The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 7, 1901, Page 4

HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, M DAY, OCTOBER 7, 1901. SOLEMN SERVICES AT OLD ST. LUKE'S Rev. D. H. Greer Preaches of Mas- ter and the Man. SRR must look for con: for freedom It is the sovereign vo can give us the and soul con- we Trinity Cbugeb Overflows TAith Xittle Children n > JTVEADY 5TREAM o7 SUNDAY SCHOOL CHTTLDPEN { . # PO ' e . ] ngs b and_11 Rev. Dr from- 11 ANGELS LOOK UPON 'US WITH WONDER Bishop Grafton DiScourses. Upon the Revelation and Destiny. | ebrated the m: 5 : LES C IGHT REV. CHARLE Advent yesterd GRAFTON, Bishop of Fond hed was prea du Lac, W delivered a 1’&!‘.{:‘1“:\1\'” },f Philadelphia. sermon last evening to a, sarly days large gathering at the vada, and Church of- the Advent, on ~m Eleventh street, near Mar- | (?rlllnr:r?!‘:}wfwr:{ i ket. The Bishop, who is an elderly man e ot Human shalie I8 and one of the most conspicuous divines | SESUAY Oh O m in the Episcopal church, told lessons of | *‘Man was created in t £ God the sublime story of the revelation. | to know, love and ser * % OBPLHANAGE GImLs | | | ! e and be happy with him forever in the next. Through the fall of man Into sin he merited the loss of this destiny. But through the incarnation of Christ the op- portunity is given to man to again realize his great calling. By means of the sacra- ment man is mcorporated into the body of Christ and becomes the child of God What a child of God should be we are made aware of by the study of the life of the eternal son, made man. “As sons of God, members of his SUNDAY-SCHOOL CHILDREN FORMING IN LINE BEFORE THEY FILED INTO TRlNlT'Y CHURCH. church. we are entitled to the privileges of sonship, but we also share the respon- sibilities. We are glorified together with him, and are permitted to be partakers of the divine nature. We must then be an- FASS IRTO CHUBCH < ! | i them peace, tells them to go and Through all the ages the noblest s of men have had their e interposition in the af- Is it not true of us in us a 1 utter loneliness, where the heart sympathy, and seeks for something 1t is the working of the mas- s to the performance of noble that our heritage may be noble. felt that there is another world bout us, and to the border line of which n to be going. Then comes Christ and ross the border line out Into the seem to hear the music of his tch a passing glimpse of his an- ured and holy. Belief in hirh fear, and bellef in him will nce' before the master a rather than fear. been proclaimed as king ages, He has been ac- the ‘world by the greatest s. The greatest materialist hat Christ was more: than hat Christ was the corner structure, the removal of the superstructure to fall in ruins. To him we owe allegignce and faith To him We owe our hope of immortality. When we enter into the decline of life, and the shad- the coming end cast themselves upon » will look forward to the time when we ar before the master with exultation and are. Let this be our prayer. HAVE NO RIGHT TO DO WRONG The Right Rev. Joseph M. Francls, B. Freedom Like apt of m L which seems to de that master Freedom roves bondage 1n | t found in the | Continued on Page Five. ttle spot in which | Men | Missionary Services for United Sunday School Children @re Impressive. LL the pews crowded, the aisles congested and the altar steps lined with children, Trinity Church presented a novel scene yesterday after- noon during the missionary service of the United Episco- pallan Sunday schools. From all the churches of that denomination the chil- dren gathered on Gough street, near Bush, and in rank formation marched into the churci, the banners alone mark- ing the distinction of congregation. The procession of children fell in line after the dignitaries of the church, led by Bishops Ferguson, Hare and Nichols. Then came the choir and other church of- ficers. Down the main alsle to the altar and then dividing the Sunday school chil- dren filled pew after pew. To the right were seated the Maria Kip Orphanage girls, noticeable for their white caps and their white collars. Interspersed in the rows upon rows of children were their teachers, and further back and in the gal- leries were adult spectators. The services ccnsisted of addresses by well-known divines and missionaries and | hundreds of children present. hymnal songs. \'niclng their juvenile fer- vor in concert, the children joined with choir and organ, uplifting their voices in high treble tonss. Bishop Nichols direct- ed the services, which proved singularly impressive and absorbing to the many Rev. W. H. Hare Speaks. After the singing of the first and sec- ond processional hymns, the chanting of the ten commandments and a concert re- cital of the Lord’s Prayer, the Right Rev. Willlam Hobart Hare, the Bishop of South Dakota, spoke from the pulpit. He said in part: “‘God loves us and God is always look- {ng for us to help him. Boys and girls, this afternoon we wiil have a great mis- slonary meeting, and God wants you to help his servants in_their humanizing work. God is always looking out for some man or woman. boy or girl, to help him, and all of you shouid stretch out the hand that brings the help.” W. R. Butler’'s Address. Willlam R, Butler of Mauch Chunk, Pa., | a member of the board of managers of Foreign Misslonary So- ‘was the second speaker. He reached the Domestic and ciety, the hearts of his young audience stirred*boy and girl with words for their In part his own level of comprehension. speech was as follows: “‘One night of the year, thrill of the twentiéth century. source. “‘SBome boys will say. ‘I am only a small t}ulckly and soon 11 means. must be dependible, and when we reach the stage that others de}wnd on us then ‘want all of you to use your influence to make men bet- boy,” but boys grow uj learn what responsibility we have influence. Now ter. “You have in your right hand a priceless jewel—opportunity. You are in che finest country, you are in God's church and you Make ‘the are of the twentieth century. last winter, the last night the last night of one hundred years, the whole city waited to feel the I know a better way than that. Look in the faces of these boys and girls. They talk to me— talk about Niazara Falls being the great- est source of power in this country. isn’t so. Right in your hand is a greater and It We Continued on PnEa Five. ) swerable for our Chris: n &, by cor- respondence with divine grace y the ac- quisition of Christ y HOPES OF FUTURE LIFE OUR SOLACE “God was in Christ, reconclling the world unto himself,” a portion of verse 19 of the fifth chapter of St. Paul's sec- ond epistle to the Corinthians, formed the text taken by the Right Rev. Dr. Garrett, Bishop of Dallas, in the evening sermon preached by kum at St. Stephen’s Church. Dr. Garrett is not unknown to San Fran > 2 He spoke of the coming of the Redeemer, and picturing the events from his coming until the great shadow fell on Mount Cal- vary. The coming of the Redeemer and all the subsequent events were but the fulfillment of the revelation, which Bishop Grafton said came with the singing of the angels of the babe who was born in Beth- lehem. Then the revelation was. created. With it came not only truth, but eternal wisdom. He continued: As we watch our blessed Lord and listen to his parables we are gazing into the depths of divine light. We are finding the justice, good- ness and love given him by his father, and he reveals man to himself. Truth had been spoken in various ways by philosophers, but as man began to look at himself in the mirror of divine light he recognized how weak, how degraded and how stained he was. But out | ciscans, having been here some thirty of it all he found he had & destiny greater than | years ago. He said in part the angels, far deyond the dreams of poets, far Sa .8 beyond the dreams of philosophers. Man's | The profound mystery of the incarnation, destiny reaches to the realms of heaven and | and the profound mystery of the redempti God. Man was made for God and was to have | of God redeeming the world unto himselr his home with God. embraced in these words. Wonderful It all means the union of the soul with God. | &reat indeed is the evolution of religion What is it? We may gain or miss it, for | continually advancing, extend alas! in time all evil will be destroyea ang goodness will_triumph. Those who galn will be gathered into divine light and those who miss it will sin no more. The day of grace will over. God will triumph. Goodness will triumph. They can't sin because grace will have been withdrawn = | reaches the compass of the world rothing more mysterious than what G s given to nations to preserve the truths e Lo vealed. It was given to the Jewish people to hold fast to certain doetrines and to combat polytheism and pantheism. . God gave to other nations the All this opens a trémendous destiny to i were expected to preserve. So the doctrine a marvelous destiny. This §0odness of God is | divine imminence is again being taugh, ang o marvelous that angels look upon us with | Is the only doctrine leading to this svolutios wonder. That man-could be o foolish, g0 un- | It is In you all. It is in your I your very grateful, so weak, so wicked to lose all is a | being. This doctrine was i you_in the problem. earliest days of the world's history. but the 1 you die outside of the church you cannot approach the seat of judgment ang cry for mercy. You have rejected it. Bishop F. W. Taylor of Quincy, IlL., cel- Continued on Page Five,