The Washington times., 1894-09-09

Missionary Society officers are Miss Ella Stien-
metz, president; Miss Emma Teller, secretary,
and Mrs. DR.. Brumbaugh, treasurer. There is
also a Sunday-school Missionary Society, OF
which Mrs. L. p. Altschu is president; Mr.. G.
A. Stoy. secretary, and Miss Matte Duck,
treasurer.
In its membership the Foundry Church
numbers the following Senators and members
OF Congress: Senators Teller and Mills, and
Representatives Dockery, Sayles. Dolliver,
Fletcher, Richards, Hepburn, Farmer and
Moon. President and Mrs. Hayes attended
the church while in Washington, and an oil
portrait OF Mrs. Hayes, considered by the
family to be the bestin existence, hangs in the
church pArlors There is also there fine
portrait OF Henry Foxhall, the founder.
In membership the church has between 700
and 500, DR.. Brown in his less than three
years service having added 81 on probation
and 81 bv letter The church has no debt and
its sittings are free. the weekly envelope plan
and voluntary subscriptions being adopted.
The trustees Of the church are: W. L. Chand-
Ter, J. i. Clokey, T. A Harding, Z. H. King.
W. J. Libbey, A. VI. Lueth, y. II. Stenmetz
Hon. Hiram Price, and r. II. Willett. Mr..
Libbey recently contributed 1000 10 the
LucyWebb Hayes Deaconess' Training School,
on North Capitol street.
PASTORS VIEWS.
No better way TO close this brief description
Of the Foundry Church just after Dr. Browns
twenty-hfth anniversary in the ministry could
be suggested than TO give his views on the
work he is aiming at. he says:
'If the II. E. church is anything she is ag-
gressive. Aggressiveness has been and is her
chief characteristic. She was born with an ag-
gressive spirit and her whole policy seems TO
have been constructed for the manifestation OF
such q spirit. Her wOrld-trotting bishops and
missionary and educational agents; her rthous-
and and more presiding elders travelling over
as many districts all Oh the alert for new fields
and new enterprises and new work; her 90
600 active and energetic itineratiDg ministers
scattered over the face OF the whole earth and
her vast membership Of 1000. 900 of as wide
awake Christians as are TO be found on the
globe all together constitute one of the might
lest and most aggressive forces among
men. The VI. /. church has always
been the peoples church. Her doors have
always stood open wide TO all, and within her
told ali classes and conditions have found not
only welcome, but a congenial home. Her
characteristic methods of work in the con-
version OF men have been proven 10 be, IN
the long years of her history, quite as sue
cessiul as any other method (even the most
modern) employed in revival work Born in
a revival. she has always been a revival
church. For her TO cease to employ the
methods which have made her distinctiyely
revival church would be 10 fold her mightiest
arm Of power. The so-called forward move
ment' Is but a revival of the methods Of early
methodsm.
In the thorough organization of the young
people of Methodism in the Epworth League
another arm Of power has been laid bare,
which promises the most wonderful results in
the work Of the church. At present Method
ism is endeavoring 10 get little further into
the homes and little nearer the hearts of the
people, so that she may better understand
their needs and may better minister to them"