The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-06-29
FIRST METHODIST CHURCH.

Dean Henry Wade Rogers of the Yale
 Law School Was One of the Speak
 CTS.
 In the First Methodist church, Sum day morning, the services in commem- oration of the birth of John Wesley were exceptionally interesting and im- pressive. Dean Henry Wade Rogers of the Yale Law school was the first speaker and he was followed by Henry H. Benedict. A large congregation was in attendance. Dr. Rogers took for his subject John Wesley-The Man.
 Dr. Rogers dWe1t briefly upon the early life of this Methodist, alluding to his education at Oxford, where his father, grandfather and great grand father were also educated. Wesley started his active life with an excellent mental equipment and was greatly aid ed in his religious efforts by this sub stantial foundation. He was a great and impressive speaker and his style of oratory was decidedly of the argumen- tative kind. He had facts at his com n1and and could deliver them with all the zeal and emphasis of the true and sincere orator. In speaking of Wesley's accomplishments for the benefit of the world, Dr. Rogers began by stating that when Wesley was born, England had almos: ceased to care whether it had religion or not. Wesley made re- ligion a reality in England and en- throned it there. Voltaire destroyed, for a brief time, religion in France. With the advent of Wesley, England passed through a revolution, while France experienced also revolution. The revolution in England was a peaceful reformation; the one in France was a civil war. Wesley re-created the moral consciousness of England, while Voltaire made of the art loving Paris a slaughter house. The true greatness of religion was shown by the results of the works of these two men. Religion was in time recreated in France, even Voltaire being unable to destroy it, "As we review the life and history of John Wesley" said pr. Rogers, "may we not find in them the glorious peace and liberty which comes to him whose life is devoted to the spreading of peace on earth and good will toward men, In Westminster, England has erected a monument to John Wesley, but his monuments ar found in China, Japan, Asia, Africa, Europe and Amer ica. The monuments are the Method ist churches of the world"
 Mir. Benedict delivered an address of rare force, power and brilliancy. His topic was Three Things Which John Wesley Pre- -eminently Saw" In open | ing he made comparison of Emerson and Wesley. In the Concord retrospect sextette of admirable and beautiful graces demand recognition, and thereby moral excellence secures adoration- simplicity, unselfishness, genuineness, | benignity, ingenuousness. innocence. These all Ralph Waldo Emerson pos sessed.
 I recall no more beautiful exponent of moral excellence than Ralph Waldo Emerson. desire to show that splen- did as was the Concord genius, that | the subject of this address, John Wes- ley, saw three things. To wit, sin it's antidote-and the church-which Mir Emerson failed to discover, and that these three things made John Wesley Fan immense contributor to the earthly and celestial happiness of those who came after him-not simply solace, help and stimulus to humanity.
 John Waldo Emerson may have been a magnificent illustration of morality on fire with emotion. but John Wesley was splendid example of Christ-like- ness on fire with the Holy Ghost-a 1 fundamental difference.
 | This Wesleyan fire has spread with the rapidity of forest conflagration until to-day six millions of Methodists | in America alone are revently, grate- fully celebrating the two hundredth anniversary of the birth ofr the God touched religious leader and organizer of the eighteenth century.
 l The three things which John Wesley pre-eminently saw were:
 list. Shifts concerous deadliness.
 2d. Its antidote-the blood of Jesus Christ. The necessity of regeneration not reformation as an essential condi- tion for the commencement of success ful character building.
 3d. The church. The scope, the I equipped organized Christian soldiery.
 Proceeding MT. Benedict spoke upon
 the life and character of Wesley and
 touched upon many points illustrative
 of his theme.
 Put into your religious life, he said.
 the same conservation of mind, heart
 and money that you do in your home
 life. You determine that love, service
 sacrifice shall characterize effort You
 think, work, live for the home, for its
 occupants.
 Think, work. live for God and you
 will be conscious of communion with
 Him. To think, to live, to work, for God is no little thing. It means that the
 God thought shall dominate the intel
 lect-control the affections-and govern