The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-08
ROOSEVELT 1T
 THE DEDICATION
Makes Speech at Services in
 the New Church
PLEADS FOR BROTHERHOOD
He Occupied One of the Bishops Chairs Which He Had Presented to the Grace Memorial Reform
 cd Church in Washington.

Washington, June 1.-The handsome new home of the Grace Memorial Re- formed church, which President Roose- welt attends was dedicated today with ap- propriate exercises. President Roosevelt with his family attended and made brief address. The Rev. J. M. Schick, the pastor, read the article of consecra- ton and the Rev. E. R. Erschback, D. D., of Frederick, Md, preached the dedication sermon.
 President Roosevelt occupied one of the two bishops chairs which he presented to the church. He was introduced by the Rev MT. Schick, and spoke in part as follows:
 T shall ask your attention to three lines of the dedication canticle: Serve the Lord with gladness enter into his gates with thanksgiving and into his courts with praise. Who shall ascend into the bill 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.
 The Lines Fit.
 "Three better lines could surely not be brought into any dedication service of a church. and it Is a happy thing that we should have it repeated this morning. This church is consecrated 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.
 I've of the reformed churches have a peculiar dutys to perform In this great country of ours. a country still in the making, for we have the duty peculiarly 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 all his old associates and there Is a period of great danger to him in the time before he gets his roots down in the new coun- try, before he brings himself into touch with his fellows in the new land. For that reason I always take peculiar in- terest in the attitude of our churches to- ward the immigrants who come to these shores. feel that we should be peculiar ly watchful over them, because of our own history, because we or our fathers came here under like conditions. Hand of Brotherhood.
 ''Now that we have established our selves, let us see to it that we stretch out the hand of help, the hand of brother hood toward the new corners and help them as speedily as possible to shape themselves and to get into such close re- lation that it will be easy for them to walk we'll in the new life. That Is one form of the duty peculiarly incumbent upon us of these reformed churches. But we are not to be excused if we selfishly 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; who often not only meet too many people anxious to associate with them for their detriment, but too often too few anxious to associate with them for their good.
 This church is consecrated here today to the duty and the service, to the wor- ship of the creator and to an earnest effort on our part so to shape our lives among ourselves and in relation to the outside world that we may feeel that we have done our part in bringing a little nearer the day when there shall be on this earth genuine brotherhood of man.