New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-08-14
AT THE BIBLE CONFERENCE.
MR. MOODYS SUMMER GUESTS in DEAD
EARNEST.
EFFORTS THAT HAVE BEEN MADE TO ENFORCE
ONE LEssoN-THE POWER or THE HOLY
sPIRrT-A SERMON on cHRIsTs
SECOND CONF,
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Fast Mortified. Mass. Aug. B-"This Is my
fourth summer In Mortified. and at last nave re-
ceiyed what have been coming for. am ready 10
90 home now" The speaker was presbyterian
CLERGYMAN formerly "A New-York city pastor
though no longer there. What he had secureu at
this conference that he had failed TO get al 'o'e
held in former years he did not say, out IL 10 io'
difficult TO imagine. For two weeks VIII" 49,
fulness born of unhnching devotion to pr'hcip'e
which Is considered of the utmo St importance Ill
life and with "A plainness of speech Una, ie''s ~
criticism and takes nothing for granted the speak
ers at the present conference nave he'o '"e 10" sc
audiences I'm the main to this one theme-'he III
dwelling of the Holy Spirit.
Mr. Moody fears that this great cohie'e"'e
larger than any of the thirty or more mat nave
been held here I'm the last fifteen years ana eA'hu
inc over a longer period than any Of its predeces
sors may end in the people going back 10 their
churches in city and country rejoicing III o"e soou
time that they have had. and yet carrying no fho'e
mower for service with them than they nave eain'u
in former years. Yet it must be- said 'ha' ''e
neop,e here are in dead earnest. Nearly thou-
sand persons gather at the morning prayer meet
inc held before breakfast A sense of expectancy
fills the Auditorium Bibles and notebooks lie on
the laps of at least half of the 1900 or more people
ga thcrcd TO hear the searching dlscou'SeS ny INC
English preachers, DIR. Meyer and MT Sel"vh' one
a BAPTIST minister filling one of the leading Con
a Church of England clergyman whose ecclesiasu-
cal affiliations would never be surmsed by sermon
prayc..
MR. MOODY'S DEEP CONCERN.
Mr. Moody breaches only occasionally but he
nravs at nearly every service. ie bears upon his
great heart the burden of this conference as he
has apparently borne that of no other what can
be done he asks. to rouse Christians to sense oil
their responsibility to God for the 100000 non
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tuition in the country alarms him
The chasm between the churches and the work
ing people in the cities appalls him lie Is not
pessimisi. is he blind. lie has his mana on the
religious pulse OF the country as fe" men nave
He sees he says a church maintained Tor the
benefit of the few. and It's members INDIFFERENT re-
gardng the fate of the many. He sees church cor
noratjons and Christian people owning tenement
houses in the cities in which he would be ashamed
to place his cattle. In his vigorous Ehghsh ne
said to a group of friends: MY hogs nave better
accommodations than some of the people DO IN
New-York and the Church of Christ STANDS idiy
by apparently willing that such conditions should
exist DO you wonder that the WI hii's"" ~
his back on the church,?
Publicly and privately, Mr.. Moody mas only one
remedy The ministers must be hieu WIN ''e
Holy Spirit. When their own hearts are ana'ne
they will go back to their churches ana p'eae"
such sermons and live such lives that their
cbrrcbes will also be set on fire. When church
r,ernhers feel the power of Christ in them they VIII
he as anxious for the salvation Of their teio"-meh
as they are for their own salvation, ana 'hey VIII
not rest satisfied let their brethren exist III hs
cradle dark unsanitary houses while they owen III
tbeir beautiful homes nor will they be content to
worship God in their finely appointed chu'cneS
until they have given the Oospel u ''io'e WI" -
day are the noh-churchgoers
ue believes that habitabe tenemeht-houSes,
proper church facilities and sufficient hummer u
missionaries and church workers 10 carry 'ne "o'-
mel 10 every home in this country "ou'u 'oi'o" 'e
haptisnn of the Church OF Christ with the spirit vi
cIr,st I'm, first of all the preachers must be
reached Like priest. like people mere d. III
,..rvthinu he says Fill the ministry OF America
;,h the shirt Of the men who have accepted<the
teaching of the deeper spiritual life, ana the AMIR
,can nuIpit will be a power in this country Such
ss il has not been for forty years
THE KEsWICK TEACHING.
H. ,os hefore him the example of the men In
r,,.nd and Scotland and elsewhere IN rr'a'
britain whose lives and preaching nave w
transformed and whose churches nave 0e ~
since they accepted the keswlck teac"l"s'
Never this morning explained again what 'na'
s,,,n &c ua was answering objections which
n,o ,naLe 70 accepting this doctrine In
word II If to get the pivot OF ones Ire oh""seu
,bot Il shall rest upon Christ and not upon Se'i
He does not ask in this teachiis ~ ooep
nurity but the pure Christ not mummy ou' '''e
h,tIa christ. not sanctifcation, but the molly
christ. mot II whatever that might be- but He
that is, Christ. A.,
sneakins more specifically, he said that as the
Holy Shirt regenerates the unbeever ana Reveals
Christ 10 him, the spirit OF COO "orA"s ~ ''e
heart of the believer, may bring about u's''hc'
axnerience producing purity within ana power
vithout This latter change he terms the anoiht-
ing for service the milling OF the spirit vi 'no
endowment of the Holy Ghost.
NINE STUMBLING BLOCKS.
He then gave nine reasons why Christians who
were willing to have this distinct experience did
no, have II and suggested remedies These are
the reasons;
| First-You may not have dealt with the giver.
| Christ. And ye are complete in Him which Is
| II. TO- The soul must have personal uahsdcuoh
second~You may be seeking the Holy Ghost from
many motives bnt his lPaks M OF tae spfE or
T h HON 'ey G i%st %a not YET given
Jesus s' Was not yet elorined" vii, 49, You
YOU may achieve notorety thereby. The only mo,
tive warranted Is that you may glorlfy thrlsl anu
about your home duties you may have an . oppor-
tunity of living this blessed life. Are you willing
10 have that motive with these possibilities? I
Third-Perhaps you are not fully ceansed
and hypocrisy and envies and All evil speakings
as newborn babes. desire the sincere mix or ne
Word that ye may grow thereby"-l Peter II. H.
You must cleanse yourselves up to the limit OF
/ your light or you must be willing that Christ
| should Cleanse you, which is the same thing. II
you are not willing cleanse yourselves of self
| Indulgence the Holy Spirit cannot I'LL you You
/ cannot expect the Holy Ghost TO tenant the sou
! of II man who smokes for self-indulgence. nor can
1 he mi who II always eating.
/ Fourth-You may have the intellectual knowledge
but are not willing to pay the price. And II any
! man think that he knoweth anything he knoweth
nothing yet as he ought 10 know Cor
4 inthians. viii. 2 Are you willing to pay the price
Barnabas was willing but 1T cost him his estate
stephen was willing but it cost him his life Sau
OF TaIsus willing, but 1t cost him countless
prosecutions and martyrdom at the last. 81 count
/ AN things but los. for the excelency Of the know
edge OF Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom suf
fered the loss Of all things and DO count them but
/ dung that / may win Christ Philippians ILL., \.
/ Fifth-You have sought. you say, but II didn
-Iesrs? No Holy Spirit? No Bible? No. Tn,
teaching? No II is you who didn't last. "Ye die