New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-10-11
FOR DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN MISSIONS.
A LUNCHEON FOLLOWED BY ADDRESSES BY Dr.
PHILLIPS BROOKS, BISHOP COURTNEY
OF NOVA SCOTIA, AND OTHERS AT
THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC


THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC
The most interesting features Of the day In connec
,jon with the Protestant Episcopal Convention were
the luncheon given both houses of the Boaru OF
Managers of the Domestic and Foreign MisslohalS
society and great missionary massmeetmg hc1d IN
the Academy of Music. large number OF bishops
and clerical and lay deputies and their wives and
friends took luncheon at which there was an eiaoorae
bll offare At p. NJ, when the missionary meeting
was begun, the Academy was crowded 10 the oools'
Seldom has larger audience assembled within the
walls of the big building The bishops ana many
well-lmown people had seats pcturesquey situated IN
a peasant rural Old Homestead scene on the stage
The special service arranged for the occasion In
cluded the singing of the hymns " Iark the song OF
Jubilee e" ! Love Thy Kingdom, Iord,' 20 spirit OF
the Living" and " All Hail the Power OF Jesus
NameD the recital of the Apostles Creed and OF ap-
proprlae prayers. Bishop Dudley, Of Kentucky, pre-
sided.
HOW TO REACH THE WILD WEST.
The first speaker introduced was the Right Rev
DR. Courtney Lord Bishop of Nova Scotia who said In
part:
on the part good many people scattered abroad In
the wide West Church at the East cares very
little about them. You know very wen that uAt iuca
is not correct but people Of the East do care for
those souls in west But what is wanted ulat 10
may be possible with this wrong impression
The thing is have some live man from the coun
Try where people live come cost and tell US )uss
ia somebody who will the religious side what Bret
Harte did on human SIDE and make us feel that the
peope OF whom we read miners cowboys luInDeleFS
farmers are real human beings like you ana me- WIN
the desire to know the God in whose image they ore
made the Saviour who died for theme and the Holy
Spirit who sanctfes them Have you ever tnough' hat
our surroundings in the East keep us straight lake
re and mt US out what is called the 'Wlld west
NV, ne into a mining camp Take the conscious
ness Of being known by body round about and let
fall the life that goes on fouhu tnoo- INV '
II US could keep straight?
APPLAUSE FOR DR.. BROOKS.
The Rev. Dr. Phillips Brooks was next called
and was received with loud applause He made
a brilliant speech, which was loudly applauded fire.
QueDtly He chose foreign missions as his subject
and the point of his remarks was that the simple
Christian truth. apart from FORMS organizations
modes OF worship and set creed and canons, should
he the instrument of evangelzatlon among the
heathens, and that so far from intruding Anglican
or American Church customs in the foreign countries
where the Gospel introduced, those countries should
be allowed TO build up national Christian churches In
their own way The following is his address In part;
When nan walks through the streets Of any foreign
city where missionary work is going on he thanks Goa
moro and devouty for the missionary work Of the
Church and wants 70 back and bear testimony 10
the people OF the work the Church is doing 1t is no
longer Of the world the individual missionary,
the man separating himself from every other association
and going almost If his country flung him out OF its
BOSOM to the work He goes part OF the great
experience Of his country the inevitable utteance Of
one part life the other part Of the world and
so Christian missions have I'm some degree assumed
different character world has this contact u
nation with nation and with Yet while We
want this ID must always be In the contact
with soul and personal life with personal life
Christian missions their real essential character
and purity. these influences playing upon
another that makes the richness of missionary life to-day
The aspect Of the relationship between and nations
gives sort Of 0roa1Sess and dignity that redeem from
any petiness the relationship In which tie missionary
san0G viii fhrz4 ha hpip
These things make missionary the pathetic
and the most heroic work in which be engaged
and dgnihes the missionary the nOblest member OF
the nobless occupation the nobest door Of the nobes
work that has been committed human hearts
hands (AppauseJ
THE ESSENTIAL POWER OF CHRISTIAN LIFE.
But you may build your churches, you may set them
your Christian lands in majesty
but the and power OF the Christian life lies I'm
touch Of soul upon soul Everything else is but
machinery You may get rid OF ma
ehinery, but the power may Get rid Of the
power and the machinery all tumbles pieces. CAD.
plause) Think the way in which you speak TO your
child Of Christ then IL to you have exactly
the pattern for speaking TO the heather. Simplicity
must be in which you carry and profound
Nverenee for the message which You carry be In
-FOUR soul. Remember what simplicity Is. 1t is not
neagfeness. II the stripping away Of this, that
ana the other thing until you come to some bare ruIsm
simplicity Is the gra comprehensive power which groups
all within the large enyelopng spirit Simplicity holds
more than any complication can. To become simple is
not TO become but become vast and grand with
the conception that truth Is one within the great
development OF the truth. (ApplauseJ
LEAVING AN UNNECESSARY MARGIN.
There many people to-day teaching their children
hhgs they have ceased believe, because they.
believed them. and them that their children
mast have some sort Of margin 10 lose in order that they
& retain something Of what is precious in their faith
e are precisely the vices with which the missionary
sN himself 70 tie heather, and they are essential
hna,san es 70 ee great Of the Gospel among the
.. -, Quay You like 10 your child. n you are
~ ,each him. different sort OF Christian from
Cs,, -. " make him reproduction Of your own
~ 's, and you hamper the new power with which
;,ao,, pie him. profound faith In the personal
., God for every soul he has sent world
49, y Wv neaft OF all mission work Let my religion
- imp metaphysical truth and despair OF making
. ''s 1t as my land received IT, Let be
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