The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1886-01-31
The Great Good 1t Has Accomplished During the
Past Year-Rey. DR.. Leonard's Address.


The Central Union Mission, at eoa PENNSYLVANIA
avenue celebrated It's first anniversary esl suIuas
evening Duringt year Gospel services wets ne1r
ONE hundfed persons were converted. The man
ayers of the Mission as committee waiea upon n
some half dozen OF our leading se ~ anu rivin
little sermon or talk at the MISSION rooms auting
the past week This they kindly consented 10 DO ana
Unit, y PresSyterian csalch; tuesday, Rev " A
Leonard, of ST. Johns Episcopal Churcn; Mednes-
day. H. OF N eaSaryF saRS clare
Church; Friday. Rev. R. NJ. BaeI, waugh n. T.
Church, and Saturday ReS T. s. WsnkoSP' OF the
church choirs also gave their services and sang on
these evenings. The HERALD reporter happened to
attend the meeting conducted by the Rev Nj. Leen-
ard. This gentleman's remarks were excellent. He
delivered a sort of boled-down sermon OF solid
chunks Of common sense with sledge hammer force
with his clear articulation. seemed TO emphasize MS
strong points with telling ana almost HIama.ie
and does not appear to be over thirty, and one
could not help thinking what splendid leading man
reporter not being the spot, verbatim report Of
his eloquent remarks cannot be given, but the fol-
how Christ after coming down from mountain, was
approached by a miserable, dirty, diseased leper,
who said to him: Lord II thou wilt. thou es n
adays when poor, miserable, moral lener went to
one of God agerts-a minister OF the Gospe-ior
salvation aid the minister would not at once endeayor
TO give the suffering sinner the sacred soothing
soace he sought but would ask him his opinions on
theology, and Il he had any, and they agreed with
his, he would then try and help him, otherwise the
POOR fellow would become dazed win relislous
conundrums and would leave disgusted with the
impression doubt that religion was deuslon and
snare. He said there was too much OF this sort Of
thing in our churches OF to-day-tso much draw
lug the line at good clothes and not enough mnglng
with the poor soiled sinners who needed the
minister's aid the most There was too much pulpit
arisiocraey as i were There was no sucn talng as
a saint on eatth-we were all Sinners even the best
Of us; some, of course, more SO than others This
thing OF people posing as saints because they were
regular church members was absurd. The chances
were that many of them were bigger sinners than
some OF the poor people who had never converted
70 faih In Christian religion we we're a SIN
sinner. He liked to see everybody have an equal
show in the race for salvation. He was glad
had been converted through the fundamentally of
the mission; but he wanted TO impress upon these
only commenced at the hour Of their conversion in
fact, II had hardly begun then, for like man who
had Just enlisted TO defend MS conntry me asltie
sand things might occur to defeat him before the
battle was over and he was victorious But he must
until after hard tight victory would be his reward.
And SO II was with the convert He has Just enlisted
in Gods army; he has great battle ahead; it is
never-ending one, or only ends with life itself.
Through lifes pathway he will ind many snares into
which he may fall. like Lucfer, perhaps, never TO
good Behavior TO go back 10 his old Vices simply be-
cause he is not sufficiently on hls guard to keep the
his weak moral points as jealousy as mother
would her dying babe. The devil will not attack
him while he is an enthusiast over the blessings of
his new-found life; no, he is too much Of diplo-
matte devil for that but after he has gotten a. lit
re used TO it, so that the novelty has worn off, then
MI Devil will sneak In In his cowardly manner and
hold ont some Turing bait TO tempt him TO 60 back
10 his old vicious HABITS. The convert must ever be
The soldier In Gods army must ever be a sentinel
on the alert: he must not grow lukewarm or 0lase
IN hls cause, for II he does his punishment will be