Morning journal and courier., 1894-03-19
AmONG rHE UHURCHKs.

of the Howard Avenue Baptist
 Church Preach at the First Baptist
 Church In she Absence of che Pastor
 Davenport Church-First Anniver-
 sary of the Boys, Brigade at Calvary
 Baptist - At Battell Chapel-Rev.
 William R. Richards of PlainHeld, : N. T., Breaches on samsons,-
 Forty Persons Condrmed at St.
 Paul's Church by Bishop Williams.
 In the absence of the pastor, Rev. MT. Mason, who is taking vacation of week for needed rest, Rev. E. o. Sage of the Grand avenue church yesterday occupied the pulpit of the First Baptist church in the morning and Rev. Hayden E. Jones of the Howard Avenue Baptist church in the evening. ....
 On Wednesday at 6:sO the ladies will serve supper in the church parlors to be followed at o'clock by the meeting of the "Round Table of the Christian En- deavor society,"" "An Evening with Dick ems" Is the program and good time is sx- pected.
 DAVENPORT CHURCH.
 The pastor will preach an Easter sermon next Sunday morning and in the evening there is to be special Easter music ser vice.
 The committee in charge of the twentieth anniversary celebration, are arranging 8 program for . four days celebration. Charles E. Hart Is chairman of the com mittee.
 AT CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH.
 The first anniversary of the formation of the Boys brigade at the Calvary Baptist church was observed yesterday morning. The brigade occupied the front ssats in the body of the church Rsv. MT. Poteat preached most inspiring sermon on the necessity of military spirit in Christianity. His text was ''For we restle not agsio ost flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places" Ephesians vi:12. AT BAYFIELD, CHAPEL. Rev. William R. Richards of Plainfield, N. J., preached here yesterday morning on 'Samson" from the text "And the spirit of the Lord came nightly upon him, and he rent him as he would have rent kid, and he had nothing in his hand; but he told not his father or his mother what he had done. Judges, xiv, 6.
 In his discourse the speaker said: "It may seem strange to us at frst thought that Samson was a saint. Yet SO he stands canonizsd for all time in that famous chapter on faith in Paufs epistle to the Hebrews. The Philistines, against whom he was rsi=ed up as @ champion by the oppressed Israelites, were 8 people that came from nobody knows where; 8 dull, heavy people, devoted to war. They had subdued the greater part of the south ern part of Canaan and reducsd the wretched Hebrews to such state of de- pendence that they could not get 6 plow- share sharpened without going down to a Philtstine smith.
 s'It was a brilliant stroke of wit made by poor German student when he called the great mass of uncultured townspeople and tradespeople with which university is surrounded and to whom the poor artist or student first cringes and then laughs at, 'Philistines.' Matthew Arnold has made this phrase familiar to all English speak ing peoples"
 The preacher then gave an excellent de- lineation of the character of Samson as set forth in the book of Judges. He said that Samson had unconquerable good humor and persistence. That he yielded to the temptrees Delilah breaches most forcible sermon on pers onal purity. The yielding brought him with both his eyes put out to grind in the prison house. The Samson Agonistes of Milton's great poem is a great creation, but he is not the sunny, good natured Samson of the old Biblical writer. What in the end saved him was his deep, underlying faith in God.
 AT ST. PAUL's CHURCH.
 There were fully 1000 people present at the confirmation service at St. Paul's church yesterday morning Bishop Will Hams preached most excellent sermon from the text, "But Namaan was wroth and went away and said: Behold, I thought, he surely will come out to me, and stand, and call upon the Lord his God and strike his hand over the place and re. cover the leper.' '"-lI. Kings, V, Il. The rite of confirmation was administered to 40 persons. Rev. MT. Lines read the first part of the service. The program for the remainder of holy week includes the fol- lowing:
 .Wednesday-Morning prayer and ntany at 1o o'clock. United Lenten service at Y.3o D. m., Tith sermon D; %s y o! Rex tS Charles De" Bridsman On the morning of Good Friday the annual of. fering for the society for the Increase of the MiDistery will made.
 All persons who are able to give flowers for use on Easter day are asked to send them to the church by p. m. on Saturday at the latest. Any one wishing to give money for the Easter flowers may send the same to Miss E. 0. Hall or Miss L. M. Phipps. After the services the flo xers will be sent to the sick, tho hospitals, etc. The full names of the children to be baptized date Of birth, names of the parents and sponsors should be handed to the rector before the service at o'clock Easter even..
 The services on Easter day will be the early service at 6:30 a. m. followed by the first celebra tion of the holy communion at 7:15. The next service, with the sermon and the second oelebra tion on the holy communion, will be at 1030 The Sunday school anniversary, with singing o1 Easter carols, the presentation of the offerings for the year, etc will be at 3:15 p. m., and al parents and parIshtoners and persons interested In the school are cordially invited. There is nt service in the evening.
 The offerings on Easter morning are asked fol the improvement and adornment of the charci both without and within. It is hoped that thu offerings will enable the officers of the parish tt do needed work upon the cnurch steps and to fin ish in some simple and suitable way the eas tower.
 AT CHRIST CHURCH. The Rev. J. o. s. Huntington, o. H. O. of Westminster, Md, preached at thu morning service yesterday. At the 1O:3( a. m., the music was as follows: | Organ prelude-Andante in O. Sila