The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-30

Rev. e. F. Stroeter's Address to the
Conference.


The second ANNUAL Bible conference
held under the auspices of the Bible
conference committee of the North
west convened yesterday morning in
the Plymouth Congregational church.
The conference will continue in session
until Wednesday evening, when final
adjournment will be taken. The serv-
ices of the conference yesterday were
pronounced afsuccess by all those who
attended, both from a point of attend
ance and the excellent programme car
ried out Four addresses were made
during the day on the study of the
Bible as viewed by different author
tiles. Interspread with the sermons
were services of song. There was
quite a sprinkling of out of town mem
bers of the conference present at all
of the three services. The sermons
delivered yesterday were given by not
ed Eastern divines.
The morning service was held II,
connection with the regular morning
service of the Plymouth church. The
Rev. T. c. Horton opened the services
with prayer, in which he prayed for
an especial blessing on Gods chosen
people, the Jews, who were making
their way back to Jerusalem in large
numbers in fulillment of the prophecy
Following this there was a service
of the morning was given by Rev. E.
F. Stroeter, of New York city. Dr.
Stroeter took for his subject '"The
Blessedness of Prophetic Study" DR..
Stroeter has made the Old Testament
a lifelong study and especially those
parts touching on the fulfil1ment of
prophecy. DR.. Stroeter's Interpretation
of his text was scholarly, holding his
audience for more than an hour with
his eloquence His delivery was pleas
ing, being of somewhat emotional
order, and at the same time quite con-
VentiOnal His text was taken from
Rev. j., 2; referring to the acceptance
Of prophecy. He said in part:
Scripture reading is the only key
to Gods word, no man could write d
commentary on the Bible without first
reading every verse in the Bible. Ev-
cry verse in the Bible is dependent
on the other verses for it's meaning.
The Bible is not a religious encyclo-
pedia, each verse being complete in
itself but the most complex and vital
book we have; it is a divine growth
into unit inSeparable, each verse be-
ing dependent on the next one. Of all
the books oftEhen Bible 1 think Reve-
laticns is the least read by the people.
the least studied by students of the
Bible and the least preached about
by ministers. eReyelations is full of the
prophecy, yeteit is held by many to be
of less value sand practical Importance
than other portions of the Bible 1t is
full of prophecy. The American peo-
pie discriminate against prophecy and
the Old Testament. Many people dis
criminate threading the Bible, pre-
fer to read the historical and epistolary
portions and give prophecy a wide
berth. This-we as Christians cannot
afford to dosi ana, if you do it, you
can be sure that 9your mind is not In
harmony with Gods. The Bible is
like the human 5bddy; every member Is
dependent ON the others for it's
strength Prophecy contains many of
the most important truths given in
the Bible. The first seven books of the
Bible contain pages and pages of I'M
fulfilled prophecy, and I say to you
that only a small proportion of the
prophecy contained in the Bible has
been fulfilled; the best things are to
come. God told of the creation of the
earth in a few lines, while he gave
pages of the Bible to the story of the
life of a Jewish man-Joseph Why?
Because his life was only shadow of
the life to come-Jesus-and so all the
prophecy of the Old Testament told of