The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-12-11


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Iing Singe meats ia lhe Nidst OF an
Interesting salmon
I'm the Cathedral of the Good Shep-
herd. there will be services this morn
INC at ten o'clock, this afternoon at
four, and tonight at eight.
Tomorrow, the services will be CON
tinued at the same place and at the
same hours.
All these services will be conducted,
as heretofore by DR. Bradley, and last
night Dean Pittenger gave notice that
the farewell sermon will be preached
tomorrow night.
Moreover, then thank offerings will
be received to defray the expenses OF
the services thus far as we'll as for nee
essary purposes, DR. Bradley, in the
meantime having given his efforts as
labor of love only.
Dr. Bradley was very earnest in all
he said last night He made two talks
as usual, the first constituting his ser
mon proper, the second, a short deVel-
opment of the fundamentals talk
given while the Dean retires and class
flies the requests that have been made
upon the cards.
1t is hard to say which of these two
talks last night was the more interest
ing and the more helpful. Certainly,
in the ten minutes of the second talk,
there were packed words that were
ripe with interest. Without reference
to the differences that might exist OF
the subject between Dr. Bradley and
clergvmen of other denominations, the
core of all said was sound and full of
pregnant seed The position taken
was that conversion did not necessar-
iIy or even reasonably involve any
Spasm of emotion or passionate demon
stration, but was rather result of
mind-Work than of heart-work. The
notion Of Chrstliness was conceived,
and the reason saw the right way only
in confessing before him. Then came
the laying on of hands, confirmation,
other than which, the speaker claim
ed, was not warranted by the bible
The doctor said that Adam Clark and
Calvin both sustained him in his posi-
ton.
But to leave this talk abruptly, and
go back to the Sermon-it was full
hour long, and illustrated oneof the
secrets of the speakers power and this
mans methods will stand long study
before they may be detected Proba
bly, he does not know them himself
For lack of a better word, the peculiar
method to be noted here might be put
under the class of SuggestiyenesS. If
a mind is not suggestive a thought
may come from il, solid and Weighty
enough, but with the Solidity and
weightiness of lump Of coal out Of a
mine, leaving the listener 10 develop
the latent heat by his own mental
process. If a mind be suggestive,
truth no sooner comes into il than that
truth begins to gather warmth from
the surrounding glow, then heat, and
that in the cases of few men passes
on into the feryid fire of eloqucnce.
Here is a case in point last night: The
text was. ut is appointed unto us all
once to die; after this the judgment"
The speakers conception of his sub
ieet was the Dav of Judgment, with
the practical application at the close
that all should be prepared against
that. This was the unwarmed thought
standing alone.
Then, almost III moment after the
opening sentence, the speaker passed
logic to the dangerous task Of defining
the Ego in eternity. This came from
the sug2estivcness of the speaker one
OF his unconscious methods and then
a few moments of intellectual charm,
when he said man here is known not
by his soul, but by his body; the soul
is unknown of man; then came the
naked notion of the Ego, without
body-the personality, a word which
tells of that II" which each one sees
with his own inward sensethat Ego
with which philosophers have wrestled
with the puny result of "Cogito Ergo
Sum" as the best they could do. But
that of which a man thinks, his self,
bis personality will be in the eternity.
And then he tried to proceed to the
subject but could hardly do 50 for the
attractive ideas that would keep get
ting in his way.
Some prophecies of the Bible were
taken up, and the doings of men were
divided by three, from Adam TO Abra-
ham. 1000 years-frofn Abraham to
Christ, 1000 years-frOm Christ to the
end of the next century and then the
speaker thought it altogether prob
able that the end of the world would
come. He read from Paul's epistle,
from Revelations, to give color to this;
and made the somewhat startling
statement that the disenthroning of
the Pope by Napoleon and later Victor
Emanuel correspondent with the cast
ing down of men who set themselves
up az God, as noted in the Bible. Then
he referred to the doctrine Of the peo-
pie long ago when their Latin inscrip-
tions said, Whom we have created
Pope, we worship as Cod" then to the
actual Worship of the people who
bowling down before the Pope said;
I'VE Worship Thee as God"
The speaker took the computations
made by Biblical scholars and noted
the coincidence between them and the
crumbling now of the last Moslem
foothold at the prophesied time.
The sum and substance of it all
was that we were nearing the ,Iudp-