The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-19
The Two Days Meeting Began on
Yesterday.
WORDS OF EARNEST MEN
AuguF The Great Enthusiasm Of Church
In the ROrk.
TWO BISHOPS WERE PRESENT
Bishop Galloway Advocated the Deeper
Consecration of the Ministry and
Bishop Hendrix Explained
Personality of Holy Spirit.
TWO BISHOPS WERE PRESENT

| or many cities IN North Alabama, that has
| ever been seen in Birmingham. For during
the three meetings that were held yester-
day were fired the first guns, SO to speak
| of the great twentieth century movement,
through which the Methodists of the whole
world hope to revive to a wonderful extent
the spiritual life of their church, and
through which they hope to do much for
the Methodist schools and colleges and for
other educational work of the church. The
the first speaker of the morning. He took
fairly good congregations, not only OF the
Methodist preachers from all over North
Alabama, who are in attendance on these
meetings, but also by a large number of
Methodists from the various churches of
Birmingham. There were also present a
| number of preachers and members of other
denominations. Bishops Hendrix and Cal
loway, two of the most eloquent and pow
erful divines in America, were present at
all these meetings, and made splendid i'm
pressions.
The service yesterday morning was
opened by prayer and praise service led
by Rev II. C. Howard, presiding elder of
the Florence circuit.
Bishop Galloway, of Jackson, Miss, was
the ministry, and pleaded for a high type
for his subject the deeper conservation of
Who knows but that in the great move
among the preachers.
Like priest, like people," he argued, 1.-THE
spiritual life of the church cannot rise
higher than the pulpit"
There are two clements that go to
make up minister. First, the character
of the man. The message which a minister
has to deliver depends entirely upon the
character of the personality that delivers
it.
The second element which the speaker
said should go to make up minister, was
perfect faith in the gospel, without which
all preaching is vain. He also urged min
listers to preach more to the unconverted
who happened to be within hearing, and
not devote themselves too exclusively to
those who are already converted. This is
a tendency which should be avoided.
Bishop Galloway, at the conclusion of his
remarks, called attention to the coinci-
dence that just at that hour-11 o'clock
the great peace conference which had been
caller by the Gar of Russia, was just be-
ginning its session In The Hague. ~
DR.. G. c. Kelly, of the First Methodist
church Of this city, next lead in an earnest
prayer. after which hymn was sung.
Then Bishop Hendrix, the second of the
prominent speakers of the morning, began
his talk.
"Personaliry of Holy Spirit
DR.. Hendrix took for his theme the per-
sonality Of the Holy Spirit. who Is watch
ing over and directing the great work on
which the church was just entering.
'The Acts of the Apostles" said he, lis
to me one of the unfinished books of the
Bible. There was SO much history in con-
nection with the lives of these great men
that would have been very<valuable to us.
Who knows but that in the great move
ment on which we are now entering, we
may not be adding another chapter to the
great history of our religion?''
The Holy Spirit, the speaker argued, was
being, and not a thing of pure imagina-
ton. The personality Of the Spirit is en-
phasized by the fact that the coming of
Christ and the coming of the Spirit were
predicted as one and the same event. God
manifested His own being in the body OF
His Son, who toiled and labored among
men, being in reality. The Spirit of God
was also manifested in Christ.
The Holy Spirit is the great thinker.
comforter and strengthened of the church.
1t is the mightist intellest in the universe
and the only one that can understand the
mind of God. Every teacher must be
thinker. Every great revival has been one
of thought. The most advanced thought
of the world today is that concerning the
Son of God.
In the second place, the Holy Spirit is
the great comforter of the church. A man
devoid of sympathy has the appearance of
something monstrous. just as air is most
anxious to get into vacuum, SO the Spirit
of God is most anxious to force itself into
soul devoid Of sympathy.
The Holy Spirit is also the churchs great
strengthened, and it is this force that is
to accomplish the regeneration of the
world.
The speaker showed how small the king
dom of Great Britain, on which the sun
never sets, is in comparison with the King
dom of the Prince Of Peace, in whose name
the first peace congress of the world is
just assembling in The Hague.
He said that the ministers present should
be concerned above all else as to the spir-
itual welfare of their churches
He closed by invoking the assistance of
the Spirit on the great work which is to
be done at the opening of the twentieth
century.
Rev. DR.. Newman closed the morning
service with prayer.
Br0therly Love
"Brotherly Love- was the subject of the
afternoon meeting, and although the rain
prevented nearly all except the ministers
from being present, 1t was a meeting of
great interest and enthusiasm. "And
feel that 1t is good to be here" was the
expressive manner in which one of the
ministers described the meeting. Bishop
Hendrix presides, but said that DR.. G. c.
Kelly would be the first speaker Of the
afternoon.
DIR. Kelly read at the opening of his re-
marks that beautiful passage of scripture.