Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-08
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| AS the busy season Of church work com.
mences preparations are being made for g
| large rally of the Presbyterian young PEG.
! pie of the city, Tuesday, October Is, at the
First Presbyterian Church. John Marshall
| place. At B pm. the quarterly session OF
| the ladies' foreign Presbyterial meeting will
| be held and the Christian Endeavor socie.
| ties have been invited to join in a social
| hour, with refreshments, at $50 o'clock
| At Z o'clock several conferences upon
| methods Of work. presided over by COM
| petent leaders, will be held simultaneously
| after which these conferences will be re-
| solved into round table," to be pre-
sided over by Miss Jennie Taylor the young
! peoples secretary for home missions. At
o'clock a popular meeting will be held
at the same place. to be addressed by ladies
from Philadelphia and New York upon
home and foreign missions, respectively
The Baptist Young Peoples Union of the
District will hold it's opening fall rally in
the Metropolitan Baptist Church. 9Th and
A streets northeast. Friday evening. Oc-
tOber A. at 1880 o'clock. Rev. John Comp
ton Ball. delegate to the Detroit conven-
ton, will give report, and Rev. Weston
Bruner, DID,, of the Fifth Church will
deliver an address. The Metropolitan choir
will sing the Detroit anthems, and the
Peoples Mission Orchestra will furnish
instrumental music. An interesting even
ing Is anticipated.
Harvest home services" or the feast
of ingathering," will be celebrated tomor-
row morning and evening at lions Luthe-
ran Church, corner 9th and p streets north
west. The church will be decorated with
fruits of all kinds, and the choir will
render music appropriate for the occasion.
The services in the morning will be con-
Quoted in the German language and the
evening service in the English language.
AT the opening of the triennal general
convention of the Episcopal Church of this
country at Boston Wednesday last SER
mon was preached by that distinguished
orator and churchman Bishop Doane of
| Albany.
Bishop Doane selected two texts The
| first was Isaiah. 33:20-"Not one of the
stakes thereof shall be removed, nor shall
| any of the cords thereof be broken" and
| the second was, lsoioh, 54:2-"Spare not,
| lengthen thy cords and strengthen thy
stakes.
His sermon was in part as follows:
We have a live object lesson here today
of strong stakes and long cords in the well
come presence of the beloved archbishop of
Canterbury. Welcome in his own person.
ality to most of the bishops who have
known him and loved him for many years;
welcome as the representative of the old
Church of England, mother once, to whom
as in all family life, the child has grown
to be a sister; welcome as the president of
the venerable Society for the Propa gatio
of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, which sent
| out and sustained the first missions of
| America, foreign to England then, but then,
| as now, of the same household of God; well
| come as the chief bishop of a great mission
| airy church, which has kept the trumpet of
| the Gospel sounding clear and loud along
side of the drumbeat of her worldwide civ
lllZat1on, never silent from the rising of
| the sun till the going down of the same =
fnrth thn
unbroken unity and the unlost continuity
of faith and order, while the cords have
heightened and the curtains been stretched
forth, till they have girdled the continents
and encircled the round world 1t is no
fault of mine that l must speak for you of
him. and not he. instead of me to you this
morning.
Discussing the present state of religious
affairs, Bishop Doane said
we are confronting new conditions with
IN ana without. The world is talking much
and dong much about expansion. England
to Thlbet, Germany to South America JaDap
to Korea. Russia to Manchuria and
America to the Philippines, and the world
IS doing 1t. men say, because of land
munger You may condemn the motive in
the matter of earthly expansion but it is
the true motive for church expansion
ger for the winning of the lands to Christ,
and longing to help on Gods purpose in
making the Kingdoms of the world the
kingdoms of the Lord and of His Christ
We must stretch forth the curtains of our
habitation and we must Iengthen our cords
somehow 1t seems to me that the spirit
which colors our teaching and controls our
practice is too much the opposite of this
exclusion and not inclusiveness is too much
the temper of the church
The danger of today, barring, OF course
irreverence, the spirit of destruction, the
nalevolent cagerness to detect errors tn
invent rather than to discover difficulties
and contradictions, the avowed purpose not
only to disbelieve, but to discredit the
| Scriptures.the ghoulish joy over difference
or versions or OF MISUNDERSTANDING all
this, which is unworthy of the spirit OF
| true scholarship and unworthy of this SUBJ
| lime object of study, the danger of today
pertcial assumptions. And the safety OF
| today Is not to call on man to stop, but to
| call on men to push further on and deeper
| down and find the truth. More and more
| the searched Scriptures testify of Christ
| rs there not a call to US in these words
| for another phase of comprehensveness II
| is the common and careless habit of census
makers and newspaper men to divide the
| Christianity of America under two head
ings. Catholics and Protestants. 1t Is mac
| curate, insufficient and incorrect in its dis
| tributive terms. Unfortunately there are nc
| two titles that will cover the unhappy di-
| visions of Christendom.' Fortunately In
/ classifying this church, we must include Ii
under both terms, since we are catholic
| and we are also protestant. And while, II
| we believe this, il gives us a position OF
1
| a position of incalculable responsibility"
After pointing possible ways of acting in
| regard to other church bodies, the bishop
| continued:
In word. it seems to me that the
! seeking after and the insisting upon start
| ing points of agreement is wiser than the
| seeking after and denouncing the parting
| points of difference While we are widen
| ing and spreading and frightening for in
! Clusiveness let us remember that the safety
| of all this depends on strengthened stakes. -
| In conclusion Bishop Doane said the
| church had outgrown the discussion of
! points of ritual. and that the air had been
| cleared of the old contentious. He thought
| the time would come when men would in
| cline rather to broaden than to narrow the
| terms admitting persons to the communion
| of the church
Mrs Frank Warne of India, wife of the
| Rev. DIR. Frank Warne, bishop of India
| will address the congregation of Union
Methodist Episcopal Church tomorrow
| morning at the IL o'clock service. The re.
| cent moving events of the far east the
| British activity in Tibet, and the general
| outlook of new conditions that may be
| realized under arrangements by Europe and
| the United States at the terminate OF
| the Russo-Japanese war, will make tdings
| from the missionary field 1t is believed OF
| especial interest at this time. Mrs. Warne
| has had large experience, it is said. in con-
| nection with the religious interests of Meth
| odism in India.
| & racaptiop yyas given Monday piobt fbe