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A DAY OF ELOQUENCE. Many Pulpits Filled by Distin- guished Methodist Divines. BISHOP NEWMAN ON WESLEY. Kev. Hugh Price Hughes on Attributes of Christianity—Sermons by Kevs. W. J. Daw- son, Thomas Bowman Stephenson and Other Famous Ecumenical Delegates. Yesterday, according to the program an- nounced in Saturday's Stan, the pulpits of the Methodist churches of the city and of many of the Protestant churehes of other denomina- tions were filled by distinguished preachers attending the Methodist ecumenical confer- It was a memorable Sunday for the Methodists of the city. As a part of the pro- gram of the conference Bishop Newman preached the memorial sormon on John Wee ley. He preached in his old pulpit in the Met- ropolitan Church, where the sessions of the conference are now being held. The famous preachers from Great Britain were in great demand, and opportunities were offered of | hearing nearly all of them. Many of the dele- gates went to Baltimore ana preached im churches there. WESLEY Bishop Newman's Eloquent Sermon at the Metropolitan Chureh. ere wasa man: sent from God, whose name Ln,” spoke Bishop Newman from the lpit of Metropolitan M. E. Church yesterday | . and two thonsand people smiled at | propriate character of the text. On the program of the Methodist eeumenicial confer- ence was @ memorial sermon on John Wesl Bishop Newman had been selected from the | gifted orators of American Methodism to preach of the founder of the great evangelical body. Never dit preacher have a finer congre- | «ation thay that which filled every available | foot of space in the historic edifice. Every seat was occupied, ant the two main aisles were crowded for almost half their length with those who counted personal weariness and discom- | fort as nothing on such an occasion. A great throug clamored and pressed for admission, but withont avail. hundreds being unable to within sound of the bishop's voice. On the ipit were the Rev. William Arthur. M.A. a's patriarchal Wesleyan orator .s Bowman Stephenson, pre= fish Wesleyan conference: Ww. and Rev. Dr om over ‘And bids the earth Dr. Hamilton read the hymn, and when it bad been sung Dr. Stephenson offered prayer. ‘Then Dr. Corey read the sixty-first chapter of Isinh and the third chapter of the Epistle to | the Phillippians, after the conclusion of which | the chotr sang the Te Deum, while the congre- gation contributed of its material wealth. When the last coin had tinkled on the little heap of predecessors Bishop Newman arose und read Charles Wesley's well-known hymn: Forever bere my rest shall be, Close to Thy bleetine side and when the closing line of th- last verse: “And all my soul be wre. had been heartily rendered, the bishop walked to the front of the rostruin and recited his text, prefacing it with the annouacement that his subject would be “JOMN WESLEY AND HIS MISSION. Bishop Newman spoke without notes. He said All Methodism isa Inminouscommentary on | this remarkable text, which contains a princi- | ple and declares a fact. It is not mo that Jobn tHe Baptist was a man sent than that Jobu Wesley was the chosen in- | ment of Providence to inaugurate a new in the history of the Chi 2 chureh. ct which rises to Jesty of that all great movements of society. whethe malevolent or beneficent. originate with some | individual. It was Jeroboam rather than any ° ang of Israel who caused the ten fishers te apostalize. It was Caiayhas rather thon other Jew who instigated the crucifixion Jesus Christ. It was Julinn the apost other tian progress 1 It was Voi reddened the « and shook § David Hume more than any Usbman who gave character to the century equally true that all those great | society which have blessed mankind } with scme royal soul who selfishness of earth and | ski t. destined | . the work triows navigator of Genoa. The Ger- mation was born in the heart of a The revival of learning in the ntnry is due to one philospher e all e insupernal glory and majesty the re- ption of our race is the work of the man urist Jesus, who “trod the wine press alone of the people there was none with Him.” ME MISSIONS OF NATIONS. you tell me that nations have missions? is to give letters to mankind, another law to the world, another religion to ou: Yet all history is in proof that th © name is deathless. And rising ab; Ration some individual ie conspie: ry omentous epochs of time around some man or woman. As the ages re- cele the less eminent vanish from the vision of the world, and one name remains to indi- vidualize a nation’s life or characterize an era of renown. Itisa trath, to which history has furnished no exeption to the rule, that Jehovah raises up men to accomplish the exalted purposes of His! will, men equal to their times and ade- quate to their calling. When the Lour of Jewish exodus had come: when a Porerfal monarch was to be confronted apon | throne; when the lege-Jemain of the Egypt- | ian magi was to be exposed; when a dispirited cople were to be inspired with a nobler patriot- m.; When the most stupendous wonders were to be performed on mind and matter, on aud sea, on men and nations, then the prophet of Horeb was called. When idolatry was en- throned upon the hills of Zion; when the weak- minded Abab and the bloody-hearted Jezebel reigned in Jezreel; when the altars of the Lord were thrown down and Hi: rophets slain, tof Tishbe was called and set against the encroachments the Christian church was im her infancy: when the learned Jew, the pel- ished Greek, the proud Roman were to be met in argumet resurrection were to be proclaimed in the sya- Agegues of Palestine, the acropolis of Athens aud the palaces o. the Cwsars: when inspired Miers were to be written for the church in all ature time, then Saul of Tarsus was called, Shose peerless intellect and sanctified soul enabled him to cope with the mightiest foes ©! the Holy One. Aud in after centuries, when ignorance fell like the pall of death upon the nations of medieval times: when the degen- racy of the church had turned the earth into © vast lazarotto; when priest were letterles: and Popes were godless, then the monk of Erfurt called, and, ascending the heavens like a Saaing meteor, be dis; darknese of a night of a thousand years and with the keys seen in the vision of Patmos he unlocked the dangeous of the nations of the earth and bade the people go free. itis Lurning words fell rtling as ; Leo X ‘Spon the ear of astuuishedi Europe, the booming | hurried, never tard; | sovereign | man for the eighteenth century; Wesley wa | not the man for the sixteenth century: “1 when the Kedeemer's death and | JONN WESLEY. With a form compact and symmetrical, a mind evenly balanced, at once legislative and judicial; an intellect enriched from the fice ancient and modern, of sacred and profane learning; a memory capacious and suggestive; an understanding pr yet all- comprehending, it was like the tent in story— fold it and it was a toy in the hand of a lady; spread it, and the armiesof the sultan might re- pose bencath its ample shade; with an imagina- tion that borrowed its light from heaven's eternal whose decisions were like the ever- ting hills; a courage that was never blanched with fear; a fortitude that never wavered: a gentleness tender as a woman's; a diligence that knew no cessation save death and no limitations save the boundaries of earth and time, with an oratory entrancing as it was 2p- palling that could raise rhetoric into logic and metaphor into argument and thrill the most debased with the convictions of the truth: a piety sincere as it was exemplary anda love all embracing. Behold. the man! ‘The clearest of thinkers, the wisest of philosophers, the most accurate of historians, the moet versatile of scholars, the most astute of logicians, who never quailed before a foeman: an accom: plished linguist, who could my ‘with Paul. thank my God. I speak with tongues more the most incisive and voluminous ise. of an philanthropist who aympathized With human nature rather than with human condition; an evangelist who knew the letter and caught the spirit of the gospel, the burden of whose message to mankind was: “Without holines# no man shall see the Lord.” and the Christi: who had passed through ail the stages of personal experience, from the depth of penitence to the height of perfect love, who had translated the sermon on the mount into life and charaeter_ more fully than any other man since apostolic times, became the saintliest of men. Surely “There was aman sent from God whose name was Jon.” He illustrated the exaltxtion of purified individuality as the reforming, controlling, conquering force i the world rather than’ church organization, with ereed and litugyr and imposing cere: monials. A living Christ in contrast with adead Jewish chureh. “A sanctified and consecrated Weslevian in contrast with the overshadowing ccclesiasticism of itome and the powerless formality of the Church of England. This is the mightiest thought and the crowning glory of the Wesleyan movement. THE THREE REFORMATIONS. Time is an essential element in unfolding the plans and purposes of Jehovah. The consum- mation of a great result is not the work of a day. Suck is the constitution of mind, euch the composition of society, such the operation of immutable law, that the ages are necessary to reach a vast conclusion. Vast conclusions require ages for their consum- ion. Jebovah takes a step today and one hundred years hence the advance is apparent. He steps on the summits of the eeutaries. ‘There are silent centuries in which He acts, but never speaks. At such times He hides Himself and anon He drops the drapery of His invisi- bility. His naked arm appears end His bith- erto hidden hand writes upon some palace wall, “Mene, mene, Tekel, Upbarsin.” He deals pires as the instruments of His power. most vemed by men are as the dust in tue balance to Him. He writes His decrees of a ikingdom in tho waste bock of temporary Lut in His imperishable ledger He ro- ore ix. Hishend. Never always on His throne. the hand of Hi sway the calendar of the centuries and on that dread register He notches the epochs of weai and woe in our mortal h With Him a thousand years eas 3 when it is passed. He calla alam to found a Messianic nation, and 400 8 thereafter the chosen Moses leads forth organized nationality. After 200 years of san? wars, prophets and inconstancies. ion is the throne of his father David. nnium of years come and go. a regenerated people return from their exile, the voice of the last of the prophets is hushed, the silence of 500 years is broken by the song of angels and the Messiah appeats—“the de- sire of the nations.” ‘Three and # half cen- turies are necessary to conquer a nation of 120,000,000 of people, whose vast dominion is “from the Euphrates to the western ocean and from the wall of Antonimes to The times and son: He ever hsids “1 | the Mountains of the Moon, and Christianity as- cends the throne of the Cesara, with the royal dem upon ber head and the royal purple on her shoulders, giving laws from that very al where she had been dragged as @ crim- and condemned as a malefictor. Twelve tri ima are the church calling the worl faith. Two hundred years of preparation ensue and Wesley comes forth, the apostle of a new era of purity and love. ‘Ihe three great centuries of the Wesleyan movement are the sixteenth, seventcenth and eighteenth and the thrze conspicuous characters are Luther, Cranmer and Wesley. Each of these immorta! heroes had his peculiar mission. Exch did @ work demanded by bis times. Sub- stitution was impossible. Luther was not the to penitence and "st mer was not the man for the place of either the one or the other. Beholt the record of history: Four hundred years from Abraham to Moses: five hundred ars from Moses to Solomon: a thousand years irom So.omon io Christ; three hundred from Christ to Constantine the Great, when sistiamity ascended the throne of the Cascrs with the royal diadem upon her brow and the royal purple upon ber shoulders, giving laws from the very tribunal where Jesn. had been d riminal and condemned as a ma : twelve hundred years from Constantine to Luther and two centuries from Luther to Wesley. Dissatisfaction with the present must seize the people like an invisible power; the social fabric is broken into a thousand pieces like a potter's vessel; then comes the grand crisis and society moves forward to a better future. T nth, the seventeenth and the cigh teenth are the three centuries embraced in the great Wesleyan movement, and the three cun- spicuous individuals of those mighty epochsare Luther. Cranmer and Wesiey. The three re- formations are parts of one great whole. WESLEY'S SPECIAL MISSION. How much Wesley contributed to this grand result let history declare. Methodism is not a break in Christian his- tory. The continuity of evangelical truth through the ages, through muluphed errors, through accumulated corruptions of faith and practice, through declensions and contentions, wars and persecutions, through Episcopal treacheries and lay apostocies is « sublime fact in Providence and a ceaseless inspiration to the faithful and the boiy There ave no breaks in the history of the ad- ministration of Almighty God. There may be declensions in numbers, but there are retrocessions in His canse. His is a perpet kingdom. The continuance of His church ix Without cessation, In all the ages, the darkest and the worst. His saints, men and women, have walked this earth in white, whose conver- sation has been in heaven and ‘whose saintly lips have testified for Jesus. The church of God, greater than the papal, greater than the Greek, greater than the English, is com of the faithful of all creeds, of ail liturgies and Christ always has a tomorrow. Paul was the hereafter of Christ, Athanasius the hereafter of Paul, Wyclitfe the hereafter of Athanasius, Luther the hereafter of Wycliffe, Wesley the herenfter of Luther and you the hereafter of Wesley. While each of the three illustrious reformers now under consideration contributed to the splendid outeome of today, yet the work of each was peculiar to bis times. Did Luther protest against organized politico-ecclesiastical usurpations? Wesley protested against sin as the cause of the world’s misery. Luther's movement provoke the sword and lead to war? | Wesley sought such a moral change in men and | nations as to preclude the posmbility of strite. Did Luther preach justification by faith? Wes- ley preached entire sanctification by the blood of the lamb. Did Luther proclaim his nmety- | ive theses against the errors of Rome? Wes- Jey gave to the church bis twenty-five artic! of religion against all errors and all sins. the conquests of Luther's mission ¢ulminate i western Europe within forty years’ And within 100 years thereafter there was not enough in- | in all the centuries. ternal energy to possess the greater rt of Europe, which could have m done with “but little restraint. But Wesley's mmission, after a growing life of two centuries, is today marching to the cou- of the world. it the high mission of Cranmer to make the church of England Protestant? It was Wesley's higher mission to make that church Evangelical. Did Cranmer seck the reforma- tion of the morals of the clergy and laity by homilies und liturgies? Wesley sought the same end with Bible in hand. “Did Cranmer subordinate his spiritual life to promote the ends of government and learning? Wesley subordinated goveruments, universities, chari- ay ma his thrones and the Keforma- tion moved forward, resistless us the march of whirlwind. So how visible is thehand of God discovered the children of men iu the goverament of the Norkt and in the admimistration of His church in raising up Wesley us His messenger and Tepresentative at the beginniug of the third of the three greot centazies of religious liberty. oe $3 honorable aud holy aucestrs. bis was a ‘a coineidence wit that Desocaks the winlous that brought him forth, riches, honors; life, all featicn, of the tnitvitual from which would fow the advancement of all human rights and sll happiness here and hereafter. WESLEY, THE TUKOLOGIAN, EVANGELIST xD ‘PHILANTHROPIST. The testimony of two centuries places this remarkable man foremost among the theolo- gians of his or of Say 10m ee ot creme he is without an equal. not have Roaor of Washburton's “Divine Legation,” of ‘he progress of the kingdon. of His Son. | < et # THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON. D.C. MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1891—TEN PAGES. vidences,” of Butler's “Analogy,” the tiesion, to eliminate accepted creeds an ‘over t! truth thet sets men free Two disquisitions elevate him to his true position among theologians. His elaborate and ni resume of the argument on “Liberty and Neces- sity"—s review from the early Greeks to Jonathan Eduards, including the deliverances of Augustine and Aquinas, Spinoza and Liebnitz, Locke and Kant, Hume and Pope, Clarke and Hartley, places the freedom of the human will in the clearest light. And his auswer to the Calvinists is the most discriminating, analytical and annihilative found in the annals of Christian polemics, and from the destructive effects of which the “In- stitutes of Geneva” have never recovered Asa theologian he accepted and maintained the larger and more comprebensive truths of the Christian system, and it is evidence of the soundness of his views that his body of divinity contained in his “Sermons and His Notes” has not only remained unchanged amid the modifica tion of crecds, but is today the modifier of the religious thonght of the universal church, and that while Unitarians are retracing their steps back through Socinianism to Arianism, whi the Universalists have become restorationists, thereby accepting the elements of future punishment, and while the Calbinists have practically ‘adopted Arminianism, yet the ‘eslevant hold fast the faiths once delivered to the saints. EVANGELIST. Asan Evangelist, three great thoughts filled Wesley's mind, and were ever on his lips. The absolute freedom of the human wili in personal salvation: the ability of Christ to save to the Uttermost, and the revelation of God to the consciousness of each believer. Freedom, sanctification, assurance were the three magicul words by which he calied mankind to s moral resurrection. Wesley is the apostle of the freedom of the will against ‘al forme and aspects of necessity, whether physical or moral or from the arbitrary choice of the Creator With a logical " discrimivation all his own, he denied that man’s moral actions are controlled by an overpowering evil, or the vibrations of the fibers of the brain, or ruling passions, or controlling motives, or ignorance, or hate, or a pantheism that supposes the Universe His body und God the originating soul of all actions, good or bad. As an evangelist, Wesley preached Christ to a lost world. His ability, purpose, willingness, to save all, save now, save to the uttermost. His preaching compaszed the whole of the Christian life, ranging between two extreme from a desire to flee from the “wrath to come’ Desire the Alpha; perfection the Omega. De- sire 1s the infancy of the Christian life, to be manifested by desisting from specified wrongs, by doing specified duties. It is the beginning of a soul's salvation; it is salvation to that ex- tent; it isthe bruised reed that shall not be broken: the smoking fiax that shall not be uenched,; it is the mustard seed in the ground, the leven in the meal. It is a desire tofice from sin, its penalties and consequences, from its sinfulness and polluti Such a desire, cherished and enlarged, leads on to justification by fuith, the pardon ‘of al! tranggressions, the reinstatement of the soui inio the divine favor, as though it had not sinned. Then follows that great change, the regeneration of the mcral nature, when old things are passed away and all things are be- come new, wher the Christian virtues hold the mastery over their opposite vi. wher sth is imparted to meet the requisitions of the divine law, and when the will, conscience and affections are renewed, quickened and ele- vated to respond to the voice of God. ‘Inen foliows that better, higher, comploted state of personal purity wherein ali sintul ten- dencies are destroyed, all carnal desires and as- pirations are superseded, ali appetites and pas- sions are gratified within the limitations of law, ali the higher faculties of the soul are domi- nated by love, and holiness is the atmosphere wherein the puritied spirit moves in perpetual activity and peace. Wesiey's Christian perfection is the distin- guishing doctrine of Methodism. It differ- entiates the Weeleyan movement from ull othe: religious movements. It is the source of the power and glory of that movement on both sides of the Atlantic. This great thought seized Wesley like some invisible power. It domi- nated his whole being. It possessed him. He would not be diverted therefrom. He subor- dinated all things thereunto. He defended it against all assailants, He preached it, he prayed it, he sang it. It was the one great sub- Ject of meditation and review at euch yearly conterence. He wrote thereon minutely and ex- tensively. He encouraged those who protessed it, aud his own humble and emphatic profes- sion of itis as clear as it is beautifui. By an irresistible logic he was led on step by step from his luminous experience of justifica- tion by faith to this completion of his regenera- tion. “It was the majority of bis minority. It was the verification of the saying of the Navior: “First the blade, then the ear, after that tue full corn in the ear.” It is to be * from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit. it is to be sanctified throughout, in body, in soul, in spirit.” “It is to walk in the light as God is “in the light, and to know that the blood of Jesus Christ, His Son, cleanseth from all sin.” Tt is erect man in Christ Jesus.” It is to be “filled with the spirit.” It is to have “all je mind that is in Christ.” It is “bringing ivity every thought to the obedience It is “the reign of love in every motive—desire, aspiration, passion, appetite, thought, word and act. In the maturing of his great powers and in the fullness of his spiritual life, some time in the year 1764, Wesley gave “this sum of the doctrines of Christian perfection: 1. There is such a thing as perfection, for ti is again and again mentioned in the Scriptures. IL. It is not so easy as justification, for justi- fied persons are to “goon unto perfection.” (aleb. vi, 1.) IIT. It is not so late as death, for Paul speaks of living men that were perfect. (Pil. iit, 13. IV. It is not absolute. Absolute perfection velongs not to man nor to angels, but to God alone. Y. It does not make a man infallibla. None is infullble while he remains in the body. Vi. Is it sinless? It is “salvation from sin.” VIL It is “perfect love.” (1 John iv, 18.) This is the essence of it; its properties or in- separable fruits are rejoicing evermore, pras ing without ceasing aud in everything giving thanks. (1 Thess. ¥, 16.) 0” VUL It is improvable. One perfected in love may grow in grace far swifter than he did before. AX. It is amissible, capable of being lost. . It is ecnstautly both preceded and fol- lowed by agradual work. XI “But is it itself instantaneous or not?” In examining this let us go ou step by step. An instantaneous change has been wrought in some believers: none can deny this. Sinee that change they enjoy perfect love; they feel this, aud this alone; they rejoice evermore: pray without ceasing and in every- thing give thanks Now, this is ull that I mean by perfection; therefore, these are witnesses of the perfection which I'preach. But in some this change was not instantaneous. ‘They did not perceive the instant when it was It is often difficult to perceive th when man dies, yet there is an instant in which life ceases." And if even sin ceases there inust be # last moment of its existence and the first moment of our deliverance from it. “But it they have this love now they may lose it;” they may, but they need not. And whether they do or no, they have it now; they now experience what we tench; they now are all love; they now rejoice, pray and praise without ceesing. “However, sin is only sus- pended in them; it is not destroyed.” it what you please, they are all love today and they tuke no thought for the morrow. “But this doctrine has been much abused.” So has that of justification of faith. But that is no reason for giving up either this or any other scriptural doctrine. “When you wash your child, as one speaks, throw away the wa ter, but do not throw away the chil “But those who think they are saved from sin say that they have no need of the merits of Christ.” They say just the contrary. Their Ia is: “Every moment, Lord, I need the merit of thy death.” "They ‘never before had deep, 80° unspeakable a conviction of the need of Christ in all His offices as they pow, 12 nee ali_ our preachers should make # point of preaching perfection to Lalievers constantly, strongly and explicitly, and all believers should mind this one thing and constently agonize for Against this blessed doctrine there is uo law. & man became the shrine and temple of the liv- ing God. firom that day onward the W jesieyans have been a testifying that they knew be- yond a doabs that t they were. living in comma. nion wit of their spirits a calmly and. intelligently declared’ that “the Spirit beareth witness with our spirit that we are the children of God.” ‘The assertions were hailed with obloquy and the Methodists were called the ‘‘children of the feelings.” METHODIOM EQUAL TO THE PRESENT. Since then the very heavens have been telling that he was right and that his critics were wrong. The success of Methodism is the mar- vel of two centuries. The vastness of her pop- ulation, belting the globe, the multitudes an- nually converted, the saintliness of her mem- bership, the spirituality and yor | her ministers, the largeness of her contributions, the power of her press, the number of her tem- ples of picty, schools of learning and houses of mercy and the vigor wherewith she is pushing forward the conquest of the world by her home and foreign missionsare facts that indicate that the Lord is with His le. Since the birth of Methodism there has been no other distinctive religious movement in the church of God. There have been modifications of creeds, changes in church polity, revival of formal churches, organizations to meet special forme of vice und misery and special classes in society, but nothing that riscs to the dignity and proportions of a great reformation. Iss new movement needed to meet the exi- gencies of our times? What are the exi- gencies? Political corruption, bribery | in office and unstability of governments? Is the Present worso than, when kings delighted to jonor such statesmen as Bolingbroke and Chesterfield, Walpole and Newcastle: when prime ministers bribed the king, bribed th queen, bribed the parliament; when elections were Fated on the royal exchange, and when the maxim was accepted, “that government must be carried by corruption or force?” Are the clergy more worldly and the church more formal than when Toplady said, “A converted minister in the established church is a greater wonder than a comet,” and when, according to Butler, “Christianity is not so much asa sub- ject of inquiry?” Is infidelity more audacious ‘and assertive than that which gave birth to the French revolution, that dissolved the very ele- ments of society? Are the masses more degraded than when Whitfield preached to the colliers of Kings- wood and the merry-andrews of some Bar- tholomew's fair? literature more debased than when fame hailed with delight such authors as Voltaire and D’Alembert, Smollett and Paine, who min- sare to the lowest and worst of human pas- ions: Methodism met all those social conditions, and behold the change! Is it true that we are threatened today with new perils? the lust of ecclesiastical preferment, in the disguise of a hot zeal, eating, us doth eancer, at the vitals of ‘the church, and i fe nothing better and greater’ than Has the spirit of worldliness en- tered our Rion, under the pretense of innocent mirth, and that at'the expense of the means of grace? Is the Bible imperiled as never before, its authorships denied and its histories impeached? What is the remedy? A new religions move- ment? Has rot diethodism: all her ancient ele- ments of strength: Her doctrines areas soun Hér polity is as adoptive. Her Kedeemer is as great. The all-sufticient and all-efficient remed, is “Holiness unto the Lord.” Lot the church have that and the gutes of hell shall not pre- vail against her. Give us ministry fall of faith and the Hol: Ghost; heaven called und heaven inspired, with hearts of flesh and souls of fire. Give us men who will preach the truth as it is in Jesu of dauntless courage, who will stand anblancke before the mighty; men of tenderest sympa- thies, ae zealand purest moti give Us the men who can write in lines of light and speak in sentences of fire, who can enter the ena of debate and maintain the Bible as the word of Ggd to man, who can thrill all hearts by the power of their own experience; who will turn many to righteousness aud shine as stars forever and ever. REY. HUGH PRICE HUGHES. ATTRIBUTES OF CHRISTIANS, Rev. Hugh Price Hughes Tells How They Are to Be Distinguished. The fame of Rev. Hugh Price Hughes, the grent leader of the “forward movement” in London, whose mission work among the poor of the west end is familiar to many in this country, drew to the Mt. Vernon Place M.E. Chureh yesterday morning a gathering that filled the auditorium. For an hour Mr. Hughes held the large assemblage’s attention while he spoke of the attributes of Christianity—an old subject, but treated in such an earnest, simple and yet scholarly way that with each division of his argument he threw fresh light on the subject. Mr. Hughes strongly resembles the printed portraits of O'Brien, the Irish leader. A man of middle height, dark beard, somewhat pointed, dark h: looking through spectacles, he gives one the iden of a student. His enunciation is precise distinct, and except in the rather broad in such words as “rather” he can hardly be distinguished by his tones from an Ameri- can. A rather freo use of full-arm gestures gives life to his delivery, of wi seems to be the characteristic. spoke from notes, but he had hi well in hand that reference te them pede the fluency of his speech His text w the forty-seventh verse of the fifth chapter o St. Matthew—“What do ye more than others? “More” is used here, he explained, ir the senxe of “extra. AN ETHICAL EXTRA. “Christianity is an extra, not a substitute, but a supplement to everything else that is good in the world,” he said in beginning his sermon. “Christianity must be an ethical extra. Christians must prove that they possess some ethical qualities not possessed by any ono cle. Let us then this morning take up every | form of goodness that existed in the world 2,000 = ago, and let us show that in addi- tion there is one good thing not then in exist- ence. Two thousand years ago there was the Gentile and the Jew. In the Gentile world all that was best can be summe | up in two words, Enropean and Asiatic—Socrates and Buddha. Socratic goodness in its most perfect form is found in the republic of Plato. Its attributes were wisdom, courage, temperance and jus- tice. Christianity claims all four of these. The typical Christian must possess them all. a ‘Bu in many respects was greatly in- ferior to Socrates. We Christians feel a sort of grievance against Sir Edward Arnold for his picture of Buddhs in ‘The Lightof Asia.’ But Sir Edward Arnold has idealized Buddha. He has Christianized Buddha. ‘The Buddha of Sir Edward Arnold is a Christian. It isa Buddha immeasurably superior to the Asiatic. Buddha. But Sir Edward Arnold has in this ‘Light of the World’ drawn Christ and shown how supe- rior He is to Buddha. In the first place Jesus Christ has givens much more ‘workable’ ethic than anything of Buddha; « practical rulo of conduct is laid down. The Christian rel nis much more joyous religion than Buddhism. You can tell s Methodist by the twinkle in -his eye, or, rather, in his two eyes. He ix gled all e time. Asone of Charles Wesley's hymns = it he wants to dance and rejoice that jesus Christ is bis. Buddha maintained abso- lute silence regarding the existence of God; Jesus Christ has spoken of God so simply tha: even children can understand Him. ‘then the Christian religion teaches the true ‘selficssness.’ ‘The Buddhist disciple does things for his own sake—toenter Nirvana. Christianity teaches # man to cherish bis neighbor as himvelf. In the words of Christ, ‘A new command haye I THE JEWISH RELIGION. “The Jewish religion issummed up inthe Ten Jesus Christ demands more than was ever de- manded of the most pious Jew. All the of the Buddhist, Socratic and Jewish moralities is in Christianity, and more, too. This is Christianity to live on earth as Christ lived on a ey your or joas you Christ would have done?” titter went through the church. Now. many of you in this vast gathering here on the floor and up there in the galleries call yourselves Christians; now by what right do you do it? To claim the name at which angels tremble! ‘What do ye more than others?’ You go to church, you put money in the collections, you arehonest, you are temper- ate; well, 80 are those of other denominations. You pray; so do the Mobammedans. You h be as asthat young Jew who told Chriat observed all the laws from his youth up yet not be a Christian. Do you try to li like Christ? Do you endeavor to doas you think Christ would have done under similar circumstances? A Christian is a Christ-like man. CHRIST AS THE GUIDE. “Sometimes in our mission work in London my friends complain becanse I am forever bringing Christ into our deliberations. Some regard a free use of Christ as a sort of indig- nity toHim. But can there be any betier guide? John Stuart Mill has said he made his way through the mist of prejudice and hatred to religion in which he had been placed by his father when a child, that he knew of no better rule of conduct for'men than for them to live ‘as Jesus Christ of Nazareth lived, and John Stuart Mill has said this, can we Christians say any less?” Mr. Hughes closed with an appeal to all to aim at what was Christ-like in their lives. in their business dealings and in their church re- lations, saying that Methodism would at once enjoy that grand unity that was longed for when all lived as Christ had lived. THE GOSPEL OF LOVE. An Eloquent Exposition by Rev. W. J. Daw- son at Werley Chapel. Yesterday was a memorable day in the his- tory of Wesley Chapel. The newly decorated and refurnished auditorium was opened for the first time and three services were held there during the day. Each was conducted by 4 prominent delegate to the ecumenical con- ference that supplied so many able preachers to the local pulpits yesterday. The morning service was conducted by Bishop Joyce, the afternoon by Rev. Hugh Price Hughes and the evening service by the Rev. W. J. Dawson. The contributions at the three services were for the purpose of defraying the expenses of the church improvemen: and aggregated up- ward of $1,000. There was a large congrega- tion present in the evening drawn by the knowledge that the sermon would be by Rev. Mr. Dawson, whom all were anxious to see and hear. REY. W. J. DAWSON. Not very clerical in his appearance, as cler- ical appearance is popularly anderstood, is the Rey. W. J. Dawson of Glasgow. Dark curly hair, brown mustache, a little goatee and short, closely cropped ‘side whiskers are his hirsute adornments. In manner Mr. Dawson fa quick almost to nervousness, but there is nothing like unpleasant abruptness. He strikes you as being religiously businesslike. Mr. Da‘vson, who is now among the foremost of England's lecturers and pulpit orators, is about thirty-seven years of uge. ‘He received his education at Kingswood and at Bidsbury College, Manchester. His first importaut pastorate was in London, whither he went in 18%3. For two years he was stationed at City Road Chapel (Wesley's oldcharge). Mr. Dawson commenced lecturing in London onan extensive scale and from the outset was marvelously successful, may of his lectures having to be repeated because the spacious buildings used would not contain those who desired to he the moré famous of his efforts ar rola: Monk, Patriot and Martyr; Kaleigh and His Times,” niral Blake, With Ghmpses of the Commonwealth of Eugiand; “The Marvelous Boy (Chattexton), a Picture of England a Hundred Years Ago:” “Wordsworth: and His Message,” “Tennyson,” “Browning and His Message.” It is not improbable that Mr. Dawson may deliver one or more of these lectures while in Washington. In 1854 Dawson published @ volume of poems, Vision of Souls,” and a year later presented to the public a collection of bright essays en- titled “Quest in Vision.” “The Threshold of Manhood,” a sertes of sermons to young men, appeared’ in 1688, and in i889 he published “Makers of Modern English,” a guide book to the modern poets. There is now in the press from his pen a sociulistic story, “The Redemp- tion of Edward Strahan.” Mr. Dawson is the principal editor of @ Young Man,” a monthly publication of more than ordinary attractiveness. Mr. Dawson's work is especially directed toward young men, and in that field his lubors have been very successful. ‘The last service conducted by Mr. Dawson in Glasgow (where he hus resided for two years) gathered together in onehall more than 8,000 people, aud fully as many were turned away for lack of room—testimony to the preacher's eloquence and power. THE GOSPEL oF Love. Mr. Dawson took for the subject of his dis- course last night the gospel of love, taking for he his text the two verses of Scripture, “Love is the fulfilling of the law,” and “Love is of God; everyone that loveth is born of God.” In com- mencing his sermon Mr. Dawson said that there are two desires of whic we are conscious. Ihe first of these is to be the highest that we can become. From this desire to become some- thing that we are not kave risen all religions. The second of these desires is to eujoy the most we can, and this desire takes a hindred forms. In some the desire for enjoyment takes anoble form, in others it takes a grosser like- ness. ‘The church has teken various attitudes toward this desire for joy and at times its in- sistence upon strict asceticism has driven many men out into the darkness of agnosticiem. Men may give up their search for character, but never for happiness and they will endure all things in their pursuit of it. But there comes # time when they realize that their ef- forts are vain, and that thoy have not found it. ‘The search after mere happiness in this life is sure to end in an earnest longing for death and oblivion. ‘The two texts are at once the ratification and the explanation of the two desires, to be and to enjoy. The answer to these two desires is to learn to love. A man says that he caunot live up to the law. But he can if he learns to love, for love is the fulfilling of the law. “Religion,” said John Wesley, “is love.” That sums it all up. If you do not love you are not a Christian and have not attained ‘the chief aim in life. ‘You must love Godand man witha perfect love, for love 18 of God. ‘The decalogue would never have been needed if men had loved one another. Get love and you cannot help keeping the law. fortable cushions have been put in and the wood finish of the church grained in oak. A choir platiorm has beon built on the right of the pulpit and here will be located a large pipe organ which will cost — €2.600. e windows of the church have been filled with stained gins, many of the windows bearing the ‘names of those who when living were prominent in church work. Among names are Matthew and Sarah Cook, Juliet D. Emery, Robert Cohen and Sophie A. Cohen, Eleanor Sheriff, Thomas Havenner, Andrew J, Duvall, Benjamin E. Gid- dings, William N. Rose. William Barris, Minnie A. West, James H. Moore and Magge C. Lan- don. At the service yesterday morning the fol- lowing ministers occupied the pulpit: Bish Joyce, Rev. Charles W. Baldwin, secretary the American University and a former of the charch: Kev. E. B. Prettyman of Rock- ville, Md., who preached his first sermon in Wesley Chapel fifty years ago, and Rev. Luther B. Wilson, the present pastor. The sermon was delivered by Bishop Joyce, who held the attention of the large audience by his clear aud forcible exposition of the incident of Christ preaching on the shoresof Lake Gene- sareth. After the sermon subscriptions were received for defraying the cost of the improvements, amounting, exclusive of the organ, to $5,300. The pastor, in speaking of the handsome ap- pearance of the church, made a public and_de- served recognition ot the labors of Mr. W. F. Roderick, the recording steward, to whose e: ertions the improvements were largely due, and under whose personal supervision they were made. METHODISM IN IRELAND. Rev. Dr. Henry Evans Speaks on the Sub- Ject in Waugh Chapel. Rev. Dr. Henry Evans was greeted by a large and appreciative audience last evening at Waugh Chapel. In the congregation sat a number of Irish Methodists, who were anxious to hear the noted Dublin ine. Dr. Evans is in the most exalted position held by a Metho- dist under the British government, holding the position of her majesty’s commissioner of ne- tional education and examiner for government board of intermediate education. He is pastor of the Abbey Street Methodist Church in Dub- lin, which is the largest and one of the oldest Methodist churches in Ireland. Before beginning his sermon Dr. Evans said that this would probably be the last time that he would have an opportunity to address an audience in America before leaving for his home, and he thought he would tell them something of Ireland, as he was sure that there Were not many persons in the audience who had an idea of the Methodist church work in that country. DECREASE OF OTHER SECTS. The population of Ireland, according to the census of this year, he said, is in round numbers 4,730,000, and he remembered when it was neariy double. There are, he said, 411,000 more Catholics in Ireland than there were ten years ago, and fully 400,000 of them came to this country. There are, 35,000 fewer Presbyterians and thousand fewer Enisco) crease had ocenrred in te “It is a remarkable fact.” he continued “that the Methodist church is the only one that has held its own. It has not only held its own, but it has increased 65,000. No other church’ can make any such statement. In ali Ireland there is nota single Methodist in prison and in al- most every charitable ution there isa Methodist connected with its management. “I suppose, ofcourse, that you would like to hear something about the ministers. There is not a single minister in the Weslyan church in Ireland who touches beer, ale. porter or liquor of any kind, nor is there a single one among them who smokes tobacco.” GOOD WORK OF THE CONFERENCE. Dr. Evans then spoke of the good work of the conference and said he was glad that it was held at the capital of the nation and he knew that all the other British delegates were glad of the opportunity to visit this city. He selected as his text Luke 1:4: “That thou mightest know the certainty of those things wherein thou hast been instructed.” During his discourse, which was attentively listened, to Dr. Evans alluded to the work of the conference a number of times and also re- ferred to his native home. At the conclusion of the services, Dr. Gibson, the pastor, intro- duced the noted divine to members of bi church and congregation, who ex} them. selves as greatly entertained and instructed his eloquent remarks. THE PRODIGAL SON. A Remarkable Sermon by Rev. T. G. Selby at McKendree Charch. Ina style that was remarkable for its direct- ness, Rev. T. G. Selby of England preached last evening at McKendree Church on the fa- miliar story of the prodigal son. The theme Was really the love of God, that supreme love which looks with forgiveness and compassion upon the sinner. Theuttitude of the Heavenly Father toward the weak and erring was de- scribed with all the power which the eloquence of this gifted preacher w: capable of. He pointed out that the story of the wayward boy was an illustration that Christ, like the father, was ready to receive and forgive. People re- ceived forgiveness not because they deserved it, but because Christ's heart was full of love and pity for poor, sinful creatures. God's love was powerful and great. and uo one who humbly asked to have his sins and transgres- sions pardoned was ever turned away without receiving that for which he asked. If a father was willing to forgive the sins of a wayward son who had spent his all in riotous living. Christ was even more anxious, and those who had gone off in dark ways and returned to His bosom were ready to stand up and give evi- dence of His forgiving love. REW YOUTHS. Rev. T. B. Harrowell’s Excellent Sermon at McKendree Church Yesterday Morning. Rev. D. J. Waller was to have preached at MeKendreo M. E. Church yesterday morning but ho was unexpectedly called away from the city, and his place was filled by Rev. T. B. THREE | Harrowell of Oxford Place, Leeds. He selectedas his text the 16th, 17th and 18th verses of the third chapter of Daniel on the “Three Hebrew Youths.” The preacher considered first the excellent spirit which the youths manifested in the time of trial, and secoadiy the important conse- quences which resulted from their condnet. ‘Yhe trial was of no ordinary character, Though captives they were high in the favor of their king. Foes sought to alienate them from royal favor. Opportunity was afforded by the issue of a mandate which conscience compelled them to disobey. The firmness of their refusal was inflexible. They resolved to obey God; to sac- rifice the demands of self interest rather than set aside His claims and authority. It might have been urged that as captive subjects they were bound to obey the king's coramand. in matters of temporal nature perhaps: but religion lies between man’s soul and the great God. Conscience is God’s and God's only, and sooner than yield obedience to human jaws, when by so doing we break divine rule. we ought to risk all, even life itself. ‘These three were not merely talking heroes; their deeds were as glorious as their words.’ The “oven heated seven times more than it was wont” could not affrighi them. Is their conduct not worthy our imitation? The ’ courage—it was simply faith in God. And what is there that seo cesined by. ree tecion cannot endure. FIBMNESS ENWANCED BY MERKNESS. But the firmness of the three Hebrew youths ‘was evhanced by its combination with invinei- ble meckness, an association of qualities so semen they command our reverence ion ie ship of God. ‘The influence of” shown in their dutiful Suthority and their etn, submitsing io ‘the. execution of l i : m ‘te iz i i hs at MISSION WORK IN LONDON. Ladies Talk Floquently of the Work Being Done in the Knglish Capital. Mission work in London was described ton large audience in Foundry Church yesterday afternoon by ladies who are prominent in the efforts that are being mado to reclaim the masses in that great city. Mrs. Hugh Price Hughes and Mrs. Barford Clark, representing the West Find London Mission sisterhood, told of their efforts in the redemption of souls. Sis- ter Dora Stephenson, the Wesley deaconess of London, daughter of Dr. Stephenson, spoke of the work accomplished, particularly among the children, at the Children’s Home. Over 1,000 of these, educated and brought mp to Christian manhood and womanhood, had come to Canada and the states to become industri- ous and useful citizens. Miss Florence Ben- nett spoke about the field of labor in East Lon- dor. Mrs. Dr. Rusk, the national secretary, also spoke briefly. A feature of the service was the singing of Sister Dora and Miss Mary Arthur, daughter of Rev. William Arthur. Bishop Warren at the Church of the Cov- enant. President Harrison occupied his pew in the Church of the Covenant yesterday morning, and, in common with the large audience, heard aneffective sermon from Bishop Warren. The theme which the distinguished divine elabor- ated was righteousness, which, he said, was the central and grandest idea in religion. Christ and the Pharisee. At the Church of the Covenant last night Rev. Dr. Hunt preached to « large congregation. He based his discourse on the incident in St. Mark of the Pharisee’s endeaving to overthrow Christ by questioning him and by his answers warning the During the conversation, said Dr. Hunt, Christ laid down the command- ment that the people should love God with all their hearts and their neighbors as themselves. When people, said Dr. Hunt, loved God instead of fearimg him they came over to the kingdom of heaven. Doctrine of a Future Life. The pnipit of the First Baptist Church Inst evening was occupied by Dr. L. R. Fiske, the president of Albion College of Michigan. His sermon was an elaborate and learned discourse of the doctrine of a future life. The Principle of True Brotherhood. The second of the series of the services of the People’s church at the Academy of Music yee terday touched on Methodist matters, as the sermon of Rev. Dr. Alexander Kent referred to the action of some restaurant and lunch room proprietors in refusing to admit colored mem- rs of the council. Dr. Kent pointed ont that such discrimination showed that men bad not yet learned the principle of true brotherhood. Ecumenicals at Temperance Tent. A large crowd assembled at the Temperance Tent, located at 9th and East Capitol streets northeast, last ¢' ing to listen to addresses from distinguished speakers who are here from England and elsewhere at the ecumenical conference. Mrs. LaFetra presided and Mr John Wills, F. 8. Se., of Derby, England, was the first speaker. He gavea strong Bible ar- gument for total abstinence and then told of the great work being done in his country for the children. He said they were systematically organized and that already two millions of the children are enrolled in their Bands of Hope. Mr. Wills is an active business man—an archi- tect—and has designed two hundred churcbes in England. Dr. L. A. Belt was the next speaker and spoke in strong terms for the pro- hibition of the liquor traffic. Mr. John H. Lile, C. C., of Manchester, England. spoke briefly, stating his great interest in the temper- nce Movement in this country and his confi- C. Hoss of Nashville, Tenn., at Central Charch Rev. John Medicraft of Manchester. Frnician and Rev. G. Packer of Halifax, bangiaod. ot Calvary Charen, South. Rev. Dr. A. Coke Smith of Nashville, Ten Me, at Emmanuel Chpreh South Rev Dr. J. M. tof Belibuckle, Tenn. wt Holland Street Ch Rev. Dr. J. vi Avenue Church. ‘The New Structure Opened for Worship. History of the Organtzacton Campbell A. M.E. Church has been com pleted and was yesterdar consecrated to ce ligious worship. The inaugural service was opened with an anthem by the reorgenived choir, led by Prof. Joh aon. The ser mon was delivered by Rev. Dr. A.M. Green wf New Orleans, La., and the text, Hebrews chap! 11, 39-40: “The good report through faith and the better thing beyond.” The pastor of the church, Rev. F. J. Peck, jr.. closed the service with remarks. At theafternoon servic Rev. Dr. Dyson of Metropolitan Zion A.M. E Church of Washington prea. sing as hie subject “God to Be Worehiped.” Dr. Ander | #0n, president of Campbell College of Vick burg, Miss. and Rev. Dr. Herbert of Denver, Col,” made brief addresses. In the evening owing to the sickness of Dr. 1 Peck occupied the pulpit, wing ax his sermon the I7l«t psalm. great things for us,” Mr. Peck a was the organist of the ever ne for the day aggregated +: CRRATED A MISSION IN IMF Campbell Church was organized and created ‘8 mission in 1967 by Rev. Wm. H. Waters. Th meeting which accomplished this war heli of the home of Mr. John Paddy,on Zion Hil From that time till 1574 services were ducted in the little frame Mount Zion « house by the pastors of Allen A.M. B. Chay at Good Hope. Mr. Was from 1867 een a Thomas W. Henry, from 1868 to 6%: Peck, er., father of’ the 70. Daniel Drape: Rev. Wm. M. Johnson, 1 In 1870 Rev. Mr Draper built the rough and homely litt Structure known as Mount Zion 1874, under Rev. T. A. B. Henry, Me ceased to be a mission and of Allen Chapel. Since then i Jependen: pulpit has bee occupied by the following pastors: Rev. Wm H. Chambers, Kev. Perry H. Dorsey, Rev. B. W. Timothy, Rev. J. Ho S. Gray, Rev. J. it Welsh, Rev. 8. M. Jolinson, Rev. 1D. J. Bec! and Rev. 0. D. Robin During the regi of the latter gentleman it was determi change the location of the church to some point nearer the center of its congregation and more accessible, for the road to salvation w asphalted boulevard compared with the Mount Zion. ANEW LOT sRCURED. Accordingly, Dr. Robinson secured from Wm Carter 40 by 120 feet on the east side of Nichols avenue, midway St. Elizabeth B and on what was the Barry farm. The ground was in part donated by the owner. Dr. Robin son succeeded in getting the building started, but financial embarrassment blocked further and worship was carried on in Doxg Eitan On May 4 2080, Mov. 8-5. Peck as rived from Clearspring, Washingym county, Ma., where he nd Deen | of Bethel A. M E. Church and principal of the public school and succeeded Dr. Kovineon in the command of Campbell Church. At the first service wii he conducted in Douglass’ Hall he subscribed £5, each of the seven trustees followed enit a the congregation chimed im so enthnsiastically ‘that €160 cf the church debt was wiped off the slate. The basement of the delayed structure was fitted up. Stewards J. T. Commodore and 3. Allen it the lumber and Trustees H. ne up dent faith in its ultimate triumph. Mr. J. Lee gave an earnest invitation and several came forward and signed the pledge. REY. T. B. STEPHENSON. COLUMBUS’ DISCOVERY. A Religions Celebration of the Finding of America by the Great Navigator. Today is the three hundred and ninety-ninth anniversary of the discovery of America by Columbus, and the event was celebrated by a unique an interesting service at Metropolitan Church yesterday afternoon. The ecumenical conference decided last week to inaugurate such a service in answer to the expressed wish of the world’s fair commissioners to set on foot & movement for religious commemorative services in various churches of the country. BISHOP HURST'S REMARKS. Bishop Hurst of this city presided, and after the rendition of some excellent music by the choir and the large audience he delivered a short address, in which he referred to the fact that Americans were proud to consider that in the discovery of this continent, as well as its upbuilding, the element of religion had never been lost sight of, and that it had played a more prominent part in that upbuilding and development than the functions of mere govern- ment had in the established nations which dated their antiquity tocenturies ago. Bishop Hurst introduced Kev. Dr. ‘superintendent of the Methodist church in Canada, who spoke on the factor of colonization as the prime mover in an empire's strength, and illustrated his ar- gument by historical incidents. Dr. Carman said that the Methodists had not been found wanting in contributing their shure to the ultimate importance of what Columbus dedicated to # divine power when bis discovery | became a fact, REV. DR. STEPHENSON'S MEMORIAL ADDRESS. Rev.Dr. Stephenson delivered an eloquent ine- morial address, in which he alluded to tho prominent place followers of John Weslev bad made for their faith among the retreats of this, country and said that the spiritual advance of America had kept pace with the more than re- markable which characterized progress in other directions. Addresses were also made by Rev. Dr. Earle Cranston, Rev. Dr. Clinton of Cincinnati and Rey. Dr. Fitzgerald. The service was. inter- spersed with hymns and scriptural readings. DELEGATES IN BALTIMORE. ‘Members of the Ecumenical Conference Who Preached in the Monumental City. A large number of the delegates to the coun- cil visited Baltimore yesterday, and nearly all the Methodist pulpits in thateity were occupied by visiting divines. Bishop Hendrix wasat St. Paul's and took es his text, “If it were not soI would have id | Maryland Medical Institute o you. At the evening service atthe same church Dorsey, L. Henson and George Henson dic the carpeniry. isawe Beers, the arciytect and builder, resumed operations on the otber parts of the structure. suteen months of toil euc- ceeded and yesterday thiscolored congregation, ax the result of its energy and devotion, wor- shiped in one of the prettiest churches in the southern part of the District. DR. PROK'S SUCCESSFUL WoRK, The receipts for the first year of Dr. Peck’s pastorate were €2,186.11, and on the first Sun- day of last June he inaugurated camp moet ing, conducted it till the third Sunday in Augnst, and netted ubout @700. This cam was addressed by such distinguished colored orators as Frederick Donglass, James H. A Jobneon, D. D., presiding elder of tomac district; Bishop Wayman of the North Ten nessee diocese, Rev. Francis J. Peck, er. of Grace A. M. E. Church, Baltimore ‘county; Kev. 8. M. Johnson of Allen Chapel; Rev. Dr Beckett of Metropolitan A. M. E. Church, Washington; Kev. Dr. D. P. Seaton of Bal more, and Kev. Dr. Hill of Ebenezer Church, Washingtons Frederick Douglass and bis son Frederick, jr., have been stauch friends of ‘this church: DESCRIPTION OF THE NEW BUILDING. The church proper will seat 600 and the Sum day school room a like number. It is finighed in ash. A four-hundred-dollar organ and a tal- ented choir have accommodations in the bal- cony at the westend of the church. At the posite end is the platiorm and around this us olinrd-wood balustrade. Over, the alpit is a memorial window of Bishop J. P. Campbell, who was bishop of the diocese when the corner stone was laid and after whom the church is named The window cost €75 and was presented by the bishop's widow. ‘The portrait of the divine as being burnt in the glass. Behind the pulpit are two cathedral giaas windows, one being the git of Mra. M. Fendle of Garfield and Mrs julia Henson and the other ot Mr. M. Brooks and Mr. J.T. Bond. In the tower are two win- dows, gifts of the chi d_on the south side of the entrance isa window donated by the Sunday school through the ¢xertions of Superintendent Wm. H. Liverpool and his assistant, Miss Fanny Jonson. th of the entrance is arich-colored window from Mrs. M. Roberts, Mra. Oden, Mrs. Ford and Mr. Eugene Green. The remaining windows were donated by Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Brooks, Mrs. Edmonson and Mr. J. P. Ale Watson of Met tan A. M. Mr. E. Brown of John Wesley Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dorsey, J. 5. and F. Smoot and wife. THE PRESENT FasTon's canen. Rev. F. J. Peck, jr., the pastor. was born im Baltimore in 1861, received his first instrue- tion from the Catholic Brothers in that city and attended the Atianta, Ga.. grammar school while his father was pastor of Bethel Church of that city. He graduated from Store College, Harper's Ferry, and studied theology at Oberiim College; was an Hicentiate im Maryland was pastor gt Valley Fall near Lucy Walker, Kan.; did duty in Catletsburg, Ky.; taught in mblic aciuools of Maryland aud was pastor at Cl He was then transterred to Hillsdale. At first he was not favorably re~ ceived, the folks believmg him too young to lead them. Their error is apparent. Dr. Peck owns a valuable estate at Petersvilie, Md., near ‘the new town of Brunswick, and is interested on » large scale in breeding and raising blooded horses. —— Dr. Christophe: Joluson Dead, Prof. Christopher John-ou, the most promi nent general practitioner in Laltimore, «i yesterday morning at the age of sixty years, His death wax unexpected, though he had not been well since INS. when be was poisoned while performing « surgical opera tion. He received the degree of M.D. in 1843, was lecturer in various departacnts til the the great surgeon, Pr. Nathan i. Snuith he sueoveded in the clair of surgers 18st he resigned this chair and waselecte\ professor emeritus. Prot. Johnson devoved himself! to the study of histology and pathology and be- came a skillful mict . He was one of the foundets of the pathological end clinical societies, president of the Maryianu Acodemy of Sciences for several years ani touncer of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Marylaud. ‘Control of the 0. & M. K. KR. ‘The negotiations for the transfer of the con- It covers the distance from Cincinnati to East St. Louis. 339 miles; hase branch of fifty-three miles. division numbers 228 miles. Its control is im, tto the Baltimore and Obto.