The record-union., 1897-11-03
A GREAT DEMONSTRATION.
RECEPTION TO REV. r. J. JOHN
SON LAST NIGHT.
Westminster's Congregation Gives
q Hearty Welcome to Its
Pastor.

Al Spite OI the ram last AiiSAAS
was large gathering at the west
minister Presbyterian Church, the oc-
casion being a reception given TO HeV'
X. j. Johnson, the new pastor, ana 'ne
bringing of him into pleasant soclai r.
lations with the members OF the con-
gregatfon and others.
The church was tastefully decorated
with palms, potted plants and pro-
fusion of chysanthemums OF all coiors.
J. Henry Miller acted as master Oh
ceremonies, and Charles NJ. Camppeli
delivered the greeting of the memoels
of the church to their pastor lie Wouiu
be, he said, called upon to share IN their
joys and sorrows. He came in good
time, as the church needed leader.
He hoped he would marry many or
the young people and especially the oid
bachelors. He would find in the church
a number of live societies and organ
izations. They welcomed him to their
church. their homes and their hearts.
Rev. Mr. Sherman, for the Four
teenth-street Church, extended wei
come from the Pastors Union. He re-
called the clear-cut answer of the new
pastor at the time of his examination
danger that he would ever preach any
other Gospel than the one he then
avowed. He thought that the union
could help him, and hoped that he
could help it. Mathew Arnold had said
that if man is the head, that woman
is the crown, and he had heard that
Mrs. Johnson was soon to be crowned.
Mr. Johnson thanked them for this
reception, and thanked the church fer
the kind treatment it had given him.
He had never been so stirred in his
life as he had since he came to Sacra-
mento Every day he felt that hearts
We're beating more and more in accord
with him and his work. With such
hearts he was not afraid of the future
or that they would win in the conflict,
and he was proud of being called to
such a church. He did not believe that
there was an illiberal spirit among them.
Though they all estimated their church
as the best, they still extended the right
hand of fellowship to all that believed
in the same fundamental principles OF
religion. There is a great church out
side of denominations-that great in
visible church of God to which all
Christians belong. He thanked thera
and also the Pastors Union for their
kind welcome.
The preliminaries thus being ended.
the second part of the programme
came next. The assembly was ushered
down stairs into the lecture-room
THE wilderness blossoming like the
rose" is a common expression and
found its exemplification mere, for the
plain, ordinary rooms had become q
temple of beauty, palms, smilax, ivy
and flowers in profusion having COM
pletely changed its appearance. A
wealth Of floral ornamentation at the
hands of the Ladies' Committee had
wrought the transformation, aided by
the tables, loaded with the choicest
products of the culinary skill. The
ministers table was the central figure,
and the southwestern circuit preacher,
for whom the fattest chickens are al
ways saved, Jared not so well as his
conferes who We're marshalled to this
table. After appetite was satisfied the
toasts had their turn.
j. II. Liggett presided as toast
master, and announced that there were
eighteen ministers present and while
the announcement might appall them.
he would temper it with the statement
that each would be limited strictly to
three minutes and promptly called
down, an announcement that was
greeted with applause.
Rev. Chenoweth responded to the
toast, The Nineteenth Century" He
said that he saw written in the sky
Changes. changes There will he
direction of lifting up and elevating
the world. There will be great COM
mercial changes, and he felt that they
would be in the direction of co-opera-
tion. There viii be great social changes.
and the hand of the Almighty will be
over them
Rev. c. l.. Mel of st. Paups Church
responded TO Music and It's Relation
to the Church" He said it was not an
unusual thing for him to address a
Presbyterian assembly, for he had often
attended them. There were strong
bonds connecting him with the Presby-
terian Church, and especially with their
new pastor, with whom he had been
long and well acquainted He hoped
TO speak on music on later occasion.
Judge II. n. Mayhem spoke on From
Maine to California He said that
Maine had given California a lesson
on climates. 1t has a vigorous climate
and plenty Of it, and supplied New
York and the Eastern States with the
surplus. 1t is on account of its founda-
tions. 1t has another lesson for US.
Fifty years ago it had plenty of sa-
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