The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-11-12

| efficient cause of success. It has pro 1 duced proper self-respect and has in- | fused energy into every department of l our labor. If at the outset the pe- | cuniary bounty of the other churches l had been accepted, this would have started as mission church, and would scarce have outgrown it's early infirm
 ity. Procuring not money but men, the church attained inward might and | from that hour grew, because possess | ing life In itself. We have never on the one side craved to be the fashiona- ble or aristocratic church of the city; nor, on the other side, been harrassed | by the smallest uneasiness in regard to | our responsibility. We are, and we | have been from the start a church of l Jesus Christ, sustaining our own wor- | ship, and as such, we know but one | Master, while we have many brethren | These qualities the church has never | lost and makes clearly manifest to- day
 | MT Eustis continues: "A second prin- | ciple implanted by the Holy Ghost | which has given prosperity to this | Christian body is a catholic temper | This church has cherished that princl- pie of New England Congregationalism | whereby any company of believers united by holy covenant, who maintain the essential doctrines of the gospel, are regarded churches of our Lord with | whom we may commune.
 "A third efficient cause of success through the gift of the Spirit, is the soundness of faith, maintained and taught by this church of Christ The orthodoxy of this church does not con sist in any pharisaic zeal for truth, nor in any uncharitable suspicious, but in the intelligent and hearty assent to their confession of faith Holding firmly the great facts of revelation, this church has no sympathy with the liber- ality, so called, which throws down every barrier and embraces the world in it's communion; nor with the bigotry that excludes the ma jority of Christian disciples"
 These characteristics have been per manent in the life of this church, and as, on the human side, they accounted, in the thought of the leader of that time, for the prosperity and growth ap- parent to him. so they may be regard ed as accounting in large measure for the prosperity and vigor of the pres ent time. It is no small thing that a feeble church should take on such char acteristics during it's formative years; it is a greater thing that 1t should have maintained the continuity of character istic through so many years of pros porous and honorable history. And I
 
 tinue to show these marks-the cheerful assumption of responsibility, catholic tempar, and a flexible. progressive or tho6oxy-we need have no anxiety with respect of the future
 I believe that in these elements we are a stronger and more efficient church than we were ten years ago-the initial impulse has increased in intensity and detiniteness-and to these have been added the qualities of sociability and benevolence. We know each other bet ter, and the knowledge has begotten an interest in each other which has pro- duced a quickened and warmer social life. One of the quickening and broad ening influences has been our outreach through the work at Welcome hall. That work has deepened our sympa- thies, furnished channel for unutil- ized energies, and brought us in touch with needs which such. a church would not naturally encounter; while It's re- fiex influence upon our own life, the 1 reputation it has gained us in the com munity, the clearing of vision In regard to our relation to society, and It's uni flying effect upon our whole member | ship, have been of incalculable value. | But our sympathy and interest Have not been cribbed within our own house. hold During these years, exclusive of ' the amount expended in current ex- penses and the erection of our mission ' house, we have consecrated $103,000 to the worlds need and have sent our Christian influence to the ends of the earth.
 There is another thought which can not be banshed from an hour such as this, it is the thought of those who have removed from us into the fellowship of the church triumphant, the godly men and women who through death have found the fullness of life. They are still of us, our representatives in the i heavenly temple:
 fOne famiy-we dwell in him
 One church above, beneath,
 Though now divided by the stream,
 The narrow stream of death."
 Their faces are before me as I speak, ennobled, glorifed by the touch of the heavenly but with their warm human hearts still shining through them, their interest in our struggle unabated Can you not see their saintly forms as they were wont to sit in these pews and join in our worship? l need not call their names, they are our most sacred pos session stricken from the roll of those still burdened with the flesh, but shin- ing on the roll of our translated saints and living in our hearts. Oh, glorified spirits, ye are here with us to-day! "Therefore let us also seeing we are about with so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race set before us"
 ''The race set before usl' What of the future? who can tell? This is not only a time for review and congratu- lation, but a time for forecast and con- We were never so well
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