The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-05

was dealt with in a manner that further
ennobled them in the hearts of the Meth
cdists. The closing thoughts of the ad-
dress were in a lighter vein, and the au-
. dience was kept in constant amusement
by the sallies that were falling repeatedly
from the speaker in the inimitable style
OF the successful humorist.
DR.. Steele said that the real point in the
modern progress of the world is not found
in Waterloo, but in the little chapel in
London, where John Wesley first saw the
light. Wesley, he said, was a greater
man than Wellington, as the great moral
deeds of the former find no equality, in
their eternity, TO those that were accom-
plished by the great soldier. The great
system of Methodism that has followed as
a result of Wesley's work will be more
lasting that even the history of the bat
ties won by the victor of Waterloo.
The pioneers of Methodism, DR.. Steele
said, are the true heroes of their age Not
he said, according to the worlds estimate
of greatness, but one, not blinded by the
glare of what the world calls glory, re-
garding their careers will be convinced
that the real heroes of earth are those
who fight the moral battles. Their devo-
ton, their intrepidity, their faith in the
reality of things made them heroic and
entitled them to the admiration of the
world. Alexander the Great was said to
have lain upon his couch with Homer's
Had under his head in order to catch in
spiration from the verse of the great poet
and win victories as grand as those of
which he sang; but a greater inspiration,
DIR. Steele said, can be caught from the
history of the battles that have been
fought by the pioneers, battles grander
than those that were waged around the
walls of Troy.
Those pioneers were men from the hum
bier walks of life, and in that, the speaker
oil thor CHI fl.a -, sDf
their apostolic succession. for it was to
the lowly that the coming of the Lord
was announced, and it was by them that
his work was undertaken. God has
chosen the poor of this world to carry
on His Kingdom" Amen" said
some of the preachers, all
of whom had up to that time maintain
ed silence, refraining for an unusual
while from the utterance of the commend
atory word. well l think il Is time"
said DR.. Steele. thereby causing a laugh.
He did not know that the preachers had
been so enraptured by the beauty of the
address that they had not been able TO
give thought to anything else. Method
ism is in church for the masses of the
people. 1t knows nothing of classes. 1t
knows no aristocracy but the aristocracy
of character. II breaches the same gos-
pei to the rich man and to the poor man,
and it raises all upwards to the region of
eternal life. God grant that the time may
never come when its doors viii be closed
upon the Vilest of the vile when he wants
to come to the light of the world"
DR.. Steele does not think the tenets of
the church are preserved in all their pris-
tine glory. He said that the development
of the idea of the pastorate has tended in
many instances to surpass the evangelstic
feeling so that there has arisen a sort of
a class of pastors and a class of evange-
lists The old pioneers We're evangeists.
They held revivals and they turned things
up side down. If they did not turn things
upside down, they were themselves turned
upside out. And the preachers of to-day
should be turned out if they do not hold
revivals and work as did those of old for
the salvation of souls" Many of the older
preachers were seen to nod concurrence
with this sentiment, one old gentleman
giving it his audible acquiescence from
time to time.
A graphic description of the trials that
the early preachers underwent in their
journeyings from place to place to do their
preaching was given. DR.. Steele said that
in view of these great difficulties that it
was not TO be wondered at that they had
wavered. for waver they did and il needed
the Caesar of his time, the young English
man, the born leader Of men, the elder
Pitt in the cabinet and Napoleon in the
field, Francis Asbury, to make Methodism