The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-07-29
MOUNTAIN LAKE PARK.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL ASSEMBLY.
TestsrdaIt Proetsdlnss-RsllsIoas Work In tht
MosntAins-Lseturss.h .hy DR.. Lyman Abbott, q
DR.. Thomas GuArd aad Rev. 4. 4. Wright.
The Interest Coaitaatly Iaereailng.
Special Report for the ln,ellIscucer.,

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MOUNTAIN LAKE PARK, July 2S.-
Friday was field day at Noun.
tain Lake. The various trains dur.
ilg the day brought in IN increased
number Of visitors, and the lectures Of Drs.
Guard, Abbot and Wright were well at.
tended. 1t Is seldom Sabbath School
Assembly can offer three such names on
one day, and verltable literary feast was
enjoyed. The normal classes, conducted
by Revs. Wright and Young; the Service
Of Song, conducted by Professors Turner
and Frysinger, and the Teachers Confer.
ence, conducted by DR.. Sims, gave pleas
ing variety TO the programme, and the day
was generally conceded to be the best one
yet enjoyed at the Park. am able to lay
before the readers OF the ISrELLIGEScER Il
briei synopsis of the three lectures which
were delivered.
DIl. ABBorT's LECTURE.
Al 1880 A. NJ. DR.. Lyman Abbott began
his lecture on "Alodern skepticism, and
How TO meet il" He said that which is
essential in the modern type Of skepticism
is the increasing determination OF every
man to think for himself and to come to
his own conclusion on the subject OF Re-
ligion and theology. This is good thing
There is no alternative between the radical
hierarchy that God has appointeda church,
and made that the custodian OF truth, aud
that every man must take the truth which
that divinely appointed church gives him.
Every man must give account OF himself to
God, and, therefore, must judge for him
selfwhat truth is. What We object to in
modern skepticism is not its inquiting into,
and sitting Of all church doctrines, but the
assumption that they are 10 be measured
by the same tests by which scientific truths
are measured.
On the contrary they are truths which
are not demonstrated by argumentative
anG logical processes from external phe-
nomena, but are Immediately recognized
upon the bare presentation Of them; il the
soul possesses capacity TO recognize them.
All truths OF beauty, art and music are OF
this kind. Huxley himself says, VIRTUE is
q kind Of beauty, and it is only the deaf
and blind who fail to perceive it" The
spiritual truths OF religion are OF the same
sort.
Our faith in Immortality, God, prayer
and the inspiring influence OF the Bible,
and the peace and pardon which comes
through Christ, and the renewing and help.
full influences OF the Spirit-all rest upon
one personal, conscious experience. They
are not something extcrnalt to the soul, but
are part OF our being and life, and this ex-
perience isn't an individual experience
merely, but experience OF innumerable
myriads OF men, Of all ages, various forms
Of church, order and theological opinion.
TIE REAL CAUSE OF sKEITlcIsM
in earnest hearts is lack OF spiritual de.
velopment. The chief way to meet mod.
ern skepticism is not by arguments OF q
philosophical or logical character, but by
direct appeals to the inmost consciousness
Of men, by developing and awakening their
spiritual nature, as Wesley, in England,
appealed to the consciousness OF men and
awakened their spiritual life, or with
grander manifestation Jesus Christ met it
in the first century, which was far more
than ours, materialistic age.
DIR. GUARDS LECTURE.
The lecture OF Dr.. Guard. in the after.
noon on 1.-THE Grandeur OF the Sunday
School Teachers Work." was one OF those
efforts which cannot correctly be repro
duced. DR.. Guard is possessed Of q flow Of
words, rhetorical eloquence, and power
OF reasoning which but few ministers can
claim, and so closely are his words and &C.
tion connected, that il one be missed the
other can scarcely be appreciated. iIe
said that the Sunday school teachers work
is grand in that it has to deal with the
mind. Marble statues and works OF art
may be grand, but the teacher who trains
the mind has gnnder sphere than either
artist or sculptor.
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