Semi-weekly interior journal., 1883-09-14
BEYOND THE OCEANS WAVE
THE LOHD"
GoTcarnTIr HOrrcp

"PuAISE THE LORD"
SoLsoIRTH HOUSE,, I
HIGHoArE, LONDON, Aug. 2s, 's3 !
Dear Iaiersw;
We had blessed time at Hackney
last Sunday, with 75 confessions for a har-
vest stJhe 3 services--l7, Is and As respec.
lively. This makes with % last night
total Of 4Ol-adults almost exclusively, as
there is no Sundsy-school connected with
the mission yet and no way opened for
children's meeting. And in the fully occu.
pied ground where the church was origin
ally built for pure High Church purposes,
IL is wonder that even 80 much has been
done during this month Of August, as has
already been accomplished. The locality
is bad one for reaching the masses, and
ill.chosen for other classep; being smother
ed by thriving and active organizations
surrounding il on every hand. Our con-
gregations have averaged about 250 10 800
during the weeK nights and 600 or 700 dur
ing Sunday. But there has been no SER
vice without confessions OF the dear Name,
and commonly an average OF 10 to Is
nightly. Praise the LORD. We close to-
morrow night with Temperance Meeting
and Bro. Allen will resume his pastoral
duties next Sunday. We like the Hack
ney people much and will not soon forget
the pleasant, quiet. blessed meeting held
at Trinity Church. More and more the
blessed teachings Of the Spirit, dimly dis
covered at first, as all truths are at the
start-takes definite shape and color until
"men, like trees walking" give place to
forms ofsymmetry and beauty that delight
the eye instead Of terrifying by their mon
strosity. And more than all else now
see the necessity, as we'll as wisdom, Of scrip
ture being given just as 10 is in rough, for
bidding form, ofttimes, and clothed in
words that appeal with horror and repel
with what men call "indecency;" 10 that
no preacher on earth has ever been bold
enough to read the bible through before a
congregation, but ever finds II necessary TO
pick out and Gull, with careful avoidance
of passages that he dAres not read. This is
all made plain to me now, as never before;
40 that the stumbling blocks Of life time
are removed at once and forever. To those
who ON this account cayil at aud reject the
Blessed Book love, clue might be fur
nished, II they really wished one, by the
pretty liable OF Ariosto, quoted by Macsu-
lay, which tells how n good fairy, wishing
to bless, came first TO the objects Of her fa-
vor in repuIsive disguise to test then, and
then, upon being received and kindly en-
,reHted, is suddenly traus6gured into her
own original beauty Of person,and showers
blessings untold upon the happy and as
tonishel recipients OF her bounty. The
point the great essayist makes OF this is to
show thai civil and religious liberty ever
comes disguised In hateful forms. at first,
and only lavishes her choicest iavors upon
those who receive her thus, upon trust.
And is not this the very backbone princi-
pie Of the eternal award Of Matt. XIV when
the as'ounded ones upon whom knighiy
honors are heaped inquire as TO the reason
Of such royal treatment, when saw we
thee' s'ek, In P''S0" or eg"e'ea and minis
tered 10 iheeF and receive the reply tha'
In the persons Of the ieebless Of the Savior
earthly loved ones Himself was minis'ereo
unto no" h''ie olu 'ney realize ~ ou'
was even 30 lie a'u un'o M'
VIVA. LonD, /" possible 'nA' inou
"As' hidden unuef 'hose rags o, squAof
aud ihy molly person was disguised IN prs