Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-29
THE OPENING SERVICE
Congregation Worships in
New Foundry Church.
SERMON BY DR.. HUGHES
MINISTER NOTES PROGRESS
ALONG ALL LINES.
The Sacred Edifice Not Yet Completed
and the Congregation Assembled
in Sunday School Room.

The opening service in the new Foundry
| NJ. e. Church, corner of 10th and Madison
| streets northwest. was held yesterday
morning. DIR. Edwin H. Hughes, presi-
dent of De PAW University, Greencastle.
| Ind, delivered the sermon, choosing for
| his theme the power and personality of
Jesus Christ The congregation was an
unusually large one.
Those on the platform with DR.. Hughes
| and Rev. DIR. Moore, the pastor. were Rev.
William IL Chapman. DR.. c. w. Gallagher.
Rev. Father" Dolliver. Rev. Henry Baker
and Rev. Albert Osborn DR.. Moore read
the Psalm and DR.. Hughes the lesson.
Theme Of the Discourse.
The text for the sermon was taken from
Pauls writings. and read, Christ is all
and in all" DIR. Hughes said in part:
I'VE have made remarkable progress in
all lines, and the statement that the final
ity in the Christian science came 1000
years ago is unfounded. We know much
more in the sciences today, but no one
has added to Jesus knowledge of the
human heart
How remarkable. too, that Jesus could
have repeated all His teachings in the
| time required to deliver an ordinary SER
mon. In other words, pastor for fifteen
twenty-five or perhaps fifty years enters
his pulpit twice Sundays and at the mid
week prayer meeting only to amplify the
teaching so tersely expressed by Jesus
Should young man come to me this
morning and say he desired to enter the
| ministry and ask me what course he
should pursue / should tell him to finish
his high school course go to college to
the theological seminary, take a year of
postgraduate work, then half of his
working time shut himself for several
hours each day in his study to think,
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Or perhaps after twelve years of study
he might be able to bring out the teach
ings of Jesus. Yet the words of Jesus do
not need amplification or simplification to
make them understood. There never was
as simple a creature in this world the
Nazarene. He. however beggared the
field. He has never had successor; only
disciples
Should the pulpit kings come back
for moment-St Paul, Luther Wesley
Simpson, Phillips Brooks Henry Ward
Beecher-and you were to ask them IL in
all their preaching they had exhausted
| the teaching of Jesus, from the lips of all
would come answers in the negative
Query Answered.
Il have often wondered why He requested
those He healed to say nothing about it.
secured an answer thereto in a book when
l read that His sheer physical exhaustion
from the crowds compelled him to not ad-
yertise himself. When He took the disciples
across the lake to secure rest and quiet for
His physical nature we believe Him human
When the crowd followed, He said in
those beautiful words. Come unto me all We
that are weary and heavy laden 1t was
the weary speaking unto the wearied. And
so all through the Bible; even when He ex-
claimed MY God, and later comforted the
thief by telling him he would that day be
with Him in paradise: or three days in the
tomb, and then across the .river--in all you
see the undisputable and mysterious fellow
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fellowship of God. 1 offer no explanation
why it is thus: This is what we find, and
1 am happy to think that Jesus was both
human and divine
Program Of Music.
The organ mas not yet been installed in
the church, and for the services yesterday
the piano was used for accompaniment
Miss De Shields presiding at the instrument.
She was supported by two comets and a
violin. and 4 trio of voices aided in making
the musical program complete. Mr.. F. A.
Wilson, thirty years ago precentor in the
Foundry Church, again led the singing of
the hymns contralto solo, Morning
Prayer. by Eli Custer. was sung by Mrs.
w. T. Reed, and Howard Butterworth later
sang Allston'S THE Lord Is My Light"
The third member of The trio was William
Domer.
The new edifice is by no means completed
The services were held in the Sunday school
struction during the fall and winter. and the
southern portion is nearly finished, but the
other half, in which is to be the main audi
forum. will not be ready to be occupied
until April 10, when the church will be
dedicated.
In the Sunday school room a representa-
tive of the angel of the resurrection is to be
placed, back of the rostrum and beside the
organ. the empty alcove for which is to be
seen beside the pulpit. This room is a rival
in many respects of majority of the main
auditoriums of other churches of the city.
To the members of Foundry and ST. Paurs,
under whose united efforts the building is
being constructed, the room presented
inspiring appearance. with its new carpets.
separate chairs. frescoed walls, memorial
windows and the palms and flowers banked
around the pulpit
The building was turned over to the MEM
bers some time ago by the contractors, and
the task of completing It has been left prin-
epally to the pastor, DIR. Moore