Morning journal and courier., 1893-10-09
AT THE CHURCHES.

First Baptist Church News-Rector
 Lines Fourteenth Anniversary Ser
 mon-"The InstitutiOnal,'' a Ser
 mon by Rev. Charles Conklin at the Church of the Messiah.
 Tomorrow evening the young mems so- ciety of the First Baptist church will hold debate, the subject being: Resolved, That ths Lodge Is Detrimsnt to the Home and Church."
 The quarterly number of the Ensign, the church paper, has just been issued. The sum of 5000 has been raised during the year ending October 1, for benevolent purposes. A series of addresses is to be given by the pastor on Sunday evenings, beginning October 22. The following are the subjects: "The Bible-Is It Gods Book or Man'sg" October 22, "The Problem Be- fore Us;" October 29, "What Might be Ex- pected;" November 5, "What Does History say;" November 12, "What Does Science Say" November IS, "What Does Areh@ol- ogy say" November 25, "The Bible, It's Our Witness;" December 3, "Human Need as Witness" December 10, "The Verdict What Then" The program adds: The sub jeot of these addresses is one of intense in- terest at this time and all attendants are invited to send in written questions which will receive candid consideration FOURTEENTH ANNIVERSARY SERMON. Rev. E. s. Lines of St. Paul's yesterday preached his fourteenth anniversary ser naon- It is consisted largely of a resume of the parish work during this time, and was listened to by large congregation. Rsv. Charles Conkiin, pastor of the Church of the Messiah, preached an excel lent discourse on "The Institutional Church" to large congregation, yesterday morning. He described the ideas and workings of the institutional church and the great blessings 1t has brought to ! many of the weaker churches of our larger cities. This church works within the churches already established and organizes l them into bands of working, efficient Christians, and in manifold ways promul- gates new ideas of church service. More efficient work is done, also, among the
 masses. While organized charities are in no way to be dispsrsged, yet more good is | often done by personal contact. He said in closing that 1t was his aim and purpose to devote his whole time to
 labortng along these lines, 80 that the ' SAuLou Ol LILO mo5Sl6u UdY OGCOm0 8 power for good in the community, and
 may be actively engaged in aggressive Christian work
 In the evening MT. Conklin gave the geo. | ond of series of "Talks on the Bible J
 the special subject being "What is Inspir- ation?"
 Next Wednesday evening @ quarterly onference will be held at the church. | AT CITY MISSION HALL.
 At the City Mission nall last evening be- tween twenty and thirty members of the United Church Endeavor society were | present to assist in the service. MT. Fran | cis Potter led the song service, accom- panied by the large orchestra under direc- tion of MT. R. B. Hughes. The missionary pastor conducted the opening exercises,
 assisted by MT. W. R. Downes of the En- deavor society. MT. Hurd led the meeting for the endeavor society, which included l an ''Endeavor song" by the members of the , society, and also, by request, a solo, sThat
 Beautiful City of Gold," by MT. W. D. Hurd, Downs and Mansfield, and a num-
 ber of the large audience present also took some part in the service. Messrs. Myrick | and Downer of the Davenport church were the ushers.
 In the after meeting there were several requests for prayer and two persons pro- fsssed conversion.
 At ths morning Sunday school a very interesting address was made by Mrs. Ed ward Hume describing the foreign mission work and life at Bombay, India, and at the suggestion of the superintendent, MT. L. W. Cleaveland, the children of the Sunday school voted to give $5 of their offerings to aid the mission of that place.