Los Angeles herald., 1891-11-09
A Sermon to Soldiers by Rev,
Charles KienZle.
Seventh Regiment Boys Attend
Church Last Evening.
Features of Yesterdays Sunday
School Mass Meeting.
st. Paul's Church Filled with National
Observation-Disclosures of the
Mass Meeting-Evan-
gelist Wight.

under command OF colonel ScnrelDer,
and the signal corps, First brigade, COM
manded by Lieutenant Darracott, at
tended divine service at st. PauPs
church on Olive street last evening at
7:30.
The organizations assembled at the
armory at o'clock. Company B came
in from Pasadena and formed in the
hall. The officers and men were in the
regulation uniform, without side arms.
They started for the church few min
utes past 7, the signal corps having the
right of the line. The regiment was
headed by the drum and bugle corps.
Colonel Schneider was accompanied by
Lieut.. ]. L. A. Last, l. R. P, and Capt.
J. B. Franklin, adjutant. The company
officers were Captain Martin and Lieu
tenants Steers and Baldwin of A. Cap
tain Bangham of B, Captain Meyer and
Lieutenants Alfonso and Reese of G,
Captain Chappellear and Lieutenants
Shaw and Anderson of Company F.
Upon arriving at the church the COM
panies filed in and took the seats re-
served for them. At the hour set for
the service the building was packed to
the doors.
The services were extremely interest
ing from beginning to end. Rev. Ho-
son and led the prayer. The sermon
was preached by Rev. Charles F. KEN
zle, the regimental chaplain. DR.. Kien
zle's textlwas portion of the twenty
first verse OF the book of the
prophet jeremiah: "And their mobiles
shall be of themselves, and their
governor shall proceed from the midst
of them"
The vested choir of the church rem
dered the following programme, under
the direction of Preston Ware Orem,
b. Mus:
Prelude, Harvest Thanksgiving march, Cal
kin; Professional hymn, Onward Christian
Soldiers nagIhat P end s~ne t R
Father, Gounod; Offertoiy, The King of Love
tbass solo. by H c. Postway). Gounod; Re
cessional hymn, The Son of God Goes Forth to
War, Custer; Postlude, Festive march. H.
Smart.
SUNDAY SCHOOL MASS MEETING.
Hazards pavilion was thronged yes
terday afternoon by Sunday school chill
dren, their teachers, officers and friends,
the occasian being Sunday school mass
meeting, held by authority of the Los
Angeles County Sunday School associa-
ton. The officers of the association are
E. W. Spencer, president; Hugh E.
Smith, secretary; Charles A. Basker-
vile, assistant secretary; B. F. Coulter,
treasurer; F. j. Cressey, George T.
Hanley and Charles E. Day, executive
committee.
The president of the day was Capt.
F. ]. Cressey; vice-presidents, j. A.
Muir, William Rommell, D. M. McDon-
aid, W. S. Reavis, D. Gilbert Dexter and
Charles Allin. All the above named
gentlemen occupied seats on the stage.
A large chorus made up of the COM
bred choirs of several churches, under
Mr.. Charles E. Day, who was assisted by
Messrs. Hugh E. Smith and W. G.
Shaw and Misses Josie V. Weldon,
Grace G. Hubbard, Kate G. Rider,
Lizzie Knighten, Clara Young and
Lizzie B. Oliver, organists, were also
seated on the stage.
Capt. Cressey called the meeting to
order at 2:30 and the exercises were
begun by the singing of My Country
IT'S OF Thee.
Rev. A. G. Smither of the Temple
street Christian church invoked Gods
blage, and was followed by Capt. Cres-
sey, who spoke briefly on the purpose of
the meeting.
Next in order was the hymn We're
Marching to Zion. by the congregation.
Judge r. M. Widney then read the
scripture lesson for the day, and Rev.
W. III. Pendleton, D. D., offered prayer
for the superintendent of the Sunday
schools.
After another hymn came responsive
readings, led by Mr.. w. w. Cockins.
Prayer was offered for the teachers by
Rev. w. B. Stradley, and Rev. G. w.
Heisler invoked blessing upon the
children. Addresses were delivered by
the following: Rev. w. A. Finley, D.
D., Child Religion; Mr.. E. S. Field,
Child influence in Christianity; Hon. j.
j. Gosper, The Power Behind the
Throne; Rev. j. S. Dill, Our Duty to the
Masses.
The exercises were brought to close
by a prayer for the schools and the
benediction by Rev. Will A. Knighten.
The eighth annual meeting of the
county Sunday school convention begins
Tuesday at the First Baptist church,
corner of Broadway and Sixth street.
TEMPLE STREET CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
Rev. F. A. Wight, the Ohio evangel-
list who is conducting series of meet
ings at the Temple-street Christian
church, preached to house packedfull
of people last night. Every available
space was filled with chairs. The sub
ject OF his discourse was The Divinity of
Jesus. He enumerated the many
claims Jesus made to substantiate his
divine nature, and also the arguments
and testimonies of inspired and unin-
spired writer's. The sermon was a
mastery effort and had telling effect
on the large audience. There ha re been
several accessions to the church. The
meetings will continue every night this
week. The sermon tonight will be on
Conversion.
AT UNIVERSITY.
DIR. A. g. Williams, pastor OF Univer-
slty Nj. E. church, preached his Sunday
morning discourse from Revelations 81,
q: He that overcometh shall inherit
all things; and will be his God, and he
shall be my son."
He said that while there was a great
deal OF Truth in the saying that "every
man is the architect of his own charac-
ter" yet he must have Divine aid in
experimenting the architecture. Man
can't mold a good character alone,
neither can God; but these two work
ing in unison raise the structure called
character.
Mans character is formed after years