Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-24
NAME ST. MARK 5
AF TER A WOMAN
METHoDlSTS PAY TRIBUTE TO
JEALOUS WORKER
Congregation of Which Rev. Burton
HamIin is Pastor Has Now Forty
Five Members and Is
Growing

Dedicatory services of st. Marks
Methodist church were held yesterday
afternoon. 1t being the thirteenth ded-
cation in this district during the con-
ference year. Rather than an i'll omen,
the little church considers itself lucky
to be dedicated before the convening Of
conference.
From the car line, across lots through
high growing grass, past several well
kept homes, and one enters st. Marks,
a little church, but neatly constructed,
and one that is sure to grow in true
Methodist fashion
1t is far cry from st. Marks of Los
Angeles to the St. Marks, acknowl-
edged the world over-San Marco of
old Venice. But the Christian spirit
that prompted the building of tenn
pie of worship in the marshy lands Of
the lagoon prompted few pioneers to
build a small church in the outskirts Of
this rapidly growing city.
Mrs. Marks Work
st. Marks was named after Mrs. NJ.
I. Marks, who organized the first Sun
day school in that locality and who has
been one of the most prominent work.
ers in that institution.
Rev. Burton Hamlin has been ap-
pointed pastor Of the new congrega-
ton, which now numbers forty-flve
members, thirty Of whom are proba-
toners.
At the service yesterday afternoon
Rev. A. w. Atkinson, the presiding
elder, officiated, The dedicatory SER
mon was preached by Rev. Robert Nc
Intyre, pastor Of the First Methodist
church, who said In part:
The size has nothing to do with the
church. For the first hundred years
there were no church buildings. The
church did it's biggest work when it
lighted Asia Minor and overfloWed into
Africa. So we see that size has nothing
to do with the work. Size is word we
have invented. God doesn't know any
thing about size. He takes just as good
care of the dew drop as of the sun. We
will drop a whole vocabulary. We in
vent words, and they are for us stills"
House of Prayer
DR.. Mcintyre took for his text Isaiah
56:7: my house shall be called house
Of prayer for all people," He con-
tinued:
ut is the scene in the temple, for all
den of thieves, and my text was
probably the most energetic cccmon our
Lord ever preached. 1t is a trinity Of
great ideas.
Isaiah was the greatest of all The
prophets and Jesus Christ the greatest
of all people. Isaiah was the evangel-
istic prophet who saw Christ coming
~ years before he came, and they
killed him-sawed him in haf-and
TCof fnl, 1os tic Ga,.fgf
We think it hard to take up our cross
and follow Christ, but Isaiah took up
his cross and preceded Christ, yet his
faith was so strong that he died for our
Lord as truly as did Peter and Paul"
The speaker took up three words Of
the text. My Prayer" and AL" as
the greatest words of the text likening
the first to Gods condescension, the
second to mans correspondent and
the last to comprehension, the three
c's'
Like Temple
In carrying out this idea DR.. McIn-
tyre likened the dwelling of God in the
temples, my house." as of a person
moving into a neighborhood and being
neighborly. In prayer he stated that 1t
was the attribute of man not possessed
by animals, and in the word "all" the
great comprehensiveness of the Meth
odist church III Its religion for ALL He
continued:
I'm the Jewish nation Jesus found the
people he could use. They were the
most spiritual people, but they made a
horrible blunder. They thought he
liked them better than all the rest.
when we sent the first trainload Of
grub to San Francisco after the disas-
ter. if they had stopped off at Del
Monte and had a picnic with that
which was intended for the stricken
people. we would have said they didn't
even understand the principle Of our
plan. That is what the Jews did. They
had a picnic.
1T was this broadness that made me
a Methodist, for l was brought up a
Presbyterian. l can't believe in a re-
ligion that says some will be eternally
damned. 1 think that if the Methodist
religion could have reached Burns, we
could have converted him, and we
would then have had some hymns that
could have been sung in heaven on
Sundays"
Following the sermon a call was made
for $75 to defray all the expenses of the
building, $500 having been given by the
city mission alone. The members Of
the congregation subscribed $76.12 after
which the dedicatory service was held.