The San Francisco call., 1901-10-14

it is due a large measure Of the success Of
so fai}IT 0f csTped on il Would M9Ff be used as
an argument against religion
At st. Johns Church.
At st. Johns Episcopal Church this
morning, the sermon was preached by the
jutor of Fond du Lac. The Bishop is a
rapid but interesting talker and his SER
mon, with the text God so loved the
beautifuIly expressed. He dwelt particu.
larly on the humanity of the Savior and
said:
Why did he not come to US full grown
man? He had the power to do so had he so
is something wonderfully attractive about a
baby. 1t is so helpless, so dependent upon our
about our Lord was that he never lost that
attractiveness, but it increased with his years
Because of his humanity. We can feel that God
is our brother our master, our king. 1t will
always be so, because Christ built his empire
on human hearts. No one loves our Lord as
Mary does, as Joseph does. And why? Because
during his helpless babyhood he was dependent
pended on their love and care. But now it is
not them it is you he depends on. He depends
on your love he wants your love. The highest
angel in heaven would like to stand where 1
stand. to speak to mems hearts of him. 1
wonder why it has been left to me? Because
he depends on men to build up his church. to
support his religion God trusts. confides in
US Shall we betray that trust?
Would that that some heart art in, in this house = of Of
love for love Some of US to give more. some
Of US to do more, all of us to love more. God
SO loved the world.
Just before the service Gounod's ave
Maria" was rendered by Frank Kendall
on the violin, accompanied by Joseph
Kendall and ]. De p. Teller with violin
and organ.
Under the personal direction of the
Right Rev. William Ford Nichols Bishop
Of California, a missionary meeting was
held this afternoon at st. Paurs Episco-
pal Church, the children of all of the Epis-
copal churches of Oakland taking part in
this union service The Rev. Robert
Ritchie, rector of st. Pauls, and the full
vested choir of the church, assisted during
the services.
There were addresses by Bishop Nichols.
the Rev Herman L. Duhring, D. D., of
Philadelphia. special agent of the Board
George c. Thomas of Philadelphia. treas
urer of the Domestic and Foreign Mission
ary Society. and by the Right Rev. Sam
bishop formerly of North Dakota and now
in charge of the diocese of Minnesota
Children Hear the Word.
The children occupied the central pews
of the main floor of the church. They were
accompanied by their teachers. The theme
of the addresses was that of missionary
work at home and abroad. Dr. Duhring
gave a very happy talk to the young
using colored pasteboard cards, cut in a
circle, to illustrate his explanation. The
white represented the world in its original |
innocence, the black being sin. the red
the redeeming blood of Christ and the
blue the hope in heaven and eternity
During his talk DR.. Duhring said:
We have done better during the past year
than ever before in missionary work Now
we have 100000 people, old and young in our
Sunday schools. with 10000 teachers and 5000
Sunday schools. This year the Sunday schools
gave $1050OO for missionary work. Twenty
four years ago they gave only $1,000, so you
see we are growing. We must grow and ex-
pand the gospel. We must send it out to the
Philippines-the Mckinley Islands, l hope they
will be called, for dead President deserved
that they should bear his name-and to China
and Japan we must send the story of Christ
to do. There are thousand million heather
who do not know Christ and the story of sal
walton. There are &c. 900 people who die daily
of Jesus. Let US remember that we are told
TO send out the gospel to all lands and people
Bishop Nichols presented Mr.. Thomas
as one of the leading Sunday school su-
perintendents of Philadelphia. The Bishop
commented upon the fact that despite Mr.
Thomas enormous business demands he
found time to attend to his church work.
Said the Bishop:
Men may be busy, but If they have
the will and the inclination they find time
to come to church and to do their share of
church work.
You are part Of the Sunday school auxil-
iary," said Mr.. Thomas to the children. You