St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1875-08-20


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The Institute for Gospel Workers.
The Institute held in this place the
present week. has drawn together Il
g""dlI number of people from this Dor
iion of our state, with several men from
Canada. and an attendance of several
noted men from various points in our
country, who were summerinr in this
vicinity, and We're drawn hither ON this
occasion.
The Institute was preceded on Mon
day evening 10y Il PRAYER and social
meeting, the entire thought of the meet
ing being turned towards the series of
meetings which were to follow. This
meeting was particularly spiritual and
earnest.
ON Tuesday morning there WAS il six
O'Clock prayer meeting. largely attend
ed. At nine the regular sessions of the.
Institute opened. with Rev. IL. VI. Par
SONS of Boston. as leader. After sing
ing. rcadIn" il portion of scripture and
prayer. Mr.. Parsons gave Il brief outline
of the plan he should pursue in the
sessions To follow. He then took us
the ground work of his remarks the
passage in First John And there ar,
thee that bear witness in earth. the
spirit. and the water. and the blood
and these three agree in one" The
morning subject WAS: The word of
God: how t" search it. The leader
then gave in Il highly interesting and
earnest manner his ideas of the way to
search the scriptures. He grouped thc>,
under several heads:
|. Look at the divine origin and
mission of the bible. Under thi, head.
he said reason demands Il bible. Cos
pei workers would &" where the bible
i questioned, and he urged that they
he prepared to Reason with the >kcp1i-
cal. and he gave many hints of how To
1t" it.
>. Look at the external evidence. of
tn, bible.
3. The contents of the bible are
evidence of its divine origin The G,i
hooks 10y ~ different writer's. covering
Il space of nearly 1900 Years. the entire
books IN harmony and the whole work
progressive from beginning t" end all
these we've ~ Idtmcc.
/. There i "nl, one religion All
others are >uprr>tilinm> Buddhism and
M"hamncdani>m Just steal Il little from
the true religion. There is II" religion
IN nature religion i revealed h\ the,
word. and confirmed by nature and
prov idrnrr. Men VIII" tell how much
religion they can gel "ur of narulr
would never have known there was Il
tod. had ii not been tnI Christ in the
revealed W"ld
>. BY the fruits of the scriptures
themselves. This i demonstrated i'll
the conversions made.
Il. The character of the successes of
the bible. The bible takes held of the
hardest cases when the Spirit SAYS take
hold. The leader gave one "I two re
markahIr illustrations under this head.
:. The bible lis own best evidence.
Here the speaker dNclt much upon the
proper Interpretation OF the bible. Ii
must II" approached with the right aim
aud SplrIt III us: with the love of the
truth. and Willingness to obey truth;
with freedom from prejudice with the
aid of the Holy Spirit with Il general
know ledge of its construction with Il
km"Wl"dg" of the language in which it
Is written OF sacred geography of
church history. Then accept the most
obvious meaning of the passage. 1t
difficulties occur study particular words.
Ascertain the writer's outline and
Thought. AMI II necessary study Other
chapters and even books I" yet this.
Compare scripture 18th scripture. Con
slider the pcrmllaIitirs and circumstances
of the writer. OF several possible in
tcrplet;itinms. take the one most in
harmony with other scripture In com
ing to Il dcci,"m consider the long c>-
tahlishrd interpretations of the church
aud the we'll established dcci>ion> oi
science.