New-York tribune., 1897-08-10

thai there are four things in studying the
Pih,o-.adnit submit commit and transmit. Firs'
alni, rs truth; second. submit 10 its tcachnG'
third commit 1t TO memory. and fourth' .rahS"i'
II II the Christian Iife Is a good thing fer you,
pass It on some one else
Mr. Nocdv told an incident illustrating TINS last
point Riding in a train one day he heard news
hoy calling out his latest books. and among them
WAS one by Colonel 1ngersoll. Mr.. Moody SAID that
he asked the boy 70 take few OF MS DOCKS On
Heaven" and add them to his list. The boy sad
that no one would buy them bu; finally consented
10 try them and went through the car shouing
..Ingcrsol on Hell Moody on Heaven. lngersoH
on Hell Moody on Heaven'i'
FULFILLED PROPHECIES.
The speaker spent some time this morning in dis-
cusslng fulfilled prophecy. Between five hundred
and six hundred O,d Testament prophecies have
been remarkably and literally fulfilled" he said
"and two hundred in regard 70 Jesus Christ alone
Not thing happened 10 the Saviour that was not
prophesied from seventeen hundred 10 four hundred
years before he was born" Prophecies concerning
Babylon Ninevch. Tyre. Jerusalem. Egypt and the
Jews were read and then II shown how they
had been fulhcl one related 10 the threat that
Jerusalem should d, a ploughed field. The mod
ern city is 30 restricted that outside Of the walls
where part od city stood the plough has been
used and when Mr. Moody was in Jerusalem a few
year ago he pluckci ripe grain. which was growing
inside the walls of the city. regarding which the
prophecy written
V. ID David. The Tamil evangelist from India
spoke again this afternoon. He was converted nine
teen years ago through the efforts of his wife. and
has been for eight years preaching the higher Chris
tian life He has been called the Moody OF India II
IA sald that ten thousand persons have been con-
verted under his preaching. Besides what he can
do personally he supports six native evangeliss
pastors who supplement his work. His scheme OF
teaching the life abundant. terms it,
convictions: Calvary representing pardon Morlah
which stands for conservation: Icrmon. Tabor
meaning transngura'ion Piscah. glory-land- ahead
and Zion life more abundant This afternoon
he spoke the third subject. assuming tha, all
OF his hearers had already passed the other two
mountains.
Dr. A. c. Dixon. OF Brooklyn aNo spoke this
"fernoon presenting several characteristics OF the
Christian life get forth in the Sermon the
Mount.
The twlllgh. meeting held In the Auditorium
as a heavy shower fell abou. O'Clock. and in the
evening the Rev DR.. Arthur r. Pierson preached.
Any man who wants 10 score a complete success
on the Norhhcld platform can do so II he will take
the Bible as his theme and discuss II revcrently
and in an interesting manner. The Rev. DR.. Henry
van Dyke Of the Brick Presbvterian Church, iy
Nsw-York captured Mr. Moody by mis- address
here last month "A Chrstiess Bible. What
Is the Bible Without Christi II appears as the
opening article In ''Thc Mortified Echoes" which
reports the several summer conferences under Mr.
Moody's supervision
PRESIDENT BLANCHARD on THE BIBLE
Another captivating address was delivered NJ thr
present meeting the question. "What l. the
Bibc?" by President Charles &. Blanchard of
Wheaton College. H. The speaker sdid In part:
Tho Office Of Theological scminarics used be To
/ teach men what the Bible said but in oar day We
have a very different question raised one which *
vastly important TO us as CHRISTIAN people ana To
tho Christian Church All over the country minis
tion. "Is this book that we call the Bible. the
Bible? or is a part Of II the Bible? What is the
/ ton Is he Bible all Gods word or part Of Il
Gods words and a part mans words? when you
undertake TO answr mat question, II If great
method than II Is that YOU come 10 ~ correct con-
ciuson. There are two methods of answering this
question What is the Bible? The first Is the his
manuscripts they get Of the Bible. ana then
ihcy go 10 Babylon TO Nineveh ana Egypt and
glyphical writings on the tomhs and on the monu-
menis ard then they make up their minds 10
whether or not the Bible is Gods word or the Bbi.
bar, i ist q eioda wora and that IL what W. call 'h..
hi-tori, Al method. Th, other method Of Judgment
IL called literary" and that means that men sit
down and study the styc and The dicion. and that
fhcv undertake get the hisorical points OF View
MS well a. ihry can. and then they guess whether
OF f. is from God. whether II isn't from God. or
whether a purt f., from God or a part from some
other qnar,er nai b tnr IternTg or c'n)ec'"r"'
Now that those two methods are before you, !
want 10 give you some iyc characterlstics OF Il
very proper. tue mcthod Of Biblical study. truc
and Judgment as 10 M. gieai question MAJ y
the bible? Tho first Of these rules Is this, Any
true method Of Bible suay VII be very & mex ana ID
defective at the start n you Will turn 10 Psalms