The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-26
FINE SERVICES
IN PARK PLACE
Methodist Church is Rcopened
After Period OF Reno
walton.
SACRED HOUSE WAS FILLED
Rev. DR.. kilgo, President OF I'm
ity College, breaches Two
Powerful Sermons.

rho reoponing OF Park Place Metho-
dis, Church. OF which Rev. L. II. bet.s
ie nastor, took place yesterday Win
splendid programme OF services any
music. both morning and night. rev ..
5c Kilgo. ID. D., president of Trinity COL
lore. North Carolina, was the preacher
al both services, delivering on both occa-
sIons splendid specimens OF peweriul e'o-
quencc and religious oratory.
AT. both services the church was crowd
ed with the congregation, VINO seeiieu
20 rejoice In the fine contamination Oh
their effort to improve and beauty inc
building. The interior has been en'Hels
refurnished with beautiful new peWs '''iu
carpet; the walls have tcen PRETTY res
coed and the organ has been thoroughly
renovated The building has also been
renovated and painted on the outside, and
the church now stands as beautiful
specimen of architectural beauty
All the morning service Or. Kilgo
preached from the text contained In Sec
ond Chronicles. seventeenth chapter.
ninth and thirteenth verses. inclusive
His theme was Religion In the National
life" Dr. Kigo delivered himself with
powerful force and emphasis. and with
a most telling effect. He showed tlat
religion is as much needed in national
life AS In any other, or as in the lndi-
yidual life.
I'm a historical review. he showed that
those nations had achieved the .highest
levels and had left behind them q more
lasting impress of their principles and
ideals. that had been influenced by a
religious faith. Religion has ever been
the main force in the life of nation,
and none of the powers of the earth
may hope for success and glorious
achievement for the national life or for
the life of the individuals who do not
in their principles of government. incu-
late religious ideal
Supremacy of Divine Will.
At night he took as his theme The
Supremacy OF the Divine Will" In OPEN
ing his remarks lie referred to the age
long contest between naturalism and
s,iper-naturalism. The conflict has waged
in the centuries OF the past, and 1t is
still being waged By the adherents of
Inatcrialism on the one side, and by the
adherents of the religious ideal, on the
other. The Jews had asked for a Sign,
and the Greek for n reason. And from
the material PHILOSOPHERS of life advanced
by the different thinkers, sprang many
schools to wage the conflict between
naturalism and super-naturalism. But
in the battle of augmentation, super
naturalism has gained the ascendency,
and the human heart has been illuminated
with spiritual ideals that light mems feet
TO the eternal way of religious consum-
nation.
Over against all the schools of natura-
lisnl stands the word of God, based on
the experimentation and Locking TO r,e
achievement of supernatural ends. He
referred to the literary criticism of the
Bible. saying that II had torn away the
Veil of the holy Of holes. and committed
a work of Dissertation in attempting to
test the evidence of the proof of the
Divine word
In n vivid coloring of words he drew
the picture of Christ passing through the
crucial moment Of His life in the Garden
of Gethsemapes Sharacterizing 1t as an
evidence of The power. place and influence
OF supernatpralisln., In his powerful por-
trsyal Of the PROSTATE Lord. he told
of the prayer that fell from the lips of
Jesus-the prayer that acknowledged the
existence and the authority of higher
and supernatural being. And the words,
.grhy will be done" are tr-'lay the ac-
acknowledgement of the CHI. :, life of n
supernatural power euid.,s: md direct
ing the forces of the wori,i
!. DIR. kilgo made a powerful arraignment
u tlls etillcs OF society, saying that they
are based on naturalsm, having no prop
er dtstincttonl9f right and wrong, without
ban on the crit doer or a higher esteem,
for the righteous For considerably over
an hour the speaker delivered himself
OF q torrent of eloauence. pleading for
the supremacy of the divine will and
showing that ii only had worked for the
progress of nations. the civilization of the
peoples and the enlightenment of tho
world The, divine will had. since the
foundations Of the earth, and before, held
sway: it has directed the forces OF the
world, and 1t must forever guide and
direct the nations and the individual.
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