Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-22

| r. Hez Sven, pastor; Bethany, Rev. Hugh
| T. Stevenson, pastor.
Christian-Vermont Avenue Rev. F. D.
| Power. LID, pastor
| Lutheran-Luther Place Memorial Rev.
j. G. Boutler. DID, pastor.
| Methodist Episcopal-Dumbarton Avenue,
Rev George w. King, PhD, pastor; F'oun-
such. Rev. William Lee Lynn, pastor;
Grace, Rev. Joseph f. Smith. DID, pastor;
Hamline. Rev. Carl G. Doney. Ph.D.. pas
tor; Ryland, Rev. r. L. Wright, Ph.D..
pastor; Union. Rev. S. Reese Murray, pas
| tor; Wesley Chapel, Rev. w. NJ. Ferguson,
| Do, pastor
NJ. f. Church South-Mt. Vernon Place,
| Rev. w. F. Locke, pastor Epworth, Rev.
! D. L. Blakemore. pastor; Marvin, Rev. ].
| c. Hawk, pastor; Georgetown, Rev. w. H.
| Ballengee. pastor; ST. Paul, Rev. P. w.
Jeffries, pastor; Brightwood. Rev. ]. H.
| Balthis. pastor. All six OIL the churches of
| this denomination participated.
! Methodist Protestant-Frst Church, Rev.
Benz F. Truitt. pastor assisted by Mr.. F..
M. Bradley; Mt. Tabor, Rev. ]. E. Lit
| singer, pastor.
resbyterian-Eastern. Rev. T. Chalmers
Easton. ID. pastor; lexington, Rev w.
Taliaferro Thompson, DID,, pastor; Car
den Memorial, Rev. George M. Cummings.
| pastor; Sixth, Rev. Daniel w. Skellenger,
D., pastor; West Street. Rev. w. c..
Alexander. DID,, pastor: Fifteenth Street,
Rev. Francis ]. Grimke. DID,. pastor.
Observing Other Days
Owing to absence from the city October
81. Rev w. X. Wright, pastor of Centen-
| NAL Baptist Church, and Rev Charles H.
Butler, pastor of Keller Memorial Lutheran
Church, will present the subject next Sun
day, October %.
Expecting to be absent yesterday Rev.
Dr. Walter H. Brooks, pastor of the Nine
teenth Street Baptist Church, anticipated
the date one week. He preached on
Stumbling Blocks" from the text, But
judge this rather. that no man put a
stumbling block or an occasion to fall In
his brothers way" (Rom. xiv, 49,
In calling the attention of his congrega-
ton to what he considered the sin Of sign
ing applications for the sale of ntoxcat-
ing liquors, DIR. Brooks pointed out the way
in which such sale is "a stumbling block
to many. and said: "Inasmuch as the seller
of Intoxicating liquors has no opportunity
In the District of Columbia to coin money
In working the ruin Of his fellow-citizens,
without first receiving the written consent
of his neighbors to ply his trade, the Chris
| tian who affixes his name to one of these
applications, thereby places a stumbling
block in his brothers way, and, with the
liquor seller, Is accountable to God for all
| the misery, want and ruin which come Of
| the trade in consequence of his written
consent
Christian should not put a stumbling block
| in the way of his fellow Christian and men
of the world, was stated thus: Christ
Jesus suffered on Calvary to redeem men
from sin, and in so doing. He gave His
life for the very beings. who come to
misery, ruin and death in consequence Of
the stumbling blocks which are placed in
their way"
Some Of Yesterdays Utterances.
DR. Power. at Vermont Avenue Christian
Church. preached on THE First Instance
of Intoxication on Record"
1.-TWO points" said the preacher. ARE
plain from this history. 1. This sin dis
graces manhood While Noah's action was
without doubt done In ignorance, yet it Is
remembered against him. 1t knocks off
from every man something of the beauty
of the divine image. No one can yield to
its influence without degrading himself The
most complete specimen of Gods noblest
creation may become the lowest brute under
it's power. All sense of honor. of moral
principle. of virtue. of respect. of decency
is lost. The creature becomes as veritable
a slave ever pulled an oar in galley or
toled under southern sun.
80 Not only Is this destruction of individ-
ual manhood, but 1t is the ruin of nations,
civilized peoples, Christian nations great
and proud governments that would not toll
crate for a moment human bondage, piracy
invasion, cruelty to women and children,
the admission to their shores of leprosy or
cholera permit without word the exist
ence in their midst of an evil every day
which is more cruel and devastating than
make a cure of the whole business, 1t ~