The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-01-24

ed by the president, Prof Y. ID. Ralne:
Average; Total 9ssl:
100 gymnasium 1l.
40 Gospel meetings, 80 l2si
Hour of prayer services, IL .S ia
Bible class sessions, q
8 Boys meetings, 10 l2z
| Requests for prayer,
Confessed Christ,
Members meetings, 80 w
| Shorthand class sessions, 80
Invitations distributed. lOl0o
Same OF The Holly Brdnl, lb0l
Paid up membership. March J. g
The following meetings were attended by
Average Total
Week of prayer services, SO 39s
Literary society meetings, 122 400
Practical talks, 40 24o
Entertainments, GAG 739
Rev. Il. F. Y. Pierce, 140
Attendance at 18th Convention Of the 9th
District of New Jersey, held in Mount Holly.
Friday evening in Baptist church, 1850
Saturday morning in Association rooms. y y
evening in Presbyterian church, $50
Methodist church, 1000
In connection with the above, the
President referred to the agencies now
employed by the Association and the
1
/ The report showed that 81, 42915 had
| been received from various sources, and
that the Associations year would be
closed entirely free from any indebted
ness. The president also stated that
81, 800 would be required to meet the ex-
perses of the coming year; of this it is
hoped that $500 will be furnished by
membership fees, and that the citizens
will supply the remainder, and Judging
from the past year it is believed that
in some form of contribution the amount
would be forthcoming
After brief mention had been made
about the Literary Society; the Boys
Bible Glass the Practical Talks, and the
condition of things in general, the Presi-
dent closed his report by commencing
the Ladies' Auxiliary and the generous
citizens through whose interest and labors
the Association had been enabled to &C :
complished SO much good.
Rev. J. W. Meminger, of Lancaster. Pa.
was then introduced as the speaker of
the evening, who delivered the ami
yersary address, with eloquence the like
of which is seldom heard in our town
He congratulated the Association on hav-
ing such fine. commodious rooms, and
said that the Mount Holly Association
had better appointments than the Y. M.
G. A. of his town with all its wealth and
10000 inhabitants. He SAID the Young
Mems Christian Association is the truest
Interpretation of Christianity that we
have had since the days Of Christ in the
church.
The Association, as it stands before us
to-day, is not the conception or the result
of the inventive genius of any particular
individual, although started as it was, by
young man, world was found waiting
to receive it. It is the natural outgrowth
of nineteen centuries of Christian thought
and life, and men coming to a partial I'M
derstanding Of the needs of our manhood
in the world in which we are placed.
The speaker laid special stress on the i'm
portance of avoiding fragmentary life.
and said that as we develop the intellect,
the feelings. and the will, we are taking
up the Interpretation that for the first
time in the history of the human race
was brought in the coming. in the living,
in the dying and in the final triumph of
the Lord Jesus Christ.
The life of the world before the time of
Christ was fragmentary. In Greece. the
land of the human intellect, men thought
that to go into the depths of philosophy,
to understand the mysteries of human
thought, to rise step by step in the de-
velopment and culture OF the mind lay
the greatest end for which man should
live; not that they did not have their
feeling, their poetry, their heart power; ;
not that they did not have their will pow
er in different men and leaders, but that
In Greece, thought was supreme.
We may take Plato as the man of the
Greek language and literature. thought,
character and intelligence, and while he
mad intellectual power enough to see the
golden rule, he did not have heart enough
to carry it out and in the midst Of their
boasted intelligence, the most revolving
crimes. the most sickening and disastrous
evils were permitted to arise and grow,
even in the heart of their Utopias.
They left out the heart; they left out
the moral qualities, and the result was
that Grecian civilization failed.
Over in Palestine, in Hebrewdom, the
one thing was the cultivation and deyel-
opment of the human heart. Nowhere in
all the realms of the race were there such
poems as were sung there; nowhere, such
tears shed, such depths of the human
heart brought up. The harp strings upon
which David played have moved the
heart strings of all the world since then.
Hebrewdom was the language of the
nation, we may say of the human heart,
of religious feeling, of religious emotion.
King David was Hebrewdom's man; the
noblest man the one who stands out
above them all. Yet we know that in
this emotional nature he lost the power OF
will, and he lost the power of control, and
his life went down in darkness with a
cloud over his last years, because Hebrew
life was fragmentary; Hebrew civilization
was failure.
| Rome everywhere and always was the
nation of achievement, Of action, the land
of the human will. Everything about her
characterized her as the nation of action,
of dauntless and resistless purpose, will
and power, driven forward by the force Of
that will. julius Caesar was the Roman
man; but Rome went down, cloud
which has scarcely yet settled away from
the horizon. Caesar was not inclined tc
righteousness. Rome as nation knew
nothing of moral qualities, or moral pow
or and social vices, wickedness Of heart
depravity, crept in and Slapped the found
atoms of the greatest empire apparently
the world had ever known.
The speaker also said that those nation
were permitted in Gods wise providence
to rise and rise in great ocean of lif
and power, to rise in theii highest tide
but that tide gathered in the storm and
the great waves rolled up and up, ans
reached their highest point. and broke a
the foot of the cross of the Nazarene, ans
Christ, as he stood on that summit, malice
to that cross, gathered in His sacred handl
the destiny of the race and then waite.
for you and rne to interpret His thought
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