Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1905-02-27
SUNDAY IN CHURCHES
Bright Spring Like Weather
Brought Out a Large
Attendance.


terday. the first such Sunday in many
weeks. added greatly 70 the attendance
of the various churches, and many of
the pews that had been empty during
the stormy Sundays were filed yester-
day. The pastors of the several
churches in the city occupied their
respective pulpits and preached ut
both services.
MARYLAND AVENUE NJ. Z. CHURCH.
Yesterday morning the Rev. 7. Z.
Peters preached from John, l4th chap.
ter, End and 3rd verses s'In nv
Fathers house are many mansions, if
it were not so / would have told you.
l go TO prepare a place for YOU, that
where | am there you may be also. :"
He said in part:
"These words were spoken BY the
Master at the last supper He was
about to take his departure from His
disciples. He also remarked that one
of them would betray Him. Also that
one would deny Him. No wonder
their hearts were troubled. Jesus 90
ing away, one to betray Him, one to
deny Him. They felt that all their
hope was gone They were bewildered.
Therefore Christ said To them Let
not your hearts be troubled We be.
lieve in God, believe also in Me. He
told them to look to God for help
and strength
1.-The cheering words In Ny Faith
er's house are many mansions are for
YOU and / as much as for them. We
have our troubles and trials as they
did and He bids us look above. 4
mansion is place of permanent abode.
Here all things will pass away, but
there we will stay forever Eden was
a place of happiness and through Adam
it was lost, but God has provided a
way by which we can gain more
blessed state than that which was
lost All we have TO do is to believe
on Him and be saved and gain this
blessed estate. i go to prepare a
place. Heaven has been considered
as a state only, but here we are told
that it will be a place. As a state
Heaven has lost its interest to many,
but as place it is ever an interesting
thought.
"If Christ builds home il must be
built of thing. Man in the resurree-
tion is to have real body. This we
confess to believe when we repeat our
creed. A body must have.ea place.
If we have another body it will be a
creation and not resurrection
Heaven, TO be a place of happiness,
must be place of activity. Tie ques-
tion comes TO mind Where is Heaven
There is only one way TO find it, Live
right and go there. A comforting
thought is that Christ said i will
come again. Death is coming home.
Ii we had no death, then under the
present plan we could never reach
Heaven. A Christian is not n native
of EARTH. His place is in Heaven He
longs to be there. In Heaven we
will have that everlasting develop
ment Always going upward and on
ward to higher glories Let all de-
termine TO throw off everything that
might hinder us in our journey All
sacrifice is as nothing compared to the
prize
FIRST NJ. E. CHURCH.
Rev. John NJ LeaYitt, ID. D., l.. J..
D., former president of ST. John s
College. preached yesterday morning
at the First Methodist Episcopal
Church on the text "Behold the Lamb
of God" First John, 29th verse.
The discourse traced the sacrifice of
blood, as typical OF the sacrlnclal
death Of the Saviour, from the first
Offering of Abel down to the end of
the Mosaic era, proving that without
the shedding of blood, there was no
remission Of sin.
The sermon was most critical and
scholarly examination Of the doctrine
of atonement, and was presented with
fervid unctIon and in chase and ele-
CANT language. At the conclusion of
the sermon the congregation sang with
great fervor the hymn beginning -
ARISE, my soul, arise.
Shake off thy guilty years,
The bleeding sacrifice.
In thy behalf appears.
Afcer the service many of the con
gregation shook hands with the vener-
able doctor, and expressed their pleas.
ure at having heard his able sermon.