Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-09-15
TWO FINE SERMONS.
DIR. HOGE AND BISHOP VAN DE
vyvER PREACHED SUNDAY.
BOTH JUST BACK FROM EUROPE
Increased Attendance mt all the
Churches-Rcports of the sunday
school Associstions-A Failing on
I'm August-GenernI Religious Notes.

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pastor Of the Second Presbyterian church.
who has just returned from a European
tour. occupied his pulpit Sunday morn
ing. The church was filled, and the ser
mon was instructive and eloquent.
Before beginning his discourse DR.. Hoge
expressed his gratitude at being safely
back from his summer trip abroad. and
prayed that his pastoral efforts during
the coming season would be greatly
blessed. He also alluded I'm graceful
terms to the able ministers who had &C.
cupied his pulpit during his absence.
| DR.. Hoge was the picture of health.
and never. perhaps, did he preach with
greater fervor. He gave a vigorous.
Pauline discourse, dwelling on the pas
sionate desire of the converted Saul 10
deliver Christ's message in the city of
Rome. and showing how all Christians
/ should be filed with the determination
to speak for Christ and live for Christ,
as Paul did.
In the afternoon DIR. Hoge delivered in
his best style a discourse scholarly
poetic suggestive and edifying. on Greece
! and Palestine i'm which he pointed out
in a most convincing way the truth OF
| God-revealed religion, and the transcend
| emf beauty and force OF Christianity, as
compared with the subtle intellectual
force of the Greek philosophy and civil
! lization The preacher did not under
| rate the value in the intellectual realm
of the philosophers. poets. and artists
of Greece. He only showed how much
greater was the beauty of holiness and
how much sublimer and more abiding
was the religion of the Hebrews and OF
I Christianity than anything found in Hell
| lenistic thought. This sermon was IN
deed an exquisitely fine answer to the
little skeptics and the jejune critics OF
the Christian religion.
Another beautiful and eloquent SER
mon delivered here on Sunday morning
was that Of Bishop A. Van de NyVer. OF
! this Catholic diocese. who, like Dr. Hoge'
has lust returned from abroad. ST. Peter $
| Cathedral was packed to the doors at ~
mass. and the service was most interest
| ing and impressive throughout. Bishop
van de wives only incidentally referred
10 his trip on the Continent His sub
| iect was from the Gospel of the Day ana
the theme was 1.-THE Mother OF God.
/ To This gentle woman the Bishop paid
| tho highest tributes He said that some
men argued that too much honor was
accorded the Immaculate Mary, but ne
said that this could not be done. lie
| took the ground that. inasmuch as the
| Father had so honored this good woman
we could afford to pay her homage, also
| risbon Van de Vyver said that during
the past summer he had the pleasure
J and honor Of celebrating mass at Lourdes'
| where congregate the lame. the SICK
and the halt. and could not help then
thinking of his loved ones in Richmond.
He said he then offered a prayer that
he might find those at home upon his
return well and happy, spiritually as
! well as physically
Nulard's mass was well rendered by
the choir. Next Sunday Stearns's beau
| tiful mass will be sung for the FIRST time
al the Cathedral The choir will be aug
! mented by several new members.
At the Sacred Heart church high mass
was celebrated by Rev. Father OReiily'
and the sermon was preached by rev
! Father Carne The choir rendered Fiske
mass I'm an artistic manner.
Next Wednesday. Friday, and Saturday
| are fredericksburg days or oDhga-
ton.
The boys and girls Of the Cathedral
|
| will go TO confession-the boys this morn
| ing at 9 o'clock. and the girls tomorrow
| AT the same hour; and those OF the Sa-
/ cred Heart church will go on TUESDAY
| afternoon at $3.50 o'clock.
The Young Ladies' League of the Sa-
| cred Heart will receive holy communion
| in a body Sunday at the Sacred Heart
church at the o'clock mass
MEETING OF SUNDAY SCHOOL ASsO-
CITATION.
The monthly meeting OF the Baptist
| Sunday School Association Of Richmond
and Manchester was held Sunday after
| noon at Grove-Avenue church. In the
| absence of the president Mr.. r. w. Pow
ers. second vice-president occupied the
chair The attendance reported for Au-
gust. shown in the appended table is,
as usual Tor that month, very small, the
total average being 1886.
Rev. John b. Turpn, formerly of Char
lottesville. now of Georgia, made an in
teresting address, recalling many former
memories of the earlier days OF the asso-
citation. misunderstanding Barton. OF
the Foreign Mission Board, made short
but inspiring talk about Sunday-school
work.
AZ resolution. adopted by the East-End
school condemning Sunday excursions,
was read.
The association adjourned. to meet on
the second Sunday in October. with the
Emmanuel church.
FIGURES IN DETAIL.
! Below is given a table containing the
statistics Of the several schools for the
month of August;