The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-10-16
IN THE
CHURCHES.
Father FalIon of Saint
Patrick's Church Talks
About Societies.

neitnef IL any man able to say: behold
this is new, for 1t hath already gone BE-
fore In the ages that were before u.s..
He said: This nineteenth century ia the
beautiful bird that was hatched by tht
ages that went before 1t. say wal
Matched, and not has bean matched, be-
cause the bird is not yet fully grown.
The plumags will become still more beau
tiful as the years 60 by. and the twen tietI,
century will be as the noon to the morn-
ing. But tho egg was laid in the years
now dead in Christiapity's morning.
"Our manners and customs had their
origin in peoples and things long ago for
gotten. Our biood-red Easter egg a syms
Dol of resurrection. was presented to the
mother of the Roman Emperor Marcus
Scverus l77s years ago. just before her
baby was born. and became the orgiu Of
bir: hday presents. Our red and white
striped barber pole stood outside the bar-
Der shop thousands Of years ago, telling
The psssor-by that bleeding and Ian dag.
ing were done inside. and only there.
"We sometimes see in pious books that In
the dark ages' the Bible was chained to
the altar and the common people could
never ses the message from eternity. Here
however the Ariadne thread Is cut some-
where. 1t took money, men, time. and
vast labor to get up a copy Of the Bible be-
fore the invention Of Gut ten burg. Schaef-
or and Faust. and the altar was the best
fact nj TO 1-oa
the altar the words were explained and
announced on the Lords Day when every
body, rich and poor, was bound to 60 there
to hear mass and hear the Gospel explain.
ed.
"The history of the dark ages Ia the
history Of the struggle Of the Church Of
Christ with the gates OF hell, |. g., with
the cravings Of the flesh, the cravings Of
the eye, and the pride Of life. In Oriental
speech the word gate means power, be.
cause tho nations parliament sat at the
city, gate We still retain the expras.
sion of Ottoman porte, or gate.
1.-THE guilds of the Middle Ages were
well handled and built everything that
was or ia superb In Europe to-day. The
mason guild was soon the most prominont
of all the unions 1t was not the mason
guild that formulated the pautheistio
creed at Kilwinning, but the knights
Templar, who had been suppressed In the
fourteenth century. The word suppressed,
here means discharged from further mill
tary service to European governmental
"Wbat Ia this panthestic creed. or ritual
which the knights formulated at Kiiwiu-
ningP 1t takes little Confucius, books
like Pythagoras and Spinola. and sounds
like Bhudd and Brama. 1t teaches that
man is not an individual enjoying per-
sonal existence. His body is only modo
OF universal matter. Everything IL God.
and God is Everything. He (God) grows
in the tree. blooms In the flower, babblss
in the brook, roars In tho storm, heard In
tho thunder seen In the lightning, spark
les in the diamond, feels In the plant
and thinks In man. He is chaste in the
virgin. cruel in the Nero roars in the lion
and barks in the dog. or course this do-
nies the existence Of God and all roligion. :
The church of course holds that mar
cannot be Christian and panthetst 4
the same time. -
The word Secret society ls q misnomsr.
What Is meant Is forbidden society. and
an organization is forbidden to Catho-
lilo where there Is danger Of plotting
against morality or the rightfully and
lawfully established government or THE
religion Of Christ Secret society IL mis-
leading Our family isa secret society
our church is secret society. The con-
fessional Is secret society. A great deal
of our misunderstanding comes from our
want of knowledge Of the exact meaning
Of words or careless definitions"
Rev W. L. 8. Murray received 2s men,
bers into St. Paul's Church yesterday
morning. Miss Smith talked In the evsn-
ing. and one man professed conversion.
Miss Smith will speak at and T. 80 o'clock
today. Her last service will be conducted
tonight.
Bishop Coleman spoke at St. Michaeps
and st. Matthew's Churches and at the
Minquadale Home Yesterday.
Elder X. C. Russell addressed the Sew
enth- Day Adventists yesterday.
Rev. S. p. Green of Chester preached at
North Baptist Church yesterday
Rev. F. f. Briggs of Second Bapvst
Church preached at Bethany Ch}rchT)ast
evening.
Rov. o. G. Buddtngton Of Bethany
Church, preached at Second Baptist
Church last evening.
/. Rev. Alexander Roulston Of Ph.ladel.
phis, preached at the United Presby yterian
Church yesterday.
Evangelist H. G. Scudday Of Texas held
woll-trained meetings at Harrison Street
M. f. Church yesterday.
At tho First M. p. Church yesterday
morning Rev. James Redgraves Of Ches-
ter preached iu the morning and Rev. q.
II. Stockdale Of the Second NJ. L. Church
in the evening. a
Tho Woman's Missionary Society Of
Pencador Presbyterian Church, observed
Its SEVENTEEN anniversary yesterday.
Rev. +. Cornwell Jennings spoke at the
v NJ. G. A. yesterday afternoon on
"Moral Courage" .
Rev, W. A. Cuddy and Elder Wood
who have been travelling throughout the
Country in gospel wagon, reached this
city Saturday afternoon and left for Bal.
timore today. He will be here again in
November to stay week, during which
hc will preach In some Of the churches
After that time he will start on trip
around the world and will be at tho Paris
Exposition in 1900 where he will preach
In French.
The Womcn's Synodical Society for
Homo and Foreign Missions OF the Synod
of Baltimore. will meet in Hanover Pros.
byterian Church Thursday morning at
$50 O'Clock. In the afternoon at 800
there will be an address on the Mormon"
question by Mrs. y. 5. Hamlin Of WASH
ington, D. c.
"Thc Grace Cleaners" an organization
Of young women IN Grace NJ. L. Church.
engaged in missionary work gave a'Jap-
-.z. NJ, o,,1 n,Lar Mt thu hntpa Of Mira