Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-06-22

NH HILLEsB THIRD LErTER--TuE oAUsEs OF THE
MOVEMENT, NOT IN PERSONAL CHARACTER BUT
THE TIME.
Special Correspondence ef the Commercial.
BnIaHToN, ENGLAND, June %.
Perhaps it will interest your readers If | at
tempt to give in few words what seems to me
to be the key or secret of the movement-the
great upheayal it might be Ecalled-of the Eng
lish aud Continental Christian mind, represent
cd at this Convention.
Not to be too abstract in this, 30 al to exclude
the subject from a secular newspaper, let me
say that believe that whenever men have dis.
covered the existence OF Moral Governor and
q Moral Government OF the world, Religion has
always come into existence in one form or an
other that the object Of this always has refer
ence to the wrong doing OF men. and that it pro-
fesses to relieve them from this, either by the
simple removal Of the consequences. or by the
extirpation OF the evil itself. Christianity, pure
and simple, distinctly processes to offer the lat
ter remedy. To quote tho words of the new tes-
lament the Savior whom it nroclams is one who
ssayes his people from their SINS" There il
constant tendency in human nature, however, to
slide OF into the other view, and to suppose that
tho Gospel offers deliverance from the penal
ties, instead of from the existence Of sin,
Now, the leaders Of the present movement are
men who simply believe that the latter, and not
ise, Of the Gospel Of Christ and that without
this, it would cease to be a Gospel, i. Q. good
news, at sill. 1t IL difficult TO express these
truths 30 as to be intelgible without making
use OF the language which is ordinarily appro-
pristed to the subject; but perhaps it can best
be illustrated by the statement that sin in men
is truly represented by the analogy Of disease in
the outward body, which requires remedy be-
yond the powers Of the patient himself to re-
move.
r. tIo ran5o, t,,. y,iIo,roJ -, a tI,,,, far 10 iii
be able to see without difficulty, that the prom
ise of q sufficient remedy for disease otherwise
utterly incurable, Is one which must attrHct all
who are conscious Of being the subjects of the
digease. At all events 1t is time that the pro-
mitigation OF this as a reality, presently expert
enced, by men who are in earnest in their belief,
brings multitudes to the sound of their voices,
and has made them the centre Of an interest and
enthusiasm, which is widespread and increas-
ing.
fmay add that this is not and cannot be owing
to the personal characters or gifts Of the leaders,
any moro than the American Revolution owed
its inception to the character and talents of
General Washington. 1t is evident that the
course OF that movement lay deep down in
human nature and the circumstances of the
time 30 Of other Buch great waves which pass
over Christendom they make use OF the
characters aud talents Of the leaders whom they
employ, but these arc not the cauee OF the move
ment itself. / need not say that my own
half of that supernatural system or set OF facts
which We call Christianity, is the highest and
most valuable truth of which the world is i'll
possession. To defend this position would lead
mo to statements which would probably exclude
me from your paper. The results will defend
themselves, just as the great revival of religion
of the last century (Methodism.) or, to go back
to the fountain head as the preaching of the
Gospel itself in its original purity, has vindicated
its claims, by the genuine effects which it has
produced in the history OF the world, and in that
unwritten but more important and genuine his
tory, of individual character. W. B. IL.
FURTHER LABons OF MIR. AND MRS. PEARsAIL
SMITH.
Tho labors OF the American Evangelist, Mr..
r. Pearsall Smith, and his wife, at Brighton, in
England, have been attended with great success.
According to the reports which have appeared In
England, tho greatest interest is excited by
''the Bible headings" of Mrs. Pearsall Smith,
which are held every afternoon. One euthusas-
tic correspondent of an English paper reports !:
SO great is the demand to hear her that she is
obliged to deliver her exposition in the Corn Ex-
change, and then immediately afterward in the
Dome. and as each of these gigantic buildings
will hold more than 5000 persons, her con-
gregation ia larger than Mr.. Bpnrgeon's.
fPunctually to the moment, like Mr.. Moody,
she steps to the front of the platform,
dressed in almost eccentric Quaker simpli-
city, and them speaks for 90 minutes by tho
clock, without hesitating for a moment. Her
freshness, her profound spiritual insight, are az
remarkable as her surprising fuency." The cor
respondence of another English paper VINO lis-
tened more critically, declares that "for fluency
OF utterance and vigor of expression, she is un-
qucstionably one of the most wonderful OF all
the female orators it has been my fortune to
hear. and by all she is recognized as the leading
spirit of tho Convention. Mrs. Smith has ilttie
Of the feminine in her style of oratory.. Both
as to their form and expression OF her addresses
are the most vigorous and masculine OF any that
are to be heard at these gatherings. Decision
marks every sentence she utters. The pathehc
element is almost wholly absent. AS an exposi-
tor OF the Bible she is trenchant and often pow
erful."
On Sunday, May 80, seven services were held,
and on Monday the .31st, as many az a. On
Tuesday, June 1, over 40 services were again
attended. At the A. NJ. meeting, 5000 per-
sons we're present.