The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-06-15
AT GRACE M. B. CHURCH.
CELEBRATION OF BIRTHDAY OF
 METHoDTSAf,S FOUNDER.
PFogramme-H. H. Benedict Spoke on Erhe Three Things John Wesley EmInentIy Saw"

Wesley EmIneEtIg Saw"
 Yesterday at Grace M. E. church there was fittingly celebrated the bi- centennial celebration of the birthday of the founder of Methodism. John Wesley, and also the children's day an- niversary. The speaker of the morning was Henry H. Benedict, the founder of the Twentieth Century Wesleyan league. an organization which is world wide in it's church-debt raising move lnent, and the author of "The Burden Litter" an address which moved Meth odism to make the Twentieth century thank offering of $2,OOO,OOO. His sub ject was 'The Three Things John Wes- ley Pre-eminently Saw"
 The pastor. Rev. Arthur J. Smith. in accordance with his annual custom, gave all who attended the morning ser vice a beautiful carnation pink. A large class of children was baptized, the wa 1 ter brought from the Jordan river being | used for this sacrament The church was appropriately decorated with flow 1 CTS and ferns.
 In the evening at 7:3O with the church crowded the children's bi-centennial John Wesley programme was presented by the Sunday school as follows: | Song, by the school; prayer. by the pastor; responsive reading; singing by the school: Essay on John Wesley, D Agnes White; chorus, by Mrs. Richard and class; Six Little Sunbeams; recita- 1 ton. Ivie Branch: solo. Little Mabel | Stowell; song. by infant department; exercise. May Queen;" solo and chorus, Eddie Graham and class: Something More About John Wesley" Eddie Reil- ley; chorus. Marching Song" short sermon by Harold Blakeslee: song, by school; trio. by Edith Hubbell, Olive Degran and Alvena Norton: recitation, Hattie Smith; closing song, by school.
 The new Sunday school choir recent | ly organized by Frank W. Dyke had charge of the music.
 1 The Grace M. F. church has seen many enthusiastic occasions, but but none more inspiring.
 I AL LLsLS d. ltIsB NhI liIS lAAC Slti14il% Si | Charles Wesley's hymn Jesus Lover of l My Soul' Henry H. Benedict came to the platform and was welcomed by the large audience and introduced by the pastor of the church, as the reformer of the Twentieth century.
 MT. Benedict began his speech most 1 impressively. and for thirty-five min utes he held his audience spellbound.
 It is impossible to report the speech which. as prominent scholar present remarked. in so many respects resem' preached before Oxford university which moved all England.
 Mr. Benedict began by comparing John Wesley of Epworth with Ralpt Waldo Emerson at Concord, aftel which he rapidly passed to the subjec announced. The Three Things Johr Wesley Pre-eminently Saw These he represented to be. first, sin; second the antidote. the gospel; third th' church.
 He spoke of sin, it's principle, essenc, and dvelopment. He fearlessly de scribed the saloon as a serpent who's sting infuses a virus into the mora constitution which produces death. Tn club that encouraged alcoholic liquor as beverage was arraigned as one 0 the great social evils of the century His solution for many of the ethrea problems of our age, especially tn question of capital and labor, showed master mind and met the approval 0 the multitude of his hearers. The elo quence of the speaker reached it's sum init when he described the gospel c John Wesley and the Church of Joh Wesley. An eXhortation to holiness c life closed a most marvellous, interestin and memorable address.
 Rev. w. A. Richard. the presidin elder of the New Haven district wa present and pronounced the benedictior