The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-11-18
THE CONFERENCE OPENED
MEETINGS HELD AT CALVARY BAP-
 HIST CHURCH YESTERDAY.

eniug of spiritual life began it's work With services in the morning, afternoon and evening.
 These meetings are to be continued for four days, the last meeting being on Friday evening. Speakers secured for the various meetings include min isters and lay workers from New Ha- ven and also well known celrgymen and workers from other places.
 At the morning service yesterday. which opened at 10 o'clock. the attend ance was small, about seventy-five be- ing present. ..
 Rev. F. M. Poteat, pastor of the Cal vary church, called the session to or der, welcomed the delegates to the church and introduced S. H. Street, who presided.
 Rev. F. A. M Brown of the Presby- terian church of this city spoke on Meditation upon the Divine Name and Prayer"
 '"The world of to-day" said MT. ioi O"I, 10 SAOWdlllSa ut SooAiiSt NAhS church. They demand that we show our authority by power that is direct. Those who are crude lay at the doors of tha church the Armenian massacres of this time. But that is childish.
 ''The need of the church to-day is to use I am that I am more in a divine way and to preach that throughout the world"
 Rev. w Rauschienhusch of New York spoke on Revelation" He said in part: That the people all over the earth should be seeking some religion is a serious and pathetic fact. Into this blindness of ours God has preached down and given us the truth. l think the Bible only a secondary sense of revelation The first is that of personal contact between man and God.
 "If Christianity is the revelation of a book, as some say, it would be only for the classes. It is not, however; it is the relevation of a man."
 "Missions" was the topic discussed by Rev. F. M Ellis, D. D., of Brook lyn, N. Y. He said:
 Twenty centuries have underscored the remark of Christ, Go ye unto all parts and preach the gospel The question is not how to save the heath en; it is how to save Christendom. Save the heather and Christendom will be saved.
 ''The work of discipling all nations is the work of the church. It is God AL mighty's test.
 'It. seems to me many times that the great trouble of the churches of to-day is disobedience God says to go out and we stay How can we expect great blessings when we are neglecting Christ's commissions"
 About two hundred were present at the afternoon session, at which E, s. Swift presided The meeting was open ed with singing My Faith Looks Up to Thee"
 Rev MT. Mason conducted the ser vice of meditation and prayer, which was devoted to scripture reading and prayer.
 Mrs. F. M. Whittemore of the Door of Hope mission in New York spoke on the topic "The Prayer of Life" She spoke in the fervid and sincere style characteristic of her, and illustrated her subject with illustrations of how prayer had proved efficacious in the Door of Hope mission work. In an swer to prayer $50,000 had been raised in the last few months for the purpose of carrying on the Door of Hope.
 A solo was sung by MT. Lawrence B. Greenwood, gospel soloist, of West Somerville, Mass, after which the clos ing address of the afternoon session I,xy Dow Tn,ct D.. of New York, who spoke on the topic '"The King and His Kingdom John xviii, 36
 He spoke of the many references that Christ made to His kingdom during His mission on earth. He not only did not deny His kingship, but He claimed it. His mission here on earth was to establish that kingdom, and it is the work that He left for His church to carry out to completion.
 THE EVENING MEETING.
 The chief feature of the session last evening was the address by Rev. Dr. Josiah Strong of New York, secretary of the Evangelical Alliance for the United States" on "The Christianiza- tion of Money" Dr. Strong Is the au- thor or 1DuI OCuulIy anu IDG 4NGW Era and Is most able speaker.
 Among other things last evening he spoke of the proper use of wealth. He mentioned the case of the woman in Chicago who paid $500 for baby dress, and spoke of the good which might have been done with that money had the lady purchased one hundred babies dresses at $5 each and given them to poor families, or if she had furnished one hundred men with five days work each.
 Dr. Strong then spoke of the Idle rich, seying, however. that many rich people work more hours day than their employees "The only way" said Dr. Strong, for the idle rich to make themselves right with God is to get a Christian conception of their wealth. In the last campaign the great ques- tion was not between gold and silver The great factor in the campaign was the discontent of the people arising from their increased intelligence and their attendant increased wants. This was the first time that popular discon- tent was organized in this country. The silver question may have been set tied in the campaign, but this popular discontent will rise up again and com bine on some great issue, and then it will not be so easily overcome.
 Wealth is increasing with increas- ing knowledge, but wealth is not dis tributed. There is no way for it to be distributed except for men to Chris