New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-08-15
SUNDAY AT NORTHF1ELD.
>,un1TORIUM PACKED WITH wOR-
SHIPPERS AT ALL MEETINGS.
-, MOODY ONE OF THE MORNING PREACHERS
IRA d sANKEY HELPS CONDUCT THE
AFTERNOON PRAISE SERVICE.
rry TELEGRAPH To THE TRIBUNE.


ted me multitude OF worshippers this morning
soored all the more inspiring and invigoraiing
ban contrasted with the sultry dogday weather
., the week past. 1t has been an ideal day COR
..e,ding meetings. The attractions OF inns. inc
,a, sabbath OF the August Conference Of 1888. have
lawn a vast concourse OF people from surround
40 towns and villages. who. together with Tie VS.
,,ors stopping In town Allied The large Auditorium
=, the regular 10 o'clock platform Ineeting.
N addition 10 the regular announcements for
. .ha doy Mr. Moody declared his intention OF hold
,nc a prayer meeting on Wednesday morning ~
"a o'clock at the Congregat ional Church. Tor the
n,rches Of the country. He said that Christians
.aa reason 20 thank God that the prayers for our
.,,or have been answered and that now We
rseded waking up In the churches Of the land
IN referring 20 the prayer meeting TO be held On
wednesday Mr. Moody said that he had rcvcr
,eId lust such meeting before. but that he wished
,sstors Of churches with their church members
attending the Conference 10 get together and pray
definitely for their own home churches; that no enc
was 10 come TO this meeting who did not Wish 10
hiring special request for the deepening OF sp''
rral life in the church of which he was memeer.
Announcement was made OF post-C Conference ad-
dresses to he given daily in the congregational
church from August 10 10 August 80 inclusive.
Meetings are TO be held at Il a. m. and on Sun
DAYS AZ 1915 a. m. and 7:S0 p. m. The Rev George
II G Macgregor and ID. L. Moody Will he the pr'n-
c,nal speakers The following topics will he taken
succession.
lions. and How TO Meet Them; Saturday. August
% "Our Sorrows and How TO Bear Them: sun
dav August o. d. l.. Moody and others are eX-
ne,,ed 10 speak: Tuesday. August @. "Our PeriIs.
and How God Keeps U.s.; Wednesday, August "a
"Our Pilgrimage. and How God Guides Us; Thurs
dav August &, "Our Prayers. and How God
PROMPTS Them; Friday. August &C. "Our Service.
md How God Equips U.s.: Sunday. August 2S II
Is expected that d. L. Moody and others will
speak.
The Rev Dr. s ParEcs Cadman. Of the Metro
Ioitan Temple. announced 20 be here TINS
week. The Rev. DR.. c. l. Scofeld was the first
sneaker this morning His text was John XII "a:
Except a corn OF wheat fall into the ground and
dc II abideth alone: but II 1t die It hrngeth forth
much fruit" ID. l.. Moody followed with snort
and pointed sermon addressed TO parents. Tho
Lord said unto Noah. Come thou and all thy mouse
into the ark was the text The point when
Mr. Moody emphasized the duty Of parents in
bringing their children to Christ Ira ID. sankey
and George c. Stebbns at o'clock conducted
praise service IN the Auditorium. The next hour
IN the same place the Rev DR.. Alexander. OF the
University Place Church. New-York City preached
an eloquent sermon on Hope" John III. j.
The Rev. Or. Weston spoke at o'clock on THE
Love Of Christ" The twilight Round Top meeting
was largely attended, and was IN charge OF H. NJ.
Moore. OF Boston. president Of the trustees OF
Mortified Seminary. The Rev. DIR. ]. Cortland
Meyer, Of the Baptist Tabernacle. Brooklyn. spoke
IN the evening.
Mr. MORGAN AS A PREACHER.
II don't know how you feel said Mr.. Moody
10 a clergyman. Mr.. Morgan sat down after de-
liyerng one OF his impressive sermons but don't
feel like preaching again." Mr.. Morgan has made
good many ministers feel like Mr.. Moody HIS
sermons have been practical and searching. They
are delivered without manuscript. and when he
gave the which appears below he did not nave
even the bare outline. which usually lay IN his
Nd IN wi he referred siONally.
In addition to the task Of preaching to large
audiences, made up chiefly Of cergymen, mission
aries and Christian workers. sometimes twice
day. Mr.. Morgan has been under heavy mental
strain all the time that he has been in this coun-
try His wife Ill when he left England last
month and her sister died at their home the night
before he sailed Mrs Morgan was removed TO the
seaside a fortnight ago. but she has been SO low
at times that ne has been expecting a cable mes
sage to summon him home at any moment But
the people who have hung his thrilling words. or
marvelled al his wondrous gift in reproducing
Bible stories and painting Bible pictures until he
had the entire audience beholding the one Figure
toward which all his sermons pointed. have known
nothing OF his family cares.
The sermon which drew forth Mr. Moody's re-
mark. just quoted. 10 given herewith from the
etenographc report:
Shall We turn this morning to the eighth chap
ter Of the Gospel Of John. and READ verses Is q
lifted up the Son OF man, then shall We know that
am T. he and that do nothing OF my ,S,ns but Si
he that sent me is with me- he hath not left me
iieyed on him. The 9Th verse is the one to Which
tention: He that sent me is with me: he hath not
left me alone; for do always the ihinss that are
fun blessedness in Christian ne is that We should
be conscious OF our own inability to realize Gods
purpose for US. You remember the two words. Il
We ma
ITohs.b,y spend iile time In ,G quiet con,empa
in seeing the vision Of the Christ. See also the
vision of what, Gods will for us Is. His VIII is
which / realize within my life the character OF
Christ is the proportion IN which IN my life be-
In my life NANTES, to the world Jesus Christ Is
the proportion in which. realize, not only the
divine purpose for myself. but the divine purpose
FOR others through me.
THE PERFECT IDEAL OF LIFE
The Master. you will see IN this lays be-
fore US three things First Of all He gives us the
perfect IDEAL OF human life in short phrase and
that at the end "the things that please
him" Those the things THAI create perfect
human life. living in the realm OF which man re-
slzes perfectly all the possibilities Of his wondrous
belng-'the things that please him" 50 say, in
this phrase. the Master reveals to US the perfect
ideal Of our lives. Then. in the second place. the
Master lays claim-one Of the most stupendous
claims that He ever made-that He utterly, abso-
lutely, realizes that ideal He says: II do always
the things that please him" And then thirdly.
we have the revelation OF the secret by which lie
has been able to realize the ideal, to make the alb.
stract concrete to bring down the fair vision OF
civne purpose to the level or actual human life
and experience and the secret IL declared In the
opening words HE that sent me is with me; my
Father hath not left alone"
The perfect Ideal for my NE, then. Is that live
always In the realm of the things that please God;
and the secret by which may do so s here I'M
ioded-by living in perpetual. unbroken communion
with God communion which do not permit any
thing to Interfere with. Then 1t snail be possible
for me to pass into this high realm OF actual rea
tation
Now, beloved. first OF all, II is important that
should remind ourselves in few sentences that
NE Lord has indeed stated the highest possible
IDEAL for human life In these words: THE things
tlat please him" Oh, the godlessness Of men,
The godessncss that Is 10 be found on every hand!
The godlessness Of the men and women that are