“Changes and Chances,” by Dr. George C. Lorimer.

“The Greek Church,” by Charles Emory Smith.

“Ancient Greece,” by Professor Leotsakos, of the University of Athens.

An illustrated lecture on the Yellowstone Park, by Professor George L. Maris.

“Work or How to Get a Living,” by Hon. Roswell G. Horr.

“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” by Rev. Robert Nourse, D.D.

“Backbone,” by Rev. Thomas Dixon.

The other entertainments that season included selections from “David Copperfield,” by Leland T. Powers; readings by Fred Emerson Brooks, concerts by the Germania Orchestra, the Mendelssohn Quintette Club of Boston and the Ringgold Band of Reading, Pennsylvania; a “Greek Festival,” tableaux, by students of Temple College; “Tableaux of East Indian Life,” conducted by a returned missionary, Mrs. David Downie; “Art Entertainment,” by the Young Women’s Association; concert by the New York Philharmonic Club; and many entertainments by societies of the younger people, music, recitations, readings, debates, suppers, excursions, public debates, class socials.  The year seems to have been full of entertainments, teas, anniversaries, athletic meetings, “cycle runs,” gymnasium exhibitions, “welcomes,” “farewells,” jubilees, “feasts.”  But every year is the same.

A single society of the church gave during one winter a series of entertainments which included four lectures by men prominent in special fields of work, four concerts by companies of national reputation, and an intensely interesting evening with moving pictures.

“We are often criticised as a church,” said Mr. Conwell, in an address, “by persons who do not understand the purposes or spirit of our work.  They say, ’You have a great many entertainments and socials, and the church is in danger of going over to the world.’  Ah, yes; the old hermits went away and hid themselves in the rocks and caves and lived on the scantiest food, and ‘kept away from the world,’ They were separate from the world.  They were in no danger of ’going over to the world.’  They had hidden themselves far away from man.  And so it is in some churches where in coldness and forgetfulness of Christ’s purpose, of Christ’s sacrifice, and the purpose for which the church was instituted, they withdraw themselves so far from the world that they cannot save a drowning man when he is in sight—­they cannot reach down to him, the distance is too great—­the life line is too short.  Where are the unchurched masses of Philadelphia to-day?  Why are they not in the churches at this hour?  Because the church is so far away.  The difference that is found between the church which saves and that which does not is found in the fact that the latter holds to the Pharisaical profession that the church must keep itself aloof from the people—­yes, from the drowning thousands who are going down to everlasting ruin—­to be forever lost.  The danger is not now so much in going over to the world as in going away from it—­away from the world which Jesus died to save—­the world which the church should lead to Him.”