The Washington times., 1894-11-12
BREAKS The TIES OF YEARS
Rev. DR.. Bartlett breaches His Fare
well Sermon to His Flock.
MANY AFFECTED TO TEARS
In No Other City, he Says Are the Lessons Of
Patriotism and Religion Embodied in
statuesque Form as They Are in Washing
ton-Glory Of the Republic in Stone.

The farewell sermon of DR.. Bartlett yester-
day morning to his flock of the New York
Avenue Presbyterian Church. the pastorate
of which he has held for twelve and a-half
years, included not only an exceedingly
touching expression of his feelings, but a
beautiful treatment of the text from Corin-
thians: ''Your heart shall live forever
There was an immense crowd in the church,
galleries, aisles, and pews being filled to over
flowing, while many stood in the vestibule
and hundreds went away, failing to find even
standing room at any place.
DR.. Bartlett began by showing the great
desire of the human heart to be remembered
by those with whom it has been associated,
and especially the intense longing of men of
feeling, poets, and painters to be immortal
among their fellow-men.
Christianity takes hold of this sentiment
among men and uses it as an argument for
the Immortality of the soul. Christ, Himself,
saws: do this in remembrance of Me;'' and
it's written that 'this shall be told OF Martha"
This desire, springing from eternal love, is
the flower and fruit of Christianity. 1t is the
higher mathematics based on the minor rules
OF addition, subtraction, and multiplication,
of it comes the desire for leaders to benefit
the masses, for true craftsmanship means the
betterment of the people. Napoleon SAID that
Xerxes, Charlemagne, and Alexander had
founded kingdoms on force, but that the
Kingdom of Christ was based or love.
Dr. Bartlett thanked God that he had been
called into q ministry in what he had labored
with all his zeal for thirty-seven years. Love,
for some reason or the other, has been re-
garded as something to be apologized for, but
why should that be when it is the quintessence
OF all faith, of ali righteousness. Without a
righteous God there could be no loving Saw
Jour There is nothing that can fill the place of
Christianity. 1t has been tried, but the sub
stitutes have not been fireproof. He quoted
Froudes eulogy of the stability and inherent
vital principle of Calvinism to show that it
had survived the storm and weaknesses of
the religious schools and discussions. 1t had
the backbone of truth and inspiration. Dr.
Bartlett closed this part of the sermon by
maintaining that the evil that exists in the
world was not justification for pessimism,
hnt the opportunity for an optimism founded
in love and charity
Referring to his associations here, he spoke
of the beauty of the city and the grand lesson
of patriotism and religion-for patriotism is
religlon-tanght in ''statuesque form" every
where in Washington. There was everywhere
in stone the story OF the glories of the Ameri-
can Republic He could never forget a city
and people with whom and in which ne had
labored so long, AS to the religious denomi-
nations. he thought they came nearer relig-
| ious unity here than elsewhere, and he had
| often thought how irresistible would be the
| form of the combination if they all deter