The western sentinel., 1892-09-22

army of martyrs were tried in the
days of religious persecution, now
happily past. Finally the real servant
of God must learn to overcome the
sin that doth so easily beSet him, and
the reward for overcoming is to sit
with Christ in his throne.
AT THE MORAvIAN CHURCH.
At night Mr.. Stevenson and party
attended divine service at the historic
old Moravian church in Salem.
The party that entered the church
consisted of Gen. and Mrs. Stevenson,
Col. and Mrs. Strange, Mr.. and Mrs;
Eugene Thompson, Misses Gray and
HoIcombe, c.. A. Ewing, Julian S.
Carr, w. a. Blair, Geo. Hodgins, DR..
III. Il. Bahnson and w. f. Burbank.
The church was resplendant with
the brilliance of the electric lights. 1t
was crowded with the good, God fear
ing, morality-loving Moravian congre-
CATION of Salem, with large sprink'
ling of people from Winston. In the
right and left galleries, the hundreds
of girls of the Salem Female Academy
with their white dresses and bright
faces made beautiful sight. The
choir loft was crowded with singers.
1t always does one good to worship
at the MOrayian church. The Wor-
ship of the MOravianS always impress
es every one as being truly heart fet
and earnest. When prayer is offer
ed half of the congregation is not tC
be seen in one attitude of devotion,
and the other half in another, but the
whole congregation with one accord
rises, according to the MOravian Gus
tom of public prayer, and stands with
bowed head and reYerent mien until
the prayer is over. Then again the
<,1, n, i, inn
tradictiOn of the oft asserted fact
that choir prevents congregational
singing. The choir of the Salem
church is probably the largest and
best trained in the State, and sings
the most classical music and yet dur
ing the singing the voice of the great
congregation rises heavenwardS ming
ling harmOniOusly with the volume OF
song from the chOirSters, and one can
not but think that this is prayer
music and prayer-singing and but
fancying in the hallowed enthusiasm
to the hour, as the sound floats out OF
fine church and up toward the blue
cerulean, that the angels above cease
their songs of praise to listen for a
moment to this music from earth that
makes itself heard in heaven.
The Salem Orchestra with eighteen
instruments and the choir with the
same number of voices rendered "GlO-
ry be to God" from Mozart's 18th
Mass. The music and singing was
grand.
Bishop Rondthaler's text was from
Psalms 20: Z: ''SOme trust in chariOts
and some in horses; but we will re-
member the name of the Lord our
Cod
The Bishop told what fearful weap-
OnS of warfare the old chariOtS with
the scythes on their axle trees were.
The Israelites were not allowed by
God to use chariOtS or horses in battle
and as their leader David led them
into the fight, they used to shout this
battle cry, "Some trust in chariOts
and some in horses, but we will re-
member the name of the Lord our
God" While there are for us, the
speaker said, battles to fight in the
waging of great political contests, in
great moral or social achievements, in
great movements for the betterment
of the condition of the poor, there is
yet a greater battle to be fought in
working to change the tendency OF
the thought of the day from inf
deity and in building our individual
characters, and in fighting this battle
we are not to avail ourselves of any
wrongful means but let our battle
cry be that 1--WE trust in the name OF
the Lord our God"
Me. Stevenson after the service said
he enjoyed the sermon much and
thought the music was delightful.
At both the Presbyterian and Mora
Wan churches many of the members
of these denominations were intro
duced to Mr.. and Mrs. Stevenson.