Evening star., 1904-02-01
LUTHERANS GRATEFUL
MEMORIAL CHURCH COUNCIL
ADOPTS RESOLUTIONS.
Pastor Reads Letters of Sympathy
Over Recent Damage of
House Of Worship.

Services were held yesterday morning In
the little chapel adjoining the Luther Place
Memorial Church, that was so badly
wrecked by fire last Friday night. In his
sermon DIR. j. G. Butler, the pastor said
nothing had touched his heart so much ae
the general and genuine expressions of
sympathy that had come to him from every
part of the city
The venerab BILE pastor. who conducted the
services also read the letters from the
other churches. Besides the offer from the
, congregation of the Hebrew Temple ten
dering the building to the unfortunate
members of the Luther Memorial Church
for services as stated in The Star Satur-
day, like offer came from the Pro-Cathe-
dral Church of the Ascension, through
Rishop Satterlee and the dean of the ca
thedral chapter, and places of worship were
also rendered by the New York Avenue
Presbyterian Church, the Temple Baptlst
Church the Vermont Avenue Christian
Church. ST Marks Lutheran Church, the
Presbyterian Church of the Covenant and
others.
Councils Action.
The church council of the Memorial
Lutheran Church at the service yesterday
morning presented resolution. which was
unanimously adopted by the congregation
by a rising vote, to the effect that, 'recog-
nizing in the calamity which has come to
the Memorial Church call to new conse-
Grafton to Christ and His kingdom, and
thankful that so much is spared from the
flames we anew this day devote ourselves
to the work of restoration, that we may
with courage and vigor go forward IN the
good work of the gospel to which we nave
given our lives; that we express our nearly
gratitude for the general and generous SYM
pathy of the entire community. Hebrew,
Catholic and Protestant, which has come TO
us in many ways; that we especially
thank the Pro-Cathedral, the Vermont Ave
nue. Christian Church, the Church OF Our
Father. the Washington Hebrew Congrega-
ton, the Temple Baptist Church, the
Church of the Covenant. the New YORK
Avenue Presbyterian Church, st. Marks
Lutheran Church and others for the prompt
and hearty opening of their doors to us as
places of worship; that our thanks are
hereby rendered to our enterprlslng city
papers for their full and satisfactory re-
ports of our disaster, that our fire and po-
lice departments have given another evil
dence of their prompt and reliable service
In the midst of sudden calamity, and are
entitled to our hearty thanks; that as soon
as our insurance has been adjusted ana
satisfactory plans for restoration have been
secured we will go forward in Gods name,
making the glory of the latter house even
greater than that of the former that the
Memorial Church, with the statue OF Luther,
the lberator of modern thought, may
continue to contribute to the beauty of our
beautiful capital city.
DR.. Buffers Sermon.
During the course of his sermon DR.. But
Ter said:
..The thought l want to leave with you
is the worth. the preciousness of Gods
house In the months before us 1t must
be our purpose to restore ana even 10 I'M
prove that which we have lost by fire. The
words of the text are the words of King
David who knew the worth OF Gods house
to himself a an individual and to the peo-
pie over whom he ruled Whatever else
may be said of David. he had an intense
love for the house of God. and, though not
permitted to build the temple, yet his great
heart provided largely for its building by
Solomon. Had Solomon lived as David
lived the kingdom of Israel would stand to-
day.
'aThe strength of our own republic is in
that which centers in the house of God.
The people who nodded our institutions,
who kept from evil and inspired to good
the best citizens of this land, are like our
selves, lovers of Gods house. The whole