Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-20
CALLS FOR SONGS
OF NOW AND HERE"
DR.. Robert Johnston Would
/. Ignore Hymns Of death
and the Grave"
ADVICE GIVEN TODAY
AT EPIPHANY CHURCH
Episcopal Congregations Enter Upon
the Second Week Of Lenten
Mission Services.

"stop singing doleful hymns about
death and the grave, and stano up III
the now and here and sing NO" Are
We the Sons of Cod"
Spch was the advice given by LIZ.
Robert Johnston. missioner, TO con-
creation which filled the Church or
the Epiphany at MONDAY services nelo
TODAY. Episcopal churches holding
Jenten missions started upon the sec
ond week of the services yesterday.
and those in charge this morning
found an unusually large attendance
the congregation at the epiphany
Church being an example of those at
other churches.
DR.. Johnston took as his text the
words of Jesus. II am come that tney
might have life, and that they might
have it more abundantly." The mis-
sioner declared that there is Ire 10
which too many of us are strangers.
and which. I believe. we are gong 10
enter into in our day.
Christ's Mission Explained.
Christ came, Dr. Johnston said, not
to make us sons of God, but to reveal
to us that we are the sons OF Ioo
Baptism. he said. does not make SON
ship, but it reveals it. The elements OF
the Divine are in all of us, ana we
ought to cease singing doleful hymns
I'VE make such mistakes in our inter
pretations of life," continued the preach
err THE only life worth having Is the
life now with us. And tomorrow ought
to be a better now than today the
Christian man is not SO much the pure
keeDS
himself day after day..
Services at st. Thomas Church.
At St. Thomas Church, 18th street
near Dupont Circle, of which Kew.
DR.. c. Ernest Smith is rector. ma
tins and holy communion were con-
Quoted this morning at II O'Clock.
This afternoon at o'clock there
is to be an even-song service.
and tonight at o'clock Rt. Rev. DR.
John A. Richardson, Lord Bishop OF
Fredericton, who preached to large
congregations at both services yester-
day, is to deliver the sermon.
Record Gathering at st. Marks.
The largest congregation which the
members Of St. Marks Church said they
had ever seen in the church listened 10
Dean Vernon's sermon last night. Peo-
Pile were seated in every available
SPOT. and many men and women stood
throughout the entire service and ser
mon. The subject of the sermon was
THE objectionable Sin Dean YER
non said that the only unpardonaDle
sin is to refuse to open the door OF the
heart to Christ when He stands at the
door and knocks. The Mems Club or
the parish attended in body and oc-
cupjed seats in front of the pulpit.
Delegations from fraternal societies
Several of the clergy of nearby par
ishes took part in the service. includ-
ing Revs c. S. Abbott of the Churcn OF
the Good Shepherd, c. d. Weeden OF
st. Agnes and D. W. Coveii ot IL. Inl's 81
Church. The mission at st: Marks IS
successful in every way. 1t is said, ana
great numbers attended all the services
Sunday. The church is taxedsto its ca
nacity every week day night. The sing
ing of the large congregations is very
IMPRESSIVE and every evening hymns
are sung for fifteen minutes before the
mission service.
Church Alone Sounds Call.
Closing the mission at St. Margarets
Church last night. the missioner, Rev.
Arthur Russell Taylor. spoke to a
large congregation on the claim of
the corporate religious life of a time
upon the individual living in the
time.
Bernard Shaw had said he particu-
larly enjoyed going to church when
nobody else was in church. but a fully
human human would go when others
were there, and further get behind the
institution and give it his cooperative
push" said DR.. Taylor. 1T was In
this way only that the worlds saving
life had been or could be kept alive in
the world" continued the missioner.
AN invisible church would have ex-
actly the power and value of an in
visible government or an invisible
army. Christ's command that He be
confessed before men was given that
He might avail Himself of the law OF
ASSOCIATION. Lacking its help. He
would long since have become pallid
wrath. Being in contact with the
main stream of human life was of
more moment for a man than any
speculative opinion he might hold or
think himself to hold.
1T was the way for one to get his
weight fully on the side of the unmis-
taxable good. No conceivable closer
closeness to reality achieved upon a
safe for the cutoff of being on a perch.
The call of the institution was to the
colors of the worlds saving life-and
the church alone sounded that call. This
silenced all criticism, and, il realized,
must prevent a genuinely human being
from keeping his hands on the church
or himself out Of it," concluded DR..
Taylor.
Special Service for Men.
Taking his text from the words of