St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-29
While Not a Polished Orator
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Second and Last Day Of the
Wesleyan Convention :
at Hamline. e..
The Three Young People
Societies to Be Merged
Into One.

1ue StcOllu udS VI Tic CONVENTION OF
the young people of the Methodist
church of the state opened at Hamline
university yesterday morning at $50
a. m. with model class meeting led by
Rev. M. d. Carroll, of Chicago. The fact
that Bishop Fitzgerald, successor to
| Bishop Foss in Minnesota, would preach
| his first sermon at the university chapel
| at the morning service drew out very
large audience. many of the people
coming from the Twin Cities. Upon
the platform were Bishop Fitzgerald,
DR.. W. w. Satterlee, Rev. NJ. ID. Carroll,
| President Bridgman and DR.. William
| Mckinley. The opening prayer was
! made by Rev. DR.. Satterlee. the great
cold water advocate of the third party.
| 1t was delivered with his accustomed
many of his hearers back to Red Rock
| camp meeting days. Bishop Fitzgerald
| preached from the text:
| And the man Jeroboam was mighty man
of valor; and Solomon seeing the young man
that he was industrious.ke made him ruler
over all the charge Of thehouse of Joseph
First Kings, XII, %.
The bishop is not great orator, but
his sermon was gospel one, delivered
with such force and feeling as would
tend to make lasting impression upon
an audience. The leading Methodists
| present ON the occasion were well salts
fed that the general conference had
sent them man fully capable of super
intending the affairs of the Methodist
church in this state. In the course of
his sermon Bishop Fitzgerald said:
4 want to talk of industry and its reward.
Industry has been commended by men of
wisdom, also by God. who is wisdom itself
The road to wealth is as plain as the road to
the market. All depends on two things-in-
dustry and frugality. There was inscribed
on the Delphian temple by one of the wise
men of Greece. ':Nothingis impossible 10 in
dustry.' So we might quote large numbers
of these proverbs setting forth these truths.
We consider the proverbs and doubtless they
have been OF great inspiration to us in days
past. Our attention is called TO the bee and
the spider, in order that from their habits we
may learn these all-imporiant truths of in
dustry, Sloth stands at the foot of the noun
tain lamentlng that the sides are so steep and
rough and that there is no one to help, while
Industry marches up step by step until it
reaches the summit. Looking out upon the
path before us we should determine to reach
the end. There are examples set for u.s. He
who is anxious to become an orator considers
the case of Demosthenes, and puts forth
great efforts and succeeds. | know youngi
are few, that advantages have been few, sof
they cannot hope to measure up. Now it is
good to remember that if our talents are few
industry will wipe out the differences No
one poorer than Benjamin Franklin,
and we look at these examples andl
see that poverty did not hinder
them from accomplishing great ends.o
We look at spiritual affairs and we see that
they are illustrated by these temporal mat
tiers. We think of those laboring on the;
walls of Jerusalem and see that they We're
surrounded by great difficulties. but they ac-
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man that eats to-day is called to labor, and
the world accepts this fact. 1t will not do
that because we are supplied with. great
abilities to think that we, can afford to be.
idle, tor finally our mistake will be made
manifest. If any one here thinks that he
has not been especially endowed, desire to
say that success nevertheless is within your
reach if you will be diligent hour after hour
will be richly rewarded. Rejoice in the things
that you possess and that in the use
of what you have the largest results will be
yours. In this spiritual world if man will
not work he shall not eat l say that if in
this company there is one who is not recog
nized as a laborer of God. l say that the first
work for you to do is in the interest of your
own SOUL for you must
WORK OUT YOUR OWN SALVATION.
The thought may come that there is nothing
for you to do, and this will be mistake
Salvation is free, it is true, but every man
must work to secure it. God has always re-
quired that man should work with him. God
provided the material for Noah. but the
builder of the ark had to use that material.
The Almighty did not carry Lot out of
Sodom. He opened up the way and said 'es
cape for your life. God does not pro-
pose to carry you, over the entire
way to Heaven. Nay! he asks you to engage
in this work. God has provided these pre-
ciOus things for us, but he asks that we stretch
forth our hands and receive them. If you
have never done anything for yourself | ask
that you enter upon this work now. And
then having cared for yourself your next in
terest will be TO care for those about you.
The son OF man came to seek that which was
lost, and God wants every man to do some
thing for some other man. Can you serve
God? Can you make Him wiser? No. Can
you make Him purer: No. He is already the
pure one. You can only serve him by serv-
ing his creatures here below. If we can catch
the idea that we serve God when we serve
man il seems to me that we would often give
the cup of cold water. One day l was passing
along street and saw a child carrying a
pitcher of milk. She let it fall ana asked
her why she was weeping. The told me of
the fear at home. told her to come with me
and we went to a, store and secured pitcher
and got the same quantity of milk that she
had before, and think l shall never forget
the look that was Oh that child's face. and it
was such little thing to do. l know that
often the temptation comes that you can do
but little, but you should never be discour-
aged. The aggregate at last will be great.
1t is not spasmodic efforts that ac-
cOmplsh the great works; it is patient in
dustry. | believe that these organizations
are the things that will accomplish the great
work. We must get the people to join our
societies and with united work we shall go
on to victory wish every young person
would join one of your alliances. There is
no danger of your being overfiown with
members. There is great vineyard for you
to work in. God promises his reward for
this work and that is sufficient
THE AFTERNOON SESSION.
AT the afternoon session the follow
ing new delegates were reported: A. CT.
Webster. Epworth chapel; Edward GillsJ
Olivet church, st. Paul; c. Fl. Trow- 4
bridge and A. r. Harper, Lake Street.
chapel, Minneapolis. Q.
Rev. NJ. ID. Carroll conducted ques4 /
tiOn-boX service at o'clock. Following
this, DR.. G. S. Innis delivered dis
course on 1.-The Relation of Young
People to Reviyals." While he believed
that older members were serviceable3
upon these occasions and while he had
great respect for the heads that had
grown gray in the service of the church,
still he believed that the young people
were better adapted to this work. Is
The evening services opened with a.
young peoples prayer meeting at $780,,
conducted by Rev. j. A. Sutton, pastor
of Epworth chapel, ST. Paul. n
DR.. William Mckinley preached !,
powerful sermon on the work required (
of the rising generation from the text:
And who knoweth whether thou art come
to the Kingdom for such q time as this
Esther, iy., IA.
The speaker said:
Every great nation has had great mission.
The Hebrew nation gave us morality forever;
the Remains the principles of common law;
the English the civilization of the present
and the American nation has The