The record-union., 1899-09-25
ADDRESSING OLD FRIENDS.
SERMONS YESTERDAY BY REV.
H. B. ANDERSON.
Appeal to the Young Men 60 Help
Arrest the Drift From the
Church.

Rev t. H. B. Anderson, formerly
pastor of the Seventh Street M. E.
Church South in this city, but who for
two years past has been in charge OF
a church in Missouri, occupied the pull
pit in his old church yesterday morn
ing. The church was filled with people
to welcome their beloved pastor of old
and listen to his earnest utterances.
He delivered a sermon full of feeling
and touched many a responsive chord
in the hearts of his hearers. After
the service many crowded about the
reverend gentleman and extended him
a hearty welcome back to his old home
In the afternoon Rev. Mr.. Anderson
addressed a good sized meeting at the
Y. Nj. C. A. rooms, Fifth and j streets,
and with all his remarkable force and
vigor marshaled his facts and deduc-
tions. He said that each life was
fraught with significance, and each in
dividual prophetic of something in the
future better than himself, and none
understood that better than the ancient
Hebrews Moses, he said, when he
went into the mount for the last time,
had no idea that when death came
he would cease to be, nor had the
Patriarch Abraham when his life went
out.
The idea that death was the end or
all. he said, never entered the heart OF
an ancient Hebrew Their conception
of what was to follow might not have
been so sharply defined as now, but 1t
was there and not "a man then lived
who did not project himself into and
live for the future.
The Hebrews, he said, had the grand
est conception of man possible. They
believed that man was the voice OF
Nature and that all it's moods ana
lenses found expression through him,
and in that they were right. The He
brews anticipated the coming OF a Re-
deemer-a Savior-their conception OF
His advent being that springs would
burst forth, barren spots blossom like
the rose and that the world would be
reiuyenated that nature would find
force of expression through the man.
In all of these theories the speaker
concurred Christ had come, as man,
and left to man to spread His teacn-
ings among the nations. If man were
not here to-day, Gods voice would pc
silent, for if He gives expression. It
must be through man. 1t was Jesus
who taught the Word, and it was His
Injunction that it's expression should
be conveyed to others by men, and He
called upon each individual present to
go out into their places of business.
into their homes, and give expression
to the wishes of the Master. But, he
said. 1.-The drift would have to be ar
rested.
The speaker said he loved California,
and when away from it's valleys and
mountains he yearned for them. Once
a man had lived in this sunset land
he would ever want to return, ana
most men who had tasted and then
left would do as he had done when he
first saw the Sierras on his return-cry
great tears of childish joy that he was
again permitted to look upon the fair
est land under the sun.
But Rev. Anderson called on the
young men of the city to arrest the
drift. The men of the State, he said
are drifting away from their duty. In
the Eastern States ten men attend
church where one does in California
The drift, he said, is away from the
teachings Of Christ, and he called on
the young men to go out and assist
in arresting it.