Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-10-07
A GREAT ASSEMBLAGE


tContinued from Third Pdge,l
the beginning of that great minstrelsy which
tne world Will never grow tired oil singing I'M
til the gates OF pearls reached and the dis
cords OF earth are lost in the song Of Moses and
the Lamb.
Brethren from the middle and northern
states, from the central west and from the far
on Racine coast, We congratulate you because
OF the great commonwealth which you repre-
sehi, because of tie incalculable service you
have rendered to the world and because of the
faita and heroism which have distinguished
your work from the beginning to the present
brethren from Canada. we welcome you with
tho spirit OF true Christian reciprocity. We
rejoice il the union of the Methodsms which
you have effected and your heroic efforts to
build up your great educational system.
Brethren from the West Indies, We bid you
welcome. 1t was your home which, Just Tour
centdrlcs ago, gladdened the eye OF columbus
and added another continent 20 the globe. 1t
was among your islands that Coke learned his
carly lessons in cvangelistic work and planted
the missions which you cultivate today.
We bid Ireland welcome here. What would
American Methodism today be without the
faith Of Philip Embury and the exegesis OF
Adam Clarke?
Wo bid Wales welcome here, the home of
Lady Huntingdon.
We welcome Scotland, with its undying
record of the labors of John Knox.
England, our common home, We welcome.
From her we lave derived the Wesleyan name
and the Wesleyan example; her Epworth is
our Epvorth; her preachers are our preachers;
her literary achievements are our Inheritance;
her Milton her Shakespeare, her Hampton.
her Cromwell, her Wesley are our teachers.
And when We think of the worlds great rulers
Of tho distant past and of today who sway with
easy sccpter and even scales of justice, none
stands higher in our esteem and love than Vic
tOria, Queen Of Great Britain and Ireland and
Empress OF India, and mother Of all her happy
people.
France We welcome with her precious men,
orits of heroic Huguenots. The Protestant
remnant is still distributed over her fair fields,
and grow il must, for If it is still true what
Beza said to the apostate, Antony of Navarro,
The anvil hath worn out the hammer, the
land where Cook planted Methodism, and his
two noble sUrs. Jean Paul and Emile. con-
tinUed his work, will ever DC dear to every
Methodist.
Germany We welcome here. We can never
forget that Wesley learned good lessons from
Zinzendorf at Herrnhut, and that he learned
the true path 20 justification by faith through
Peter Boolei, the Moruviap bishop from
Frankfort-on-Main No song we sing in pref
ereno Is: TO Martin Lu:her's battle hymn.
"a strUpg tower IL God"
HcnoreG guests from the far of lands OF In
dia, Japan, China and from those separate colo
NAL governments Of the SoLth seas, over each OF.
which floats the British fag-New South Wales,
Victoria. Queensland, South Australia. NORTH
Australia. New Zealand and Tasmaria-we
know the work that YOU have been doing. az 4
the faith which has inspired it. All ths sweeter
shall be our communion here, because of the
great spaces over which you have Travelled on
land and sea to reach this place. Wa bid you
welcome after your tossings on tide and wave.
and III presence shall We remember with greater
pleasure than that of you, brethren, who hive
come from the most distant lands. In
the Temple of Diana, in Erhesus. there
were Ii pillars, and each was the
gift Of king. In this ecumenical temple there
are five hundred pillars, and each one is to our
Methodism here and our Methodism through
out the world the gift of Him who is King of
Kings and Lord OF Lords. May our meeting
here hasten on the day of the universal reign
OF the Prince of Peace, foreseen and foresung
by Engiand's sweetest singer:
II looked into the future, far human eye could
Saw vision Of the world and the glory that should
When the war drums thrOb no longer and the battle
In the %orId of man. the federation OF the
Again, l say. thrice welcome ALTO our
homes, to our pulpits, at our affairs and to our
hearts.
Addresses were on the program to be deliv-
cred in welcome by James II. Carlisle. LII. D.,
for the Methodist Episcopal church south and
the iiev. Ar. George Douglas for the Methodist
church, Canada. Responses will be made by
the Rev. DR.. I. D. Stephenson, president of the
Wesleyan Methodist church; William Beck
with OF Primitive Methodist church and the
Rov. Il. Abercrombie Of the United Methodist
Free church.
NOTES.
An interesting contribution to the collection
Of historical relics of Methodism, which is in
one of the class rooms, was made today by Mr..
James Overstreet of Nicholsonville, KY. 1t is
a tine stained copy OF the Methodist Magazine,
which was published in Philadelphia in 1873.
The usheIs who seated the congregation at
the sessions today were the following from the
membership of the Metropolitan Church: Geo.
W. Gray, ". Z. Rogers, W. C. Eldridge, James
H. Houston and j. e. Soaring.