The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-05-26
CALVARY CHURCH DEDICATION
The Building Consecrated to the
Worship of God.
DIR. r. 8. Henoon, of Chicago, Preached
the Dedication Sermon In the Pres
ence of q Very Large Audtence-The
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AT Calvary Baptist Church Sunday
morning the building was dedicated to
the work OF Almighty God.
The dedicatory sermon WAS preached
by Rev. p. s. Henson, D. D., Of tho
First Baptist Church, Chicago, Ill. The
church WAS filled to overhowing and
hundreds of people were turned away,
being unable to getin
DR.. Henson read as the morning scrip.
ture lesson the third chapter OF Pauls
second epistIe to Timothy. Rev. DR..
Broughton, the pastor of the church,
then delivered a touching prayer fitted
to the occasion, after which hymn No.
23l, "There Is Fountain Filled With
Blood" was sung. The chorus OF fifty
voices is worthy of mention. Calvary
Church has most excellent choir.
DR.. Henson preached most powerful
dedtcatory sermon which, for its depth
Of learning and wisdom, has hardly .
peer IN the whole realm Of theology. He
preached from the following text: Sec
ond Timothy, 3:16 and II, "All Scrip
ture Is given by inspiration of God, and
Ia prof table for doctrine, for reproof, for
correction, for instruction in righteous
ness, that the man of God may be per-
feet, thoroughly furnished unto all good
works."
In the course Of his remarks, he said:
Il esteem 1t very great pleasure to
be with you on this occasion and share
with you your joys and blessings. 1t
always gives me pleasure to come
back to Virginia. 1 never fail to get
heart warming. 1 always feel that
am with my own people. When ] am
with you 1 can scarcely believe that 1t
was 80 long ago that L lived in this
State, and 1 am glad to find 80 many
living that knew in the past, and just
before me see one referring to Prof.
Cooke, Of Hollins) whose pupil 1 was
when q student ut Richmond College
over Fifty years ago. trust that the
message may bring may be winged
by the Divine spirit and bring great
good to those who may hear 1t.
This is beautiful house and I am
glad to see 1t, but the house is not big
enough to preach about. No house Is.
have no idea of preaching about a
house. This house is built round about
book, which is to be the subject on
which 1 will talk. 1 do not propose to
try to prove to you that the Scriptures
are inspired. 1 am not talking to in
fidels or sceptics. l am talking to peo-
Nor will undertake to show how they
are inspired. 1 believe that these
Scriptures are so inspired that you can
take hold of them and swing off into
eternity without fear.
II propose TO speak of the book and
the building of character. It has been
said and ofttimes repeated. HE that
takes from me my good name robs me
OF that which ne'er enriches him, but
makes me poor indeed" There is not
word of truth In that saying. They
took that away from the best man who
ever lived, and yet the saying was not
virtually correct. You cannot make me
poor unless you bankrupt me in charac-
ter. 1t Is the only thing that will last
forever. Character will last as long as
there Is God. When everything else
Is wiped out OF existence character will
still live. Man is born with Q charac.
ter, but the trend of teaching is cast
the o.her way. We are taught that
every new borne babe is as spotless az
your white paper or PArlan marble. 1
deprecste the manner in which little
children are spoken of in Sunday
schools. as Christ's little lambs. 1t is