The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-04-03
Impressive Services Held at
Union NJ. E. Church.
BISHOP ANDERSON oFFICIATEs
Seven Elders Also Are Created I'm
der Direction of Baltimore Con-
ference, Five District SuPerin-
tendents Assisting-Rev. William
r. Wedderspoon breaches Sermon.


copal Church yesterday afternoon at the
Union Church, under the direction of the
Baltimore Conference of Methodist Epis-
copal churches.
AS the major part of the services. held
under the direction of the conference in
thirty-one churches of the city yester-
day, the congregation which gathered at
Union Church to see the ordination per-
formed by Bishop William F. Anderson.
who is conducting the conference, was
the largest in the history of the church.
1t was impossible to obtain standing
room, and many persons were turned
away disappointed.
Bishop Anderson was assisted by the
FIVE District superintendent, Rev. J. w.
r. Sumwalt, J. A. Nicholson, Rev. J. St
Clair Neal, Rev. George c. Bacon. and
Rev. L. L. Watson. and the pastor OF
Union Church. Rev. DR.. Will J. Dwight
son. 4 feature of the services was the
singing of the choir of Dumbarton Ave
nue. Church, consisting of about thirty
trained women's voices. The sermon was
preached by Rev. DR.. William Il. We'd
derspoon.
Rev Dr. Wedderspoon took as his text
Fellowship with Cod and preached a
mastery sermon, charging the young
ministers with the seriousness of their
duties and the importance of keeping
the truth always before them.
Explains Meaning of Text.
He explained just what keeping fellow
ship with God meant, and referred to it
with special reference to the young min
listers. Rev. DR.. Wedderspoon pointed
out the rise and growth of Methodism
urging that the young ren take upon
their own shoulders part Of the rcspon-
sibility that has been borne so patiently
by the older members vf the church.
Bishop Anderson performed the regular
ritual service, and each candidate was
taken personally to account by one of
the ministers assisting him. Although
duly impressive the services were simple.
Those who were ordained as deacons.
all of Washington, were Rev. Allan F.
Poore, of the TennaIlytoWn Church; Rev.
Clarence F. Wise, of he Iowa Avenue
Church: Rev. J. f. Kemp Horn, of the
Breuen Church; Rev. Merritt Earl of
Congress Heights Church, and Rev.
Frank b Hanson. of Herndon, Va, act
ing in the District.
Among those ordained as elders of the
church was one Washington man, Rev.
Frank NJ. Thompson, of Grace NJ. f.
Church. The others were Rev. J. Ed
ward Snyder, Rev. Wilson T. Jarbo,
Pev. Benjamin !. MCGOWAN. Rev. Robert
Z. ZiegIer, Rev. Charles ". Lanham. and
Rev. William F. Carey, all of Baltimore
Several special cars from Baltimore
brought down hundreds of interested
spectators to the services at the Union
Church.
Raps Christian Science.
Declaring the religion of the Hindoo
people to be the philosophical under
g:rdling of Mrs. Eddy's religion, Rev.
Dr. Homer Stuntz, of New York, a secre-
tary of the Board of Foreign Missions.
took occasion TO bestow several carefully
aimed raps at Christian Science last night
during the course of a sermon at the
Douglas Memorial Church, when the Bal
timore NJ. f. Conference held its only Of
fetal meeting
In explaining the faith of the Hindoos,
which he declared to be Pantheism. max
ing God everything and idolizing God.
Rev. Dr. Stuntz carefully explained the
fundamental principles of Christian Sci
ence as founded by Mrs. Eddy.
He declared that when Mrs. Eddy
founded her religion she unconsciously
took the very principles of the Hindoo
faith and converted them into her own
religion.
Despite her active brain and her fore
sight, he declared, Mrs. EDDY was all the
time unconscious that the very founda-
tions of her religion were based upon
heather teachings.
The services last night. presided over
by Rev. DR.. W. w. Barnes, of the Doug
las Memorial Church. marked the ami
versary of the Board of Foreign Mis-
sions.
Rev. Dr. StuntZ spoke for an hour and
A half on the mission work in foreign
fields, especially in India and China. He
made emphatic mention of the fact that
the only missionaries he had ever met
while devoting himself to his foreign
work were from the United States. Great
Britain, and Germany. These. he de-
cIared form the nucleus of the missionary
force the world over.
He made a strong appeal for aid in
the foreign field. There are now 72l mis-
sionaries, men and women, in the serv-
ices Of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
he asserted. and this number should be
tripled to do anything like the amount
of work that lies before them.
He told OF the great work accomplished
by India since the missionaries started
their work in that country. and re-
ferred especially to the new era in the
barbarous marriage laws and customs.
Warns Against seIhshness.
Bishop William II. Anderson, who is
personally in charge OF the conference,
addressed congregation lHdl Illleu
Douglass Memorial Church at the morn
ing services. He took as his sermon
Self" warning the congregation against
tine selfish tendencies of modern times.
During his sermon he went briefly into
the theories of evolution and dual ma
ture.
whether man is the result of an evo-
luton OF the lower order of animals /
have not time to discuss at length" he
said However, those characteristics
are found IN men. The growl Of the
lower animal is found in the normal
man, but it is his duty to kill that beast
and develop the finer qualities. No form
of brute life is SO degraded as a de-
graded human being"
lns all the NJ. f. churches of the city
services were held either in the morn
ing or the afternoon, when the visiting
ministers assumed charge and delivered
sermons.
Appointments of ministers probably
VIII be announced at the meeting to-
night at the Douglas Memorial Church.
the Headquarters of the conference