The Wilmington daily Republican., 1895-08-12
SAL VATlOA MESSAGE
Heralded by Eminent Diyines
$500 Souls.
METHODISTS HAVE A BIG DAY.
Zig Sunday Is Over Bnt IL Was the Grent-
est Sunday Ever known Hcrc-ser-
mans by wiimiuston Pastors,

ton. The Sunday of 1898 eclipsod
Yesterday In point of attendance and thls
Is ascribed to the Intense hot weather of
today. Since morning dawned on the
vtlnge old Sol has kept the mercury up
In the nineties and the 5000 people who
came In sweltered US they mover before
had.
The thick foliage on the stately trees
which on past days have famed gentle
breszess through The grove their shade
to-day sent not balmy breszes, but served
more as refiectors for the suns reys and
thus saint and sinner suffered alike.
The day however. warm. did not lesson
the Christian fervor and enthusiasm which
has been manifested since the encamp.
ment opened. While on tho other hand
the workers. worked more diligently and
their efforts were crowned with success
The first service was attended by 200 of
the pious tentsrs and the 1000 visitors who
had come to do their III oruing devotlons
at tho Summit, Rev. L, L, Terry led the
meeting. The love feast which followed,
as was expected. was tho event Of the day,
but there was not the overilowing Of en-
thuslasm that had caused people to jump
and shout at other love feasts. The meet.
ing was a good one however, and at le Ist
100 people testified and scores OF others
ross to express their desire to speak but
did not have the opportunity. Sometimes
several people stood at one Time and gave
their testimony.
There were men and women there with.
out whom a love feast would lack much
OF Its enthusiasm and they warned sin.
neTs to come to repentance. The Christian
who remained quiet at home and only
came to camp TO shout was denounced be-
cause OF their hypocrlcy. Rev. q. W.
PTettyman led the meeting and while the
Christians In the audience sang he kept
time 10 the music with his head.
When the bell was rung for the morning
preaching service, there was fully 5000
people In the grove and half OF this num-
Der heard the gospel story from the lips
OF Rev. Merritt Hulburd. Before the
service male quartette composed OF r..
King. Rev. Edward Gardner. J. II. Gibson
and Elmer Perry sang the quartetto
Speed Away" Pastor In charge Terry
announced the first hymn.
On Tor thousand tongues to sing
My Great Redeemer's praise tzss
The glory OF my God and King
The triumph OF his grace.
Prayers by the Rev. Charles Hill, Of
Salisbury, Md, was followed by the daily
announcements and DIR. Hulburd was in.
troduced. His sermon was the greatest
one ever heard on the camp ground, he
holding the great audience In deepest at
tention and winning every manifestation
oil delght and approval which preacher
can win at q Methodist encampment 1t
wac such sermon as can not DO reported
to give an Idea OF tie inpassloned elo.
qience OF the speaker, or Its effects on the
congregation.
He chose his text from Hebrews xii, 8:
For consider Him shat endureth such
| contradiction OF sinners against Himself
| lest ye he wearied and faint ln your
minds" His subject was THE temp.
tation OF Christi
The preacher said: The passage quoted
is at the close OF one of the most mognih.
cent specimens OF the application of in.
| ductlve philosophy to theology; and It's
masterly logic Is clothed in the sublmest
rhetoric OF literature. You remember
1 NAT hasW nEwINt 1. a.
In the first chapter: Now faith is the sub.
stance OF things hoped for; the evidence
| OF things not seen , Instead that subli.
mated and etheraiizod thing which men
| claim II Is the very substance the stand.
| ing under Of things hoped for the visual.
| izng and embodylng of the unseen How
he conceives this statement to be on trial
| and summons his witnesses to prove It,
and Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Jacob
aud Sarah are consoientlously called in
TO illustrate now faith Is the foundation
OF character; how that earliest ship build.
| ere believed ard built, and that early
| Columbus belived and went out not know.
lug whittier he went.
| And 30 ono after another they give
testimony Us to tho practical character OF
faith In changing, transferring character
| ana building up Abetter manhood; at
length ravlshea by tho spondor of his
own conception, he drops the reporters
pencil with which he reports theig test.
mony and cries out But what shall |
now say OF Gideon and Barak, OF Jsptha
and Samson, aud David also and Samuel
and the prophetsP and as tho witnesses
multiply he has Ylslon In whose back.
| ground what seems at iirat q cloud
appears MS In Raphaels picture which rep.
rCsente the aputheosis OF the Madonna: a
vast host crowdlng Into court to give their
testimony, for the thought In the mind of
the writer OF the'great cloud of witnessed
lie not In this place that tho glorillpd ones,
| who summer high in perpetual Bliss arc
Interested spectators OF our trouble and
striving In the heavenly racs-though |
believe tins Is true, but that they give tea.
tlmony to the reality and practical value
OF the faith. Last OF all he calls into court
Jesns Christ, 'ths faithful and true wit.
moss, and bids us to consider Him..
Lot US then, for our encouragement,
leaving the others. consider His example,
and testimony and. because time Will not
permit US to go over the whole su bject OF
Ills temptation, and for this let u5 take
st. Luke's narration OF tho scene. LIT mo
settle low prellmlnaries, First behave
in tho reality OF temptation, aud in this
two thing5 are essential-the persons en-.
gagged must be real and the solicitations
must address themselves to a nature hay.
Ing susceptibility and appurlenauees to
which they mny appeal. The persons |
believe were real, and | believe in ihe
devil um Tar enough from Boston to
nuke this ayowal Without fear OF Beacon
Hlll-that he ls md then appeared as a
real person. not the hldeous pers onase of
poets aud painters, but u tulisn spirit
onee The proudest. falrest created inIell.
geIce, the tallest archaugel nearest the
throEe-tho greatest of linte creatures
Not omnlpresont, but who can gauge q
spirit?
May 1t not be analogous to thought
movement by which In all ineonueiYaule
short space OF time man Is made con,
Temporary with all the ages aud deni2eu
oil all cllmes, which springs through the
n n ny Il 81. 4
tie crystal pavement hard by the atarna
lhr0De2 Think of such a being whose
vast powers have been peryertod, whose
seraphic sweetness has been soured into
eternal diseonlenis, and who In turn has
become The peverter OF other Creatures
and yet whoso great nation retains tho
vast powers which nude him elder of the
archanEeis, and you have a faint idea oi
that being who comforts the other IN thai
desperate struggle Tor supremacy oveI
humanity.
Tie other being ia the Lord Jesus
Christ mysterious nature coupling
with his nature tbs lofsiest grandeur with
tie lowest humiliation. HO Ia the son OF
man; lie Is man torn a human babe
growing human child, by assimilation
nutrition. exercise. growing mentally By
education, OO9el walton and instruction
like any other Guild. Let US not give uI
the humllity Of Cnr St Essentially nu
mhnity with lis physical iniirmitios anC
liabilities hunEeTing wearyinE dyint
like man, But this is dual nature
possessing two wills and a double con
sciouaness, coming TO the cOmpre henslo
OF the human on the part of the Divln,
perfectly, constantly, but to no apprehen
sion Of It's divinity on the part of the hu
nun, as we come 10 he knowledge OF o a
new nature, through consciousness a
God Is revealed TO Hin In the tempt,
when lie SAID: "Wst ye not thatI mus
be about Sly Fathers business
And then by revelation, as the spirit de
scends upon Him In force like dove unt
witnessing: lhis is My Beloved Son, ii
whom am well pleased, 6nd fully dis
closed Hin SO far as it could DO In tn
traGsiigHration. Ana now Is the human
whi2h Is to be tempted, and the hutna
nature alone, and the ancient scene Is no
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