New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-08-19
SCOTLAND ADDS HER WORD.
DIR 7 G.. CUNNINGHAM AT NORTH
FIELD.
MIR MEYER GIVES HIS LAST ADDRESS
BAPTIST ACTIVITY.
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BAPTIST ACTIVITY.
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East Northfeld. Mass. Aug. B.-As the bipe
Conference nears Its closing day the numoer oi
meetings increases and the spiritual Interest deep
enc M Moody announced that this would no
another "neld" day. and It Is probable that TO-
marrow and Sunday will also be worthy or that
description Men and women are telegraphihs LOT
rooms that they may be here over SUNDAY anu
others are engaging rooms for the next Ten ua!s
that they may hear the post-conference talks oy
the Rev q, Campbell Morgan. Of London on The
CT. ', cd,, and "The Table Talk OF the Son OF
Mar" which will be given daily in the village
added l.,
TIL. sneakers at the Conference to-day In
clude the Rev Drs. Arthur T. Pierson' OF brooh
Ivn. I q Cunningham. Of Edinburgh n. "
Weston. Of Grocer Theological Seminary; the Kew
Messrs r B. Meyer and G. Campbell Morgan OF
Iondon. John Willis Baer, OF Boston. representing
the Christian Endeavor Society; Mrs Frances j.
Barnes OF York. and Mrs j. Ellen Foster, OF
Washington. speaking in behalf OF temperance. and
D I, Moody. representing Christendom In general
and the present Conference in particular.
EXPOSITION OF SCRIPTURE
Mr.. Meyer gave the last OF his Bible expeditions
this morning and started for England in the after
noon His address earnest and searching as
he urged his hearers to put into practice the truths
which they had heard at the Conference. He begged
them to destroy their cards. French novels. to-
bacco pipes cigarette holders and ball dress Bet
ter for them, he said, never TO have come to
Mortified than, having come. to resume their old
life on their return home. In the most pathetic
terms ne besought them TO abstain from card par
ties theatre going and dancing, both for their
own sakes and that OF coming generations, and TO
live life OF union with Christ through the Holy
Ghost.
Last evening Mr.. Morgan preached upon the duty
tba If,fda reid MANY n
have heard every sermon that he has given here
agreed that this his greatest sermon. This
evening his topic was Foreign Missions" and the
opinion expressed last night was transferred one
day. this being considered his browning effort II
the Fifth Avenue Church does not consider his
name for IT'S vacant pastorate 1t will disappoint
many people here. who declare that Mr.. Morgan
is the greatest preacher they have ever heard.
The new voice from Scotland pleases Mr.. Moody.
and he has listened to 1t three times to-day Or.
Cunningham. the pastor Of Free st. Lukes Pres
byterian Church. In Edinburgh. will also represent
the Free Church OF Scotland at the Pan-Presby-
terrain Council in Washington next month. He IS
a Bible expositor Of unusual power. and is as lovely
in character as he is evangelical in spirit
Dr. Cunningham born In Edinburgh in 1895.
His father came to America in 1897, and was for
two years vice-president OF Lafayette College. In
1899 he returned Scotland. having been requested
TO take the post OF rector of the Glasgow
Normal Seminary the first and at that time the
only training college in Scotland for teachers
He was educated at Blair Lodge Academy and
Edinburgh University. With one session at Glas-
cow and an extra session OF theological study at
Berlin, In 1885, in addition to the four sessions OF
the Divinity Hall, Edinburgh he ordained in
1859 at Lochwnnoch. Renfrewshre, TO the pastorate
OF the Free Church congregation there. In 1876 he
was called to Edinburgh, 10 be the colleague and
successor Of the late Rev. Dr. Moody Stuart, and
has been there since. He has written translation
of ST. Augustines letters, which has reached
second edition in America. Or. Cunningham is
convener Of the Jewish Mission Committee OF the
Free Church of Scotland. Being familiar with both
German and French. he has often acceptaby repre-
scented his denomination In religious meetings on
the Continent number OF years ago he preached
at Cambridge. England substantially the same
sermon that he gave here this morning Seven
years after that. at meeting in the South or
France a we'll known Christian worker from Ge-
neva said that he owed much in his religious life
to sermon which he heard when student at
Cambridge, mentioning the text. subsequently
meeting they found that It was Or. Cunningham )
sermon which had been the means OF spiritually
ouickening the young French student. The follow
ing was the sermon, as given here to-day:
DIR. CUNNINGHAMs SERMON
Let US take the subject Of thought: and and
trust tar so our PgsEd the ~oiee
Lord saying whom shall | send, and who VIII go
for MS? Then said here am send me- ea AM, ana
up probably about the time of the evening sacrio
fee He speaks Of the altar from whSn he ines smE Es
were trembling under the voice OF the seraphinl.
He went up TO- worship and Tn whSy Was aokHs
toward the veil that shut out the hottest OF alt II
seemed as If ss no Oh ns ereR en behind
veil but he saw the Lord upon throne hlfh ana
Frev up b sq sersphms answering one 70 another
Holy. holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty And
he 6s bsT ha Eora shall
and he prayed. Here am 1; send me-" and he went
d COD w& 9 JOY and nd pe and
WHOM SHALL SENDT'
MY dear fellow worshppers we entered this
building hoping to meet God. and why should not
veil that hides the unseen be by Gods power rolled
away and each one of us brought 80 near 10 the
throne that shall be UNCONSCIOUS OF one another
h0d hn Wbom au sRa Is send ANA you and
Ing us to say where are. "Here am I; send me, :"
ANA : go a9Tp w t6 Goa Dew Mark "aS e VOICE
that he heard, Whom shall | send?' He s.oi that at
the Inhabitants OF earth and looking for mes :
senger He looks around ana says Wn no o Sh al
It is not a slave; it is not hlreling messenger
that He asks who whl go?, 1t Is one that will
Willing to so. And who will go FOR. us?" Surely,
II / am not mistaken the us in this place marks
an indication of three persons OF the Godhead. as
at the creation OF man God said. Let us make
man in our image" and made in the
image of the Father and of the Son and of the
Holy Ghost; so I'm the new creation takes counsel
and saws Let us make man again in our image,
and 10y the mercy Of the Father by the merit or
the Son and by the light of the Holy Spirit soul
Is redeemed and saved.
We have listened to-day with wonder to the ex-
position OF Gods word that has shown us that
every missionary is a coworker with God the
Father. co-Saviour with the Lord Jesus Christ,
a
call that Isaiah heard Who will go for u.s." Who
will be a bearer OF a message telling his fellow men
OF the love OF God and the grace OF the Lord Jesus
Christ and the communion OF the Holy Ghost? And
Isaiah answered. Here ami; send me" Now. how
was he made ready 10 answer that at once? The
whole chapter tells the story and the first thing
is In the first verse OF the chapter IL was In the
year that King UZziah died. You remember Uzziah
had been King for some fifty years. and every
notion that Isaiah had OF kingly greatness or glory