The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-06
HIS WORK.
Rev. E. w. Kenyon
Tells All About 1t.
SERVICES ARE HELD
For First Time in His New
Church.

church has a rather dismantled APP
pearance, owing to the removal of the
best part OF the furniture when the for
mer congregation left. Services will
be held there hereafter as follows;
There will be services. every day ex-
cept Mondays and Saturdays. Every
other morning there will be Bible lee
lures from $50 to 1890, and from 1880
to 11.SO o'clock and also Tuesday eve
ming Prayer meeting Wednesday
night, facting and prayer on Wednes-
days from 3 until p. m. Lectures
/ Friday afternoons and evenings On
Sunday there will be a mems prayer
meeting at 9.15, preaching at 1880, BIZ
Bile school at II, and preaching again
at $50 and 7.
! A short history of Mr.. Kenyon's work
may not be amiss at this time, and
what follows will give an idea of the
growth ef his preaching.
On the first of last May, Rev. Essex
w. Kenyon left his charge at the Well
ington Street Free Baptist Church, to
preach what he believes to be the true
gospel of Christ With barely half a
dozen followers, he took a room in the
Y. M. G. A. building, staying there I'M
til the first of June, when a vacant
store was obtained at 113 Main street.
These new quarters were found ade-
quate for time, but as the congrega-
ton began to grow, the seating ca
pacity was taxed to the utmost, and
after some trouble a building was OBJ
tanned on Beacon street, and services
were held there from Jan. / to the first
of February
During January, the difficulties in the
Belmont Street Church arose, and when
the union with the Summer Street
Church came and the church furniture
was sold, Rev. Mr.. Kenyon then made
application for the church building,
bought the carpet rented the organ and
began his services there last week. The
Beacon street establishment is still
kept open as a mission under the
charge of Rev. A. W. Weeks
Starting with about half dozen fol-
lowers. the movement has grown stead
lily. B. c. Dustin was the first con
vert. and following him came numerous
others, some from the churches and
others from the world, until the num-
Der is now over 200, the majority OF
them men. which is an unprecedented
fact in religious movements since the
crusades
When The Spy man called upon Mr.
Kenyon the othe day, he was found ii
the basement of the church, tinkerjns
with the steam heater He is mar
always willing to talk with newspaper
men and greets them with a cordially
so full of frank good fellowship as Il
put even the most bashful at his ease
"Of course, I'm willing to talk abou
my work." he said. "You ask thu
questions and I'll answer them to thu
best of my ability"
What about the church," was the
, first thing The Spy man had to ask
When I heard that Belmont con
gregation was to unite with Summer
Street Church." began Mr.. Kenyon. q
went to the owners of the church, ant
when the sale came / bought the car
pet, rented the organ and rented
the church for two months with the
purpose and intention of buying it a.
the end of that time. I consider tina
the Lord put this church in our way
and it is wonderful how that congrega
ton went to pieces. With over 30
in the Sunday school and 100 members
Itfml19tve it utterly destroyed in a shor
You can see h6hpe work Of the Lord
out Of the building, and it Is ia ans gon
lshlng thing that there were no BJbIe
in the pews but there were all tn
appliances for making money in III
basement. We are going to need abou
. 2oO chairs in the body of the church
I by the way.
our people are of all classes, from
/ the churches and from the ranks o
! those who have never known Christ
IS hard for church people to COM
ostracised by the church. But it make
5 them strong in the faith.
= NOW, i want to tell you what ou
! work STANDS for. In the first place. tn,
sunday school will be different from
an others in this respect. There will
De three grades, primary, intermediat,
and senior.
~ The whole school will study doctrine
, Inc great doctrines of the Bible n /,
impossible to cultivate strong cbnrci
or Christian character without doctrin,
being taught. The declension Of ~,
vital piety in churches is due to III,
lack OF doctrinal preaching. The Sunda,
school after organization will begin :
system or three year study of the fund.
amental doctrines of the Bible. Tn.
WORK VIII open with the inspiration Of
the Bible and will continue upon thesf
lines for three months. That is VIVA
VIII interest young men in the worl
ana IL is to interest young men that
want to do ''i"'
very important part Of our worL
VIII be the outside work. We shall oner
up points and stations in different narfs
OF the state from which students and
Pslstors VIII go out TO preach. There are
thousands OF people who are Interested
and who are asking for me to come n
preach to them. Branches have already
been placed in Salem. Danvers an1
Wakefield. Rev. c. r. Dodge who was
ordained at the Tabernacle on Main
street, Is in charge of these stations
Inc small branch becomes a fact in .
place. We have found it easier to miami
cnutch OF thls Kind in a small town
| a Itch, %, u
church. People are asking me to come
10 speak TO them in all parts Of tho
country. A man in Connecticut road
enaut me in the paper and wrote 81
.iNe aShihs me TO come to preach in
ms town. This shows that the cb,,rdh
az II exists today does not satisfy The
people. They want something diffora,,t
our city work will be "a large part
or the movement II will be under the
direction Of leader and viii be carr
ried on mainly by house to house visit
alton. thorough canvass Of the civ
VIII be made and prayer meetings will
be held in the different houses. SIX
young men and women are giving nrao-
tlcally their entire time to this work.
The chief object will be to bring mon
| INTO closer contact with Christ. II viii
take In all classes and every member
OF the church is expected to become
| a worker on this line. Ten thousand
copies of supplement to the Tab
ernacle Trumpet viii be issued with
the next number Cor free distribution
throughout the city.
THE object Of our Bible school will
be to prepare men TO dc home and
| foreign mission work Greek and He-
brew viii be taught IN both the OId
and New Testaments and English in all
it's branches will be IN the course OF
study. All branches Of oratory music.
homiletics and theology win receive
attention. The school win be run