Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-05


medals for ten years service.
tended services in all of the twenty
seven churches in Montclair to take
part in the peace services requested
by President Wilson. In several of
the churches, Holy Communion was
celebrated. At the First Congre-
gational Church. Rev. DR.. Will
lam Douglass Mackenzie, president
of Hartford Theological Seminary,
preached two sermons. Assembled in
the old First Presbyterion Church,
which has been used by the congrega-
ton for services since the destruction
of it's own edifice by fire last March,
DIR. Mackenzie took for his morning
discourse. 1.-THE Power of Prayer"
and at the vesper service the theme
of his sermon was THE Principle of
Loyalty" At the First Baptist
Church, Rev. DR.. Harry Emerson Fos-
dick took for his morning subject
"The Failure of Conventional Chris
tianity," and in the evening his topic
was THE Worlds Choice: Militarism
or Civilization"
At the morning service in the First
Methodist Church, Rev. Dr. Herbert
f. Randolph preached on 1.-THE Prayers
of God-fearing Men" and in the eve
ming on "The Effect of Prayer in
Bringing Peace"
Following the proclamation of
President Wilson, all the churches in
Irvington held special peace services
yesterday. A special prayer for in
tercession in behalf of peace was
Offered during the services in the
Trinity Episcopal Church, while in
the other churches, prayers asking
for a speedy cessation of hostilities
were offered.
A sermon on the war was preached
by Rev. Uriah McClinchie, pastor of
the First Reformed Church. The
theme of his sermon was 1.-THE Waste
of War" and the minister spoke of
the loss of the best Of Europes man
hood, with the consequent remaining |
of a lot of men unfit for any hard |
and productive work.
European War Radical Sin.
The European war is a radical sin,
not the sin of any individual or ma
ton, according to Rev. Alvin E.
Magary, pastor of Trinity Presbyte-
rian Church, South Orange. Re-
ferring to the European conflict in a
sermon to his congregation yester-
day, he said
I'VE have been hearing about the
indiscretions on 'hyphenated Ameri-
been severely censured for their acts
and utterances. Doubtless they de-
served rebuke and it was competent
ly administered by persons well quail
flied to judge of the offense and adj
minister the remedy. But for the
rest of us it Is well to be patient and
to remember that these men, the
scenes of whose boyhood are now
the backgrounds of nations and the
friends of whose boyhood are now
offering UP their lives, must feel, as
we cannot feel, the bitterness of this
calamity and the torture of this
present uncertainty. However loyal
to his adopted country a man may
be, let us not expect him to forget
the home of his childhood; let us do
what we may to help him in this
time of trial and bereavement.
This war is a racial sin; it is not
the sin of any individual or nation.
Without more knowledge than most
of you possess, l venture to predict
that it will be the verdict of the
future that it has come about as the
inevitable result of certain Imperfect
lions in our civilization. It has been
prepared for by a series of blunders
and for these blunders we are all
alike responsible, for we have all
sanctioned them. 1t is well to con-
denim wrong when we see it; but let
us at least take the trouble to in
form ourselves to some extent before
we Judge. Let us not raise our voices
in condemnation merely because con-
demnation is tn fashion,
Rabbi Alter Abelson, who is the
new head of the Congregation Sharey
Tefilo in Orange, spoke on THE
Patriotism of Peace" last night. He
said the ideal patriotism is the pa
triotism of peace, which makes for joy
and life.
1--WE have already learned how to
die nobly for q cause" he said and
it is about time we should learn to
live for a cause. 1t is about time we
should learn to live nobly for an
ideal. 1t is time we should spell
honor and dignity in terms OF peace
and life and not in terms of death
and strife. We have succeeded in
inventing effective machinery to de-
stroy life. 1t is time we should in
vent effective means of saving life"
Appropriate music and prayers
marked the special peace service at
All Saints Church, Orange, yesterday
morning and evening. Rev. Clarence
Nj. Durham, rector. requested the con-
gregation to stand during the read
ing of the proclamation of the Presi-
dent OF the United states sussestluS
that Peace Sunday be observed after
which he preached upon peace, his
theme being that of the great value
of microscopy prayer. He asked his
hearers to read the eighth chapter of
the revelation of st. John the Divine,
where it is mentioned that there was
silence in heaven, after which an
angel offered incense when the pray
ers of the saints were presented, and
drew from this a lesson showing the
great Importance God attaches to
prayer. He also requested all to re-
member at the service and also at
! their private devotions at home those
engaged in the terrible European war.
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