Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-20
ITS ANNUAL BANQUET
CONGREGATIONAL CLUB FUNC-
TON AT RAUsCHER's.
Addresses by Prominent Ministers and
Others-How to Reach Men
the Theme.

VI 6ooh thih6S, WIS SCI UeiOIe wv iiciiiUCi
| and guests of the Washington Congrega-
| tional Club at its thirty-seventh meeting
and banquet at Rauscher's last evening.
Speakers prominent in the pulpit and on
the judicial bench assisted in impressing
on the audience the Importance of wort-
ing together in getting men into the path
ways Of the church. and all pointed their
remarks with aptly turned parallels in the
form of modern, up-to-date stories The
guests included quite many ladies as
men. the great ma jority of the members
being originally New Engianders. but al
most all of them now residents of Wash
ington.
A dainty repast was served and the ex-
ercses were pleasantly interspersed with
music by the quartet of the First Congre
gational Church, Misses Virginia Powell
Goodwin and Edna Scott Smith, and Doug
| lass J. Miller and J. Walter Humphrey.
The organ was in the capable hands of
DR.. Bischcff, and the vocal numbers were
well selected and rendered with skill and
intelligence. The voices of this quartet
are peculiarly harmonious, and show the
effect of long and careful training under
skilled hands.
Opens With Reception.
The entertainment began with a recep-
ton at $50 o'clock in the halls above the
banqueting room. and at O'Clock the
party filed down to the tables. Grace was
said by Rev. NJ. Ross Fishburn, and at
the conclusion of the menu. and after a
song by the quartet, the presiding officer,
Rev. j. l.. Ewel. president of the club, in
troduced, with few predatory remarks,
Rev. N. MCGEE Waters, pastor of the
Tompkins Avenue Congregational Church
of Brooklyn, N. Y, the largest church of
this denomination in the country. The
topic of the evening, adhered to by all the
speakers, was How to Reach Men
Mr.. Waters opened by saying that that
question had for years been his shadow by
day and his ghost by night but that he
remembered one occasion when he had
solved it, although he had caught his man
mapping. He related that a man in his
congregation had been very infrequent
attendant at church and that he suddenly
came one Sunday and took a front pew.
After awhile he dropped into doze and
then into a silent sleep, which lasted dur
ing the entire sermon. The unabashed
man explained that he had to go to church
to sleep because he was a sufferer from in
Somnia.
The burden of Mr. Waters remarks was
to the effect that it takes manly man to
| catch and hold a man, and not namby-
pamby creature
brains, Drawn: benefcence are the order
| of our admiration. The boy and the young
| man." he sad, admire giants in both
physique and intellect. Did Christ go to
the schools to get his DISCIPLES? He did
| not. He went among the virile people
and there He found them. There He found
| Simon; there He found Peter and all the
rest of them, and they were men OF
strength. All the attractions, all the good
| qualities of our Savior can be summoned UP
| in the words: He man.
Brokers, bankers merchants know how
| to reach men. The church does not, and it
| is because the church depends too much
| upon the dogmas of the universities for its
timber. We m niSterS need the help OF
others to get at this thing We went to
| fnr ~
| studied Assyrian and Hebrew, and forgot
! them in three months. We are isolated
! we are forced to dress after a set fashion;
we are told that must not mix too much
with men for fear We shall lose their re-
| spect, and perhaps become contaminated by
! the contact.
The church goes about tbs thing in a
| peculiar way. There is a meeting of n few
sisters and two deacons, and one of the n
! is deaf Then a pale youth comes in and
the sisters say: How perfectly lovely he is
SO soed; Wen have to make a minister
| out of him Then they send him to a
| church school, and in few years he comes
| OUT with mutton chop whiskers and an ac-
| CURED accent. and he's soft that if YOU
| stuck your finger in m he'd run out He $
! a Iensioner; he wants free passes on rho
| railroads and free tickets to everything.
| ana II there is an affair of this kind ne
wants to bring all his family for nothing.
once knew two of these YOUNG workers
out IN chicago. They had been doing what
| they called stunning all day, and n the
evening IN order to finish their day, they
suggested that they do the real tough thing
ana go ont to Evanston in the snokine
car The dear things! They wanted to
know how to reach men and they wont
| into the smoking car" "i'
III. he insisted that men wanted to know the
| ruin, and in order to get at them If wa
the business of the ministers of the posneI
TO tell them the truth. Don't talk cant >
lie sa-d. don't ask them to pink teas NJ,
t to 1--we want 1, to go to pink teas. They want
20 KNOW the truth, and if you will ton II 70
them like a man they will listen ~ -