Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-06-08
President Dwells On Mission of
Reform Church at Wash
ington Dedication
HANDSOME CHURCH COMPLETED
Grace Memorial Reformed Church
Which President and His Family At.
tend. Dedicated misunderstanding
Help to immigrants an Especial Duty
Because of Their Helplessnesst

FORMED CnufCN WHICH L ieAluSiit As'N"~
welt attends, was dedicated Sunday
with appropriate exercises. President
Roosevelt, with his family, attended
and made a brief address. The Rev.
j. NJ. Schick, the pastor. read the arti-
Gle of conservation and the Rev. r. X.
Eschbach of Frederick, Md, preached
the dedication sermon. Others who
took part in the exercises were the
Rev. C. S. Slagle, of Westminster, Md;
the Rev. DR.. F'lagg, of the Middle
Dutch Collegiate Reformed church OF
New York City; Rev. A. t .G. Apple.
of Catawissa, Pa; Rev. G. a. Snyder.
of Hagerstown, Md; Rev. j. A. Hoff-
helms. Rev. ]. C. Musser, of Philadel-
phia, and the Rev. Robert O'Boyle, OF
Sunbury, Pa.
President Roosevelt occupied one of
the two bishops chairs which he pr
scented to the church. He was intro
duced by the Rev. Mr.. Schick, and
spoke as follows:
II shall ask your attention TO threl
lines of the dedication canucle: Serve
the Lord with gladness; enter into His
gates with thanksgiving. and into His
courts with praise. Who shall ascend
into the hill of the Lord? Or who
shall stand in His holy place? He that
hath clean hands and pure heart;
who hath not lifted UP his soul unto
vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
Three better lines could surely not
be brought into any dedication services
of a church, and it's a happy thing
that we should have repeated them
this morning. This church is conse-
Grated to the service of the Lord; and
we can serve Him by the way in which
we serve our fellow men. This church
is consecrated to service and duty. 1t
was written of old that by their fruits
we shall know Them" and we can show
the faith that is in us; we can show
the sincerity of our devotion by the
fruits we bring forth. The man who
is not a tender and considerate hus-
band. loving and wise father is not
serving the Lord when he goes to
church; so with the woman; so with
all who come here. Our being in this
church, our communion with one an
other, our sitting under the pastor and
hearing from MIN the word OF God
must, if we are sincere, show the eff
fects in our lives outside.
I'VE of the Reformed churches have
n peculiar duty to perform in this great
country of ours, q country still In the
making for we have the duty pecu
liarly incumbent upon us to take care
of our brethren who come each year
from over seas to our shores. The
man going TO a new country Is torn
by the roots from his old associations,
and there is period of great danger
to him in the time before he gets his
roots down in the new country, before
he brings himself into touch with his
fellows in the new land. For that
reason l always take a peculiar interest
in the attitude of our churches toward
the immigrants who come to these
shores feel that we should be pecu
liarly watchful over them, because of
our own history, because we or our
fathers came here under like conditions.
Now that we have established ourselves
let us see to it that we stretch out the
hand of help, the hand of brotherhood
toward the newcomers and help them
as speedily as possible TO shape them
selves and to get into such relations
that it will be easy for them TO walk
we'll in the new life. That is one form
of duty peculiarly incumbent upon Us
of these Reformed churches. But we
are not to be excused If we selfshly
sit down and enjoy gifts that have
been given to US and do not try to
share them with our poorer fellows
coming from every part of the world.
who, many of them, stand in such need
of the helping hand; VINO often not
only meet too many people anxious to
associate with them for their detriment.
but too often, too few anxious to as
sociate with them for their good.
'T trust that with the conservation
of each new church Of the reform creed
of the church in the country there will
be established fresh center to get at
and help for the good of the people
that yearly come from over the seas
to us. No more important work can
be done by our people; important to
the cause of Christianity, important to
the cause of true national life and
greatness here in our own land. An
other thing: Let us SO far as strength
is given u.s. make it evident to those
who look on and are not of us, that our
faith is not one of words merely; That
it finds expressin in deeds. one sad,
one lamentable phase of human history
is that the very Hottest words. imply
ing the Hottest ideas, have been used
as cloaks for the commission of dread
full deeds of iniquity. We must in our
lives, in our efforts, endeavor to bet
ter the cause of brotherhood in the
human family land we must do it in
way that the man anxious to find sub
ject for complaint or discussion in the
churches of the United States, in our
church, may not be able to find it by
pointing out any contrast between our
professions and our lives.
This church is consecrated here to-
day to duty and to service, to the
worship of the Creator, and to an earn
est effort on our part SO to shape our
lives among ourselves and in relation
to the outside world that we may feel
that we have done our part in bringing
a little nearer the day when there shall
be on this earth genuine brotherhood
of man."
Court Recognizes Strike Report.
Omaha, June S.-The report of the
anthracite strike commission, received
;,,,li,;al raoocr,itio IN, an Injunction is