Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-11-20
DISCUSS THE
IMMIGRANT
Third of Series of Union
Meetings on Home Mis-
sions to be Held Tonight.
IN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Interesting Discourse Given
In Grace Lutheran Church
Last Night.

Rev. DR.. Davis w. Lusk, superin-
tendent of the foreign work of the
Presbytery of Newark, will be the
speaker In the Presbyterian church
tonight where the third of the series
of the union services for the consid-
GRAFTON of home missions will be
held, commencing at 7:45 o'clock.
DR.. Lusk is one of the leading min
listers of Newark. His general sub
ject will be "The Immigrants, a
topic On which he is well qualified to
talk as he has devoted much time
and study to this feature of Ameri-
cas- social problem. This topic is
also of particular interest to Perth
Amboy.
Last night at Grace English Luth-
eran church the address was given
by Rev. DR.. Charles l.. Fry, of Cata-
sauqua, Pa, the eastern representa-
tive of the Lutheran church extern
sion In the United States. There
was an increase In the attendance
last night, the church being filled,
and an increasing interest was man
lifested. The devotional exercises
were the same as at the regular Sun
day evening services. Rev. William
H. Bawden, OF the First Baptist
church, read the Scripture lesson, it
being found in the fifty-fifth chapter
of Isaiah.
DR.. Fry's theme was the gospel
has power to save America. He be-
gan by facing the whole formidable
array Of the country's dangers and
then showed that the applied gospel
is the complete solution of them all.
Among the dangers he mentioned
the industrial conflict, the strife be-
tween labor and capital; the antag-
Ionism of the masses toward the
classes; the menace of that type of
SOCIALISM which would overturn the
whole established order of things;
what he termed the political designs
lof the Roman church; the cancer of
Mormonism and the gigantic foe of
intemperance. The American city is
a monstrous peril, he said.
1t was proved that legislative
statistics are not adequate to the
emergency, nor our present public
school curriculum. The only effect
ual and permanent remedy is the
Gospel and even this will not apply
itself, as some automatic piece of
machinery.
DR.. Fry made this vitally impor-
tant fact clear to the eye of his audi
ence by exhibiting a parable in the
sphere of chemistry. First he show
ed vial of clear crystal water, as a
type of ideal human society as God
meant 1t to be. Then he showed
how sin has poisoned the nature of
man, by pouring a hideous defling
liquid into the sparkling water until
every drop was saturated and con-
taminated Then he asked, what is
the remedy? How can the world be
rescued from it's iniquity? What is
the antidote for the contagion? Is
it public libraries, or art galleries, or
philosophy, or science? No, for none
the trouble.
Have you ever wondered what is
the meaning of that big word, Re-
generation! And saying that, the
speaker lifted high the contaminated
vial, and in the sight of all the peo-
pie he slowly poured in the antidote,
which symbolized the Gospels trans
forming power. Whilst every eye
; gazed at the striking object lesson
|
contents of the vessel cleared up to
its original transparency and spar
killed. again in the light.
Here is the church's mission in the
concrete. Apply this cleansing, pur-
flying, Transforming, rescuing, re-
generating Gospel to the frontier of
our continent, the spiritually desti-
tute sections of our land, to our new
Cno icb b a.
sions, Cuba and Porto Rico and the
Philippines, to the native American
Indians and the American negroes,
to the immigrants pouring into our
, |ports in appalling numbers, to the
Mormon reign Of Utah, to the city
slums and every other source OF
Americas danger.
The order of service for tonight is
as follows:
Invocation-The minister.
Hymn-"Near My God to Thee, ''
: by the congregation.
Scripture Lesson-Psalm "a. The
Rev. Ole Nielsen, of the Danish M
e. church.
Anthem-God of Our Fathers, the
chorus choir.
Prayer-Dr. William s. Palmer, OF
the Simpson M. e. church.
Solo-"Seek Ye the Lord" (from
"Josiah"), Ogden; Miss Ruth Pratt
Home Missions Poem-Read by
3 the Rev. Robert Schlotter, of the
: English Lutheran church.
Announcements.
Anthem-"O Zion, Haste!" the
chorus choir.
| Address-General subject, 'Tht
, Immigrants" by Rev. DR.. Davis w
:, Lusk.
Vesper-By choir.
: Hymn-My Country it's of Thee.
s Benediction-The Rev. Thure
lAhlstedt, of the Swedish Congrega
tional church.