Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-28
STRIFE AND FERMENT
Mark the Progress Toward the Golden
Age, Says Rev. DIR. Newman.

AYE, Says Rev. DIR. Newman.
The services at the First Congregational
Church. corner 10th and G streets north
west, were of n highly interesting char
acter. The congregation OF the Mt Pleas
ant Congregational Church worshiped in
this edifice today, ard their pastor, the
Rev. r. Ross Fishburn, assisted Rev. DR..
Newman. A choir Of forty voices added to
the interest of the occasion by rendering a
service of song
Rev. Mr.. Fishburr delivered the opening
prayer, and in the course of il invoked a
blessing upon those urfortunates who are
spending their ThankSgiv day in prison
and upon those who dwell in shame, and
at whom heartless world points the finger
of scorn.' Mr.. F!shburns prayer was
rendered more practical by taking up a
collection from the large congregation for
the Hope and Help Mission and for the
Woman's Christian Associa ton.
Rev. DIR. Newman preached the sermon
of the day, taking his text from the last
four verses of the 9Gth Psalm. He said
careful reading Of the Psalm would add
Gstirctress 20 1t and i'll measure give
the reader a new outlook for life bringing
into view the time when all interests
among the nations Of the world and the
different pursuits of life shall be harmon
lied. He referred to this time rs the golden
age, when no lire Of action shall feel like
thrusting out any other line, when the
earth shall be a fair field for all, with a
realization that equity is dominant, when
the interests of heaven and earth shall be
harmonized, when heaven shall praise God
and the earth shall respond to it.
He asked the attention of his audience
to this new age of a search for higher
unity, of an attempt to coordinate and mar
monte the elements of life. He said that
to some people the chief element of life to-
day is one of strife and ferment. All who
feel this way think that because of it hu
manity is going to pieces and to them the
stress of life IS great. They are wrong. This
ferrnent is but the sign of an attempt in
quckened humanity to coordinate, to reach
out gropingiy for the golden age:
He said the relationships of life are the
highest and last things to be understood.
When the relationship between some force
and the thing about which ii plays is I'M
derstood, the finder is so much more en-
alted as to go further toward the better
handling of the subject. The conditions of
life which settle the relationship of things
will make the twentieth century more beau
tiful in all its prospects. DIR. Newman pro-
posed to question the age and ascertain II
the world were not passing out OF the old
period and into the new one. Beginning with
the question of education he said that twen-
ty-five years ago it was difficult to find
school or college in which the study OF the
classics was put into lesser Importance.
Now, however, institution after institution
is going to work upon the group system,
where pupils can be broadened by taking
some particular aspect of science, modern
languages or humanity. The keynote Of
this combination, he said, is coordination,
not exclusion.
In the world of nations it can be renem-
bered that arbitration was word of little
import. There was a general idea that it
could never be utilized. Propositions to adj
vance it were received with doubt. and
now it is thought that the world is to be
ultimately adjusted in its Internationally
by arbitration. He cited as a particular
ard highly commendabie instance of this
prospect the fact that one of Americas
great men, Gen. John w. Foster, was called
upon to go to the orient and assist in SET
ting, by species of arbitration, the diff
culties of two contending nations. He said
the growth of the spirit of equity indicates
that the world has reached the tiue WHEN
nations that raised a note of self-assran-
dizement will go to the wall, pushed there
by public opinion. He said that evolution
in science is merely an effort of the world
to bring everything into glorious unity.