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FEDERATIONPLANS LENTEN SERVES Three Famous Clergymen Will Speak, Including Dr. Cadman. The Washington Federation of Churches announces plans for the annual mid-day Lenten services, which are to be held this year in the First Congregational Church, corner of Tenth and G streets northwest. Three of the best known clergymen in America have accepted an invitation to speak for five days each. (No services are held Satur- day or Sunday.) ‘The services will begin on Monday, February 25, 12 days after the opening of Lent, and continue for five weeks. ‘The first speaker will be Dr. Charles R. Brown, dean emeritus of the Theo- logical School of Yale University. He has been in Washington often and is popular among all classes. For the second week, the preacher is Dr. S. Parkes Cadman of Brooklyn. His fitst services will be on Monday night, March 4, instead of at noon, as this is inauguration day. Tuesday, the regular hour will be resumed and con- tinue till the close. The guest for the third week will be Dr. Merton S. Rice, pastor of the Metropolitan Methodist Church in De- troit. He is one of the finest preachers in the Central States and has been 2 speaker at the Lenten services in his ‘home city for 14 consecutive years. His first address will be given on Tuesday, March 12, as he cannot reach the city for the service Monday. The speaker on March 11 will be Dr. Frederick Brown Harris, pastor of Foundry Methodist Church of Washington. Dr. Rice has ond of the largest Methodist congregations in the country and hes been its pastor for a number of years. For the fourth week, Dr. W. S. Abernethy, pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, will bring the messages each day. He has one of the largest congre- gations in Washington, numbering about 3,000, and is a former president of the federation. The preacher for the closing week will be Dr. J. R. ' Religious Questions Q. What is the modern interpreta- tlon of John xiv.13-14; St. Mark, xi.24 and Matthew xiv.22? A. St. Matthew xiv.22. “And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in pray- er, believing, ye shall receive.” St. Mark xi.24. “All things whatso- ever ye pray and ask for, believe that ye have received them, and ye shall have them.” St. John xiv.13-14. “And whatso- ever ye shall ask in my name that will I do that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask me anything in_my name, that will I do.” Bishop Jeremy Taylor said that “our desires are not to be the measure of our prayers, unless reason and religion be the rule of our desires.” All the verses which you have cited, though general and emphatic in their statements, con- tain important conditions. The phrase in St. Mark, elieve that ye have re- ceived them"—i. e., “that your request has been granted before ever your pray- er is uttered”—implies a trustful self- submission to God's control as the in- dispensable prerequisite for the answer- ing of our prayers. In St. Matthew the condition is sim- pler: “believing.” Yet what immensi- ties are implied in this single word. How often doubts and hesitancies ren- der our prayer ineffective and fruitiess. ‘The condition laid down in St. John is “in my Name,” which indicates that our prapers must be in correspondence with the mind of Christ, who acts as our Intercessor. Supplications for spiritual aid which meet with the above condi- tions cannot fail to furnish comfort and strength. The sincere petitioner is aware that even the act of falling on his knees without uttering a word is a spiritual benediction. God has already anticipated our real needs. When men open the door of the heart's inner sanctuary, His gifts are already there, awaiting them. . What is the meaning of the eighty-seventh verse of the twenty- ;‘lgmh chapter of Ezekiel; also Daniel A. 1. The whole chapter in Ezekiel is ‘best interpreted as a sermon on the text. “The fathers have eaten sour grapes and the children's teeth are set Sizoo, pastor of New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, one of the historic and influential congregations in the Na- tion's Capital. In order to meet the convenience of the largest number of people, the serv- ices will begin at 12:20 and conclude 1 o'clock. The general arrangements are in the hands of the committee on public meetings, whose chairman is Dr. F. C. Reynolds, pastor of Wesley Metho- dist Church in Chevy Chase. Other ‘members of the committee are: Rev. C. B. Austin, Mr. John S. Bennett, Rev. Earl Bowman, Mr. Roscoe H. Brane, Rev. N. M. Patterson, Mr. T. G. Shear- man, Rev. Earl Taggart, Judge W. W. Warwick, Rev. John Weidley and J. H. ‘Wurdeman. $4,000 IS GIVEN. Mount Pleasant Adventists Donate to Potomac Conference. During the first six months of its existence the new Mount Pleasant Seventh - day Adventist congregation, which meets every Saturday morning in the Arcadia Auditorium, paid into the treasury of the Potomac conference tithes and offerings totaling $4,000, ac- cording to the report of Dr. B. G. Wil- kinson, the pastor. “There are 65 members in this new church organization,” said Dr. Wilkin- son, “and more than half of them are students in theological training. “This organization is the base where theological students may get practical ministerial training, and though they are not blessed with a wealth of this world’s goods, the amount thus far given into the treasury of the church indicates a spirit of unusual libefality.” Dr. Wilkinson said 26 of the mem- bers were recently baptized and 5 are now in the baptismal class. Three members of the congregation, he said, have just recently responded to calls to go as missionaries to foreign lands and others are making preparation to go when qualified. Pl PLAN COMMUNIONS. St. Margaret’s Church Arranges Two Celebrations. There will be two celebrations of holy communion at St. Margaret’s Church, Connecticut avenue and Bancroft place northwest, tomorrow at 7:30 am. and at 11 am. At the 11 o'clock celebra- tion the sermon will be preached by the rector, Rev. Dr. Herbert Scott Smith. The service at-4:30 p.m. will be the monthly musical service by St. Margaret's Choir, without sermon. Other meetings for the day will be the Sunday school at 9:30 am. confirma- tion instruction classes at 3:30 p.m. and the Young People's Soclety at 6 p.m. Holy communion will be celebrated ‘Thursday at 11 am. Thursday, February 7, the Rector’s Aid Society of St. Margaret's will give a fellowship supper in the parish house from 6 to 7 o'clock for parishioners and friends of St. Margaret's. Mrs. Wil- liam Sleet of Wardman Park Hotel is in charge of arrangements. Shiloh Baptist Church. At Shiloh Baptist Church Dr. Milton ‘Waldron will preach another sermon in the series upon the Gospel recorded by Luke, the subject being, “Jesus at the ‘Wedding in Cana of Galilee,” tomor- row at 8 pm. At 3:30 p.m., the Lord's supper will be observed. At 11 a.m. the subject of the sermon’ will be, “What Pentecost Was, and Is, to the New Dr. Wilkinson's Lecture Theme. “The Last Great Event Before Christ Comes; Is it at Hand?" will be the sub- Ject of the lecture by Dr. B. G. Wilkin- son, dean of theology of Washington Missionary College, at the Arcadia euditorium tomorrow night. Al 7:15 o'clock there will be a medical demoh- on edge.” The Jews had so often quated these words to absolve them- sc'ves from personal responsibility for their actions that they became a current proverb. Hereditary laws thus received in them a rough and ready expression as an apology for evil doing. But Ezekiel knew that those who en- deavor to transfer to somebody else's shoulders their own guilt damaged their souls. Every individual is presumably obligated to obey the laws authorized by revelation, conscience and society, and on this basis he receives sooner or later his rewards or punishments. ‘The illustration you have chosen from verse 18 of a father who treated his brother unjustly. Ezekiel conceived him as dying in his iniquity, but there are worse penalties than death. Its release is sometimes merciful and it solves multitudinous problems otherwise insoluble. 2. Daniel ii.24, reads: “And in the days of those kings shall the God of Heaven set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed, nor shall the sov- ereignty thereof be left to another peo- ple, but it shall break in pileces and consume all these kingdoms and it shall stand forever.” ‘These words were originally a descrip- tion of the ideal dominion which was to be established under Antiochus Epip- I;:‘nes‘ destined to overthrow all exist- sway. The one kingdom equal to such supreme authority is that of Christ as the moral leader of the race. But Dan- iel may not have had this spiritual sov- ereignty in mind when he wrote the passage in question. Q. What form is Protestant unity likely to take in the future? A. As I see it, this movement will follow the line of least resistance, which is toward comprehension. If this view is correct, Anglo Catholics and Evangel- icals, Pundamentalists and Modernists will agree to differ, but will pool their common ba\lfu in a co-operative service for cocksure groups, convinced that they have encompassed divine mysteries which surpass human knowledge and experience, may resent this process. But Protestanism’s soul is in its freedom to think and to state the assured results of its thinking. It is persuaded that only through freedom of thought can truth prevail and that internal harmony cannot be purchased at the cost of strangled convictions. For the truth is not static, but dynam- ic; not final, but progressive. Uni- formity of opinion is, therefore, an unsound condition_and one which his- tory condemns.. It is God's love in men that constitutes them a community, and this love does not depend upon dogmatic formula advertised to con- tain the whole of any given reality. Nevertheless, there are immovable factors in the Christian religion accept- ed by Roman Catholics, Greek Catholics and Protestants alike. The fatherhood of God as a personal Deity, His self- manifestation in Christ, and Christ’s reign in righteousness on the earth, to be completed in the blessed immortality hereafter of those who dd His will here, are fixed and deathless verities in which Protestant freedom finds ample room for its exercise of faith and reason. Q. What did Christ mean in John x.16, when He said: “Other sheep I have which are not of this fold"? Did He have in mind the Gentile races? A. This authentic saying of Jesus s interpreted by all commentators in the way you suggest. Its teaching accords with another saying recorded by St. Matthew, viii.2: “Many will come from east and west, and take their places be- side Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of God.” Similar teaching is found in St. Luke, x111.28, which corroborates the fact that an implicit universalisn underlies the message of our Lord. Wor what other reason did He announce in the Sermon on the Mount that His followers should be “the light of the world” and “the salt of the earth”? The aged Simeon also predicted that the infant Jesus should be “a light to enlighten the Gen- tiles” as well as the glory of Israel. stration entitled “Protecting Children Prom Current Diseases” by an expeit from the Washington Sanitarium. THE STORY It is a correct inference that since man is timeless, the words of his Re- deemer are also timeless. He addressed OF TIMOTHY ties and exercise a world-wide | d DISCUSSED BY Dr. S. Parkes Cadman. them to those elemental needs of the soul, which are deeper than racial strain, culture, class or sect. From them springs the motive power of world evangelization. The missionary to the multitudes who have not heard this gracious gospel is nearest to the divine mind that conceived it. Q. Will you please explain Psalm viii4-6. The passage reads: “When I consider Thy heavens, the works of Thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which Thou hast' ordained, what is man, that Thou art mindful of him, and the son of man, that Thou visitest him? For Thou has made him a little lower than the angels and hast crowned aim with glory and honor.” A. This is what is known as a na- ture Psalm and emphasizes two leading ideas. (1) The majesty of God as evi- denced in creation. (2) The surpass- ing majesty of man as God's vicegerent. The further suggestion that man is but for a while a little lower than the angels has been indorsed by Old Testa- ment scholail. The contrast between nature’s seeming supremacy and man'’s seeming insignificance is thus explained by the ancient poet. But he did not settle the issue raised. Charles Richet in his book, “The Im- potence of' Man,” descants on his pathetic feebleness as a creature bound to earth by the unbreakable chains of gravity, The whirlwinds- of force, which hurl him hither and thither, though but a storm in a teacup beside the cosmic terrors of space, destroy him and his mightiest works. Helpless among his fellows, he is much more so, if this is possible, when he is solitary. The conclusion of this brilliant au- thor is that man resembles a gold fish in a bowl. “The height of his ambi- tion can only be to go on wearily swimming round and round his trans- parent prison.” Those who are inflated with human arrogance can study Richet and de- flate. But he is not convincing to the sober mind. After all, we choose many of the forces by which we are environed, We dare to probe the secrets of our own being. We con- struct a universe in which our edicts run by means of organized knowledge. We pierce by means of the radio the vast interspaces and fill them with benevolent intelligence. All of which may be vain presumption, but it sus- tains the psalmist’s plea. DR. DEPP ANNOUNCES HIS SERMON TOPIC Will Preach Tomorrow Morning on “Religion in Our World.” Other Services Scheduled. - At the Calvary Methodist Episcopal Church, Columbia road near Fifteenth street, the minister, Dr. Mark Depp, will preach at the morning service on “Religion in Our World.” In the evening Rev. Walter Michael, minister of Brightwood Methodist Epis- copal Church, and Dr. Depp will ex- change pulpits. This is in connection with the pre-Easter program'in which Calvary, Brightwood, Hamline and Pet- worth Methodist Churches are uniting. ‘Tomorrow is membership roll-call Sun- when all people of the churches are urged to be present in at least one of the worship services. The fourth quarterly conference of the church was held Monday evening, at which officers were elected: Board of stewards, Charles S. Baldwin, John S. Bixler, Robert E. Bondy, Charles B. Campbell, George S. Colison, Seward T. Covert, Arrah M. Daniels, G. Frank Day, J. William DeGrange, J. M. Dew- hirst, Hazard K. Griffith, Paul F. Grove, Miss Helen Harman, Evert L. Harvey, Mrs. Edwin Henry, Mrs. 8. J. Hess, Isaac R. Hitt, Mrs. H. T. Hixson, Daniel Hoornbeek, Dr. Frank Hornaday, Leslie Johnston, Herve W. Kitzmiller, Jesse V. Lashorn, Jesse L. Leverton, Mrs. D. W. Lum, Cornelius S. Mackenzie, John T. Miller, Edward E. Murray, Robert H. Parker, Richard E. Pilkinton, Sherwood D. Shankland, Harley V. Speelman, Charles E. Swihart, H. G. Taylor, Jos- eph W. Thompson, Kenneth C. Vipond, William W. Waller, Charles L. Watkins, S. Edward Widdifield, Roy H. Wolfe, George F. Williams. Also the follow- ing were elected as trustees: Herman F. Carl, Arthur C. Christie, Edwin Dice, Edward M. Hall, J. L. Nuber, C. McK. Saltzman, N. L. Sansbury, Orlando H. Smith, Frank B. Walker. HUGHES TO SPEAK. Representative to Address Harrison * Bible Class. Representative James H. Hughes of ‘West Virginia will address the Harrison Bible class of Congress Street Methodist Protestant Church, 1238 Thirty-first street, tomorrow morning at 9:45 o'clock in the church auditorium. His subject will be “The Holy Scripture.” Prof. Harry W. Draper will have charge of the class and give a short talk on its work. All men of the parish are invited. ARRANGE VES.PER SERVICE Columbia Bible School to Hold Spg- cial Celebration. There will be a vesper service in the auditorium of the Columbia Bible Training School, 2107 S street north- west, Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock. Dr. Charles Roads, formerly of Phila; delphia and wuefe lecturer - for . the Methodist Egliwopa Chureh, will speak. Friends of the school are invited. “Jesus’ Appeal” Will Be Topic. At the services of Lincoln Congrega- tional Temple tomorrow morning at the Lincoln Theater, Rev. R. W. Brooks will speak from the subject, “Jesus’ Ap- peal to the Outcast.” The Christian Endeavor Society will meet at the Twelfth Street Y. M. C. A. at 6:45 p.m. A certain man had two sons.o The younder 7, asked his'fath- er for his patn- / mony and havi 7 received it,went / into 3 distant. . country. There he spent. his Fortune in riotous living. » When it was divsigated.he found himself reduced to such povert ni.h » Swineherd. Church of the Holy Ghost, Heidelberg, Germany Conrad von Hohenstaufen, the broth- er of Frederick Barbarossa, saw the need for a church in his native Heidel- berg during the middle of the twelfth century, so he built a small chapel dedi- cated to the Holy Ghost so that he and his fellow townspeople might woiship in peace; but the chapel he constructed, now part of the choir of the enlarged structure, was anything but a peaceful church. For nearly three centuries, from the time of Conrad, who had continual quarrels with the ecclectical authori- ties, to thg times of the Reformation, the story of the church is one of strife and turmoil. A half century of comparative quiet preceded the reign of Friedrich II, who on December 30, 1545, tentatively intro- duced the reformed doctrines at Heidel- berg and caused the celebration of the Holy Sacrament according to Lutheran rites a few days later. It was the cause of such an outburst of fury on the part of various of the inhabitants and the Catholic clergy that Frederic restored some measure of the old ceremonies in order to appease the various factions. But Otto Heinrich dissolved the chap- ter and reorganized worship under strictly Lutheran lines; Friedrich the Pius, a few years later introduced the rites of the Swiss reformers; his son, Ludwig, brought back Lutheran rule; and these in turn were cast out again by John Casimir, under orders of Fried- 1ich IV. Once again, however, under Ludwig V, Lutheranism was in power and held its own until the church was plundered and almost annihilated in the Thirty Years War. The war was a mere armistice as far as the theological strife was concerned, for just after its close Karl Ludwig attempted conciliation between all parties by introducing a modified reform_worship, but after the Orleans ‘War a Catholic reaction set in and with it went the control of the church to that of Rome. An agreement was then reached between the Catholics and Lutherans by which the former accepted the altar part of the edifice and the Lutherans received the choir end. And to inforce the agreement a wall was erected across the midst of the building dividing the choir from the nave. On the east still stands the altar of Catholic worship; on the other side a high pulpit dominates the nave. ‘While the ancient chapel was com- pleted in the twelfth century, the large structure facing the square in Heidel- berg was commenced in 1398, by Ruprecht III, and finished by Ludwig V somewhere about 1500. It was never a cathedral, though it did fulfill most of the functions of one, having been raised by Ruprecht to the rank of Stiftskirche (Chapter Church) possessing a dean and chapter though minus the dignity of the bishop’s throne. It s a lofty Gothic structure, perhaps too lofty for perfect proportions, and of a plain exterior. Its most enthuslastic friends could hardly call it beautiful, but all must admit that its history is interesting. BISHOP FREEMAN SPECIAL PREACHER Evensohg &fiice in Bethlehem Chapjel of Cathedral to Be Broadcast Over WRC. Right Rev. James E. Freeman, Bishop of Washington, will be the* special preacher at the people’s evensong in Bethichem Chapel of Washington Ca- thedral tomorrow at 4 o'clock. This service will be broadcast over WRC. At the 11 am. service in Bethlehem Chapel tomorrow, the sermon will be preached by Dr. Anson Phelps Stokes, canon of Washington Cathedral. The holy communion will be celebrated at this service. The full list of services tomorrow in Bethlehem Chapel will be as follows: 7:30 a.m., holy communion; 10 am, morning prayer and litany; 11 am., holy communion and sermon; 4 p.m., people’s evensong and sermon. Holy communion is celebrated every morning at 7:30 o'clock in Bethlehem Chapel and evening prayer is said in the chapel every day at 3:30 o'clock, ex-~ cept on Sunday, when it is 4 o'clock. Visitors in the city as well as residents are invited to attend these services. DR. TILLMAN TO PREACH. Pastor Will Occupy John Wesley A. M. E. Pulpit. Dr. Henry D. Tillman, pastor of John Wesley A. M. E. Zion Church, Four- teenth and Corcoran streets, will preach tomorrow at 10:45 a.m. and at 7:45 p.m. The annual Christian Endeavor night of the Golden Rule Christian Endeavor Union will be celebrated at the churci Friday at 8 pm, at which time the Rev. W. L. Washington, truste¢ of the International Soclety of Christian En- deavor, will address the union. The meeting will also be characterized by junior yells, intermediate and senior contests and the awarding of a cup, banner and shield. Every Endeavorer is invited to register on this evening. February 7, at 8 pm., the pastor of John Wesley A. M. E. Zion Church, ac- companied by his choir and congrega- tion, has been invited to preach =t Mount Zion M. E. Church, of which the Rev. Julius 8. Carroll is pastor, in interest of the women's day effort in progress there. Rev. L._(;. Cleaves Will Preach. Rev. L. C. Cleaves, pastor of Miles Memorial C. M. E. Church, will preach tomorrow morning from the text “Sow- ing and Reaping.” The newly elected officers of the board of ushers will be installed at the evening service by the pastor. Meetings of the Sunday school will be held at 9:30 a.m. and of the Epwortin League at 6:30 p.m. DR. JAMES A. MIERS ANNOUNCES TOPICS Fourth Presbyterian Mission So- ciety Will Hoid Meeting Wednesday. At the Fourth Presbyterian Church, Thirteenth and Fairmont streets, Cr. James H. Miers, will speak on the sub- ject, “It is God Who Sendeth—Only Lendeth,” in the morning. For the eve- ning seryice he will speak on “The Certainty of Personal Salvation,” taken from the book of John. The Women's Missionary Soclety will meet in the adult Bible class room Wednesday at 11 o'clock. The follow- ing program has been prepared by Mrs. ‘W. W. Tuckey, chairman of the pro- gram committee and her assistants: Mrs. Seldon P. Spencer will give the devotional message, Mrs. M. W. Fawcett will read the missionary letters, Mrs. W. W. Tuckey will speak on “An Hour With Our Boards.” Mrs. Frank Hart will as hostess receive the members. Mrs. G. Highfield as luncheon chair- man and her committee will serve luncheon after the meeting. The prayer and praise service will be held Thursday evening at 8 o'clock in Kelly Hall. The pastor will speak on “Waliting with Micah for Salvation.” ‘This is a short study in biography. Church History Study Class is Tues- day at 7:30 p.m., and at the same hour on Friday the study class will meet to give thought and study to the book of Hebrews with Dr. Miers as teacher. The Christian Endeavor Socicties, both junior and senior, will meet tomor- row at 7 o'clock at the church. Arthur Claxton will speak on ‘Christ Our De- liverer.” For the Sunday school, the list of services will be as follows: 9:30 a.m. the adult Bible class with Frank L. Middleton as teacher; Mother’s Bible Class with Mrs. W. W. Tuckey as teach- er; Sunday school, Grippe Bible Class with Charles T. Clayton as teacher and at 9:45 the Minister's Bible Class with Dr. Miers as teacher. ARRANGE COMMUNION. Special Service to Be Held at Rock Creek’ Church. ‘There will be a communion service tomorrow morning at St. Paul's, Rock Creek, at 8:30 o'clock, followed by the church school session at' 9:30. There will be service and sermon by the fictor. Rev. Dr. F. J. Bohanan, at am. Wednesday evening, February 6, from 5 to 7 o'clock, a dinner will be served in the new parish house under the auspices of the Rectory Guild. With the new equipment and the course pre- pared by the staff the guild promises to serve—one of the finest dinners ever presented in the new parish house. Sunday School Lesson Psalms 19:7-14; Second Timothy 3:14-17 isheartened and humbled, the son returned home. “1 am not worthy fo be called thy son? he told his Father.**Make me one of thy servants”’ But his father welcomed him joyfully and ordered a feast. prepared. The elder son was filled with ander."| have *“Yet you welcome come your dead is alive; and Sunday School Lesson Dr. Hugh T. Stevenson THE HOLY SCRIPTURES. Deuteronomy 6:4-9; Joshua 1:8-9; 2 Kings 22:8-20; Nehe- miah 8:1-8; Psalm 19:7-14; Luke 24:25-32; Acts 17:10-12; 2d ‘Timothy 3:14-17. Golden text—"Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.—Psalm 119:18. The Bible is the product of religion. It developed out of the conditions of men and nations, persons and parties, churches and countries. At its foun- dation is the superhuman relations of men to the Almighty. The Creator of life controls the destiny of men and nations. He communicated His will to men by inspired speakers, seers and sages. God revealed Himself and His purpose in many different ways to many different men, who spoke and wrote His word. He was over 25 centuries in getting ready to give the Bible, which is a library of 66 volumes, to men. Al- though it- has come down to us through the literary work of many inspired men, covering many centuries in its compo- sition, yet in reality it is one book, hav- ing redemption for its theme and truth for its content, with God as its author. Anything written might be called Scrip- ture, from the Latin Scriptura, “that which has been written.” The title, “Holy Scriptures,” has been applied to the Bible, because it contains the sacred writings concerning holy things. The human heart, hungering after sym- pathy, fellowship and love finds in the sacred pages of the Holy Scriptures the assurance that God is able and willing to_supply all of our needs. Bishop Fowler has well said of the Bible that “its greatness cannot be uttered in a world or in time. The universe is too narrow for it. Time is too short for it. It is as deep as the foundations of eternal justice, as wide as the moral government, as high as the throne of infinite, as enduring as the life of the Almighty, and its inspiration is as exhaustless as the love of God.” 1t will not be possible within the space limits of this article to say anything near all that the writer may desire to say in reference to the Holy Scriptures, the greatest literary volume in any language. This “God breathed” book calls for the reverent study by every person. Woodrow Wilson claimed that “America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of hteousness which are derived from the revelations of, the Holy Scriptures.” He called upon’ his countrymen to “realize that part of the destiny of America lies in the daily perusal of this great book of revelations—that if they would see America free and pure they will make their own spirits free and pure by this baptism of the Holy Scriptures.” Greatest Literary Volume. The world’s greatest literary product and seller was written by men, whom God selected with great care. He called them and educated them for their task. The investigations of _science and scholarship would not harmonize, as they do, for every truth that can be demonstrated to be true in laboratory or field illustrates and harmonizes with the revelations of the Holy Scriptures, if the writers were not picked men and specially fitted for their task. “Man may discover many things concerning seeds and soll, water and weeds, fish and fruits, cattle and children, but he cannot discover the will and nature of , His purposes of grace, place of redemption and forgiveness, the joy and blessedness of the future life.” Man can only come to know these great spiritual truths through a God given revelation. In directing the persons, whom He had selected and taught, God's Spirit acted upon the spiritual life of the chosen prophets and ts, so that these speakers and singers could clearly underlv.?‘r:d and faithfully lireve:l God's personality, program an wer men. Under the Divine leadership .the Holy Spirit, the Bible possesses all its parts a spiritual unity. Because these “God breathed” men penned the books that make up the Holy Scriptures, we have a Bible that is a safe and sufficient guide in all matters of faith and practice. It speaks with authority that other sacred writings lack. It rings true to the reality of life that runs through the whole Bible in its narratives of the spiritual experiences of men with God. Human _progress has been influenced by the Holy Scriptures. We find its molding power in the literature of every language into which the Bible has~ been translated and printed. Many languages owe their' preservation to she missionaries work as translators. In a peculiar sense the Bible has mold- ed our civilization and literature. “Thirty-seven of Shakespeare’s plays give evidence of their author's depend- ence upon the Bible as source of inspiration and language, while there are no less than 3,000 quotations from the Bible in all his works. Tennyson has 460 quotations from 52 books of the Bible.” One can trace the influence of the Holy Scriptures in the works of Bunyan, Burns, Milton, Byron, Bryant, Pope, Cowper, Whittier, Longfellow, the Brownings, Coleridge and Hall Caine. Ruskin has given to the world the great list of chapters which he committed to memory as & boy. The influence of this memory work can be traced in the writings of this master of English. It is unfortunate that the practice of memorizing God's word is not being followed today as it ought. Poets, painters and preachers have been the leaders of human thought because their messages were based upon the word of God. Religious Life Producer. God's life lives in the sacred scrip- tures. The Bible finds men in every land and enjoying the various forms of culture and civilization. It convicts men of their sins and shows them the way of salvation in Christ Jesus. Time and time again in the various mission fields the chance finding of a copy of the Bible has been the means used by the Holy Spirit to make men see their sin and need of a Saviour, revealing unto them the power and desire of Christ Jesus to save men. A copy of the Holy Scriptures was placed in the hands of Laura Bridgeman, the Helen Keller of a former generation, by the superintendent of an institute for the blind, with instructions that no ome By’ to of in Harlowe R. Hoyt Walter Scott 3lways obeyed you, he my worthless brother and pay no heed tome.” *What | haveis yours,'the father responded.*But | wel- er for he who was he who was lost is © 1429 Susuisuens symmare should speak to her about the Bible or refer in any manner to God's word to her. It found her just as it found Tolstol when he found a copy of the Greek New Testament in a Russian peasant’s hut. It changed his career and character. Dr. Gifford tells of a friend who was the son of a Russian Siberian exile and a master of several languages. He was born and reared in St. Pcters- burg and was a graduate of Harvard. When this man came to the end of his university studies at Harvard he was an atheist. He was about to commit suicide when he picked up ‘a volume that_told of Tolstoi’s experience follow- ing his finding of a copy of the Greek New Testament. He went and pur- chased a copy of it in the Greek and started to read it through. He did not stop until he had read it through from Matthew to Revelation. “He went back to the Sermon on the Mount, he bowed himself to Jesus Christ as his Master, he accepted the beatitudes as his rule of life and enjoyed a beautiful Christian experience.” Whenever men read the Bible with the reverent and spirituai longing to know God the Bible finds them and gives them ot God's life, so that they commence to live a holy life in accordance with the teachings of the word of God. ‘This historical text book of Christian- ity has passed through many acid tests, but it always triumphs. No book has ever survived so many conflicts. Every science has raised its questions—astron- omy, history, archeology, geology, chem- istry and biology. Probably the latest victory for the accuracy of the Bible, which, while not a book of science, con- tains sclence, is found in the work of Austin H. Clark of the Smithsonian In- stitution. In his “Tracing of Life's Pathway,” that was announced exclu- sively in The Star a week ago last Sunday, this eminent sclentist has pre- sented a new theory of evolution that denies man's origin from lower animals. His theory harmonizes with the views of the Genesis account of the origin of man. While it may be too soon to real- ize the value of this recent scientific statement, it apparently will remove all the differences between champions of the Bible as authority and scientists over the divine origin of man and possibly close the controversy between modernists and fundamentalists, who have in Dr. Clark’s theory one that confirms their point of view. We ought to give the supreme place in our study to the Holy Scriptures, that are so closely inwrought in the life of our country and civilization. Let its silent pages speak to us of the way of salva- tion, service and survival of the spiritual in the future life, revealed to us by the Lord in its sacred pages. Bible Questions Of the Day By Harlow R. Hoyt. CENTER'S SERVIGES 10 BE CONTINUED Congregational Program Is Announced—Staff Will Be Enlarged. The Washington Life Adjustment Center, which has attracted Nation- wide attention as an adjunct of the Mount Pleasant Congregational Church, will continue indefinitely its free serv- ices to the public. Arrangements have been made for a larger staff to con- tinue through February. The next meeting of the center will be at the church Monday from 7 to 9 p.m. Amy N. Stannard, R. W. Hall and kson and Roscoe S. Cohen, +_Misses Dorothy Sproul and Ella V. Ball, soclal workers; Mrs. Mary C. Stevens, general counselos Miss Lois M. Kugler, director of re ligious education, and Rev. Moses R. Lovell, spiritual adviser. At the morning service tomorrow, the pastor, Rev. Moses R. Lovell, will preach on “Those Whom Jesus Chose.” The discussion group at 6 p.m. will consider Thornton Wilder's novel, “The Bridge of San Luis Re; Mrs. W. W. Husband, wife of the commissioner of immigration, addressed the first dinner meeting of the League of Service Monday night. Miss Katha- rine Ronsaville presided. The regular child guidance course will be resumed February 7 at 10 a.m. with a serles of lectures on “Modern Parenthsod—Its _ Opportunities and Perplexities.” Many parent-teacher bodies will co-operate with the Mount Pleasant Church in arrangement of the course. The speaker February 7 will be Miss Katharine F. Lenroot, who will discuss “What Is Happening to the Family.” DR. $IZ00 TO LECTURE. “The Religious Significance of 1928” Is Theme. “The Religious Significance of 1928" is the subject of the address that will be delivered by the Rev. Dr. Joseph R. Sizoo before the Presbyterian Ministers® Association of Washington and vicinity on Monday, at 11 am, in the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church Par- ish Hall. Membership Roll Call Sc;ednled‘ “Membership roll call” tomorrow at ;etworltfil ::in!.tckglrchh Church mem- TS Wi g to church cards their name. This is the beflnnm'l the pre-Easter program. The pastor's communion meditation is on “The Place of Answefs.” Reception of new mem- bers to follow. Dr. Chesteen Smith, pastor of Hamline M. E. Church, preaches for us at 8 pm. We are co~ THE STORY OF TIMOTHY. Questions. 1. Who was Timothy? 2. When and how was he converted? 3. When did Timothy become a com- panion of Paul of Tarsus? 4. What was his first assignment? 5. What important commission was he given after his novitiate? 6. How did Timothy handle the situ~ ation in the Corinthian church? 7. What epistle did he assist Paul in preparing? 8. Did he follow Paul to Rome? ng. Where did Timothy spend his last 1S? 10. Where is last mention made him in the Bible? o Answers. 1. Timothy was the beloved disciple of Paul of Tarsus. His father was a Greek, his mother was a Jew; and he was born in Lystra. 2. When Paul made his first mission- :‘I;Xyn journey, Timothy was converted by 3. Timothy remained in the city of his birth until Paul visited it a second time. Then he chose Timothy to be his companion. 4. Timothy was left in Bergea with Silas while Paul went to Athens. 5. After serving his time with Silas in Beraea, Paul dispatched Timothy to Thessalonica to establish a church there. 6. When trouble broke out in the Corinthian church, Timothy was sent ‘o quell it. It proved too great a task for him, however, and he returned to Paul with the church still in a foment. 7. Timothy assisted Paul in writing the second Epistle to the Corinthians, which did much to adjust matters in the church. Through his observations. Timothy offered much wise advice and help in solving the situation. 8. Yes, Timothy followed Paul to Rome and served him faithfully until that leader was executed. 9. Timothy shared Pawl's imprison- ment. His later years |:oblbly were spent in Ephesus and its nelghborhood. 10. The author of Hebrews gives us the last glimpse of Timothy with the announcement that he had just been set at liberty. LA AR e LR First Universalist Church. Dr. Frederic W. Perkins, pastor of the Pirst Universalist Church, will preach at the 11 o'clock service to- morrow morning in the Ambassador Theater, where that church is conduct- ing its services J)endln( construction of the church building at Sixteenth and S streets, on_“The Glorifying Light.” The Young People’s Christian Union will meet at 7 p.m. at the parish house, 1603 S street, its theme being “Modern Science and Scientists,” ied by Gordon ‘Way. 9 FREE PUBL Making the Most of Even operat! with Brightwood Park, Cal. vary and Hamline M. E. Churches in the pre-Easter program. —_— Plan Family Day Services. Christ Lutheran Church, the Rev. J. Frederic Wenchel, pastor, will hold its annual family day service tomorrow morning. This is the fourteenth year this service is being held. A spec! program been an_app: 1ly,” by THE SECULAR LEAGUE o Gunday, 3P0 “Present Conditions in Spain.” Prof. Alten R. Hodskins Free Order of Christian Mystics Dr. and Mrs. F. Homer Curtiss Beginning Course on Cosmic Influences Feb. 3—8al Tes! B e Feb. 36_Mercury and- Mind. Public s class at’ O. C. M. Dl 3508 Queber3t.% poin ivers y. oodiey Road 'bus to h and Ordway Sts. or Wisconsin Ave. cars to Idaho Ave. Clip This for Reference The Greatel( Power in the World and Its Practi- cal Use in Daily Life 3 lstrated Public Lectures EUGENE FERSEN Former Baron Fersen of Russia Starting Tuesday, Feb. Sth 8:15 PM. Masonic Temple Auditorium [CLECTURES “You” at Your Age Beginning This Sunday Night, Feb. 3rd, at Eight O’Clock And Every Night After That for Nine Nights Different Subject and Entirely New Program Each of the Nine Free 3 Mnu Dramatic, Unceméred, Colered Pictures, Instrumental, Vocal Music, Demonstra- tions, Living Models, Charts, Exhibits Remember the Place! Playhouse Auditorium, 1814 “N” Street N.W. No Tickets Required Presented by The Short Course University Service F 4 N ~