Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-30

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The President at Luther
Place Memorial.
He MAKES AN ADDRESS
BUILDING RENOVATED AFTER
BAD FIRE DAMAGE.
Principal Service in the Morning
He MAKES AN ADDRESS
Principal Service in the Morning
Afternoon Exercises of an Inter-
denominational Character.

With addresses by the President of the
United States, two United States Senators.
the United States treasurer, the president
of the board of District Commissioners and
two eminent divines, the Luther Place
Memorial Church was rededicated yester-
day, just one year after the fire which so
seriously damaged the building. The day
previous was the 10th birthday of the pas
tor, Rev. j. G.. Butler and consequently
the occasion was made doubly commemora-
tive The principal service was held in
the morning, an interdenominational serv-
ice in the afternoon and a special plat
form service in the evening. At all three
meetings the church was crowded with the
members of the congregation and their
friends. The magnificent new organ in
stalled in. place of the one destroyed by
fire was used yesterday, with Mr.. Paul w.
Fishbaugh as organist. 9-'--
The Presidents Address.
President Roosevelt spoke at the morn
ing service. He was introduced by DIR.
Butler. and said
DIR. Butler: 1t is a great pleasure to meet
with you this morning and say word of
greeting on TIE occasion of the rededicati ton
of this church, coming as it does almost
simultaneously with the entry of your pas
tor into his eghtieth year. From the stand
ually to look at matters, there is peculiar
function to be played by the great Lutheran
Church in the United States Of America.
This is "a, church (which had its rise to
power in, and, until it emigrated to this
side of the water, had always had its full
est development in the two great races of
northern and northern middle Europe-the
German and the Scandinavian. The Lutheran
Church came to the territory which Is now
the United States very shortly after the
first permanent settlements were made
within our limits. for when the earliest set
tiers came to dwell around the mouth of
the Delaware they brought the Lutheran
worship with them. and so with the earliest
sesmn sslsF7 VIE es Vas to Psnnsylvanla
tainepsrregiep iq the western part Of Vir-
ginia and the states south of it.
From that day to- this the history of the
growth IN population of this nation has
consisted largely. in some. respects mainly,
of the arrival of successive waves of new
corners to our shores; and the prime duty
of those already in the land is to that
their own progress and. development are
shared BY; thess newcomers. 1t Is serious
and dangerous thing for any man to tear
loose from the soil, from the region in
which he and his forbears have taken root
and to be transplanted into a new land. He
should receive all possible aid in that new
land; and the aid can be rendered him most
effectively by those who can appeal to him
on the, ground of spiritual kinship. There
fore the Lutheran Church can do most In
helping. upward and onward SO many of
the newcomers to our shores; and 1t seems
to that 1t should be- am tempted to
say well-nigh the prime duty of this
church, to see that the immigrants, espe-
cially the immigrants of Lutheran faith
from the old world, whether he come from
Scandinavia or Germany. or whether he
belonged to one of the Lutheran countries
of Finland, or Hungary or Austria, may be
not suffered to drift off with no friendly
hand to him. out of all OF. the church COM
munion. away from all the influences that
tend toward safeguarding and uplifting
him, and that he find ready at hand in this
country those eager to bring him into fell
loWship with the existing bodies.
It's Numerical Strength.
THE Lutheran Church in this country is
OF very great power now numerically and
through the intelligence and thrift of it's
members, but it will grow steadily to even
greater power. 1t is destined to be one of
the two or three greatest and most import
ant national churches in the United States;
one of the two or three churches most dis
tinctively American, most distinctively
among the forces that are to tell for MAX
ing this great country even greater In the
future. Therefore 4 peculiar load of re-
sponsbility rests upon the members of this
church.
1T is an important thing for the people
OF this nation to remember their rights but
It is an even more important thing for them
TO remember their duttSa, In the last analy-
sis the work of statesmen and soldiers the
work of the public man. shall go for moth
ing il II is not based upon the spirit of
Christianity working In the millions of
homes throughout this country so that
there may be that social, that spiritual,
that moral foundation without which no
country can ever rise to permanent great
ness For material well-beng material
prosperity, success in arts, IN letters great
industrial triumphs. all of them and all
of the structure raised thereon will be as
evanescent as a dream II II does not rest
on the righteousness that eXalteth ma
ton
Congratulations Expressed
Let me congratulate you and congratu-
late all of US. that We live In land and
at a time when we accept it as natural
there should -be am INSTRUMENTATION
service of Thanksgiving, such a ceremony
as Is to take place this afternoon, in which
the pastors of other churches join to con-
graduate themselves and you upon the re-
building of this church. One OF the con-
sstent problems of life is to try to cultivate
breadth without shailowness, Just as we
want TO try to cultivate depth without mar
rowness. II seems to me our good fortune
that men have been able to combine fer
vor In doing the Lords work with charity
toward their brethren. who do 1t with GER
tain differences in the non-essentials The
forces ef~evikare strongaand mighty in this
century and in this country as they are In
other countries. as rfey nave been in all
the past een tt,, apS Tbs people who sim
ample opportunity for all their labor in
fighting the common enemy and in assum-
Ing toward their. felows of a different con-
fesson an attitude of generous rivalry in
the effort to see how the most good can be
done 10 our people whole. / thank
you for having given me the chance to
speak TO you this morning. to say a word
of greeting to- SotiNsad TO wish you Cod
speed with all my heart"
Or. Miller Talks.
Rev. DIR. George w. Miller of Baltimore
followed the President with a, brief address.
Taking as his subject The Church of the
Living Cod he alluded to the counsel of
Paul to the young minister Timothy, ex-
planning that the church OF the living God
concerns no sect or particular denomina-
ton. but belongs to all who love the Lord.
Dr. Miller quoted the declaration of Paul
that the church is the pillar and ground of
the truth. and said that not only was this
true. but that the church is the very foun-
tain or truth. He declared that the pres
en' Is more than ever before a Waterfalls