Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-07-25
MOUNT HERMON.
Mr.. NooDY's GREAT YOUNG MEMS
CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION MEETINGS.
Able Sermons by well-Known Divines-
Mr.. Moody's sermon-Personal
Notes-Dr. McBryde.
Correspondence ofthe Richmond Dispatch
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Notes. Or. McBryde.
Correspondence ofthe Richmond Dispatch.l
MOUNT HERMoN, MASS,
July %, 1886.
Last Sunday was grand old day
here, and the very hills Of Mount Her
mon seemed to resound with the praise
Of God. The grounds were filled with
carriages, buses, and country wagons,
arriving with the people Of Northfield
and the neighborhood Of Mount Her
mon to hear the word Of God from tho
inspired hearts, l might say, Of Mr..
Moody, DR.. Brooks, and DR.. Pierson.
The day was beautiful and pleasant,
and by 10 o'clock the lecture-hall was
filed to the utmost, and outside
the doors into the museum adjoining,
as far off as the minister's voice could
be heard, were seated men and women.
Mr.. Moody's love for good music was
well satisfied by q choir of thirty
voices in addition to Mr.. Towner's
solo, "when the Mists Have Rolled
Away" by Mr.. Sankey in his usual
sweet and touching manner.
Rev. DR.. Brooks preached very
powerful sermon on the second csming
Of Christ. He has an authoritative
and impressive manner Of address,
is exceedingly earnest, and a man OF
a sweet disposition. Few men have q
better knowledge Of the Bible and
none are able to quote it more &C
curately. His sermon on Sunday
morning was largely presentation of
the Bibles testimony on the subject of
the second coming. DR.. Brooks, as
well as the other distinguished divines
here, is a firm believer in verbal in
spiration, having preached two great
sermons on this subj sct, and has created
quite stir among the students on ac-
count Of his mann ar Of presentation.
Mr.. Moody has been anxious to get
all he could out Of these men while here,
and consequently had not preached him
self until Sunday evening. His SER
mon was upon the Holy Ghost,
and has produced an effect which
will last. Neighbors who have
heard him often say they have
never known him to be so powerful.
AS every one knows, his extreme earn
estness is one Of his great features in
preaching. and it is almost useless for
me to give an abstract Of his sermon.
Said he: There is one thing ] am ex-
ceedingly anxious about before we
break up, two weeks from to-day. |
want us all to have an amounting from
on High. l used to DO troubled about
the divinity Of Christ and the inspira-
ton of the Bible, and so on, but one
night oil those things were settled for
me. | became converted, and haven't
had any trouble since. A man filed with
Gods Spirit gets on very well with the
Bible. Now, want to see little groups
Of two and three Off behind the houses
and IN the woods praying for you
won't be so anxious to hear from these
teachers if you are taught straight from
God. It's 4 o'clock on Sunday, and
I'd rather preach at any other time than
this. People feel drowsy at this time,
and if you see any one going to sleep
as ! EN- talking I'd consider it q great
favor if you'd just punch him and wake
him up. Until | was seventeen Inever
cared to go to church and hear sermon,
but my mother made me, and one day,
over there in Mortified, was up in
the gallery and went to sleep, and made
such noise snoring that disturbed the
minister and he sent man up to
wake me up. l never forgot that
waking. So don't forget to punch the
man next to you. was also in a
church in Boston, and while sleeping
the man next to me gave me punch
which thoroughly awaked me. The
preacher was preaching right square at
NE. | certainly felt mean, and / got
up and sneaked out-neyer to return,
said. People don't like Holy.Ghost
preaching. | have seen people go
stamping out Of church just because
they don't like it. But that's better
than to have them say, " Yes, yes" to
everything you tell them. Too often
people don't apply these things they
hear from the pulpit to themselves at
all. Jones thinks it's a capital
drive at Brown, and Brown
thinks it suits White, and White says it
is just the thing for WhittleSey, aud
thus it strikes none. | would like to
make every man here think | was
preaching exactly to him. / tell you if
Gabriel himself were to come down
here and preach five hours it would do
no good if the Holy Spirit were not
there. The first work Of the Holy
Ghost is conviction. We want it to
convict US of unbelief to-day. After
conviction the Holy Ghost sheds abroad
the love Of God in our hearts. Again ;
The Holy Ghost gives US hope. A man
full Of the Spirit is sure to be full of
hope. Christ had been telling the dis
ciplts about His resurrection, and you'd
have thought that the tomb would have
been surrounded by waiting crowd,
and you would have at least expected
Mary and Martha TO be there; but the
Holy Spirit had not come to them, and
they were not hopeful, and no one was
there. The children Of God lose hope
when they are out of communion with
God. Another thing the Spirit of God
does is to give liberty. That's the last
thing you have in your college prayer
meetings. l have pump on the other
side Of the river, and the other day found
that | couldn't get any water out Of it,
and so | resorted to the old way OF
pouring the water in to get
some out. Then it was all
right. So if you want liberty,
liberty, liberty in your prayer-meet-
ings, liberty in your Christian work,
wait on God for liberty. You are like
Lazarus out of the tomb-alive, but
bound with the graye-clothes. Young
men, get your grave.clothes off. If a
man has the Spirit of God he won't
talk about himself. He will grow
smaller and Christ will grow larger,
and that's the best sign Of man's
Christianity. He is growing in grace
! L..