The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-06-05
LATEST FAIR HAVEN NEWS
NEW PASTOR, REV. CHARLES G. SMITH, BEGINS HIS SERVICE.

As Pastor of Grand Avenue Baptist
 ChurcIl-RemarIs from His Opening
 sermOn-Death of an Aged Towns
 man, Ex-AIderman Willis R. Holt, Aged s2-Seventy-ffth Anniversary
 of Grand Avenue Congregational
 Church to be Celebrated Week of
 June 1S-2S.
 Willis R. Holt died early yesterday morning at his residence, S7 South Front street. He sustained shock of paralysis two weeks ago, which was followed by another Saturday morning. He was eighty-two years old and up to B year ago was unusually vigorous for his years. He was the oldest member of Polar Star lodge, I. O. O. F., and the lodge will attend the funeral in body In his honor. He was formerly alder man of the Eleventh ward, and was registrar when the eleventh and Twelfth wards were consolidated. He leaves to mourn his loss two daughters, Mrs. John Smith, of South Front street, and Mrs. William J. Elder, of 52 Bishop street. The funeral will take place from the chapel in the Faie Ha- ven cemetery tomorrow afternoon at o'clock. .~,
 Saturday was the eighty as- niversary of the birth of Deacon Jacob F. Morrow, of fl Clinton avenue There was no celebration, although on many previous anniversary days his friends have called to help him celebrate. Dea- con Merrow is in good health for man of his years, and his many friends will wish him many returns of his anniver- sary. He has resided in this rity near ly sixty years.
 Rev. Dr. Sheath announred at the Grand Avenue Congregational church yesterday that the seventy-fifth anni- < yersary of the church would be cele- brated on Sundays, June 2S and 25, and with special services on Tuesday even- ing, June 20. with reference to, "Reviv- als of the Church in the Past" To- morrow evening at the prayer meeting the subject will be Japan" The ad- journed meeting of the Ladies Aid so-
 
 afternoon at o'clock. On Thursday afternoon at o'clock the Ladies' Mis- sionary society will meet with Mrs. Sheath at 27 Perkins street.
 The Sunday school of the Grand Ave- nue Congregational church was in charge of the assistant superintendent, John Hanover, yesterday. The super intendent, A. N. Mcintyre, who has been i'll, will probably be able to as sume charge next Sunday.
 MT and Mrs. Robert Walker and two children, who have visited James A. Nelson and family of 70 Houston street, have gone to Washington, D. C., and will also stop in Michigan on their re- turn to their home in Omaha. MT. Walker is a brother of Mrs. Nelson. He formerly resided here and this was his first visit in twenty years. He is in charge of the pharmaceutical de- pertinent in the Cudahy packing house there. 3es s.iss1s
 At the communion service held in the East Pearl Street M. E. church yester- day morning one member was added by letter.
 Rev. Charles G. Smith, the new pas tor of the Grand Avenue Baptist church, began his labors with the church yesterday, preaching morning and evening and conducting the month ly communion service at noon. He leaves this morning for Toronto, Can ada, to remove his family here and will return in time to preach week from next Sunday. His inaugural sermon in the morning was founded on the text in IA ie,, to criu than to receive In referring to his new pastorate MT. Smith said:
 This morning by your unanimous Invitation and by the good hand of AL mighty God, our Father, we commence our ministry in this place and you open a new chapter in the history and work of this church. It is a solemn, sacred occasion, fraught with deep responsi- bility and large and ever-increasing op- portunity. I am sure it is the unani- nous wish of every one here that our service may be united and that we may stand shoulder to shoulder and back to back, preaching nothing up but Christ and nothing down but evil. That it may also be beneficent service. We do not want erely to gather here weekly to hear a sermon or enjoy an hours fellowship; that would be a base mo- tive and our influence would be as the dead sea-a menace and curse. We desire that our lives may be so enriched with the Christ spirit and so fired with the blessed evangel that our influence may be as the river Jordan flowing through the land, blessing and refresh ing all it touches. And, best of all, we want our union and work to be joyful and our tuning and tension to be Re joice in the Lord aIway.' We want to work, not as though we had to work and were toiling under the lash of a taskmaster--that were to be slavery; we desire to labor because we love and because we cannot help it, crying out, Lord, I would serve and be a son, dis miss me not, I pray!' We want to be joyful, not only in the sunshine, when skies are fair and life is a summer sea, but also in the shadow, when clouds are lowering over us and the winds whistle and the pillows roar. The key to all joyful service is to be found in the beautiful and deathless words of the Lord Jesus, plucked by St. Paul from oblivion and added to the church's abiding treasure, It is more blessed to