Morning journal and courier., 1883-02-19
Trinity n. B. Church.


 The threatening weather of yesterdayS morning did not appear very propitious for the Methodists who were to dedicate theira new temple of worship on the corner of George and Dwight streets. There was, how ever, an unusually large attendance whoI gathered at the o'clock service, that beingy the reunion 1ovefeast, which was lead byI Rev. A. 0. Eggleston, of Bristol, a fornerI pastor of Wesley chapel
 The sermon yesterday morning was byI Bishop Andrews, of Washington, D. O. The| text was a selection from that wonderful conversation that Christ had with the woman| of Samaria, recorded in the 24th verse of theI 4th chapter of St. Johns gospel: ''God is al Spirit" The speaker said: Not in grand temple devoted to Gods worship and filed with emblems of religious rites, but in the streets of Samaria, at Jacobs we'll, and to an audience of one, the woman of Samaria, did the Saviour unfold the great truths he came to teach. The woman said to him, stArt thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well2'' Jesus beautiful answer was, ''Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again, but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst" Then the Saviour opened unto her the sinful character of her life, teaehing that the service which God requires does
 not consist in rites and ceremonies, but
 must be the free will offering of the heart
 and soul. There are some who assert they are willing to believe what can be seen and known, but the rest, they say. is mere con lecture but the text tells us God is 8 spirit
 and it further says, 'They that worship him
 must worship him in spirit and in truth. :"
 The great teacher who came to this woman
 of Samaria was the wisest teacher, and in
 this new temple this morning let us see if we cannot get little wiser in the way under A the teaching of the spirit. We say that
 matter has form, ,and of the mind it wills and
 thinks. Now God is not matter. We cannot
 see him. We reach out the hand,
 we cannot touch him. We have to ask 7 how this great power of God can be revealed. s He is represented as having hands, eyes and
 ears. God perceives, we know not how God hears the cry of the humble penitent , soul; God also moves the universe. He also ! uses methods to bring men to their senses land urges him to repentance. None of us
 here in this beautiful temple of worship this
 morning doubts but skill was displayed in its Sconstruction. Why cannot we believe in the Askill of Him who made the universe It IS this spirituality of God that enables us to Hook up and believe in his works. We know ! what love is for we have felt it's divine touch; we know what fear is, for we have felt the ainfuence of it's power. There may be things that far transcend us, but his fatherhood is revealed. We may speak to him as child T 1a with wisdom that I may have things my child
 cannot comprehend in me, and yet may so reach out after the little one that can make
 myself perfectly plain to his intelligence, and
 when I give it my love how the little arm encircles me responsively. How
 wonderfully indeed does God encircle us with
 his arms of love- This church is raised and
 opened to teach the people to obey the
 spirit of love. We build no church that we
 may elevate worldliness, but we build that we
 may open it's doors to all who are oppressed.
 May it prove that to-day and afterwards
 multitudes shall take part in the song of the redeemed.
 AFTERNOON SERVICES.
 In the afternoon the church was thronged and many went away unable to gain admit Atance. Rev. Dr. Warren, of the Boston uni
 versity, occupied the pulpit. He is preach Ter of immense power and clear conception of ths truth he breaches. His text was selec1 tion from 23d verse of the 4th of St. John s gospel, "The hour cometh and now is when the true worshipers shall worship the Fath1
 er in spirit and truth" The first festival
 in the worlds history, said the doctor, was a
 Medication not in 8 temple reared
 with hands, but under the vauIted heavens.
 Everything was completed, fresh products of
 created skill abounded on every hand and at
 the dedication every living thing was there
 and the teaching of holy writ is to the effect
 that man seeks an object on which to bestow
 his affection and adoration. You have lis
 tened to the word of Christ in which three
 assertions are made. The first is, ''They are to worship; the second is, tWorshiping shall
 be toward 8 proper object;" the third is,
 ''Worship the Father in spirit" Prayer is the
 consecration of absolute service. Love in
 cludes all adoration and service. The hour
 cometh when we shall worship the Father
 and we believe we see this hour to-day. This
 house is built for the old-fashioned gospel to
 teach sinners the way to Christ, and may
 God grant that no unholY priest shall pollute
 its sanctuary. The doctor gave some very
 clear conceptions of Christian duty and made
 many pointed allusions to the work before the Christian world, urging very strongly
 unity as the basis of the Christian effort and |commending the new church with it's inter lests to the thoughtfulness of the people.
 The following ministers of the Methodist
 faith were present and assisted more OF less
 in the services: Rev. William Mast, D. D..
 from Cincinnati, the father of German Meth sodism Rev. J. o. Munson, of Bedding, Ct. i;
 Rev. A. H. Mead, of Watertown, Ct. :; Rev IA. c. Eggleston, of Bristol, Ct. Presiding sEIder William T. Hill, of the N. Y. Confer ence; Presiding Elder G. A. Hubbel, of the IN. Y. East Conference Rev. C.H. Buck and
 Rev. MT. Harris, of this city, besides many others of other denominations.
 vxr1rT,5r.
 In the evening there was another largo Icongregation, many people being un7 able to find even entrance owing to the crowded aisles. The anthem, "Oh, be joy |ful in the Lord," was followed by the hymn |commencing:
 ''When to the exiled seer were given
 All glorious though the visions were,
 Yet he beheld no temple there."
 The prayer was by venerable man with Esnow white hair, who was earnest in his ad- dress to the throne. Mrs. Armstrong's solo, Ashamed of Jesus," was finely rendered, al |breathless stiffness pervading the whole of the large assembly. The hymn was given| beginning: t.Oh, God, thou countless worlds of light Thy power and glory show,
 
 Immortal seraphs glow" Then followed the sermon by Rev. H. w. Warren, D. D., bishop of the Episcopal church, of Atlanta, Ga. It was much more| than a sermon-a grandly logical and fnished| loration. The reverend gentleman, before on itering upon the subject which he had chosen| Ito speak upon, asked all to join him in pray Ter, repeating the words: 'tOh Lord, open| |thou our eyes that we may behold wonderful things out of the law" Said the speaker at the outset of his dis Ecourse: t'The sublimest utterance that ever |came to man opens with the words "In| .the beginning, GodI" Some short-sighted 'discoverers say: 'In the beginning, law, ' but the far-sighted say: "In the beginning, |God" We men were invited this morning. Ito look as far as possible up to the sublime heights of heaven. This afternoon we wereI told how to find our way up Eto God. What remains then but to speak of mans duty toI gman?
 The speaker said the student of history has had but melancholy task in tracing the riseI and fall of nations and races He says that al Irace has made it's beginning, has succeeded in| gclearing the forests, has built cities, has ac- |quired learning, has then acquired luxury,| grown effeminate, that corruption has sucI .ceeded and finally extinction and death. He sees that the old experiments have been tried over and over again and have all ended in| miserable failure. After he has read the rec lord of history he becomes disheartened. He| |says: ''Is it not possible that somewhere| khAva Ha