. John Paul Tyler Selects Pray- er Meeting Topics. _Rev. John Paul Tyler, pastor of Epworth M. E. Church South, Thir- teenth street and North Carolina avenue northeast, will preach tomor- row morning on “Unrealized Bless- ings,” and at 8 p.m., “The Guardian of Our Hope.” The prayer meeting studies by the astor, starting Thursday evenin aken from the Gospel as s n These are to continue it being the plan of pels during PASTOR GIVEN $200. Present by Team in Congregation- al Church Drive. A. F. Elmes, pastor of the Congregational Church, was presented with $200 by Team No. 8, of which Mrs. Maria Harris s cap: tain, in the church drive. The pastor will preach tomorrow at 11 a.m. on “The Florida Storms,” and the Y. P. C. E. will meet at 6:30 p.m. Officers will be elected Thursday at S p.m. —_ SECOND ANNIVERSARY. Senior B. Y. P. U. of Kendall Bap- tist Church to Celebrate. The second anniversary of the Se- nior B. Y. P. U. of the Kendall Bap- tist Church will be observed tomorrow at 8 p.m., with a pageant. Rev. C. P. Ryland will preach at 11 am. on “Fitting for Service." EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, ies in the| .4 | ers. | FIRST BRETHREN SERVICE. | Render, Therefore, Unto Caesar BY HUBERT C. HERRING. Noted liberal writer, lecturer. preacher. The world has long debated the limits of the borderland which lies between God and Caesar. The things which are God’s and the things which are Caesar's are hard to determine. What {s the line between the sacred and the secular? We believe that we are in very real fashion, the children of God. We believe that God, who s a spirit, is in all things, and mov- ing through all things. We be- lieve that life is a revelation of God. If we are right, o all life is holy. DR. HERRING. “All life” 18 a large term. It includes the relations |of men and women to each other, of parents and children, of friend and friend. It includes the fashion of our { vote, the legislation of our senates, the actions of our armies and navies. It includes the water and milk supplies of great cities, their police forces, their { courts, their schools, their play- | grounds. It includes the houses in | which people live and the food which {they eat. It includes everything, | every force which makes or mars hu- { man life. This is the raw material of religion. If the church would seek holy ground, let her look about. All ground is holy. Shall the church, therefore, go into hurch_is concerned with po- es, but she can best show her concern by helping to furnish the moral and spiritual background of life. The gospel of Jesus Christ has in it | the dynamic which can change the world. Jesus proposed ideas which, if they are efer tried, will revolutionize the world. Jesus taught the universal father- L hood of God and the brotherhood of |man. Many dismiss it as a resound- ing and meaningless phrase. Many fear it as a dangerous idea. What fhavoe it would play with our smug | complacencies and our neat provincial- {isms. ; Jesus taught the supreme value of ! human life. He was audacious in the value which He set upon human life. | He picked out all sorts of derelicts to | Ullustrate His faith, harlots and | usure nd lepers and hated foreign- He treated them all with respect and courtes: The best people of | Jerusalem hated Him for it. They scourged Him because He had no proper idea of human worth. They spat upon Him because He destroyed all of the traditional ideas of their cause e refused to bow to their ar- | rogant pride. There is room for but one God in | e wor Caes | SERMON SERIES ENDS. Dr. Briggs Preaches Tomorrow at Fifth Baptist on “The Cross.” Dr. John E. Briggs will preach the Jtast o e seven Sunday ifth Baptist Church. ons will be baptized preceding The new ye: ented tomor zet will be pre- ow morning and night ind Deacons C. Clinton James and | William E. Mooney will make four- minutes speeches preceding the ser- mons. The every-member canvass | will be made December 5, and it will be followed by a church supper at 6 | p.m., with Dr. and Mrs. George Lea- vell as guests. i LIBRARY GIVEN SCHOOL. 300 Books Presented to TUpper Marlboro Institution. Special Dispatch to The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md., Novem- ber —At a meeting of the Home and School Association Tuesday night | at Upper Marlboro High School Mrs. |C. . Maguire announced the Woman's Club of Mellwood had {donated to the high school a library | of 300 books. | Rev. C. R. Ferguson to Preach Ser- | mons Tomorrow. of the First Brethren Church tomorrow will be conducted |at the temporary hall at Tenth and | | Pennsylvania avenue southeast, both morning and evening by the Rev. C. | R. Ferguson of the Bible Institute of Washington. The theme at the morn- ing service will be “The Fish Net In the evening he will speak on “A Vision of Christ. “Danger of Drift,” Sermon Topic. Rev. Dr., Frederick Brown Harris, | pastor of Foundry Methodist Episco- {pal Church, will preach tomorrow { morning on “The Danger of Drift.” | and in the evening, “The Poverty of a Rich Church.” A week-day school of religion is conducted by Rev. John C. | Millian, director of religious education, | Saturdays at 10 a.m. { 5 . | “Self-Education” Is Topic. | “Self-Education” will be the subject Services THE TWO-WAY PULPIT Views of Opposing Religious Leaders on Bible Questions. TODAY’S TEXT: the Things Which Be Caesar’s. BY JOHN ROACH STRATON, D. D,, Pastor_Calvary Bapist Church, New York. President Fundamentalist League. Earthly government is but a tran- nt, temporary expedient which God has permitted until He Himself re- sumes the reigns of earthly control through the return of Jesus Christ, Who will rule in righteousness. God’s plan for the zovernment of this earth is neither a democracy, an au- tocracy, an oligar: chy nor an aristoc racy. God's plan of earthly govern- ment is a theoc- racy. In the be- ] cinning He ruled i iImmediately and directly. Then the seductions of Sa- tan entered and man wandered from God. Human government, therefore, Is an adjustment on the park of God to this changed relation, but until Christ does return and the direct rule of God among men is resumed, governments are indispensible Therefore, the Bible is very explicit in its teaching that even imperfect governments should and must be obeyed. Without government there can be no order. The laws of a country, therefore, are the life of a country, and, however imperfect they may be, they are the present bulwark of safety and progress. Therefore, not only did Jesus enjoin that we should render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s as freely as we ren- der unto God the things that are Go but the great apostle, Paul, stated the whole philosophy of gov- ernment and the relation of religion to it, when he said: ‘“Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God; the powers that be are ordained of God. Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God; and they that resist shall re- ceive to themselves damnation. For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? Do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise 6f the same: For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil. Where- fore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for con- science sake. For this cause pay e tribute also: for they are God's ministers, attending continually upon this very thing. Render, therefore, to all their dues; tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom cus- tom; fear to whom fear; honor to whom honor.” (Romans, xiii, 1-7.) Then Paul adds the Christlan vrinciple which enables one to thus obey the government, by saying: “Owe no man_ anything; but to love one another; for he that loveth an- other hath fulfilled the law.' (Romans, xiii, 8.) (Copyright. 1926.) “TOUCHING HIM” IS TOPIC Rev. Dr. Lambeth Will Deliver Sermon Tomorrow. “Touching Him"” will be the subject of Rev. Dr. Lambeth tomorrow morn- ing at Mount Vernon Place M. E. Church South. In the evening Rev. Mr. McKee will preach on “Values of Adversities.” Miss Hazel Dapheide, play reader, will present “The Money Makers” Monday at 8 p.m. and later give spe- cial readings to the children. The Woman's Missionary Society will meet Wednesday at 8 p.m. and is collecting clothing for the poor. The executive committee will meet Tuesday at noon at the home of Mrs. W. A. Lambeth, 4418 Fifteenth street. The board of Ss;'.e\\':l_rds will meet Wednesday at pm. DR STRATON. ——— PLAN VISITATION. Daughters of the King to Observe Fete Soon. The biennial visitation of the Daugh- ters of the King of the Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Washington to the Church of the Advent, at Massa- chusetts avenue and Twelfth street will be held December 4 at 8 p.m. Miss Lillian J. Soper, president of the order, particularly invites interested women who are not members of parish chap- ters to attend this and other meetings of the Daughters of the King. PO KU KLUX AT PETWORTH. Klan Plans to Attend Baptist Services Tomorrow Night. ‘The members of the local Ku Klux Klan will attend the evening services tomorrow at Petworth _ Baptist Church, Seventh and Randolph streets. Rev. Henry J. Smith, pastor of the church, will preach, using as his subject: “God's Exact Estimates.” At the morning service the pastor will speak on “‘Ambition’s Flares,” Gunton-Temple Services. “Some Secrets of a Happy Human Relationshpi” will be the subject of the sermon by Rev. Bernard Bras- kamp tomorrow morning in the Gunton-Temple ~ Memorial _ Presby- terian Church. At the 4:30 o'clock | of a talk tomorrow night at 8 o'clock at the United Lodge of Theosophists, {709 Hill Building, Seventeenth and I streets. twilight service, which consists large- ly of music, the pastor’s subject will be “Giving Christ the Place of Pre- emingnce.” D. 0., BATURDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1926. ——By WALTER SCOTT and HARLOWE R. HOYT EPISGUPA'_ BHURGH DR. ABERNETHY TO TALK AT DEDICATION SERVICE Will Officiate at Sunday School Ceremony in St. Louis, Where He Formerly Resided. Dr. Willam 8. Abernethy, of Calvary Baptist Church, Rev. pastor || will be the principal speaker at the dedication, in Kansas City, Mo., De- cember 6, of a Sunday school building Jjust completed by the First Baptist Church of that city. Dr. Abernethy served as pastor of that church for nine years. Other speaking engage- ments in Kansas City include a talk before the pastor's federation and an address at the annual banquet of the women’s ciass of the Linwood Presbyterian Church. During his absence from Washington his pulpit will be filled in the morning by Dr. Joseph C. Robbins of New York City and in the evening by Rev. Homer J. Councilor. The subject of tomorrow morning’s sermon at Calvary Baptist Church is “Seven Remedles For Carking Care.” The evening topic s “Mortgaging the Future.” The pastor will preach at hoth services. Rev. Homer J. Coun- cilor will preach to the junior church on “Lion-Hearted. A missionary play entitled “Ordered South™ will be given next Thursday evening by a cast from the senior de- partment of the Sunday school, BAPTIST CHURCHES HAVE DAY OF PRAYER Local Congregations to Gather at Calvary Friday for Union Services. A day of prayer will be observed by all of the Baptist churches of the city at a union gathering Friday at Calvary Baptist Church. The order of exercises will be: 10 to 11 a.m., Rev. Dr. J. W. Many, mod- erator of the Columbia Associaticn of Baptist Churches; 11 to 12, Rev. Dr. Abernethy of Calvary Church; 12 to 12:30, Rev. Dr. John E. Briggs of Fifth Baptist Church; 12:30 to 1, John Ruthven of First Baptist Church; 1 to 2, Rev. Dr. John Compton Ball of Metropolitan Church; 2 to 8, Rev. Dr. Leavell, missionary of the Southern ; 8 to 4, Rev. Dr. Samuel Por- ter of First Baptist Church; 8 to 9. Miss Helen Hudson and Miss Mariam Davidson, accompanied by the Colum- blan Girls. NEW CRUSADE PLANNED. Disciple Churches to Raise Balance of $750,000. The Disciple Churches of Washing- ton, Maryland and Virginia are com- pleting a crusade to raise $750,000 for the endowment of their church college at Lynchburg, Va. More than $600,- 000 of the amount has been given, of which the Washington churches gave more than $50,000. Dr. E. L. Day of Indlana, who has led this campaign for the endowment of Lynchburg College, will preach to- morrow at 11 am. at Ninth Street Christian Church and in the evening at Columbia Heights Christian Church. Missionary Meeting Friday. The Woman's Interdenominational Missionary Federation will hold the December session for intercessory prayer next Friday at 2 p.m., in Mount Vernon Place Methodist Episcopal Church South. Work for migrant children in the United States will be considered. Mrs. John Newton Cul- bertson, president of the Washington federation, will preside. Novena to Open. A _novena in honor of our Lady of Prompt Help will open at the Ursuline Convent, 519 Fourth street. next Tuesday and will end December 8, the Feast of the Immaculate Con- ception. Prayers will be sald at 7:30 o'clock every evening and will be followed by benediction of the blessed sacrament. A priest from St. Bona- venture's College will be In charge of the services. GOES TO SEE KAISER. Former Crown Prince to Investi- gate Illness of Father. BERLIN, November 27 (#).—To sat- isfy himself about his father’s health, former Crown Prince Frederick Wil- liam has gone to Doorn, home of the former German Emperor. Ex-Kalser ‘Willlam has been suffering from a rheumatic attack which followed a se- vere cold. The dispatches from Doorn an- nouncing the arrival there of the for- mer Crown Prince say that his con- dition is much improved and is re- garded as not serious. FIVE LOSE LIVES. MOUNDSVILLE, W. Va., November 27 (#).—A broken door in the main entry was the primary cause of an exploston, November 15, in the First Street mine of the Glendale Gas Coal Co., ch cost five lives, a coroner's Jury found Y. The defect in circulation permitted & gas pocket to form and a spark from a mine motor ignited it, the Jury verdict said. No one was held responsible, Man Struck by Auto. Harry Hartman, 18, of 1022 Thirty- first street northwest, was knocked down by an automobile driven by Gar- riett Van Nest, 2810 Twenty-eighth street northwest, last night. He was taken to the Emergency Hospital, where he was treated for shock and bruises and then sent to his home. CHURCH TO EXTEND MISSION ACTIVITY New Board Named at Recent Convention Plans to In- tensify Work. CHICAGO, I, November 2 TUnited Lutneran Church in Aemrica, it is declared, will be greatly intensi- fled through the creation at the recent convention in Richmond, Va., of a “Board of American Missions” to take over work now being done by five im- portant boards and committees. The new board, which will have its head- quarters in New York City, with re- glonal offices at other locations in the United States and Canada, is now in process of organization and chartering. A recent survey of the field of church extension in different parts of the country, completed by the present board of home missions of the church, emphasizes the necessity for increased effort in order to care for the require- ments crowding in from every section. “Prof. Edward F. Aksim of the Sas- katoon Seminary, under the auspices of the board, spent the Summer of 1925 in cities from Chicago to New York and Washington, and the past Summer in the cities of the West Coast seeking out and ministering word and sacrament to Esthonian Lutherans. The result is given in two reports, which, it is declared, indi- cate a distinct call to these brethren, 50,000 of whom are estimated by the Bureau of Immigration as living in the United States. ““The investigation of Mexico by the general secretary with Supt. Sievert of the inner mission board con- firms the reports of mission opportun- ity among the growing number of colonies of Lutherans settling there. The board {s ready to act, and, but for the disturbed condition of affairs in that republic, a missionary would have been on the fleld. ‘In the Canadian Northwest, where Fleld Missionary Weldenhammer has organized three congregations and has been working in fine harmony with the northwestern mission board, fur- ther advance is possible as men and money can be provided.” . RECEPTION FOR PASTOR. Western Presbyterian Church Hon- ors Rev. J. H. Dunham. The Young Ladies’ Bible Class of the Western Presbyterfan Church en- tertained at a reception last Friday night given in honor of Rev. Dr. and Mrs. J. Harvey Dunham, it being the seventeenth anniversary of his pas- torate at the church, This was also the birthday anniver- sary of the pastor. The birthday cake was presented by W. S. Armstrong, clerk of the session of the church, fol- lowed by a speech by the pastor. The receiving line was as follows: Mr. and Mrs. Dunham, Miss Bessie Thomas, Mr. and Mrs. Armstrong, Miss Fran- ces Butterworth, Miss Elizabeth Zca, Mr. J. A. Willlams, Mrs. Birdle Davis, George Ralston, J. A. Butterworth and Boyd Hinds. Music was furnished by the church choir. The Christian Endeavor Orchestra also rendered se- lections. WILL VISIT HOSPITALS. Rev. Murray 8. Kenworthy Ac- cepts Federation Call. Rev. Murray S. Kenworthy has accepted the call of the Federation of Churches to give a portion of his time to the work of visitation in the hospitals among Protestant patients. He plans to begin his services De- cember 1. Persons having friends in any of the general hospitals whom they would like to have him visit can communicate with him by calling Columbia 8991, or by writing to him at 1327 Kenyon street. il Services at Peck Chapel. “Some Human Contradictions” {s the subject of the sermon by Rev. Irving W. Ketchum tomorrow night at Peck Memorial Chapel. In the morn- ing he will speak on “God’s Unlim- ited Offers.” The Cuthbert class will show a comedy moving picture in the Parish Hall- Tuesday night. Mrs. Annie C. Bill to Speak. Mrs. Annfe C. Bill will address the congregation of the Christian Science Parent Church of the New Generation tomorrow at 11 o'clock at the Hotel LaFayette. The subject of her ad- dress will be “The Things That Are ga;l;&r's and the Things That Are 0d'8.” E PROTESTANT EPIS 9 PLANS RECEPTION All Saints’ Parish Will Mark 25th Anniversary at Chevy Chase Circle. The twenty-ffth anniversary of the first service held in All Saints’ Epls- copal Church, at Chevy Chase Circle, will be appropriately observed tomor- row and Wednesday evening, when & +| public reception will be held. Rev. Henry Teller Cocke, rector of All Saints’ Church for the last three years, since the death of the late Canon Austin, will preach the sermon at the special 11 o'clock service to- mOorrow morning. ‘The rector will recount the history and activities of the parish during the 25 years of its existence. All Saints’ Church was founded as a mission by Rev. Allen Griffith, at that time reo- tor of St. John's Church, at Bethesda. Md., one of the oldest Episcopal parishes in this section of the coun- try. The present church edifice was constructed through the efforts of Rev. Dr. T. S. Childs, who succeeded as rector. Dr. Childs was succeeded by Canon Austin, who served until his death, in 1923, when Rev. Mr. Cocke was appointed rector. During the last three years the congregation has in creased its membership and activities on a wide scale. A special program has been ar- ranged for the choir tomorrow morn: ling, and there will be, in addition to the regular 11 o'clock service, a com munion service at 7:30 o'clock. Com munion also will be served at the other service. The evening service will be omitted to permit the congregation to unite with Bishop Freeman in the service at the Washington Auditorium. Wednesday night at 8 o'clock there will be a special service and a_public reception and refreshments. In_the receiving line with the rector and Mrs. Cocke will be visiting clergymen, the vestrymen and wardens of the parish and their wives. MONTENEGRO IS SUBJECT OF DR. WOOD’S SERMON Continues Series on Christian Civ- ilization in Balkans—Morn- ing Topic Announced. “Montenegro—the Supreme Courage of a Diminutive Kingdom,” will be | Rev. Dr. Charles Wood's subject to- morrow night at the Church of the Covenant in his series of sermons on “The Tragic Story of Christian | Civilization in Dalmatia and the | Balkans.” The subject of his morn- !ing sermon will be “Belief and Re sponsibility for 1 The Sunday school opens at 9:30 o'clock, the beginners’, primary and adult departments at 9:45. Every girls' class will return to fts own room. The kindergarten, which | cares’ for children from 2 to ‘6 years of age, during church service, and the Light Bearers meet at 11 o'clock. The Senior Christian Endeavor and Young Peoples’ Societies meet at | 6:15 for a soclal and supper, and at 5 for their regular meetings. Mid week service for prayer and confer- ence at 8 p.m. Thursday. —e REUNIEN AT ST. MARY’S. Special Services Scheduled for To- morrow. Reunion Sunday will be observed tomorrow at St. Mary's Church Third and A streets southeast. At 7:30 a.m. the ninth annual corporate communion of men and boys will be celebrated. At 10:40 a.m. the rector, Rev. William H. Pettus, will offer prayers of benediction in the new parish hall. He will celebrate the holy communion and preach at 11 a m. There will be no evening service on account of the diocesan mission- ary service at 8 o'clock in the new auditorium. The Woman's Auxiliary will meet Wednesday at 2 p.m.; St. Mark’s Afd Society, Thursday at 8 p.m., and the Guild of the Nazarene will attend a healing service and join in interces sions for the sick and afflicted in the church Friday at 8 p.m. “NO HOPELESS CASE.” Rev. J. Harvey Dunham’s Theme at Morning Service. Rev. J. Harvey Dunham. pastor of the Western Presbyterian Church, on H street between Nineteenth and Twentieth streets northwest, will take for his subject tomorrow morning at | 11 o'clock “No Hopeless Case,” and |in the evening at 8 o'clock, “Whis pers of God.” The Order of Red Men | of America will attend The Ladies' Aid Society will hold {its annual bazaar and dinner Tues | day and Wednesday nights. The | subject of the Thursday evening sery. | fee will be “Visions of God." This {will be the regular preparatory serv | ice, followed by the holy communion | on Sunday. There will he an enter. tainment,” “Tri Friday night, by Dr. Archie D. Engel for the Sunday school scholars, teachers and parents “FATHER,” SERMON TOPIC Metropolitan Pastor Also to Talk on “Romantic Walk.” At the Metropolitan Methodist Church tomorrow evening the pastor, Rev. Dr. James Shera Montgomery, will glve a sermon-lecture on the sub ject, “That Father.” At the morning service he will have for his subject “A Romantic Walk." Ball;; Sbéaker Announced. Dr. W. L. Darby, executive secretary of the Washi Federation of Churches, will preach tomorrow night in the Takoma Park Presbyterfan Chur e conduc the young people. His subject w! “Christians Above the Average.” be COPAL CHURCH IN THE DIOCESE OF WASHINGTON MISSIONARY MASS MEETING Sunday, November 28, 1926 at 8 WASHINGTON P.M. AUDITORIUM 19th Street and New York Avenue N.W. Officer Rt. Rev. James E. Freeman, D. D, LL. D, Bishop of Washington Speakers Rt. Rev. Thomas C. Darst, D. D., Bishop of East Carolina W. C. Sturgis, Ph. D., Educational Secretary, Department of Missions, National Councll Music by Massed Vested Choirs of all Episcopal Churches in the City DOORS OPEN AT 7. NO RESERVED SEATS