Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-22

in which we had travelled" continued the
speaker.
During the years of this church we
have had two pipe organs. The first was
sold with the church at Third and Hill
streets. 1nis present instrument was
presented by Rev. and Mrs. Hildreth as
memorial for their son Richard. They
promised an organ to cost $4,000 IL a like
sum was raised for the church debt.
We raised 5000, but as near as we could
figure 1t out $4,000 was spent on the or
gan. Before the organ was used for the
first time 1t had become memorial to
mother and son, and today 1t stands as
memorial for father, mother and son.
Over 5000 Received
During the latter years the church has
endeavored to enlist every member In
some personal practical service During
the speakers pastorate 2041 members nave
been received, the present membership
being 100.
During these forty years 3O72 people
have been received into the church. In
looking back over these years 1 find that
the speakers pastorate has extended
over nearly one-third of these forty years.
The first church has been the mother
of several other organizations. The
Church of the Messiah is the youngest
church, only few days old. Aside from
these we have two daughters of the
church, one in the home and the other
in the foreign field.
THE work has meant crosses self
denial and much work. Especially the
women of the church have worked. The
men of the church have done much, but
what would we do without the women?
while we have social life in the
church 1t Is not social club. No phil
OgOnhV yrh YDt1fc inf
life the sublimity and tremendous mans
work for man as that of Jesus Christ,
the old and ever new gospel"
At the evening service Rev. William
Horace Day, pastor of the church, spoke
of Los Angeles, Old and New" with a
short stereopticon prelude showing
scenes of the old Los Angeles.
stereopticon prelude, l series of pic
lures of the old Los Angeles, of the
pastors and the church edifices which
had served the first church at New
High, near Temple, 1868 to 1888. were
shown; the second at Third and HILL 1sS3-
1899; the third building at Sixth and Hill,
1S99-1903, and the present one at Hope
and Ninth, since 19O3 were shown. Nine
regular pastors and two temporary pas
tors have been in office during the two
score years, including the present pas
tors. 1t seems almost incredible that
Out OIL SUCH small beginning SO great
results in city and church could have
come.
Church's Early FoothoId
For the text DR.. Day used Gal. 4:31, $50
then, brethren, we are not children of
the bond woman, but of the free.'
After speaking of the old Los An
geles, foupded in 1871, of the eleven men
and eleven women with twenty-five chill
dren which constituted the population
the land of indolenc,, isolation and revo-
luton, the seventy years of the old end
ed with the coming of Stockton and Fre-
mont and the annexation of California to
the United States. The speaker turned
to the period of tradition between the
old and the new.
For twenty years the process went
on" he said.
Los Angeles was properly nicknamed
Los Diabos
1.-The Americans brought all their vices
and few of their virtues.
mo Protestant church could live. The
place was Simply too tight
"A faithful Methodist and his wife
started a church and a school in 1850,
but the splendid heroism of those fol-
lowers of Wesley could not bear the
strain.
"Presbyterians began church build
ing at New High and Temple and gave
up before it was finished
"The Episcopalians finished tn struc-
ture and carried on the work for time.
| The Baptists started and gave up. jew
| ish services had been held and continued
| under Rabbi Edelman, but all Protestant
efforts had ceased when in 1855 DR.. War
ren of San Francisco came to spy out
the land.
'In 1866 Rev. Alexander Parker began
to preach in tue old court house and
formed the First Congregational church
forty years ago today in the house of
Mrs Amanda Scott, In the house still
standing at 1876 San Pedro street. With
1870 the new Los Angeles really began.
Railroads came, schools, homes and
good business blocks were built and mod
ern newspapers were established and the
new Los Angeles became a part OF the
great free Anglo-Saxon word and stands
as the newest world wonder IN rapid
growth to wealth ard power.
Cause for Pride
"The merchant professional man and
the artisan have cause for pride IN what
has happened, but these things could not
have been produced If the preacher ana
schoolmaster had not done their work.
"The struggle of the transition period
from 1850 to 1870 belongs to great world
contest between the Roman idea and the
Anglo-Saxon idea of government
"The imperial conception of govern
ment for the benefit of the governing
and the republican idea of government
for the benefit of the governed. Spain
and England met upon the sea, to deter
mine which should dominate the state
and papacy and reformers locked horns
over the same difference in the church.
'The meeting of those six people In that
quiet home forty years ago was to have
an important part in settling that the
religious life of the future city was to
have a free church and so free state.
'Those children of the great move
ment which restored to Christendom the
democracy of the Christ were adding
needed element to Californias life. No
democracy has fully succeeded where an
imperial church dominated its politics.
To-day the tide of democracy rises tar
higher in this city than in the average
city of America.
'rhose principles which the Pilgrims
gave to the nation their spiritual children
brought to this city forty years ago To-
day.
''Great as has been the service to hu-
manity of the mighty churches IN Eu-
l,ard +ba immortal cOnCeDtiOn,