Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1907-01-28
SERMONS BY BISHOP POTTER
PREACHED IN THE MORNING AT
NAVAL ACADEMY.
At st. Anne'S Chnrch In The Afternoon.
Large Audiences Hear Both.
Special Music By
The ChOirs.

The Rt. bev. Henry Goldman Potter,
Protestant Episcopal Bishop of New
York, preachded to the Midshipmen
and others at the regular service at
the old armory. Naval Academy yes
terday morning. Besides nearly the
full brigade of midshipmen, there was
large audience present. Among
those present were Rear Admiral Cas-
par Il. Goodrich, Rear Admiral Francis
a. Cook and Mrs. Warfcld, wife ol
Governor Edwin Warfield, OF Mary
land. DIR. III. III. Clark, chaplain of
the Naval Academy, occupied the pull
pit with Bishop Potter and conducted
the service.
Bishop Potter's sermon was upon
service and influence and was received
with the closest attention. He used
as texts the accounts of the bringing
of Simon Peter to Christ by his broth
er Andrew, as found in the eighteenth,
nineteenth verses of the fourth
chapter of the Gospel of Mat
thew And Jesus, walking by the
sea of Gallilee, saw too brethren,
Simon called Peter, and Andrew his
brother, casting net into the sea, for
they were fishers and He saith unto
them Follow me, and / will make you
fishers of men," and the thirty-ninth
and following verses of the first chap
ter of the Gospel of John
An interesting feature of the service.
was the music by the choir composed
of midshipmen and led by Midship-
man stephen Booth Mckinney, of
Knoxville, Tenn. A bass solo by
Midshipman William b. Piersol, of
Philadelphia. Pa, was eXcellently
rendered and Nidshipmen Ralph II.
Stewart, of Huron, ;. D., and Harold
Dep. Burdick, of Lawrence, Kan,
also sang solo parts. Prof. Charles
A. Zimmerman, leader of the Academy
Band, is organist and his thorough
musical knowledge is of much assist
ancs TO the choir.
Bishop Potter's presence at the Ma
val Academy was due TO the efforts
of NIidshipman Charles Il. Hovey, of
Portsmouth, y. H., the president of
the Academy Young Mems Christian
Association. Midshipman Hovey orig
inally secured Bishop POTTER consent
to address the Association. but his
engagements prevented and he preach
ed to the midshipmen and others in
stead. Bishop Potter said in part:
.'There can be no doubt that the two
accounts are of the same incident from
different points of view. Such dis
agreements are not only interesting
as furnishing how the same circum-
stance affected different hearers under
different conditions, but contains in
itself confirmation of the truthful
ness OF the writer's. Did it ever
strike YOU that il the four Gospels had
been written by dishonest schemers
that there would have been scrupu-
lous care to have them conform in
every minor detail?
"The account of the incident as
given by John is probably the more
accurate. 1t is not likely or accord
ing to human nature that the two fish
ermen would have thrown down their
nets and followed Jesus under the in
huence Of first impression. 1t is
more natural to believe that Andrew
had been hearer of John the Baptist
and had talked his teachings over with
his brother Simon Peter.
1t is interesting to note the differ
ences between the careers of Andrew
and Simon or Peter. The former grad
ually disappears ffom the records of
sacred history. Another act of his,
when Jesus has preached to the multi
tude and is told by Andrew of the
youth with the loaves and fishes, is
about the only subsequent reference
of note TO him, while Peter, whom
he had brought to Jesus, looms up
more and more on the horizon of
sacred history.
John Henry Newman has given a
striking comparison of the work of
Andrew in the one who invented the
five ledger lines upon which musical
scores are written. His name is un-
known, but his service--the harmony
of musical compositions-rem
THAT is the point that urge upon