Evening Star Newspaper, April 17, 1925, Page 24

o4 WASHINGTON, HIDE WITH COFFINS AS BANDITS PURSUE STAR, D. “Then we addressed ourselves to Schuyler Colfax, speaker of the House, with a request that we be al- C., FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1925. e land Congregationalists of the earlier | well adapted to thee times. For, be it known, the fathers [mirth and pathos, he w. thought it not unholy to hold elec- | tration, dran tions, militia meetings and business | ways self-control herings in their church edifices |enforce a point 1 not only thought so, but so did. |ment If the church adopted this policy revenue measure only, It builded better than it knew. Through ‘ts| working many people became familiar with thoe plac here for lite talnments during the week were also drawn hither on Sundays. Thousands came to know and love thi the hours of esthetic and intell enjoyment they had spent Institution became essentl, peopl to a K in the THE EVENING 18 waited upon President Andrew [FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH |3\, it it oy 0y 'HAS STORMY HISTORY BEHIND IT/|w o e "l 560t Church the United Stat, sion of both | were awakened, but the center of in apt in illus- | terest was with us. After one of Mr -|Hammond's characteristic exhorta empted to | tions the st audience would brea ted state- |into the startling music of o ing upon th ent Day is Coming, Is Coming, reat. By skill- | Coming and the thunderous p: d of regret for | of the great organ created an exc ibrates in the '!uw{ 80 tense that the souls of skiilfully |and the nerves of all were shaken to / of those would appreciate it if he point \d prayer. Mr. request was also grant- nton was a powerful nd he often drew 4,000 people, probably the largest assem- blage In any Protes Sabbath au- dience in the country. Lincoln had once or wice appointed days of thanksgiving for special oceasions, but we asked for a day perpetual fr. Johnson agreed, and to that committce goes the honor of estab- lishing the regular thanksgiving oc- sermonizer, Was One of First Organizations in Country to Fight e Slavery and Lost Many Members—Qften Dr. Rock and Aides Have| in Money Difficulties. Thrilling Encounter With | T : - The movement launched in Wash- Chinese Robbers. ington by members of the First Wanted Raise In Pay. On top of all, Dr. Boynton resigned because he required $3,000 a year, while $1,800 was all the members could raise. Desperate situations desperate remedies. Rev. E. Rankin of Charlestown, M elected, and accepted the pl. history continues: great religious perversity 1 vears later rs were dropped for ab u Dr. Charles B, e anonct valkine our mi just aft | Civil War, found that bullding on Fifth street, whi an Episcopal Church, th and then a sta sed by Columbian Uni- law school. S0 we moved Sat Boyn | grades, from striver fo i LS S headed boa - mations of his own past vileness a $80,000 Stork Bills Burned. present righteousness. Both these| | classes of converts were encouraged |peny to present themselves -0 public vie as often and as conspicuon. sible with, & perfec to promote the & %s by a show of r The agencies emple wide attention and stirred th munity to its cent amounts that and on streets people discussed the |was for numerous ord fate of the soul. Many other churches | fees. ister suggested Jeremiah South that a religiou ganized with an anti-slavery plank In its platform. We doubt if many churches in the North embarked c such a crusade as early as the forties body was or- : y for the people, by the people,’ | iter extent than any edifice ty. Congregational Church for a new heen ion-dollar edifice, given tacit ap- v President Coolidge, the in- v the United | s eading worshiper, recalls Service an-|many hectic struggles put forth by as | the membership in the earl 1 3 he couldn't rowing up k of learning so far as the d ‘never been pald, anford, Ky., piled heap in the grounds that to people d him with the r Stork’s vere concerned, fcian at )0 worth of I c and burned t $80,000 rey | pr and Strugsles of Chur historian church “campaigns” and th, halt and blind:" en before it had becomn fledged church its members were not troubled with an excess of modesty. | in On October 1865, a committee of | ci Sdteray’s Outstanding Furniture Values —LIBERAL CREDIT TERMS Evangelist Holds Meetings. “In 1876 a remarkable series of meetings was held by the evang, The dent ous Presi- | service building w. vigor- | When Winte e 3 s¢ ctures, cgne refuge of | g v v its to' an _extent | Rev. E. P. Ha | auite unprecedented among the|Bentley, a singer of gre | churches of the community. Though |ness, and a corps of m Washington, this policy was |lay of the city. rd with the practices that|was a man of fi generally obtained among New ¥ hearty, earnest ms rented rts and lepers pose hic meet The money Jugh for o steepls the National [ then an agitation was s »dition to Yun- | steeple, but nothing has come which "”u“‘]}lh fact, most of the me J ut trees for |Said it was a useless tping, and C United States, | Bregationalists had better devote the | same amount to charity Gen. O. O. Howard, the one-armed Civil War veteran, one of Sherman's leading warriors and known as “The St Cambridge, Mass. Christian Soldler,” used to say jocu- Night Among {larly that he was sure no steeple Ar. Rock spe di-| Would be erected before his death and lapidated vil f.|he supposed that afterward ¢ Bna. His » would be raised in his honor. Gen. 3 7 Howard founded Howard University outside tk G5l nths in this country turned to Y n to seek plant | specimens for the Arnold Arboretum, ge temple one tive guard d town the him; | days before, | Unjversity at Cumberland ¢ .| He died in 1909. The new ung is|jt is belfeved, will contain a steeple we from pole an to Cha and two days out most terri ience of I left Mr. Rock | o | sald to have been the cradle of emo- History of Church. The First Congregational Church, tev. Jason Noble Pierce, pastor, is tional religion in the United States ssed had | After lunch Its revivalist methods have of late ars been duplicated by other de- nominations, notably the Methodists tree we made|of the South. Here are a few fea- tains with my | tures of its history les, 40 soldiers,| It fought the institution of slavery who took ad-i{in a strong pro-slavery center. The nd joined on|members often divided and part of ’ ch the [them withdrew, leaving the church to die, only to be resurrected Hery Ward Beecher, the great Brooklyn preacher, addressed the We had not gone very far congregation, but declined a call to my head muleteer came and s | the pastorate. Tobby were behind the caravan. I| Met In Many Places. waited f 3 | 1t met in many places, notably the us, and as they came in sight I rode | youce of Representatives on, but not for lon; my boys ton nioss hesrsa Yo lshi velled ‘Robbers ing!” and at , and one of its structures | moment they opened for debt and became & | My native rather | Lravely, T must admit, climbed to the ridge and opened fire on the brigands, | b ands that a one-sided af- r the soldier Robbers Pursue Caravan. soldiers be church history, compiled in | Walter L. Clift, chairman of | oard of trustees, on the occasion of the fiftleth anniversary of the re- vived Institution, says: “On August 3, 1847, a few gentle- | | men, poor in pocket but enthusiastic l('flngHAgk(iunalhsls_ met to form church. They had preaching occa- sionally, but Sabbath school all the time, e of their number, Mr. Cook- red to build a church and t to them. The offer was gladly accepted and the first building was er a|erected on Eighth street. This was firng | twice énlarged, but was eventually | e of the afternoon. |demolished to give way to the present s to the bad aiming of the, agogue. ands, we lost only one soldfer. We'| found the hostility reached the sms f hesun, | wk arrayed against all ham- |V was completely domi- fongai. reached | nated by Southern influence. 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