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ELOQUENT SERMON AT GRAND AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH.
Christian EndeavOr Twenty-hfth Am niversary Celebrated - Annual Ec- clesiastical NIeeting-HeptasOph to Hold Rig Meeting Tonight.

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 Yesterday morning at the Grand Ave- nue Baptist church the pastor, Rev. Charles G. Smith, in the course of his sermon, made an interesting allusion to one of the delightful spots on the east shore, The subject of his sermon was The Daybreak," founded on the text song of Solomon 2:17, Until the day. break and the shadows flee away" He spoke, in part, as follows:
 T have had a personal experience which, it seems to me, Is an illustration of these blest words, which are so often upon the lips of Gods people Last au- tumn I went duck shooting with two friends off Short Beach. We arrived there in the early morning, ere yet the moon and stars had quite ceased to shine. We stood upon little island ledge of rock and looked out upon the surrounding scenery, srouded in a dim gray mist. The moving shadows looked like creeping monsters, and an oppres- sive silence brooded over all. As we stood watching a tiny streak of light pierced the gloom, presently shaft after shaft of light shot athwart the dark ness, until at last the sun appeared in all his glory, crowning those sombre slopes with beauty, flooding the valleys with light, while from every tree-so it seemed --rang out the merry song of birds. That was earth's daybreak, and it is a symbol of the moral and spirit ual daydawn towards which our whole creation slowly but surely moves SOh, yet we trust that somehow good
 will be the final goal of i'll, No bangs of nature, sins of will, defects
 of doubt and taints of blood; 1T can but trust that good shall fall At last-far off---at last, to all,
 And every winter change to spring.
 ''This is the yearning of every true heart, and the sigh is not in vain-it shall be answered. These words were fulfilled when God became incarnate in Christ. The old Hebrew systems had their day and ceased to be. They were but broken lights of the evangel of Jesus. But the words are to be finally fulfilled in the day of Christ's full pow CT and glory in the earth, when the wis., ion the seer of Patmos beheld becomes 8 reality.
 These words are also a portrait of our lives before we experienced the in- coming of Jesus-we were groping amid the shadows, but they fled at His com. manding word, and we passed from darkness to light.
 These words further apply to our varied experiences now as we journey through life. True we have the smil- ing of His face, but the shadows of sor- TOW, trouble and death wrap up thickly around. What, then, is our present comfort and stronghold? This: We have His word flooded with promises, exceeding precious; and we have fel- iowship with Him, by the way, making a joyous life possible even amid the shadows.
 Gathering at His table this morn ing, let us renew our conservation VOWS and be faithful to Him until the day. break and the shadows flee away"
 At the close of the sermon the cum munion was celebrated and MT. Smith gave the right hand of fellowship to four new members of the church.
 The twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the Christian Endeavor so- ciety was celebrated with special exer- cises at the meeting of most of these local societies last evening At the meeting of the society at the Grand Avenue Congregational church Herbert Seward, the president, presided. This society has over one hundred members. The programme rendered was as fol- lows:
 Violin solo-George Kessel
 Hymns, the Endeavorers' marching
 songs, For Christ and the Church.
 and "A Christian Endeavor Song of
 Union"
 Opening Bible reading.
 Prayer-Dr. Sheath
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