Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1910-08-17
A WEST VIRGINIA CAMP
Southern MethOdiSts Hold Ser
vices Al BurlingtOn-FOrty
Tents
TABERNACLE OF WORSHIP
Gathering For Spiritual Profit And Relig-
iOus Exercises

The Saviour, said the preacher,
gave very simple, direct and sensi-
bic way of propagating His religion.
1t was that one man should feel "the
power" in his heart, and then tell il
to his neighbor, and thus the process
was to continue until the world was
conquered. This religion began at
home. 1t was in the home city of
Jerusalem that the Apostles were
to begin first. 1t was very poor
religion that a man has when he can
not commence to tell what he has to
his brothers, his sisters and his father
and mother. | have great respect
for the opinions of those people who
say that charity begins at home. !
have seen noble men who were exam
plies of this in the Methodist Church
in places where sometimes one of
these laymen, and sometimes two,
held the whole church together, and
even paid the preachers salary.
Then the Apostles were to go out
into Judea, and even into Samaria,
that country that the Jews hated
and which country had driven the
Saviour out of it. when James and
John had wanted to call down fire
from heaven and to destroy the
ungrateful city. The church was,
afterward, to 90 out into the whole
world. If any man feels GOODNESS in re-
| ligion, let him pray for the countries
that have no Christianity, and this
will warm up his heart | expect to
shake hands with the Chinese and
| the Japanese in that day when Chris
tianity has finally conquered the
world.
A Methodist who has not the Holy
| Spirit in his heart is, of all men,
most miserable. He is to be pitied.
A bishop of the Catholic church has
said that all the Catholics need fear
| in America is organized Methodism.
Methodism stands for personal re-
ligion. 1t began when John Wesley
| felt his heart strangely warmed. ="
This is the power.
Men who have the love of Christ in
their hearts should go out into the
highways and the byways for their
| fellow men. There are men in the
hollows of this country, in whose
veins flows the best blood in the
land. They need to be told of the re-
ligion of Christ. Don't fear to go
| and tell the most hardened sinner.
A steward in the church told me that
all the preachers used to pass by him
on account of his wickedness, but,
he said, one day Brother Strother
came along. opened his gate, and he
| couldn't believe his eyes as he saw
| him come up his lane, with the wheels
of his buggy rolling rapidly and his
duster flying in the air, and jumped
out and called out 'How do, Brother
--, 'and he captured me at once. "
You must have this religion when
you 90 to talk to people about it. At
one of my meetings | had man of
6S at the altar. One Of the members
went to talk to him. When he left
the old man called me to him and
said: Don't let that man talk to
you; he knows no more about religion
than / do. Send me -. ! know
that he has the religion that he, as
my neighbor, has lived" This old
man had said that he had never pray
ed in his life.
The church had its rich Zacheus and
Matthew, it's learned Paul and the
beloved physician Luke, and so we
want the leading men of today in the
church; but that church which only
looks after the high and neglects the
lowly will die out. 1t is only three
generations from shirt sleeves to
shirt sleeves. | have seen these fine
lands, once owned by goddess men who
had nothing to give their children but
broad acres, pass away entirely from
the hands of their families. Not
even grandchild possesses one foot
of it. So it will be with the church
that neglects the poor and humble.
The church must look after all men
of every class.
The other hymns of the service
were aptly chosen, familiar ones
which belonged to the church univer-
sal. So the whole vast congregation,
without books, were able to join in the
praise. The hymns were "All Hail
the Power of Jesus Name, "Oh,
for Thousand Tongues to Praise My
God and Onward, Christian Sol
diers. AS there were many of
other denominations present, this
martial hymn we'll versed the senti-
ment of the congregation
I'VE are not divided, e.. -
All one body we,
One in hope and doctrine,
One in charity.