Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-02
Justice Hughes Address.

| II esteem it a great privilege to say
a few words today informally on this
happy occasion.
| Long before 1 came to this church 1
had a sense of personal relation with DIR.
| Greene. 1t was shortly after he was
| graduated from the Theological Seminary
, at old Hamilton that / entered the col
| lege there, and it was my good fortune
| to come into close contact with group
| of young men who enjoyed and cherish
| the traditions which he as a student had
been very influential in establishing. And
| under the inspiration of DR.. Greene's in
| fiuence. 1t was only natural that on COM
| ing to Washington l should seek aSSo-
| citation with you under his leadership, an
association permanent-my church home
| i have no doubt, for the rest of my life
Aided Through Church.
| MANY thoughts come to us on such an
| occasion as this. l love to link of the
obscure lives that have been filed with
beautiful service, rendered happy and in
fuential in connection with and through
the ministry of this church; of the thou
sands of whose work this meeting and the
remainder of these anniversary exercises
/ are in truth a memorial: of the many led
by the few the notably few. but the many
who in their hours of sorrow have been
|
strengthened, and through all the many
| experiences of life have been led to rec
| ogniZe the guiding hand of God by rea-
son of their association with this church
Il lose sight for the moment of the
| church as an institution, as an OrganiZa-
| ton, of the church in it's impersonal
view, and think of it as a society of in
| dividuals, each one with his own troubles
each one trying 10 do his best with his
| hand in the hand of the unseen, going
1 fnr ord faif oriV OILY nd cti1 yxitE ho 10
to the goal toward which the Christian
ever looks.
Not too much can be said of Calvary
IChurch. l have had much to do with
church like this. 1 have seen much of
church trustees. When l was a boy
am afraid l sometimes thought that they
| were the chief hindrance to the shrub
of the gospel. i have seen good deal
| of church difficulties and of the unfortu-
nate want of union in view and purpose,
which sometimes characterizes our effort
at the improvement of mankind.
Work Quietly Goes On.
But here nothing of the sort obtrudes
| itself. Quietly but effectively the work
goes on-with an organization for every
department., with competent executive
leadership. with service suited to mod
ern needs. But that is not all. What is
the spirit of this church? What is the
secret of it's success? Would that we
! from one end of the country to the
other, for it is the secret that the
churches of America must learn if they
meet the needs of this day.
| Il am not one of those who look pes
| simistically into the future. 1t is well
| that We should have anniversaries of this
| sort, not simply to consider that which
has been accomplished in connection with
| an organization, but to look back to the
| conditions of the time when the organiza-
| ton first came into existence. AS one
| might say, to project ones self backward
over forty or fifty years and look at the
! question.
| Unity Chief Sentiment.
| Whenever you are disposed to be de-
| spondent read history. Whenever you
| look gloomily at the conditions of the
day study intimately in biography and
in letters and in memoirs the actual con-
| ditions of the lauded past. 1t is easy to
| trace the advancement of the last fifty
| years, far it is material. Our in
| accommodation has been extended to
| such degree that we are very close to-
gether in these later days. The specter
| of disunion no longer hauntS the Union.
The dominant sentiment over all is the
| sentiment of unity, indissoluble unity
| Rev. DIR. S. H Greene, pastor of the
| church, yesterday completed the thirty
| third year of his pastorate. During that
| time the membership has increased from
| 400 to 1SCO. He was prevented by illness
last night from speaking, although sched-
| uled to do His work was lauded by
! all the speakers.
Exercises All Week.
| Exercises in honor of the golden jubilee
| at Calvary will be held all this week. Ow-
| ing to the illness of DR.. Greene yesterday.
| the morning service was conducted by
| DIR. Alvah s. Hobart of Philadelphia.
Greetings from the congregation last
night were given by George Otis Smith,
director of the United States geological
survey, and greetings from the Columbia
| Association of Baptist Churches In wash
ington were extended by Rev. III. w. o.
| Nillincton moderator. The deacons and
! trustees of the church occupied seats on
the platform Dr. Herbert IL. kimball
gave a prayer. Prof. William Allen VIII
bur. dean of Columbia College of Georse
Washington University. told of Dr.
Greene's thirty-three years work for the
church.
Missionary Meeting.
There will be a missionary mass meet
ing at the church this evening. at which
S. w. Woodward will preside. Rev. A.
d. Bryant will bring greetings from the
Deaf Mute Mission. and DR.. William
Allen Wilbur will speak on "A Church
Fifty Years in Missionary Work" Mrs:
H. NJ. Kendrick president Of the Ladies
Missionary Society. will make an ad-
dress on 'Womens Work" Others who
will assist include Herbert +. Aldridge,
Grace Arnold. Mrs Arnold. Mrs. Walter
| \. Gawler, Miss Elizabeth s. Wilbur.
Miss Kate S. White. Miss Rosamond *.
Stickney. Miss Minnie Il. Hegeman. Miss
Louisa G.. Taylor. Miss Edith l.. Swart-
won't. Miss Ethel Vestal. Miss Marjorie
NJ. Downey. Miss Mary l.. Mckeever.
Miss Flossie Mclaughlin, Miss Viola K.
Reece. Miss Edna Morgan, Miss Selma
Fraser, Miss Elizabeth Wilson, Miss Har-
riet S. Ellis and others
II The G. E jubilee prayer meeting will