Epworth Choirs and the Rise of Van A Potter at Epworth
Epworth Methodist Church on Capitol Hill traces a rich choral lineage from its 1883 start as Grace Mission through a succession of organists and choirs. The article highlights early leaders like Miss Hattie Clarke, Miss Bessie Potter, Rev Boteler, and the transformation under Van A Potter, who modernized the choir and drew large audiences with concerts titled An Evening with the Choir. Potter, a Kansas native educated at Columbian University, later became vice president of Spaulding Female College in Muskogee I T, after a notable city career.
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Epworth Methodist Episcopal Church
Capitol Hill
Grace Mission
Baum
Fourth
East Capitol Streets
J. C. Jones
Hattie Clarke
Barnes
Elle Jeffries
Ciw Sharswood
Nettle Schaaff
Miss Schaaff
F Pehirey
Epworth
Bessie Potter
Pehrey
Silas BE. Moore
Juba Putte
Bessie
van Atlin Potter
Juba Westey Boteler
Zion
Gehening
Stein
Seime
Hug Mr Jones
Donn © Knott
Vishop Stnhens Vo Wilson
Dlotelet
New Church
Isis
Ikknolt
Fisther Standley
Melle Comer
J. T. Moffitt
Grace Comer
Clarke
Marcy Trumble
G. E. Otterbeck
Nelile Hamill
Suess
Aisa Alice Yingling
Messrs
van A. Potter
L Pierce Boteler
IL B Cunklin
Sully Boteler
J. Mo Dawson
E. Scott
Ethel, Chaney
Nissia Movare
Austin Jarvis
Vola Chaney
Bernie Comer
May Bobbitt
Sunice Smith
Frank Meetwe
Alias
Julia Hil
Mas Waren
Clarence Lewis
Daris Bobbitt
Nellie Burt
Charles Potter
Jay
Stair
Harry Hartley
W._ Goodson
Eugene Uumpton
Rev
EM. Sweet
Walker Trumble
L. W. Gallaher
Brower
Touls
Kansas
North Carolina
Epworth Church
Jasper Dean McFall
Hasyd
Mendelssohn
Elijah
Monute
New York Avenue Presbyterian Church
Sunday Church Services Across District Wide Episcopalian and Other Faiths
A listing of Sunday services across Washington, D C churches including Episcopal parishes with morning holy communion sermons and evening prayers, along with denominational notices in Baptist, Lutheran, and other churches. Names of rectors and locations, times, Sunday schools and special services are given for St. Agnes St. John s Trinity Catholic and many more. Strangers are welcome at all services.
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St. John's Church
Lafayette Square
Christ Church
St. John’s Church
Georgetown
United Services
Hev. D. F. Davies
St. Mark's Church
Third
Holy Communion
St. Alban’s Church
Wisconsin Avenue
G. C. Bratenahl
Holy Commounion
St. Paul's Church
Twenty-third Street Northwest
Washington Circle
Alfred Harding
D. B
Enoch M. Thompson
O'Ulock
Tenth Street
Tenth and
R Streets
S. Geriah Lamking
Rev
Ashby
Mount Horeb
N Streets
J. J. Muir
Multiple DC churches announce Sunday services across city
A combined church bulletin lists service times for Keller Memorial Church Concordia Church Zion's Evangelical Lutheran Church and more. It notes sermons by Rev C H Butler Rev W E Parson Rev Luther Hess Waring Paul A Menzel Rev Sterling N Brown Rev A C Garner and others with Sunday schools CE meetings prayer gatherings and special addresses across 11th to 17th streets and beyond in the Northeast Northwest and Southeast quadrants.
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Lutheran
Grace
Concordia Church
Paul A. Menzel
Christian Endeavor
Intermediate Society
Mount Pleasant
Columbia Road
Fourteenth Street
M. Ross Fishburn
Christian Endeavor Service
Lincoln Temple Memorial Church
Eleventh
R Streets
Sterling N. Brown
Diverse Religious Meetings Across Washington Area
A wide range of services and events are noted including Orthodox Friends at F Street and C Street with 11 am and 7:20 pm services, revival at Rosedale Mission on A Street NE, Evangelical Christian Science at 1007 G Street NW with Sunday lectures, and a colored church course at Gray's Hall. Additional items include union camp meetings at Deanwood Park with speakers, Millennial Dawn Bible study sessions, and Oriental Philosophy lectures at 1522 Sixteenth Street NW with correspondence courses offered.
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Evangelical Christian Science
G Street
Northwest
Oliver C. Sabin
Roland B. Hazard
Gray’s Hall
Odd Fellows
M Street
Sixteenth
Seventeenth Berets
Sixteenth Street Northwest
Reopening of West Washington Methodist Episcopal Church South
The West Washington Methodist Episcopal Church South at Thirty third and TV streets Georgetown reopened after summer repairs. Principal address by J Holds worth Gordon, DC Bar Association president presided by Creed M Fulton. Improvements cost 400 to 500 dollars, with new wainscoting repapering repainting and a new vestibule. Choir solos and violin pieces highlighted the program led by Pastor Ray H Wilhite.
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West Washington
Laura Hlack
Joseph Harrison
Roy Birch
Ray
J. H. Wilhite
Fulton
Gordon
J. C. Hawk
Marvin Methodist Church South
Christian Endeavor Notes and New Officers
September district meeting postponed to Monday the 12th due to venue issues. Fort Myer Heights Endeavor Society buys the new hymnals. Rev Herbert Halliwell named field secretary for India and to depart this month. District Union President Owen P. Kellar helps at Annapolis Junction Sunday schools. First Presbyterian Church Society elects officers led by John M. McCubbing as president and Miss M Wallingsford as secretary. New Courage for New Work guides fall revival. Emory Chapel hosts Epworth League from Baltimore conference, opening session decorated with EB flags. Florence Mattingly elected president of Emory Chapel Endeavor. Rev J L Brooks junior pastor.
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District Christian Endeavor Union
Fort Myer Heights Christian Endeavor Society
New Endeavor
Herbert Halliwell
England
Christianndeavor
India
Owen P. Kellar
National Junior Republic
Annapolis Junction
Christian Endeavor Society
The
First Presbyterian Church
John M. McCubbing
Frank D. Miller
Guy Butler
M. Wallingsford
Amos M. Piper
Christian Endeavor Society of
Emory Chapel
Methodist Episcopal
South
Brightwood
Epworth League
Baltimore
Fellowship of
Christian Endeavor
Kellar
District Union
Florence Mattingly
J. L. Brooks
Diminished vitality and Hood's Sarsaparilla claim
The item notes that diminished vitality affects appetite strength and endurance. It promotes Hood's Sarsaparilla as the greatest vitalizer and implies it can restore energy and bodily function. The language reflects early 20th century patent medicine advertising.
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Hood
Elijah Relives Prophet's Despair At Horeb Sermon
The lesson traces Elijah's retreat to Horeb after Jezebel’s threat, the theophany tests, and the divine call that redirects him to new duty. God speaks in a quiet voice, consoles Elijah, and appoints Elisha and two new kings, revealing remnant faith and the path forward.
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Elijah
God
Jesus
Peter
Eliah
Jezebel
Horeb
Jils
Micah
Elah
Damascus
Syria
Israel
Hazael
Jehu
Washa
Elisha
Churches of Early Days Officiated by Rev Edward Mott
Rev Edward Mott rector of the Church of the Advent officiated August 2 at Yeocomoco Church Westmoreland County Va dating from 1706 and August 28 at Trinity Church St Mary City Md built of brick from the original courthouse of the Calvert founded settlement.
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Edward M. Mott
Edward Marshall Mott
Church of the Advent
St. Georges Island
Potomac
Point Lookout
Ol& Yeocombe Church
Westmoreland County
Trinity Church
St. Mary City
Yeocomico .Church
Catholic Church Notes Masses and services in Washington churches
A long list of Catholic worship schedules across many DC churches including St. Ignatius Oxon Hill St. Teresa Anacostia Holy Name Church St Augustine’s St Stephen’s Vincent de Paul Immaculate Conception St Mary’s St Patrick’s and others. It details pastors assistants low masses baptism times rosary devotions benediction and special notes on catechetical activities lawn party planning and school openings at St Patrick’s Academy.
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St. Ignatius
Oxon Hill
Martin P. Egan
St. Teresa's Church
St. Teresa’s Church
Anacostia
Charles M. Bart
Martin P. Eigan
Church of the Holy Name
K Streets
Thomas J. Kervick
Andrew J. Carey
St. Augustine's Church
Fifteenth Street
Paul Griffith
F. X. Bischoff
A. J. Lds
St. Stephen's Church
Twenty-fifth Street
Pennsylvania
Avenue Northwest
W. J. Caughy
T. Gibbons Smyth
T. ID. Williams
Church of St. Vincent de Paul
South Capitol
M Streets
P. J. O'Connell
St. Joseph's Church
Second
Valentine F. Schmidt
J. Smyth
Bene Wedlon
Church of the Nativity
Brightwood
Charles O. Rosensteel
Sisters of the Holy Cross
St. Matthew
Shrine of the Sacred Heart
Fourteenth Street
Whitney Avenue
J.F
McGee
Father Hartwell
Father McGee
Europe
St. Ann's Church
Tennallytown
Joseph C. Mallon
St. John's Church
Forest Glen
Charles ©. Rosensteel
Church of the Holy Trinity
Thomas
Harris
Samuel Cahill
S. J
Edward F. Roche
St. Anthony’s Church
E.W. Southgate
AM. Mark
Benediction
St Vincent’s Asylum
Holtzman Chapel
Soldiers' Home
St. Paul's Church
Fifteenth
James F. Mackin
Thomas A. Walsh
James E. Krug
St. Vincent de Paul Society
Father Mackin
St. Mary's Church
Fifth Street
H Street
Northwest
Charles Warren Currier
Charles J Trinkaus
Paul Reinsela
Ristow
St. Cyprian’s
Thirteenth
J. R. Matthews
P. J. Ritchie
Holy Crogs College
St. Dominic's Church
J. A. Hinch
Dominican Monastery
Young Ladies’ Sodality
Father Hinch
Colored Sodality
The
Rosary Confraternity
St. Patrick's Church
Tenth Street
D. J. Stafford
D. D
Thomas McGuigan
William J. Carroll
St. Patrick's Academy
Academy of
St Patrick’s
St. Aloysius
North Capitol
I Streets
Edward &. Fink
Gongaga College
Marquette
Unday
Stephen A. Kelly
Young Ladies’ Sodaltity
J. B. Pittar
Sodality
League of the Sacred Heart
Francis J. McCarthy
John B. Kelleher
Excursion A Great Success for St Patrick’s Parish
More than 1 500 people from every parish joined a St Patrick’s Day river excursion on the Potomac from River View aboard the Pentz. committees organized children from St Vincent de Paul and orphans from St Vincent’s and St Joseph’s. activities included races, baseball, games, raffles, ice cream, and cake. St Patrick’s junior and senior races featured Will iam Marceron winning the 50 yard dash and sack race, with surprises in potato and candle races. the day ended with dancing and a song-filled return voyage, deemed a most pleasant parish reunion.
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St. Patrick's
Potomac
River View
St. Vincent de Paul Society
St. Vincent's
St. Joseph's
Pentz
Fiddle Swing
Willie Marceron
Master Cassidy
Charlie Clark
Catherines Blake
Majorie Lucas
Nella Hardy
St. Paul's
St Patrick's
C Collins
William Marreron
Binalis Wille Marceton
St Patrick’s
Epworth League Board of Control Meeting Notice
Ane TeZULAT MONINLY DuUsness meeting of the District board of eunirol will be held next Wednesday evening at Wesley Chapel. The cabinet meeting at 7 8 and the full board at 8. Arrangements for the annual convention likely to be completed then. New general league secretary may address the convention and dates could move from late September to early October due to Rendall’s Washington availability. Officers likely elected on the first evening, with department discussion and an address on the second.
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Washington
How to Live Long Advice From a Doctor in Baltimore
A physician argues longevity comes from regular habits and abstinence, citing Omrose Park’s 155 years and a general rise in life expectancy. He warns against hurry and worry, credits hygiene and dietetics, and notes modern medicine has reduced depletion practices. Longevity is often hereditary and will improve with civilization and law enforcement.
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Charles F Rose
Baltimore
Signor Crisp
Ambrose Park
Talbot County
Maryland
Department
Washington
United States
New Railroad in Turkey Aimed at Empire Star Line
The Brooklyn Eagle reports a growing Turkish rail network led by the Damas Cus-Mecca Railway to be built on American standards. A major U.S. steel contract for 22 000 tons of steel rafts signals rising ambition. The line runs from Constantinople toward Salonika, pivotal in regional strategy and military history.
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Brooklyn Eagle
Turkey
Damascus-Mecca
Empire
United States
Raiwal
Constantinople
Salorniki
Dedengatch
Maritza
Hebrus
Thrace
Salonik
Thessaly
Europe
Edheim Pasha
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