The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-05-29
DAY OF PATRIOTIC SERVICE
HOWARD AYE. BAPTIST CHURCH
EXElIPLIFIES ITS PATRIOTISM.

EYEMPLIFIES IT'S PATRIOTISM.
vice and Great Enthusiasm-W. IL
Smear Delivers Two Interesting Dis.
courses-PatrioticS Sons of America At
tend in a Body.
Howard avenue Baptist church pre-
scented a pretty picture of decorations
yesterday. Being memorial Sunday
patriotic services were in conformity
| with the occasion. The gallery over
the platform was hung with tri-colors.
In the center was a large oil painting
of George Washington, and on either
end of the balcony were draped flags.
The walls of the alcove forming the
gallery were completely hidden with
tri-colors and two huge national flags
was gracefully hung in form OF half
open circular fan pendant from the
arch above the balcony rail. On either
side of this decoration was stand of
| stacked muskets. The front of the
platform was draped with large
American flag, pendant from the pulpit
railing On the reading desk was a
| covering of deep crimson plush, the
| pendant front ornamented with a Sill
| yer anchor. On either end of the plat
| form was staff of the American col
ors. The communion table was covered
| with the American flag and on 1T were
iardiniers of wild flowers and honey
suckles. Potted plants finished off the
platform. On the panels of the wall on
either side the audience room were
crossed muskets supporting small silk
flags. The rear balcony was hung with
red, white and blue, and field of stars.
A large American flag was festooned
from this balcony and supported on
either side by small silk flags, the whole
presenting a very handsome and eabo-
rate decoration.
At both morning and evening service
the church was filled. In the morning
W. H. Spear spoke on THE Palace of
the King" In opening his discourse he
vividly portrayed the recent wrecking
of the steamer City of Paris on the
Manacle rocks and the suddenness of
that disaster and the narrow escape of
the passengers from a deadly peril He
drew an application from this to the
human banks that are voyaging DER
life's summer seas, prosperity smiling
at the helm and the sweet tranquility
wooed, the love into fancied security.
He illustrated the death summons in
the night call as unexpected and as
direful in its import as that of the mes
senger who on the City of Paris in the
silent watches Of the night called the
passengers on deck at the captains
orders to face peril and what to many
at first seemed impending death He
described the launching of the life boats
and the rescue Of the passengers from
the i'll fated Queen of the Deep" On
the great ocean of life the blessed Cos
pei of Christianity is the life boat of
salvation" This idea the speaker
graphically illustrated The idea of
death lowering in the midst of life was
vividly portrayed, one of the illustra-
tions used was the case of little Willie
Reidy drowned at Mill Pond Saturday
afternoon in the presence of a teacher
of the Howard avenue Baptist Sunday
school, and the narrow escape one of
the boys of that church's juvenile So
ciety had from drowning as the com
panion of Reidy. He spoke of young
Reidy's confirmation in the Catholic
church only the day before, as an ac-
ceptance Of an invitation into the life
boat that rescues from the perils of
life's tempestuous sea.
Taking the words of the Saviour ar
go to prepare a place for YOU" the
speaker illustrated the idea of that man
sion in glory to which the faithful are
heirs-that palace of the King that
knows no night, no sickness, no sorrow,
no death and no tears. In feeling words |
he referred to the dead who had gone |
before to "The Palace of the King" and
who awaited their loved ones there in
the realms of the immortals.
In the evening a half-hour praise SER
vice preceded the patriotic service, Mr.
Fenno of the railroad department of
the Young Mems Christian association
eading it with the cornet and Miss Mae
Gage accompanying on the piano Large
delegations of the Patriotic Sons of
America were present in full regala of
ed, white and blue, and this sprinkling
If the national colors all over the house
gave to the scene a beautiful kaleido-
;copc effect Mr.. Spear delivered a
"a triotic address from the subject 1.-THE
vanguard of the Cross
The discourse was from the double
ext-"Look unto Me and be We saved,
I'll the ends of the earth, for | am God
md there is none else Isaiah 45:22;
llso from Isaiah 54:2 and 8, enlarge
he place of thy tent, and let them
tretch forth the curtains of thine hab-
spare not, lengthen thy cords
md strengthen thy stakes: for thou
halt break forth upon the right hand
nd upon the left; and thy seed shall
inherit the nations and make the desc
ate cities to be inhabited"
In the course of his remarks he said
hat added responsibilities We're making
his nation stronger. A new era has
pened for us and mighty problems are
o be solved, but God has raised up
nen to solve them and His guiding
and is with us in the present as it was
With our fathers in the past. God is
haping the course of nations as surely
S He is guiding individual life This
manifest in the great crises through
,hich this nation has already passed,
nd it is Gods hand at the helm which
to-day steering the grand old ship of I
tate through the troubled Wathers into I
avens of final peace. This war upon
hitch we have entered is not war of {
onuuest but war Of humanity and I
g,