Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-07-23
S U N DAY S VICE S
Brief Mention of Some Utterances From
Washington Pulpits
Rev. DR.. Baldwin's Discourse on the
subject OF Faith-An Interesting
Address at the Y. NJ. c. A.

Rev. DR.. Charles w. Baldwin, pastor of
Wesley Methodist Episcopal Church,
preached last evening on the subject of
faith as shown by the people Of Israel in
Egypt and the life of Moses. During the
month OF July DIR. Baldwin has been giving
series of Illustrated talks at the Sunday
evening services. and last evening the
stereoptlcon was called into play to picture
the principal points in his discourse.
among the views were the figure Of Fl
mummy discovered a short time since and
loentined as king of the eighteenth dy-
nasty, Moses in the ark, Miriam guarding
MIN. two scenes representing Pharaoh's
daughter rescuing Moses, the Rosetta stone,
discovered in 1888; temple of Karnak, tenn
pie or Medinet Abou, avenue of the
small temple. large temple and a repre-
Sentatlon or the famous colossus that
weighed 300 tons. the foot of the colossus,
the interior of the great temple and inscrip-
tions on the temple of Pakkeh, in Nubia.
The last of this series of sermons will be
representative of the Passage of the Red
Sea, and will be delivered next Sunday
evening.
The Five Fine Arts Of Life.
There was an interesting address deliv-
cred yesterday afternoon in the Y. NJ. c. A.
lecture room by Rev. DR.. Francis A. Hor-
ton of Providence. r 1. He took for the
subject of his talk 1.-The Five Fine Arts of
Life" that conduce to happiness and con-
tentment on this earth. These he took to
be the art OF forgetting dtsagrceable things
ana looking always for the better, the art
of proper and sensible enjoyment, the art
OF preserving ones physical being so that
comfort and happiness are possible, the art
or speaking pleasant things that make
others happy and the art of expecting little,
SO that disappointment does not follow.
To Christian EndcuvOrers.
Rev George N. Luccock pastor-elect of
the Metropolitan Presbyterian Church,
preached an appropriate sermon yesterday
morning to the Young Peoples Society of
Christian Endeavor. Speaking from she
text, Who is He that looketh forth as the
morning. fair as the neon, clear as the
sun, and terrible as army with banners
DR.. LuccOck pictured the aims and achieve
ments of the Endeavorers.
The Gospel of Work.
The third of the series of lay discourses
at the Peoples Church was delivered yes
terday by Prof. w. J. MCGEE, who took for
his subject THE Gospel of Work" His
talk was in the form of an essay on the
WORKS of nature as represented in the hui
man race, the animal, vegetable ana min
eral kingdoms in the course of which he
showed that happiness is to be found in
work, that the worker is joyful at his task
ways less happy and often wretched. So
1t Is the lesson of human experience that
work makes happiness.
The Poems of the Nble.
Last evening DR.. Chas. A. Stahely Of the
First Baptist Church concluded a series of
gospel lectures on the poems of the Bible,
which has been running morning and even
ing for four successive Sundays. These
lectures have had for their aim to give a
general view of the poetic literature OF tie
scriptures, divided into eight distinct pc
RODS, as follows: The patrlarchal period,
the period of Moses and the judges, the
Davdic period. the period of solomon and
his contemporaries, that of the d.vidcd king
dom, the pre-exilic period, the period Of the
exile and the restoration, and the New
Testament period. Last evening the final
period was considered, the period OF the
exile and the restoration In. the history of
the Jewish people, which was treated in the
morning, was briefly reviewed, making
mention of the three prophets of the sew
enty years covering the exile These were
jeremiah. Ezekiel and Obadiah. This series
of gospel lectures by DIR. Stakely has had
the effect of greatly increasing interest in
biblical study among his congregation and
he has been asked to repeat the lectures
next winter.