The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-02-15
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west ana ~. Br,ass Al ,As y. M. q. i
Manitou Tribe Of Red Men attended the
evening service at Goodman M. f. Church
yesterday and heard a sermon from Rev.
John Franco. The text was from Genesis
40, "Am my brothers keeperp" Mr.
France first detailed what relation all mon
bore TO one another and what Christian
Fellowship should DO practiced. He spoke
OF the Indians and of their hope that they
would again meet on the great hunting
ground which he said was the greatest evf-
dence of brotherly feeling between the
savages.
He related his Christian experience, tell
< Ing how he was converted by an Indian
missionary. which fact he was 50 thank.
fui for.
You who are members of the same Or
der are peculiarly brothers. You are
bound by the most solemn obligations,
Men ignore the claims of one another,
\ Love thy neighbor as myself
A great deal OF the self-love among men
Is idolatry. We ought to love one another,
We owe 1t to our brothers that we SYM
pathize with them. One thing that helps
is the sympathy Of our fellow. men. We
sometimes wait until q man is dead before
we manifest our sympathy for him. 1t
i Is said q pound Of taffy Is worth ton
Of epitaph.'
Another duty is assistance. am we'll
aware that most of us would like to be in
dependent. 1t cannot be. l am glad to
know that this Is one of the aims and OBJ.
jects of your order. Man has a soul as
well as body, and that soul must be car
cd for. 1t should DO our aim to lead men
into the right path. As / look into the
faces Of such noble band Of Rcd Men l
3 cannot but wish you were servants of
God. would say there is nothing that
Will give u man such joy as sound morality
and good religion. would like you all
to accept Christ"
In West Church In the morning Rev
Ernest keigwin assisted his father Rev.
A. N. keigwin, who preached from Isaiah
SB, 81: '"The glorious land will DO unto
us place of broad rivers and streams"
He told of what defense Christ was to
his people when he was on earth and
assured his hearers that God will always
defend his people as he did then. Every
one Is subject to conditions similar though
lees conspicuous, than Judah. Many pee
pie though peaceable enough themselves,
suffer from evil directed toward some one
else. II is no use for persons to be non
committal on religious or ethical ques.
tions they will be assailed whether they
make fight or run.
All have seen those sticky briers, the
Devils needle, that cling to one walk
ing through the tall grass Verita BILE
Devils needles" are tho malicious, CEN
serious critics whose life is the breath of
scandal, and nothing is more despicable
tsan tattling gossip and chatter about
R6lhe small flaw too little for re ,pectabe
lnds to notice Yet some people delight
70 serve the devil in this way Not only
when Satanic agencies assail, but in every
condition of calamity and adversely God is
the only broad river of protection under
any and all circumstances, and He is u
way to defend those maligned or in any
kind of trouble
The people sof Jerusalem my have
thought that If they were to go out and
light they would stand better chance
than to be shut up behind fortncations.
The lesson they learned was that God Is a
broad river for all aggressive Christian
work"
Some things you emit get away FROM
proved an inter esting talk by Rev f. T.
Briggs ct the Y. Nj c. A. yesterday after
noon: Among other things he said: s s..;...
1.-The memories of early life are going TO
cling TO you as long as you live. There
arc men here who were taught in early
life by their mothers to pray. 1t has been
twenty, thirty or perhaps forty years ago,
and the mother has been laid to rest amid
your tears You can't get away from those
early memories. You may wander 100
years, II God will grant that time but
something may be tho means of carrying
you back to the time when you were young
Men, these are some Of the things you
can't get away from"
A story OF two gamblers in Hong Kong,
whose memories returned to early life,
thelr homes and parents, and their refur-
NATION was told of by Mr.. Briggs. He
closed with an earnest eXhortntiou for all
to accept Christ
Bishop Leighton Coleman preached last
night az a special service of the Brother.
hood Of St Andrew ut St Lulic's Episco-
pal Church. The musical service was on
urely choral. The choir Of thirty.two
men and boys sang the following pro-
gram: Ma2niflCal and Nuuc Dimittis,
Bennett, in Il flat; "fhe Heavens are Tell
ing, from Haydn's Creation" Mr. G.
Cawthorc Carter played Grand Choer and
Andante in d and at L oCcnta by Tom
belli
BIG DAY AT SHILOH
The Shiloh Baptist church congroGa-
tiOn had big day yesterday. At the
morning service twenty young wvm.n
and boys were bnptsed, tho partial result
of a revival which has bJem in progress
at Shiloh for some time In JAN after.
noou the sacrament was served and u
Strong sermon marked the evening
Service
The morning service was attended by a
congregation which filed tho lit lie church.
Tho service was begun by tho choir sing
ing tho hymn, "My Hope is BuilL tn
Novhlng Les" IN which the large con-ro.
CATION Joined earnestly. Rev W. W.
Uortch OF the Antioch Baptist Chruth
Illinois, who has breu assisting Rev b. 4.
Moore Ill the revival work, then annul.r-
oed hymn NU7T5 lrOm the BaptiatNymnal
the frs verse OF which Is
"MNokiY in Jurdun's holy stream,
The great Rcdecmrr Euwtd
d Bright us the glOry's sacred BEAM
., That !u3hed the wondering crowd"
The old hymn was sung To tho tune Of a
familiar Methodist air ana the frrvrnyy Of
spirit which marked the singing was
chRrc CristiG Of the church congregation.
Nj. D"rtch prayed for the blessing If God
upon the young people who were about
to enter tn church by baptism and tor
greater results IN the revival. lie also
preached IL brief but impressive surm0n t.
the young converts, principally.
Rev. b. 7. Moore then auuuunvri that
the baptism service was about TO com.
mence. He related his work at the church
and the great satisfaction II gave him to
know that he was about . bIpli1u mem.
bers OF tho SUNDAY school lie thanked
God for the visible result Of his Ehnrs
Gnu ipiloNl lIt ludUG INbDIe womb emu
late the Christianity OF their fathers and
mothers and thereby sbacomr earnest
Christian men and women and better
members Of society.
The talk wa, impressive and carried
with it the iulelihc impression that with.
out "One Lord, one Faith and ono BAp.
tism' the Christian life was void The
candidate baptised were Misses Mary
Spencer, Ella Stunsbury, Julia White.
Mary Brown, Mary ThQmp,on Anna
Priest Clara Johnson, Lhlir Batsuu,
Fannie b Monroe, b. sic Grant, Nellie
Wright, Rosie Ashton Barthu ruwn.ena,
Sadie Brinklry, Bessie Ella, : ,rlr Brown.
Alexander Collins, WiluNm Collins, Jas
Wise, Jr and Ernest Brown
Anniversary.
Friday evening Mr., ,Irmima Murray
rendered Il surprise to hrr husband Sluu5-
bury Murray, DR. ut their hunm, NJ UI
II. Front street, 1t was Mr.. Murlny's
"2sth' birthday, an event he aud hi. good
wife have observed for The past twenty