The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-12-31
SUNDAY SCHOOL
IS ORGANIZED
Also New Church..BOth are in Ely
City and Make Enthusiastic Be-
einnines..WilI Build.

With the organization of the first
Sunday school class, and the holding
of regular church services, which
took place in Ely City Sunday, new
phase of existence enters the life of
the residents. The services and pre-
liminary work were conducted by
Rev. Francis H. Robinson of Tono-
pah, missionary for the Presbyterian
church. Before he left here yester-
day morning for his home, he eX-
pressed himself as confident that he
had given religious spirit sufficient
impetus to carry the building up OF
the church to definite conclusion.
At 2:30 Sunday afternoon children
from the homes of Ely City and Ely
gathered together at the Cumberland
hotel, which had been loaned for the
occasion through the kindness OF Mr..
Mcconnell, and work of segregating
them into classes and organizing was
begun.
Election of the officers of the
school took place after the prelimi-
naries had been completed. Those
named for the places of responsibility
WERE Edward c. Hair. superintend-
ent; Miss Mollie Fulmer, assistant SUI
perintendent; Mrs. T. f. Morgan, sec
rotary: Miss Hazel Bates, treasurer.
1t was decided that the school will
meet every Sunday afternoon at
I2:3O. The name of the school will
be the Ely City Sunday school. Suit
l.n l,yrA NJ,
Robinson and forwarded. These will
include lesson and song books The
regular place of meeting was not de-
cided upon but it is thought that the
school house will be utilized. Preach
ing service which will be held about
once each month will doubtless take
place at the Cumberland hotel build
ing.
A large gathering, considering the
notice which had been given, attend
ed the church services at the Cum
berland hotel Sunday night at $50
O'Clock. Rev Robinson preached an
able sermon. His theme was, The
Power of the Gospel the text being
Il am not ashamed of the Gospel of
Christ, for it is the power of God
unto salvation, to everyone that be-
| lieveth.
Along the line of the text he said
| in part: The signs of life all point
to one thing. The power of God.
Every infinitesimal bit of life points
to this. The real power of God is
the Gospel, his word. 1t is more pow
erful than any other known word
written or spoken. For illustration of
this fact II is only necessary to show
that the mass of people had rather
listen to the gospel than to any other
word written or spoken. If this is
mot the case the famous example set
| by the people of San Francisco when
| they listened for one hundred con-
secutive nights to Moody and turned
coldly away from Dr.. John Lord, the
I"Art Historian after only three
nights, leaving him with much
smaller audience on the last night
than on the first, goes for naught
On the other hand, Moody could find
no hall in the entire city which would
accommodate the great crowds which
wished to hear him eXpound the word
| of the Lord.
In spite of the fact that every man
| takes an interest in the word of the
Lord there are many who are ashamed
of this and seeming to think it un-
manly to be Christian, ridicule
those who use the armor of the "Spir-
| it of God" and the Sword of the
Spirit" Paul saw the arm that in
spired the sword and hence gave us
the text, Not Ashamed" one which
his life exemplifed.
Continuing, Mr. Robinson farther
said Missionaries are scorned by
great body of the people. In this
they are wrong, far wrong. Col.
Charles DENLY. an able man. said of
the missionaries and their work
among mankind: 1 have made a
study of the missionary work in
China. | visited almost every open
| port. | inspected every mission sta
ton. | went through the missionary
hospitals | attended synods and
church services. saw the mission
aries in their homes. | saw them all
| Catholic and Protestants, and | hold
the same opinion of them all. They
are all doing a good work They
merit all the support that philan-
| thropy can give them-they will
stand before the world as they ought
| to stand, as benefactors of the peo-
| pie among whom their lives are spent
and forerunners of the commerce of
the world. :
Many other examples of the power
of religion and the good it is doing
In the world were shown by the min
lister. The sermon was hugely en-
ioyed by all who heard it.