The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-14
Each Candidate Urged to Be
Ever Ready to Spread
the Word.
DEAD BRETHREN EULoGIzED.
Memorial Service in Honor of Two
Whose Work for the Cause
Is Ended.

PACIFIC GROVE, CAL, Sept. 13.-The
Sabbath here was one long day of praise.
Methodists and Methodism have not had
| such season of religious uplifting during
the conference as they had to-day. The
Sabbath is usually great day at confer
ence, and this was no exception. For
sc rely an hour from 6 o'clock in the
morning, when there was a prayer-meet-
ing, to 10 O'clock tonight was the church
without meeting of some kind.
The largest congregations of the week
assembled at the conference love feast at
O'Clock, and to hear the Bishops sermon
at IL o'clock. The love feast had all the
feryor of the pentecostal meetings that
have been held late every afternoon. The
testimonials to the love and saving power
of Christ came as rapidly as the leader,
Rev. DR.. Case, could recognize the wit
nesses for Jesus. Many remained standing
on their feet for many minutes in order to
be recognized. Songs were sung and
prayers, eloquent with feeling, were lifted
to the great white throne.
When Bishop Foss appeared on the plat
form few more worshipers crowded into
the gallery and those who stood we're
pushed further down the aises by new
corners. Chairs from neigh boring houses
were brought in and set in the alsles. Rev.
DIR. Eli McClish, president of the Univer-
sity OF the Pacific, made the opening
| prayer. There was a hymn and Bishop
FoSs read scripture lessons from Psalm G
and Hebrews [. Following a hymn the
Bishop announced his text:
| Jesus asked them saying What think We of
Christ? Whose son is he?-Matthew, xxi :4I-42.
| The sermon was devoted to proving that
| Christ really lived on earth, that he was
divine and that he has power to save men.
1t was frequently interspersed with such
] fervent amens as come only from Metho.
dist audience. 1t was powerful and very
| interesting sermon.
I'm the day of Judgment" said the
Bishop, ''it will be found that every mans
| destiny will be determined by his relation
to Jesus Christ. So men are inquirine
about him and asking: Whose son t. heP
His name, l ask you, what think we of
| ChristT'
The Bishop showed from profane his
tory-from Tacitus' and Gibbons accounts
OF the burning of Rome by Nero and the
killing Of the Christians-that such a man
as Jesus did live, and only thirty-fve
| years before, and that pagan history as
well as sacred hooks proved it.
Christianity is, he said, sand the
question is; What do you propose to do
|
l reverently say I've talked with him this
morning. Oh, come to the Lord to-day"
| "All Hail the Power of Jesus Name"
was the closing hymn, sung with a vol
ume that welled out the windows and
foated far down the grove to the shore of
tn sea-. The Bishop pronounced the
benediction.
AT 3 o'clock in the afternoon the most
impressive service of the day was held 1t
was the ordination of young ministers as
elders and deacons. Tnose to he ordained
as deacons were Revs. L. NJ Burwell. N.
A. Kennedy, w. N. Marshall, E. b. Win
ming, John ]. Pardee; as elders-Revs.
George W. Beatty, Il. f. Briggs, G. Nj.
| Richmond, w. T. Kurnow, Joseph Lone
Z. h. Jenness, Tokutaro Nakamura.
Secretary A. II. Needham, Presiding FL
| der Willis, Rev. MesSrs. Pettis, Harris
Briggs, Gober and Clifford assisted Bishop
Foss. The elders stood on the right hand
and the deacons on the left. The bisnop
read from the Discipline and the classes
answered, reading from the Discipline.
| The bishop stated that the members of the
classes had been lawfully called, and then
| asked in an i'm pressive voice II there was
| one present who had aught to say against
| them. A hush as still as a church at MID.
night Tell on the congregation; not voice
was heard. The bishop then laid his
hands on the head of each candidate and
! blessed him, and told him to be ever ready
to spread tie word of God Some of the
! ministers assisted the bishop in the laying
on of hands.
The bishop finally pronounced bene-
die ion upon them Gin the name of the
Father, Son and Holy Ghost" Then fol-
lowed memorial service, in which eulo-
gles In honor of the memory of two min
listers ol the conference who had died
during the year were pronounced.
Rev. w. Il. Gober delivered q memorial