The record-union., 1894-11-03
UNITED BRETHREN IN COUNCIL.
Second Day of the Annual Conference
Here.
Addresses on S0nday-Scbool Work
Strong Sermon by Rev. Mr..
Bell Last Night,
on

Yesterday was a busy day among the
United Brethren preachers who are now
here In their annual conference session.
At 10 A. NJ. the Ladies' Missionary So
ciety met at the parsonage, at 1929 *
street, and transacted important business.
The conference met i'll The church, at
Fourteenth and X streets, at O'Clock in
the morning, and in the afternoon the
Sunday-school anniversary was held in
the church. Many interesting and en-
thuslastic speeches were made along the
line OF Sunday-school work.
The devotional exercises ia the even
ing were conducted by Mrs. +. o. Baum
gardner, wife of Rev. J. w. Baumgard-
ner, formerly pastor of the church in this
city, followed by Rev. Mrs. King.
The feature of the evening, however,
was the sermon by Rev. II. NJ. Bell, Mis-
sionary Secretary OF this denomination.
He is an eloquent and forcible speaker,
and his hearers were deeply interested as
we'll as instructed. He took for his theme
Romans xiii, IL: knowing the time"
We might paraphrase. he said, and ex-
press the suggested meaning OF the above
Language by saying, know the day in
which you live, know its best and high
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telllgent factor in promoting these best
and highest tendencies. IL is a sad thing
for one to fall out of ranks in forward
march of his day and generation. We
ought by dint of heroic effort, if need be.
keep abreast of God. forward march''
for our age. Sometimes it will be 'quck
STEP" but let US stand the ordeal.
From the pen of Carlisle we have the
following pregnant sentence: "The pres
ent time youngest born of eternity is the
parent of all the future" To know the
present time, and what it bids us do must
ever be to us the supremest wisdom.
The Christian is the true cosmopoli Titan
VINO, taking his place by the cross of his
loving and victorious Lord, declares that
blessings OF the Christ and the resultant
Christian civilization is for all the race.
for every land and nation. That from
all land are to come the trophies of the
gospel.
We are in the day of mere beginnings
ln many things. This century has been
one OF preparation for what we may rea-
sonably believe to be glorious and un-
paralIeled century as we pass from the
nineteenth to the twentieth. Greater
changes than those that we have wit
messed will undoubtedly characterize the
decades that are just ahead of u.s.
DIR. Strong declares that 1.-THE work of
anticipating these changes is not mere
speculation" Events have the relation
of cause and effect. The signs of the
times are the shadows of coming events.
The centuries are all related and con-
nected in Gods great unit OF purpose for
the race. Let US not be discouraged, for
the burden of prophetic utterance is be-
ing made a reality by the what we
sometimes feel is the slow process of the
ages. By the application of steam and
electricity time and space are almost an
initiated. The business of week is now
crowded into day. Any worthy idea
can now reach the ear of the world.
Public opinion on any great question
can be rapidly formed and readily ex-
pressed.
Great changes come in unprecedented
rapldIty. Interest in even the physical
conditions of our less favored brothers
on ali parts of the globe is becoming a
necessity in order to self-preservation.
a mighty voice is to-day speaking in
the ear Of the church enforcing the Ian
guage of our text, 'Know the time" and
what 1t bids us do. The church of to-day
is lace to face with answered prayers in
that almost the entire globe is open to the
gospel of Jesus. Cooperation in the
work OF foreign missions is not cold
necessity.
Mr.. Bell, who is the brother of the
paster OF the church in this city, will
leave for Los Angeles to-day.
This evening Rev. Mrs. King of Ohio
will preach. Mrs. King is a regularly
ordained minister, and is said to be an
eloquent speaker.
Tomorrow Bishop Castle will preach
the annual conference sermon at Ii A. NJ,
and Will speak again in the evening at
7:30 o'clock.
AS pulpit orator Bishop Castle ranks
high among American divines. He is a
deep thinker and an untiring student.
This will probably be his last sermon
here