The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-11-01
San Francisco and KallOch's
Temple.


ing we found our way to church.
Just now the leading attraction &C.
clesisstical is Isaac NJ. Kalloch, (Bap-
fist, and the most popular place of
religious resort Is his new Metropoli-
tan Temple on Fifth street. This
church is the one founded in 1865, by
J. P. Ludlow, now of Olympia. The
new temple is pretentious edi6ce-
y music hall rather ttnaa Cathedral
three stories in heights. The lower
floor is leased 1t good round figures
for worldly purposes, business estsb-
lishments. The two upper stories
are the auditorium, main ball end
galleries. The good judgment of the
builder is displayed in the location,
which is in the elite part of the city,
in near proximity to Daldwin's Hotel
and Academy of Music, and opposite
the new U. S. Mint. There is no pull
pit-only a platform and stand. No
pews, but iron chairs, 1900 in nums'
Der. Every one of those chairs was
filled when we got in and nearly all
the available standing room in the
gallery aisles. The sermon was, by
request, in behalf of the Seamen's
Friend Society, and consequently the
sermon savored of the '.salt, salt sea-"
First we heard highly operate solo
rendering Of good old fashioned
hymn. Then followed quite mus
ical olio consisting of semi-sscred'
semi-secular solor, duets, choruses
and hymus. Afterward the pastor
requested the congregation to repeat
Ia concert with him the Lords Prayer
and the Esd psalm, and then came the
sermon. A glance at Mr.. kalloch re-
veals to an intelligent beholder the
secret of his success. A quiet, firm,
self-possessed manner, indicating
man we'll assured of his own strength.
In pcsYonaet he is stout, bluff and
hearty. and would pass for respect
able down-east sea alphabetically
indicating that his success is due rath-
or to bis executive ability than to lit
erary gifts or rhetorical power.
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the programme, the ushers were re-
quested to pass around the contribu-
ton boxes in behalf Of the sailors;
and for long time nothing could be
heard but the musical pattering of
mint-drops as they fell into the box
es, ringing up eloquently from all
parts of the hall. From the unani-
nifty with which the people joined in
this part of the service, We Judged
that nearly all boxes must have been
returned pretty nearly filled, and the
Seamen's Home reaped a bonanza
from the liberality of this congrega-
ton. Mr.. Kalloch's parish appears
to have been we'll educated in this
regard, at least, and realized, spon-
taneously without any pitiful coaxing
or bull-dosing, a due sense of their
just obligation, when enjoying the
pleasant amenities and benefits of re-
ligious service, to put in their reason
able contribution to meet the neces-
sary expense of that service.
The sermon was short, matter-of-
fact and in no way remarkable, being
utterly devoid of any attempt at ora
torical flights or sensational hits of
any kind. To undertake a synopsis
OF it would take up too much of our
space, but as a single characteristic
extract from it will furnish KEY to
the popularity of Mr.. Kalloch's sys-
TEN, we will endeavor to reproduce
the substance of it from memory.
Referring in terms of approval to
the benevolent work OF the ladies' OF
San Francisco, in providing and fit
ting up the Seamen's Home in that
city, yet he said there were some
things in connection with that home
which he did not like, specifying the
placard hung up there with the in.
scription, mo Card Playing or Gam
bling allowed here" He went on to
define his position, by saying that
while he disaprroved of all gambling,
he had no prejudice against mere in,
nocest card playing. He was in "a
vor Of making that home attractive to
the sailors by means of music and
dsncing, and cards and smoking, and
coffee and billiards, and chess, and
everything that was pleasant and in
tsinsically innocent. He could dis
ceiminate between innocent diver
sions and vice; between a social game