The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-03-26

Suppose that reporter had been at
Jerusalem at the time and saw the
widow depositlng her two mites. He
would rot have deemed it worthy Of any
notice, yet God saw The widows heart
and new the greatness Of the gift. The
reporter would however have come out In
flaming, black head lines about the mag
nlhcent gift Of 5000 rOubles by the
Hon. Mr.. Levi. Yet the widow gave
more thAA ali. That one act has stirred
up Christians for eighteen centuries.
The buk Of the money TO aid in serv-
ing the Lord comes from the poor.
i Wlilgiye the widows mite SAID
"a, ne9urious maa TO me once. All
right, ] sid, give me all you haYe got,
for that vas her mite
Elijah law the hand of the Almighty
in the lille cloud that was to bring the
rain and .arried the news to Ahab.
Anything that God Is In don't you call
It small. The little act of giving q cup
Of cold water may live on forever.
Do Wha you can. Even if little, do
something. Men in New England are
| irving q perpeiuate their names by of
| fering Hbusands of dollars to have
| libraries Dr. towns named after them.
Foolish hen. Their names will soon be
| forgottep Other men may come after
| them and offer more money to have the
names changed.
ThInkcf the monument Mary has
| builded o her name and yet she for
got hersaf. She thought not of her
| future memory. Millions have been
forgotten Was there ever q time when
the name OF Mary was so well known
as it is MS very merning? No, never
Mary, ] believe. was not what you
would cal now strong minded woman
I do not know that she was even
bright orbeautifuI, but do know she
did whatshe thought her duty. She did
the best he could.
Let ii be said OF you that you did
what you could, and did it earnestly as
best you sould.
l would rather have zeal without
knowledge than knowledge without
zeal.
A mother In training a child. is train
ing II foi eternity. Little did John Yves
ley's mother know what great work she
was doing.
Mothef, train that child of yours up tC
Jesus, and your life, however humble
will not be failure.
After prayer by Rev. II. Smith, Mr.
Moody asked Professor Towner to sins
There are loving hearts to cherish
while the days are going by"
This was followed by prayer by Rev
DIR. Cr1ikshank.
Then followed the hymns "WOrk TO
the Night is Coming" and WEAR
9leaners." Prof. Towner sang Watch
ing and Waiting."
Then followed the discussion of tn
topic, How TO reach the church-goerC
both near and remote to the churches
This was participated in by Rev. Dough
erty OF Ottawa and Rev. Stauffer OF Alb
lene.
This was followed by another talk b
Mr.. Moody, who followed out the idea c
the necessity of the awakening of pei
sonal sympathy and encouraging th
workingmen to come to church, to com
in their working clothes, IN their shil
sleeves even, rather than not come at al
He urged the mothers to come even wit
their babies than not all. He said th'
he could talk louder than the babe
could cry. He advocated that more iii
eral use of pews De given to the public
He related many interestin
and appropriate anecdotes. q
advocated increased attention by pastor
to undaY evening meetings.
At the close of his remarks Rev. r. ]
Foster pronounced the benedictIon, an
the large concourse went TO their home
Alter the opening of the afternoo
services, one of the pleasant features I
;. which was the music, especially tt
solo, He knows, He Knows" by Pro
Towner, the discussion of subjects SUI
gested by the Question Drawer VIZ
commenced by Mr.. Moody.
In the discussion of them in pointe
, practical and forcible manner man
good ideas were suggested. Short pra.
ers, short sermons, congregational SIM
! ing, informal religious meetings, Il
J provision of proper places Fl
young men 10 spend Il
: evenings improving their minC
or playing innocent games, were recon
mended in the speakers accustomt
forcible and argumentative manner.
After singing "Jesus Lover of d
Soul" Mr.. Moody delivered an adore
on "The baptism of the spirit for service
The rink was packed during the Sc
| vice