The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-11-18
CONVENTION REVIEWED
WHAT REF. MR. POTEAT SAID YES
 TERDIY CONCERNING TT.

WHAT RET. MR, POTEAT SAID YES
 TERDIY CONCERNING TT.
 Called Attention to Valuable Lessons to be
 Derived From It--ApOstollo Succession of
 Christian workers-New Haven Has as
 Clear Ideas of the Theory of Religion as
 Any City. But More Practice Necessary
 An Earnest Address by Rev. MT. Mason
 Also in Reference to the Christian Work
 ers' Convention.
 At Calvary Baptist church yesterday morning Rev. MT, Poteat, to pastor, preached from the text Mat v 6:22: 'The light of the body is tn ve; if therefore thine eye be single thy 'ole body shall be full of light" MT.
 teat said this passage probably means that if a mans purpose Is clearly de- fined and held firmly before him, his whole life will be magnificently con- sistent with itself, and also if a mans conscience is clear and if his heart is honest his whole spiritual experience will be high and correspondingly pure. Further comment on the text" he said 'is unnecessary, as during the Hast ten days we have had living com- mentary on it." He then called atten- tion to the valuable lessons gained from the recent convention of Christian Workers. In every period of the his tory of the church men and women have been illustrating the elevation in the Fellowship of Christ. The true apostolic succession is not brought about by the laying on of hands, but is a. succession of men and women in each generation who are of the same spirit as the apos- tles and working with the same power This explains the Christian fellowship felt in the recent convention which was mot felt on account of any apostolic handshake. Among the things impress ed upon those who attended the con- vention was the privilege, beauty and power of prayer. No community in the country has a clearer idea of the theory of religion than New Haven, but while we have plenty of theory, practice is extremely necessary. New Haven has rationalized religion. A prominent Christian Worker on being told of the fondness of New Haven for prayer said: 'Yes, but you must work" In the convention we have had practical illustrations of the results of consecra- fion. Consecretaion means All for Jesus, ''Thy will be done," not my will be done, and q will follow where thu goeSt.' This is true consecration. MT. Poteat then spoke of the conse- cration of Miss Macdonald, one of the prominent delegates to the convention, who by doing the work at hand was led to her great work among police men. Mrs. Whittemore is also true interpretation of conservation. In the case of many of the delegates the re- suits of their work are very incom- mensurate with their natural abilities, yet their words in the convention were of those whose minds were at ease and at peace with God and they were the happiest people ever seen in New Ha- ven.
 The cause of the anxiety depicted on the faces of Christians in this city is that they are trying to do things which Jesus said were incompatible. Christ was the saddest and the happiest man ever on earth, sad because He wept for Jerusalem, and happy in spreading the word of God. Let all go to the end of the road of self-renunciation and give themselves to God, then they will be happy Christian work is personal work Each of the great special works mentioned in the convention has grown from a single Christian deed and from the personal surrender of one man. Sow a Christian deed and you reap a whole forest of good Rev MT. Con- wells great institution in Philadelphia has grown from a. single Christian deed sown in the soil of the human heart. The only acquaintance which many people have with the Bible is what they hear when they occasionally drop into church. This is getting to be a generation ignorant of the Bible.
 WHAT REV. MIR. MASON SAID.
 Rev. MT. Masons' sermon yesterday was based upon the words, "To every man his work" Mark 13, 34. In his ad- dress he said, among other things: sThere are two words which ought nev- ser to be separated in the Christian vocabulary or in the Christian life. They are faith and faithfulness. l fear a great many Christians are contenting themselves, or are trying to content themselves with a dead faith. Their profession is all right and their habits are above criticism. But faith that roots itself in God and that feels the stir of divine forces and that buds and blossoms and fruits in Q human soul is not theirs.
 Thus there are world wide differences between Christian and Christian, and latueep church and church
 During the past ten days I have been praying that you and l and all the Christian people of this city might gather inspiration, not of the spasmod- ic sort, but that our inspiration might Joe an inbreathing of the Holy Spirit of Almight God with all it's quickening, uplifting influences.
 One of the saddest stories you ever read is Longfellow's poem which tells
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