Birmingham age-herald., 1894-08-08
Attended Sundays Services at the
 Chautauqua
TO HEAR REV. SAM P. JONES
Preach and Talk Gospel Truths. Two Eminent Doctors
 Lecture.

respondence. l-Yesterday there was an
 immense crowd upon the grounds of the Alabama Chautauqua assembly. Early Tn the morning people from the country and
 neighboring villages and towns came pour in, iu to hear Sam Jones, and later there arrived from Selma and Piedmont and in-
 termediate stations three excursion trains, crowded from the first coach to the rear platform of the last.
 The exercises during the day were held
 in the open air. MT. Jones took his text from Prov, xii, 19: "As righteous ness tendeth to life; so he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death" After some preliminary re,
 marks, in which he said if he only had
 decent congregations he would preach de-
 cent sermons, he delivered fine dis. course, which touched the hearts of many who were not reached by the different style of the lectures the day before. Indeed he seems to reach all sorts and conditions of people by being "all things to all men," | h the afternoon MT. Jones said that he felt more like talking than preaching; that we preach too much and talk too little any way, so he followed his inclinations, and, | for more than an hour, talked to his great
  | ties. At the close of the service he asked | those who had been benefited to the extent | that they would quit their sins and lead a | new life, to manifest their intention by go. 1 ing forward and shaking hands with him. Many did so.
 At the evening services there was congre. | gational singing of some dear old hy1ns, | and Miss Hobson, the womanly woman | who has the chair of music in the Alabama | Chautauqua, sang a lovely mcclure ar- rangement of that comforting heart song, Jesus, Lover of My Soul"
 eloquent editor of the St. Louis Christian Advocate. preached a magnificent sermon upon the trans- forming power of Christianity as in. dicated by Isaiah when he says, "For brass will bring gold, and for iron will bring silver, and for wood brass, aud for stones iron.
 Referring to the alchemist's dream of the | philosopher's stone and the mythical story | of Midas, he said that in the kingdom of | God all values are enhanced. Human labor | is the same everywhere, but here the gos- pei has touched humanity, and body. as | well as soul has value. All our modern | civilization is due to Christianity and | Christianity alone. The Bible is not only | the book of our religion, it is the book of | our progress. When Christianity touches l a man it changes the base parts of his | nature into something precious; but this | transformation is gradual, is not altogether | a thing of the future, and comes only by | earth is the first of Heaven, and no one | will eyer reach Heaven who does not begin | his Heaven here on earth. Beautifully ap. | plying the atory of the "Od Stone Face,' | Christ, as we try to live like Christ, as we | commune with Christ, will the prophecy l be fulfilled, but we know we shall be satis- | fled when we awake in His likeness. At 9:30 this morning Dr. Sanders deliv. cred a very interesting lecture upon ''Some | Avenues to Mental Growth" |" The mind | at first is like @ stringed instrument un | touched by the hand of master. He de- voted himself especially to the hearing, l which he considers perhaps tho most in- | telectual of the special senses or avenues | to the mind. He described miuutey the, | anatomical structure of the ear and gave | some interesting ways in which the acute- ness of our hearing may be tested. Never | postpone or neglect attention to ear | troubles, for disease neglected may become | entirely incursble. Children learn every | thing through tho special senses, hence | the importance of these avenues cannot be | overestimated. Sense training should be- | gin early and be carried systematically | as preparation for the building up of the | more abstract qualities of the mind. Dr. Jerome Cochrane, who speaks with authority upon any subject, poetry, phi l losophy, science, politics or what not, en- l t0Tbdlueu Iu6 duQleuCe WILL u luClu AuNT6Sb | upon some of the live issues of the day. The afternoon concert was interspersed | with recitations by Miss Frazer and MT. Joseph Sterne of Selma. MT. Sterne, in his l first appearance upon our platform. more | than sustained the reputation which had preceded him as an elocutionist of marked dramatic ability. His selections were "Clarence's Dream' and 'tThe Lost Chord.''
 At the close of the concert the o,,di x,Io o,xt h>.x xx,sf David Leith, native son of ''auld | Scotia" He told us of Scottish life and | character, until we of Scotch descent were | prouder than ever of the fact, and all of us are planning trip to that land of pictur- esque scenery, intellectual achievements l and heroic deeds.
 The evening concert consisted of music l by Joseph's orchestra, violin solo by MT. | Gray Vaughan and a vocal solo, 'Burst l Ye Apple Buds," by Miss Hobson. MT. | Sterne recited 'sHow Salvation Wonp in | 80 realistic manner that the audience was I 'uusatisfied until he not only bowed his acknowledgements, but responded with an | encore. His second selection was the | Lords prayer. Dr. Chapman then deliv- | cred fluent and finished lecture upon 1 f The Closing Decade of the Nineteenth 1 Century.' This decade he regards as the l greatest in the worlds history, great not l merely in material progress, but in higher, | Dobler achievements.
 | Among the many great things of this l great time are that we have learned the | common fatherland of God and brother | hood of man; that governments exist for
 the people and not the people for govern 1 ments; that slavery has been abolished; | that woman has beon enfranchsed; that | the gospel has been preached to every na-
 ton save one upon the face of the earth.
 Standing as we do in the gray dawn of
 what of the night?' the answer comes:
 ''rhe morning breaketh, already the
 birds are heard in the hedges, the sun is peeping over the hilltop. Hallelujah,