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3 CHURCHES UNITE FOR 12 SERVICES Unitarian, Congregational and Universalist Groups Merge for Summer. All Souls’ Church, Unitarian; Mount Pleasant Congregational Church and the Universalist National Memorial Church will unite in a series of union services from June 23 through Sep- tember 8. The first six services will be held in All Souls’ Church, Sixteenth and Har- vard streets; the last six in the Mount Pleasant Church. At the service tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock, in All Souls’ Church, Dr. John Van Schaick, editor of the Chris- tian Leader, Boston, Mass., former pastor of the Universalist Church of this city and president of the board of education, will preach. The schedule of preachers for the entire series of union services follows: June 30, July 7 and July 14, Dr. Ulysses B. Pierce; July 21, Dr. George Lawrence Parker, First Uni- tarian Church, Toledo, Ohio; July 28, Dr. Frederic W. Perkins; August 4, Rev. Robert Wood Coe, Brockton, Mass.; August 11 and 18, Rev. Corne- lius Greenway, Church of the Redemp- ton, Bosion, Mass.; August 25, to announced; September 1, Rev. Charles Stanley Jones, Detroit; September 8, Rev. Moses Lovell. ARCRIA GOSPEL MISSION BIBLE SCHOOL OPENS MONDAY Miss Mary Riley Will Head Staff| in Charge of Four Weeks’ Session. The fifth annual session of the Sum- mer Bible School at the Gospel Mission, 214 John Marshall place, will open Monday morning for a four weeks' session. A staff of teachers, composed of Miss Mary Riley, principal; Miss Swan Hester, kind n department, and Mrs. N. K. Gardner, junior department, assisted direct the school. Special speakers from various churches will give early morning de; ‘Mission held July e S CENTRAL UNION MISSION | PLANS NIGHTLY SERVICE by many volunteer helpers, will | gTace. ' Sunday A PSALM OF PRAISE. Psalm ciil1-22. Golden Text—"Bless Jehovah, O my soul."—Psalm eifi.1. | Although scholars differ as to the author of the “Psalm of Praise,” as- signed for our consideration today, this | great outpouring of a_forgiven has a personal appeal. It sounds a note that every person feels as he meditates upon ite soul-stirring messa It has a universal appeal because everywhere, and all who have found peace and forgiveness feel the divine urge within them to express their grati- tude to God for His grace that has saved the saved soul. Ingratitude is said to be man's great- est sin. Every person who takes time to count the many biessings that God has bestowed upon him individually wiil soon be inspired to magnify and ac- knowledge the Lord as the giver of all z:‘l!!lul. material and spiritual bless- gs of life. Daily we face the peril of forgetting how God has saved, forgiven, healed and redeemed us from destruc- tion. The wages of sin is death, but God's loving kindness and tender mercy | has secured for us a salvation that blots out our iniquities and remembers them | against us no more. He crowns our lives as victors over iniquity, so that our | whole being feels like blessing God. Our food is His gift to us and it enables us | to renew our strength like the eagle’s. The remuneration of these many bless- | ings should inspire us to praise Jehovah. | Praise God’s Character. | ‘The psalmist recognized the fact that others besides himself ought to praise Jehovah because of His righteousness and judgment. We ought not to con- sider that the gifts of His grace that we receive of the Lord are gifts of His good nature. Looking over the worla the psalmist recognized that when Jehovah vindicated those who had been Jp- pressed it was due to His personality. His restoration of those who had been | oppressed to their former place and happiness by raising up deliverers for those who had been compelled to suffer was due to His personal character. He | had seen the oppressions caused by | men’s sins, and in answer to their ap- | plication for relief Jehovah bestows His | . He is impartial in His judg- ments and deals justly with all that are oppressed. God never fails to rescue | His people and to punish those who | oppress them. He treated the pharaohs | of Egypt and the rulers in Babylonia in :&mrdmce with His principles of jus- e. ‘The mercy and grace that He re- vealed to Moses teaches us not only God's character but his attitude toward sinners. The reference in the psalm without doubt refers to the answer thal Jehovah gave Moses in answer to his second uest for a larger reveation. “And the Lord passed by him and pro- claimed, the Lord, the Lord God, mer- ciful and gracious, long-suffering and abundant in goodness and truth, keep- ‘William EKnowles Cooper, Retiring General Becretary of ¥. M. C. A, ‘Will Preach Tomorrow Evening. jowles Cooper, retiring the Washington W | when he iz compelled service Mission, 613 C will be represented AR e at the mission at 8 o'clock. The Chris- tian Endeavor of the United Brethren Church will officiate Monday evm: my A“n.% 't the Mount. Vernon Place M. E. Chur¢h South, ; American Home Bible In- ursday; Christian End nsgress t will by no means clear the guilty.” This truth could be supplemented from other passages of the Bible that {llus- trate God's motives and meuhods in dealing with sinners. Even in the hours to deal severely with individuals His people or nations, because of their persistent sin or stub- bornness of heart, yet the psalmist tells us “that He not always chide,” and that in the midst of His severity of pun- ishment God will not forget His purpose of bestowing grace in accordancc w.th His principles. He is always seeking and welcoming the penitent's cry for pardon and the opportunity to be mer- ciful. “He will not keep His anger forever.’ Although God may be justified in Dr. Hugh T. Stevenson. is found | passag School Lesson preserving His r and sending us to destruction, Helsfl recoxnln the peni- tence of His people and turn to save them when they call uj Him in sin- cerity and truth. “He is easLy en- treated.” He is long-suffering and not willing that any should perish. When men seek His forgiveness He always| exercises His mercy. Limits of Divine Grace. The psalmist sets forth by a series of comparisons and f{llustrations the limits of divine grace. There are few es that equal this psalm in its revelation of God's mercy and grace. The psalmist turns to the heavens above us for an illustration of the Lord’s mercy, that is “according to the height of heaven above the earth.” No one has ever been able to compute the | height of the heaven over the earth, yet the psalmist suggests this as an evidence of God's grace. The firma- ment above us is so great that only a few of the nearer stars are seen by the, buman eye. In other words there is no limit to God's frlce. The heavens illustrate not merely the extent of the | unmerited favor that Jehovah has stowed upon sinful men, but they also suggest something of the grandeur, sub- limity and glory of His grace. In another comparison the psalmist calls for us to exercise our imagination in another way, for he tells us that “as far as the east is from the west, so0 | far hath He removed our transgressions from us.” In other words God puts between the forgiven sinner and his sin a remoteness that would take more than all eternity to reach. In other words it means that the forgiven person's sins have been utterly blotted out and sepa- rated from him forever. All eternity would not be sufficlent time for them to be returned to the forgiven soul. In other words the sins that have been forgiven have vanished and disappeared | forever. Our Lord came to reveal God to men | as their Father. The psalmist had dis- | covered that God’s patience, kindne: and forgiveness were similar to the pi that a father bestowed upon a child. | The psalmist. had learned that God was nearer and more willing to forgive than | any earthly father would be to his| own child. His love for his child gave | the father an understanding of his child’s weakness. The psalmist informs | us that man's weakness makes a sure | appeal to God's heart. It is because of | God's greatness and man's littleness that we ought to praise the Lord. Let Us Pralse Him. ‘The psaimist called upon the universe | to join in a chorus of thlnnflv\nl.i because of God’s boundless love, mercy and grace. He claimed that God's grace was a fixed fact in the sovereignty of Jehovah. Tt is seen in the heavens and extends over the whole universe, which is the work of His hands. He affirms that grace is a principle of God’s uni- versal government. He summons the angels to join in this chorus of e with the whole company of His hosts, including those ministers of His that | do His pleasure. He closes the psalm by calling upon sl the inanimate works i of God throughout the universe to unite with the angelic hosts in praising God. The psalm ends, as it commenced, with an outburst of praise and grati- tude, full of thanksgiving: “Bless the Lord, O my Soul!” Let us, who have been forgiven., renewed in the inner man, redeemed from destruction, made heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, whose lives have been crowned with loving kindness and tender mercy, heed the psalmist’s call and praise the Lord. Let us join the chorus and sing with all of our soul the story of God's redeeming love and saving grace, so that some soul, who has not been saved, may hear our song and be saved through God's gift of grace and life. be- 5 jeavor of the Pligrims, Friday, Christian Cent Endeavor of the Metro- ts for ! , October 27, Tescue mis- m"num'gmufie the local . The occa- mmtmrmmmm- the founding of the mission. TWO PREACHERS GIVE SERMONS AT EPIPHANY Dr. James W. Morris and Rev. C. H. Douglas Will Occupy Pul- pit at Bervices Tomorrow. Dr. James W. Morris will eonduct morning prayer and deliver the sermon at Epiphany tomorrow, and at_even- at 8 o'clock, Re parish weekly meeting at 6 p.m. The holy communion will be admin- istered Thursday at 7:30 and 11 am. ' EPWORTH LEAGUE ‘ ‘Miss Ruth Shauck will lead the devo- tional service at Woodside Chapter to- morrow evening. W. L. Hunt will lead at Douglas Chapter and Earl Groves at Dumbarton Avenue Chapter. The topic is “A Discovery of Our Allies in Service.” Reference: St. Mark, ix.38-4 ‘Warren L. Briggs, retiring president, will conduct the service at Metropolitan Chapter tomorrow evening. Anacostia Chapter will have a sur- ?rue hike Monday evening, starting rom the church. 3 With the approach of July 15, in- terest is being shown In the plans for the fifteenth annual session of the Bal- timore Conference Epworth League In- stitute, Owing to the illness of the r, Miss Eva Davis, the confer- ence president, D. 8. Patterson, sug- ts for the time being registrations e sent to the institute manager, Law- rence B. Rice, 633 Linnard street, Bal timore, Md. A leaflet of information about the institute has just been issued and gives the faculty and daily program. The faculty is as follows: Dean, Rev. Ed- ‘ward N. Parrish; Bible study, Dr. Ches- teen Smith; evangelism, Rev. Orris G. Robinson; Methodist polity, Rev. F. R. Bayley; stewardship, Rev. William liglous educational methods. life service, Rev. Rodgers; institute seminar, Rev. Asbury Smith; president’s class, Rev. Carlos 3 first Rev. iph D. ‘ment methods, Rev. F. H department methods, D. Stewart Patter- l;m; fourth department methods, Rev. ‘Edna Stackhouse, will be in attendance all week with a full medical equipment. All delegates are asked to bring their Bibles. Those interested in athletics should bring any equipment they have and those who play orchestral instru- ments are requested to bring them also. A special feature of the sessions will be the two sermons Dr. Bruce , pastor of Delaware Avenue . Church, Buffalo. The institute sermon on July 21 will be preached by the former dean, Rev. 8. Carroll Coale, pastor of Eldbrooke Church. ‘The members of the new cabinet of Union Cha) 3 president; t; Dot Wi 600D AND EVIL” 1S SERMON TOPIC Chevy Chase Baptist Church| to Join Others in Vesper Services. Rev. Edward O. Clark, pastor, vlml‘ preach tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock | at the Chevy Chase Baptist Church on the subject “Good and Evil." A story- | sermon for juniors also will be given. The church unites with the other churches of the community in union vesper services, the first of which will | be held Sunday evening at 7 o'clock on | the lawn of the Presbyterian Church.) Rev. Henry Teller Cocke will be the preacher. The community vacation church school will begin its four-week term next Tuesday at 9 am. in the Presby- terian Church. A full curriculum in | education will be conducted | mh week day, except Saturday, during term. Leaders of the school will be as fol- lows: Supervisor, Miss Margaret Sim- monds; principal of the primary de- partment, Miss Lucile F. Pope; princi- 1. | pal of the kindergarten, Miss Winifred | held Thursday evening at 8 o'clock. Simpson. The Protestant churches of Chevy Chase are sponsoring the school, ‘which is open to all children. | CALVARY BAPTT SCHOOL TO OPEN Daily Vacation Bible Classes| Are Scheduled to Start at 9 A.M. Monday. Rev. W. 8. Abernethy, pastor of Cal- vary Baptist Church, will preach both morning and evening tomorrow. At 11 o'clock his topic will be “The Church and Young Life.” and at 7:45 p.m. he will speak on the subject “That In- feriority Complex.” ‘The junior* church will hold its last session of the Summer tomorrow morn- ing at 11 o'clock. Rev. H. J. Councilor will preach. The services will be re- sumed about September 15. Rev. A. D. Bryant, minister to the deaf, will conduct the services for the deaf in the lecture Toom of the church | tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. | The monthly meeting of the officers’! councll will be held Monday evening at_8:15 o'clock in the church office. Levi Smither will lead the meeting of the Christian Endeavor Society Tues- day evening at 8 o'clock. Topic for discussion, “Jesus Teaching Us Self- Control.” The midweek prayer meeting will be preceded by the meeting of the pastor and deacons. SERVICE TO BE BROADCAST | Dr. Wilfley Will Preach Two Ser-| mons Tomorrow. | “What Makes a Christian” will be the subject of Dr. Earle Wilfley's morn- ing sermon tomorrow at Vermont Ave- nue Christian Church. This service will | be broadcast by WRC. In evening Dr. Wilfley will speak on the topic “Rainbows." There will be & noonday box Junch- eon Tuesday at; the church, when Circ No. 3, Mrs. W. M. Lockwood. leader, and | Circle No. 4, Mrs. H. E. Burton, leader, | will hold a joint meeting. OUTING SET FOR JUNE 29. Presbyterian Union School and | C. E. Societies Announce Program. | ‘The fourth annual Presbyterian Union Sunday School and Christian | Endeavor excursion to Marshall Hall | will be held June 29, thietic program of sixteen events has been arranged. Ten races ranging from the 35-yard dash to the 100-yard dash besides other features including the running broad jump, shotput and novelty races, will make up the pro- gram. Prizes will be awarded for all events, including six silver medals and s silver cup. “LOGIC OF LOVE.” Dr. Harris Will Preach at Morning | and Evening Services. . Frederick Brown Harris, pastor, 1 be ject, and “A Summer Motto” at of Thursday evenings with be brought to a close swith _“The Text of an | hi | session at 9:30 at the Metropolitan | the Wisconsin Avenue Baptist Church, | will be conducted for boys and girls in Memm‘?ll Chapel. Rev. ‘The daily vacation Bible school will! open Monday morning at 9 o'clock un- der the supervision of Mrs. Robert 8. Clark. She will be assisted by Miss Dorothy Sampson and Miss Evelyn Lambert. Mrs. R. H. McNeill, Mrs. E. M. Gustafson and Mrs. J. H. Chester- man constitute the committee which | will have general oversight of the | school. A council i3 called by Calvary Church Monday at 3 pm. to examine Harvey E. Metcalf with a view to ordaining| im to the gospel ministry. All the, Baptist Churches of the District are asked to send their pastors and two | other delegates. | Mrs. W. S. Abernethy has returned from the Northern Baptist Convention in Denver and wili teach the Burrall Class tomorrow morning at the class Theater, | ‘SPIRIT OF CHRIST' TOPIC.| Pastor to Preach at Wisconsin Avenue Baptist Church, ‘“The Spirit of Christ” is the topic at Forty-second and Fessenden streets, to- morrow at 11 o'clock. During the 8 o'clock evening service Rev. Clarence R. Ferguson will speak on “Forgiveness of Sins.” The Bible school meets at 9:30 o'clock; Senior, Intermediate and Junior B. Y. P. U. Societies, 7 p.m. The Summer vacation Bible school July 8 to 19, TWO SERMONS LISTED. Rev. I. W. Ketchum's Topics at Peck Chapel Announced. “Why Should I Believe in God?” is the topic tomorrow morning at Peck Trinity Church, HE present Trinity Church on lower Broadway was dedicated in 1846, but it is but the suc- have occupled this site since the time of the Dutch settlers of Manhat- tan. A little chapel, “King's Chapel,” stood here until 1697 and the liturgy was read in it until Trinity was com- pleted in the same year. It was but a small square structure and needed en- largement in 1739, in which yekr its di- mentions were increased to 148 feet in length by 70 in width. A steeple 170 feet in height was added. The great | fire which swep® New York in 1776 and which threatened the entire town with destruction destroyed the church and no attempt was made, to rebuild it until after the Revolution. church was erected, but this again failed to serve the needs of the ever- growing community and so the present | structure was commenced in 1841 and dedicated five years later. At the outset of its career Trinity | owned a large tract of land to which was added a magnificent endowment from the English government, the gift of Queens Farm, embodying a tract of land about lower Broadway and the | Hudson that is now of immense value cestor of several churches which | In 1788 a new | » ):Vf'm/ gl New York City and most of it still in possession of the church and a producer of tremen- religious work. The charities that benefit from these large incomes are many and varied. They include an employment society, a department for the care of the sick and parochial and mission schools. Homes for destitute men and women are maintained. hospitals are assisted financially, seaside sanitariums and en- tertainment clubs for working men, ‘women, boys and girls are encouraged and sustained. In the church yard around Trinity lie many who have been conspicuous | in the history of Colonial America. Here rest Alexander Hamilton, Judge Watts and Robert Fulton. One monu- ment is dedicated to Colonial soldiers who died during the Revolution. An- other marks the resting place of Capt. James Lawrence, who was ac- tion with the British ship Shannon in 1812. The oldest gravestone is dated 1681 and marks the grave of a child, Richard Churcher, who died at the age of 5 months, and whose sandstone slab, adorned with the usual skull, | crossbones and winged hourglass, has | endured to this day. ‘Woman I Should Have Liked Grandmother Moses of Mrs. Eddy TO Havc Been.' Says Senator George H. Moses of New Hampshire and permanent chairman of fhe Republican national convention | at Kansas City last year, Is one of few men high in public life who was a friend of Mrs. Baker Eddy, founder of Christian Science, when she lived in_Concord, N. H. In a special signed story by Willis J. Abbot to the Christian Science Moni- tor. Senator Moses told of his friend- ship with Mrs. Eddy, he “and esteemed her highly. Perhaps an exprission I have frequently used in reference to her expresses my views now in retrospection as it did when she was still active. I used to say that she was exactly the sort of woman I should have liked my grandmother to have been. “She was earn- est, sincere, culti- I don't mean she had that Senater Moses vated. basic culture that is gained from a | college course, In her days there were few, if any, colleges for women. But she had native ability, supple- mented a good common school training, and the educational guidance of New England clergymen, prominent educators and a brother who, entering public life via the law office of Franklin Plerce, might have gone far but for his untimely passing. “Moreover, she was naturally of a intellectual type, and during the da when I knew her was constantly e: tending her mental horizons by read- ing and study. I sat through one of her classes once at her invitation, and while T am not, and never was, a Christian Scientist. I was impressed by her grasp of metaphysical prob- lems and the clarity with which she expressed her convictions. “It has always been & reason for profound gratitude on my part th 1 was a member of that class, It wi the last one she ever taught, held in 1898. “Indeed, she was always the most reasonable of women—that, and an in- variable serenity, were her chief cha acteristies. “Her family was of good old New England stock—the sort that does not lend itself to pretense or hypocrisy. She may have been mistaken in some of her convictions—or right for all I can say—but one thing is sure, and that is that her convictions were her own, not borrowed, but worked out arduously by her own mental efforts. | “I had long known her before the effort was made to prove her men- tally incompetent—unable to handle her own affairs. You doubtless re- call the case. There was evidence and legal argument a plenty, but what really settled the case was her own testimony before the three masters to whom the case was referred. “Bdgar A. Aldrich, a district judge, had appointed three associates to con- duct the inquiry with him. She ap- ‘)elxm and sustained a most searching nquisition at her own home. It was an ordeal before which any woman might have shrunk—certainly one which none not equipped with a keen intellect and ready wit could have undergone with success. But her re- sponses to the inquiries put to her, her composed attitude, her clear compre- hension of the tion in which she was placed, and the quiet and convine- ing way in which she defended herself made an indellible impression on those coldly legal minds. “After that episode nobody around Concord ever ventured to question Mrs. Eddy's complete sanity, nor the entire sincerity of her convictios will al oo &t the. Bight servios oo so preach at the sei “Jesus’ G‘::lt Question.” bl The men's and women's classes will meet at 10 o'clock. The subject of the Christian Endea ‘This | o'clock will be “Jesus wfl v -:eli" o s Self- control.” i} " ns. “I hear that some of those who have been attacking the Christian Science organization xhnve turned m:h\: fll‘m on Mrs. Eddy. I can only they had lived in Concord n'{:tn she did, as I knew her, to express her views in clear, straight- | forward English of her own. | “At one time I used to aid her in prepas matter for publication, and | my knowledge of her power of self- | expression, and the wide range of her reading and information is, therefore, at first hand and exact. “She was punctilious, even finicky in her choice of language. I remember | once sending back a mer she had | written with some suggestions as to a | change in adjectives. When it returned i h;: me h{:rh::e "pizldnur it bore evidence that sl each of my sugges- tions and rejected them all in favor of another adjective which was clearly just the right word. It is impossible for one who worked with her as I did to credit any charges of slovenly work or borrowed thoughts. “You won't expect me to accept her | theories, but you can quote me as say- ing that I believe them to have been her own, alike in substance and ex- | pression.” | “THE CHRISTIAN FEAST.” | | Rev. Homer A. Kent to Preach at First Brethren Church. Homer G. Kent, pastor of the rethren Church, Twelfth and E | streets southeast, will preach tomor- row morning on 'the subject, “The Christian Feast.” His evening subject will be “Two Men Stood Praying.” Mon- day morning at 9 o'clock, there will opzn a three-week daily vacation Bible school. Sunday school meets at 9:30 a.m. and P. C. E. at 7 pm. | _Rev. | First B |v. | SUNDAY SCHOOL PICNIC. | Eckington Presbyterian Church Holds Outing Today. | Rev. Hénry B. Wooding, pastor of the Eckington Presbyterian Church, | North Capitol street, corner Florida | avenue, will speak tomorrow morning lat 11 o'clock on the theme “God's | Glory” and in the evening at 8 o'clock t | on the topic “A Guilty Silence.” The annual Sunday school plenic is being held tod: Marshall Hall. for a_human, Cheapl! dous revenue for use in charitable and | fifty cent Tt will take you about 80 miles telephone. Quick! Simple! Q. What is the real meaning of the term religion, as you understand it? A. Unfortunately, its significance is often lost in the multitude of meanings imposed upon it. Primarily, it denotes the life of God in the soul of man, but the superfluous things attached to it would sink without trace any but an extraordinary word. Tt is identified with minor moralities, conventional forms, respectability, technical ortho- doxies, ecclesiasticism of numerous shades, cultism, sectarianism and de- nominationalism. Dead issues are tagged on to the al- ready overloaded word and bigoted partisans or nationalistic fanatics en- deavor to appropriate it for their spe- clal use and benefit. Meanwhile the divine life in the individual and in so- clety is chiefly concerned with the fundamental issues of private and pub- lic righteousness, domestic and politi- cal Integrity, industrial justice, inter- national peace and the mental and ethical enfranchisement of the ignorant and the unprivileged. Its inspirations are felt in all essen- tially spiritual movements which com- mand the service of guiding minds and the support of well disposed citizens. These movements are common to all countries. They prevail in Asia and Africa as they do in Europe and the Americas. Many of them are too spacious for the narrow routine of ec- clesiastical groups. fast bound in their rigid ideas and observances. Hence the truly religious woman is not now confined to the churches any more than in our Lord's time. They are really recasting the whole concept of the higher life with- in and refuse to jam not a few of jts finest expressions into exhausted formulas. This is as it should be, and promises well. - The churches, taken as a whole, were never more truly religious on their human side than they are to- day. Their chief need is the control | and guidance of the inner light. Un- lsss many signs are misleading, this light is breaking out afresh in numer- ous quarters. Q: s there anything to be learned from spiritualism? . I presume your question and others I have received from Great | Britain and our English-speaking resi- | | dents on the continent are echoes of the newspaper debates and correspond- ence which took place in England dur- ing 1928, Speaking generally, the phenomena of spiritualism are important enough to receive the attention of the Society of Psychical Research, which pursues its investigations on purely scientific Jines in order to ascertain the evi- dence concerning alleged appearances from beyond. Spiritism, which should man or the avowal that discarnate human | spirits_have been definitely recognized | as such. The avowal is common to all believers in the survival of personality after bodily death. The spiritualism which you are in- clined to favor is a development of iritism. Convinced that facts are at stake which cannot be extinguished by ridicule or prejudice, spiritualists base their religion on these facts, and make claims for it which create eonh'ovel;y‘. The words of Christ annul for disciples the materialistic contention that bodily dissolution ends human being. He said to the Sadducees of old ‘who were the materialists of that da: “God is not the God of the dead, b of the living; for all live unto Him.” This great Scripture and kindred Bib- lical passages authorize what may be termed Christian spiritualism, which is hospitable toward any demonstration spiritism can supply of existence be- | yond the grave. i Q. How, much of the non-believer's ethical code is_derived religion, and especially from the Christian re- ligion?, A. The answer depends on what kindd ofv omebeuevur you have l‘: mind. was one type, Stephen another, and Lenin a third. Yet how widely their ethical i fered! 1 assume you ask for & con- trast between the ethics of naturalism and those of the Christian religion, in which case I ly believe the ‘best moral concepts of various skeptical groups are traceable in the main to the rel leaders of the race, specifically to the prophets of Israel and to the authority of Jesus. Not all agree with the above state- ment. Certain schools of skeptical lit- erature deny any originality to Chris- tian ethics, and assert that their con- sages modern _philosopht cided advances in ethical theories. 1In rebuttal, Christian apologists have established a strong line of defense which you should study for yourself. To me it is convincing, both with re- gard to the quantity and the quality of the moral 1hlnnng and irspiration, based on actual resuits in life and deed. In these respects Jesus is Lord and so far beyond all other teachers that the millennial splendors of the race have to wait upon the fulfillment of His pre- cepts. ‘0 be concrete, consider His doc- trine of moralized conduct. Evil, where its existence was conceded, was almost universally looked upon as amenable to force. But the Sermon on the Mount ushered in a new day of peace- ful conquest, whose meridian is still far distant from civilization. Thus whil> having the reversion of the better fu- ture in its keeping, it provides for our guidance here and now. It is of little consequence to contend | that the characteristic virtues of the | | New Testament had preceding adum- brations or even categorical forms. The real issue is, how many of these vir- tues were operative and how many bed- ridden. Shakespeare did not create the story of “‘Hamlet,” but his recreation of it gave the Prince of Denmark to man- | kind. Jesus and the prophsis He in- | dorsed were not original in ev friendly visit by ol Religious Questions DISCUSSED BY Dr. S. be distinguished from spiritualism, is | Pa: ideas dif- | Parkes Cadman. but He incarnated the truth and holi- ness which they All men rejoice in the high moral ideals of the Upanishad, of Con- fucius, Plato, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius and the rest of the great ethical moni- | tors of humanity. Their analogous re- [ lations to Biblical teachings show now | deeply'God’l spirit has influenced the | race HAMLINE CHURGH T0-HOLD PICNIC Annual Sunday School Quting Will Be at Pierce Milt Playground. “The Revelation of the Still Small at large. But we are not jeopardized for want | g o, of ethics, nor does Jesus emphasize these beyond their legitimate boundaries. What we need is viltalization to en- able us to be and to do the good we clearly visualize. The Master is infi- nlulwore than a moralist. He s noth- ing than the life giver whom Chris- tian experience izes as such, and therefore adores. It is His life “for which our scanty veins do pant,” and He supplies it abundantly to recipient souls. In my opinion, most of the ethical principies Rrev‘lllng “oday origi- nate in the Jewish and Christian reve- lation, while the balance is chiefly de- rived from Asiatic, Greek and Latin| VAGATION CHURGH VACATION SCHOOLS LISTED Many Classes to Be Open to City’s Children, With Pro- gram From 9 to 12 Daily. Many vacation church schools “will soon be open to the children of Wash- | ington and suburbs in vari tions | the s it iy mwreuhnbommvm of the city. These schools are con- ducted by a local church or by several | churches together for the children of | the community. They are open from 9 to 12 every week day except Saturday and furnish a program_of worship, hymns, character stories, Bible instruc- tion and in many schools a period in craftwork, basketry, dramatization and B tew uf the saliots wh begin few of e scl which will this week are the following: Calvary Baptist, Miss Marjorle Mothers] super\d.;’::mfllgh!lnd:m Harry Parker, supervisor; Community, Miss M suj 3 B L supervisor: Takoma irk Presbyterian, W. F. Wolf, super- visor; St. Paul's Presbyterian, Cottage City. Md.: Georgetown Community, Miss Dorothy Clore, supervisor; Central mbyterhn. Miss Mary Coit, super- Among the schools which will early in July.are Foundry M. E., Maude McBride, supervisor; Wilson Avenue Baptist, Miss Margaret Coker, supervisor; Rockville Community, Miss Bulah Dove, supervisor. Others will be lnnouneegl later. e ‘ashington Pederation Churches, through its vacation chur school dej ent, assists in the motion of many of these schools in the training of teachers and in other ways. gf):"k E. O. Clark is the director of of ch WILL DISCUSS DEGREES. Bachelors, Masters and Doctors in Christianity Is Topie. At_the Metropolitan Baptist Ch Dr. John Campton Ball v‘:n -pelk“?o‘: morrow morning on “The Degrees of | Christianity,” and how every true fol- lower of Jesus Christ may secure his n the evening be “The Fool or Full Lite .+ | ‘The annual picnie of the church and | school will be held at Marshall Hall | next Friday. SHORT FORM OF SERVICE. Ninth Street Christian Ch\llch'l: Sunday Program Outlined. { Dr. B. H. Melton will preach tomor- row morning and evening at the Ninth Street Christian Church, Ninth and D L the short worship being dunn‘pthe Summer months. The annual Sunday school pienic will be held next Tuesday. A full day gfisbe?n ph;\ned by the Tgnotby class. class of young men is sponsoring the plcnic for the "hoh lchoopl? Novena Exercises Close June 27. The closing exercises of the novena in honor of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, which began at St. Mary’s Church June 19, will be held June 27, at 7:30 p.m. After the sermon by Rev. Augustine Aylward, the papal blessing will be | given, followed by solemn benediction. | son streets. In the evening at 8 o'clock he 'u{ preach on “God's Flawless ‘The annual Sunday school picnic will be held Wednesday at the ce Mill playground, at the foot of Tilden street, in Rock Creek Park. At 10 o'clock busses taking the children for a ride through Rock Creek Park and then to the picnic geuna. The committee in charge is . A. Havens, chairman: E. B. Har- , L. L. Fansher, M. W. Kam- merer and Paul Keene. Rev. Philip C. Edwards, pastor of the University Heights Church, will address the prayer meeting service y :l‘mn gedmldwee"k I;ervieu will be ntinug luring July and A t. ‘Women of the church —will vi “WHEN GOD TARRIES” TOPIC AT CALVARY M. E. Dr. Mark Depp to Preach at Both Services There Tomor- TOW. At the Calvary Methodist Church minister. Mark Depp, will tomorrow. At service the sermon theme the will_be “ God Tarries.” In the a_rhven.\nl e subject will be “Carry It mm'l;imn: people’s devotional serv. le’s ol ice will beAlfidd out of doors tomorrow morn e D TWO TOPICS ANNOUNCED. Miss| Rev. Thomas E. Boorde Preaches Tmnnyv at Temple Baptist. begin | Scarlet, Line. The Bible school will hold its. - nual picnic June 29 K s Rock Creek * Beach ‘Thursda; Dr. Duncan to Occupy i’ulpit‘ Dr. George 8. 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