Morning journal and courier., 1893-05-18
religion and language makes this question

religion and language makes this question & doubly important one.
 Rev. Dr. Buckingham of Springfield then spoke few words on the topic of | discussion, followed by Dr. Twining. one of the editors of the New York Indepen- dent-Herald: There is gan impression abroad that popular preaching is easy preaching. I should describs such preach | ing as MT. Moody's as very opposite. It is searching. It Is the preaching of man who is acquainted better, perhaps, than any one else with the human mind under the operation of divine truth. And it Is this same thing that has struck me in Moodys Commentary ons the Galatians. which has been one of the most fruitful books have ever read. This power is not brought to bear on a man by the literary development of theme. But it is the strong type of character that does the work. believe in the preaching that de- velops the love of God. That preaching in which we hear rolling and reverbsrating the thuaders of the law.
 Rev. Dr. Parker of Hartford was the next speaker and he said in part: think one reason why we should do this kind of preaching Is to shut out the professional evangelist MT. Moody is cer- tainly an entirely exceptional man There is not another like him. We had minis ters' meeting recently held at Hartford of all the denominations of the city. It was decided not to extend an invitation to popular evangelist to come there next au- tumn and open his campaign, for the req son that we thought he had ideas of the Holy Spirit the promulgation of which would be unwholesome to the community. Professor Fisher then called upon Presi dent Dwight to make few remarks on the topic under discussion. In his tntroduc- | tory remarks Professor Fisher told an amusing anecdote ot President Dwight's tour in Europe. He said:
 "President Dwight was introduced into \ the house of commons by distinguished l member, and during fhe conversation he made the remark that he was we'll ac- ] qusinted with his "system of theology" | referring of..course to the "System ot'Thec- loey written by President Timothy Swift, ! the grandfather of the present president. ! President DwiSht spoke in part as follows. have never bsen from my earliest man
 hood believer in the evangelistio system of preaching, as connected with the pro fessional evangelist. am glad we have
 so far outgrown the idea of the profession
 al evangelist. believe that the amount of good that has been done by Mr. Moody,
 who Is the best of the professional evange- lists in this country has been vastly over
 estimated.
 | ueu l CaLu6 LO ISHuZ5 tua5 ClIlSilaulIy
 is the love of God great light came to
 me. believe that many people misappre-
 bend Christianity to their own hurt, be-
 cause of wrong presentation of the gos-
 pei. am glad that this kind of preach
 ing has passed away. l believe that the
 passing away of the revival system is due
 to different and better conception of
 Christianity which we have. That there
 are evils connected with the other side is
 true. But think we have risen into the freedom of the children of God.
 Professor Fisher then made a few closing
 remarks, in which he said:
 It seems to me, while there has been 8
 great improvement in presenting this love
 of God as distinguished from the old man.
 ner of depicting God as tho cd Gof Terrors,
 yet there is lack in ministry of bringing
 men to decision. A little more of the
 evangelistio spirit among the ministry
 would do work ths5 is somewhat neg
 lectsd.
 ! At 8 o'clock concert by the divinity
 school octet was held in Marqusnd chapel
 followed by reception from to Il l o'clock.