The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-12
SERVICES AT BETHANY
CAMPERS ARE FINDING DELIGHT IN
THE PERFECT SUMMER WEATHER.
Lecture on Home INSTRUMENTATION
OF Church Extension Taken Up
Other Discourses.


was to have taken place yesterday but a
secret meeting was held in the afternoon,
at which it was decided to postpone the
election until some future time 1t may
take place before the season closes and
may not until October The men now in
office will hold their positions until the cleo
ton has been held. There has been some
dlscord among the members of the assem-
bly,, but President Carpenter said the meet
ing held yesterday was perfectly harmo-
NOUS. DIR. Jabez Hall, of Virginia, whom
the assembly has been anxious to secure for
the deanship of Butler College was at the
park yesterday and said that he was much
pleased with the prospects. He intimated
that he would accept the position. One
thousand five hundred dollars had to be
secured and already 81, 100 has been pledged,
so that it is very probable he will have
the chair.
AT o'clock DR. Moore spoke on the sub
ject, '"Ihe Preachers Message to the
Church" He said in part This compre-
hensive message consists in the all things
which the minister was to teach. He was
to go and disciple the nation and after
baptizing them he was instructed by the
Master to teach the all things which He
commanded. The New Testament makes a
N'4seAAlCNACAi
preaching. The two functions might be and
were often performed by one person. Any
way the preacher becomes ateacher when he
begins to deliver the message to the church.
Hence expOsitory preaching is absolutely eS-
sential to the development of the spiritual
life in the churches. Topical preaching is
always a sign of spiritual weakness in the
ministry of any man. Pauls instruction to
Timothy carries WIN it the preachers true
message to the church, which IS preach
the word
Included in this message is the plan for
a broader fellowship. This is not the day
of narrOWness and no one can force human
souls now into a theological Chinese shoe.
There must be breadth and the preachers
message to the church must have an ex-
panSiVe power. The word fellowship must
have a broader Specification than that which
confines it to q participation in the Lords
supper. 1t really embraces every phase OF
the Christians life
"A third point included in the preachers
message to the church is fuller indwell-
ing of the Holy Spirit. This is the crying
need of the hour. Many men have the truth,
but they have not The spirit of truth. The
first by itself makes men contentious mere
dSputantS who often have not the slightest
manifestation of spirituality in anything
they say or do. And yet if a man have not
the spirit of Christ he is none of His Dis
cipe preachers have been most earnest in
cOntending for a par of Peters answer to
''They must now contend for the whole
of that answer. They must not stop short
Of the gift of the Holy Spirit 1t is greatly
to be feared that some have lost sight of
this part of Peter S response, while they
have been contending for the place which
baptism occupies in the plan of salvation.
b. l.. Smith, president of the day, spoke
on home missions at 10 o'clock, after which
the assembly lecture was given by A. Nc
Lean, of Cincinnati, who delivered lengthy
address on .Gonstan,inople;, or the Arme-
mans and MohammedanS. With charts
and maps Mr.. Mclean indicated the geo
graphical location of the scenes of his dis
course; he first gave an historical account
of ConstantinOple and gave a vivid descr1p-
ton of the Church of st. Sophia, which has
been called d terrestrial paradise, the second
armament the ark of the cherubim, the
throne of the glory of Cod the marvel of
the earth, the largest temple in the world
after st Peters The city consists of three
main divisions; STEAMBOAT in Pera Gaiat9 IN
Europe and Scutara in Asia. Six hundred
years before the birth of Christ a company
of Greeks from Megara settled upon the
present site of COnstantinOpe and called
their location Byzantium. 1t was afterwards
besieged and burnt bv the Romans. 1t was
rebuilt and named Antonio, but in 328, A.
d. Constantine took the city, doubled its
size, built wall around it, enriched 1t and
gave it the name of COnstantnople. The
speaker then gave a comprehensive account
of the life of the Turk in all his phases of
Intellectual, social, moral, political, physl-
cal Woman is taught that she has no soul.
All the rich are pOlygamists: There are six
thousand servants i'll the palace of the Sui
tan twelve hundred of whom are women.
Their religion rules all progress. There
of speech. Whatever is done must be in
praise one paper speaks thus of the Sui
tan: The finest pearl of the age and the
esteemed center of the universe; at whose
grand portals stand the camels OF justice
and mercy; and TO whom the eyes OF the
kings and the people of the West have been
drawn; the rulers there finding an example
of political proweSS and the classes model
Of mercy and kindness; our Lord and Mas
ter the Sultan of two shores and the high
king of the two seas; the crown of ages and
the pride Of all countries. the greatest OF
all khalifs; the shadow Of God on earth
the successor of the apostles of the Lord OF
the universe; the victorious conqueror sui
tan, Abdul Hamid Khan. May God protect
his kingdom and place his glory ABOVE th ne
the world with the goodness which proceeds
from his holy Majesty's good intentions.
The Turks are a debased people, whose
pomp and power is gone. The lecturer then
gave a conclusive account of Armenia and
its history, people and customs. He closed
by giving a detailed statement of the work
of the missionaries in these countries. He
said Lord Shaftesbury spoke OF the Amer-
can missionaries in Turkey. as a comblna-
ton of piety and common sense, and that
when the crisis came and the Turk power
was broken then the good work OF the mis-
siOnaries would appear.
In the afternoon church extension was
taken up and thoroughly discussed by
Rev. George Darsle, Of frankfort Ky. who
argued that if the Christian Church wished
to GO any pronounced good it must extend
it's territory in every direction. He gave
figures showing what other churches had
done in the way Of extension and said that
there were two thousand and four hundred
unhOused congregations in the Christian
Church.
c. c. Smith closed the afternoons discus
sion by an address on Negro Evangelical
ton" Mr.. Smith is an earnest speaker and
has given a lifetime to the work of edu-
eating the negro and is an authority on the
subject His remarks were listened to with
much interest. He told of the work of the
Louisville school and of the progress of
Booker T. WashingtOn's college in Alabama
and gave some striking examples of the
results of educating the coOred race. He
contrasted their enslsVed condition Before
the civil war with their condition of to-day
and said that they as a race were unedu-
Gated and unable TO cope with the practical
problems that must be solved by free
people Nor can they be important factors
in the Nations history until the shackles Of
ignorance are broken.
In the evening a missionary symposium
was held in the tabernacle conducted by
3. L. Smith.
To-day is the foreign missionary session
and an elaborate programme has been pre-
pared In the evening Mr.. Mclean will give
an address on our Missions and MISSION
aries" which will be illustrated by stereop-
ticon views by Earle W1lehey.
"MESsIAH" GIVEN AT WINONA.
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