Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-04-13
GIVES ANNUAL BANQUET
CALVARY BAPTIST SUNDAY SCHOOL
WORKERS AT FESTIVE BOARD.
Addresses by John Sayer Marshall,
NJ. D., DIR. Upper and Others
Other Features.

/ teachers of Calvary Baptist Sunday school
| gathered about the banquet table in the
| Sunday school house last evening. The af-
| fair was declared to be one of the most
| successful in the schools series of annual
| banauets, which has been unique feature
| in local Sunday school work. The size and
/ Importance of the school was emphasized
| by the great number of persons who are
| engaged in the administrative and teaching
| force.
Grace was said by Rev. T. Menefee pres
| ident of Washington College. After a
! bountiful repast had been served Mr. Miles
! VI. Shand, superintendent of the Sunday
| school. acting as POSTMASTER, introduced
| the various numbers of the after-dinner
program He first presented John Sayer
| Marshall, MD, for many years supertn-
| tendent of the First Baptist Sunday school
| of Chicago H. DIR. Marshall, who is now
| stationed in Washington as chairman of the
be ard of dental examiners of the army, in
responding to the introduction, said that 1t
gave him great pleasure to meet such a
unique assembly of Sunday school workers
He referred to the achievements of wash
ington along Sunday schools lines, and said
that in many important respects they were
much greater than those of his own city,
which prided itself on large things
After solo by Master Harry Helwig Of
St. Johns choir, Fear Me Not, Oh, Israel,
\
Mr. Needham said that although he had
known Calvary Church and Sunday school
for many years he had never received
quite the impression he had received at
this banquet He congratulated the school
upon the large work it had accomplished,
which held in it the promise OF greater
things yet to be.
DIR. Campbell. pastor of Lexington Ave-
nue. Baptist Church. New York city, spoke
briefly and then Mr. j. Walker Humphrey
sang, with splendid effect, Gypsy john
The principal address of the evening was
delivered by Rev. Kerr Boyce Upper, D.
D., LID, pastor of the First Baptist
Church of Philadelphia, on the subject rs
the Old Book From God?' DIR. Upper
said that there could be no more attractive
life presented to men and women than that
of the Sunday school teacher who thor
oughiy loved Gods word, believed it and
loved to teach it. If one would win souls
he must believe in the old book.
Features Presented.
Six or seven remarkable features con-
corning the old book were presented by the
speaker. He called attention to it lit
erary production, consisting of sixty-six
different books written by forty different
writer's, the authorship representing every
class of men, coming from the boat of
fisherman to the throne of a king. The
great age of the book was a remarkable
feature 1t took 1000 years to produce it.
The birthplaces of the various parts of
the book-the bank of the Nile, the Arabian
desert, the promised land, Asia Minor,
Greece and Imperial Rome were referred
to. Its language-one part Hebrew, simple,
naive, childlike-the other Greek, profound,
scholarly universal in use at the time of
the writing The great variety of its sub
ject matter was a remarkable feature. BIZ
ography, ethics, history, philosophy and re-
ligion We're united in it's pages. The unity
of the purpose and thought of the forty
writer's was commented upon.
THE successful teacher" said DR.. Tup-
per, must be able to answer affirmatively
three questions-'Have we an infallible
standard of life? Are its principles true?
Are its revelations divine?' If we are wrong
in the inspiration of the Bible we are wrong
in everything"
DR.. Upper said when he graduated from
the theological seminary he was given
twenty-seven arguments for the inspiration
OF the Bible. All were good, but he had
long since discarded all but two One of
the clearest proofs of its divine origin was
the pure and holy character of its teach
ings and the conceptions of God which It
gave. conceptions which nowhere else can
be found. When man would rise to his
highest thoughts and his noblest achieve
nents he would find the Bible his greatest
heiper. Shakespeare, who is conceded to
be the greatest writer In secular literature
goes 551 times to the Bible for quotations.
reference, allusfon or sentiment. Another
great proof of It's inspiration was it's adapt
ability to all needs There is no situation
in life into which the book cannot come
with real help.
DIR. Upper said in conclusion that the
effect the study of Gods word, the prac-
tice of its teachings, had produced in the
lives and hearts of men formed for him a
proof of Its divinity which no sophistry
could ever touch, no philosophy disturb and
no skepticism overthrow.
A solo, Spring" by Mrs. Shir-CIiT fol,
lowed. and then DIR. Greene pastor of the
church. spoke briefly. The benedictjon was
pronounced by Rev. A. F. Anderson. the
assistant pastor of the church
The Guests.
Those who gathered about the tables
were:
Dr. Upper, DR.. ]. S. Marshall Rev. Dr.
j. L. Campbell, Mr.. and Mrs. Needham, DR..
derson. Rev. and Mrs. F. Menefee, Master
Harry Helwig, Mr.. j. Walter Humphrey,
Mrs. Shir-CIlff, Prof. A. D. Mayo, Miles
NJ. Shand, Mr.. and Mrs. L. P. Gillespie,
John B. Sleman, jr., A. L. Roberts, Miss
Roberts. Mr.. and Mrs. F. H. Stfckney, Miss
Sarah E. White. Judge and Mrs. Smith,
Mrs. Cowman. Mr.: and Mrs. Mower, Miss
ball, Mr.. and Mrs. j. E Dawson, Miss
Hanley, Mrs. W. H. Hoeke, F. H. Jackson,
F. H Jackson, 5r-, Mrs. c. H. Armer, Miss
Beard, Miss w. Pollock Miss Eleanor
Barnes. Mrs. snapp, Miss Lutz, Mrs ]. A.
L. Hail. Mr.. and Mrs. George Tate, Mrs
Bridge. Mr.. and Mrs. w. E. Evans, Edwin
G. Evans, Clarence Evans. Miss Anna Judd,
MISS ~ ID. brownie, II. ii Dave, Miss
Meade. Mr.. and Mrs. R. E. Logan, Mrs A.
Cauldwell, Miss Caudwell, Miss Bell Mrs
Waddey, Miss Gresham, Mr.. and Mrs G. O.
Smith, W. W. Everett, Sackett L. Duryea,
Miss G. Moling, t. A Seats, Miss E. P. Wise.
Miss Mcmahon, Mr.. and Mrs. H. NJ Ken
drick, Mr.. and Mrs 9. E. Finch, Mr. and
Mrs w. p. Kyle, E. B. Curtis, Mrs F.
Is. Curtis, Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Bliss, Dr.
and Mrs. D. S. Foster Mr.. and Mrs c. E.
Fairman, MIR. and Mrs. G.. E. Hubbard
Mrs. Willard. Miss Willard, c. r. Dean,
MIR. and Mrs. o. P Keliar, Mr.. and Mrs
n. S. Faucet, Mr.. and Mrs. G. X Den
mark, Mr. and Mrs. a. Copeland, Mr.. and
Mrs. E. G. Mason, Mr.. and Mrs. F. W.
Vaughn, Miss Florence HALEY, Miss Helen
Gilman Miss Emily Gilman, Miss Lydia
Marshall, DR.. and Mrs. Swartwout, Mr.
| and Mrs w. A. Richards, Mr.. and Mrs
| A. l. Swartwout, Mr.. and Mrs. Protzman,
| III. NJ. Gilman, Miss Kate White Miss
Louise ]. White, Mr.. and Mrs W. f.
| Staley, Miss Todd, Miss Buckingham Mr.