Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1868-02-10


JUBILEE MFETrNGs-Interesting EXERCISES
were held yes terday AZ -. Paurs English I.n-
theran Church, corner Of III and 18th st-eets
Rev. DT. J. N. Butler, pastor, the dav having
teen So apart for reformation jubilee meetings
81 n o'clock a. m. the Rev. Dr. Baum. OF
ORR, Pa. delivered an eloquent sermon from
the thiTd verse of the I2Gth Psalm. The Lord
L:.ih zone gTeSi things Tor Us, whereof we are
glad
At half past o'clock in the afternoon. a in
bIles meeting OF the sabbath School children
was held led BY A. :. Pratt. when spirited adj
a5e>sfs were delivered by Rev. DR. Baum and
Hon III. Diehl, late u. :. Consul AZ Batavia,
one o. ne most extensive travellers of the day,
and ny me pastor OF tine church. This school
proposes contributing Si,UtO 10 the jubilee fund.
4 he services Were continued in the evening
over the pulpit were the illuminated words.
formed by gas jets, s'SeveGth Jubilee" The
rev pr. Baum. of Penns ylvania. read the 5Uth
cLapier Cf Isaiah, after which he offered up TO
6Od q ferVent prayer. The Rev DIR, Butler IN
q lew remarks. said that the Church was enter
ing upon the seventh half century of the ref
OrmafiOn.
General Morehead. of Pennsylvania. WAS in
PRODUCED 10 preside over the meeting In taking
the chair he mace a few remarks. saving thai
"a Luther, the great reformer, We are ind abted
iCr me spread OF Christianity throughout the
world. He had risked his position. and even
has life IN the great work that occupied his at
hntIcn. The building of Memorial Church
here AZ ne Capital had been projected by the
Lutheran Synod of Maryland, to which this
church belongs, he sand, and 10 Ihis end a con-
Tibuilon was asked from those present
hymn was sang by the choir, after which
senator Patterson of New Hampshire. was in
PRODUCED, and delivered an elouue NJ address
IN W hlcn ne said that If all in this community
who had an interest in the old Monk Luther
sould be present, there would not be room
enough IN that church TO contain them The
gTandest thing ON earth is thu. brain of ours
Alter the great thinker there generally comes a
great actor, who takes up his thoag and car.
rIes them out a man who invents a great ma
chime or coneeiyes great scheme, gets not tina
glory which he gets who puts in ac ton or ear
IIss out the idea. Luther was not only a great
thinker, but great worker. Yet, after all. il
Ws-s not So much LEther that did the work of
reformation, as God yOrking through him.
Inc Rev: Dr. Brown made a few remarks,
ana vas followed by DIR. Butler, pastor of the
church, who said that the Lutherans propose
10 bulld IN TINS city memorial church. as a
thank Offering TO God for having preserved
cur national life, in the fierce conflict through
which the nation has passed Less than two
years ago. this scheme had been inaugurated
by the purchase of a commodious lot in th.,
northern part of the city, where a lecture room
mas been nearly completed Up 10 this time
ihey procured money and pledges for this
memorial church, amounting to S2S.O1 The
enterprise, he said, had seen no dark DAYS An
~nort 10 collect money was made about n
month ago at this church when S5O,O was
raised, in a short time
MI Morehead said he had been in this CITY
curing the war. had visited this church. and
toNId les MY that nothing but LOYALTY had ema.
mated from Its pulpit This memorial church.
ne SAID, had greater demands upon the Ioyai
people than any Thing he knew of in the way of
church erection
A collection was taken up, after which the
doHology was sung, and, after PRAYER and bene
1lchon ny Dr. Butler, the congregation was
dismissed.