Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-10-18

first vice president, Mrs. NJ. A. Adams; re-
cording secretary. Mrs. NJ. L. Browne; cor
responding secretary. Mrs: r. L. Sher-
wood, and treasurer, Mrs. NJ. Nj. Dean.
This afternoon at o'clock the general
convention having adjourned until 1880 this
evening, the Woman's Centenary had it's
meeting in the Church of Our Father. The
program was as follows:
Devotional services.
Address-Mrs c. A. Quinby of Maine
president of the association.
Address-Mrs Minnie *. Libby of New
Yorl1-"Our Woman's Mission Work"
Address-Rev Henrietta G. Moore of Ohio
THE True Missionary"
Address-Mrs Martha A. Adams of Mas
sachuSettS-"What Missions Have Done for
Women and What Women Have Done for
Missions"
Paper-Mrs. Emily l.. Sherwood of the
District Of Columbia-''The Amendments to
the Constitution"
Appellants. NJ. NJ. Dean Of the District
of Columbia.
At the platform meeting Of the general
convention this evening there will be ad-
Addresses-Rev. Joseph Jordan of vir-
ginia-"Our Mission Among the Colored
People" Rev. Carl F. Henry of Ohio-"The
Worth and Wants of the Christian
Unions" Rev. J. Coleman Adams, DID,, of
New York-'"rhe Heart of the Matter"
DIR. Sawyer's Sermon.
Last evening at the opening religious
exercises of the convention the occasional
sermon of Rev. DR.. Sawyer was read by
DR.. Eddy. The sermon gave an interesting
review of the history of the church.
Nothing is more apparent" said the
preacher, than the change in the tone and
spirit Of the orthodox pulpit during the last
thirty or forty years in respect to the des-
tiny of mankind. l remember it as it was
sixty years ago, and l am familiar with it
as it existed in the great Edwards and
those of his school who succeeded him.
One of the causes of our slow progress is
found now in the fact that orthodoxy is
no longer orthodox. If the popular pulpit
of today were terrible as 1t often was in
my early ministry our churches would not
hold those who would seek them. But so
the truth runs and is glorifed, let re-
joice and give God thanks. Our orthodox
neighbors are all learning what they had
almost forgotten or never knew, that Gcd
Is love and that His love fills the earth and
the heavens, and that were there a nell a
thousand times deeper and more terrible
than the human imagination can fathom,
love presided over it's making and will pre-
side over it forever and ever. This one
fact received into the severest theology
must soon modify and transform it, and
that process of Transformation is going on,
thank God, all about u.s.
The Old and the New.
The closing words were as follows: Some
of our young doctors, 1 observe, amuse
themselves with the conceit of New Uni
versalism. l have been acquainted with
the old for seventy years past, and have
studied it's history from the time of the
apostles to the present day, and 1 know
of no other. 1t is one and the same yester-
day, today and forever-the doctrine of
Gods infinite love in Christ Jesus and it's
power to conquer all human hearts
But this New Universalism, with which
some seem to be delighted, has discovered
that Jesus was not born as the New Tes-
lament teaches, nor did he do the things
it ascribes to him, nor speak the words
which it puts in his mouth. nor was he,
when dead and buried. raised from the