St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-13
EVANGELICAL TALK.
DR.. Russell's Eloquent AdvocaC
OF the Alliance Work.

DR.. Russelrs Eloquent Advocacy
OF the Alliance Work.
L was but small audience that
greeted Rev. DR.. Frank Russell at the
Peoples church Yesterday afternoon.
AzIu had been falling all day. and was
ski Coming down in miserable driZzle
q ire hour appointed for the New York
oIvIle's lecture on christian Work in
Cites" DR.. Russell is one of the re-
IiE5CUS orators of the country who
possess the power to hold an audience
II elthralled interest from the first word
10 the last. 1t is not that his language
Is more elegant nor his arguments more
convincing than those of many other
pulpit orators whose names are familiar,
but there is something in the man
ner of his delivery, in the SIM
plicity and truth of his SMILES,
which goes farther and deeper than any
mere recital of facts could penetrate
without the added genius of the speaker
in presenting them. Key. Mr. Heath,
introduced DR.. Russell in brief talk of
the birth and progress of the evangel-
ical movement.
The subject which had been an
nounced was postponed until evening,
and DR.. Russell spoke on the History
and Character of the Alliance..' He de-
tailed the events which had led up to
the present widespread organization;
from the inception of the idea of Chris
tian unity i'll England, and the organi-
cation of the Alliance in London in
1856 to its present, showing twenty
three branch organizations in flour
ishing existence in all civil
lied countries of the Globe.
The evangelical spirit was abroad
everywhere. 1t had been carried into
Africa and other places as dark by the
missionaries, and its principles we're
being embraced or had been embraced
In all the cities, which In every country
weld a tremendous power for good,
and, 1t might be said, an equally heavy
power for evil. He characterized New
York as at once the wickedest and the
best city in the world. In the cities and
among the churches lay the field in
which the alliance operated. Its influ-
ence for good had been felt everywhere.
Its annual meeting for the discussion
of problems OF religion saw representa-
tlyeS from every quarter of the civil
lied world. The Evangelical Alliance
it was that secured by its representa-
tons to Russia's car the release
of 100000 serfs whose offenses had
been chiefly in their chatting at the re-
straint in religious matters imposed by
the government. The alliance did not
war on denominations-it recognized
the right of all denominations to exist
and worship according to their belief.
Its purpose was the grand one of bring
ing all The churches together in unity
of labor for the Master. No general ever
sent his forces into battle by companies
that meant defeat. Equally true was
it that Gods army should stand in one
grand force, marshaled to march in the
grandeur of its strength against the
common enemy, sin. Let the denomi-
nations remember that though differ
ences may exist in the form of their
wor. hip. they are all the servants of
one Master who expects from them the
best service of which they are capable.
In union is strength. The churches
standing each for itself alone could ac-
complish little. United in one grand
alliance their strength was that of a
giant, from whose advance the enemy
could only reap defeat.