The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-11-21
THE CONFERENCE CLOSED
LAST SESSION YESTERDAY AT CAL- VARY BAPTIST CHURCH.

 Eloquent Address by Rev. Dr. More house--Meetings Close With Devotional Service.
 There was about the usual attend ance at the closing sessions of the con- ference for Bible study and the deep ening of spiritual life at the Calvary Baptist church yesterday.
 William II. Douglass presided at the morning session, and addresses were made by the Rev. F. R. Luckey on Emmanuel" Rev. Cornelius Woelf- kin of Brooklyn on "The Indwelling Spirit" and Rev. Frank Dixon of Hart ford on Twin One"
 F. w. Pardee presided at the after noon session. which opened at 2:S0 with the usual service of prayer and medita- tion led by Rev. D. N. Griffin, who spoke on the topic "Paraclete." "The Holy Spirit has come as an admins trator to carry on the work which Jesus began in the world The office of the Holy Spirit is to reprove the world of sin, and righteousness and of judg
 
 Jesus promise is that the Holy Spirit will assure us of things which He had spoken, even if it be years after He spoke them.
 The Holy Spirit bears witness to our adoption as sons and daughters of God.
 'The Holy Spirit comes as a special gift to believers, and all Christians have Him in part, though all do not have Him in His fullness"
 He was followed by Rev. F. W. c. Meyer, who spoke on "The lnterpre- ter" Spiritual truths are obtained f,son God, and it takes a spiritual ca pacity to experience them. An inter prerA of the divine force must be in the path of least resistance. He must be, borrowing a figure from electricity, good conductor. Not one-tenth of our income belongs to God but ten-tenths. Not one-seventh of our time, but sev- en-sevenths.
 .sThe Protestants of the Reformation went to purer source for their relig ious life than the people of the middle ages.''
 Rev. Dr. H. L. Warehouse of New York spoke on North America for Christ" He spoke in part as follows: North America for Christ? It is high ideal, but it is high ideals that Christianity aspires to reach. It has for its Ideals the bringing about of the time when the saloon and slums and all sin shall be no more, from one extreme to the other of this broad continent. When the will of the Prince of Peace shall be done on earth as 1t is in heav- en- Do you say such an ideal is i'm possible?
 .The idea uppermost in the minds of the early discoverers and settlers of this continent was that is should be a continent for Christ. That was the ideal that inspired Columbus at San Salvador, Cortez in Mexico, Cortier in Canada, besides the Pilgrims, the Hugenots and others of the first set tiers.
 ''It is only about 100 years since spir- itual Christianity has had perfect lib- erty to carry on it's great work on this continent.
 ''In that time the American type of Evangelical Christianity has made magnificent progress in spite of the great hindrances which it has had to contend with. Tt is probable to-day, however, that out of a total population of S7,000, 900 on this continent not more than 10,090,- 000 can be classed as real, sincere spir- itual Christians of whom about one third are Baptists. Mere numbers do not count however. Evangelical Chris tianity has modified the opinion of other churches in the past hundred years; has made many friends outside it's own churches, and made it's inf1u ence and power more widely felt than ever before. There remains still much work to do, and there are many and great difficulties which hinder it's ad- vancement to-day. Among the evils which it has to meet are Roman Ca tholicism, wonderfully organized; skepticism, a satanic Sunday press, popular amusements of most evil char acter the baser elements of great cities everywhere ready to break down all law and government and threatening the very foundation of our government Then the abuse of wealth is very great, and the amount spent for missions and charitable work is out of all propor- tions to other expenditures
 "AIl these things render it necessary that Evangelical Christianity should be active and alert in the work of bringing the continent to Christ"
 The evening session was presided over by Rev. Newman Smyth. and was addressed by Rev. w. F. Backman, Ph. D., on the topic, Alpha and Omega and by Rev. Dr. w. L. Phillips, on the topic, "The Church at Sardis."
 The conference was closed with service for Christian consecration and prayer for the fullness of the spirit
 Although the attendance at the meet ing of the conference has not been large, those who have attended have been greatly helped and strengthened.