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 11.30 o'clock. and also Tuesday eve
ming Prayer meeting Wednesday
night, facing and prayer on Wednes-
days ION 3Auntil 8 - m. Lectures
/ Friday afternoons and evenings. On
Sunday there will be mems prayer
meeting at 9.15. preaching at 1880, BIZ
/ Bile school at u, and preaching again
at g. 80 and Z.
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 eongrega-
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 a 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 mum
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 in
! the basement of the church, tinkerine
with the steam heater. He is a mar
always willing to talk with newspaper
men and greets them with a cordiality
so full of frank good fellowship as tc
! put even the most bashful at his ease
! of course, I'm willing to talk about
my work." he said. "You ask the
questions and I'll answer them to the
best of my ability"
What about the ehurch?" 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, 81
, went to the owners of the church. and
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 al
the end of that time. I consider that
the Lord put this church in our way
and it is wonderful how that congrega-
! ton went to pieces. With over 800
2 in the Sunday school and 100 members
timn9Ve It utterly destroyed in a short
You can see ht6R%e work Of the Lord
out Of the building. and it Is ans gon'
ishlng thing that there were no Bible,
a IN the pews, but there were all tn,
appliances for making money in tn,
basement We are going to need aho1,
25O chairs in the body of the church
L by the way.
3 Our people are of all classes from
the churches and from the ranks n
n those who have never known Christ
IL is hard for church people to com,
into this work. They are PRACTICAL,
\ ostraclsed by the church. But it make:
S them strong in the faith
. Now, / want to tell YOU what on,
: work stands for. In the first place tht
sunday school will be different from
Z all others in this respect. There vii
be three grades, primary, intermediate
e and senior.
: The whole school will study doctrine
Inc great doctrines Of the Bible. II is
: lllipUssfple 70 cultivate strong church
! or christian character without doctrine
being taught. The declension of The
vital piety in churches is due TO the
lack or doctrinal preaching. The Sunda :
school AFTER organization will begin a
system OF three year study of the fund
amentai doctrines of the Bible The
work VIII open with the inspiration of
ule biple ana VIII continue upon these
llnes Tor three months That is what
, will interest young men in the worL
and 1t Is to interest young men that /
want to do. ''A"e
A very important part of our work
VIII be the outside work. We shall omen
up points and stations in different parts
OF the state from which students and
pastors VIII go out to preach. There are
and who are asking for me to come to
preach to them. Branches have alreadv
been placed in Salem, Danvers ara
Wakefield. Rev. c. e. Dodge, who was
ordained at the Tabernacle on Main
street Is in charge of these Stations
me small branch becomes fact in q
place' we nave found it easier to plant
church OF this kind in a small town
than it is to establish a ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
church. People are asking me to come
TO speak to them in all narts of tbo
country. A man in Connection road
about me in the paper and wrote AZ
pnoe dshinS me to come to preach In
nls toWn. rms shows that the church
as IL exists today does not satisfv ~ !.
people. They want something diffsraat
our city work will he "a large part
or the movement II will be under tho
direction of leader and will he car
ried on mainly by house to house visit
alton. thorough canvass Of the civ
VIII be made and prayer meetings viii
be held in the different houses. six
young men and women are giving nrac-
tically their entire time to this worl,
The chief object will be to bring men
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 a supplement TO the Tab
ernacle Trumpet win 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 Will be taught IN both the Old
and New Testaments and English in all
its branches will be IN the course of
study All branches OF oratory, music
homiletics and theology will receive
| attention The school WIN no RIM