The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-03-07
AT GRACE M. E. CHURCH.
REY. 4. J. SMITH BREACHES TO
 LOCAL BRANCH

or the Loyal Orange Institution of
 AmsrIca-star of Elm city, l.. O. L.,
 Attends In Body-church Adds
 Seventeen New Members.
 Very few of the Methodist churches of the city have felt the inspiration of the Twentieth Century Wesleyan league debt raising movement more than the Grace M. E. church. Liberated from thier bonded debt of s12,50O, the society has been able to meet all of it's current expenses, and still have a small balance in the treasury at the close of each year. Gracious revivals have followed as a result of the magnificent gifts of the ladies and members of the league The church continues to grow. Yester- day morning seventeen united with the organization.
 In the evening Rev. A. J. Smith preached to the Orange order, Star of Elm City, L. o. L., about seventy-ffve members of the order being present. The subject of the sermon was The Lodge and the Church" The preacher said in brief, every peculiar age has de- veloped it's peculiar spirits, especial men raised up by God, adapted in their characters as reformers in the ages in which they lived. Abraham, Moses, Elijah, Luther, John Baptist, Paul, Lu- ther, Wycliffe, John Knox and John Wesley were men for their times. It may be also said that William II, king of England and prince of Orange, known familiarly as the Knight of the Golden Fleece, was emphatically man for his age. He was born in the heroic days of 1850 He was left fatherless in childhood He was weak and sickly from his cradle, but from his boyhood he developed a fiery but commanding temper. an unconquerable courage and great political ability. William was a born statesman. He came into power at the time when the Dutch republic was carrying on an apparently hopeless war with Louis XIV of France. The death of Dewitt, the leader of the great merchant class called the prince of Or ange. to the head of the republic. He
 
 Do you not see, said the duke of Buck ingham to him, your country is lost. There is a sure way of never seeing it lost, replied William, and that is to die in the last ditch. The contest for liber- ty lasted for seven years and ended in 1878 with treaty of peace. Later Will liam unfurled his banner of Protestant ism. and the liberties of England I will maintain" Tn 1886 he formed a league among the Protestant princes of Germany, Spain and Sweden Tn Eng land the tyranny of King James III was being keenly felt. Tn 1888 William was invited to cross the channel by leading Englishmen of church and state. He an- chored November in Torbay and after ward landed and landed and marched into Exeter, with an army of 15,000 men. The battle cry was "A free parliament and the Protestant religion The re- volt was triumphant. Peers and gentry f1ocked to his standard. King James army fell back in disorder. God help me-, cried the forsaken king, flor even my own children have forsaken me. '' December IS William entered London as the national deliverer, and was crowned king of England. James II fled to Dub lin, where afterward he was followed by William III, and at the famous battle of Boyne was finally conquered.
 The Orange society was established to support and defend the prince of Orange i'll order to maintain the Protestant re- ligion and the liberties of England It was organized or re-organized in Exc ter in November, 1885, on the arrival of the prince of Orange from Torbay. What is the Orange order in America ? It is a society for maintaining the Protestant faith and liberty of the peo- pie.
 But have learned recently that the Loyal Orange institution looks back ward through the labyrinthian mazes of the past to an older origin than Exeter in 1888. and claim an existence before the Order of Free Masons. They trace their origin to the birth of the twins of Tanner. the daughter-in-law of Judah, to the twin Zarah, who ought to have been born first was born second, and