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At last week’s meeting of John 
West colony, Pilgrim Fathers, the 
members and others who desired to 
come in, were favored with a concert 
by the Beverly Farms band after the 
business session. It was given under 
the direction of William Hull and 
was fully appreciated. The band 
after each selection received merited 
encores. Others who entertained by 
selections were Mrs. George F. Wood, 
Mrs. Louise Wyatt, Mrs. Frank Mc- 
Coy, Samuel Cahoon and Adelbert M. 
Marshall. A_ fine collation was 
served. 
The change in the number of the 
members of the board of cemetery 
commissioners from 5 to 3 this week 
resulted in the reappointment of Eben 
Day by Mayor Dodge. This was. a 
source of much satisfaction to the 
Farms’ people. The other members 
are: 2 years, Wm. Galloupe, Beverly ; 
one year, Clarence Rogers, North 
Beverly. 
GOeCO CHURCH! 
Campaign at Beverly Farms Inaugur- 
ated with reasonable Good 
Results. 
At Beverly Farms lJIast Sunday 
the “Go to Church” campaign 
was inaugurated. Each house pre- 
vious to the Sunday services was as- 
signed to a lieutenant. In this way 
the Protestant population received 
special invitations to attend. ‘The in- 
crease in attendance was not marked 
but was an indication of interest and 
responsibility in those who were in 
attendance that should produce re- 
sults in the next six weeks. 
The pastor delivered two addresses 
on the religious situation in Beverly 
Farms. Portions of the addresses 
were mainly of local interest. ‘The 
weekly calendar had a call to service 
printed in it. The morning topic was 
developed in four points. 
I. The movement was a united one. 
There was unity of spirit and 
sympathy in all the churches for one 
end that all of the people should real- 
ize their responsibilities to the church 
and the kingdom of God. 
II. The church is the interpreter of 
truth to men.. Institutions and books 
are the result of God’s spirit at work 
among men. The record of the exper- 
iences of these men gave us our Bible. 
The individual must voice the truth 
and live it. God gave the Christ. He 
was the Truth and the Life. The 
church is called to be the interpreters 
of his life. As ye have received 
Christ so walk ye in Him. We recog- 
nize the value of the printed page. 
The thirteenth chapter of first Corin- 
thians could very well be sent in a let- 
ter but when God would reprove Dav- 
id he did not send a perfumed essay 
and a collect for repentance, but he 
sent a man, Nathan, who looked him 
in the eye and said “Thou art the 
man’. ‘The church must be at work 
interpreting the principles of religion 
into every day life. The church ser- 
vice may consist of the worship and a 
sermon on principles of religion. This 
is the church service, but the church’s 
service comes on Monday morning, 
when the far more serious part of its 
work must begin; the working out of 
those principles into life. The church 
services and the church’s service in the 
world should be truth and _ therefore 
life. 
III. The church stands for raised 
standards. You cannot depend alone 
upon the press and the school. Where 
they end in their work the church 
must begin and make its truth dom- 
inate and control these. The church 
is or should be the fire of inspiration 
and all these other agencies the indir- 
ect work of the church. 
IV. The church is a haven where 
we may worship God. Man cannot live 
by bread alone. He needs to sing a 
Christian song with others; to read a 
psalm of worship and unite in prayer 
and listen to the reading of God’s 
Holy Word. We go to church to 
worship God. 
In the evening the pastor preach- 
ed on “Why go to church.” The 
local conditions were presented in a 
frank way. The pastor warned his 
workers against overdue pressure urg- 
ing them to invite their neighbors 
warmly and frankly but under no con- 
dition to urge the invitation so forci- 
bly as to increase the attendance 
against the real will of the people. A 
wholesome community — sentiment 
which inspires church attendance is 
desirable but an unhealthy prejudice 
which compels church attendance is 
undesirable. 
TEE, CHURCHSAND ITs 
VICE. 
SER- 
BY 
GrorcE F. Hoare. 
Our ancestors, when they settled 
a new town, set apart a tract of land 
for a_training-field, close by the 
church. The Old Common, as we 
now call these training-fields, is found 
at the centre of every old town. But, 
after all, the real training-field was 
in the meeting-house, indoors. ‘These 
meeting-houses with their architecture 
were the great power-houses from 
which went forth the spiritual and 
‘moral influences which inspired and_ 
controlled the whole life of the peo- 
ple. 
Does any man doubt that it is de- 
sirable to maintain the public worship 
If these Christian institu-— 
of God? 
tions are to abide, the men who be- 
lieve in them must maintain them. 
The men who need public and social 
worship will never, as a rule, seek it 
unless the men who think they do not. 
need it set the example, and join in it. 
There is, in my judgement, no more 
commanding public duty than attend- 
ance at church on Sunday. The great- 
er the man’s influence, the more ef- 
ficient he may be to himself, the 
greater and more imperative the duty. — 
The effect on the man himself of — 
giving one day in the week, or sertain- 
ly a large part of one day in the week, 
to rest from secular labors and cares, 
if it were only to lay down for one 
dav the burden of the other six, to 
shut out for one day the anxiety and 
worry of business or politics, would — 
of itself, in my judgement, repay all — 
its costs. 
ground of the advantage, of the ne- 
cessity, to you and me. 
best maintain the country we love and 
the State of which we are a part, and 
of whose government we have our 
share of personal responsibilities, by 
I put it solely on the — 
I believe we © 
a constant attendance on the public 
and social worship of God. I believe 
it to be to the interest of the country, 
of the town, and of the individual soul 
that the habit be not abandoned. 
I do not put it upon the ground of 
an express divine command. I put 
it solely on the ground of good citi- 
zenship, and on the ground that at- 
tending church from Sunday to Sun- 
day is of incalculable value to the man 
himself. 
I suppose there are very few per- 
sons among those who do not go to 
church themselves who would not re- 
gard it as a grievous public calamity 
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if all-our churches were closed and — 
the public worship of God and the 
preaching of the gospel were discon- 
tinued. It would, in my judgement, 
if that were to happen, be impossible 
to maintain liberty, self-government, 
or any form of Republic which de- 
pends for its success on the charac- 
ter of its citizenship. The public 
worship of God inthis country is to 
be continued or maintained only by 
attendance upon it.—Address at the 
Bicentennial of the First Parish in 
Framingham, October 13, 1901. 
