The herald., 1895-07-22
THE CHAOTAUQUA ASSEMBLY
An Eloquent Sermon by Rev.
A. G. first, D. D.
SEASIDE SUNDAY SERVICES
The Infant Agitator as the Modern
Icon0clast
The Sunday School Well Attended and Stand
ing Room at Premium During the
Remainder Of the Day

augmented the large numbers OF visitors
already here. The beach was well patro-
| nized by those seeking r,st from the whirl
and worry of the weeks work in the city,
but all the relig ious services received
more than their usual quota of attend
ance Long Beach is clearly The resort
of the cultured and intellectual class.
Over 400 attended the Sunday school
services at 9:3O in the tabernacle. VIM.
Schilling, superintendent of the Long
Beach NJ. E. Sunday school, had charge OF
the exercises, and was assisted by W. L..
Cleveland. superintendent Of the Boyle
Heights Sunday school. The lesson re-
view was made by Rev. E. l.. Mccartney
of Pittsburgh.
At II O'Clock Rev. F. NJ. La1kin of the
Central M. E. church, Los Angeles, read
the scripture lesson from II Timothy, the
third chapter. Revs. A. J. Frost Of San
Bernardino. A. c. Smithers, Flint of Los
Angeles, and President Weller occupied
seats on the tostrum.
After hymn and the announcements
m ade by President Weller. Prof. c. S.Cor-
nell sang the Holy City" in his best
manner. DR.. A. c. Hirst. D. D.. of San
Francisco. was then introduced to the
audience by Rev. F. NJ. Larkin. DR..
Hirst has a forcible and eloquent manner
of expression. He came to this coast
eight years ago to assume the presidency
OF the University OF the Pacific, and has
remained actively engaged IN educational
work ever since. Four years ago he re-
turned to pastorate, being unanimously
called to the pulpit Of Simpson Memorial
church. San Francisco. He has spent
good deal of his time in educational work.
being connected with the Stewart college,
Tennessee, Transylvania university of
Kentucky and Ohio State university. He
has held pastorates In the leading
Ohio, Pttsburg, Pa, and San Francisco.
The Centenary church Of Chicago has
given DR.. Hirst an unanimous invitation
to ill the pulpit, and he expects to begin
work in the Windy city about the 1st of
October. The largest audience that ever
meetings was present. fully 1900 people
having gathered by the time the text
was announced from John a. 1t was
an eloquent sermon, well delivered. and
created only favorable comment, and was,
in substance, as follows:
There is an emphatic agitation OF reli-
gious thought and inquiry In these times
and the enemies of Christ and divine
Christianity are bold and imperious in
their claims and assertions against His
divinity and supremacy. For three CEN
turies with its iron heel of power. the
IlOHldu tuTOuRu dlt,
science, social prescription. civil persecu-
tion unto confiscation and exile, and even
by torture and death. sought to crush
out Christianity in its infancy and child
hood. But its iniantile weakness was far
mightier than the intellectual and martial
power of imperial Rome. And after
Christianity has for eighteen centuries
been the leader of civilization. culture.
science. morality, truth, happiness and
progress. it cannot be overcome by all the
atheists, pantheist, materialists and in
directionsts. The tidal wave of human
thought will not unsettle the foundations
of divine truth. The throne OF the In
Unite God will not be disturbed if Strauss
writes book in Berlin, or Renan in
Paris. or Darwin in London or the scient-
ist seeks to eliminate God from the pro-
cessss of nature. Christ is on His throne,
his hand is on the helm of the universe.
From His watch-towef IN the heavens
He directs the affairs of this world. He
claims it as His own, for He has redeem
ed us by His own blood. 70 the believer
He is not as the heroes and conquerors
who have wrought and were Ill the
world and whose personal presence is
gone forever. but He is personal. vital
izing presence. 80 l amIwith you always,
Is the divine assurance of present help
and power. He proved His power in ma
ture when at His word the waves of the
sea were calm and the storm hushed to
rest. He declared His life-gving power
when He broke the clasp of death at the
widow her son, restored to life. So there
is no antagonism between true science
and revelation. What God has written
on the rocks corresponds with what He
has declared in Genesis. The marvellous
adaptations of means to ends found in all
nature are emphatic evidence of the
divine thought. All of Gods ideals are
ultimate. Science is the intellectual dis
covery of the operations of Gods laws in
the material universe. Christianity is the
experimental operation of the life OF God
in the human heart, the evoking of the
latent forces of the soul. Science achieves
its triumphs in the material realm, Chris
tianity sweeps out of the material and
travels the pathway of infinity, the
routes of eternity. For the human soul
demands intinity for its progress. eter-
nifty for its development and investigates
in the spiritual realm. which stretches
far beyond where the empyrean sparkles
from bound to bound with the lively play
of the flashing sun. Men talk loudly of
law-natural law, chemical, physical.
moral law, ignoring the spiritual law,
forces and factors that underlie mind and
matter. What is law but the reg gulating
thought of the divine mind? And what
Is the operation of law but the constant
realization OF that thought in the uni
verse of mind and matter? The divine
Christ is the answer to all these things
for Sin Him was life and the life was the
light of men. The secret of an exalted,
commanding and aggressive life Is per-
sonal appreciation Of Christ. Christ with
His infinite pity. with His tender and
transforming providence, with His meas
ureless reserves and boundless power. He
interprets life to US and makes 1T real.
transforming its defeats into victories,
resolving it's discord in harmony, .rans-
lating its mysteries into love and ther
giving us life eternal.
At the close of the sermon pray. was
offered by Rev. A. J. Frost of San Ber-
nardno. Miss Jessie Goodwin sang a
solo and Rev. Smithers of Los Angeles
pronounced the benediction.
Tle lectures for Monday are The Whirl-
iglg OF Time by Rev. A. G. Hirst, at 2:3O
pm, ana My Partner by James Clement
Ambrose at p. IN.
President d. S. Jordan of Stanford Uni
versty will arrive Monday.
The excursion to Dead Mans island for
the benefit uf Professor Cooks class in
biology has been announced for Tuesday
morning at 1880 a. NJ. Over fifty enthu-
siastic naturalists have already reported
as being wiling to rise at the unusual
hour for the chance to gather specimens
at low tide.
The great deficiency in the vocal music
this wear is not altogether the fault OF the
management. Miss Mollie Adelia Brown,
who was to have been the leading soprano
in all the concerts, was taken suddenly
ill after her return from New York and
has been unable to appear on the plat
form. There is IA possibility, however,