Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-07-29

with the eyes Of compassion and help.
Two gave me a siXpcucc each, another
a shilling, another "a threpcnpy bit, with
words OF material and spiritual consola-
ton Tor the night the morrow. and
eternity Even the old carctakcr, hav-
ing seen these good souls out and eN
tinguishcd the last lamp, stumbled back
20 me with an ancient lantern in his
hand and let even his feeble light so
shine that he found huge copper
penny which he pressed into my hand
with the kindly admuntiou,
"Bide ere & moarn. n llI tina DOT for
a beet bite & my ain table. Ma
Laird be wi tina over meet an 0alas
lalwaysl
sank into a drcamlcss slumber. and
was awakened betimes by the old care.
taker Tiic to his word he took me TO
his cottage Tor breakfast, where with cN.
plantations LEFT the coin so kindly forced
upon me the previous night. and, having
had the honor OF being the only person
ever exclusively entertained over night
by the kcswIck Convention, after ] had
got well settled in a comfortable inn.
where departing tourists gave me place.
] lcisurcly enjoyed old keswick town
and iis romantic surroundings and
cursory study Of the "kCsWick move
mcut."
These now noted Kesvick conventions
are simply great gatherings of English.
Scotch and Irish glcrgymcn and other
! Christian workers Of AN orthodox faiths
They are the oItgfowth of meetings
many years ago 10 the north and west OF
Enga OF local bodies Of the lntcrnl.
| tpnll Evangelical Alliance. aud their
influence upon the spiritual lives OF indi-
vidual c.crWmun, particularly the late
Canon T. ID. Hiriord.Baucrsby ineum.
3 bent Of s. Johns Church. kcswick who,
| perhaps also aided by the gentle spell oi
| the Lake District gcnii, gradually de-.
/ parted from TBclarlu principles 90 the
] Evangelical school. His life and work
were those Of grand sweet and indeed
| holy man, soffowiug for The mctcs and
] bounds Of crccds separating those work.
! Ing for the salvation of men, and iUfNlly
striving for complete Christian unity IN
essential thtougns realization OF au cx-
allied faith.
In September 1874, was held the
Oxford convention ON similar lines 10
! created an epoch In the lives of many
hundreds Of believing Christians, and
set ON foot movement OF great and
increasing power for the promotion of
holiness, Canon BattCuhy attended
this. IL removed his last doubt. He
entered into the rest Of faith" he
wrote, nj this convention. In June OF
the next year the "Keswick movement. "
which had now practically become the
BaucBby movement within the Church
of England, eliminated 10 the first of
the kcswick conventions. They have
been held every year since, during the
last week In July, and ON the twenty.
third Of July, 1855, their founder died
here at kcswick, with thousands o
these convention folk about him as his
gentle spirit was "lost in the unuucrabit
glow and faded before faiths vision
noisclCssIy,'
These meetings continued for q week
They may be said 10 be- different from tbS
American Chautauqua gatherings DO ,h,
particulars Of possessing no secular,
cdueItivc or dIycHiug features and 10
the sole aspiration by attendants Of
resting rather than a mere Seeking
faith. Indeed the former is the kcynot,
Of every phase OF effort here. Iiy,
daily services are held. An those wh,
I. gather at kcswick can be seen but
few DAYS before Ia the rcmotcst place
: Of But1iu-Oyer.wu town clergy
: lonely country parsons; devout womcl
7 from mcrCilul fields Of labor, gray