The morning times., 1896-07-13
STRANGERS IN THE PULP|Ts
Visiting Clergymen Yesterday
SupplantedLocal Pastors.
FEAST OF ELoQUENcE
Hardly n Congregation In the City
But Had a Divine of Distinction.
How They Were Assigned by
the Pulpit supply Committee-SOme
Eloquent DiscOurses.

prayed for. The great tents where TIE
convention is being held were almost de-
serted, but from every church earnest
Christian young people prayed and sang
while leaders in the army of Christ spokz
from every pulpit.
IL was day of physical rest and spir'
itual blessing. or the 10000 visitors in the
city few were on the streets, and none
except togo or come from places OF wor-
ship. A calm spirit OF rest and conse
| Grafton 20 the cause of Christ pervaded
the city and made an ideal sabbath Gay.
1t would seem that the world was very
near the universal brotherhood OF man,
when from far off India, Africa, Ceylon,
and from the continent of Europe men
| gathered under the banners of Christian
| Endeavor and, laying aside nationality,
| caste and denominational ties, Joined
bands in the work of establishing the
| Kingdom of Christ upon the earth.
EARLY PRAYER MEETINGS.
As early as $50 O'Clock in thirty-fouI
churches the young men OF Washington
led in prayer, prayer of Thanksgiving for
the great work accomplished during the
week just passed, OF supplication that
the blessings received should not be with
tian workers should be felt forever in
the city of Washington.
Following these prayer meetings came
the regular morning services. Here the
unIversality and inter r-denominational char.
acter OF the Christian Endeavor movement
was shown by the fact that the pupits
OF almost every church in the city were
occupied by ministers in attendance upon
the convention.
The Methodists and Episcopalians have
their own societies of young people work
ing along similar lines TO the Christian
Endcavor, but distinct and separate, but
in each of the twenty-one Methodist
churches and the Episcopalian churches,
clergymen OF the Christian Endeavor con-
Quoted the services.
Could the sermons delivered yesterday
be published entire it would make n re-
ligiouS publication that wouldbe invaluable.
But there were seventy-five OF these
meetings and no daily paper could contain
even the salient features of the services
rendered to the Most High i'll Washington
yesterday.
THE UNCONVENTIONAL RALLIES.
In the afternoon missionary rallies were
held. These were necessarily denomi-
national for the reason that each church
maintains its separate missionary organi-
zation and these meetings We're for their
benefit, but in one sense the demo minational
lines were ignored. The Christian church
missionary rally was hebd in the Grace
Baptist Church, the Cumberland Fresbytcr-
ian, the Gurley Memorial. the Free
Baptists in the Fifteenth Street Methodist
Church, the Friends in the Westminster
Church, the Mennonites in the Marvin
Methodist Episcopal Church.
The selection of ministers to conduct
the services in the various churches was
made with rare Judgment and not one was
chosen who was not a pulpit orator OF rare
! ability. All had large audiences and to
mention any one of the services without
the others would be invidious.
| Among the most prominent, however, In
| the Methodist CHURCHES were Rev. Edger.
ton R. Young, for forty years mission
ary in Upper Canada, who occupied the
pulpit at the Metropolitan NJ. E. Church
in the morning, and Rev. DR.. w. F. Wilson,
OF Toronto, who conducted the evening
services. They are men of international
fame, and their m essages from the work of
Christ in the far North were of the most
| eloquent character.
Rev DR.. II. o. Farrar, Of Albany n. Y,
| who delivered the morning sermon at the
Foundry NJ. E. Church, is one OF the best
| known pulpit orators in the United States
| anu man WutSe toHStCTdItu NE HdS
endeared him to Christians everywhere.
At Mount Vernon Place M E. Chufch
South Rev. A. d. Thacker, of Winston,
N. c., who would have arisen to the
| leadership in any profession he could have
chosen, charmed the congregation.
IN METHODIST PULPITs.
The Methodists were fortunate in their
| assignments. Rev. E. T. Root, OF Balti.
more, at st. Paul's; Rev. R. L. Dyott, New
ark, at Fifteenth Street; Rev. C. II. Craw-
ford. OF New Orleans, and Rev. John avile,
Of Appleton, Wis, at North Capitol; Rev
E. W. Thompson, OF Paterson, N j., at
Trinity; Rev. DR.. L. A. Bates, Westminster,
Nd, and Rev. DR.. w. H. Mcmillan, Alleg.
| heny, Pa, at Mckendree; Rev. d. Reid
Montreal, at Twelfth Street.
Rev DR.. T. Holmes Walker, Baltimore, at
Union; Rev. Charles Roads, Philadelphia
at Hamline; Rev. T. G. Langdale, Clark
South Dakota, at Wesley; Rev. DR.. N. B.
Grubb, Philadelphia, at Douglass Memorial;
Rev. Prentiss A. Canada, Albany, N. Y, at
Marion; Rev. j. w. Fifield, Chicago, al
Ryland; Rev. C. H. Rockey, Shepherdsto wn
Va, at Dunbarton Avenue; Rev. DR.. II. C.
| Mabie, Boston, and Rev. A. C. Bergen
Walton, Ill, at Epworth; Rev. Lewis Hal
| sey, Oswego. at Anacostia; Bishop B. w
Arnett, at Israel; Rev. James G. Mason
! Rochester, at Central, and Rev. Frank j
| Smith, Abingdon, ILL.,. at Gorsuch.
The far West and the South were repre-
sented at Assembly Presbyterian Church
| Rev. P. NJ. Fitzgerald, of Knoxville, ont
ofthemost noted pulpit torsinthe South
and Rev. DR.. Robert F. Coyle, of Oakland
| Cal, who fully sustained the reputation
| he has made throughout the country, con
| Quoting the services.
The First Presbyterian Church was packe
morning and evening and 1t would be some
thing new in their ministerial experiences
| il Rev. DR.. H. S. Williams, of Memphis
and Rev. George B. Stewart, of Harrisburg
Pa, failed to fill the benches.
AMONG THE PREsBYTERIANs.
| At West street the congregation had tht
pleasure of listening to Rev. J. B. Morgan
| of Chester, England, one OF the great
| divines, of Victoria Isle, and Rev. Ashel
Anderson, of Meriden, Conn.,, whose fam,
| is by no means confined to his own State
| The other ministersassigncdto Presbyterian
| churches were: Rev. William Bryant Detroit
at Garden Memorial; Rev. Vernon B. Car
| roll, Tcnafly N j., and Rev. B. c. Smith
Cincinnati, at Gurley Memorial; Rev. w
| E. Barton, Boston, at Fourth; Rev. Howard
II. Russell, Columbus, Ohio, and Rev. Viii
liam NJ. Graften, Des Moines, Iowa, a
| Western; Bishop w. ]. Gaines, Atlanta, a.
| Fifteenth Street.
Rev DR.. c. C. Work, Cincinnati, and
Rev. Charles A. Dickinson, Boston, at
Metropolitan; Rev. Wayland Hoyt, Phila
delphia, and Rev. B. Fay Mills, Port Ed
ward, N. Y, at New York Avenue; Rev
DR.. ]. z. Tyler, Cleveland, and Rev. Dr
Wayland Hoyt, Philadelphia, at Churcl
of the Covenant; Rev. W. F. McCauley
Toledo, and Rev. ]. W. Cox, Of Novt
Scotia at Peck Chapel.
Rev. A. ]. McGregor, Woodstock, ontari
at Westminster; Rev. Henry N. Grant
| charleston q at Central. Rov I A