The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-01-04
NEW PASTOR WELCOMED
4 NOTABLE DAY AT THE FIRST BAP-
 IISTCHURCH.

Rev. Addison Moore Greeted by Large
 Audiences-special nIusic-Eloquent Dis
 courses-Motto Sermon for New Year
 Generous Reception to the Pastor.
 Yesterday was a great day for the First Baptist church. Despite the dis agreeable weather a very large audi ence greeted the new pastor, Rev. Ad- dison Moore. The chorus choir and male quartet rendered some excellent music. The pastor was most cordially welcomed by the people. After the benediction they came streaming up to the pulpit and for half an hour ten dered the reverend gentleman a most hearty ovation.
 Both church and pastor have made most creditable records. The First Baptist church is the oldest of that de- nomination in the city. At present it has a membership of 600 and is in a flourishing condition. During the past twenty-five years, said a member of the church, it has built no less than six different churches in this city.
 The Rev Addison Moore, who commenced his pastorate yesterday has also an honorable record. He was born in New York city in 1868, being only twenty years of age, and Is a son of the late Rev. Dr. Halsey Moore, a we'll known and honored clergyman of his denomination, having been for many years secretary of the Baptist Home Missionary society. MT. Moore received his education at Hamilton and Columbia colleges. His first charge was in St. Louis, where he remained three years. During that time he or ganized and brought to a prosperous development the Immanuel Baptist church of that city. Previous to his call to New Haven MT. Moore was pastor of the Park avenue Baptist church of St. Paul, where he was emi- nently successful leaving a host of friends there. Mrs. Moore, the wife of the pastor, is the daughter of the well known late Dr. l.. J. Matterson of Troy, N. Y. MT. Moore speaks entirely with out notes, his diction is clear and pre- else, and his periods at times rise to strains of lofty eloquence. No one in tllt dodAClfOC yCSlCl0oy StllllC eWeIy without being impressed with the earnestness of the speaker, and the sig nificance of his message.
 The subject of MT Moore's morning sermon, his first as pastor of the church, was Our Motto for 1597." He spoke in part as follows: "The text of the morning is found in Ex. 14:15. The latter part of the verse, Speak unto the children of Israel that they go forward Only very briefly can I dwell upon these words this morning
 That they go forward is a good motto both for to-day, the first Sun day of new year, and for the church. The children of Israel shrank from the danger ahead, and longed for the flesh pots of Egypt, but they could not go back; that was Impossible; they could not stand still, the evening was upon them; nor did they know what to do until God said Go forward.
 Tt is a natural law this law of prog ress, that all must move forward. The child playing with his top knows this. It is seen in the parable of the pounds. The men there spoken of are types of mankind. Take therefore the talent from Him. He who does not use his gifts loses them. Use or lose is the great inf1exible law of the physical moral and spiritual world.
 50 to-day we hear the voice of des- tiny calling us. Mountains, indeed, lie before us; the shadows indeed shall reach us. There is eternal ease in the Elysian fields. But we have many a valley to cross, many a hill to climb, before we reach them, and every year must find us further along. If not it will find US in the very death throes of stagnation itself. But we are to for get the past and to be urged on by those motives that must thrill every heart the motives of a life entirely consecrated to Christ-that we may press forward triumphing over the past and glorying In the promised vic- tory.
 Our hearts would be cold indeed if they were not touched by the learning, the devotion, the piety of those noble men who have preached the word from this pulpit in the past, and as I stand in the place where these stood, l feel my need of your consecrated help. If am to grow, will it not be because your hearts are growing, that you are pouring the treasurers of your hearts into my heart, because your prayers are being blended with mine. So the voice of destiny is calling us as it did centuries since the children of Israeli but we have more than they. We have also the voice of Revelation. This has become the foundation of all our Christian faith. We are not called to go alone We have the Masters prom ise. To, I am with you alway, even until the end of the ages which comes ringing to our ears. This voice of Revelation is not always present; only do we hear it as we catch the glow of the Divine Spirit.
 Travellers tell us that in Germany the wires do not run overhead, but are placed under ground, and in the little stations by the wayside you may hear them ticking busily away. So with Gods Revelation, we wait for it day by day. He dies not speak to us as He did in the days long ago. But at last we come to some lonely place, and He does speak to us, and then we store up in our hearts the treasures of His voice, as most precious to our memories.
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