New-York tribune., 1875-05-17
AMERICAN CONGREGATIONAL UNION.
ANNUAL SERMON BY THE PRESIDENT, THE REV. DR..


ANNUAL cEitalON AA4-oADi-.'i' iA| -'' Ni''
STORES.
There was delivered last evening at the
Church of the Pilgrims Henry and Remsen st., Brook
yn the annual sermon before the American COnge "a
tiona Union by the Rev Dr. Richard s. storrs pastor Of
the church and President OF the Union Prominent in
the audience the following clrgymen and laymen
The Rev Drs. Burlington and Watts, Henry G. Bowen.
Joshua NJ Van Cott, Dwight Johnson, A. g. Barnes, and
Franklin Woodruff The Rev. Ray Palmer, ID. D. occupied
i seat on the platform with Dr. storrs. The services
were introduced By an anthem by ne choir and prayer
scrture reading and the reading OF the Secretary
annual report by the Rev Dr. Ray Palmer The report
the substance OF which was published in The TgiBUNE
of Friday showed the growth OF the Congregational
Union from its small beginning IN june 1893, up to the
presen time Dr. Storrs announced his text "a Luke v
( For he loved nation, and he hath built US syn
agpgue" The speaker had the undivided attention OF his
audience for an hour and quarter. He followed the
roth in mower and influence of the local church, and
closed by illustrating what America by means OF the
Local church had done Tor herself and Tor the world Fol
lowing is an outline OF his remarks
The word synagogue, like the word church. which has
ucceeded and displaced IT, included in itself the ASSEM-
by Of believing woshOers and The house in which that
,sebv meets 10 receive It's instruction and TO offer lis
homage TO God: and taking 1t in this comprehensive
sense il may without exasgcron be said that the syna-
rog was the organizing center OF the Latter jewish de-
yeloprncnt The beginning o. Ills insil nton may De
x
tinct deveOnnent during the time Of te cptVity When
thev who were in exile drawn more closely together
i The ties of common recollection and common sor-
row when their hearts were drawn more closely 10 ~
81, nj law by which they We're distinguished IRON iiI inc
raf5n which surrounded them ad ~ en- preceded IN M
,rntl their yor=hip The temple had become lmpos-
and ,i,e tcnple itseif was ruins From the captivity
they brought back the institutions OF the synagogue 70
the and 70 which they returned IL went abroad rom
udaa mi llee the distant lands and the remote
comercal cties which the jews went Tor residence
and Tor work. Ito ciAce was usuaiy on the hiSnes.
noin, i'm the city limits its iIniDeuaie hlfnity lhit
ce vas t apart by solemn service Tor puDilc serN ce
aud wa, carefully reserved nom COMMON ana secular
ses Tbc OFFICERS OF the synagogue we're thDse VINO nave
hcen since familiar the Christian Church te minister,
the cider thc collector AMI distributor oi aims ana me
servie of me synagoguc the reading Of the ll, singing
~ the pPans and offering of prayer prehgnrd as ven
A. rrcceca The Iol;er and richer service % tHe suye
1,fn CHRISTIAN Church with its new Scriptures and s
,nnre bou,fni song The influence OF TINS msttulOn
nnon iIe Jewish mind was b0th pOweTiui ahu
vast In instructed the minds Of those VINO were gain
cred in lis assembly by recit4nS 10 them the ancient
histories; il instructed their conscience d. rhefh.lg
fore fhe the solemn and awful mandates OF the ancehI
law Ii lett their hearts inspired Dy hOp-, ss tney
heard the prophecy read. they united In the songs OF
sa and ,Inratin IL MAIDS t impossible Tor them t0
ieapse into ideal 70 wloa thrr fathers nad oonu