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Show u THE "OPEN CHURCH." How Two Presbyterians Were Converted. Con-verted. In the Madison Avenue Methodist church, Baltimore, a few days ago, the Rev. Dr. Frank Mason North, of New York, read a paper on "The. Open Church in Our American Cities." At the conclusion of Dr. North's paper pa-per Mr. James E. Ingram, president of the Baltimore, City Mission and Church Extension Society, spoke. Mr. Ingram said he was much impressed by Dr. North's paper, and in urging the "open church," he said: "We ought to have our churches open at all times. . A few summers ago I was stopping at a seaside hotel, and there met a lady who was a Roman Catholic, and she was never tired of impressing upon me her own peculiar religious views. I asked her how it came about that she had been converted con-verted to the Catholic church, for she had been a Presbyterian. She said that years before her husband lay sick unto death, The physician had given up hope, and she- desired to go to the Great Physician and pray for her husband's hus-band's restoration. But she could not pray at home. So,- leaving' her husband's hus-band's bedside, she started out for a i church. But she found the churches closed. Presently she came to a Catholic Cath-olic church, which was open. She entered en-tered and there prayed for her husband's hus-band's recovery. He grew better, and now both are devoted members of the Catholic church. Doubtless they would have remained in. their own church if she had found a Presby- terian church open." : |
