Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-05-24
RELIGIOUS NEEDS OF SOLDIERS.
Ministerial Union to Take Up the
Matter Te-Day-Sunday Services.

The Baptist Minister'S Conference held,
as usual. at the Second Baptist churcn
yesterday. morning, very warmly ana
earnestly discussed the needs OF the SOL
diers at Camp Lee, and unanimously
voted that a call be made for a meeting
OF the Ministerial Union of Richmond anu
Manchester to-day at II NJ. at the
rooms of the Young Mems Christian AS
ISOLATION. The purpose of the meeting Is
10 devise means Of more efectually
meeting the needs of those who have
sacrificed so many personal interests TOR
their State and country. This call has
been accordingly issued: "a meeting Of
the said union is hereby called for the
time and place said above.
(Signed ]. C. HIDEN,
President.
Rev. NJ. Ashby Jones was to have read
a sermon for criticism. but was absent,
being called away to New YORK on ac-
count OF the illness of brother, Rev.
II. l.. Jones. The conference then made
II report day."
DIR. HATCHER'S ANNIVERSARY.
Despite the rain Sunday morning the
Grace-Street Baptist tabernacle was quite
well-filled, many being drawn together
by the announcement that 1t was Or.
Hatcher's twenty-third anniversary as
pastor. DR.. Hatcher preached splendid
sermon from 1.-The Lessons of Our Loss
es." and closed by calling the death
roll. Fourteen OF the members have
died during the year. and as each
name was called, loving tribute was paid
to the dead This part Of the service was
closed by the congregation singing, with
great tenderness, Sweet By and by.
AT the close of the sermon the churcn
instructed the Building Committee 10
proceed Immediately to the completion
of the basement room OF the new house
of worship, and it is believed that the
building can be prepared for occupancy
by the early autumn.
In the afternoon the annual church
meeting was held. and the reports from
the church Sunday school and various
societies were presented. The showing
was so gratifying that 1t turned the oc-
casion into one of exultation and thanks
giving. The income of the church for
all purposes was over s6,000-larger than
it was last year. There was marked
increase in missionary contributions. and
all the current expenses OF the church
fully met.
OTHER SPECIAL SERVICES SUNDAY.
Rev. Donald Guthrie, associate pastor
Of the Second Presbyterian church, deliv-
cred the annual address before the Wo-
mans Missionary Union of East Han
over Presbytery on Sunday afternoon.
This took the place Of the usual service
at the Second church. The congregation
was quite large, and the address was
an exceptionally fine one. Mr.. Guthrie's
subject was THE Subjective Basis of
Missions.
Despite the Indictment weather. q large
congregation of grown people and little
folks assembled in Broad-Street church
Sunday morning, and the following pre-
gramme was appropriately rendered:
Music. "Our School SO Dear: prayer by
the pastor; a welcome address by Harold
Hundley; Little Pilgrim" by Azile Nc
Cullen; This is Children SHAY" by the
infant class; THE First Children's-Day,"
by Ethel Yeaman; music. Come,
Gather Jewels; an acrostic, God is
Love-" by thirteen little girls; music,
Beautiful Garlands"; children's song, by
infant class; address by the pastor; mu-
sic, Sunshine In the Sour; benediction.
The knights Templar of the two COM
manderies OF the city gathered Sunday
night i'm a large congregation at the First
Baptist church in ascension service. AS
they entered the church the choir sang the
hymn "Onward Christian Soldiers" DR..
the sermon. After telling the story of
the ascension, and describing the scene
In striking reality. he inquired into the
spiritual meaning Of 1t.
Rev. Father Brady, of Portsmouth,
preached at st. Peters Cathedral Sun
day at high mass. The collection was
devoted TO the building-fund OF Father
Brady's church, which was burned down
a year ago last March.
Rev. w. II. l.. Smith preached especially
to young men at the Second Baptist
church at the morning service. There
was a good congregation, and the sermon
was fine one.
A squad of twenty men from Company
[, of the Second Regiment the Guard of
the Commonwealth, attended the morning
service at the Seventh-Street Christian
church. There were six additions TO the
church at night.
Rev. J. A. Morehead has returned 10 the
city, and occupied his pulpit at the First
English Evangelical church Sunday.