The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-27

visit as presiding elder this year to Grace
Church. The members are requested TO
greet him with large congregation, and
strangers are invited The Sunday-school
viii meet a O'Clock. The Junior League
will meet at O'Clock. The first quarterly
conference will be held at the parson-
age Monday night at o'clock. The Ep
worth League will meet Tuesday at Sis
o'clock, and the prayer meeting Wednes-
day at D. m
There will be preaching at the Ep-
worth Church at II o'clock a. m. by Rev.
Or. J. A. Thompson, presiding elder OF
the Savannah district. This is DR..
Thompson's first official visit for the year.
The pastor, Rev. j. A. Smith, will fill
the pulpit a S:15 p. m, when he will speak
on "A Holy Sabbath the Mark of a Su-
perior Civilization" The Sabbath-school
will meet at 4 O'Clock, and the Junior
Epworth League tomorrow afternoon at
the same hour. The Senior League will
meet on Tuesday at S:15 D. m Prayer
service will be held on Thursday at s:15
p. m.
There will be preaching at Trinity
Church a II O'Clock a. m. and al p.
m. by the pastor. Rev Bascom Anthony.
Xee sermon at night will be on "A Poor
Life and What Makes 1t Poor" and will
conclude the series for the month. The
Sunday-school will meet at p. m,
The many friends Of Mrs Osgood F.
Cook will regret 40 learn that she has
been quite sick. She was somewhat i'm
proved yesterday.
Baptist.
. ba h.
pastor Rev. Robert VanDeventer, will
preach morning and evening. The sub
ject of the morning sermon will be Our
Inheritance From the Nineteenth Cen
fury" being a view opposite to that
taken on this subject at the morning SER
vice on last Sunday. At p. m. he will
speak on The Chivalry of Jesus
The Baptist Young Peoples Union
meeting will be held at 10 o'clock a. m;
that of the Junior Union at $3.50 p. M, and
of the Bible Schdol at p. m.
On Wednesday night at o'clock there
will be a lecture on THE New Testament
Church." and on Friday at 8 p. m. a
meeting Of the Sacred Literature Class
of the b. Y. p. U.
At the First Baptist Church Pastor
John d. Jordan will conduct public wor-
ship at II o'clock a. m, and at 8 p. m.
The rite of baptism will be administered
at the night service.
There Will be services at South Side
Baptist Church at II o'clock a. M, and at
8 p. m. conducted by the pastor. Rev. d.
S. Hdenfied. The Sunday-school will
meet ct $3.50 p. m.
A mid-week prayer service will be held
on Wednesday at p. m.
The American Baptist Home Mission So
ciety has addressed formal letter to
President Mckinley, exhorting him to
maintain an attitude of absolute separa-
ton of church and state in Porto Rico.
Hawaii and the Philippines, and promis-
ing him its moral support in such course.
4 fter pointing out that II is to be expect
ed that religious conditions of the
old form must be expected to
force themselves into new condi-
lions with persistence, and that old eccle-
siastical leaders and people unframed IT.
our way of doing things may not be able
at once to see the wisdom of the Ameri-
IAN ideas. the address exhorts the Prest-
dent to have faith in the idea himself.
and continues:
I'VE remind you of the chapters of our
history where the state has persistently
md triumphantly maintained it's idea of
the independence of the churches, and
those chapters which record the growth
Of the same Idea. from Roger Williams
frst experiment in the charter of Rhode
Island, onward TO its expression in the
Constitution of the United States, and
those chapters in which the states them
selves have confirmed the wisdom of ID
by state action. We assure you that a
great multitude of the intelligent citizen.
ship of the country hold very sacredly
the principle that union of state and
church Is wrong, aud therefore always
harmful in results, however fattering the
immediate effects may seem to be. We
solemnly assure you that no amount of
difficulty avoided, and no time saved in
completing the system by some other
plan, Will be considered a compensation
for any sacrifices of the American prin-
ciple of entire separation of church from
state. Our ancestors fought for that
principle. The people have been we'll sat
isfied with its operation"