New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-30
ST. PAUL'S HAS
l5OTH BIRTHDAY
Vicar Asks What Wash
inqton Would Have Done
in War To-day

g. PaaTs Chapel. which was nine
vsars old when Farmer Buttriek hred
g.. sho- that was heard around the
world. began its 15oth birthday eeieora-
-, yesterday with a sermon BY its
49, .be Rev. Or. william Montague
Ger. IN which he asked what WASH
isr-or. once 9 worshipPer IN the edi-
Gee would have had 20 say concerning
the Lusitania massacre.
~Wl.V, would be his opinion de-
nanded Dr. Geer. regarding the muir
ss-ss women and children on the Lusi-
,auia and our action in the matter
NAM o. Us fear that II George WASH
,,r.on were here in these fallen-oif
DAYS he might think we had struck the
,ses o. the baruyard fowl.
~Let US ask Washington and Lincoln
% pray FOR Us that at any cost TO our
selves We may atone for and correct
,bs ris-akes we have already made and
40 carry Ourselves in the future that
those great patriots viii not De ashamed
70 meet Us IN the presence OF angels.
Tbsv were the kind Of men who would
70. sand By and see innocent women
snd children sunk 70 the bottom OF the
sea While they continued on friendly
terms with their murderers.
Washington Walked to Church
r, he DAYS whe- Washington wor-
,li,ne5 in s.. Paul's he used TO walk
sro- his house in Cherry street, the
80 ~ which is now occupied oy
riIiar OF the Brooklyn Bridge 70 the
sbg-ch. which then showed by Us sur
rourdings why IL was mode44ed AFTER
81 n's-in-the-Flelds.
Tire text chosen b. DR.. Geer was tnaI
from which the Rev. Dr.. Samuel Auch-
rv-v. rector OF Trinity. preached tne
dedication sermon on OCTOBER o. 90
Il was the fifth verse OF the ln5IU . T,.aP
ter OF Exodus: And ne Saio' 80 80
not nigh hither: put on thy SHOES LloiI,
OF thy feet FOR the place "ne4 Gun
thou standest IS holy GROUND.
Tire service In Trinity yesterday was
o, So "a promote intercommunloh
ss.reer the Anglican and Eastern
O--boaox churches. Archbishop Edeo-
=, rs represen-ed BY the Arcniman-
S,I-e Sebastian and Fr. Already Ilotro"-
s. secretary OF the Conslstory: nus
a., Creek. Serbian, Syrian and otner
Ts-.ern churches were represented
Tbe Russian national hymn ana an
.bsr,s rom the Greek liturgy were
So The Rev. DR.. Arthur Lowndes De,
riared in MS sermon that the war "oulu
giye tremendous impulse 20 the move
rent for Christian unity.
Old John Street Celebrates
The Old John Street Methodist Epis-
eopal Church celebrated us sesqul-
centennial yesterday.
Pisbop Samuel Dwight Chown, gen
.-sI suDerintendent OF the Methodist
T,iseonal Church in the Dominion OF
Csnads. found in his anniversary ser
r,oo happier comparison IN the pres
g.. Sav FOR Americas Revolutionary
solder than Secretary Baker MT upon.
erie Erglishmen and Canadians
e1stlng In the trenches to-day are IKE
those heroes Of yours were, selu
pts-on Chovn. They are hghtlng LOT
~ raroe ideals. Instead Of George III
!; is now the Kaiser. r-,..L
George Washington was an Englisn
gentleman who fought 20 protect ms
home from a dcspot IN whose VEINS
fovsd a dominant strain Of German
blood. English statesmen champloned
rs cause ana patriotic and eonscien-
tous English officers resigned rather
thar sgat against him. So sympathetlc
we're he people Of England with the
eolonis-s that u was necessary 70 90 70
Germany and import the HessiAns 70
tght against your liberty.
Celebrates l6Oth Birthday
N. Scotch Presbyterian Church, a.
Cen.ral PARK West and Ninety-sixtn
Street. which was an organization ior
tNsnty years before the birth OF the
Republic. began yesterday The celebra-
Son o. the lGOfn annlgersary OF us
founding. The festivities viii continue
fer week
The church FIRST stood near where the
Equitable Building ~ now erected. IN
1875 Il moved % Crosby and Grand
Streets, and in 1853 % Fourteenth
Strss,, near Sixth Avenue. In 1893 II
moved - its present location.