Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-09-17
SOME PULPIT THEMES.
Large Congregations Fflled the varf-
Gus City Churches Yesterday.

Largo congregations ftlled the tarfs
Gus City Churches Yesterday.
Yesterday there were larga-sized congre-
cations at many of the local churches
showing that the people who have been
away for the summer are beginning to
come back In considerable numbers. At
several OF the large churches, too, the sery.
Ices OF the day were made unusually inter.
esting by the presence of the regular pas.
tors who have returned from their sum-
yer vacations. ready to take up the work
OF the winter with renewed energy.
The service at the Metropolitan NJ. T.
Church was one of welcome to Rev. Hugh
Johnston on his return from Toronto, Can,
ada, where he has but recently recovered
from long illness of typhoid fever Tho
pulpit and chancel of the church were
adorned with floral decorations placed
there by the ladies. The organist opened
the exercises with Home, Sweet Home"
as a voluntary. and the services were smta-
pie ana appropriate. Several Methodist
clergymen We're present among whom
Mere Bishop John +. Hurst Rev. ]. IL.
McSarty. who has been the acting pastor
curing the summer; Rev DR. Beiler, vice
chahceiior OF the new American University,
and others.
DIR. Johnston took his text from Reveals
tons, There shall be no night there %
FROM this theme DIR. Johnston dwelt umon
the darkness which SC often enshrouds us
IN life, speaking feelingiy of the sorrow
that had come to him In the death of his
mother. and comparing the sadness of
earth with the joys of heaven, where He
doeth all things we'll"
Rev: A. @. Rogers returned yesterday to
the Church of Our Father, at the corner
OF 18th and l. streets. after six weeks Of
recreation In Vermont and Massachusetts,
and took up the work of another year with
morning sermon on For what PURPOSE
do We exist" His plea was that the prov.
ince OF the church Is 10 educate as well
as to save the soul. Ii was also defined
as the continued revelation of Godf
thought, the institution whose proper func-
ton Is to move people Christward. The
text was taken from the first verse of the
sixth chapter of Hebrew. in which Paul
says; Therefore leaving the principles of
the doctrine Of Christ let go on onto
perfection"
Rev. DIR. stakely of the First Baptist
Church corner of 10th and % streets,
preached for the first time since his re-
months i'm the United States and Europe.
His subject yesterday was The joy of the
Christian life" There is no other life &c
be compared to this, he said. All else IL
mere mockery. We may think we are en-
joying ourselves in our worldly pleasures
but when we enter into the fun statue OF Q
Christian our mistake is easily discovered
The worldly man delights In his riches and
thinks only Of means to increase his
wealth and power The Christian Joys IN
the service Of Gods kingdom and knows
IL
him crown of righteousness.
Rev. L. Hez Sven, pastor OF the Second
Baptist Church, at the corner Of 4th and
Virginia avenue southeast, took his evening
text from st. Lukes account of Peters
denial Of Christ. as told in chapter xii Sc
HE sat in the light OF the fire." After
announcing his text the minister told q
story of a Washington young man who was
habitually frugal and saving, but who I'm
an evil hour began betting on the races
and lost all his savings. When he told the
young lady TO whom he was engaged she
only said. I'm glad of IT." That was a
sensible young woman" said Pastor Sven.
she realized that the loss was the best
thing that could have come to him, and
that out of this loss would come a deter
mination to keep away from the races. and
to eschew gambling" From this the
preacher drew the lesson OF the evening
that success in spiritual as well as in
human life often has its origin In seem
ing failure.
The Owens-Breckinridge election and ths
nc raj to be deduced therefrom formed the
subject of the discourse delivered instead Of
the regular sermon yesterday morning by
Rev. DIR. Brown at the Foundry NJ. Z
Church. He expressed his heartfelt pleas
ure at the fact that the result of this con-
test was a powerful rebuke to fragrant
immortality.
II believe America TO be Gods last ex-
pertinent with the race to lift humanity up
to the tablelands of universal freedom. and
America leads so shall the world find
its destiny" said DIR. Easton. pastor of
the Eastern Presbyterian Church I'm an
able discourse delivered before a large au-
dfence yesterday morning. Or. Easton's
theme vas THE valley of weeping" and
the text selected was the sixth verse of the
eighty-fourth Psalm: who, passing
through the valley of Baca, make II a
we'll" In the course of his discourse he
said: Europe is building her monuments
of progress of learning and social reform.
while our own America is trying TO carry
UP the beautiful walls of the fair temple
of liberty and religion, in which oil men
shall be one-an free. To the American
church is committed the obligation to
hasten the millennium. and as her agrees
sve type of piety spreads or is trammeled.
so shall Christ, sooner or later. see of the
travail of his soul in a world redeemed"