The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-06
PLYMOUTH PRAYER MEETING.

There was larger attendance f possiblc) than evcr
at Plymouth prayer meeting last night TO welcome Mr.
Becchcr back. Professor Calvin Il. Stowe and Mrsy
Harriet Beecher Stowe present. Professor Stowe
is very venerable looking old gentleman, with lowing
silvery locks After the usual sixty new
members wsro received into tho church. A son OF
Professor John Raymond and the youngest daughter
OF Ward Raymond, deacon OF Baptist church in San
Francisco. were baptiscd by immersion.
Mr. Beccher's table loaded with beautiful wild
lowers After tho preliminary exercises, MT. Bcechcr
world Is ike personal influence. You may interest
men in nature and art; you may teach them admIra
ton through intellectual processes but when comes
70 q matter o. conduct and character there IL no
influence that compare with tho steady pressure Of
some personal friend II may be mother father or
some person aside from . relative. VINO represents
wisdom and goodness TO you. II IS that influence that
God has sent 10 rear tho race. Tho whole shape and
fashion Of our lives 10 given by personal and
parental influence Whenever, therefore, Jesus Christ
Is spoken OF ~ having offered q new and living
whatever else IL included this 49, that sense, not
Of ritual or FORM or regularity 10 now instituted bur
with this without, may be- there is personal
God "a represented by the Lord Jesus Christ God
like the pure atmosphere, the purcr II IS the loss we
It. and IN Jesus CHRIST u Is condensed and madc
person, not universal SPIRIT but distinct person,
and Jesus Christ becomes conception OF tod There
arc thoughts want IMPRESS nrst, that
should mako
Az HONORABLE
for ourselves In conception OF Jesus Christ DO
not be startled NJ my saying make God We
have never seen Tim. We have ideas and they form
for each distinct personal conception OF the Lord
Jesus Christ Now this idea Of the Lord Jesus Christ
Ii Lord you have chosen You have sci Him up In
heaven and crowned Him Lord Of all Who is your
Sovereign What is Hts names What Is He iikcy
don't ask In the intellectual sense but as your pcr
sonnl friend, how. have you constituted your COM
pauion your elder brother; your personal Trend and
Rcdcemcr; your Gody lie Is what you have put into
Hnn--fo you.
There arc natures read Of that we long 10 know.
Sometimes aii under tho influence OF 81 them,
and say, "How easy lie would he u could have
such a one all The time" That Is what Chrst
makes himself "a those who know how to know tho
Christ that u In heaven.
rig sorL's CHRIST.
brsccch II you don't draw HIS likeness IN your
soul anything but beauty aud grace, don't put any
stern or hnr,i cruel thoughts Ia II.
Mako your saviour glorious with your
personal thought icc.lug. Having dono
thai. the next thous is treat him honorab.y which
very few OF have often thought II had
friend whose fricnaship was Invaluable and only
made q convenience oi hiin--oniy went 10 him when
wanted something and treated with indifference
frirndy Men have moi the strength 10 carry on
how do savroury have met with pros
pcrty aud adversely have known great grcis and great
Joys, have had great peace aud passed through great
struggles. and bear witness that nothing could have
Sustained me- and kept NV mead above water, but tho
vision have Of tho Lord Jesus CHRIST