Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-09-10
IN THE CHURCHES,
Some of the Themes Discussed by City
Pastors Yesterday.


Pastors Yesterday.
Mr. James A. Dorritee, the head of the
Savannah Y. M. c. A, spoke yesterday
afternoon at the local association rooms on
the subject. 1.-The Reasons Men Do Not
Believe the Gospel" He said that a rejec-
ton of the gospel is equivalent to a rejec-
ton of Christ, and men reject Christ today
as they did when He was on earth, be-
cause He was too plain-spoken Then, Christ
had never been fashionable. Again, the
natural bent of mans mind is to the evil
and the Unborn sin blinds the eyes of man
to the beauty there is in God. The adj
dress closed with an earnest appeal to ac-
cept what there is In the Scriptures as an
evidence of the untold wealth behind them
Miss Ella Lawrenson sang Il Heard the
Voice of Jesus Say and What Will You
Do With Jesus?" Next Sunday Rev. j. H.
Mccarthy of New York will address the
young men, and on the following Sunday
Rev. w. w. Van Arsdale will be the
speaker.
II am sure that the King of Egypt will
not let you CO." were the words from E,X-
odus that were chosen by Rev. S. b. Wal
lace Of Israel Metropolitan c. NJ. E. Church
yesterday as text for a sermon on the
New Slavery in the South" This system,
he said, Is caused by the course given to
the law in that section in dealing with men
Of color who are charged with offenses 1t
has made criminals of a class of people
more on account of their color than be-
cause of their deeds. The main trouble is
tnat the coiored man in the south does no
more than was taught him by his master
during the period of actual slavery and he
is now reaping the terrible harvest The
government. said the speaker in concIu-
sion, should have emancipated the slave on
a basis which would enable him to defend
himself and become a free man in the true
sense Of the term.
Rev. Oliver A. Brown spoke yesterday at
Foundry Church on The Passing Show"
taking as his text the recent production at
a local theater of a performance of the
same name to illustrate the mutability and
uncertainty of life, the inevitable dissolu-
ton of all things physical, and the fact
that there is rest and safety only In the
foundation rock of Christianity. The min
lister alluded to the recent Coxey demon
stration as an example of the changing
shifting, uncertain nature of worldly things
DIR. Byron Sunderland yesterday contro-
verted the assertion of NJ. Zola the great
French novelist, that science is to be the
savior of the world. Science, said the pas
tor of the First Presbyterian Church. is an
enemy to religion, and has for centuries
sought to overthrow the Scriptures lola
has said that religious revivals indicate a.
moral disease. This, said DR.. Sunderland
is the most terrible of travesties upon re-
ligfon. 1t is an outcrop of the old Epi-
curean philosophy preached on Mars Hill.
Rev. Charles II. Small yesterday prea ched
his farewell sermon as pastor of the Mount
Pleasant congregational Church, closing
passionate OF elsnt years, IN order to go to
Hudson Ohio. He spoke of the relations
between st. Paul and the Church at Phil
irpi, which st. Paul had founded. There
was a strong parallel between that church
and the one the speaker was leaving. built
as 1t had been by means of great sacrifices
by a little band of true worshipers. He
urged his hearers, in the language of St
Paul, to prove themselves worthy disciples.
The congregation, he added, had grown in
his eight years of pastoral charge from
nineteen to IDS, and the future for the So
ciety is very bright. IF you want good
preaching" he admonished them, BE good
hearers. II you want faithful pastoral work
give cordial cooperation"