Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-10-27
Ruins of Foxall Gun Foundry. which
stood above Georgetown.

Ruins of Foxall Gun Foundry, which
stood above Georgetown.
probationers. about 81, 600 CHURCHES,
valued at $24O.OO0,O00; about 100000
scholars, teachers and officers in her
Sunday schools and about three-quar-
tiers of a million young people In her
Epworth Leagues. We have more than
10000 itinerant ministers and over
numerous weekly family papers. besides
many others for our Sunday schools
and leagues. Our presses print annual
ly tens of thousands of copies of books
for nationwide circulation. In the
United States we support more than
100 collegiate, academic. theological
and professional Institutions and very
many in foreign missionary fields. We
the training of nurses and deaconesses,
many for the care of the aged and
delpless. many for orphan children and
some excellent hospitals for sick and
injured persons.
In the Fore Of Reform.
"Our members are at the front of
every great reform movement. In anti
saloon leagues, in societies of the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union,
in the forces arrayed against white
slavery" and the social evil'-our rep
resentatives occupy conspicuous posi-
tons Indeed all branches of American
Methodism are struggling to benefit
humanity from every appropriate
standpoint.
Tonight I lift before your thought
another interesting fact:
"2. A wonderful century is now ended
in the history of Washington Method
ism.
Il can personally remember when
there were only six Methodist churches
for white people at the National Capt.
tai. They were Foundry, Wesley. Ebe-
nezer (now called Trinity, Ryland.
McKendree and Union. In Georgetown
stood Dumbarton Church. Since then
we have erected fourteen more-Gor-
such. Hamline, Waugh, Calvary. Metro
politan, Grace. North Capitol. Doug
lass Memorial, Wilson Memorial, Ana
costa, Petworth, Chevy Chase, Con-
gress Heights and Iowa Avenue
churches.
The Methodist Protestant Church,
the Methodist Episcopal Church South
and the several great colored organi-
cations, have added many others.
During these departed years Foun-
dry has been generously aiding many
struggling churches in this city. Prob
ably every Protestant Church in Wash
ington has on its roll the names of per-
sons whose parents or grandparents
worshiped at our affairs. The consecu-
tive annual issues of the Baltimore
conference minutes inform US how
many new members we have enrolled
each year-what men have constituted
our long line of gifted pastors, what
have been our annual current expenses,
what amounts we have contributed to
educational institutions. missions and
various benevolent collections. what
we have expended on our building. en-
terprises. the exact growth, annually, of
our Sunday school and other interest
ing facts. Foundry Church last year
expended over $4,000 on it's own local
expenses and the UNCONVENTIONAL
benevolences.
Those Gone Before.
DO we ever think of the multitude
of sanity women, godly men and hap
Ply children who have gone from Foun-
dry Church to be with God? They are
our representatives. They are citizens
of that imperishabie city where sin,
death, pain and sorrow never find en-
trance. They have gone beyond the
where there is no night; gone into that
celestial capital where God shall wipe
all tears from their eyes They have
found true the words of the Roman
Catholic poet-priest, Frederick w. Fa-
Der:
e Rest comes at length, though life be long and
dreary:
TIE day must dawn; the darksome night be
past:
All journeys end in welcome for the weary,
And heaven, the hearts true home. will come
at last
Foundry friends. the sun of our frs,
century has gone beneath its western
| fringe of sky in golden glory. One hun
dred years ago this city was much like
country village. Today it is the most
beautiful capital in the world. 1t is a
city of handsome parks, of lovely flow
ers. of glorious trees, of superior resi-
dences. of attractive schools and of no.
BILE church edifices. Its public buildings
der of hostile cannon nor sound OF