New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-12-26
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

work in San Francisco has been conducted on
the same general plan " hich he has ADOPTED IN
other cities, and accordingly as pfesen'eo y"
noye features. The audiences have been large,
and MIR. Sankey's singing has been OF great
service in maintaining public interest III IN
revival One of the secrets OF MT Moody
power is his ability "a story teller Ihis %
well illustrated by this extract from one vi li's
addresses in San Francisco: heD was
young man, before left my native town, was
at work in the field one day In company WIN
neighbOr of mine. All ut once l saw MN peg,n
to weep. ! asked him what the trouble was
He then told me stIange storyCstrange W me
ther for ] was not at that rIme Chrlstlan. ne
said that his mother was a Christian Wneh nc
left home TO seek his fortune. When ne was
about starting his mother took HIM by the hanq
and spoke these parting words: NV son, seek
We first the kingdom OF God and Ills rlghteous-
ness. and all things else shall be added unto
thee This said be, was my mothers favor
ite text When he got into the town TO wulch
he was going, be had TO spend the naooath
there. He went to church. ana tne minister
took this very text seek ye first the klngdom
of God he thought it very strange. Wen, ne
said he would not seek the kingdom then; ne
would wait until he got start IN lie, uhtii ne
got a farm and some money. Yet that texs
troubled him. Again he went 10 cnurcb' and
10 his amazemeDt the sermon was on the very
same text. He did not attend chuTch fpr some
time. At last he was induce ed again 10 enter ne
church. and behold, be heard the preacher take
that very same text. He thought then II was
God sneakinc to him. that his mothers prayers
were being answered But ne coolly and de-
liberately made up his mind tnat ne WOu4h ho'
be a Christian. have never heard any sttiiiOh
since sad he, that has made any impression
ON me- | was not a Christian myself then, so /
didn't know how 10 talk to nm me uine
came for me to leave home. went 10 boston,
and there | became q convert. When / got I'd
be Christian, the first thing that came INTO my
mind was that man. ! made up my nihu 70
try to bring him to Christ. " men l can't
home mentioned the name to my mother ana
asked if he was living. Is he living she ex.
claimed. Didn't | write to you about him
Write me what Why, that he had gone out
of his mind and IS now IN the insane ny luia H.
When | got up there, he pointed his flnger at
me. Says he: Young man, seek ye hrst the
kingdom OF God lie had never forgotten me
text Although his mind was shattered ana
gone, the text was there. The next tlme te-
turned home my mother tod me be was at nome
idiotIc | went to the house 70 see him, and
there was that vacant look in his eye sald
DO you know me ? lie pointed his finger az me-
and said: Young man, seek We Dlst inc hiuS
dom OF God God had driven That text INTO
his mind. hut his reason was eOue. The next
lime | returned lone he was dead ana Wheh
visited my fathers grave | noticed new
grave-stOne had been put up. stopped 70
read il, and found 1t was my frehus. Inc
autumn wind was making a mourntul NOISE,
aud seemed to hear it whispering ne text
Seek we first the kingdom OF God' LIS
extract gives Mr.. Moody at his best.
A RrTuALrsT's FAREwELL.-1he Rev. j. W.
Knox Little the English Rituallst, preached his
farewell sermon at he Church OF the Advent,
Boston. last Sunday. he Sp Ike o tie lntellec-
tuaI difficulties III the way OF understanding
divine truth. "The intellect, he remarked,
comes from God, anu Is power Oh iIseii; Tue
nressure which comes from int llectuai capac1ty
i upbOunded But the danger from intellect
is. that il inagines that there Is no field INTO
which it may not enter. But there is sphere
where it cannot enter, and where Ii is as Daoy
in the first moments OIL lts tnOtNS 20 Spe"h' h?ic
il a sphere of spiritual lite, and though the III
telect NAV come 10 the limit OF that sphere oil
faith vet it cannot put foot beyond It, 1t has 20
ask hUmbly divine faith tO be ITS guide. llut IL
refuses to do so, and the result Is what ID Eng
land In fashionable slang, Is called agnOstlciSnl.
! It's ground is to assert that there Is no knoWl-
edge of spiritual things, position that IS ira
| tional, because it denies truths OF Wmcb IL Is
| as conscious Ot as of the pyramids. ne INTEL
! lect SAWS there NAV be bounds where 1t cannot
| roach hut II has the power to see where 1t
stands and to verify its position. But me INTEL
| lect turns away from the medIItoria iuct
! which is the central truth OF the ChuiCh OF me
| Redeemer. 1t bows out the eternal UOd as
! manifested in the eternal Word. IL makes
! Christ a iRSus nature, fIckerng picture OF
! light anu shadow, chlaT Oscur0, ntithef t1acIy
/ man, nOI exactly God, ana certainty not
/ mediator That was the foundation 81 the
J
/ of Unitarianism to-day. You cannot yelfy the
| facts OF the at0nement. and therefore yOu VIII
no5 have them. As For sacrament, | submit
/ that there is a system OF saTcalDtnUN NHIch
jesus LETT. but pride OF intellect toi bids tbat
! thew should be accepted as true. Now, Christ
must have been God or an ImpoStor, or he Tan
cicd he was cod, and Therefore was insane IL
/ wou'i have been basphomy of a degrading
! kind TO assert that he and the Father were one
! If they were not one in the sense IN " hich the
| (Lur,h ma ntaius that they are. HIS disciples
! Thought that he was God, and they certainly
were near enough TO him 20 know what he meant
/ by bis assertions. A great poet and philosopher
] OF England has said to me, UnltaranSm Is
/ spiritual insanity Paul was q clear thinker
| and ne asserts Christ To be God. II is more
likely that they knew the truth than that 1t was
| found for centuries afterwdrd III the TINE OF
the Arlan CONTROVERSY, and that that error has
been revived in the nineteenth century by
! UBitauanlsm.'
CHRISTMAS BEFORE CHRIST Bishop Coke,
| If Western New York protestant Episcopal