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EL PASO HEUALD
Sunday, October 26, 1913
E MINISTER
PASTORATE
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Trinity Methodist Congregation Welcomes the Return of
Rev. C. W. Webdell; Brotherhood Is Organized at
Highland Park Methodist Church; the Build
ing Committee of the Calvary-Houston
Square Baptist Church Is at Work.
C, EVERAL of El Paso's ministers
i have been sent to other stations as
- a result of the Methodist church
conference at Albuquerque, X. SL, so
this morning will see new ministers
in their pulpits. Rev. E. C Morgan,
who has been in charge of Highland
Park Methodist church, left Saturday
for his new charge in Demlng, N. M.
Rev. W. R. Evans, from Clovis, N. at
will be In charge of this church and
preaches his ftrst sermon there this
mnrnlnff.
Before Rev. Mr. Morgan left, he was
tendered a farewell reception by the
members of his congregation in the
parlors of the church. An informal pro
gram was given. Mrs. H. Griffin sang,
and Mrs. J. McCay played several piano
selections. C. "W. Bretz was in charge
of the affair. The retiring pastor bade
farewell to his congregation with a
lew appropriate remarks. f .
Rev. W. Howell, of the Alta Vista
Methodist church, goes to "Fort Stock
ton. Tezas, and his pulpit will be
filled by Rev. W. H. Duncan, from Fort
Stockton.
To "Welcome Pastor's Return.
Thursday evening the members of
Trm ty Methodist church will give a
social to welcome the return of their
pastor. Rev. C. W. Webdell and his
f.imily to Trinity. The congregation
was very much afraid that the con
ference would send him away from El
Paso. There will be a short program
given.
An "Echo meeting" of the recent
conference at Albuquerque will be
given at the meeting qf the "Woman's
Missionary society of Trinity Methodist
church on Tuesday afternoon at 3:30
oclock in the church parlors. An ln-
'terestlng program has been arranged
for the meeting.
Church Secretary Here.
"W. F. McCurray. D. D- secretary of
the church extension of the Methodist
Episcopal church, south, arrived on
Friday and is the guest of Rec C.
Wesley Webdell and family for a few
days.
Organizing Brotherhood.
At the Highland Park Methodist
church a Brotherhood is being organ
ized among the men. O. E. Hendee was
fleeted president; A. Bailey, vice pres
ident; A. K. Griffith, secretary, and W.
T Tolbert, treasurer. A meeting of
this Brotherhood will be held Monday
night to complete the organization and
to arrange for work. Fred W. Free
man and Dr. H. F. Wright will make
addresses on "Fraternity."
Much Activity by Societies.
At the First Methodist Episcopal
hurch there will be a number of or
ganization activities this week. The
Woman's Home Missionary soeiety
holds its monthly meeting at 1014
Korth Florence, with Mrs. Caroline
Hitchens, on Thursday afternoon at
2:45 odeek. Miss Roe will be in
charge ot the program.
The Queen Esther society and the
Delta Alphas will be entertained Fri
dav at the home of the Misses Keat
ing, on West Missouri street- Miss
Margaret Young, recently of Mexico
City, will talk on the Mexican prob
lem. To Give Hallowe'en Party.
The ttattal --midweek -prayer meeting
or the East El Paso Baptist ehurch
will be held Wednesday. On Friday
night a Hallowe'en party will be given
at 3S27 Alameda street, for all the
people of the congregation. The Aid
societv "will meet Thursday afternoon
at the" church at 2:30 o'clock.
Building Committee to Meet.
At the Calvary-Houston Square Bap
tist church there will be a meeting of 4
tiie building committee on Moaday.The
Aid society meets Tuesday afternoon
at 3 oclock In the -church. Regular
urayer meeting will be held Wednes
day night at 7:90 oclock which is fol
The Congregational fluirch In the West
Its Mission and Opportunity Meeting the New Needs of a New Country The
Old Truths in New Garb.
Address by Rev. MILES HANSON, of El Paso, Before the Triennial Council
of the Congregational Church at Kansas City, Now in Session.
I REACHED the far west after 17
years in two churches in England,
an ardent Congregationalism be
cause I loved the elasticity of the
organization, and the liberty within
its borders. At once, thus biased. 1
began to observe, on one hand the
churches and on the other the un
churched. I have made it a duty to
converse with all possible, who seemed
i o be in a position to speak authorita
Lively about external religion, thus
today I echo to some extent the words
of others
First, as to the conditions In the
southwest. I find that in general there
Is not much knowledge of our part cf
ihe United States. When I set out.
some of my friends sympathized with
me that I should have to live in a
primitive hut and be far from civili
zation. I was to be a Thoreau with
out Thoreau's loving adaptability; and
received some peculiar epistles. One
man writes: "Can large ships sail up
the Rio Grande to El Paso?" A lady
writes: "Is it safe to go out at
tught?" Another writes: "I? it all
prairie and wilds?" Ralph Connor's
descriptions seem better known than
tci geography or Texas.
El Paso is a good city, vith fine
buildings and streets, and inhabited
be civilized people. Folks come out
largely from two reasons, niji. n a
search for health, and the other, im
pelled by a pioneer spirit, the Dioneer
spirit which seeks a new land away
from the old conventionalities.
Amongst these pioneers there is a
large admixture of deep thinkers.
We are in a land of great broad
stretches of wide, clear skies, of won
derful starlit panoramas, of gorgeous
sunrises and sunsets, and you remem
ber that most likely the book of Job
was written under suuch conditions
Nature always has acted and reacted oo
man's thinking and so you often meet
men and women who have conversed
much with the solitudes, who have, like
the Scotch lassie, "listened to the si
lence" and heard its, still.' small voice.
The pioneer spirit, I notice, can be
approached in one of two ways.
One way is by way of the
emotions. "When you are far
from home the old ways have
a heartfelt attraction which none
who have not broken old lies can un
derstand. Old hymns and tunes sound
strangely sweet, old phrases have a
strong grip, old habits appeal, the old
surroundings of the religion of boy
hood and girlhood at times irresisti
bly attract
The most stalwart radical has a
strain of conservatism in him. and
hence it is that the churches that have
.lot changed appeal to some The sec
ond wav of approach is by estating the
old truths.
The Kioneer has broken from the old.
but he has not clearly seen the new.
He knows only too well that he has
moved, but he cannot describe his new
position. He is deepl conscious of the
mystic power flooding his wide
stretches, but is that power God' He
has many, many thoughts, but they are
not in ordered seouence
The old o'atitudcs do not appeal to
!.im. but if you happen to sav some
tinner which he himself has taught,
i ' .ire sure of his rapt attention
tie cannot speak la the theological
GDHE-TO ASSUME
EL PASO GHURGHi
lowed by a meeting of the Sunday
school teachers.
"young People to Have Fun.
The young people of the First Bap
tist church will give a Hallowe'en so
cial at the home of Air. and Mrs. C. O.
Coffin, at 1108 Upson avenue, Friday
evening, October 31.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Aid soeiety of the Altura Park Pres
byterian church will be held at the
church Tuesday afternrwjn at 3 oclock.
Comes to Spendf "Winter.
Rev. E. F. Abbott. D. D., pastor or
the Presbyterian church at Fulton.
Texas, arrived Saturday to visit his
brother. Rev. J. E. Abbott, for the win
ter. His family accompanied him. Rev.
Mr. Abbott has been overworking and
has been ordered by his physician to
and Tear of Prayer.
At the First Presbyterian church to
day, attention is being given to the'
synod's call to a week of prayer for
Trinity college, where a special cam
paign for endowment is being launched.
Another call has just recently gone out
from Rev. John T. Stone, moderator of
the general assembly, calling all min
isters and members of the Presbyte
rian church, U. S. A to a year of spe
cial prayer. The sermon subjects for
the day are to be along the lines in
dicated in the above calls.
The Wednesday evening service will
take up the subject: "The call to active
Christian service, ,and why men
shrink." Special features of the sub
ject are assigned to .different individ
uals. '
A Hallowe'en tea will be held Thurs
day afternoon between the hours of 3
and 6 at the home of Mrs. D. Baker
Smith, 1401 Arizona street. .The afair
is given by the officers of the east
ern division.
"Westminster Affairs.
The Women's Missionary soeiety will
meet in the Sunday school room Tues
day afternoon at 3 oclock.
At the Wednesday evening prayer
meeting the topic for discussion will
be "The True Spirit of the Christian
Worker."
Fourth Anniversary of Pastor.
Sunday will be the fourth anniver
sary of the ministry of Rev. P. J. Rice,
at the First Christian church. The
elders of the church have had charge
of arrangements for the morning ser
vice, which will be in recognition of
the pastor's work.-
Attendance Campaign Fruitful.
The attendance campaign which the
church has been conducting for the
past month has been especially result
ful in the Sunday school. The largest
recent attendance -was 243, and an ef
fort is being made to surpass that
next Sunday.
Beginning November 2 a series of de
cision services will be held in the
church, continuing for 10 days or two
weeks. Rev. Hugh McLellan. of San
Antonio, Texas, will be the preacher.
The music will be in charge of local
musicians.
To Observle Reformation Day.
Reformation day will be observed by
the members of Saint Paul's Lutheran
church next Sunda, November 2. The
ann'versary falls on October 31, but the
services commemorating the day wlll
be observed on Sunday Instead.
Monthly Meeting of Guild.
The monthly meeting of the woman's
guild of the church of Saint Clement
will be held Tuesday afternoon at 3
oclock in Kendrick hall.
Rev. Henry Easter, the rector, who
has been attending the general conven
tion of the Episcopal churches in New
Tork City, is expected home next Fri
day. If he arrives on Friday, serv'ces
will be held in the church -on All
Saints' day, November l. at 10 oclock.
During the rector's absence, the serv
ices have been conducted by B. M. G.
Williams the lay reader.
language of the " 17th century, but
spirit has touched spirit within him
and he yearns for sympathetic religious-
fellowship. Our secretary said
to me, 'The western folk always make
me think of sheep without a shepherd:"
just so. but the shepherd must have
been often out in the desert or he will
not know how to lead the sheep home.
Aow let me turn to the" second pre
supposition, that Congregationalists
have a mission to the southwest.
What is that mission? or have we
one? A thousand times yes: The more
I see of the west the more emphatic I
am with the answer.' As one has said
to me. "The west is calling, calling
with tears in its voice."
Ere I go further, let me safeguard
myself. When 1 speak of a special
mission for the Congregationalists. it
seems almost to imply a criticism on
non-Congregationalists. I do not wish
for one moment to seem to criticize.
When I look from my home. I see to
the north a range of mountains called
Franklin. Were I asked to describe it,
I should sav Mt. Franklin has three
peaks, a lower, a second, rocky and
steep, and a third, smooth and hijrhest
If I go to a dweller in El Paso he
(" say -- rranKiin is one rocky
quarried ledge, covered with cactus.
If. however, I ask one- from the
Aorth, he says. Franklin is rocky, al
most inaccessible, and has two great
masses.
Which description is right? Each
one. and each one is imperfect.
Three peaks, one hill, two masses!
All depends on thd viewpoint
And so it is with all theologies. One
church 'has one viewpoint, a second
has another, a third another. 'Some
churches describe the truths behind
life in one way and some in another
and to some hearers, one description
does not appeal, and to others, other
descriptions fall on unsympathetic ears
Hence, when I emphasize our appeal. I
w nut viiLiirut: uuiers
In general the anneal of th ihnmi,D. t
Of the SOUthWeSt Is on th nlHor 1 !.,,. !
aiiu on inose lines and rrom that view- '
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point they do good work, such good
work that if we are simply to speak
in similar strain and attempt the same
type or work, there is no need for us
The orthodox opinions are sufficientlv
voiced and if we have onlv to sav the
same things, there is no call for us and
we may as well leave the southwest
alone
5a5X hiiYe sken of some who have
left the old ways and they at present
are not appealed to. They are climb
ing the rough side of Mt Franklin,
climbing through doubt and fear and
oyer stony trails, and few have a word
of cheer for them. Our mission is to
them. Here and there In scattered fews
in every village, and in greater numbers
in every city, there are thinkers, who
have lost credence In some of the old
statements of our forefathers, but thev
have not left the Christ, thev do not
believe that the world was created 4004
-.ears ago. but they do believe "In the
beginning God." and they do not feel
inspiration of the book of Esther, but
their souls open to the inspiration of
the sermon on the mount, thev do not
accept the Augustinian statements, but
thev follow fir Oliver Lodee :n tj,P j,p.
iContiauea en jase five, this section.)
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While Old Foundations Seem to Be Sinking Beneath Our Feet, Some Things Still
Are Lasting.
By Rev. PERRY J. RICE, Pastor cf the First Christian Church.
Text: The Things That Abide. 1
Corinthians, 15.
T
HIS entire chapter, the closing
verse of which forms the basis cf
our meditation, has fastened it
self quite securely in the hearts and
minds of Christians everywhere. It has
been' especially prominent since the ap
pearance of Henry Drummond's ad
dress in exposition of it. It is Taul s
eulogy of love, in which he declares it
to be the greatest of all moral and
spiritual qualities. The chapter con
tains many happy and helpful sugges
tions which we must pass over in si
lence today. A single word attracts
our attention. It is the word "abid
eth." The apostle has plaoed in rhetor
ical contrast, in the later portion of the
chapter, the things which are pss:ng
with the things which abide.
It is impossible wholly to divorce this
chapter from the one which precedes it.
Certain things had come to be highly
prized by the Corinthian Christians, and
the apostle wishes to point them to the
more excellent things of the spirit.
Among the gifts which had come to be
especially prominent in the church he
mentions three in the ISth chapter, and
declares that all of them shall be done
away. The prophetic gift is a pass
ing power. The gift of "tongues," i. e,
the power to speak in unknown lan
guages, as on Pentecost, shall cease,
and "knowledge." which doubtless re
fers to the things they had learned, the
conclusions they had reached, shall be
done away.
As if to calm their fears and quiet
their alarm the apostle immediately
explains his statements by saying that
they had. only partial knowledge and
that their prophecies were incomplete.
That which is partial and incomplete
must give place to the more complete
knowledge of the future.
Presents Two Illustrations.
He presents two very simple and
very suggestive illustrations of his
thought. The first is drawn from the
life of a growing child. There is a
childish way of looking at things, there
is a manner of thought, a style ot
speech, a method of, reasoning which
belongs distinctly to childhood, and
which must give place to the more
definite processes of maturity. The in
ference is that this is a characteristic,
not alone of individuals, but of nations
and peoples, of the race and of the
church. We are continually passing
out of childhood into maturity, out of
the relatively incomplete Into the dela
tively perfect.
The same thought frequently recurs
in the scriptures. Jesus, said there is
"first the blade, then the ear. then we
full grain in the ear." Paul also
speaks of "the law as a schoolmaster
to bring us to Christ." These changes
affect our speech, our manner of
teaching, and our conclusions.
Seeing, ns in a Mirror, Darkly.
The second illustration is even more
suggestive. "Now." says the apostle,
"we see as in a mirror darkly. A mir
ror always reflects a distorted view
because it is of necessity a one siaea
view. Everyone is either handsomer
or homelier than he or she appears to
be when looking in a mirror. It de
pends upon the part cular feature tnat
is reflected, I. e.. upon the viewpoint.
The same thing is true of a photo
graph. It is an exact reflection of a
certain pose. The most we can say is
that it closelv resembles the person
who sat for it. There are many at
titudes, lights and shades of personal
ity that are-not reflected. So is it with
fi.i. tr. trath. "We see but one
side of it. It never appears in its full
orbed beautv ana signm-mra; "
mental vision. We see phases of It.
The particular phase we see depends
upon our viewpoint. Some one else
seees it from another angle of vision
and supposes he has discovered a new
truth. Probably he has not. but what
he has seen may materially modify the
first conviction. This is the thought
of the apostle. Our prophesyings our
knowledge is one sided, partial incom
plete. It is a reflection of a single
phase of the whole; it is -a photograpn
of what reallv is. When perfection is
tome, and he does not tell us when
that shall be, we shall see "face to
face." We shall be able to see innum
erable flashes of light and beauty
which we cannot now discern.
There is therefore a law of change.
It Is an Inexorable as any lawof na
ture. One cannot resist it any more
than he can resist the law of gravity.
All nature is a panorama of moving
pictures. The landscape presents in
finite variety: the seasons come and go;
the earth itself is the result ,of innum
erable chansres. "We change, passing
rapidly from infancy to childhood", and
on to youth and maturity. Our envi-
ronment is constantly changing; the
friends of today give place to otners
and each in his turn passes out from
our immediate association. The mind
of man is restive. He is ever trying to
fathom the mysteries of nature, and
.nature is ever yielding her secrets, so
that knowledge does "grow from more
to more."
There is a certain sadness which
comes over ns when we reflect upon
this law so constantly operative. It
involves the surrender of many precious
things. It was, no doubt, very unpleas
ant for the Christians of Corinth to be
told that these elements of their con
gregational life were transient. These
were the things which they had es
pecially treasured. Nothing is more
tenacious than these very things. Our
teachings, our manner of speech, our
convictions hold ub in close embrace.
They seem so absolute, so final. They
readily become the forms in which our
life takes up its abode and their pass
ing seems to us the destruction of our
life. Perhaps it is well that we do not
surrender them readily. We ought not
to regard them -too lightly. Forms of
speech and convictions as to truth
have their place, and it is not well to
underestimate their value. But it would
be a happy thing if we could remem
ber this law of change. We should be
less Inclined to make finalities out of
our intellectual perceptions. There
would be far less tendency to judge
hashly our brother who differs from
us. Changes which are inevitable would
be attended .with less of pain and an
guish of spirit. We face death calmly
because we have come to feel that it Is
a single change in the unfolding life of
man. So, may we not come to regard
changes In the things above specified
as the crates thronirh which wo ns
J into a larger and richer inheritance of
truth? All leiritlmsit i,hnnrA; ar mii
Snmn Tl-.tn I 1,1,1.
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'But there are some things which
abide. The word falls upon our ears
pleasantly We rejoice to know that
in the midst Of SO manx anH an cAut
Chansres some thin-c ar nrmona,, 1
unchanging, everlasting, eternal. We
are glad to feel the solid rock beneath
our feet. It is especially reassuring In
these days when so manv things occur
to disturb and disquiet us. This is a
scientific age. we are told. The ques- I
iion mai-K is eerywnere in evidence.
Old foundations seem to be sinking be
neath our feet. The prophecies of to
day are not the same as those of other
uays: tiie speech of today
sounds!
strange and new, and the conclusions
of our fathers are being pushed aside.
Is there anything that abides?
Yes, faith abides. The apostle is not
speaking of an objective someth:ng
now but of an inherent element of the
soul. It Is fundamental, it is the basis
of all our knowledge, it is the very
foundation upon which we build. It
assumes God. The world by know
ledge did not discover God. Argument
did not establish Him in the heavens.
Faith asserted itself and sa d- "In the
oeginning God" .lust as faith is not
the result of rijument, so AiijuiiKnt
Love and Scriptures Abide,
Else May Change or Pass
e,
cannot overthrow it. Infidelity has
never been pooular. Agnosticism has
nuver maue manv fliReinie Klrenticism
Is often only an Incuiiing faith. You
cannot uestroy ra.th. After men have
done their utmost to cast doubt and
discredit upon the cherished objects of
faith still faith abides. We give vol
untary of involuntary expression to it
in every act of ouilives, every program
to which we set ourselves. Faith leads
us to pray, arouses us to service and
inspires us to make heroic sacrifices.
It explains the lives of all trulv great
men. Take faith out -of the life of
Abraham and you have left only a
shrewd herdsman of the Euphrates.
Take faith out of the life of Paul and
you have left a bigoted Pharisee. Take
faith out of the life of Jesus and you
nave robbed it of one of its chiefest
charms. Faith is the key which unlocks
the secret of all truly great and noble
lives.
3Iay Be Nourished.
But this inherjeni quality of the soul
may be nourished and cultivated. In
deed it is its nature to lay hold ol
everything that helps us to attain. It
lays hold of personal experiences and
makes them expressions of God's grace
and power. It lays hold of the experi
ences of others and weaves'them into a
ladder upon which we may mount up
to God. Hence the Scriptures, which
provide an unfailing treasure house ot
blessing and an inexhaustible source of
spiritual nourishment. Faith lays hold
of Christ and claims him as the ex
pression of the very fullness of God.
When we are tempted to turn aside
from him faith calls us to halt, say
ing: "Lord, to whom shall we go, thou
hast the words of eternal life." Faith
abides, rooted and grounded in our very
natures-. Theologies may come and
theologies may go. faith abides. It mat
ters not what man may say. the voice
of the soul will be heard crying out
for God, "for the living God," and
Christ will continue to give it answer,
no matter what men may say abjout
him.
Then again, hope abides. Hope is the
child of faith. As faith relates the soul
to God so hope relates it to the future.
It too is an inherent element of the
soul. It is as vital as breath. We
could not live without hope. We are
continually anticipating a better to
morrow. Pessimism is as unpopular as
infidelity. It never can be popular.
"Pope" says:
"Hope springs eternal in the human
breast.
Man never is, but always to be blest."
Tennyson speaks of:
"The mighty hopes that make us
men."
Hope also may be nourished. It is its
nature to be continually inding a new
basis for itself in experience and in
revelation. Here too Christ speaks1 the
most reassuring word, saying: "Because
I live you shall liva also."
I.oic Is the Essence of Christianity.
Love lasts on. Love is the very es
sence of Christianity. It is its "soul
within its soul." As faith rela'es us to
God. and hope relates us to the .future,
so loe relates us to the whole universe
of life. It is the fountain whence
springs God's crystal stream of solici
tous interest in humanity. "God so
loved the world that he gave his only
begotten Son." It is the response wh ch
the soul makes to the Father's love.
"We love Him because He first loved
us." It is the secret which discloses
the power of Christ over our lives. He
loved us and save lilmseir up for us. it
is the tie that binds us together when
all other ties fail. It is the foundation
of the home: it Is the unifvinc force :n
f the church. It is the mightiest factor
In the universe; "the greatest thing in
the world."
Love is better than "prophetic gifts,"
SENTENCE SERMONS IN
PULPITS OF EL PASO
It Is very easy to lose control of one's temper because of the failing ot
others, as Moses did. "Beware lest ye also, being led away with the error oC
the wicked, fall from your own steadfastness. Rev. II, p. Bond, at East El
Paso Methodist church.
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Xo great man is the result ot an accident.
Houston Square Baptist church.
Our Master wants to conquer nations by conquering .the individuals thnt
make up the nation. Rev. 12. C. Coinbs, at Saint Paul's Lutheran church.
Christians should walk in this life, not as enemies of the cross of Christ,
bnt ns such -nhose conversation Is In heaven. Rev. Paul G. Blrkrann, at
German Lutheran church.
The man who halts when confronted with right and -wrong Is a defeated
man; the man who makes excuses and heats the devil around the bush Is a
powerless man. Rev C. Wesley AVehdelL at Trinity Methodist church. ,
Sin Is deceptive. It covers evil with tinsel, the glamor of romance. The
devil Is a liar, and the father of lies, so he deceiies us, making sin appear
pleasant. Rev. AV. C. Ilnlier, at Altura Presbyterian church.
To he dissatisfied Ith the achievement of the past Is not discouraging
hut enconraging, for the basis of time. Spiritual progress Is dissatisfaction
with pnst and present nttnlnments, and the determination to hear and heeu
the voice of God ns He calls to higher and better things. Rev. "Wallace R
Evans, at Highland Park Methodist church.
"Go ye into all the world," not n part of It, and preach the gospel to
every creature, not to Just a select educated few. And the "go Is to everr
folloner of Christ, not nlone to missionaries and preachers. Rev. Her
man G. Porter, nt First Methodist Episcopal church.
iVs we meditate upon the love of God, which 'passeth all understand
ing," we are made to exclaim like John, "Behold what manner of love the
father has bestowed upon ns thnt vre should be- called the sons of God."
Rev. Ed. L. Mllllcnn, at East EI Paso Pnptlst church.
It Is all very -.veil to talk about respect Jor the eternal and Immnt
able laws of right, and to foster beautiful sentiments of fairness and sym
pathy: but the purely humanitarian motive will not endure the long, strain,
nor supply permanent moral power. It requires the consciousness of God to
do that. Rev. J. E. Abbott, at "Westminster Presbyterian church.
Eery true minister of the gospel must share with Paul that pro
found sense of unworthlness In being called to preach the unsearchable
riches of Christ. Rev. Chas. L. Orerstreet, nt First Presbyterian church.
Xelther equipment nor organization; neither creed nor ritual, nor an?"
outward feature can make a church Ideal, hut the manifest presence or the
spirit of Christ In all thnt Is naid nnd done makes it such. Rev. Perry J.
Rice, at First Christian ehurch.
Much of the mystery connected with his mission and work would he
eliminated from our minds, ir we would always remember thai in the new
estament the Holy Spirit Is spoken of as a person and as a person he makes
use of words as menus of communicating his thoughts unto men. Rev. J.
H. Allen, nt Austin Park Christian church.
God waits for his people to Imbibe such a passion for his kingdom that
when they conic to pray, before nny thought of personal need, they will cry
"Thc5' kingdom come, thy will be done
Highland Park Baptist church.
Two hundred nnd forty-seven miners hurried into eternity at Dawson
without a moment warning. I remember Jimmy Lindsay, whose name is
given with the list of dend, very well, lie was often in my house during
my ministry at Dawson, nnd sang In my choir, he was a Christian Scotch
man. When he lost his eje In a mine accident some years ago he im
pressed the doctors nnd nurses by his cheerful disposition. He loved the
sing with his rich baritone voice. I believe he was n sincere Christian
and ready to die. "Re ye alsa ready for In such an hour ns ye think not
the Son of "Han conieth.' He. Kenneth Dtomu, at Eust EI Paso Presby
terian t-hurclu
better than "tongues," better than
"knowledge." All these are useless
! nHthnnt it-
without it. It is mightier than faith
and more serviceable than secrifice.
"Love is longsuffering and kind. Love
is never envious, never boastful, never
conceited, never behaves unbecomingly.
Love is not selfseeking, not easily pro
voked, nor does she reckon up her
wrongs. She has no sympathy with de
ceit, but full sympathy with truth. She
is proof against all things, always
trustful, always hopeful, always pa
tient." "Love never dies."
Faith will give place to sight, hope
will end in fruition, but love songs will
rcverbertate through the corridors or
glory forever and forever.
Scriptures "Will Abide.
Will the Scriptures abide? Yes. so
long as people continue to find in them
nurture for faith, hope and lose. Will
Chlrst abide? Yes, so long as men con-
tin,, a tr, caA 5 t,:. 1.a A.nAoc lmar0
of the Father "full of jrraee and truth,
..luv. iu in linn mii "ii" i...o- . aiaii, urecK ana oynan ortnoaox easi
of the Father "full of jrraee and truth. I em ehumhes anil tho iii CsthnliK
so long as he continues to speak the
word that strengthens faith, that
quickens hope, and that stimulates love
AVill the church abide? Yes, just as
long as she makes it her supreme busl
ness to nourish these abiding qualities
of the soul,
The church is not in dan-
ger save when she turns aside from her
heaven appointed task and tries to rest
her case in the doctrines and dogmas
of men, which, valuable as they may be
for the time, are more than likely to be
cast aside in the course of the -world's
growing life.
You will observe this, I am sure. The
changing things belong to the realm of
the intellect. They are the forms of
thought and speech in which we clothe
the truth for the time being. They are
the results of our study and our inter
pretations. The abiding things belong
to the realm of the soul. They are in
herent qualities of human life. They
are therefore of supreme moment. They
are the essentials of religious life, and
all that is should be made to minister
to them.
"Our little systems have their day,
They have their day and cease to be.
They are but broken lights of thee.
And Thou, O Lord, art more than they."
Woman Barrister Gets
Her Client Of Lightly
Paris, France, Oct. 25. At an Orleans
court martial of the Fifth Army corps
of the French army the defending
council were composed of a general of
division and a woman barrister. The
woman, Madame Maria Verone, was
briefed to defend a corporal who was
employed by the state railway, and
stole a purse. Madame Verone pleaded
so eloquently for the corporal that he
got off with 45 days' imprisonment,
and benefited by the First Offender's
act.
When gunner Gautier was brought
in to answer to the charge of grossly
insulting a superior, a corporal. Gen.
Bruneau stood up and explained that
the prisoner's father had served under
him in Africa 32 years ago. He was
new a territorial captain and a Knight
of the Legion of Honor. "Prisoner's
offence." continued the general, "loses
much of its gravity when it is known
that he and his superior were old
friends, and were on terms of 'thou and
thee to each other. Besides that,"
added the general, "coarse language
was never so frequent as it is today.
The soldiers of my time after the war
of 1S70 did not talk like young women,
but soldier's language wa& nothing like
what it is today." The gunner was
sentenced to three months imprison
ment hilt he tfW - o tfirct nffonrlaf
I and benefits under the act. '
-Rev. O. J. Wade, at Calvary-
on earth." Rev. A. E. Uojil, at
i
EPISG
MUIB SHELVE CHIME HE
sue nipoanii without fight
I Group Dioceses Into Provinces and Pass the 1,000,000
Mark in Membership; Congregationalists Plan Im
portant Changes at Kansas City Council; German
and American Missionaries for Philippines,
THE waste of days of the Episcopal
convention just adjourned in New
York, in fights between highs
and lows over a change or name ef the
church, did not come. There were no
days lost in controversy. Instead, the
convention took longer and more radi
cal steps in exactly the opposite direc
tions from what it was expected to go
than any Episcopal convention ever held.
This is the statement of the leaders of
both high and low tendencies.
Episcopal leaders hold that they oc
cupy a middle ground. During their
1913 convention they received expres
sions of fraternal. IntArast frnm T?ii3
, ..:-. ,- , . . , .. . . ..
em churches, and the old Catholic
movement of Europe such as no other
body in America could command. These
expressions were most marked, and
consisted of visits to respective church
es, and statements of desire to come
. cl
oser together. The old Catholics
' named a committee on unity.
In the other direction the EniscODal
church shelved for years to come its
change of name proposition and did it
that it might not jeopardize church
unity. It voted union with the federal
council of churches, after having stood
out alone for years. It ordered its
board of missions and its social ser
vice commission to cooperate with sim
ilar organizations jn Protestant bodies,
and it vigorously backed up the presi
dent of its mission board, who de
manded closer eooperation. There was
hardly any step that it could take that
It did not take.
Finally, not one fight of consequence
took place in the convention between
the highs and lows. The lows carried
every thing their way, but they did so
almost as much as by the active en
deavors of the highs as of the lows
themselves. No more conciliatory
speeches -are possible to be made than
were uttered by the leaders, and they
were uttered not by surrender of their
positions but by reaffirming these po
sitions, and finding the lows more than
willing to work with them.
The Episcopal church has decided to
group its dioceses into what it calls
provinces, and to provide each province
with a legislative body to be known
as a synod. The aims are to give larg
er measure of local government, to
avoid long travel by members of gov
erning bodies, and relieve the church's
general convention meeting every three
years, which has become too large and
too congested with matters that can
be locally decided. The provinces have
been grouped that large cities are cap
itals, and some of them may in time
come to have archbishops instead of
mere bishops, after the pattern of Ro
man Catholic church. ,
The principal cities in line for these
archbishops, if ever thev come, and for
the present expected to give largest
supporx to respective provinces, are
Boston, New York, Philadelphia. Cin
cinnati, Chicago, St. Louis, Minneapolis,
New Orleans. Seattle and San Francis
co. The provinces are eight in all, and
the outlying missionary districts, like
Honolulu, Cuba and Porto Rico, and at
tached to different provinces.
The objection to the province plan, to
archbishops, and to an elective presid
ing bishop have wholly to do -with a
fear of centralization. The controversy
between such tendency, and out and out
democracy has been of 20 years stand
ing, and has come in only from neces
sity and because the division of the
dioceses into missionary departments
paved the way. and allayed public
sentiment. The missionary and social
service, the religious and education and
laymen's work are now to be divided
up on this new provincial plan. The
adoption of this plan does not shelve
the proportionate representation need
in the house of deputies of the General
convention, but it has obscured it for
the moment, and it is said nothing is
likely to be done about matters for
some years.
PASSES THE MILLION MARK
IX MEMBERSHIP THIS YEAR
rne Episcopal church passes the I
i.twu.ow mark in its membership this
year, and the $53,000,000 mark in its
gifts since its last general convention
three years ago. This amount is, of
course, for all causes, and is a trifle
above $20 per member, or the highest
individual giving of any religious body.
There are, according to reports just
made, 5671 Episcopal clergy, and 8193
places of worship. Almost all bodies
have more churches than clergy, but
none have such discrepancy as the
Episcopal. There are 30 more candi
dates for the Episcopal ministry then
there were three years ago. but this
Japan Offers Great Field For
Successful Missionary Activity
More Workers and More Money Needed to Carry tie Mission Work Into
Fields That Are Ripe for tie Harvest.
-By IDA CLYDE CLARKE-
T
HE emergence of Japan as a
world force, the awakening of
China, the ferment of social and
political ideas in India, the quicken
ing of national consciousness in Per
sia and the remarkable political and
religious readjustment taking place in
Moslem lands, from the island of Sum
atra on the east to Constantinople on
the west, are conditions which will tax
to the utmost the wisdom and faith
of the christian statesman who prays
and plans for the extension or the
kingdom of God in all the earth.
The task of evangelizing the world
1q nnk nf iin.ntic nrODOrtions. To
furnish one missionary to even' 25.000 ;
I heathen the American cnurcnes must
I increase their force from 4000 to 20.-
000 missionaries and their guts irorn
$9,500,000 to $40,000,000 annually. This
is assuming-that the christians- of
America are responsible for 500,080,000
of the- unevangelized. This, large as
it seems, is less than one-fifth of
what is spent on the churclies at home,
less than a street car fare a week pet
church member.
Of these unevangelized millions as
signed to one denomination alone, 20,
000.000 are in China, within that Gib
raltar of missions at whose unyielding
front missionaries have pounded for
more than half a century.
Great Work Completed.
The Congo Reform association.
formed nearly ten years ago. having
finished the task for which it was
created, recently disbanded. It was
through this organization that start
charges were brought against king
Leopold of Belgium for his cam
paign of cruelty in conection with the
gathering of crude rubber by the na
tives of the Congo basin.' The asso
ciation focused the attention of the
civilized world upon an intolerable
situation and brought to bear upon
It all the forces of righteous public
indignation.
The association " had five objects,
each of which has been attained. They
were: The abolition of atrocities: the
abolition of the main features upon
which the slave sjstem reposed: tin
separation of the administrative from
atinn in nlai-t.s of irrrnlr demands!
fnr ,nhiup fmutnm nf tr-oio !
For twenty-five years the Cong" ;
tcuntiw was the scene of some of the
most ruthless savagerj c er practiced i
, growth is not up to the growth of the
cnurcn itseii, ana me snortage oi
clergy is even more acute now than
then!
According to the same report there
are 16,000 fewer children in Episcopal
Sunday schools than there were three
years ago, when a similar report was
made, and this on ton; of the fact that
the Episcopal already has a smaller
portion of Sunday school pupils to
communicants of any church. Vast
fields of work at home, so these Epis
copal authorities say, are not entered
upon from lack of clergy, and tlley
add that the neglect of Episcopal par
ents to send their children to Sunday
school "may cost us our very existence
as a church in this nation."
COXGUEGATIOXALISTS THINK
CRITICAL. PERIOD HAS ARRIVED
Congregational leaders are speaking
out concerning things their national
council, just assembled In Kansas City,
ought to do before it adjourns on Oct.
31 next. All of them seem to regard
the time as critical tp their religious
body; a time when decision must bo
made whether old wavs, distinctively
Congregational, shall be retained or
discarded forever. Rev. Dr. Washing
ton Gladden wonders why the council
may not Induce Christian Endeavor and
the score of other societies In Congre
jgational churches to put through a
crusade for old fashioned church at
tendance. William Shaw of the same
Christian Endeavor, reminds leaders of
the average size of churches only ai
few more than 100 members savs ma
chinery won't take the place of young
people, and prays for relief for soma
years at least from tinkering with mis
sionary machinery.
Lucien C. Warner, the T. Mi C. A.
leader, who is also a Congregationalist.
demands that there- be a stop to the tre
mendous waste, duplication, overlap
ping, and gross inefficiency. Rev. Ed
ward A. George, of Ithaca, deprecates
the proposal to elect a secretary with
unusual powers, and says that if -Congregational
methods have failed let the
fact b frankly confessed, and every
body turn Episcopal, with an elective
presiding bishop. John R. Rogers, the
Brooklyn layman who is treasurer nf
the apportionment commission. callc
upon the churches themselves to pay
administrative expenses, and cease tak
ing money out of benevolent funds con
tributed to the missionary societies.
Finally. Rev. Henry A. Stimson. New
Tork, pleads for the adopuon of the
report of the committee of 19 entire,
and demands that Congregationalists
get together and stay together, as h
says members of other religious bodies
do. The council has just got itself into
working shape, and during the next
seven days Is expected to make over
Congregational plan In many important
respects.
MANY GERMAN" AND AMERICAV
MISSIOXARIES TO PHILIPPINES
Pope Pius X, even wheiV not well,
keeps informed at all times about
Catholic church affairs in the Philip
pines, and the action of our government
In polit-cal and educational affairs af
fecting the islands. The Catholic Con
gregation of the Propoganda has just
decided to send from Rome ten adli
tional missionaries to Manila. The con
gregation receives reports encouraging
to it concerning the prospects of the
church there under American bishoo.
and to some extent American priests.
Mgr. Petrelli. the pope's representatire.
was warmly received a short time ago
"when he went to the new diocese or
Lipa. accompanied by the archbishop
of Manila, and he assured the pope In
turn that old bitterness against the
friars has wholly disappeared from the
islands.
Germans are coming to the help or
Italians in supplying missionaries for
the Philippines, and they and Ameri
cans are wholly supplanting the old
Spanish regime, even to the smallest
mission. Ten missionaries and six Sis
ters of Charity, belonging to the Holv
Name Congregation of Germans, have
just left Rome to work in the moun
tains of Abra. They took with them
equipment for schools. In seminaries
of Germany and Italy are now 30 ad
ditional missionaries, who go to the
Philippines before the end of this year
It is the understanding in CnthnH,. r.
I cles in Rome. Vatican official circles.
mai ae united states government
gives missionaries every encourage
ment, and from this fact the Vatican
believes that the time is not distant
when paganism will be driven from
every part of the islands. The pope is
known to be lending the Congregation
of the Propoganda all of the help he
can to this end
by white men upon a dependent peo
ple. It Is said on good authority that
during the Leopold regime the Congo
population was reduced from 28.009.00rt
to 8,000,080.
Great Sunday School Army.
The Protestant Sunday school armv
of the world" now numbers 25,701. 489,
or equal to one-third of the population
of the United States. This is a gain
over three years ago of 690.295 mem
bers. The most notable gains are in.
Aisa. where reports show 8.113 new
schols with 313S.S18 more pupils en
roled than there were enroled three
years ago.
Student Work in Japan.
There are 600,000 students above the
primary grade in Japan A committee
of missionaries has been formed to
reach these young men and women
with Christian literature and a lltti
sheet called "The Morning Light." is
being widely distributed. One of the
committee says: "We believe we can
reach 106.000 students and that we can
influence three limes that many. W
will soon be distributing 10,084) pap
ers." Fourteen student hotels In Japan
have been made possible bv an mcr:
can gift of $50,080. When secretary
Kim entered on his office two year
ago there were but two Korean chris
tians in this student community anl
now there arc eighty.
Eighty Million I'ntouched Children.
There are over SO.000.000 Moslem
children in the world and Miss Von
Ma er. writing from Samarkand. sa s
"I shall gptlitr information as to num
bers, education and moralitv of cr-t!-dren
he! e. but I cannot contribute an -thing
as to the religious work doru
for not a single one of the one and a
half million Moslem children in thN
field, at any time or an here comes
into contact with Christiamtj ." It is an
undeniable fact that Moslem childhood
has had a pitifull small hare in th
ministry of the chritnn Sabbath
school
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