The evening star and Newark advertiser., 1907-11-07

Dr. Daniel II. Martin. Tne cnarge TO tne
people was given by the Rev. Dr. James !.
Vance A feature of the installation cere-
monies was an elaborate musical program.
Fraternal greetings were extended to the
new pastor in two-mnute addresses by the
Rev. John T. Patterson, the Rev. William
Y. Chapman, the Rev. John M Thomas
and the Rev. W. G. Fennell. Excerpts
from the charge delivered by DR.. Martin
follow:
First of all study your spiritual necessi-
ties st. Augustine was right when he
said: He who would reach others must
himself stand above" 1t matters little
what sort of clerical garments you wear,
but makes all the difference what kind of a
man is In them. The Indispensable thing
about holy orders Is not the orders, but the
holiness. Dealing out spiritual verities over
pulpit does not of itself make a man spir-
itual, any more than dealing out religious
books over a counter makes q bookseller
religious There is only one safeguard, the
close and constant touch with the living
Christ; then will the message which YOU
bring your people be your Masters mes-
sage, and the radiance of the Lords life
will shine through yours, and your people
Will walk in the light Of God.
Second study your intellectual needs.
Discipline yourself to rigid mental habits.
In this exacttng age you must do more
than keep up with your reading congrega-
tlon; you must keep ahead. Treatises once
htltu lOf pllllObUpueTS are now f6aQ Dy
day laborers. Never underestimate the cul-
ture or your hearers. Never fancy that the
pews will mistake chaff for wheat, or
stones for bread. Never trust to the delu-
sion sion that If you open your mouth the Lord
VIII fill 1t, unless you have first filled your
head and your heart with His message
Study the needs Of your body. You can
not do healthy work with a sickly Frame
mind; exhausted nerves make poor bow
strings for Gospel arrows. If you preach
Sunday morning and evening, guard the
time between. A minister is a storage
magnetic energy. If he frivols away his
magnetism with social conversation Sun
day afternoons. he depletes his sermonic
power for Sunday evening.
Next. study your parish. Know every
nook and corner in 1t. never knew
parish so small that any preacher ever
filled it full. 1t is the faithful pastor who
makes the helpful preacher. But to preach
to people you do not know will help them
no more than a doctor might who should
sallop down the village street and fling
with the advice, Help yourselves" Min
gle with your people. poor man once
said; we can never get near enough to
our minister to lay any burdens upon
that her pastor was invisible six days of
the week and incomprehensible the
seventh
Let your ministry be characterized by
three qualities-sincerity, simplicity and
sympathy, remembering that the true
minister is Savior as well as seer. More
than follower of the prophets he is
follower of the Christ of Gethsemane and
Cavalry; in the apostolic succession true,
Put also in the sacrihcial succession. one
who through love takes upon his shoulders
of the people and seeks to bear them
away. II the masses are temporarily
alienated from the church Of Christ today,
diverted into social schemes of salvation,
may the reason not be found in the fact
that. official Christianity represents so
poorly the Masters spirit? But these will
shall see the Christ Of Gethsemane and
Calvary reincarnated in its ministry, and
reformed in its members
Mr.. Giles was born in New York in jan
uary 1860. His mother, Joanna Nj. Jones,
was the daughter of stephen Warren Jones,
president of the Fourteenth Street Bank.
and his father, Richard Giles, was ma
tive OF Canada. At 10 years OF age he left
his home in West Nineteenth street, New
York, and for the next five years divided
his time among as many boarding schools.
At 16, under the instruction of tutor, he
was prepared for matriculation at the Col
lege of the City of New York, and began
his studies In the fall of 1876.
About the same time coming under the
he made confession of faith and Joined
the church. In five years he completed his
course and won his first academic degree.
During this period he lost but two days
from sickness and, except when away
from the city. was never absent from his
church. In the fall of 1881 he entered the
law school of Columbia University and at
tended lectures until January of 1882 when,
feeling himself called to the christian min
istry, he abandoned his legal studies and
gained admission to the Union Theological
Seminary, then under the presidency of
Roosevelt D. Hitchcock. In June, 1885, he
received his degree from the Union Theo-
logical Seminary and accepted a call to
the Church of the Redeemer In West
131st street, Harlem. Probably no min
lister in Harlem made more calls between
1885 and 1893 than he, 1t Is said OF him
From Central Park TO the Harlem River
there was not a street but which knew
him. nor a fiat or apartment IN which he
had not conducted some kind OF a service.
In 1898 his grandfather, who was his
benefactor and dearest friend, began to
fall rapidly. Mr.. Giles watched him till
the hour of death, and then was stricken
with what seemed a fatal illness. For
weeks and months he lay as helpless as a
child. Finally he showed slight improve
ment, and attempted to go about In an IN,
valid chair. six months later he resigned
at Charleston Lake, Ontario. CANADA, pc
gan q struggle for health. Finally, after
three years OF waiting. he began TO preach
occasionally. He supplied number OF
churches in Ontario, subsequently, at Sara-
toga, Schenectady and New York In
March, 1897. he was recalled to the pas
torate of his old church, the Church OF
The Redeemer, but declined.
Finally, IN 1888. he accepted call 70
small church in Summit Climate andeother
conditions proved favorable for the resto-
ration of his health, and for. six years he
labored to secure a new church edthce,
which was finally achievd in the construc-