New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-07-30
Mr. MORGAN AT NORTHF1ELD
an ESeLIsHMAN OPENS THE CONFER
ENCE.
,,oonr n COMMAND AS usrAi~-A LANCE
AUDIENCE At THE OPENING MEETING

-.,.s ~. an internat ionel reputation, was
cr.n.d this evening with rs usual siuPhei'' -
Wonsv and Mr. Sankey, true yoke-feho"s io' So
s..t,on stepped TO the front Of the PLATFORM o"
go -. ,wo o- three OF the men who are 20
..r A largo audience was seated IN the a"u'-
,oriuu. and the hymn There Shall Se ohowers VI
n,ess,nr" and Come, Thou Almighty Ming We'e
.yns heartily under the direction OF MI SUNNY
rrnpc the new hymn book. Church Hymns ana Cos
~, songs" DR. H. c. Mahle offered an earnest
,ra~er and the Mount Hernon Quartet sans Inen
~. Rev q. Campbell Morgan preached upon me
rsw Of Revelation" his text being. i nave yer
MANY things to ray unto you but We cannon pear
them now 49,.
". sah that Gods revelation depends upon mans
capacity 10 understand revelation. TINS passak.
Also reveals a glorious possibility IL s uoo "',
.s., the whole spiritual sphere should he reveaied
r,,. will be done when the truth which mas neen
r,oe,ved 10 obeyed He gave several incidents rom
nj. storal experiences TO show that the Cn'sudns
mo are not obedient TO the voice OF Goo ana VINO
~. ro, living At peace with their fe'ow-rnen can
a.. ara -. blessing a bundle Of sermons kept MIN
,,oo hearing a new message. Until he destroyed
Msnn ne wanted to he a preacher rather than
messenger.
EAGER TO HEAR MR. MORGAN
r,,s "a Mr. Morgans third visit TO Northneld.
Two years ago ne came here for day or '"o'
Not having a programme Mr.. Moody was aple 10
Invite him 10 preach morning HIS sermon
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So deep an impression old he make mat ne was
,,v,,sd N co 10 Chicago and speak every day for
a week Mt the Moody institute and also urgeo 10
come here al the next meeting as one OF 'he chiei
sneakers When ne had delivered one SERMON ias'
Iu,v M. Moody said that that message was worth
ali that Il had cost 10 bring the messenger from
england So eager were the people TO hear the
vouns Englishman that after the conference ne
remained two weeks TO speak every DAY IN 'he
village church
This year besides his work NJ Northheld. ne -
n 20 TO Wirona Ind for few days. and is also
expected TO spend Sunday in New-York filling the
pulpit OF the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church.
There is at least other prominent American
church beside DR.. John Halls that would IKE 10
hear Mr.. Morgan preach. and there are people al
the conference who listening to him with'their
own vacant pulpits in mind. At the request. Oh
those interested in the conference the following SER
mon is ore that made deep impression last year
The subject was "Enochs Walk with Cod the
. text being: And Enoch walked with GOO ana ne
was not for God tool. him."-Genesis V. "a. MT
Morgan said:
This is one OF the most beautiful biographies con.
talned in the whole Book of Cod and II is fuli OF
esssesyeness The chapter IN when occurs 81 ens
Of nsss nv Word re arc COD sry no
n w sosnsson 70 With " ih third chapter
shall not surely die And MheI:I gel, the arr Il,
about fifteen hundred NssTs and the years come
anr there whole e Chapter he died. YOU
cannot. read ,the. chapter without noticing IT, Ala
.ns Se history
gv gn G slsnF into the the lie world 10 dha' lie
History ALWAYS 'vihS itates God. In the midst Of
& lou Sn era THIS Break pea and S
break lis found in the little biography have just
That is something beyond the life which simply
believes in God. worships God, reverences God and
goes to special Ss M sa is bound ne up IN
the purposes and the work and the movements Of
sna p y.t 'ns Il. ht Own It's
sorption God ia its rest the ndiyduahty the
snd IN which 1e' ues En9
peculiar man during those nttee1 hundred years yea s
described By thu. verse Me Ssln sS
coF at ahem rn We y has in 'n
= death hpO" u ' anu :
WALKING WITH GOD.
First tn. life the man walked with God" VIVA,
does that mean? 1t suggests four simple thoughts
which the youngest believer may carry away and
% these principally am endeavoring to speak. and
by reaso,i Of. their; veryf simplicity trust the
thoushtsswlll' aoldet with. YOU; andFthat we MAJ
enter into<t the power. Of. themi
First OF ali. when "a mar walk. With God: h.
ySs N The he DR. c o s h .syas
the sam. house a. No. hhsld ard you want TIC to
must must n sosSHrr TIC ? me5iirectoa
The next is this. not .ry did he move in The
asr rien aeV With God You rememSe, what the
prophet Amos says 'sIiow can'two walk together
The third point is this: There was mutual trust
sS9 for may tHri w hs bn u Ms Ifs
mutual trust. one perfectly,trustng the other ana
not long be continued. There must be mutual trust
between those men: and so during those three hun
dred years there was mutual trust between COG
And:the last. thought is this. When man walks ak
Of following You can't describe the blessed life b;
any one figure from. :hat,osf following You canno,
want ali the figures Of speech TO teach the glorou,
beauty thereof II man walks with GOD he mus Us,
on the path. mutually trust each other. but there
mug; be keeping In step with God
THE DIVINE DIRECTION.
What do l mean by saying he walked in the d.
vine direction? Human words are always pool
channels for divine communications. Every min
lister will be with me when say II there is one
thing look forward TO in heaven II is preaching
and oh. 10 know the heavenly language. 10 teach
the heavenly truths II is hard 10 get the great
things Of God into human words and phraseoogy
In this sln-smitten world. There is 10 hnslity
anywhere In the world Everything Is in state Of
transition Dspensation has been succeeding dis
persation right through history. Again and again
men have been led on by different ways and
through different experiences and never yet. since
the day of mans fall and sim has humanity ar
rived at that which Is final But We believe thai
through the ages one undyins purpose runs. and
God is at work the darkest day as we'll as or
the brightest day. in the storm. as well as In the
calm. In those moments Of human history tc
which we look back. which were the darkest the
world has ever seen when It seemed as II there
vas no light upon land or sea and no sleam OF
light in the hearts Of men. God was at work
He always has been. There Is no hnality. He
has been moving on on through dispensation
through the messages of prophets seers ana psalm
PTS. ana through the revelation Of Himself that has
some down to through these different dispen-
sations. toward some final point. We all believe
that to be true in my own country once heard
preacher say that the devil was squatter. At
arst could not see what he was after. In a mo-
nent. he said: "A souatter is a man that settles
N land to which he Is not entitled ard works II