Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-30
Rev. J. S. Montgomery Urges
New Methods in Sermon.
HOLDS CHRIST HOMELESS
Rev. c. Ernest Smith Declares the
Lord Is Still a Stranger.
TRIBUTE IS PAID BILLY RuGH
Rev. Wallace Radcliffe Places News.
boys Sacrifice at Head of Years
Epoch-Making List.

There are some old things that will not
in his sermon yesterday at Metropolitan
Memorial Methodist Church on THE New
Year in the School of Experience" 1--WE
must not go ON hugging old systems,
clinging to old methods. These are the
things that have been the mildew on the
flower of church promise and hope
Churches have literally died and in
dividuals have stranded on the shore
line Of time because all their energies
were devoted to bolstering up the past
and to preserving their status Of re-
spectability. We cling to the old because
we love it. and because We hate the idea
Of change, and not because the old is
right or best.
'The voice of the Bible is Progress
the new man. the new spirit, the new
commandment, the new song, the new
creation, the new covenant, the new king
dom, the New Testament the new way,
the new heaven and the new earth; and
Just before God Almighty. closes His al
nlanac he seems to lean forward a little
to drop His last word from the skies
Behold, / make all things new
"The Homeless Christ" His Topic.
"The Homeless Christ was the topic
OF the sermon by Rev. c. Ernest Smith,
rector of st. Thomas Protestant Episco-
pal Church, yesterday, the keynote Of the
sermon being that, in spite of the Chris
t1anizing of the world, Christ Himself is
as much homeless today in the actual
affairs of legislation, of business and of
the home as when He was born in the
manager at Bethlehem.
I'm our legislative life" said Rev. Mr..
smith does any one suppose that not
wlthstanding the good men who are in
politics, as good as any in the world the
majority of our legislators are anxious
to have Christ preside over their DELHI
erations as He did over the counsels of
the apostles? Or in business. There are
splendid men in business: but it was no
mere witticism which the author of
David Harum' used when he said, DO
to you. and do it first Business is
business. and so the coal baron demands
>! ton for his coal when it would pay
MN handsomely to sell it for S.
Christ stands today patiently waiting
at the door of human interests and hui
man institutions. asking admittance. Be
fore the year runs out, welcome Christ
over your threshold-not tomorrow, NOT
next week, but today-because tomorrow
Is written large over tragedies broken
hearts. broken lives and over the gates
OF Hades.''
DR.. Carpenter at Epiphany.
Jesus Christ is the supreme expression
of the Fathers love and the supreme
manifestation of the Fathers power, to
gior1fy our humanity, to redeem it from
every evil and to crown it with immor-
fality,' declared Rev. Randolph H. Nc
Kim, in his sermon last night at the
church of the Epiphany. on the theme
Gods Great Cristmas GIFT to Man.
The morning sermon d, the Church of
the Epiphany was delivered by Rev DIR.
Boyd Carpenter. former Bishop of Ripon
England. who spoke on the civilizing
force of practical Christianity. DIR. Car
penter, who came to the United States
last September as a delegate to the Con-
gress on Hygiene and Demography, is
again i'm Washington at the close of an,
extended tour of the.