The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-18
FIRST METHODIST

"I am crucified with Christ; never theless, I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in "-Gal. 2:20.
 The pastor, pr. George R. Stuart, being absent in North Carolina in attendance upon his little grandson. who Is very i'll, the pulpit of the First Methodist church was occupied yes terday by two former pastors of that congregation.
 At the forenoon service. Dr. J. W. Johnson, presiding elder of the Bir- mingham district, preached capital sermon from the apove-quoted text. Dr. Johnson, who is numbered among the most intellectual and godly pas tors in the city, divided his discourse into three subheads and deduced from the text several new thoughts. Love, likeness, life" was the order of the speakers treatment of the subject, and the crowded house was most att tentive and responsive.
 Quartet singing by the choir of God Is our refuge and a solo by Miss Virginia Dowdell were pleasing features of the mornings musical pros gramme.
 At the evening service Dr. James A Duncan, pastor of the Norwood Meth odist church. also a former pastor of the First church, preached a most en tertaining and instructive sermon on the subject. "A Mans Fight At this service, too, /the speaker was greeted by a capacity house.
 SOUTH HIGHLANDS
 The attractive personality of the schol- arly pastor and the balmy autumnal wea- ther combined to bring out two largo congregations to hear Dr. Albert Sidney Johnson. paster of the South Highlands church, at the usual service hours yesterday. Dr. Johnson delivered a most interesting and learned discourse at each of the services. and the assem- blaze gave the pastor appreciative at tention.
 A fine musical programme was car- ried out by the choir
 ZION LUTHERAN
 pr. H. Reuter-, pastor. delivered the second of the announced series of il- lustrated lectures on the Reformation through Martin Luther, in the Sixteenth century," at Zion Lutheran church, Ave nue B and 18th street, last evening at 8 o'clock. The lecture bears the title, "Forerunners of the Reformation and covers the dark ages from the reign of Constantine the Great to the Fifteenth century, the lecturer touching on the lives and activities of such hecoes of faith as Peter Waldus, of France; John Wickliffe the celebrated English reform CT, and concludes with the martyrdom of Jerome Savanorola, of Florence, Italy.
 Among the many slides exhibited, the following are notable: The famous Luth- CT monument at Worms; Henry the Fourth at Canossa; instruments of tor ture of the Inquisition: Wickliffe statue, Balloil College; Oxford University; Lut- terworth church; Savanorola statue at Florence, Italy and others.
 Prof J. E. Wunnenberg. the church or ganist, and Miss Dorothea School, so- prano, rendered several splendid musical selections.
 The spacious church. auditorium was filled to capacity, many occupying space in the aisles The large attendance upon these lectures. indicates the deep inter est felt by the people at large in the principles of the Protestant Reformation 'The Reformation broke the shackles that held the people generally in super- stition and ignorance said MT. Reuter-, and freed them from enslavement of mind and soul. The basic principles of the reformation thunder against the at tempt to 'cloister thought in dogma as Victor Hugo expressed it at later period and to enslave the human mind. !"
 INDEPENDENT CHURCH
 Dr. Henry M Edmonds of the Inde- pendent Presbyterian church. speaking to an audience at the Lyric theatre last night. told of the work of the large insurance companies in reaching the climax of his unusual subject Gods Insurance" Dr. Edmonds told how men could be insured against accidents and death in the insurance companies, but earthly insurance,' he said. lis only for this life. while God has an insurance policy that not only insures for this life. but for all the life that shall be.
 '..As thy days. so shall thy strength