The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-11-13

stated that q collection would be taken
up in the evening and probably wished
to get the audience in good humor
for that purpose,
THE EVENING SERVICE,
The session of the Christian Workers
convention last evening was marked by
increased attendance and interest.
Nearly 1000 turned out to fill the body
of the church and the big room below,
where the overflow service was conduct
ed, The speaking was marked by the
great earnestness, and although two
of the scheduled speakers failed to APP
pear, their places were well supplied by
those chosen to fill the gap. The session
opened at 80 o'clock with the usual de-
votional service, led by Rev. John Pope
of this city. In place of the usual scrip
ture reading by the leader Mr.. Pope
called for scripture quotations from
those present. His request was answer
ed by over fifty responses, showing as
the leader aptly said, that the audience
was made UP of Bible reading people.
The scripture questions were followed
by many requests for prayer.
The devotional service was closed with
a beautiful solo by Mr.. Lamb, entitled
MY Savior, My All"
The Rev. e. M. Poteat of the Calvary
Baptist church delivered an earnest dis
course on 'The Holy Spirit in Missions"
He said, the presence of the Holy Spirit
in the church is the proof of the savior
ship and exaltation Of Jesus Christ, and
assures to the Christian a life purpose
and mission identical with the life pur-
pose and mission of Jesus Christ.
I have been impressed in these meet
| ings with the coincidence of the out
pouring of the spirit with the revival of
the spirit of the missions.
That this is true is witnessed by the
opening of new fields of mission work,
| and thereadiness of volunteers to enter
| these new fields. This is the teaching of
all history. 1t was true in the time of
the Roman empire, and is equally true
in modern history.
| All the desire of William Carey was
to go to Tahiti, but the Holy Spirit laid
His hand upon him and chose his field
for him, and he never went to Tahiti at
all, but to India.
| Edward Livingstone's desire was to
go as a medical missionary to China,
| but the Holy Spirit sent him into the
heart of Central Africa, where he laid
| down his life The same leading Spirit
| is seen in the lives of other mission
| aries.
| Barnabas Hardy and his wife were re-
fused a landing at Cape Town in Africa
by the Dutch, and for twenty-seven
1 n cd io4o bo t,,X he
hind an OK team until at last they met
some natives who were going to the set
| tlement in search of missionary to
preach to them The result was that
Hardy went and did a great work
among them Some of you may call
this chance but call it the leading Of
the Spirit. These two points l wish to
leave with you-frst, the Holy Spirit
preceded the revival of missions; sec
ond, YOU may see in the acts of the
apostles the history Of the working of
modern missions. We have the promise
of Christ, "Lo! am with you always"
| only when we obey His injunction to
go into all the world and preach the
gospel to all the nations.
A contribution was taken up at this
point to help defray the expenses of the
convention, followed by a, prayer by
Mrs. Clarke. The collection amounted
to $7S.
The next two speakers on the pro
gram were the Rev. William Mast Bro
derrick. D. D., of Boston, and Rev. Eli
iah Horr of Worcester, Mass. The Rev.
Mr. Broderick was kept away by a
1 death, and the Rev. Mr.. Horr also fail
ed to appear for some unexplained rea-
son. In place of these the Rev. H. H
Kelsey of the Fourth church in Hart
ford and President Torrey spoke on the
subject of ''Pastors and REVEALS"
| DIR. Kelsey said: "Pastors should seek
to do revival work in their preaching
Land inthe various meeting and through
the church organizations. The pastor ii
his sermons should preach the gospe
straight and leave out the big words
and adjectives There are very many
people who would like to come out and
acknowledge Christ, but our churches dc
not provide way for them to do so
We want an open way all the time, Sc
that the people can express their de
sires to become Christians"
President Torrey spoke next along
much the same line which DR.. Kelsey
had pursued, and in addition emphasiz
! ed the need of the Holy Spirit in thu
work and of securing the corporations
of the members of the church. He also
spoke of the Importance of work al
the year round, illustrating his remarks
with incidents from his own experience
His remarks were followed by questions
and answers.
MIR. Lamb sung a beautiful solo
''Beckoning Hands" and the services
were closed with the bene diction by Rev
E. M. Poteat
OVERFLOW MEETING.
The overflow meeting down stairs wa
presided over by the Rev. H. H. Kelse!
of Hartford The devotional services
were led by Miss Macdonald. Mr.. ant
Mrs. Elderkin led in the singing. Mr.
H. B. Gibbud of Syracuse, N. Y, spoke
as did also Mr.. Tracy MacGregor of To
ronto and the Rev. John Hector, ais,
of Toronto. The room was filed, anc
the speaking good.
The program for to-day will be a
follows:
Morning Session.
9:O0-Devotional service.
945-Training class, conducted by II
; B. Gibbud.
: 10:20-Christian Work Among Miners