The morning journal-courier., 1908-04-30
Banquet Last Night One of the Most Successful Ever Held
 in Tair Haven,
]. E. McAFEE'S FINE SPEECH
Secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Missions Enterlans Large
 Number.

HtN'T ueloIe Hds the ulUlUS room looked as pretty as 1t did last evening, when the Ladies Aid society enter tained the members of the Twentieth Century Wesleyan league and guests, at the third annual banquet of the organization, Tho banquet was serv- cd in the large Sunday school room up stairs, where ten tables were spread With sittings for 225 persons. In front of the chancel was the guests table. Here were seated officers of the league, the speakers of the even ing, Methodist ministers of the city and their wives and the deaconesses. At the other tables were the members Of the league, members of various Methodist church and other friends,
 The color scheme was pink and white. The tables were decorated with candelabra from which candles shed soft light, while the gas lights were turned low. Red and white carna- tons and ferns prettily arranged, were at each table which, with other color ed decorations, and the great spread of viands, gave very fine effect. The chancel was a mass of palms. Ger tainly the ladies are entitled to praise for the fine manner the decorations were arranged. The ladies served a very appetizing banquet with menu as follows; Soup, escalloped oysters, roast turkey, mashed potatoes, chick en salad, salad rolls, devilcd eggs, jellies,, olives, pickles, rye bread, bis cult, ice cream. cake, tea and coffee. It was the general opinion of the din- CTS that they had been most excellent ly served.
 The first annual banquet was held at Trinity NJ. F, church, the second at the First church. and it was the opinion that the third annual held last night, was the best of all. The league was formed several years ago to free all the Methodist churches of the city from debt and the trust has been per formed, nearly s100,000 having been paid. But the organization Is kept up and annual gatherings held
 The banquet was served under the direction of the Ladies Aid society of which Mrs. Charles O. Francis is president, and the members worked with a will and with skill, to make tho banquet success. The reception committee consisted of Rev F. C. Tullar. w. c. Newton. Frank J. Mans field Charles O. Francis, Frank NJ Crawford and Edwin F. Slater.
 Henry II. Benedict Is president of the league and John T. Manson is vice-presldcnt. The toastmnster of the evening was Dean Henry Wade Rogers, LID, and the speakers were Joseph Ernest McAfee of New Yorl city; Rev. Wellesley w. Bowdish, DID. the now presiding elder; Miss Jessie Arbuckle, superintendent of Inc dea, coness home; Rev. John w. Maynard of Trinity and Rev. Frederick Saun ders of the Grace NJ F. church Dur ing the evening m orchestra furnish ed fine selections.
 Among the guests were Rev. Dr Brown of the Presbyterian church anC Mrs, Brown. The address of the ev enng was by Joseph Ernest McAfe, of New York. Mir McAfee Is one O the secretaries of the Presbyterian board of home missions. His address was an excellent one, and was listened to with attentive interest throughout The address in part was as follows
 The North American Continent II the Economy of Grace God Is no respectcr of persons. Which Is [, say that his preferences are not ca pricious His choices do not dclmi his love. They rather maynify hi love. and give it scope.
 "The divine choice of North Amer lea is not arbitrary. The focalizini tendencies of nineteenth and twent eth century progress have unequiv ocally marked the direction of tn, divine preferences; they have mad clear the choice of North America [ But they have made equally clear th' supremely rational and heneflcent bas is of that choice. Men are saved tt serve nations and continents are ded icated by the will of God to the full fllment of universal, benign purposes
 The physical equipment of thi continent for the supreme service t Gods world Is not the least eminen mark of the divine favor Consider Ing it as q laboratory, the divine phy siclst has constructed this room upoi no mean dimensions Large purpose must be modelled on broad lines Got bulded his laboratory large Tn . final man will be shackled by n boundary lines. will know no nortl nor south, will endure no 'nevitabl hot or cold. Here, therefore, are al tho climates The eternal ice of tan adas arctics calls down the mard ians to the eternal bloom of Mexican tropics, they and all between J)inin compact here in the service os man
 "The final man must be no starve ling, Here, therefore, Is earth's in finite variety of fruits of soil and wa ter, of lofty attitudes and brackis' lowlands, Here Is the model and cpl tome of the continents, the cart made small that at large and in tn whole earth may be made altogethe good for man.
 "No one race may claim the flna :. man. To produce him the element must gather from all the races, Tn crime of Babel must be atoned, CT |. God may work His final good in mar ' for man. That atonement is here be , ing wrought Here the races meet { epitomize the race, Each ship loa = brings It's element to contribute { the ultimate composite. From tn ends of the earth they come; fror near and far; Italian Bulgarian, Be hemian, Moravian, Croatian, Slave nian Dalmatian, Ruthenan Rouma nian, Norwegian, Armenian, East In dian West Indian, Lithunian, Hert zogovinIan, Scandinavian, Russian Servian. Syrian, African Cuban Aus , trian, Polish, Turkish, Irish, Finnish