Morning journal and courier., 1890-11-14
THE CONGRESS AT AN END.

s T Last Days Session Of the Baptist
 Conference.-The Papers Upon Vital
 Subjects-Large Audiences in Att
 tendance.
 The ninth annual Baptist conference, or "autumnal conference as they prefer to call it, came to 8 close yesterday afternoon after three days session, during which many of the pertinent and burning ques-. tions of the day were discussed.
 morning at 10 o'clock, the topic for dis cussion being Enlarged Church Work; it's scope, philosophic and educational;
 it's workers, brotherhoods, deaconesses,
 plurality of elders; it's sustenance, endow-
 ments." The gathering was called to order by Professor Francis Wayland of this city, after which hymn was sung and prayer
 offered by Rev. Dr. Norden of New Lon
 don. Rev. Albert G. Lawson, D. D., of Boston, who was tho first speaker, during the course of his remarks spoke as follows: Every church should be church of the holy week day, with doors ever ready to l open. We have the church and the people forced apart today We must have the
 whole church aroused. We should have
 deaconesses. We must have trained men l and women. The work must be evangel- | istic.
 "We must multiply our agencies for the evangelization of the cities. We must go l with free message The church is not I to get something but to give something 1 to give grace. We must open small halls | in various parts of the cities. We must 1 religiously abstain from taking any collec- tions. Purity of citizenship depends upon
 purity of the churches. Purity of the bal
 lot box depends upon the voters. We must
 give impressional services. Get the best
 as the best is downright faith in God l The second speaker, Rev. Russell H ! Conwen of Philadelphia, in the course o1
 his paper said: t'The greatest curse of the
 Christian is the lack of knowing how to de I Christian work. The greatest practica
 need of the church to-day is instruction 1T
 methods of Christian work. Practical the
 ology is the crying need of the age. Th'
 fact is indisputable that we want not nor,
 ministers, but wiser ones. The first dut, | of the church is to make more effective tn
 schools we have. The churches knov
 there is no work more practical than tha
 which heals the man and helps him to carr
 his own living Every pastor and ever,
 church should seek out young men to giv
 them higher education. The men wh will study hard evenings and work day
 for some loved one will be the bette
 skilled for life work. A regular system o instruction is a necessity. Each churc should have it's secular school for the high
 CT training of it's children. The churc
 needs, first, missionary training classes
 secondly, Bible training schools, and third an evening or day school or college. The Rev. John Humpstone. DID,, of th Immanuel Baptist church, Brooklyn, wa
 the next speaker. He said: What we nee most is men and women organized accord , ing to the methods of the primition churc
 and not priests organized according t medieval custom.
 The subject was then thrown open fe 5 general debate, several of the clsrgyme 2 present taking part. The morning SCI
 sion adjourned at 12:45.
 Promptly at o'clock the last session ( the congress commenced with the discu l sion of the topic, "Divine Immanence
 Recent Theology" The first paper we 3 read by Rev. Augustus Fl. Strong. D. D l IL. D. President of the Rochester The [ logical seminary. His paper in brief w, 9 as follows: 'Every great system of errt has in it g grain of truth. There are tv ,. great truths of scripture and theolog The truth of his imminence, on the ol : hand, and the truth of his transcendan, q on the other Gods indwelling is b truth without which no true religion l. possible. n We live in time of panthethestic teac Q ing. It denies that there was any beginniI d of the universe. Even God cannot maj n anything that shall last moment after t has created it, according to that belle l, Now what science can't do revelatit y can do. We learn that the worlds ha . been formed by tho word of God. He g wonderful that the Sabbath day has be- l. created as a monument to Gods creati IS ability!
 q President Strong was followed in a ve d able and scholarly paper read by Re 7. Philip s. Moxom, D.D., pastor of the Fir n Baptist church of Boston At the concl t. sion of Dr. Moxom's remarks Professor y H. Johnson, D. D., of Crozer theologit 'f seminary, Rev. Norman Fox, DID,, of NJ York, and Rev. Dr. Nordel of New Lo IS don participated in the general debs 1t which followed. A few closing remar n descriptive of the work and aims of t n congress were made by Rev. Dr. Sande a of New York, Professor William R. Hi d per, D. D., of Yale university, and Prof c. sor Francis Wayland, IL. D.. Prayer 8 It the benediction was then pronounced se Rev. Dr. Duncan of Hawleyville and t l. congress of 1890 adjourned The chur le edifice was well filled at both sessions 1e the congress yesterday by an audience W i'd listened with rapt attention to the vie h. of the different writers upon the imports a topics of the day as expressed in their ' R1 rious papers.