The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-08-09
CHESTNUT ST. CHURCH.

Rev. DR.. I'D. Pickles of fremont t.Church
Boston, Preached Yesterday-Dr Dunton
and His Coiored Quintette From Clafiin
| University.
| Yesterday afternoon Rev. DIR. J.D.
Pickles of the fremont street church.
Boston, preached at Chestnut street.church
yesterday afternoon. The doctor has a
fine, strong voice that penetrates easily
be heard with perfect distinctness. The
doctor took for his text the third and
fourth verses of the VIII Psalms: "When
1 consider the iheavens, the work of thy
| fingers, the moon and stars, which thou
hast ordained, what is man. that thou
art mindful of him and the son of man
that thou visiteth him pas man think
eth in his heart, SO is he, said the preach
er, and 1 am afraid our thoughts are not
as large as they ought to be. We are, for
| the most part, t 90 absorbed in the small
things of life, and consequently we are
limited in our imagination. If our
thoughts are narrow, our lives will be
narrow. They will not take in the scope
that belongs to them. In viewing a
work of art in order to fully appreciate
it we must have the right perspective.
The preacher then took Astronomy as
measure for, the full understanding of
the text. The old laws of Copernicus re-
main the same they were in his day, but
much has been added to them since.
How infinitesimal the world looked to
people when they compared it with the
other great orbs of the celestial system,
and yet God is as evident in the tiniest
leaf, the smallest drop of water,tsa in the
greatest and most complex features OF
the universe. David saw more in man
than in the greatest work in the heavens.
He knew that creation was but a series
of steps until man was reached, who
shall have dominion over the world.
| Man is supreme over nature, because in
| telligent. He reasons, he thinks and loves.
He communes with his God. Nature
| asks no questions. Man is continual
questioner. Man is the other part of God.
He claims the lightning of his bidding
he holds the ether in bonds and talks
from his Preside with friends across the
continents His affections creates hap
py family and finds it's way to the di.
vine being. Man is moral being and
holds unaccountability to God Man il
immortal; the theatre of this life is toe
small for his complete development
People of advanced age will tell you they
are just beginning to know something
God has placed in everyone a trust te
a higher life beyond.
| In the evening Dr. Dunston of C1aflr
university, told of that college. He sale
the Southern negro needs clergymen
doctors. lawyers of his own race The
clergymen to advance their moral life
the doctors to heal the thousands that
are without help for their ills, and the
lawyers to protect them from paying fol
things two or three times over. A col
ored man is philosopher. He will give
you 40 cents worth of work for 40 cents
a day, the best work in the world for q
dollar and half day. The Southern
ers, accustomed in the past to their work
for nothing, cannot bear to pay then
much now they are free. If they are pro
perly educated, and they are as fit for il
as white men, they can do the work Of
the South and develop the country as il
never has been under white mems gov.
eminent.
The quintette sang several selections
| finely.