Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-07
WORKERS OF N. P. CHURCH
Proposition to Raise One Thousand
Dollars for Missions.
SERMON BY REV. T. o. GROUSE
Proceedings at Meeting Yesterday
Afternoon-Views of Rev. DR..
Munhan Of Philadelphia.

The Christian Endeavor Union campfire
of the Maryland annual conference of the
Methodist Protestant Church occurred last
evening in the Rhode Island Avenue NJ r.
Church with a large audience in attend
ance. Many of the clergy of the confer
ence. including lev. DR. Sheridan of st.
James Church Kent county, Md, the presi-
dent of the conference, and others proml-
nent in the organization We're present, but
the young people were in the lead in the
proceedings. With an augmented choir, the
affair at the beginning seemed TO have
been merged into a service of praise. At
the start the hymn Showers of Bless
ing" was sung and Immediately following
20 What Change" Then. when 20 That
Will Be Glory" was sung 1T seemed as
though the voices would drown the strains
of the big organ.
Mr. Henry Gilligan of Baltimore, the
president of the conference Christian En-
deavor Union, was the presiding officer,
while Mr. George Speidel of this city led
the singing At the conclusion of the serv
ice of song President Gilligan introduced
Rev. F. T. Benson, pastor of st. John
Methodist Church of Baltimore, who con-
Quoted the devotional exercises. We
should have bore of the happy Christianity
he said. That is the kind of religion that
Christian Endeavor brings into the circle
of the church. Christian EndeaVOr is the
religion of music and all that music
teaches to the soul. When you hear people
singing such as in the Christian Endeavor
societies they say that it is the religion of
the sunny way and the one that gives them
the greatest joy In my estimation it is
the religion of the glad way. At the last
Christian Endeavor convention, held in
Baltimore, it decided just to forget all
the troubles of this world and count up
your heavenly jewels. We are going to
have go0d and glorious meeting TO-
night"
To Raise $1,000.
President Gilligan then arose and made
a short address upon the resolution of
the members of the union to raise the
sum of 81 coo for missions, both home and
foreign. and expressed the hope that before
a very long time the money would be raised
to aid in the work, as intended.
Rev. DIR. T. o. Grouse, pastor of the Con-
sress Street Methodist Protestant Church
of this city, was introduced by Mr.. Giligan,
who stated that the minister would speak
on the subject of missions.
Il am not going to say much about the
81 COO DR.. Grouse stated, but if the mes
sage | have in my heart to convey to you
Christian Endeavorers is properly conveyed
encouraged in your effort to complete the
sum. l am here to plead with you to give
yourselves to the Lord and the gospel of
His beloved son. Jesus Christ. | want TO
take for my text this evening the Third
Episte of Paul to the Romans. Paul a
servant of Jesus Christ When | came to
this meeting tonight thought that l may
never be worthy to unlatch the ShoelaceS
of the Apostle Paul, but | can say like him
that ! servant of Jesus Christ We
should tell everyone of the good news of
the love of Jesus Christ that is offered to
each and every one of us if we will only
accept it He stands and tenders it to
you. Some times ! fear we do not dis
tinguish between frivolity and love of the
Lord. l have been to Christian EndeavOr
conventions and | have seen a frivOlity at
times that to me did not seem as proper
upon the sacred occasion as it should have
been. We hear in this latter day of the
peoples who do not know the love of Jesus
Christ and we should be stirred to the ut
most the story of their dire peril is I'M
folded to US.
Need for Missionary Labor.
I'VE should think of our need for mis-.
sionary labor among ourselves as well as
those who sit in darkness in their homes be-
me the subject of missions this evening
The great business of the Church of Jesus
Christ can be summed up in the one word
of missions. We may all be missionaries to
tell the story of the love of Jesus Christ to
all with whom we may come in contact.
Missions aid greatly in the development Of
the character of Christian life. The man
who in his daily church life depends upon
tie Scripture alone is making a grievous
mistake. The piety alone of the clOister
will not save. Your money grows by wise
Investments and not by misery boarding.
Your life must not be like a sponge, always
drinking in. Yodr Christian life must be
symmetrical in order that il may be beauti-
full at all times. For the growth of your
Christian Endeavor societies and churches
you must give more of your time in the
work of aiding missions God has awakened
in me a sense of the great responsibility
hot lie fhn q nu1H
give more of prayer sympathy and money
to this glorious cause of missions. Just as
you offer your help to this great work you
will find that the joy is returned many
fold. 1t will be the JOY of obedience to your
divine Master. You must think of Him
who, with His pierced hand, is pointing the
way to the foreign mission fields.
There is nothing that can bring you
closer to Him than the work which you may
do from time to time in the way of aiding
in the work for bringing His blessed gospel
to tAe vision of the peoples beyond the seas.
/ want more who know the joy of Shaving
souls for Christ and the kingdom. and
know that you want the same. We must at
all times plead for the progress of the
church of Jesus Christ. For the church
where life should be uppermost always.
You all remember the story that Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow tells of a monk
hold the light of his Master, and when at
last the light came 1t was not the same
that he had ever seen upon land or sea be-
fore.
LAS it flooded his cell and he was glorying
in it the bell upon the gate of the mon
astery called to him to come and feed the
poor that were gathered about the gate for
food. He did not want to go to the work,
for he was content while he was within the
light of the heavenly kingdom. And then at
the call of duty he went and gave to the
poor the bread for which they We're call
Ing. Later, when he came back to the cell