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Washington Post

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Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America

Date

Sep 04, 1904

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2

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Brooklyn Eagle Turkey Damascus-Mecca Empire United States Raiwal Constantinople Salorniki Dedengatch Maritza Hebrus Thrace Salonik Thessaly Europe Edheim Pasha

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