The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-09-09
CELEBRATES
DR.. Power breaches Ami
yersary Sermon.
REVIEWS GROWTH OF CHURCH
Has Served I'm Washington Through
Nine Administrations, from Grants
Time TO the Present-Has Delivered
5000 Sermons and Paid over $4,000
Visits-Pnst Year the Best.

Rev. Frederick d. Power preached TO
a large congregation at the Vermont
Avenue Christian Church yesterday morn
ing his thirty-second enuE s1sary ser
mon. His text was Micah, iv, IL
I'VE have come, he said, ito the thir-
ty-second milestone OF our pilgrimage
together. Through nine periods of gov
ernment, from Grants second admins
tration to Roosevelts, l have stood
here and seen generation pass. while
the same old story has been told over
and over again. Some have wearied OF
il and dropped away, but God be praised
for the many that have been faithful
Some have removed 70 other fields 10
serve there. and God be thanked for the
work they are doing Some have ended
their pilgrimage and fallen asleep IN
Christ. and God be praised for their
testimony here, and their rest now in
the glory Of the throne
Diseourses on the Church.
The pastor discoursed upon the story
Of the church Of Christ as foreseen by
the prophet-established exalted: the
people flowing into It; the reign Of peace;
every man under his own vine and fig
tree. with none to make him afraid: the
stumbling and the exiled and burdened
safely cared for when the seer's vision
shall be realized. and showed that the
condition foretold OF the church was pos
sible here and now in the individual
life and the church life.
Religion as wayside shrine: religion
as a stained glass window, is a poor
thing, but religion at the top, on the
summit, standing as the supreme cathe-
dral of a mans life-this means every
thing in power and peace and happiness.
we would so establish and exalt this
Individual Church OF Christ; so lift It to
the top in our affections and our service;
in the nobleness of its people and in in
fuepce for good in this community. in the
respect Of mon. and IN the favor Of God
in passion for souls. and power to resist
evil. We have passed another year. and
It mas been one Of our best The people
have given more generously to causes of
missions and benevOlence, the attendance
upon all services mas been larger. the
work in all departments has gone for
ward more successfully than in any year
Of our history.
Has Preached 5000 Sermons.
Il can give you some figures:
For these thirty-twO years we have
contributed TO all purposes $4,000, and
held over 5000 religious services.
The pastor has paid more than $1,000
visits. and preached over 5000 sermons.
Think of listening to 5000 sermons!
Fully 1.622. laembers have been added
to this church, and seven churches have
been established by US in and about the
city, with a total of 2.SOO communicates.
and 2100 in the Sunday schools.
''Thirty-two years ago we had one small
chapel and $50 souls. To-day this church
has 621 enrolled members. and 80 IN the
Sunday school, and raised this yoar over
IS 600 for its work.
Our second church Ninth street, pas
tor, G. f. Miller has 800 members and
SO in the school: our third church. pastor.
w G. Dram, II street, has 140 members
and as many in the school; our fourth
church, Whitney avenue, pastor. w. F.
Smith, has 30 members and 200 in the
Sunday 50 hOOl; our fifth church, pastor.
C. c. Jones, has $50 members and a school
with as many under instruction.
"Our sixth. Vienna. pastor. w. T. La
Prade, has 50 members and a Sunday
school Of IS; our seventh church, pastor,
J. z. Stuart, Fifteenth street southeast,
has 40 members and a school Of $50; our
baby church, Tuxedo, pastor, A: T. Zeig-
Ter, has II members and a school Of 40.
Figures mean something, but better
than money, better than figures. we have
advanced, trust. toward the high places
in faith and charity. in love for Christ.
and reverence for all holy things, in faith
fulness and zeal in loyalty to the right,
in virtue, knowledge, temperance, pa
thence. godliness, brotherly kind7ess. and
love"