The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-29
THRILLED HIS
AUDITORS WITH
HIS EL0QUENCE.
DR.. Lorimer a Brilliant
Orator.
ANNUAL SERMON A SUCCESS
MISSIONARY SECRETARIES DE-
LIVER ADDRESSES.
Able Sermons Delivered by the Dis
tinguished Visitors to Congrega-
lions of This City-Their
Thoughts in Brief

TT HERE are scores of orators in this
city. The pulpit has furnished an
array of Christian pleaders who
have uplifted the members of their
congregation to higher ideals; the
law has its quota of spellbinders who
have snatched victories from certain de-
feat by imbuing juries with the Justice
of their course in their clever speeches.
and the lay profession has any number Of
champions whose voices and logic have
charmed audiences and raised them to a
high pitch of enthusiasm. But there are
thousands in this city who are of the
opinion that none of our local speakers
compares with the Rev. George c. Lor-
inner. the distinguished divine who
preached at the services of the First Bap-
fist Church yesterday morning at the
Alhambra Theater
Seldom has an audience listened to such
a brilliant discourse as was delivered by
the Boston preacher. Nearly 1000 people
were seated in the Moorish play house
which for the occasion was turned into
a place of worship TO accommodate the
crowds DESTROYS of hearing the en-
inent pulpit orator. Nor were they
a half he thrilled them with his
eloquence, and when they departed their
minds were filled with the views he ex-
pressed on many themes.
The services were opened by the Rev
a. j. Rowlands, secretary of the Baptist
Publication Society, who announced the
singing of an anthem by the choir, COM
posed of Miss Fanny L. Denny soprano
Miss Florence Nagel alto, Herbert Will
liams first tenor, Arthur A. Macurda Sec
ond tenor, d. B. Crane first bass and
Mathew McCurrie second bass, and H. K.
Mitchell accompanies. At the conclusion
of the singing Rev. d. b. Cheney of Wis
consin, whose father was formerly pas
tor of the First Baptist Church and who
is himself a native son, invoked the di-
vine blessing. This was followed by Rev.
H l.. MOrehouse of New York reading
ments, o God, and thy righteousness unto
the Kings SON." DR.. z. B. Hubert,
dean of the Chicago Theological Semin-
airy, and former pastor of the First Bap-
list Church of this city, led in prayer.
DR.. Rowlands introduced DR.. Lorimer to
his audience in a short speech in which
he said that the Eastern clergyman had
given up his life to the great studies of
the day. AS the pale-faced but intellec-
tual little giant stepped forward a hush
fell on the congregation You will find
the second chapter of Daniel, the forty
second verse;
And in the days of those kings shall the
God Of heaven set up a kingdom, which
shall never be destroyed, nor shall the SOW
eregnty thereof be left to another people:
but it shall break in pieces and consume all
these Kingdoms ana IL shaIl stand forever.
Closing his eyes and folding his arms on
his breast the doctor opened his sermon
on christianity as a World-Power." "A
dream, only a dream he said, lis likely
to be the hooking language of the so-called
practical men of the world, who regard it
as an evidence of superior sanity to trust
only facts and figures when this i'm
mortal declaration is read in their hear
ing
His glowing periods made his listeners
forget that they Were attending church
services and irresistibly they broke into
applause and as it was not rebuked con-
tinued to punctuate mis- address with signs
OF their appreciation. He created bit