The San Francisco call., 1897-01-04
How He RAISED THE $15O
Bishop Newman Does a Good
Stroke for the Epworth
Church.
The Eloquent Divine breaches On His
Wanderings Around the Holy
City of Jerusalem.

Bishop Newman conducted services yes
| terday morning at the Epworth Methodist
Episcopal Church, corner of Twenty-sixth
and Church streets.
At the close of his address, which was
"Memories OF Jerusalem, the Bishop got
down to what he designated the real Dusi-
ness Of the occasion, and informed the
congregation that the Epworth church
was starting in the new year with an in
debtedness of $150 1t was only u small
sum and many reputable commercial
| firms were less clear than that, but q
church should lead in business as well as
in righteousness, and tha debt had 10 be
paid. They would sing DISMISS US with
thy blessing" when the collections reached
the necessary high-water mark.
On the first round of the collectors over
! $100 was donated, though the congrega-
| ton was not large. A second trial gath
| cred in 81 so, and the Bishop sent the
| cleaners forth again, with the injunction
| that it would be deplorable if any money
escaped them, and, also, that any person
should leave the church withoutan oppor-
tunity to give.
"We'll sing the doxoiogy when that $3.50
| is raised" said the Bishop ''Give the
| people time to think; it takes more time
| to think about giving than about receiv-
| ing."
These humorous exhortations had the
desired effect, and the mem bers OF the
| church responded till the debt was cleared
/ away.
Bishop Newman's account of his wan
derings around the Holy City were most
interesting, and he brought vividly home
/ to his audience the scenes pertaining to
the Ii e OF Jesus.
II was in Jerusalem on Palm Sunday,
and went out of the city by way of
| Stephens Gate treading in the footsteps of
| the Savior. We crossed the brook Kedron
by a stone bridge that>was there 1900 years
ago and will remain forever doubtless. We
| passed over the brow of the Mount OF
| Olives and made our way down in TO lowly
/ Bethany. The Arabs call it 'Lazarie.
/ Christ never slept in Jerusalem, but re-
| paired to Bethany to find rest with his
three friends, Lazarus and the sisters.
| When we returned we fancied we could
hear the 'hosannahs' of the people as the
| Son of Man passed into the City of David.
1.-THE last place l visited during my
stay in Palestine was the Garden of Geth-
semane. l was reluctant to intrude upon
the place where the Savior suffered that
night of anguish. We raped at the
small iron gate that gives admittance
| into the garden, which was opened by a
Franciscan monk, one of the custodians
/ of the place. He left US to our medita-
tions, and there under those historical
| palms we threw ourselves down, Mrs.
/ Newman and /, on our faces and prayed
for the church of him who prayed for his
people there so long ago.
Even in her ruins lives Jerusalem, not
as she was when in the highway oi
nations. but in the sacred associations
that are hers forever. The stranger s
mind while there is constantly reverting
TO the past. The city has passed through
twenty-seyen sieges and its walls have
been rebuilt eleven times. Down under
the pavements of the present streets are
the old buried cities OF Jerusalem, and
the archeologist digging below the city ot
to-day finds those of the yesterdays"