Telegram-herald., 1886-05-05

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4 Jers'-n - HOLLAND Sas presi5ins elder
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clergy u 80 Methodist kpiseop.l church
anued efforts Rv John 6rahsnl. OF thi.
city. AS excused fro1n vfeaching lass ersa-
iDg. znd @ss requested Lo pFesent al nforEn-
a. paper tois sor0ing uPoa the needs u
Alhlon college kes 81 A Hunsnerzer. Of
Hastings s.s skeasei from reading his
essav o. the Relations u MstaodisIn 10
Tie Edueeaoozl Institutions Of our SExfe
and 49, requested 70 breach lsst evening
Rev ". Homer "a. elected Chori-ter
me lrst essay up0s The Proper Methods
% e alonixiDs by kss. ". A FRYE, Of
Ashland Nas pl.sed On account Of the ab-
sence of that essayist. Rev. A J. Wheeler
of Byron and Dorr Centres. then read a.
essay GA Ministerial success. What I. IT,
and how Aehluyed,' in which he said that
ministerial success depended upon t~o
success Of ghe preacher. tie suggested that
each clergyman sh0ald hold his own and
push iors4 thaE be watch opportunities,
and. II be dc without bringing about the
ends sought, after ali he might have the
consciousness OF doing The best 10 can
That = all th4t maa can acquire
IN this world. other excellent thoughts
were advanced He deplOred the
tac, that the great majority Of
children ia the public schools are not IN the
Sunday , hooi-. that The Tnsiority of prisO-
oners IA the state prison had attended sun
day schools an their youth, aud urged that
the successful minister must remember the
holy m tndate. fced ". Lambs,
The reading ot the paper Was followed by
a dlscu-sioa participated ia by nearly all
present General satisfaction was e pressed
with the paper. ISe chief objection and
there We're few others, was that Mr.
Wheelers statement that the majority OF
prisoners in the Jackson prison had been
members OF Sunday schools in early life
The statement was denied. Rev IL u
Jordan said that such was the case only
With less than Two hundred and tfLy ont OF
one thousand one hundred Rev K C.
Crawford SAID a very few out of two thou
sand were ever regular attendants upon
SUNDAY schools fact established by SIX
years individual experience a. chaplain of
tae prison. In bis defense Mr. Wheeler
stated lh-t be yielded the point about the
convicts being TX Sunday school scholars,
and that be based the statement mainly
upon paragraph IN a newspaper
In The evening Rev. ". \ Hunsberger,
OF Hastings. delivered sermon upon the
Gospel Lessons Drawn from the Mammoth
Cave For his text he selected the l0jth
verse of the ll9th P-alm-''rhy word j. a
lamp unto my feet and light unto my
path. IL was not the purpose Of the
speaker tO describe the cave. but rather by
Illustrations to impress truths of the moral
and spiritual realm. Man is by nature in
moral and spiritual darkness, in need Of
j ght and a divine guide The dense phys
ical darkness OF the cave represents the
moral and spiritual dark kness of men
Who reject the Bible and turn
from the leadings Of the Holy
>plut. Many passages of scripture
teach that man in his unrejuyen j.; state is
in gross and thick darkness Darkness in
his natural element the clement in which
he lives walks, sits. abdes. gropes delights
Christ came as the light OF the world, and
the Bible a. a lamp lights the way ont OF
the darkness into the ignt she 4 by the son
of Righteousness. To journey in such
darkness without light or guide i perilOus
IN the extreme. To illustrate his position
the speaker took his auditors on a trip
through the cave, calling attention % its
points OF interest, and especially 10 the
c4verns along the way, some of
them hundreds of feet in depth
and showed that an attempted
passsge. without a light would be fatal
The deep cayerns along the way were com
pared 10 pitfalls about the feet Of the young,
such as drinking. gambling. saloons, etc,
making their way one of constant peril.
To ever remain in darkness were neutrality
possible would be destructive. Animal
life does not thrive IN the cave Expert
meuts have been made 10 grow plants and
flowers there, aud rave failed Consump-
tive invalids have lived there for tiu:c.
hoping 20 be benefited by the pure air AMI
sieaGiuess Of temperature, but only to grow
worse IN every instance. Great inidels
are few IN number, and their
greatness. with few exceptions. j.
the product of Christian training and sur
rOundings. The greatest scholars. states
men, scientists aud philosophers have been
those whose footsteps were lighted by the
lamp Of the word of God. Man cannot
pass from darkness u purity. and peace
AMI % hesvru unaided There is not
sufficient gatural light in the cave to enable
man 10 ~averse it safely. and natural
religion has not been sufficient 10 lift man
morally and spiritually. The steps neCes-
sary to successfully pass through the cave
were compared 20 The action which an
individual must take 10 enjoy light. peace
and heaven. The hearers we've taken past
the Cut of Despair. the "Bottomless
Iif by the Grand Cross over tie River
S-yx down 70 "Echo River which was
Nkened % the river Oi death
Following is q list OF the diyiues present
Rev J. W. Horner Berlin aud Lamont.
Rer. A. j. Wheeler Byron and Dorr Rev
Z I George Cedar Springs Rev y Cronks
. Cr"persvi BegS r. g. Crawford J.
trsnam William H pntier T. l. Buell. J.
=. spragge and W r. Carlisle Of thls
c;rv. Rev " Griffith. Gnndsille. Bev
Jonathan Thomas Ada Rev " A Huns
berger Hastings Rev a Hunsberrpr.
~e8rta Hev W : Aldri b. NusSeEon Rev
81 II lorlan. flo.an3 Rev ~ o. TsIhert
Eaveuna Eev Geo Narion Rockford Rev
Z F. White MldievIe Rev J. ". Raw
an~0u. ~prng fake.
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