The evening times., 1895-08-12
FROM THE CITY PULpITS
Doctrines and Topics Touched Upon
in Many Churches.
Rev. Adolos Allen On the beginning
OF All Things-Rcv. DIR. HOge On
Creeds and Principles.

Services at the First Presbyterian Church
were last evening con Quoted by Rev Adolns
Allen, who will during the remainder of
this month and September deliver series
Of short sermons On topics selected from
the book of Genesis. His opening subject
was the first verse in the Bibie-"In the
beginning God created the heaven and
the earth"
DR.. Allen said that a belief in the exist
ence OF IA God is the inherent conviction
OF every human being, be he Christian
or pagan. He expounded religion as based
upon a true conception OF God aud His
relations to the race.
Charles Bell Tsoong, a native China
man, last evening preached at the Mount
Vernon II. E. Church, discussing Chinese
customs and missions. He is now taking
a course at the divinity school in Oxford,
Ga. and will. upon the completion Of his
education, return to his own country and
engage in religious work.
Dr. Tsoong uses good English, and ex-
pressed his belief that the habit of tight
lacing is equally barbarous with the Gus
tom OF dwafiDg the feet. After cumpar-
two countries, he devoted the remainder
OF his discourse to the necessity for mis-
sion work in China.
He said the war recently terminated had
opened up way for evangelical Iabors,
and an excellent opportunity now exists
for sprea ding the Gospel
At the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church
yess rday morning Rev. s. Geriah Lam
kins preached n sermon in which he COM
pared the Jewish and negro races. dcscrib-
ing the slavery of each and their liberia
ton by an eXcmplification nf Gods JUS
tice
Referring to the killing of young Greene
by Miss Flagler, he said that without any
reference to the action of the grand jury
the community as whole must sympathize
with both families.
The pulpit OF the New York Avenue
Presbyterian Church was for the second
time filled yesterday morning by Rev.
Moses ID. Hogc, of Richmond, Va He
read as his text. whom do men say that
!, the Son of Man, ,am?'-Matthew, 1913.
man without n creed, said DR.. Hoge,
5 man without a principle. Men often
have prices on themselves, and the devil
an always have such II he will pay for
them.
1t is n wrong doctrine, he continued. that
the end Justifies the means. Sincerity is
not the only essential. said he. 1t is the
duty of every one 10 find ont the truth There
are certain primary things in religion and
law obligatory upon men TO find out. God
will not permit men to substitute imag-
lnings for his great truths.
Rev. William L. Austen, pastor of the
Church of the Covenant, Baltimore, preach
ed at Gunton Temple Memorial Church yes
Ierday morning For now we see through
a glass darkly; but then face to face"
were the words of the text.
The speaker drew an apt Illustration Of |
is text by saying that when a person |
ooks only at the back of a piece of tapestry
lie sees a mass of colored threads woven in |
but when he views the other side |
he same threads present the beautiful |
picture perfect in details. 1t is the same
With human lives, he said, where man sees |
hings as through glass darkly, but the |
ord saw the right as well as the wrong side |
mans life.
Rev. E. Olin Eldridge, pastor of Waugh |
hurch, preached yesterday morning from /
he text, II create the fruit of the lips: |
eace, peace"
Peace" said the pastor, ais the most
ragrant Of all flowers that grow on the
hristian stem. II the soul is nnsancti.
ed by Divine grace, 1t produces mischief |
nd trouble. When the heart is closed
le tongue is a raging fire. The lips, too,
item produce the fruit of uncharitable
Never is a sky 30 dark but more than
ne sky can be discovered. Anxiety,
hich clouds the present with forebodings
bout the future, is not born of God"
Rev. DR.. Clarkson B. Gillette, OF I'LL.
,is, preached at Guriey Memorial Church,
, Florida avenue near Sixth street, yes.
rday morning.
DR.. Gillette, for his sermon, took the
xt, Christ hath redeemed us from the
lrse of the law" and handled it in a very |
oquent and able manner. He said dur
g his discourse that st. Paul, from whom
g text was taken, considered the Jew
being the curec of the unwritten laws
God, and that Christ read the laws as
ey were written on the heart of man, and |
ese were found everywhere, for it is