The herald., 1896-02-29
The Morning, Afternoon and
Evening Sessions
BEAR EVIDENCE OF INTENSE ZEAL
Admirable Oratory Was the Feature OF
Yesterdays Meetings
The Services Conducted by Chicago, st.
Louis and Local Dlvines
Seasons Of Meditation, Impressive Periods Of
Self-Study, Devotional Singing and Sup.
plication, Fill Out f1ost Satisfactory
Day = The Report In Pull

The second day of the Christian Work
ers' convention, which has taken the char
acter of a great revival, opened at Simpson
tabernacle yesterday morning at 9 o'clock
with even larger gathering than that of
the day before. By IL o'clock the audi
torium and main gallery were completely
filled, and it was borne in on all that the
evening service would witness even a
greater crush than that of the evening be-
fore. Steps we're taken in the morning to
make provision for a duplicate meeting at
the First Congregational church. The
chief lights of yesterdays services were
DIR. Alexander Patterson of Chicago, en-
gagged for the last fifteen years in evangel-
istic work; DR.. j. II. Brookes of St. Louis,
and those of local distinction Rev. Hency
Kingman, Joseph H. Smith and Rev. T. w.
Eising.
MORNING SESSION
The first half hour of the morning ses.
sion was made season of meditation
in impressive services of self-study,
devotional singing and prayer. Ma
jor Hardie led the exercises, and Mr..
George Stebbins conducted the music.
The subject of the mornings trend of
presentation was The Relation of the
Worker to the Word, the different bearings
being the adaptation of the word to the in
ner life, it's application to ministerial work
and it's position today as an unbroken
sword.
Joseph H. Smith, who is at present en-
was the first speaker, taking the attitude
of the orthodox school, that the Bible was
all that Christians needed to swear by and
that it needed no dressing up of frills. The
subject was: The Word for Our Inner Life
How to Study 1t. He said in part:
old example to bring men to life. The re-
lation of the word to inner life comes
through regeneration. Regeneration is the
inception of life. 1t is born of the word,
filled with the word, developed and ex-
panded through the word, taught for life
and taught for service.
81 cannot lay down any iron-clad rules
for the study of the word. would merely
suggest few general principles. Study it
in due respect for the spiritual life. But
be certain you have the Scripture. 1t is
easy to mistake church activity and
Christian work for spirituality. Make sure
you have the Scripture. Many have &C.
clesastical life. Many have sectarian life.
Neither is spiritual. Some have minister
ial life which is not spiritual. Neither is
social life in the church.
Be sure you have the hidden life.
Crafty and cultivate the appetite for the
meat of the word. Take no substitute for
the common blessed word of life. Come
to it for the precept, precedence, promise,
prayer and praise. Precept is necessary
for admonition, precedence for example,
promise for hope, prayer to hold you up
and praise as a safety-valve. Retain the
holy spirit ungrieved and unquenched. The
word is the letter of the holy spirit. If
you neglect the letter you grieve the spirit.
Do not vitiate it with the literature built I'D
nd IL hut kopr tho xunr1 IF Itfo hrr
ing with holy purpose and an unquench-
able fire.
After the address which in this brief
synopsis given fails to show its clearness,
fine diction, or the impression of the
speaker, the congregation arose, uniting
in singing Wonderful Words of Love.
Messrs. Sankey and Stebbns led the song
and followed with duet, There Is a Green
Hill Far Away.
DR.. Alexander Patterson, tho evangelist,
Of Chicago, next addressed the meeting on
The Word for Our Work; How to Use 1t.
DIR. Patterson in his fifteen years of prac.
tical work presented the subject in very
plain, common-sense and forcible way. He
had a very easy, natural delivery and, like
all of the conventions speakers thus far,
spoke eXtemporaneously. He first dwelt
on the qualifications of preacher as a
spiritual guide, and later on the manner
they should be fitted to the guidance of his
flock. He said: The spiritual adviser is
convalescent set to wait on the sick; the
man escaped from the burning building to
save those who are imperiled. he needs
every weapon of scripture for the saving of
souls. A man who does not believe that
the book is the Word of God has no busi-
ness to preach Unless the worker has
confidence in it he cannot 60 forth with
success. .
Do not send the sinner unguided to the
Word. You might as we'll send the sick
man to help himself at the apothec Ary.
We must open the Word to him. We must
realize the exact condition of the man we
are dealing with and his nece essities. There
is great deal said of the nobility of hui
man nature, but the Word of God teaches
us the depravity of human nature. Matt
Pinkerton, chief of the detective agency of
the United States, made the statement 10
delegation of 100 ministers in Chicago
that the homicidal Impulse exists in every
human heart, and that not one could look
in his own heart and deny it.
Concluding his address with the thread
OF the morning, DIR. Patterson made the
closing remark that the book of life was
broad: 1t took in all people. That the
parable OF the prodigal son, as An instance,
could be understood in China and Africa,
in any cline and by any individual, as we'll
as here. he also spoke of the progress of
the Word in spite of all opposition, giving
many texts that testified to the reasons.
After another slight variation in the exer-
CiSeS Witti lHo iiItorSpeTSlOu OF music, Dr.
Reed of the First Baptist church offered
prayer. DR.. j. II. Brookes followed, pick
ing up his subject of the evening before on
The Unbroken Sword, instead of the one
announced on the program, Gods Plan of
the Ages, which will be given this after
noon.
DR.. Brookes must impress the most skep-
tical with his earnestness in tine stand he
makes for the Bible as an inspired word in
the face of all that has been said and writ
ten to the contrary. His earnestness in his
convictions is evidenced in what is appar-
ent to everyone-that he must have spent
many years of his life in the study of the
Scriptures. No one can think otherwise.
He shows his acquaintance with it in the
manner of giving out text after text, Old
Testament or New, without notes or guide
of any kind, with number of chapter and
verse. He seems to know the Bible by
heart
Ia speaking of the Scriptures, he said:
"The Holy Ghost, through the Apostle
Paul as the amanueisis of the Holy Spirit,
says: Take the sword of the Spirit, which
10 the word of God.' am an old man now,