| July 28, 1916. 
— brought God into men’s conscious- 
ness; He brought the human and the 
Divine together in a unity that can- 
not be dissolved. The Christian 
church is the only institution that has 
withstood the shock of changing 
kingdoms and empires throughout 
Rev. Brewer Eddy 
Who Delivered an Inspiring Address 
the years. Has its force spent itself ? 
This Bi-centennial observance is the 
best testimonial that its force has not 
spent itself. The future must con- 
tend with the church. | congratulate 
you upon your 200 years of testimony 
to that effect.” 
Francis M. Stanwood, a trustee of 
-Emmanuel Episcopal church of Man- 
chester, said, “I extend the greetings 
of Emmanuel church trustees to an 
ancient and still thriving church. | 
am impressed with your age when | 
think that your church was in exist- 
ence when Samuel Johnson, that 
master of English literature, was a 
school boy in Litchfield, England. It 
antedates the French wars and the 
American revolution. Your church 
and your town has been a power for 
good. You have influenced not only 
your own community, but those who 
have come from afar to spend their 
time among you. I feel a personal 
connection with this anniversary oc- 
casion. My aunt, Joan ‘Tenney, was 
the wife of one of the former pas- 
tors of this church. In behalf of 
Emmanuel church it is interesting to 
note at this time that we also have an 
anniversary this day. It was just 34 
years ago today, July 23, 1882, that 
the first service was held in Emman- 
uel chapel through the kindness of 
Maj. Russell Sturgis. We invite you 
to join with us when you will and to 
let us be of service to you if we can.” 
The Rev. Oliver H. Bronson, pas- 
tor-elect of the Tabernacle church, 
Salem, followed. Dr. Clark, retiring 
pastor of Tabernacle church was un- 
able to be present owing to illness. 
“Dr. Clark sends his greetings and I 
bring those of the church I am soon 
to serve and my personal greetings,” 
said Mr. Bronson. “There are terp- 
tations and limitations in a long his- 
tory. We are tempted to be satisfied 
with the past. We should take ex- 
ample of those who have gone before 
rather than resting upon their rec- 
ords. We should adjust ourselves to 
the new needs. There is an oppor- 
tunity to be bridge-builders Our 
chang’ ng population offers this op- 
portunity. There is an opportunity 
to touch the lives of your townsmen 
and t e visitors to it. I wish you 
every joy and success.” 
uv. Mr. Eppy’s Appress. 
“The World Chaos and Our Op- 
portunity,” was the subject of the 
addres; of the Rev. D. Brewer Eddy. 
secretary of the American Board of 
Cormissioners for Foreign Missions. 
Rev. Eddy’s address was a forceful! 
appeal for the support of missionary 
work. 
“T feel slightly embarrassed to rep- 
resent the 106-year old American 
Board in a company which represents 
and speaks of institutions 200, 275 
and 276 years old. I feel that we 
have much in common in this anni- 
versary celebration. Two young 
ladies from this church who organ- 
ized your Sunday school, one of the 
first in New England, were among 
the first persons ‘who sailed for the 
foreign missionary field under the 
auspices of the American Board 
about 105 years ago. Ann Haseltine 
Judson and Harriet Newell became 
famous as wives of two of the first 
{ive missionaries to go abroad. 
“When we study the past we real- 
ize what a distance we have come. 
This hymnal which I have in my 
hand contains the name of John 
Newton who perhaps wrote more of 
our hymns than any one man whose 
name appears in the volume. He 
once wrote in his diary that he had 
just spent the hour communing with 
his Maker. That entry was made as 
he sat in the cabin of the vessel, of 
which he was a part owner, anchored 
off the West coast of Africa where 
he waited his next cargo of human 
slaves. What a distance we have 
come! 
“When this very church was 
founded it had no conception of a 
mission. Our only reason for belief 
in the ultimate triumph of Chris- 
tianity is found in the foriegn field. 
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It certainly is not found in Massa- 
chusetts with its grand ‘forward 
march on to victory’ at the rate of 
one percent of increase. It is found 
in the 24 percent increases in Chris- 
tians in China in the last year. Mass- 
achusetts does not even keep up 
with the birth rate or the increase in 
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population. In India the gain has 
been 450 percent in the last decade. 
You say this has been made on the 
basis of a small beginning. Yes, but 
in the face of the fiercest opposition, 
the darkest ignorance and the deepest 
degradation. 
“The only ground for believing 
that there will be a church in Man- 
chester one hundred years hence is 
not found in anything you are doing, 
but in what is being done in the for- 
eign field. When heathen China in 
four years banishes the opium trade 
and stops the growth of the fatal 
poppy plant there is hope that in the 
next hundred years we may smash 
the whiskey ring in America. The 
dry rot has us in its grip in America. 
When two Chinese viceroys convict- 
ed of graft are taken out and shot for 
their crime there is hope that the time 
will come when we won’t be com- 
pelled to pay for public buildings of 
solid marble built against the wishes 
of the people; there is hope that ‘pork- 
barrel politics’ and the building ot 
magnificent court houses in the 
Swamps of Louisiana to accommodate 
. population of 900 two.days a year 
vill be abolished. In China it took 
a century to get the first million con- 
verts. It took twelve years to get the 
second and three years to get the third. 
Rut America is not always going to be 
a ‘by-word for greed, injustice and in- 
difference. We are going to get the 
cinders shaken from our grate in the 
next few years and go somewhere. 
