The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-03-10
Resolves a Great Impetus From
the Conference.
DR.. LAMBETHs POWER
He Won All Hearts in Ralelgh
by His Earnestness.
CONSIDERATION ANo SCHOLAR
Are Combined in Him--The Interesting
Sermons by Rev. Mr.. CollYer
and Talks by His
Mifa

WIFE,
n was a day of strengthening, OF
,,nliftino. Of conservation to all Chris
tians who attended the services in the
interest of missions held in the Meth
odist churches on Sunday. 1t was IN
truth. to those who attended and re-
ceiped the Word in honest hearts,
Sabbath day journey to better living
and nobler thinking.
The Missionary Conference proper
which had been in session Friday ana
Saturday adjourned Saturday after
noon. and the delegates had all return
ed to their homes. Rev. DR.. Lambeth,
Missionary Secretary Of the Southern
Methodist church and Rev. Mr., Collyer
and wife, missionaries of China, re-
manned in Raleigh to conduct services
on the Sabbath.
DIR. Lambeth breaches at hdenfon
street church morning and night
great helpful and thoughtful sermons
they were. He is a speaker OF rare
powers. lie apparently has none OF
the marked gifts that we associate
with eloquence. His presence is not
that of the orator, but the student.
When he begins there is quietness,
and reserve force, a simplicity, a hid
ing-of-self, so to speak, that claims
attention, but that gives no mixing OF
the power in the man. Concise and
logical, given rather much TO a min
uteness of a logician. But before he
has finished you have felt that you
have come III contact with a man of
power, and man who has exercised
that power in impressing his conyic-
tions of duty upon his hearers. The
secret of the magnetism is not in his
kindly eye and modest air, though
these are prepossessing, but not lndl-
cative so much of mental and moral
power as of gentleness and kindness.
But after YOU have heard him you
realize that You are listening to man
who knows perfectly what he is talk
ing about, and who believes all that he
saws. More than that; Il man who has
been i'm the homes of heathendom;
who has, in his capacity as physi-
clan, healed the sick; as preacher, has
carried them the Word of Life; as q
man. has entered into their trials, sui
ferings, and blunted aspirations, and
sympathized with them, and sought TO
show them the way, the Truth and
Life. He is thoroughly consecrated to
his work, and seems to have his mission
SO ingrained that it is more than part
Of his life-it is his life. There is
lucidity of expression, coupled with
seriousness and a perfect faith, that
never fails TO attract and charm.
He is q converter of all who doubt
the usefulness and effectiveness of for
eign missions, not by argument or per-
suasion, but by recital of fact and the
holding up of high ideals, and inculcat-
in1 noble purposes. His sermon, or
address, on Sunday night was the cii-
max Of his numerous talks and SER
mons. for he is so full of information
and 50 charming in fact that he can
talk without limit with interest and
profit. There were few dry eyes in
the church Sunday night. There was
ia aDpeal. no word-painting, no
ssDumpinp'' for tears--just a clear and
plain recital of conditions i'll China,
stories Of individual native christians
and their trials, and examples OF their
faith in God. II has been many years
since the people of Raleigh entertained
a man who made so profound an inn
preston for good upon all that came
under his ministrations.
The sermons and addresses of Rev.
Mr.. Collyer, who, with his wife, made
an open door 10 the missionaries IN
China. were full Of interest and profit.
An EngIishman by birth, he has given
his life to the mission cause, and more
than once in the first years Of his mis-
sionary career was stoned in China
by mobs. His experience which he
related abounded in incidents and adj
venture, calling for sacrifice and self
denial. His talk ut Central Methodist
church Sunday morning, his address
Sunday afternoon, and his tall at the
Y.M. G. A. Sunday afternoon attested
that he is abundant in labor, ferment
In spirit; and their character showed
his fitness to teach and TO instruct. The
address of his wife 10 the women sat
urday afternoon has been highly prais-
ed. for its simplicity, sweetness and
fulness of interesting incident. The
women of the city who take deep In
terest in missionary effort We're great
Nv pleased and encouraged in the good
work by her presence and her counsel.