The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-14
Sons of the Hilly
County.
BAPTIST UNION.
Speakers At Banquet All
From Western Section.

- NSlo 41Cl hSiIllG lllSllt at the w or
.cester Baptist Social Union last night
a fact which the "a Baptists from Wor-
cester and the vicinity enjoyed TO the
full. The banquet took place at the
South Baptist Church and was in every
way a success, being preceded by an
Informal reception and followed by ex-
cellent addresses and music. The re-
ceiving party consisted Of the president
of the union, J. p. Cheney, Rev. Herb
ert F. Johnson pastor of the First
Baptist Church in Pittsfeld, Rev. and
Mrs. F. D. Penney, Prof and Mrs.
Mark Bailey Of Sterling, and Rev. and
Mrs. Richard T. Peede. DIR. Ray w.
Greene, and Messrs. William Waite
and William Cook ushered
At o'clock, after the divine blessing
had been invoked by Prof. Bailey of
Sterling, the company sat down to the
spread furnished by Rebboli, and it
was little after o'clock when Pres
ident Cheney raped for order and the
chairs were pushed back for the
speeches. THE humor and pathos of a
pastors life the subject of Rev. Mr.
Penney's address, furnished the speak
er with an excuse for a number of en-
PERTAINING anecdotes out of his own
and other clergymens experiences, and
with some that were thrilling.
"A pastors life," said he, "is pecu>
harly vicarious. but nothing short of
that will satisfy either the Master or
the people. A minister can always
trust his people where he is near and
true to Jesus. There are hermit souls,
there are souls that dwell apart like
stars, there are pioneer souls; but let
me Live sideby side with the lonely and
be friend to man"
Rev. Mr.. Penney, who used to be set
tied in North Adams was followed by
the second man from the Berkshires,
the Rev. Mr.. Johnson of Pittsfeld, and
he, like his predecessor, was introduced
in gracefully fiattering terms by the
president. Mr.. Johnsons topic was
The CHEESEMAN'S burden" He began
humorously enough with references to
Prof. Bailey,who used to teach geomet
state as a land where the natives We're
web-footed, but attacked his subject
proper very seriously.
at is" he said, 'the subject of the
hour The question now before the
American people was propounded first
to Cain-'Am my brothers keeper?' If
our view points in the same way as that
of Cain when he left his brother MUIR
dered in the dust, there can be but one
answer, the answer of the self-seeking,
selfish man, who sees in his relations to
his fellow men only a possible benefit
to himself. For the southern peoples
half devil and half child'-he has no
burden. From the view point of the
Christian, the answer is equally plain,
and it bids him mar what has been
spoiled and till what has been fruit
less
The extent of the CHEESEMAN'S bur-
den to the southern race, the peoples Of
Africa Japan, China, the Philippines, is
limited only by their need, and such
questions az the money it may cost, the
health Of the soldiers and missionaries
and the effect upon ourselves do not
count. We want all the world to be ed
ucated, happy and to know the peace
Of God; in proportion to the sin, ignor-
ance and distress is the magnitude Of
the Christ-man's burden.
IF the Christian says that the money
is needed to help the church at home,
and the American citizen insists that
we have enough to look after at home,
with our political corruption, labor
troubles, and the like, It must be re-
membered that our Lord left the nine
ty-andnine to care for the one, Our
power, riches, glory, beauty, and relig-
ion are vain unless with them goes the
cross Of self-sacri1ce. Do you know a
nation that has been called by the Lord
to the mount to be TRANSPORTED? I be-
live that if this country would remain
great, 1t must take up the cross Of self
sacrifice. The very perpetuity Of the ma
ton is at stake.
ut is not a question of the next 20
years or 100 years, but OF the future,
and if We do not answer 1t rightly,
what Is there to keep us from going
the way of Nineveh and Babylon?
Whatever we do for these 'sullen'
races TO lessen their ignorance, sin, and
superstition, We do for Christ him
self The burden is the only source Of
life either to the church or TO the ma
ton. There is life for the Christ-man
only in bearing a burden
During the exercises the Weber
quartet, composed of Messrs. w. f.
Little, j. A. Brennan. C. l. Rice and
J. H. Cafferty, gave three agreeable
selections, The program was brought
to a conclusion by the Rev. Richard
T. Peede, who gave the benedction.
The union will hold its next meeting
on the evening Of May l with the First
BAPTIST Church. The principal speaker
will be the Rev. W. H. p. Faunce, pas
tor Of the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church
in New York, one of the largest and
wealthiest in the country Mr.. Faunce
is the son Of a former pastor of the
Pleasant Street Baptist Church and
was born while his father was settled
in Worcester.