The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-08-10
THE WORK OF AETHOD|SM
BY FAITH IT HAS ACCOMPLISHED
MANY WONDERS.
Course of Religious Movements-Some
Interesting History--Closes With
Earnest ENhortation.

At the First Methodist church last
night Rev. II. W. Peck preached IA
missionary sermon. His text was Mark
1920 And they went forth and
preached everywhere, the Lord work
ing with them, and confirming the
word with signs following"
Mr.. Peck drew attention to four
points as illustrating the work of all
great worldwide revivals.
/. That the men doing the work
must be sent by God.
2. This message is the simple story
of Christ crucifed the power of God
with salvation"
3. The Lord is always with such
men and such message.
4. That genuine Christian work al
ways has the signs following"
The speaker referred to the humble
origin of the APOSTLES and the appar-
ent impossibilty of their being able
to win the world for Christianity
Their success came from the presence
within them of the Spirit of Jesus
Christ and their total surrender of
themselves to the work and their tire
less zeal for souls.
This great revival reached it's climax
about 1926 \. d., when Constantine,
the Roman Emperor, became Chris
tian. Then religion began to decline
until the time of Wickliffe, Huss,
Luther, Calvin, Knox. There was then
Il Wturn to Bible standards and Bibli
cal truths. The Just shall live by
faith" was the watchword of the Re
formation.
Mr.. Peck then referred to the relig-
ious life of America and England,
about the beginning of the Eighteenth
century, pointing out the debased nor
al condition of the great mass of the
people at that time. He briefly
sketched the home and early life of
John and Charles Wesley and White
field the three great apostles of
Methodsm.
They learned the simple story of
classification by faith" from humble
followers of John Huss. and once
aroused themselves, began to preach
Christ in the highways and by ways"
! in the great city or to tens of thou
sands of grimy GOLFERS. down whose
! 10 nf bp1
white channels through the Crime of
! the coal pits Mr.. Peck then read
| from the historian Green, in his his
| tory of England, who declares that
most of the great humane movements
of America and England had their or
| igin in the great Methodist revival.
church that they were part of this
great forward movement and upon
them rested part of the responsibility.
He closed by giving them some sta
tistics upon the growth of Method
ism in the world.
The Wesleys and Whitfield began
| tHtlI Nolh 100 years ago. follict lll't,
time, 1889, the Methodists have aver
aged to build church for every day
of the 157 years and have over $4,000
churches TO spare. Under the Meth
odist standard God has raised up an
army at the present time numbering
10000 ministers, 100000 local preach.
ers, 100000 members. 2j,00O.000 adj.
herents, 100000 Sunday school teach
ers, 100000 Sunday school scholars
while in the last seven years in Amer
lea and Canada there has grown III
10000 chapters of the Epworth League
with membership of over 1,350,000.
The speaker closed by reminding his
audience that while they should re-
joice in the showers of blessings GOD
has bestowed upon the world through
the Methodists, that il should cause
them also to rejoice in the grand work
done by other churches and never
preach Methodism instead of Christ.