Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 9, 1894, Page 5

. 168 towns we i realize its object. D . CONGREGATIONAL MISSTONS Work of the Convention Proper Erought to a Olose Yesterday, | ous nor more prosperous than now, our | Congregational communicants are only '8 per cent of the population, and the Catholic com- municants are 20 per cent of the population. In conclusion, fn view of the whole situa- tion, we must spend moro of our home missionary money in Connecticut than heretofore, in order that we may hold our own, and assimilate such as we can of the strangers within our gates, and thus en- large the area from which we gather re- sources from the kingdom of God at home and abroad. Both of our Connecticut sccietics, that of 1798 for frontier work and that of 1816 for state work, which since 1880 has been merged into one, have been In hearty co- operation with the national society since MANY ABLE PAPERS BEING FRESENTED Delegnt and Visitors Will Take an Outing Today-—Carriage Drive About the City Excarsion to Tabor- Ke- ception this Evening. Yesterday o great day of the Home Misslonary soc convention. It was the last day of the ention proper, and the most interesting events were reserved for it | After the usual devotional mecting at 9 o'clock, an audience which fil the First Congregational church assembled to hear the | speakers who were to address the twelfth annual meeting of the Woman's Department. Mrs. 1. 8. Caswell of New York, the secre- tary, presided, and the meeting was one of the most enthusiastic of the series. Ad- dressess were delivered by Miss Frances J. Dyer of Massachusetts, Mrs. Joseph T. Duryea of Omaha, Mrs. W. 8. Wawkes of Utah, Mrs. H. H. Gilchrist, the wife of a | wntssionary In the Black Hills, Mrs. Defor- rest of Alabama, who spoke on tan Giver's Creed,” Mrs. C. W. Curtis. Ten persons, headed by General O. O. Howard, subscribed $10 each for the educa- tion of Minnle Berry for the missionary worlk. A collection of $127.27 was taken up for the assistance of the department. Mr. and Mrs. Pierce of Connecticut an- nounced that they would pay the expenses of Mr. and Mrs. Gilchrist, the evangelists, to the Black Hill Mrs. Casweil then called for a stand up roll call by states and nearly all in the union proved to o representatives, IPleld Secre y Puddefut followed with an address detailing his work in Chicago and elsewhere, Rev. George M. Doynton's address on “Home Missions and Sunday Schools” closed the morning session. “Home Missions and Christian Bducation was the subject considered in the afternoon, and the leading address was delivered by Rev. John A. Hamilton. ~The following repre- sentatives from the field followed: Rev. L. P. Rey. B. H. Ashmun, New . T. W. Jones, D.D., Pennsyl- Harmon Bross, Nebraska; Rev. Parker, Oklahoma; Rev. K. South 3. Homer Wray, Missouri; Rev. W. H. Thrall, Dakota. At the public meeting at the First Methodist Bpiscopal church last night addresses were delivered by ¥ Charles §. Mills of Cleve- land, Rev. George H. Wells, D.D., Minne- wpolis; Rev. A. L. Frisbie, D.D. of Des Moines, and Rev. Bdward P. Goodwin, D.D., ot Chicago, which were listened to by an wudience which filled the church. This closes the convention proper and for today the general committee announces that the drive about the city has been provided for at 2 o'clock, to start from the Millard hotel, and every visitor and delegate is especially requested to meet there promptly and par- ticipate in the ride. In the evening the business men of the city will tender the visitors to the city & reception at the Commercial club, from 7:30 to 10 p. m., to which every one is in- vited. This will be the “love feast” of the occasion and you will be entertained by the brightest speakers, including Puddefoot and others. An_excursion to Tabor college will leave the union depot at 9:45 this morning, return- ing at 6:55. President Brooks will act as escort. B WORK IN CONNECTICUT, Dr. Moore Describes Progress of Home Missions In the Nitmeg State. Continuing the addresses yesterday fore- noon, Rev. W. H. Moore of Connecticut spoke of the work in his state as follows: Connec- ticut began to be the frontier of Congrega- tionalism about 260 years ago, when set- tlers from the Plymouth and Massachusetts colonfes planted Windsor and Hartford. Great hardships were endured. The winter of 1625 was more severe than that encoun- tered by the Oklahoma pioneers. In 1637 they had a mortal struggle with the Pequots, and more than 100 years passed away be- fore they were delivered from fear of the Indlans. In January, 1639, they adopted a constitution which declares their object in these notable words: “‘To maintain and pre- serve the liberty and purity of the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, which we now profess, as also the disciples of the churches, which, according to the truth of the said gospel, Is now practiced amongst us.” In carrying out this purpose the govern- ment became a Congregational Home Mis- slonary soclety for Connecticut under the following plan, namely, that each town should have an orthodox minister settled for life, and a church organized under power of the general court, and that whenever necessary sald court should aid a town In settling a minister, building a parsonage and a meeting house and supplying the minister until the town could take care of itself. Under this plan the settling of Connecti- cut went on until its whole area had been enclosed In Congregationa parish lines—the ast original town to be settled was Cole- rook, where a church was founded in 1795. At that time every town in the state had a Congregational church, one or more, and the general court might have regarded its planting work as ended. The work was done so well that only two of those incorpor- ated socleties have ever fallen away from Congregationalism. One in the last century becamo Universalist and one in the present century Unitarian, but in neither of these cases dld the church swerve from our prin- ciples or fellowship; nor has any church ever abandoned us for error or for another denomination. Though many new towns have been formed from the original towns, we have today only two towns without a Congregational church, and they are towns formed during the present century. With have 312 churches and over church members. Gog:? vfill‘axul;alnn id not fully and permanently Disturbing forces came The disorders (i;llu\lvlng m:: enings of 1740, the burdens and Ao etlons. of the war with France and the mother country, the general declension in the last half of the century, the spread of infidelity after the revolution, the rise and growth of other denominations and their co-operation with each other and with one of the political parties for the overthrow of the ancient order of things, the migration beyond our borders and from the rugged hill towns to the more favored portions of the state, accelerated by the growth of manufactorics and of the cities, resulted in reducing many old churches to feebleness and also In starting new churches without adequate means of self-support. In the meantime changes in public sen- timent found representation in the general assembly, so that that body, losing its old- time homogenity and finding itself in condi- tions not provided for, and perhaps never gontemplated by the founders of the govern- ment, could no longer be relied on to carry out a policy which, however favorable to into operation. Congregationalists, was unfair to all other | religious bodies, a state of things demanding relief likely to be got only by such a change of the constitution as would debar the gen- eral assembly from aiding any denomination, and thus throw all church bodies upon their own resources under God. In apprehension of such a change, and in view of destitutions already alarming in ex- tent, a home missionary society for Con- necticut was formed In 1816, only two years before the adoption of the present constitu- tlon of the state. This saclety found about twenty-five churches waiting for its help. It has aided in all 134 churches, sixty-four old churches and seventy new churches, or more than one-third of all the churches in the state. About two-thirds of all that have been aided are now self-supporting, and some of them are churches of great usefulness. About fifty churches now look to us for help, of which oue-half are old churches, one-third foreign churches and the rest are new American churches, Bach class of these churches needs and merits sistance. We cannot abandon the old o8 with- out Ingratitude and folly, for our roots are in them and our springs come from them. We eannot Ignore the new Amerfean churchos for they are in centers of growing population and wealth, and the work among the for fn the state especialy claims our | b the manifest blessing | n it; becauss the foreigners are large a majority in the state that n of the forty-four states have | ratio of foreigners to tho whol in Connecticut, and because #his ound to be carried higher by the larger birth in their families than in ours, id by a steady 1 the old world | attracted to us by ess o the ports | of eutry and the v nd extent of onr | manufactories, and fi 10re, becauso Lwo thirds of this for element are non- protestant, and becar tional constitution our Congrega- 18 never more numer- ome fdea of what Connecticut has done In this movement may be got {f wo con- sider that in addition to all we have con- tributed in the Christian migrations from us for over a century and all of the edu men we have furnished to be itine pastors, superintendents, teachers, presidents and professcrs in colleges, and the money we have put Into educational institu- tions, and all we have given for church building, our home misslonary offerin this outsid rk from 1793 to date have e: ceeded $2,9 , in fact, less than 15 per cent of which has been raised for home missions has been spent in and for Con- necticut, and over 85 per cent has been dis- tributed to the country at large, and it some satisfaction to be able to say that w ve to this work in 1 Connecticut g Is more than in former y ess God that we have been able to do so much. _We propose to keep doing, for, in the words of our venerated Connecti- cut forefathers, “We don’t expect or desire to be freed from the duty of promoting th kingdom of God and the interest of re- ligion In the world."” As the churches in these great states mul- tiply and grow strong the time will come when you will far exceed us In numbers and in resources for every good work. You will increase and we must decrease, but thereby our prayers will be answered, our purpose will be accomplished, God will be glorified and Connecticut will be made glad. OHIO'S WORK EXPLAINED. Rev. J. G. Frazer, D.D., of Ohio, spoke as follows of the work in his state: I am afraid that the New Connecticut is a long way behind the old Connecticut, and that it is to be a long time before Ohio will be equal to Connecticut. Ohio appears very grateful that the churches which were started were built by the Home Missionary society, that they were bullt by missionaries of the Home Misslonary soclety. Ohlo of Itself has not very much of which to be proud of this year. We are going on in a very quiet, conserva- tive way. We have just enough to encourage us to keep on in our work, and not enough to, by any means, make us vain. The problems that bother us the most are the problems which we find_everywhere in the home missionary field. We find that as the city grows, as the population is progressing the churches are suffering. That is true of the whole country. With two cities with a population of over 250,000 each, and fifty- five or sixty cities with a population in_ ex- cess of 5,000, you can understand something of the problem that confronts us in the work. In all of these fifty-five cities I do not think there are over one-half of them that have Congregational churches. We find in our cities the “down town' problem, the problem of tho down town church. We find in some of our missionary churches that we must Introduce institutional methods and institutional work for the sake of giv- ing our churches the best aid. The very best experiment is being made now by one of our missionary churches, a church that re- celves about one-half of its support for its pastor from the Home Missionary. It has been to an expense of almost $10,000 and is the most complete Institutional building I know of, and it Is the most powerful in its methods. Dr. Schafer will tell you something about the work among the Bohemians. This is a great thing. There are a great many of the Bohemian Congregational churches, entirely Bohemian, with more than 200 members. There are something like forty services of one kind and another, and there are more than 2,000 people that attend. This will suggest to you something of the magnitude of the work, something of the greatness of the work that is being done among this class of people. We have one problem in Ohio that I think 1s peculiar and that is the lack of Congreg; tional churches. ~ You may ride 100 miles through town after town and you will find no churches. ~ You can travel further and not find » town in which there is a siugle Con- gregational church, You can go fifty miles further to Springfleld and there is no church; twenty-five miles furtler to Dayton and there you will find a church, but it has been organized recently. You can go eighty miles across the state to the old capi- tal and you will find a church that was or- ganized but a few days ago. You can go seventy-five miles to the Ohio river without finding a church. The Home Missionary soclety Is doing a grand work in Ohlo and I do not think that T would be very far wrong it I should say that at least five-sixths of these churches that are organized were organized by the soclety. We are grateful for this Home Missionary soclety and ask the blessing of God upon it. THE WORK IN IOWA. Rev. T. O. Douglas of Towa spoke of the work In that state as follows: T really feel complimented that so many of the brothers and sisters have remained to hear about fowa. As 1 have said before, I have the honor to speak for lowa, the Massachusetts of the west, the Mesopotamia of the world, the Garden of Eden. M Moderator, these aro all quotations from re- liable authors. A few days ago I was trav- eling on the Rock Island road with Secre- tary Herrick. I was trying to fix up my old talk for another assoclation, and I found Brother Herrick looking out of the window and talking. He said, “Why, this is really grand, this 1s magnificent, this is wonderful. I havo never Leen in this part of the state before.” I listened then and said, “Yes, this Towa—this is a part of Iowa, and that s all.” 1 was standing with the same brother a few days after on the platform of the great gen- eral assoclation at Newton and we were look- ing over the magnificent spectacles, faces of true men and women, and I said to him, “This s also a part of Iowa, Congregationai Towa, the cream of it all.” I will only speak a very few moments at this time, I want to talk first about our age. We are not very old, we are Infants yet. Mr. Mod- erator, three of the members of our first Congregational church, of the first Congre- gational church that was organized in Iowa, | are still living, and they are still members | of that church. Two of them are so young that on every pleasant Sunday mcrning they £0 to church aud they also stay to the Sun- day school. We are but an infant. Wa are not sweet 16, but sweet 56, for that s our age. Next I want to speak about the size. I am going to dispose of all my points just as quickly as I did that. There are now In tho state 314 Congregational churches, members resident, 33,000 children and in Sunday schools, three academies, and two of these I think I ought to say should be better, two colleges, about $2,000,000 worth of church and college property. That is the size of Copgregationalism in Iowa. That 18 not, however, the size of the great moral and spiritual ‘forces. They cannot be measured, and only God and the angels can tell the size. Third. From whence comes this great Congregational Towa? T can tell you and can say truly that the history of the Congre- gational churches in lowa is the history of the Home Missionary soclety In our state. In 1836 a lttle handful of miners were in Dubuque. A missionary was sent to them who was to get his support almost entirely from the Home Missionary soclety. In 1838 a church was organized In lowa and Mr. Turner was to get $400, one-fourth of it payable in produce, and ‘I have been told that some of the men assured Mr. Turner that they would not let thelr share of his salary run any unressonable time. Mr. Turner was (o act as agent for the soclety The year 1343 was a great event in our history, as there were twelve youug men, twelve young missionaries sent there, eleven from Andover and one from Yale, and they sald, of us don’t. Mr. Robbins s one that don't (Laughter.) What did theso twelve young men find in Towa fitty years ago? Thirteen little Congregational churches, but I under- stand that not one of these brothers took ne of these little churches. They sald, “We will let the old men have the woft | pla we will go out and make churches ourselves.” I wish to God that a little mora of this spirit was in the hearts of our theologieal graduates today. How wers these young men supported In the work of making churches for themselves? — About all of their support eame from the Home Missionary society. In 1836 a brother came pretty well advanced in ettled in Des Moines and started here were five members, three of which were his own family. s was in two years after his arrival. In two years there were four members, and in four years there was one church member. It was nine rs before that church d de- veloped any deacon timber. There was a young man came to Towa In 1856 and his salary was to be $400 a year. ‘Never in my life,” he sald, “have I had over $100 a r salary. Once I was offered $900 and that very nearly broke me up. I was talking to one of the good sisters. I was taking tea with her, and she excused the tea not having any milk in it, and ex- plained it by saying that they had sold their cow and put proceeds Into the meeting house. A young man came to that place without a cent in his pocket and he borrowed $1,700 at 10 per cent interest to begin life with and he sald that he would give as much to the church as the rest of the con- gregation put in, as mucn as the rest of the collection amounted to. That cost him at $100. After they had taken that c on Brother Sweeny arose and said: “I think we will proceed now to take the col- lection to get that cow out of the church.” They took a collection amounting to $31.60 and the cow was got out of the meeting house, and T am sorry to say—or Fam glad to say, T don’t know which—that that cow has got back Into the meeting house several times since. That Is the way the Congre- gatlonalists do in Towa. Every few d a new church is organized. These are very hard times and we have strictly forbidden any Congregational children to be born during these hard times, but notwithstand- ing all of this the Congregational churches are growing. We have had eighteen new churches organized. Just as T came here I received a letter stating that another new church would be organized this month and in the past year seventeen churches have been started in Towa and we just can't pre- vent their being organized We have closed one of the best years that we have ever known. There is one thing that you don't know; we have closed the year out of debt (applause) and what is better, we have closed with a surplus. (Applause.) Now, I will tell you what the Iowa Congregationalists will~ do. If you will engage to pay all of your debts and never get into debt again out of this surplus we will let you have it. The amount is $118.87. We questioned most seriously “shall we cut down our work the coming year at our annual meetings” and we said positively, “No, we cannot cut down our work, instead of cutting the work down we can make greater sacrifices. During the past year we collected for the home work $21,000, $2,000 for the regions beyond and 91 cents ‘per resident member from _every church, and for the summer of 1894 the dry months shall be suspended. That is the motto that we agreed upon. Another motto we have is “Iowa, our country and the world for Christ.” (Applause.) “OUR WORK IN CITIES." Dr. L. H. Cobb's Able Paper and the Dis- cussion it Kvoked. The afternoon session of the convention of June 7 was opened with the singing of the hymn, “My Faith Looks Up to Thee,” fol- lowed by prayer by Rev. Dunsmore of Kan- sas. Dr. L. H. Cobb was to follow, opening the business of the afternoon with the presenta- tion of a paper on the subject, “Our Work in Cities,”” but as he was absent because of sickness his paper was read by Dr. Taintor of Chicago. The paper was as follows: On the original letter heads of the Ameri- can Congregational union was found this suggestive sentence: ‘‘Aids feeble but prom- ising churches in erecting houses of wor- ship.” The statement was strictly true, But it was taken to mean more than it said —that it aided none but feeble churches. It gave givers a tired feeling. It gave the impression that but little ald was needed, consequently comparatively little was ex- pected from donors, and the littlo expecta- tions were realized. The ninth annual re- port gives the total receipts at $7,535.24. Ald to added churches that year averaged $202.33 per church. “The work to be done,” says the report, to look after the few churches now depending upon this treasury for a little aid, then get and send portions to hundreds of feeble but hopeful = Christian bands for whom nothing Is as yet provided."” Those receipts and that report no doubt cor- rectly gauged the general estimate of the church building work among the 2,734 churches reported in 1861. ‘When twenty years have passed ald has been rendered in only 873 houses of worship and two par- sonages. The average aid was $364.31. Only forty-eight churches could have been aided that year even on that scale. The inevitable tendency of this was to put the society and its work in a subordinate rank, and in the benevolent thought of some of the Lord’s good people the society has not even now outgrown the clothing made for it in 1853, Knowledge s spreading; appre- ciation is raising. The rule of the society to vote only $500, except in the rarest and most urgent cases, no longer exists, Thes modesty of asking, too, Is passing away. Only a few weeks since one pastor confi- dently urged the claim of his church for a gift of $17,000, and he was not the first of his generous hearted class. The change in the aid limit has come with the growth of the country and the movement of the people from .the country to the city. When in August, 1857, the Congregational Church Building soclety, then known as the Amerl- can Congregational union, paid out the first §500 of aid it ever paid to any church to the First Congregational ehurch in Omaha, Neb., the population of this little burg was only 1,883, Father Gaylord began work lere in November, 1. The membership of the church was reported to be twenty-six. There were but four other churches in Nebraska in 1857. All five of them together reported but. ninety-two members that year; 1894 finds about 12,000 of our members in 185 churches, of which eight churches with a total membership of nearly 1,100 are in Omaha. In the growth of our work in Omaha, and in the whole state, the Congregational Church Bullding soclety has had assigned to it no inconsiderable share. Nebraska has called on us for aid in building 191 houses of worship, and fifty-five parsonages. The number of houses built, as you notice, is greater than the whole number of Congre- gational churches at present In the state. That Is easily explained by the fact that nine churches have been aided twice. Nine times Omaha has called on us for aid in church building, four times In parsonages. Heartily, therefore, this soclety joins in the Joy of its co-workers, of the Congregational ! Home Missionary siclety, in what God per- mitted us to do and see done in these thirty-seven years. No intercsted party will be more ready than the Homo Missionary society to acknowledge that thelr work in this city could not have been done’without the absolutely essential co-operation of the Church Bullding society. What has been dono in Omaha mainly since 1892, when Omaba was one of the larger Inland cities, is only a hint and illus- tration of the work of the Church Building society in more than a score of the largest cities of the land. Nearly $350,000 (3345, 527) have gone into church and parsonage building by and through the Church Building soclety In the largor cities of the country; $27,205 have gone into six churches In New York City; $45,015 have gone into thirteen churches in Brooklyn, N. Y.; $74,040 have gone into five churches in Philadelphia, Pa.; $4,700 have gone Into churches at Pittsburg, Pa.; §13,440 have gone Into three churches in Baltimore; $28900 have gone into two churches in Washington, D. C., besides $17,000 more asked for Washington, which have not been voted for or paid; $1,000 into the capital of the Empire state, bes'des 3,000 asked for, but mot yet voted; $5,700 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: Please God, we will spend our lives | in Towa,” and they have done it. Five of | them are yet living. Rev. Robbins came to Muscatine in 1843 and s there still, and Is the pastor of the Congregational ehurch You see, sometimes we don’t change as often | as the Methcdists, some of us do and some SATURDAY. JUNE 9, 1891 -TWELVE PAGE! {nto three churches in Buffa'o, N. Y.; $5,608 . Into six churches in Clgveland, € 190 into fourteen churchéd 'fn Chicago; $1,000 into two churches in/Miwaukse, Wis.; $11,- 105 Into elght churches, in Minnsapolis, Minn.; §7,112 into four.churelies fa St. Paul, Minn.; $6.849 into five churches in St. Louls, Mo. 3 into four ehiffehes in Springfleld, Mo.} 20 into_foufteen churches in Den- ver, $9,077 In6 Mive churches in | Pueblo, Colo.; $7,140 Yuty seven churches in | Los Angeles, Cal.;; '$i8,500 into three churches in San Franesco, Cal; $3,010 into three churches in Portinnd, Ore.: $3,513 into seven churches in Tacoma, Wash.; $500 into two churches in Spokans, Wash | These exceedingly Bener but noces- sarily lmited givers to this society may | ask,“Have you beer putting the smal con- | tributions which we have be:n enabled with | great sacrifice to make into la canters of population, like these?" To which we re- | ply, frankly, yes. We have heen putting | nearly one-fitth of the whole sum that has | passed through our hands into largs cities | of the country. Let us look at some of | these cases which we have aided, and see | what has been tho result. It i3 just to state that in several instances the lirge sums ap- propriated to these cities have bean specially put into our hands for that purpose. For example about one-half of what was put into New York City, more than that proportion of what was put into Brooklyn, four-fifths of what put into Philadelphia, three- fourths of what was put into Baltimore, two- thirds of what was put into Washington, D. C. at least on-third of what has been put into this city of Omaha, a generous portion of what went likewise Los Angeles, and Cal. n the moneyed returns from More than $60,000 have to Denver, Colc ) n What have by these investments? come back in cash from these twenty-three alded churches. Pittsburg, Pa., had $4,700 and has paid back $4 Minneapolis, Ply mouth, had $275, and has paid back $6,473. Tho First church in Omaha had $500 from this society, and $300 from the Albany fund, and has paid back $1,685, besides sev- s put into other churches in this v and this state. Los Angeles, Cal, had ), and has paid back $1,440.59. ' The South’ Park church in Chicago had $1,000, and has paid back $1,000. The three churches in Baltimore which received $13,440 will soon, through the generosity of one of their members, have paid back the entire sum many times over. But the moneyed considerations that enter into this statement are by no means im- portant. It will be bringing coals to New- castle to undertake to tell the Omaha churches how much the younger churches of the city owe to the First church, as the fostering mother of all the rest. In many instances churches aided by this society In the days of thelr financial and numerical feebleness, have not only become the foster- ing mothers of other churches In the city where they are, but the largest givers in the general work of the denomination throughout the whole country. For several years the little, struggling church to whic this society gave $275 in Minneapolis led the whole country in the amount of its an- nual contributions to benevolence. Beyond a question there are others in this list that it they had mot already approached that generous figure will soon come to it, when we consider their ability, their local charity and their numerical strength. — No- giver, however careful as to where his gifts shall be expended, will spend much time over the question, which is better, to put $2,000 into a church in a large center, which can reach 5,000 people, or $500 into a town of 500 people that must divide its patronage with two or three other evangelical churches? Or even if it is the sole occupation of a town of that sizo, there can be no question that the expendituré’at the larger center is equally wise, to say’ the least, with the expenditure in the smaller town. THE WORK IN DENVER. Dr. F. T. Bailey of Denver was introduced by the president, who referred to that city as the center of our country in geography and in many interests. Dr. Bailey spoke as_follows: Mr. President and Christian Friends—I am_very glad at having: been born in Boston and at having lived 5o much of my life in dear old New England.” I am very glad that the president has spared me the necessity of telling you that to come,from Denver is to come from the real Hub, and I am very glad to stand here as a representative of the real west. ( We have heard this morning from the al- leged western states of Ohlo and Towa. I must say that I have beefl, as a real western man, considerably shocked at the failing modesty of these brethren from these alleged western states, who have tried to make out | in the first place that everybody was born in those states, and in the second place that everybody who hasn't been born there wishes he had been. We of Colorado don't clalm that everybody was born in Colorado, and just at the present time we dare not sug- Best that everybody wishes he had been, either. (Laughter.) I have been asked by Dr. Cobb to speak partly with reference to the work of church building in the large cities. This you will observe 1s not the whole broad scope of the work of the society, but only a part of the fleld. The Church Building soclety no longer needs to justify its work. Emphasis and urgency are needed still, but not justifica- tion. The importarfe of the house of wor- ship Is patent. The shell s scarcely more essentlal to the egg than Is the bullding to the church. But the function of this society in our large citles is, perhaps, not equally clear to all. It is no wonder that the first thought of this society was to grant small sums in aid of feeble churches. That was the alphabet of its work. But feeble- ness is relative. It must be determined by the relation of ability to opportunity. A corporal’s guard is a strong force for the ar- rest of a straggler, but it is decidedly feeble for the taking of a stronghold. Feebleness is a strong claim for help, but pos- sibilities of a large usefulness are v stronger. The business of i@ church is not simply to live, but to do the work set before it. 1Its value and the im- portance of its preservation depend largely upon Its prospect of usefulness. The aid of these twin societies, the missionary and the church building, s not a charity, but an investment. Wisdom will put it “where it will do the most good.” These secre- tarfes need to be men of prophetic vision. Such was he, who, coming to the yet virgin fleld of Gettysburg, decreed the holding of Cemetery Ridge, because he saw it to be the backbone of the situation, the Gibraltar of the fleld. General Howard rendered greater service to his country and the world by that strategle choice than even the gift of his right arm at Fair Oaks. T am asked to speak of our work In great cities, but let me not seem to speak in derogation of the work in the smuller towns and the open country. City and country are one body mutually dependent.. They must be saved or lost together. The cur- rents of our common life are a circulation. The city is the heart, indeed, but the country is the body, and If the heart drives the life tide throughout the body so does the body pour its torrents continually into the heart. There can be no conflict of in- terests in our work for city and country. They are one and inseparable. We must save each that we .may save the other. We must save both that we may save our country. Yet there |s wisdom In the grow- ing atiention being paid to the cities. ~ The heart 1s 4 center, after all; none the less a center because it first receives the flood- tide which it sends through the body. The very fallure of the figure Is significant of peril or of duty. The heart of the body politic, alas, does mot send out a purified tide. We must save the city lest it poison the whole body with jts polluted pulse. The great sun sent out from her burning heart a family of worlds; she is still the center to them all of light, and heat and of life to such of them as cdn receive life, and the law of centrifugal déyelopment holds from the greatest to the lcast; from planets to invisible diatoms. The centrifugal principle 18 of the very essence of tho gospel. The heart of God is the great original source of love. Out of that heart flowed tho tides of re- demptive grace and mercy; and It is of the very nature of that love divine to be ever establishing new centers akin to its first great source. By this eternal law heart that surrenders to the love of God Decomes a loving heart; a new center of ‘s saving energies. Ilero Is the Genesis and the Exodus, too, of the missionary he whole philosophy of the gospel Note, now, the application of these principles to our theme. We might be sure beforehand that God would call us to special overy | work in great cities. We may read our calling in creation, In histc and in provi de See how the triumphal march of God's host has always been ordered with | pecullar reference to great cities. Jerusalem, Antloch, Rome; these are key words in the history of the early church; the divine strategy of missions Is bound up in th nam Theso great citles were the nerve centers of the early church. They were divinely chosen centers of rediation and re- demption. More than ever the city is today a center of human life. In the city are massed, in a great degree, the populations, the powers, the possibilities and the perils of our time, and because this Is true tho city must b center of the redemptive operations of God through his church. The church in the city has, first of all, the mission of saving the people of the city. What a mission it Is, How fraught with difficulty; how Imperative with the emphasis of defending destinies, There are more people to be saved or lost in some of our cities than in whole states made up chiefly of sparsely settled country But the city affords leverage for a wider work. The city is a vantage ground for the larger field. What a monstrous thing for any church of Jesus Christ to live unto itself, but the sin is greatest where tho opportunity is the largest. The church in the city should be the church for the coun- try. Gathering and guiding the powers of our concentrated city life—the powers of wealth, influence and co-ordination—the city church should become a center of centri- fugal forces wide spreading. A strong city church should be a prolific mother of churches; a center of missionary work; a force for the redemption of the statei a factor in the larger history of the church univi . Clearly, this is God’s plan. You may see it ‘written in the history of the glorions mother churches all the way from Jerusalem and Antioch down to St. Louis and Minne- apolis, via Boston. The growth of a city often develops a strategic opportunity. The local situation sometimes makes a particular field a_key position of great value. It pays to throw our might into the occupancy and the hold- ing of such a position. Its value lics In its strategic relations, its future possibilities. It has been my privilege to witness a recent illustration of these principles, and Dr. Cobb has asked me to tell you of it. Every- body knows, except Omaha, that Denver had a marvelous growth during recent years, though just now we are resting. The best growth has been on Capitol Hill. Less than three years ago the generals of our two Home Missionary societies made a study of the situation. A solid square mile of large population, in this promising section, was without a church of any Kkind, and the growth was still rapidly increasing. That region ought to be the home of one of the strongest, most useful churches in our de- nomination in the west. Local conditions which may not be described made the oc- cupancy of that field of peculiar importance to our work in the city and state. The op- portunity constituted an emergency. Our nearest church was situated on the older edge of this region. It was in extreme feebleness. Dissolution had been talked of. It had seventy-nine names on its roll, with less than forty resident members. In 1891 it had lost seventeen members and received none. There was very little financial strength in the congregation. Its building was a wooden structure, dilapidated, forlorn, forbidding, situated on a back ailey and hidden by adjacent buildings from any but a directly front view. It would hold but 150 persons. If this church could be saved, transplanted Into the center of the adjacent region, which was its proper field, and nour- ished upon a pure gospel, it had splendid possibilities, though it must needs struggle for a time at best. A new building was es- sential, absolutely. Growth beyond a very narrow limit was a physical impossibility in the old structure. The thing to do was to buy a corner in a commanding location and to build, and it would not do to build meanly in such a region. It would be sui- cidal folly to put up a building that would fail to attract and to accommodate in large numbers the dwellers in the beautiful homes adjacent. But how should we ever do the thing that clearly was indispensable to our salvation and our service? We must have a building to get a_congregation, but it looked as though we must have a congregation to get a building. How we did see- saw on that proposition. Our own resources were exceedingly small, and, alas for the weakness of Congregationalism in that city, we could get but little help from sister churches that had never been mothered themselves. Personal friends of the pastor in the east gave liberally, but we still saw the land of promise afar off. We cried to God and we looked to the Church building society. It required considerable stretching of faith and other Christian qal- ities down in New York to convince a cer- tain committec that it might wisely make exception to certain wise rules governing appropriations. We used such arguments as General Warren used at Gettysburg, when he begged a commander to disobey orders and rush his men to a crest of a lit- tle hill, a certain little round top, that he might save that strategic point to the fed- cral army, knowing that even then opposing forces were climbing the opposite slope to seize a position held only by a signal man with his flag. The New Yorkers yielded. I am bound to say that we owe a great deal to Dr. Cobb. He was on our side all the while. We got a loan of $2,000 and a grant of $1,000. We sold the old property for $5,000, bought a fine corner for $10,000, giv- ing us space for the completion of our church plant by and by, built a beautiful stone chapel seating 450 people at a cost of $17,500 completely furnished. Thus we gained a property costing $27,500 in place of the old, which we were thankful to sell at $5,000. We entered our new home In_April, 1893, fourteen months ago, a thankful people, singing praises to God and_ believing with all our hearts in the church building society. The subsequent year has been one of great trial. We in Denver have shared the com- mon_ distress of the business world, to say nothing of woes peculiar to ourselyes. We have had a Waite of our own to carry, (Laughter.) God save the commonwealthi of Colorado. Our church burdens have been heavy, including a considerable interest pay- ment upon pledges to our bullding fund un- paid because of the times. Yet God has greatly prospered us. Our congregations have grown until we have been compelled to bring in the last available seating. We have received members at every communion, and our church roll now numbers 233. Our prayer meetings have shared a similar growth. Our Sunday school has climbed | to an attendance of 286, with more than 100 often present In the primary department, which numbered half a dozen three years ago. Last year we declared our independ- enco of the Home Misslonary soclety (ap- plause), a saving to its treasury of $500 a year. ~And on the Sunday after an offer- | ing was taken for a sister church just mov- ing out of a tent into a new house of wor- ship, amounting to $67. These things have not been accomplished without sacrifice. Gifts have been made to the work that might | make angels weep—with joy. I have in my pocket a $5 gold plece that was brought to me by a woman who has lost her all and who walks to savo car fare. “This was left to me by my mother," she sald. “Neither hunger uor cold would take it from me, but 1 want to glve it to the chapel At widow and her daughter brought a §5 bill, | the only money found in a wallet of the | husband and father, who left them poor. | (Continued on Sixth Page.) Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S, Gov't Report. Roal ABSOUWTELY PURE Baking Powder Tho subject of tho above portrs as his bond.” [ In a re falo, N. 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