The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-04-27

Free Baptist Church last evening and
listened to very interesting discourse
by the Rev. II. A. Horton, whose subject
was "The Hand of.Christ." His opening
remark was that the office OF the head
creates the circuit OF sympathy of the
heart and hand. lie tnen told OF Ihe
many miracles that had been performed
by christ by healing the sick and raising
the dead, and that he was not satisfied TO
speak. but must place His hand on each
one that received His blessing while on
earth. He wanted to assist the body, Tor
a hungry body was not fit subject to re-
ceive religion. He wanted TO put HIS
hand ON and make the circuit. lie came
from heaven as representative OF a
Brotherhood. Not like the brotherhood
that you hear spoken OF nowadays. such
as we have in the church, the commun-
ic u and In life, Tor In business they grab
ca IN other by. the throat and lob as did
the Arabs.
FOR as Victor Hugo said, Jerk bone at
dog and give him great pain before
his dinner. That was not Gods way.
He wanted to put his hand on every man,
and II there Is no Brotherhood today,
there was a time when there was a man
that was brother to every man, and
that man was Christ. IL was not satis-
factory for Christ to say, be well. He had
TO put His hands OH. Christ would not
touch a man that was full OF the devil.
The human touch OF sympathy Is a
great thing. These organizers are the out
come of some human trouble. You are
all looking toward the future. When you
cannot swing the hammer, when you
see the grey hairs coming i'm your whisk-
ers, you see the day OF sickness coming
when your little mite is soon wasted,
and you see the day of death coming,
then we want someone to look out for
our loved ones. and God does not want
us to stand alone. We lcok to God for
relief, we look to the Fatherhood and
that is why there should be- q Brother
hood, for God has endowed us all with
that that should make us help each
other, and form a Brotherhood. The
church cannot do ali. 1 do not come out
in the cry against secret societies, and
what you have Ia the way OF secret So
cieties are all right. The church is higher
and cannot be secret, Ii woulu limit the
amountof good that the church is capa-
bic of dong, and is doing, and IL 1t
were not for the church you would have
no secret bodies. for the strong would
kill the weak. The church could not be
secret society, for it would be ham,
pered. as 1t could not reach all, but she
looks down and smiles on secret societies
such as yours. There are some people in
the world VINO as soon as you have pass
word,a grip and symbol on your regalia
say that its all wrong. Those people
are all wrong themselves.
Anybody that will stop the flow OF a
widows tears, tit child for man, Is
worthy OF any mans attention. When
your brother Is sick, care for him, when
he is dead, see that he is decently, buried,
comfort the widow and children ana see
that her insurance policy is paid her,
and paid promptly and see that no
sharper gets II under the pretence OF
giving her great returns; that is Christ
ianity. DO this gentlemen and you will
be blessed.
Grand Master A. j. Cushing, Deputy
Grand Master Henry o. Martin, Grand
Secretary Mosley, Grand Treasurer
stephen o. Randall. Grand Representa-
tive Peter j. Trumpler, Grand Rperesen-
tative-elect q. l.. Mackinnon and Grand
Marshall William ]. lansing were guests
of Roger Williams Lodge, who also in.
vited the other lodges 10 attend the SER
vice in honor OF the 77th anniversary of
the order,