Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-09-06
REOPENING OF VEST CHURCH
Resumption of Worship in the
Beautified Auditorium.
LAST SUNDAYS FINE SERVICES
The Sermons by DR.. Keigwin
and DR.. Hulburd.


opening of West Church for public |
worship Sunday morning. A complete
description of the work done has already
appeared in these columns. Many ex-
pressions of surprise and pleasure at the
beauty OF the interior were heard, the
universal opinion being that nothing
more harmonious than the scheme Of
color in natures own tints of chrome,
blue and sienna, accumulated by the
rich tones of terra Gotta in tho carpet
and upholstery, could be produced. The
effect of space is also greatly heightened.
Maurice u. Crossan, who was super
visor of the renovation, in behalf of the
trustees made u brief report, in which
he stated that the trustees had been
given certain amount of money to ex.
pend and had kept within that amount,
doing more than had at first been in
tended, new sanitary plumbing having
been put, the outside woodwork re-
painted and one pinnacle rebuilt, at an
outlay Of $3,300,of which the women's
societies would pay for the carpet and
upholstery and IA legacy of $500 would
leave balance of $1,000 TO be raised.
In explanation Of the north end of the
auditorium being unCarpeted, Mr..
Crossan said that j. IL. j. N. Hartman,
who had the contract, had sent the order
In ample time, but some of the carpet
had evidently either not been shipped in
time or been lost in transportation, in
which case the manufacturers or tho rail
road company were to blame and would
be obliged to make good the loss.
Mr. Keigwin preached short sermon
from the text, Mark xI, II: "My house
l,al AI nj In
of prayer" dwelling fOrcibly on the
command of the Lord to keep all
worldly matters out of the house of God
and the use of our best talents for the
furthering of His work. At the con-
clusion Of the discourse lie briefly re-
viewed his sixteen years pastorate here
and said he was thankful for the
amount OF work done by the church in
that time, and that, in its new form, the
church would prove an incentive to its
members to live in renewed consecra-
ton for greater efforts in the future.
The closing prayer was made by the
Rev. W. W. Taylor.
By special invitation the Rev. DIR.
Hulburd of Grace Church and its mem
bers united in worship with West
Church in the evening. A congregation
of about 1000 people was present. In
the evening the perfection of the facili-
ties for lighting was manifest, the
numerous electric lights making the
large auditorium as bright as day. Mr..
Keigwin made few remarks, in which
he thanked DIR. Hulburd and Grace
Church for courtesies shown during the
summer, paid a glowing tribute to the
women of his own church, by whose
aid much of the outlay in renovation was
provided for, and referred TO the indie
fatigablc efforts of Mr., Crossan in the
management Of the work accomplished.
DIR. Hulburd preached the evening
sermon from | John III, 2. Science,
he said, is and must be dogmatic. Given
an ascertained fact it and not the con-
trary must be true. Science, falsely So
called, objects TO science in religion,
saying that it deals in the hypothetical.
II reasons from real to unreal; il tries to
tell what substances are and what com
pose the sun; it takes few facts and
says if this be true then that must be
true, and that is what Christianity does.
as in this text. There are some things
we know and some we don'tknow. The
more man knows the more he knows
his limitations. In order to know any
thing thoroughly we must know its
superfices, its solid contents and its
possibilities. Now man might as we'll
assume that he knows all English lItera-
ture because he knows its alphabet,
or assume to know all music
because he understands eight notes, nut
in those eight notes are all possibilities.
They may express jubilate or misere.
So we say that things have not re-
vealed all that Is in them. Domain of
nature does not reveal what its
possibilities are. You hold in your
hand bulb. II does not appear
what is in it. You place it in water
among ooze and slime and it does moi
appear, but at last it floats broad leai
and then eucharistic lily with golden
heart OF truth. The Guild lies there
helpless. It's only beauty is to it;
mother, but by and bye comes intelli
gence and, as years 20 on, morality
II would be prescience to tell what boy
would become for good or for evil
Men may and have gone from parsonage
to perdlion and from purlieus of vice
whlte-robed to the skies. There is mucl
in this world we do not understand
Two laws have been demonstrated
within few years the indestructibilitI
of matter and the imperishability o
force. There may be a working tore,
that will determine a moral life. W.
have no feelings or analogies to tell u
of that life No one ever returned bu
One. He made no reply but in the in
tuitiye warnings of heart. The yer,
fact that we have known and demon
strated the fact that we could not under
stand but shows our limitations.
When there can be borne into humaI
i, spirit the fact that we arc sons Of God
he continued, We turn from lowe
things, 1t would seem from this know
face we could better bear the ills Of life
Thought idealizes manhood, We some
times have contempt for certain STRAIT
of society. If we came to the Tealizatio
that every person is child Of God, "
could not see face, however repulsiy,
but what we would think he is God
son. and every other son of God shoul
recognize him as a friend and brothc
We IRE to be like God, the acme of gu
desire, not in human attributes, not
wisdom that upholds all known Law
nor in comprehension OF the sphere
hui in love, purity and gentleness. i
he heavenly is to be Christlike and to
Christlike is to be heavenly, and porto
of heaven here will be as we live wit
Christ, "a man is known by the con
pany he keeps" and by parity of reaso
goes with any class and little by lit
becomes like them and this is the thougl
of the text. Little by little we becon
like Christ. This revelation likens
every part the perfect ability OF OF
nature. The greatest infdel OF the la
two centuries said 1t would "take