The Newtown bee., 1899-11-03
NEWToWN CONN FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8 l8ee-EIGHT PAGES

great avenue for us to look at. If they were not placed for that ',---
 gentle reader, Leader aoeu there for9 A fE. years ago the three Vanderbilt houses were the three noted mansions on the avenue, now they are thrown rather Into the shade by the newer and even more palatial residences. When one looks at the great Waldorf Astoria and the miflionaires' clubhouse and the mansion of the late Corne Illus Vanderbilt, the question involunta fly comes, When wi l the end be? Is not this strife to see what notch can be reached in the scale of extravagsnt ex- penditure the sin of America? Of course the wealthy can we'll afford to make such great outlaya, bukPdoes not their exam pie lead those who cannot afford it to go way beyond their meansP On Central Park East land has recently sold for figures, it would be little diversion for 8 leisure hour to calculate what the house would cost which was placed upon that land, all things being in proportion.
 To hear Dr Newell Dwight Hills in the morning. Jacob G. Schurman, Presi- dent of C. 1ell University, in the after noon, and Dwight l.. Moody in the even- ing is 8 pretty good program for one Sunday. What do think of Dr Hillis We'll, suppose. ss the gnat bites st the
 OK and the OK does not know anything is going on, have right to say whas think. As display of bewitching rhet- oric aud beautiful phrase Dr HiIlis' ser mon Sunday morning was the best thing I ever heard, except the address by Rev John Henry Barrows on "India for Oh ist" at the meeting of the American Board in New Haven. I place the two side by side but it strikes me that such krNrs tA nnk tf1r1a ho heart, does not (excuse me, but 1 once heard most refined lady use the phrase) make you fee l as if you wanted to spit on your hands and take & fresh grip on life. Mir Moody in the evening spoke very pl lainly, in fact, so plain lY that one could not but wonder that he did not
 make some slight effort to relieve the bluntness of his speech. He told the way of ss lVation in the way he has tCld it thousand times; and 600 remained to the inquiry meeting, at which 200 rose for prayer. Yet I am not foolish enough
 not to recogn ze that each man has his place. "Thy commandment, o God. is exceeding broad.n A political platform
 may be very narrow, but Gods platform,
 s'Go ye into all the world and preach My gospel" is big enough to hold all true
 workers. ~
 Yesterday I heard Rev G. Campbell T cour 3e I was proud of him as a Congre-
 gationslist. It is a good thing that he
 sails for Europe this Wednesday; If he
 didn't, they would work him to death, simply because everybody wants to hear him, He has done great work here. Bis sermons on the work of the Holy Spirit gre going to tell. Is the compari- son that was gathered from the Inter- national Council recently held in Boston true, that the Eng gin Congregations lists emphasize the spiritual side, and the American Congregation lists the intel- lectual side, of Christianity? I am
 sfra i'd that pr Morgan's work shows it is true.
 Mir Moody and others report that the signs are undoubted that this nation is on
 the eve of the greatest religious awaken ing 1t has ever known. They hear the sounds of it's coming through the tops of the mulberry trees. Even so let it come,
 Lord Jesus.-[Otis W. Barker, Brooklyn.
 N. r., October 24, 1899.