The Portland daily press., 1893-08-31

| tbus onickened would not fall behind,
hnt world lead these materialistic forces
of this mighty century Let us notice
this Christian Enaea NO in the
rpaiobtv stream Of Christian spirit there
! ansts some driftwood, but venture the
| aff;rmation that there is less driftwood to
tbe samare mile upon this stream than
nnon any other stream of Christian
| spirit. These young people mean bust
ness. The wonderful power OF their
effort is that it demonstrates the attrac-
tive force of Christianity. They have
astonisbed the world by displaying the
| attra ctiveness of faith in and obedience
| to the Lord Jesus Christ. 1t is the old
doctrine filled with modern thought that
attracts the young people. There are no
| hobbies to be ventilated We are no
| cranks unless we are those that turn the
worlds around. Turning to the other
| branch Of his subject, the speaker said:
| The idea has been that the local church
I! is a place to gather in souls and keep
them till ready for heaven--a refrigerator
where souls are to be put on ice to keep
them from decay until the Lord sees III
| to open his refrigerator and take them
out. Such souls when melted in heaven
will be nothing but water. It will take
| 100 years to heat them into steam. 1t is
!! the churches business to get people to
! live not to get them ready to die. we
must come to understand that the church
exists for the cirizens of city, and the
people of country. Finally back Of all
| is the bringing of the power of the king
| dom of God by the salvation of souls.
|, No Christian Endeayorer is worthy OF
the name that does not keep this as the
most important object in view
Evening Session.
Rev. Frank NJ. Lamb led the praise
service at the evening session. The
| church was crowded, as was also the
overflow service.
| President Foss introduced Rev. S. z.
Rose, d. D., of Montreal. He said that
he admired the courage of Christ. That
courage inspired Luther, and Knox, and
Wesley and Gen. Booth are examples of
| that courage. 1t is one thing to offer
Christ to multitude, and quite another
| to offer Christ to a single sinner. Jesus
had to get in touch with the sinner he
talked with. He aroused curiosity, when
he could not otherwise open the door of
| the heart. Ask questions at
| the proper time. Revivals that have al
most reached their climax have been
made to recede because the people got to
debating perfectly proper questions, but
unsuited to the moment. Remember the
methods of Jesus. He went where the
soul He wanted to reach was. ssThen He
tried to get some bond of sympathy be-
tween that soul and Himself, and He re-
fused to be drawn into the discussion of
other questions. 1t is a sign that one has
been truly converted, when there is
desire to do missionary service. Are we
anxious to win souls to Christ? Try the
Christian zeal of your own soul by the
question Am anxious for the winning
of souls?" If not let. this be your prayer,
"Giveyme of thy spirit Lord In this
| place of historic memories let us conse-
| crate ourselves anew to Christ.
Rev. Frank M Lamb sang solo, and
| President Foss introduced Rev. Wayland
Hoyt, DID,, of Minneapolis, who is
| good type of a witty western speaker
| Story followed story and bright points
were scattered all through his rapid talk
DR.. Hoyt said that it is bad thing. to
have no ambition. Powers saw an ideal
and the desire to reproduce it in marble
made him the artist he became An
artist is one who does his work because
he loves it, drudge is one who works
because he has to That London boot
black who started in with the ambition
| to become the best bootblack in London
| was an artist. 1t is not what you do,
but how you do it. There should be in
every heart splendid desire to be and to
do the very highest 1t is d bad ambition
| that makes you desire to go contrary to
| the will of God; true independence is
| found in submission. 1t is a bad
| symptom when one desires to SEEM to
| be, rather than to be- Keep in mind the
| fact that Christianity that never yields
| to selfshness, does yield to an enl1ght-
ened self interest. Even Christ appealed
| to that. Selfishness is the desire to take
something that belongs to another, while
| enlightened self interest desires to be the
very uppermost that God would have one
to be. Crown the right, the true and
| let them take the place OF the bad and
the false We get into swarms of evil
! thoughts. There is the evil outside, and
the evil within. 1t has become the fash
| ion not to believe in a personal devil
but it is more comforting. thought
| than to believe that all the evil of this
world comes from man alone. It is a
| question when an evil thought
becomes sinful. 1t is when we open the
door and say "Come in Mr.. Sinful
Thought, I'm glad to see you, and I'd
| like to do what you suggest, but then
you see I ought not to-" There may be
cast in religion, but here is greater cast
in religion. He spoke in his peculiar way
of the necessity of speaking and of doing,
not sitting still and silent, and gave the
closing advice, "Crown Christ"