The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-11-28

han, of Baltimore. Some of the
hymns are familiar, among them
the following:
We shall sleep, but not forever,
When Jesus comes.
| "Will He find us watching!n
At times during the singing the
house was melted to tears, and
nothing could be more solemn. The
papers that were read were of the
most elaborate character, and were
worthy the great men who read
them. DIR. Mackey, of England,
was present, and declared that in
all his life he had never seen such
patience and interest on the part of
any audience. The last day of the
session the audience assembled at
nine o'clock in the morning, and the
conference closed at eleven o'clock
at night, with two hours of inter
mission at noon. and two hours at
evening, making ten hours of solid
sitting and attention. Christian
people of ali denominations were
present from Chicago, St. Louis,
Boston, Brooklyn, Philadelphia,
Buffalo, Washington City, and
many other cities in the Union.
The conference is admitted by the
public press in the east, both relig-
ious and secular, to have been the
most important of the kind ever
held in the world.
In answer to a question by the
reporter, DR.. West said:
"The idea that the world is to be
converted before the coming of
Christ is absurd, and is not borne
out by the scriptures. The meet
ing had no Millerism, time setting,
ETC., in it, and was of a character
far above that class of enthusiasts
as one can imagine. The keynote
will be found in the following eX
tract from Dr. Chalmers:
"Of this l am satisfied, that the
next coming of Christ will be a
coming not to final judgment, but
coming to usher in the millenni-
um. l utterly despair of the uni
versal prevalence of christianity as
the result of missionary process. )"
DIR. West says that he never ex-
poets to get nearer heaven till he
gets there, than he was Thursday
and Friday evenings last week in
the Church of the Holy Trinity
THE RESOLUTIONS.
The following resolutions were
reported by the committee of di
vines, and were endorsed as eX-
pressing the sentiments OF the con
vention
Before this conference, composed
of brethren from SO many different
branches of the redeemed church of
our Lord, we desire TO return de-
vout thanks to the God and Father
of our Lord and Savior, Jesus
Christ, who is our hope, for the
presence of the Holy Spirit, and
the fellowship in Christ, expert
enced during our sessions, so that
we have been as in heavenly peace
in Christ.
We desire also disclaiming what
ever doctrines have been or may be
held in connection with the belief
of the pre- millennial coming of the
Lord, which conflict with the faith
once delivered to the saints and re
ceived by the church universal
along the ages, to bear our united
testimony to that which we believe
to be the trHth OF the gospels, in
the particulars which follow, viz:
First We affirm our belief in
the supreme and absolute authority
of the written word of God on all
questions of doctrine and duty.
Second.-The prophetic words of
the Old Testament scriptures con-
corning the first coming of our
Lord Jesus Christ, were literally
fulfilled in His birth, life, death,
resurrection and ascension; and so
the prophetic words OF both the
Old and New Testaments concern
ingHis second comingwill be literally
fulfilled in His visible bodily return
To this earth in like manner as He
wen up into Heaven; and this glori-
Gus epiphany of the great God, our
Savior, Jesus Christ, is the blessed
hope of the believer of the church
during this entire disoensation.
Third.-The second coming of
| our Lord Jesus Is everywhere in