The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-25
Woman's 5 Home Mission Societies Close Meeting
!. DANEELlY's SERMON
Makes Forcefd Address to Large
 Congregation.
At Mass Meetins for Ckildren Miss Harrison Speaks and At Night
 Mrs Johnson Makes Notable Talk.

The woman's Home Mission so- cieties of Alabama closed their session in Montgomery yesterday with ser vices in the morning. afternoon, and evening.
 The feature of the meeting was the annual sermon. delivered at II o'clock at the Perry Street Methodist Church, i, by Rev. E. A. Dannely, presiding el- der of the Greensboro district. Rev. MT. Dannely spoke earnestly and elo- quently, and the large congregation was deeply impressed by the sermon.
 MT. Dannely said:
 His discourse was based on Mt. 13 "ye are the salt of the earth" and was delivered with force and eloquence By way of introduction he touched on light. Sleaven and salt Showing that the three figures were symbolic of Christian life and character.
 Proceeding he said that moral "Saltiness' is needed to counteract the universal true devices of humanity. He declared that moral ..sal altiness in the individual and in the corporate church was only another name for exceeding righteousness and was ,begotten by a conviction of the truth of the gospel. The individual will use every gift of Gods grace in seIf-sacrificingi service and pass every blessing on enlarged likewise when moral Saltiness pre- vAdes the corporal body the alton of the church will burn with evangelistic fire. souls will be saved andtthe King dom spread. The individual or ogani- zation having conviction of the truth of the gospel, constitute the moral Saltiness which will in the end perrin cate mother. earth and make it over into the Kingdom, but the individual who Is seif-centered and only endeav- ors to keep him or herself ''unspotted'' is, like to Tennyson's maid, "Faultily faultless. icily cold, splendidly null, dead perfective" and any organization without the aggressive and evangelis- tic spirit has no place in the Masters vineyard. A moral salitness of, indi- vidual character is the one qualiflca- ton for successive work and this qual- ification Is possessed in a large mea sure by the members of the Home Mission Society. By reason of this fact your organization has been able to exercise loving and uplifting influence and will continue to yield yet greater power for God and God men have ever stood in the lime light of the worlds history and naonopolized her favors and applause, but humanity has re- ceived her greatest servica at the hands of the modest and inconspicuous
 From the days when the unknown prophet rebuke Ahob. an improved maiden told Nooman the Syrian of the Prophet of Israel, a, christian mother gave a John Wesley of a Frances Will lard to the world until the days of your own society--unherald
 Unknown, retired and consecrated women have been thea silent secret force lifting the world to a higher holier plane. Your achievements in the past have been noble. God has honored your labors. May you con tinued to be as you have ever been. Ministering evangles, angles of mercy and help and love. giving forth the savory influence of the Gospel of Christ.
 A mass meeting for children wal held at o'clock yesterday afternoon at the Perry Street Methodist Churct led. by Miss Miriam Harrison, city niis. sionary of Mobile. The meeting was largely attended, and Miss Harrison held the attention of the young people throughout her discourse.
 The subject of the afternoon was Christ, and the leader treated the theme in such a manner as to brina home to the children the manifold bles- sings of religion and the necessity oi obtaining these blessings through ac- ceptance of the Savior. ... z.
 She powerfully delineated the pitiful sufferings of the Savior on behalf oi those he loved so well, depicted feel ingly the infrmities of the human race and impressed upon the children the fact that through Jesus would coms alleviation from suffering, and that