Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-04
SUNDAY At THE LAKE
The Heat Makes an Impression on
the Services at Chautauqua.
LARGE MEETING In THE MORNING.
With Sermon on How to Live by the Rev.
Alexander Mckenzie.
REPORTS OF MISSIONARY WORKERS.
ESPECIAL rzLrenAx TO rHs DrsrArcH.,

season. The cottages and hotels were de-
serted, and everyone sought the shady hooks
at the lake side, though they found
in this little satisfaction, for
the water, as smooth as glass, only
mimicked you with the reflections of the
suns sweltering rays. Still all this tropical
heat could not keep enthusiastic
Chautauquans from morning worship,
and at IL o'clock the Amphitheater was
crowded. You could not see an audience;
only the throbbing pulsations Of 5000 fans,
hats doubled up, newspapers, or anything
else that would start a little air in circula-
ton, were visible as the people tried to keep
from suffocating.
/ The sermon was preached By Rev. Alex
ander Mckenzie, of Massachusetts,, who
took for his text. IT have stilf somewhat to
say on Gods behalf" .t..r.-i
:. UNJUST JUDGMENT.
You have often judged your .neighbor
when your neighbor was not there. Every
court allows the defendant to- face the ac-
cuser.| In the same way many times
you have judged Cod, There never
was, and there never has been, a
life as transparent as that of God. We have
one who hath said that "He that hath seen
me hath seen God. He that hath explained
God hath explained me. ''-a
The first thing we should take in consid-
Grafton is God himself. All God has told
us is that he is the Father, the Son and the
Holy Ghost. Men have gone of on other
and divers theories-what is man?
The child Of God. What is life?
- r1k xrse IN fho
world to tell us what God is.
There is but one life in the universe, and
that is God. All the life there is in your
trees and shimmering In your lake is the
divine life. All the world might be de-
stroyed, and God would create another Tbs
lite of the eternal is beating in the heart of
the humming bird.
HOW TO LIVE.
Life is like fountain that throws up the
glistening spray, and one who wishes may
gather up and take it to his lips. Live lust
as God lives, love just as God loves. The
more men have to do with us the less we
know. It is very hard work to live with
philosophers and ethical teachers, and I
am always glad when school is out. Be
natural. You have no code of rules to go
by. The New Testament way is to look not
at the ten rules of the Commandments. but
to one Christ. The laws of life are nailed to
the cross. When Jesus Christ came
to the world he put aside all of
these rules. Let us sing the life of God in
stead of the commandments. Live in your
self like God. Thus you shall receive eter-
nal life and truth. 1 do not care what men
say, we want what Jesus Christ says. Not
sparrow shall fall without the consent of
Tel Tc horo y L
any other sympathy than God in trouble?
You remember the English lawyer whose
friend died who wrote "In Memoriam."
There is no comfort but in God.
GODS PLAN UNKNOWN.
A man came to my study the other day
who had lost his little child. went to his
home and prayed with him. beside the
little casket. Again he came and said,
"They say that I should not want her,
but do want my little girl back" That is
right. He did want his little glrl back. It
is natural, but God wanted her more. The
trouble with you about God is that you want
to judge Him before He has finished. You
do not wish any work you have done judged
be ore you are through with it.
You complain that the boy threw the
stone and killed the sparrow. But if he had
had not been boy he would not have done
it, and we cannot spare our boys
There is q chance that he will mend
his. ways. I want q boy to be
good because he wants to be good. Be good
for God. Men are explaining God In the
most impious way. You do not know God
until you know God redeeming the world.
If he could not have redeemed man he
would not have made man.
n THE HEAT CoNoUERs.
The enthusiasm that possessed the people
in the morning did not hold out very we'll,
for the afternoon entertainments were
poorly attended, people having evil
the better part of valor. At 2:3O
q small band of perspiring Chautauquans
sat down with feeling OF ST must
do it, in the Amphitheater, for
the assembly. Sunday School Pres
ident Lewis Miller led as usual
and even much of his customary
ardor had succumbed to the heat. Over in
the temple at the same hour Secretary Dun
can led his meeting, and 200 or 300 little
ones that compose the primary class were
instructed in their lessons by Miss Grace
Livingston.
The work Of the missionary institute was
carried on to-day. The first meeting in the
morning was conference entitled "Words
From Foreign Missionaries" A
number of ladies aud gentle
men who had aided in spreading the
gospel, and returned from the land of their
labors for a short vacation, told of the
vicissitudes of missionary life, and
emphasized the pressing need of
volunteers and money to spread the
gospel. In the afternoon second meeting
was held in which the home missionaries
were heard from. Ladies from Chicago,
New York and cities in the Southern States
gave reports Of their labors among the poor
of the tenement houses
The cool evening air was a relief and
proved SO refreshing that the Amphitheater
wasnearly filled to bear, DR.. Eccleston r.
Young on Missionary. " Work,"
CONVERTING THE INDIAN,
His talk was based upon the work of Paul
in spreading the gospel. "E do not come
from the teeming millions of China or
India" be said, 'but from the American
Indians, who have, been fading from the
continent as fast as the snow in springtime.
and with whom I have worked for many
years.
81 have been the farthest north of any
white missionary, and in the village where
stayed was as safe as here at Chau-
tauqua. In a few months had gathered a
congregation of ,000,to 1000, and a MEM
bership in the church OF 400. 1 reu,em-
Der a sermon preached on, "Come
unto me all ye that are weary and
heavy laden" and the men were angry
about it, saying that stuff was Tor the women,
for they did all the work and drudgery.
She was classed with dog, much
worse than slave. When the wife
or mother becomes too old and
feeble to work she is choked to
deatb and the BODY burned To ashes This