The Washington times., 1895-03-07
YOUNG BAPTISTS CONFER
Calvary Church Filled from All
the District Parishes.
REV. DIR. MARTHUR SPEAKS
Largest Meeting of the Kind Ever Held in
Washington-Chara and Consecrated
Young Men Mould the History of Nations
and Should Be Power in Christianity.

Young people from all the Bar tist churches
/ of the District. together with their seniors
! still young in spirit filed the pews of Cal
! vary Church last night in great mass-meet-
ing. On the platform were seated the pas
tors of the various churches, and the entire
assemblage was thoroughly permeated with
the Christian spirit.
] The services were opened with song
4 conducted by Mr.. Percy s. Foster Prayer
was offered by Rev. J. McH Naylor. Mr.. 2.
H. Bristow. as chairman of the meeting, in
troduced, although he said it was unneces-
sary, Rev. Samuel II. Greene, the pastor of
the church, who delivered brief address of
welcome He spoke OF the great growth of
interest in these meetings and said that there
were five times as many present as attended
the first associatIonal meeting of the young
I people.
+ DIR. M'ARTHUR's ADDRESS.
The Rev. DR.. Macarthur, of the Calvary
Baptist Church, OF New York. was then in
troGueed as the speaker of the evening. DR.
Macarthur said that he delighted to visit
Washington. as it was the Moscow and the
Mecca for every true American. He said
that he had no syml athy with Christians
who do not perform their duties as Amerie an
citizens because of their great piety. In
New York the time had been when those who
lived on the wealthy avenues neglected to
vote. but OF late there had been political
revival. and that condition had changed.
There has also been revival of Washing
tonism. The character of the father of his
country is more appreciated than ever be-
fore. Shortly alter his death his life was
idealized. Then came reaction when
( people realized that he was human being
with faults and foibles. Now the pendulum
/ of opinion has swung back, and his charac-
: ter is rightly understood. Time alone can
I give correct picture OF an historical per-
sonage.
] Culture does not mean the development of
! mind and body alone, character comp etes
the qualities which make The cultured man
or woman. The elements OF power grow
out of character. 1t was this that gave
Leonidas his power at ThermopaiB, Nelson
/ on the Nile, Wellington at Waterloo. and
Washington in the American revolution.
/ Before another generation can uass will be
seen wonders OF the kingdom OF nature and
! OF God that will cause the wonders OF the
! past to become as nothing. The teanto-
! graph, the long distance telephone, are but
! precursors of the wonders to come.
SCIENCE Is REVELATION.
| Charity is needed. Character is needed.
! Christ is needed. Science is revelation.
| There is no conflict between the two. When
! Oliver Wendell Holmes said that he was
! eighty years young not old, he struck the
right idea. All should be young. With the
! young people IS found enterprise
'Consecrated enterprise is what is needed
! in the churches. II We had such, said he,
| II would feel like singing the doxology. as
] the members of the stock exchange did in
/ New York when Congress adjourned
"Such is the progress oil science that II a
man were TO come III aud tell me he was go
! ing 10 the moon in some kind of a ship l
would not dare dispute him. Why, when it
was first stated that ship would cross the
/ Atlantic propelled by steam. it was demon
strated on paper that it was impossible, but
| a ship propelled by that power did cross and
J carried that demonstration with it.
( Tho young men are the living forces in
| history. Pitt, Bolingbroke, Alexander the
| Great, Raphael. ana Byron ali won their
| lanrels when they were young men. John
| the Baptist and the apostles did their work
while they were still young.
EACH NEEDS THE OTHER.
young men AMI women are needed for
active work, the old for counsel. Each needs
the other. As Baptist young people you
stand for Scriptural truths more than the
members of any other denomination. No
| denomination has right to exist merely to
perpetnate an ancient tradition. no matter
| how beautiful it may TO-
''BaptistS are consistent and Scriptural:
| Romanists are consistent. but are not Scrip
tural. The other churches are on a sliding
scale between the two. l believe" said DIR.
Macarthur. that the Baptist Church is the
true Catholic and Apostolic Church. Bap-
fists could never have a Briggs trial. The
form OF government would forbid. The
time will come when not Methodist. nor
Presbyterian, nor a Congregational Church
can be found without baptistry. The doc
trine OF baptism is palmer in the Bible than
that Of the divinity of Christ"
DR.. Macarthur then closed his address with
survey of the work done by leaders in the
Baptist Church.
The following pastors were seated on the
platform: S. ii. Greene, G. A. Stakely, Green
Clay Smith. C. G. Meador, r. r. West, A. F.
Anderson, W. S. o. Thomas, n. g. Nayur.
Theron Outwater, J. J. Muir. Hugh i.
Stevenson, George E. T. Stevenson, James
A. Larcomb, and George L. Truett
The exercises were concluded by singing
''Onward Christian Soldiers" and the bene-
diction pronounced by Rev. c. c. Meador.
The organist was Mrs. DR.. A. j. Brown.
At The conclusion of the services n reception
was held by DR.. Macarthur and the pastors
in tie chapel.
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