Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-06-19

SOrgs On THE EVANGELICAL LMovEMENT-oHHRAo-
TER oF THE GREAT oATHERING-MR. HILLEs y
ua4ERyArIoNs OF THOSE INTERESTED.
Co-responiense ofthe Commercial.
BRIoHroS, England, June, 1875.
The interest of trip to England does not cul-
inmate with sightseeing. There ID All immense
amount to see and the man whose brain is rich
ut the Photographic material in which they tell
Ii. the pictures OF memory are painted will car
ry back with him to the still dearer land across
tho sea u set Of Impressions which will never
iade, aud which should enrich his future life
10 make these things available for the interest
aud enjoyment OF friends at home is a great art
As YOU know, one principal object of my COM
lng ut this time WAS to be present at the great
Conference now being held here, by Christians
OF every name but one faith, and which, AZ Mr.
Moody said at one OF his great London meetings
the other day,is among the most important ever
held for such purpose. Ii is wonderful to see
10 what depth the Christian heart of England
stirred by the movement which is represented
here. The town is filled with ministers of diff
teIent denominations those OF the Church of
England being perhaps most numerous, with
representatives not few of all the classes OF
nuelety In addition to this there are large
number of German and French pastors here and
You are constantly meeting men of foreign as-
pect on the street. The Friends peculiar dress,
now generally discarded by the younger portion
VI tho society in this country, is constantly seen
At the meetings. showing the deep interest and
sympathy which has been excited among the ell
der Friends, many of whom have come here
from the Yearly Meeting which has Just conclud-
ed at London. The leaders OF the movement, al
though well known in certain circle in our coun-
Try, arc here in a position of prominence and
nOtorety, which for people Of their unpretend-
rug character, is .simply marvellous. They are
the centre of all eyes, the observed of all OBJ
reryers, and the unaffected love and
who surround them, reminds one con-
t.nually OF the scene on the seashore when Paul
tOOk leave OF the elders at Miletus. These
things cannot be described. They can only DO
understood by those who have been at or near
tho centre Of those waves of emotion which
every now and then break over the religious
world, following the footsteps of those who are
recognized as its teachers and leaders.
Beng here, in sight Of and contact with, all
THIS rush OF hearty feeling, we cannot wonder
HAT the mon OF Ephesus +" fell on Paul's neck
and kissed him." Neither can we any longer
ray that those impulses which carried forward
the great religious movements,-one hundred
years apart of the three past centuries, are not
st IN force or TO be revived, now in the bosom
NJ the century in which we live. The Bible
tells lis in many places that " there was fulfilled
That which was spoken by tho prophet !" and
suppose the same thing is happening now. His
tory, oven in it's lower planes, il said to repeat
Itself ; and to those who believe that human
history, and especially religious historys all un-
'ier tho direct control Of our Father in Heaven.
1t II no strange thing to see the forces which
ordinarily seem to lie dormant and out OF sight,
aroused and active. All things doing His
appointed wish only at such times al these,
one understands that 1.-THE Kings business re-
'iuiteH haste" w. =. IL.