New-York tribune., 1896-05-09
WHAT A CITY PASTOR SEES.
ITEMS OF PERSONAL INTEREST Io
CHURCH PEOPLE.

With the Methodists at Cleveland this month ana
the Baptists at Asbury Park for nine days oesin
ming May 49, and the Presbyterians at Saratoga
for ten days beginning May 81. and Individual meet
ings in the interest Of religious and phiianthropc
societies. May is pre-emihently anniversary month
The Methodists have spent the greater part Oh ''e
first week discussing the woman question: Out NOW
with that matter practically out Of the way the real
work Of the General Conference will begin Inc
Baptist societies. covering home snS viii have
many topics Considered by vel. known people The
Presbyterians have their usual business S Also
good deal OF work that does not come under the
head OF routine such as the raising o. debts on
the boards and similar topics
The Rev. c. H. Tyndal who labored so efficiently
in the Broome Street Tabernacle. and resigned
about year ago. has spept the intervening time
abroad Holland. Belgium. Germany. Swtzeriaha'
Italy Greece Turkey. Palestine, Egypt, Soo'iano'
Ireland. Wales. England and France are among inc
countries visited. Besides travelling throush 90
many countries, accompanied for the most OF the
tourney by his wife and three children the young
est of whom as ten weeks old when he left New
York Mr.. Tyndall has found time 10 stuay ~ h ,as
vsited' Including those at Bonn Berlin and Edin-
burgh In the intervals OF tnsr raw cb,ldren
WsIeh is soon % to be published Mr.. Tyndall will
return return t to % Sew-York on June l. and be ready to
resume pastoral work
At one CT the preachers meetings last Monday
that carried on by the Baptist minister's Ihe
Ideals OF Social Reformers" was discussed. AS 10
the ideals the reader of the paper said that: %
There is a real menace to personal liberty IN the
schemes Of social reformers l9 there Is danger 10
the stability Of family lfe ls there is dansep ep 10 10
development Of their ideas by force 90 many socia
reformers practically materialists
The episcopal address read at Cleveland last week
before the Methodist Conference Is said by those
who have given this subject careful study TO have
been one Of the strongest ever issued paragraph
on downtown Churches" is worth repeating here;
In this connection desire to assert our firm con-
viction that Methodsm in cities should be slow
to abandon what called downtown populations
because OF changes from native to foreign and rich
to poor The greater the change the more need OF
our remaining. Combine the plants. II need be;
adapt them and the service to the new surroundings
but remain and save the people The od-tme fires
of revival will burn II there is sufficient warmth in
Christian hearts to kndle them. God has adapted
His Gospel to the hearts He has made If we fail it
1s because methods not Methodstic or
unbelief forbids the many mighty works. To ac-
compsh this requires devotion of time and faculties
TO the essential ends Of the kingdom. The evils of
our social state cannot be permanently relieved
much less remedied by any abundance Of donat TONS
however liberal. Besides these sympathy souls are
demanded. Even Christ could not save the world by
gifts He could easily have made them infinite. But
He had to give Himsei1. He founded a new order
OF all sorts. which, If perpetuated in the lives of His
followers. will heal all the running of the world
That is what we are here for To achieve this end
Christ; The best our lives are good for is to be
His. If we are wise devoted and faithful we shall
see the knowledge Of our God cover the earth as the
record promises not yet fuiaed for Peniecosts a
ward not only by regular progress merely. but also
by sudden bounds. For long dark hours Of the night