Morning journal and courier., 1884-12-08
Monday, December 8, 1884,
A NOTABLE CONVENTION.

The West Granby Holiness Meetfngs- Their Great Success-The Interest in the Community.
 GRANBY, Conn, Dec. 6.-The West Gran by undenominationa1 four days holiness convention" which began in the Methodist
 meeting house, the Rev. Eagan pastor,
 on Tuesday of this week at 10:30 8. m., end ed last evening at 10:30 with full house, with a throng around the altar, some placing
 themselves on the altar of divine love, some
 praying, some testifying that the blood of Jesus cleanseth from all sin, one testifying laughingly that her satisfaction unto Jesus
 caused her to strip her bonnet of it's feathers and her person of all jewelry and declaring
 that she was going back to her home on the
 mountain to work for Jesus and tell of her
 joy in~him.
 The work of the convention would seem to
 have been to confirm believers in the so-
 called "higher life" living To an urgent call on the unregenerate to come forward to the altar for prayers there was not g single response.
 The last sermon was pronounced by the Rev. MT. Gill, of Boston, who delivered the
 opening sermon. His text, ? Chronicles, X,
 g: "For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro | strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him.'' His theme, 'EThe per ! feet heart" One would infer from his elo- quent utterances that regeneration, so-called, respects the pardon of transgressions of the moral law, not so-called inbred or original | sin. He insisted on distinction between | inbred and actual or voluntary sin. The in \ bred sin stratum of the soul was something left untouched by the Holy Spirit when he | renewed the heart. The work of eradicating | this inbred stratum devolves on the convert | who is to undertake it in the name of prayer
 and of the Spirits help. Too many minis
 ters of the gospel, too many protesting Chris tians give no attention to this inbred sin stra-
 tum, he claimed. They leave this for the | devil to have and hold at will. | And by his hold on this stratum he virtually has g mortgage on the | soul of the great majority of protesting ' Christians. What protesting Christians in | West Granby and elsewhere need to do is to \ individually seek to lift this mortgage. What l holiness Christians" do is to clear their | souls of this mortgage. Then they are pure | in heart. Then the devil on coming fndeth
 nothing in such person that he can claim as
 his. The reverend gentleman knows how to ! ''put things" and he speaks as if commis- 1 stoned by his divi le master. Two of your New Haven men, viz. Messrs. Gregory and l Thomas, "holiness men, were on the ground | from first to last, contributing largely to the interest of the meetings. They are laynen | who rejoice in freedom from sin. Such men
 are good men to have around. New Haven 1 is to be congratulated on having them fo1 l citizens. In our last report we spoke of the l Rev. Editor Gill being a singer. He is
 also pianist. But the singer of the con- I vention was the Rev. Mclaughlin, who seem l ed to know all tunes and to remember all | hymns, and who sang solos with
 marked compass and power of voice
 The Rev. Eagan, pastor, spoke eloquently il
 parting with his CO workers, in thanking his people for standing by him the EFpente- costa1 season. just coming to a close He testified that for nine years he had enjoyed the luxury of clean heart All his inbred 1 sin and all his sins rooted in this soil had
 been removed by "one clip" "Quick work, ''
 he added, "dnd radical, blessed be God. ;
 Pastor Eagan is schooling himself through the spirit to be successful captain of a com pany of the Lords host. Thanks for the late
 holiness convention participated in by BaP- lists, Congregationalists, Methodists and l Universalists.