The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1892-03-19
Institution of Two Societies ut Christ
Church Last Sunday.
A GOOD SERMON BY THE RECTOR,
Presentation OF Badges and RecOg'
milton Buttons GleaningS from
the Local Religious field
Methodist Appointments.

tions provided in the ritual of the brother
hood: Messrs. Thomas Paxton, Caliph
Powell, William Taubman, John Taylor,
Thomas Wiley, Thomas Yingling, David
Heathman and g.. X. Smith. The manly
OF the %full-voiced and well-timed
responses seemed to come from earnest
hearts, and rendered the service hearty
and impressive. All were then invested
with the button of the order.
The chapter of the Daughters of the King
being then called for, the following nine
ladies came forward: Mrs. Sallie Trigg,
Mrs. Jennie G. Duboc, Mrs. Bod Laurie,
Mrs. Helen Smith, Mrs. Lulu Paxton,
Misses Minnie Neale. Maggie Lane, Alice
Kerdoiff and Lizzie aillen. Five other
ladies who had given their names were
unable to be present-two being out Of
town and three detained by sickness, who
will be admitted later. After joining in
the prayers and responses OF their ritual,
these ladies were then presented with The
beautiful silver cross of their order.
As they returned to their seats h
''Gloria in Excelsis" was sung and then
the hymn, "Jesus, l my cross have taken"
was announced, the congregation all join
ing, as requested, in the singing.
hen followed an appropriate, off-hand
sermon by the rector, Rev. II. A. Duboc.
from the text, 1.-THE Churches of Christ
salute you," Romans xvi, Ii. lie began
as follows:
81 rise, dear brethren, to perform one of
the pleasantest as well as one of the high
est functions of my office. You know
that il is the duty of an ambassador to
entertain any member of the royal family
that may visit the country. We nave with
us tonight a number of sons and daugh-
ters of the King OF Kings, and it is my
high ~prerogative as an ambassador of
Christ to bid them welcome. Brothers of
st. Andrew and Daughters of the King,
l tender to you the greetings and congrat-
ulations of this parish. The hearty sym
pathies of our people are with you in the
good work upon which you are entering;
Christ church salutes you.
"But there is also a far larger company
OF sympathisers and well-wishers of which
/ have the honor to be the spokesman.
Vi Sth1PbtAo vi JouI tCoDCStitC
orders, scattered throughout the country,
and extending even to other lands, made
up of Christian men and women banded
with you by the ties Of your brotherhood
and your sisterhood, whose hearts beat in
unison with yours, would, il they could,
make the wires vibrate with messages OF
cheer and God-speed. Prominent among
them are those 450 delegates of the late
national convention heId in st. Louis,
whose words and work, like the fires of
Smithtield,' 'kindled a blaze that lighted
the land'-whose pictures hanging from
the wall of our guild ROOM, are looking
down upon you to see that you quit your
selves like men,
"And in connection with your order,
dear Daughters of the King, as we think
OF the friends outside of our parish, up
permost in IL thoughts Is that honored
lady whose letters from her New Haven
home have been an inspiration to us, and
to whose generous gift your rector is in
debted for those beautiful badges of your
order, that he has had the pleasure OF
presenting you tonight. Surely, as l
think of such friends, in other states, rep
r~esenting so MANY parishes in the land. /
feel that | am but voicing their sentiments
when ! say to you in the words of my
text, "The Churches OF Christ salute you.''
The speaker then said that the occasion
reminded him of the remark of the great
German poet, Goete, At the battle of Val
ney, when the spectators. astonished at
seeing the hastily recruited citizen SOL
diers not only stand the fire of the Aus
trian veterans but actually putting them
to the rout, he was asked his opinion of
the situation, he answered, "My opinion
of things, and you and / have had rae
honor to witness its beginning" 49,"
said the speaker, las / see these Christian
volunteers, arraying themselves in battle
array against Satan's veterans. | think /
see in it the dawn of a new era in the his
tory of the parish" He said he had wit
messed occasions of far more pomp, but
few Ii any OF more promise. The external
grandeur of an occasion was no test of its
real greatness. The battle of Philippi,
which history SO prominently records, was
not an event of half the Importance as an
other which began in the same city in @
very modest and obscure way; that is,
that quiet scene by the riverside in which
the conversion of Europe began. II was
a small company who stated that move
ment, Lydia and her household and a few
other m And yet it resulted in one
of the greatest II most successful enter
prises the world has ever seen.
The speaker hen illustrated this point
further by the history of the Brotherhood
Its growth from a small beginning among
a few young men, under Mr.. Houghteling
the founder, a layman, to its present in.
ternational proportion; he also noted the
rapid growth of its companion order, the
Daughters of the King.
lie did not want the members to think
that he was exacting or extravagant in hi,
expectations of them. But 1t was neither
extravagant or unreasonable to expect
great thing of God. He urged them to b.
earnest and faithful, and God would tax,
care of results.
After the sermon the congregation SAN
with great spirit and enthusiasm the hymn
"My soul be or thy guard,
Ten thousand foes arise"
and then the service was closed with pray
er and benedictiOn.