The San Francisco call., 1897-07-12

found it so. We have also been told tha
all the bad people we're not shut up in
New York and Philadelphia. But | wis
TO say hat San Francisco has some hin g
We have never found in any city we have
been in before. | refer to the Police Glee
Club. They are with US to-day and are
going to sing to u.s."
The blue-coated singers were almost
EN- barrasseo by the ovation, and truly il
was royal welcome which they received.
The club never did better than ii did yes-
te-day III rendering Throw Out the Life
Line" and the audience tumultuouslv
s1gnaled its appreciation. The club re-
sponded with another number, and still
another before the audie reluctantly
allowed it to leave the platform.
The club consisted OF: First tenors-
Joseph F. Redman, T. P. Walsh, w.
Symonds, R. F. Graham; second tenor.
Marcus Ander- on. First bassoS-G. B.
Baldwin, [. Tuchler. ]. L. Nelson, P G.
Peters, L. Rankin, P. II. McGee; secon i
ba sos-L. Livingston, T. J. Bailey, NJ. o.
Ander> on, w. w. Wilson, o. B. Merrick
motion was made from the body OF
the house and unanimously carried ex-
tending vot" of thanks to the officers for
the entertainment they had furnished.
Rev. Mr.. Conkling OF Madison, Wis. then
offered prayer for the police force and
municipal officers generally. He cited
the Glee Club as an example of what il
was to be III the public service and yet
acknowledge God.
+. A. Jackson, assistant secretary OF
tie 7. Nj. G. A, invited the delegates to
visit the Y. NJ. G. a. building, and urged
the men present who resided IN this City
to JOIN the association.
Rev Ford G. Ottman of Newark, N. J.. j,
was the first speaker of the afternoon.
He preceded his remarks with few nice
things about the San Francisco police
force. MY remarks this afternoon" he
said, will be upon the twentyseventh
chapter Of Acts, in which the voyage OF
Paul when he landed at Malta is spoken
of. | took the chapter because | consider
it to be a sort of parable of many
human life. You have doubtless often
heard life likenei to a sea voyage. l be-
lieye that the best picture OF human
life is to b found not in something which
is float, but such a vessel as is described
in the first part OF this chapter, where the
vessel is riding at anchor in what is
known as a fairhaven.
II believe the worst thing that can hap
pen to any man is to cast away from his
safe anchorage in Jesus Christ.
I'm this chapter, first of all, you see
Paul standing forth when he saw that the
>ailing was dangerous, and warning the
voyagers that the trip would be with hurt.
But the centurion believed those things
that were said by the master and the
owner OF the ship more than the things
that were spoken of by Christ. How
many times dos it happen in real life
that we believe those whose material ad-
vantage influences them when Jesus
Christ is warning us that certain under
taking is dangerous.
After awhile Paul stood forth and said,
'Ye should have hearkened unto me and
cut loose from Crete Tell me, ye who
have served God, did you ever find any
thing Is O be gained by cutting away from
righ eousness. Then Paul said, BE OF
good cheer for the Lord Jesus Christ has
stood by me this night, and no harm will
come unto YOU Brethren, you can't get
awav from Jesus Christ, no matter how
far away you have drifted, God can always
find YOU When the mariners saw their
danger, they commenc to shoal water
and cast out anchors. 1t seems to me that
a man cannot live very long in this life
without beginning to shoal water. and he
will feel that his journey is coming to an
end.
II care not who the man is-some DAY
he will cast the lead. and find thirty faith
oms, and then but twenty, and then ten,
and he knows he is in danger. Tne time
is coming when he will run his snip
aground where the great swelling tide OF
eternity runs in, and when upon his
deathbed he will find his faculties slip
ping away. What is man to do when
he finds his life slipping away, ana
he finds he has become shipwreck from
the faith. | would like at the eventime
of my life that it would be as the prophet
said, And il shall come to pass that Il is
light Let us pray that when the end
come. we will all be found at safe an
chorage in our Lord Jesus Christ"
A male quartet from Olkiand rendered
l. ol, h .ot.,
cored The singers were: w. j. Oakes, +.
III. McUandlish, l.. T. Mervin and E. A.
Sherman Jr. Chow will thou do in the
swelliny of Jordan2' was the text OF
Rev. ]. WilbeI Chapman's address. "Dr.
Ottman spoke Of a sea-" he said, 81 will
speak of river. | say 10 you that il
YOU put your faith in Jesus Christ your
sins will leave you as soon as you come
close to him. The River Jordan in the
estimation OF some people is that it stands
ior peculiar some hing that lies be-
tween us and eternity. We say of our de-
parted friends that they have gone down
the Jordan, that they have passed over.
The River Jordan runs through rocky
country, and when it overhows the in-
haDitants find refuge in caves. Remem
Der these points in my story.
There are some people who be-
Iieve that the religion of Jesus
Christ is only good thing to die
in. They seem to think it a good
sort of insurance against death. But re-
ligion is more than that. 1t is q good
thing to live b.. The man who is a
Christian is better husband, better
father, better citizen. l believe that
and you believe that.
1T is to the people who believe the first
way / am going to talk. / want to say
that any man in this audience who has
within him q single unforgiven sin has
the seed Of death. The worst thing in