Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-24
COLLEAGUES BID
MINISTER ADIEU
FAREWELL RECEPTION GIVEN
TO REV. E. P. RYLAND
PASTOR REMINDED HE is ONLY
LOANED TO TEXAS
Federation Will Tender Banquet
to Departing Clergyman, and Men,
bers of Many Denomina-
tions viii Attend

AS a public farewell to Rev. e. P
Ryland, president of the Los Angeles
Church Federation, who will leave
Tuesday for his new pastorate in Hous
ton, Tex, a mass meeting was held yes
terday afternoon in the. auditorium o
the First Methodist church.
Rev. Mr. Ryland, who is one of tht
most popular clergymen of Los Angeles
is being rendered a series of farewell
receptions and meetings, and last nigh
preached his farewell sermon at his
own church in Hollywood.
The sentiment of the meeting yester
day afternoon was that Rev. Mr.. Ry'
land was only being loaned to the
southern state and that he would AGAR
be called to work in Los Angeles, where
he has been the past seven years. The
regulation of the Methodist churcf
south that a pastor may stay but foul
years in one pastorate was mentioned
with hopeful illusions yesterday after
noon.
The meeting was opened by the sing
ing of the hymn "Blest be the Tie that
Binds" Andrew j. Park, who arranged
the program, presided and made short
address. He spoke of the far-reachine
work accomplished by Rev. Mr.. Ryland
during his pastorates in Los Angeles
and Hollywood and of the larger work
| ~ Which, he was SOlllS III l6AttS.
Los Angeles has had and has some
of the greatest men of the world" said
Mr.. Parks, land Brother Ryland, who
| leaves us for Houston, is one of ouI
ablest men and ministers.
Los Angeles is said to have the best
Church Federation, and it's fame and
| the fame of it's president have gone far
and wide. In Houston they need just
such work as we have had here, and sc
we are willing to give him to Houston
He has gone about in our community
with his kindness and ever for civic
righteousness"
Mr.. Scovill, chorister of Rev. Mr.. Ry-
lands church in Hollywood, sang a
| baritone solo.
Rev. Warren F. Day, pastor emeritus
of the First Congregational church.
made an address.
| I'VE are glad that DR.. Ryland came
at an opportune time" said DR.. Day
HE has done his work so well that we
have kept him president of the fedora
! ton four years, and he will go away in
that office, full of honors. He has done
his work well. When he goes we will
realize the great place he has held in
our hearts.
| HE knows our hearts are warm for
him here He will go to the south with
another golden thread connecting the
north and south, and he will come back
to us again."
Clergyman Congratulated
Rev. George Hough, former assistant
pastor of the First Methodist church
| but who is now stationed in San Fran
cisco, was the next speaker He said
that if he had known that DR.. Ryland
was to have been changed he should
have put in petition that he be sent
to San Francisco, where he was greatly
needed. He said:
Il want to congratulate you, Brother
Ryland, on the privilege of laboring In
this city. The warmth and Vigor of en-
thusiasm which the Christian forces in
acting together have given will be a
power to you. You are going from q
| city that does not soon nor easily for
get it's pastors, and when you come
again, whether on a visit or to remain,
you will find a warm welcome.
This is an unusual scene today, and
| 1t brings to my mind that we are living
| in a new golden age of the church when
denominational differences are for
gotten"
Rev Mr. Shoaff, pastor of the Trim
/ ity Methodist church, South, of which
| Dr. Ryland was formerly pastor, made
an address in which he said
II have heard many references to
| the new southland. 1t is not the new
| but the old south TRANSPORTED. 1t is
the same land with its cotton fields, its
waving palms, sWeet-Voiced women
and its chivalrous men. DR.. Ryland
goes to that great south in which there
! is a religious march of triumph. Won
derful has been the religious work
within the past twenty-five years and
wonderful is the work for prohibition
in that state. He will have no small
part in the great triumph that is COM
! ing. In truth he will live in the hearts
| +I,o q c ha from the
City of Angels and I am sure that our
love will follow him winged over the
purple hills and the prairies 1 have
heard his pulpit utterances lived III
the lives of those whom he has served.
Rev. DR.. Ryland. who made brief
but feeling response, was greeted with
hearty applause. He said:
ITO me this is a deep sorrow that
am going away 1 have had two chief
motives in my life since I have come
among you and I have tried to make
the consuming motive of my life my
love for Jesus Christ. I believe in
him, I love and trust myself to him.
would have him the passion of my life
and I give him myself unreservedly.
"I have tried to do that in my work
and to preach the Christ of the gospel
and not the Christ of my own mind
I believe in the Christ of the gospel;
the Son of Mary conceived by the Holy
Ghost, who in his manhood bore ouI
sins; in the Christ of the resurrection
who is today at the right hand of God
making intercession for us. l believe
wholly and unreservedly in him and
want to spend my life in his work.
IT want to see the forces of Christ
as one. I have never been much con-
cerned in denominationalism. There Is
large work ahead of us if we can all
act together. We lose so much of oui
force through pickering and strife
have had a great desire that the forces
who believe in my Lord serve as one
in his work.
81 wish that / might ask that the
churches stand closely united in the
years to come, for there will be nee6
of it, There is a vision before the
church now: we are to establish the
Kingdom of our Lord throughout the
world, and as one body. There can be
no strife. no differences-we must be
one in Christ I love Christ with al
my heart and I strive to make hin
the passion of my life and l want tC
be of use to him in the salvation OF
men.
81 thank you for your many kind
nesses and 1 shall remember then
|. long. l shall always think of these
years as perhaps the happiest in my
life and my prayer shall ever be tha
God will bless you"
Following the address of Rev Mr.
Ryland the hymn, God Be with Yol
Till We Meet Again" was sung, fol
lowing which Rev. Wiley j. Phillip