Evening journal., 1895-05-28
ME ETHODISTCOLLECTION
Mass-meeting Last Night for
the Relief of Epworth.
RAISED $4,000 OF THB$la,5oo DEBT

stirring Speeches By Chief Justice Lore
and Dr. Merritt Hulburd-The Sacrifices
Of the Founders of Methodism on This
Peninsula.
Msthodsts in good standing in the
churches Of this city orowde into the
Auditorium last night until the big place
was packed to the doors and accom-
plished two-fold purpose, First. they
enjoyed an enthusiastic rally Of Meth
odiam and, further, they relieved debt
buTdened church OF the city OF sll
harsssing eneumbrsnces
Presiding Elder Il E Barrett called
the meeting TO order at 40 o'clock,
nominating Joseph Pyle for president
Mr. Pyle took the chair and Presiding
Elder l. E Barrett placed In nomination
the following additional officers who
were elected by a rousing vote: JOB H.
Jackson for Grace Church. Nj Lsitch
Asbury; A. M Pierce, Brandywine
Charles Beadenkopf, Goodman; Wilmer
V. Harris, East Lake; Rev John White,
Epworth Watson d. bsndermRn, Har
iison Street; John s. Miller. Mt
Salem; S. h Baynard. st. Paul's:
Lewis sutton Madeley George w Todd,
KingsWood, George W. Joseph, Union
Norris Gilmore. Wesley Joseph H. Coley,
Silverbrook; l.. T. Grubb Scott, and
Andrew Nelson for the Swedish Mission.
For secretaries, Professor II S. Goldey
and John White, Jr The vice-presiients
aud secretaries were invite to take seats
on the platform, where seated with Chair.
man Pyle were Chief Justice Charles B.
Lore, Revs. l. E Barrett, Merritt
Hulburd d. d.. l.. w Layfeld, j. d.
Hanna, Robert Watt. @ A Grice S NJ
Morgan, Asbury Burke aud w g Rooms
Henry F Pickles led the united choirs
and audience in singing Before
Jehovah's Awful Throne, and several
other Methodist hymns, upon 8 printed
program.
Presiding Elder Barrett offered
fervent prayer, mentioning especially
the presiding officer who had spent 50
many years Ia life consecrated to God
and OF the speaker Of the evening who
had 80 msnfully taken hold of this
breach in Methodism in the city, that
must be closed The audience sang
How Firm Foundation
They Called for the CHIEF Justice.
President Pyle saw Chief Justice l. & re
enter the building aud summoning him
to the platform, he introduced him as a
half Methodist but q good man The
chief justice did not want to speak, but
there we're shouts Of $50 on 90 onl"
and he said that no man could confront
an audienes like that without recogniz
ing that a great moral force was alive as
it was when Bishop simpson
spoke to General Grant and said: "The
Methodists Of the country are with
you
when l think that 100 years ago.
John Wesley organized a church that
has compassed this great land Of ours as
/ this has. and made it the great moral
force of to-day And In less than 100
years it has developed such magnificent
proportions as you see in the magnificent
/ churches of to-day like your Grace
Church at Ninth and West streets
when I was a little child | was
taught 10 worship a Methodist God and
at a Methodist altar Bat with all that,
our religion is not bounded by one
church
Il thank God to might for Methodism,
but thank him more for cry form OF
religion that elevstes the true God the
creator Of all things.
After a few congratulatory remarks
addressed to the choir and the chief
justice, DR. Hulburd said
Nothing inspires me more than to
L gaze out on @ solid half acre Of Metho
dists and hear their hearty amens. II
has been my privilege to preach the
I gospel in seven different states and more
conferences and everywhere l have
found the old-time zeal, established BY
our fathers
''It Is not mere fortuitous accident
that has emblazoned upoa this ticket Of
admission the face of Francis Asbury
When there landed upon these shores
this young Englishman there came Just
I precisely the man than whom no other
man has lived in the church possessing
the adequate and perfect mental and
1 physical equipment, and furnished with
something better--a determination to use
his poweIs for the prosecution Of Gods
work And God has blessed that work
Rs you see in this enthusiastic assemblage
There we're at least 175, 600 member:
OF the church In the civil war
nothing Of the congregations And there
Is no reason why, in this great patriot.
week, ia which comes Msmorial Day
there should not be Just such a meeting
So this. to night to celebrate the life OF suct
q man and founder as I have spoken Of.
This fertile Peninsula has been a most
favored soil. There are almost as many
MethOdists here tonight as Francis
Asbury met in his entire circuit when
the Methodist Church was organized il
Baltimore In 1894
Free worship In Free Country.
"a free gospel Oh, now wondrousl,
It fitted in with the very atmosphere Of
the country. Freedom was In the very
pulse of the country A free gospel in {
free land Aud beg You remember tina
th ere is nothing that saved this nstioI
from swinging off into French Deism and
Atheism after the Revolutionary wal
but Methodism Men were jealous o.
anything that had come from
England Here came this organ
ization, that had not fgured in thl
Revolution there is not much logic IL
charging q man with something he di,
before he was born-heraldlng this gos
pei OF truth up and down this Peninsula
and then shouting it forth throughou