Evening journal., 1910-11-03
BAPTISTS GIVE
LAITY A NIGHT
Second Church Audience Hears
Address by Prominent
Men of Faith
ENDEAVORERS WILL
HOLD FORTH TONIGHT

Layman's Night services in Second
Baptist Church last night We're mark
ed Ike the previous anniversary SER
vices IN the church, by q crowded
auditorium, despite the stormy
weather
Special music was furnished by
The choir; by the male quartet.
Messrs. Terry. Loomis, Beckerle and
beckerle, and William f. Beckerle
gave a solo.
The first speaker was Harry En-
mons, a Baptist layman, and a we'll
known attorney of this city.
The Rev. Henry A. Griesemer. d.
D., pastor of the Franklin Square
Baptist Church, Baltimore. Md. was
the second speaker Of the evening.
DR.. Griesemer said:
Men are divided into two classes
benefactors and malefactors They
either elevate or degrade their fell
lows. They are either eyangels OF
grace or ambassadors Of darkness.
All the great monuments of So
ciety have. been organized by the
individual men. During the reforma-
ton there We're many reformers, but
there was only one Martin Luthur
There were many writer's. but only
one John Calvin. Nothing that is
worthy is ever done by the crowd. II
is the individual who is the power
and might.
God has always chosen the indi-
vidual to do his work and if the
world is ever saved II must be
through the efforts Of the individual
man for his fellows, the mission OF
the man."
Professor Edward B. Pollard. ID. d.
of Grocer Theological Seminary, Up
land, Pa. selected as his subject.
The Layman's New Era" and his
remarks in part was as follows
This is a day when church life Is
OF the people, for the people and
by the people. Ours is democratic
land, and the Baptists democratic
I church. What our lawmen need Is
not a declaration Of independence
but a declaration Of responsibility.
"In recent years there has been a
shifting of sentiment with respect "a
the place Of men in the church. An
evangelist asked a man Of the world
TO come to church. He replied, Near
~ all the people in the churches are
women The evangelist quickly an
sw@ed, And nearly all the inmates
of the penitentiary are men, Mer
need the church quite as much as
women. Bryan was right when he
( said: Commerce fills the purse but
clogs the BRAIN The hard-worbine
man Of business needs to uplift the
inspiration that somes from bringing
| his mind and heart into exercise and
into contact with elevating ideals.
: The speaker made a plea for a more
robust type OF piety; greater virilir
/ in the methods of graphing with th'
/ problems both of church and state
! Napoleon said Men are nothing; maj
! is everything" The need is not sim
ply for more laymen I'm the giganu
and highly complex tasks of modern
Christendom at home and abroad, bu
more real, sterling manhood conse
Grated 10 the noble endeavor TO whic
! the present-day church is commit
ted.
The services at the church thi
evening will be known as Mission
ary Night" and will be conducte
under the auspices of the -Christia
Endeavor Societies and missionar
and benevolent societies of III
church. The program will be;
/ Hymn No. ZIG; prayer, the Rev
Frank s. Dobbins, district secretar
of the American Baptist Foreign Mis-
sionary Society; Offering; anthem
HThe Radient Morn" Woodward; ad
dress, the Rev. James A. Maxwell
district secretary OF the America
Baptist Home Mission Society; an
them. "send Out Thy Light" Gounod
address, the Rev. J. Henry Haslan
minister Of 0ethsemane Baptis
Church, Philadelphia; hymn No. 7l'
and benediction.