Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-03
GRAND CHORAL WORK
In the Forest q Beautiful Feature of
Chautauqua's Sabbath.
WAVES OF SPIRITUAL HARMONY,
Dr.. BarrOWS' Splendid Sermon on the Su-
premacy of Christ.
WEATDR HARPERS ACCEPTANCE MEANS
lsPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH. ]

lStkOlAI It-LnOAAM TO IIlh DlSPATCH.l
CHAUTAUoUA, \. Y, Aug 2-The grea
feature of the Chautauqua Sabbath is tn,
music. Bishop Vincent believes in preach
ing the gospel by music, and hence tn,
place becomes a big hall of harmony, il
which the faithful encourage one another
by spiritual songs. The morning and even
ing service in the Amphitheater is es
pecially attractive in this respect. Prof L.
S. Leason, Of New York, has chorus o.
several hundred voices, known as the Chau
taUqua Choir, who render the most beauti
full selections in the way of anthems anc
choruses. The big organ played by Mr.
Flagler rounds out the sweet strains, a:
does also fine piano manipulated by Mrs
Bussey.
For example, this morning the grand
anthem by Sir Arthur Sullivan, "Sing, G
Heavens, was most effectively rendered
and the music flooded every part of the
camp. Again at the service of song to-
night the choir sang the two swelling an
thems "The Lord Decended From Above, -
by HAYS, and "The Song of Jubilee" by
William Bradbury. Many very good sing,
ers are in attendance here in the music
schools, and when Sunday comes all get to-
gether and sing in unison. The effect of
this choral work in the forest, amid the mur-
mur OF pines and hemlocks, the singing of
bi-ds and the lashing and dashing of the
whitecaps on the lake, as they roll shore
ward, is something that is most beautiful
and sweet to the ear, and is seldom heard
anywhere. Many missionaries are here at
Chautauqua Just now from China, Japan,
India, etc, and home and foreign mission
work for a deal of
tion to-day.
THE SABBATH PROGRAMME.
This was the programme for to-day: At
ga. NJ second Woman's Missionary Con-
ference; fve-minute addresses by foreign
missionaries in the Hall of Philosophy;
also at a. n. Bible study, subject, ''Se-
lected Psalms" led by Prof S. Burnham,
of Hamilton, \. Y, in the Amphitheater;
at IL A NJ. the sermon by DR.. Jo ohm Henry
Barrows, of Chicago; 2:30 P. NJ. primary
class Miss Newton, of Kansas, in kellogg
Hall; Sunday school, led by DR.. W. A.
Duncan, in the Temple; assembly, led bv
President Lewis Miller in the Amphithea-
ter; young peoples Bible class, led by Mr.
A. NJ Martin in the hall; at P. NJ. second
general missionary conference; five-minute
addresses by home missionaries, in the Am
phitheater; at p NJ. meeting of the So
ciety of Christian Ethics in the Temple; at
P. NJ. young mems prayer meeting in Col
lege Hall; at 8 p. NJ. c. L. S. C. vesper
service in Hall of Philosophy; at 7:30 P. NJ.
song service and sacred readings bv Prof
r. L. Cumnock, of Chicago, in the Amphi-
theater.
The sermon this morning by DIR. Barrows,
pastor of the First Presbyterian Church,
Chicago, was delivered before the largest
congregation of the season thus far. The
Amphitheater was packed with people DR..
Barrows' text was from John xii, 81 and 80
verses, and his subject "The Supremacy of
Christ and His Cross" He presented some
of the radiant and commanding aspects of
Christ, and showed how the Savior's mis-
sion on earth was to be prolific of the grand
est results.
4 BRIGHTER CHURCH ERA.
I'VE are living in the dawn of a brighter
era in the church, " he said, "for we are be-
ginning to see in Christ the full-orbed truth
of God, the truth that is to reconcile all
contradictories, to fill us with an enthus-
iasm, TO satisfy mind and heart, and how
insignificant seem the divisions of Christen-
dom, how unworthy the contentious over
ecclesiastical garments, and the hair-split-
ting debates over the nature and extent of
the inspiration of the Scriptures, and the
nuTnherlesS theories which are spun out of
the fertile brain of speculation, matched
with the glory of Christ and the greatness
OF that gospel, which is God manifest in the
flesh, justified in the spirit, seen of angels, |
believed on in the world, received into glory
''Since Christ only can bring into right |
relations with God and into right relations |
with one another; since He is the truth |
which the world needs, both for the indi- |
vidual and for society, let Him be magni- |
fled, and when the church undertakes, |
through organization, through united eff \
forts, through personal fidelity, to bring |
the Christ-life to sinful and unhappy men |
and TO show the sufficiency of His Gospel |
tor the life that now is, and continues this |
work in the spirit of Him who loved his |
neighbor better than himself, and thereby |
gave the law for everv disciple, then shall |
we see the Christ enthroned and His cross
lifted in victory over the broken battle |
ments of sin. 1t was said of recent states
man of Canada that if he were great man |
it was because early in life his Imagination |
had been touched by the vision of a world
embracing British Empire, of which Eng |
land was the imperial center and her wide |
spread colonies the majestic parts
WHAT MAKES GREAT MEN
'FGreat thoughts make great men. How |
much grander men become; how readily |
their minds are broadened as they ascend |
the moral heights where Jesus dwells. If |
we can get men in loyalty to Him, to go up |
the mountain peaks of truth on which He 1
abides, how small will seem the distinctions 4
which have separated his followers, and |
how bright will be the prospect of victory /
for the worldwide kingdom of God, stretch |
ing before the enraptured view. No vision |
of Columbus from the masthead of the Pinta |
is half so thrilling; no outlook of the Span
ish explorer from the peak in Darien is
half so significant; no view of the dying |
prophet from the mountains of Moab, ex-
tending far over the vine-covered hills and |
palm-covered plains of the Land of Canaan,
is half so satisfying.
THAT view will show us all truth as one /
in Jesus Christ; all nature but the express
sion of His mind; all history but the evolu-
tion of His providence; all our theologies, |
gloriied as they are, organized about his |
trans6gurating personality, and all the |
kingdom of the world but stepping-stones |
to His universal dominion, and His cross
exalted over Church and school, over home /
and mart, over factory and capitol, and all |
men living under the sway of that love |
which, as Dante sang, moves the sun and |
all the other stars
DIR. uARPER'S ACCEPTANCE.
DIR. William R. Harper, President of the |
Chicago University, telegraphed Thursday,
just as he was starting for Europe, that he |
would accept the position of principal of
all the Chautauqua departments. This
means that the great and important work
begun here so auspiciously, and now so
thoroughly established upon an enduring
basis is to be continued with the increased |
Tlgor which DR.. Harper's robust personality |