The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-02-12
REMEMBER JESUS CHRIST
THE SURJECT or MR. SPEER,S
 STIRRING ADDRESS,.
New York Church Worker Speaks ut the Grand Opera House Be- Successful Service.

fore an Audience of 600 Men-A Most
 Successful Service.
 The mems meeting at the Grand opera
 house yesterday afternoon was attend-
 ed by about six hundred men. Admis-
 sion was by ticket until 3;45, when the
 doors were opened to the public. The
 soloist was G. Elmer Goodwin, who ren-
 dered two solos in a very effective man.
 ner, especially the one at the close of
 the address. The speaker was Robert
 F. Speer of New York city, who spoke
 on the subject Remember Jesus
 Christ" MT. Speer spoke in part as follows:
 Several years ago MT. Irvine heard
 me speak upon three words which
 seemed to me at that time, and seem
 to me to-day, to be three of the sweet
 est and most significant words in the
 New Testament, and he has asked me
 to speak to you thie afternoon upon the
 same words. These words came to me
 like a bolt from clear sky some years
 ago when I was in the heart of China
 Myself and an old missionary were cruising about in a house-boat and our custom was to have in the morning
 Bible reading between ourselves, he reading in the authorized version and following him in the revised version. This morning he was reading in the second chapter of PauPs second epistle to Timothy and got down to about the eighth verse, where he read as follows: Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead etc., but my version simply read, Remember Jesus Christ
 These words had been in the Bible since it was written; they had ben in my Bible since I owned it, yet they burned themselves into my very soul. It was as if a man looking up into q clear sky had seen a hole suddenly made and had revealed unto him the glorles beyond. What a vast difference there Is between remembering that Jesus Christ was resurrected from the dead and remembering Jesus Christ The memory of one is apt to be passed off in a light manner at times, but to re- member Jesus Christ is to link our lives into His. To remember Jesus Clrist is personal to remember His crucitixion is history. The memory of my wedding day brings to me visions of Happiness and pleasant associations, but to think of my wife is much more than that. | The pleasure of my wedding day is past the joy of my wife is ever present.
 Let us remember Him as Jesus-His human name-tke name He bore as a | child in His play, as a young man of l Gallilee and as the Carpenter of Naza- reth. It often seems to me that would like to have been carpenter, so that I might more easily remember Jesus Christ
 'tLet us remember Jesus Christ when we are tempted to say an unkind word about our neighbor, or render nasty judgment on the acts of our fellow men, Could we say that foul thing and at the same time remember Jesus Christ? Could we harshly criticise our neighbor if we remember Jesus Christ?
 q remember one day in Asheville, N. C.. I had been talking to a body of stu-. dents and a young man came to me and said: MT Speer, I would like to have a talk with you. I am a southern man and a graduate of the University of Mississippi and am of a hot-blooded race or people, uUu OlLGH WOllueI IL | dlll not tempted by my warm passion more severely than other men, I said to him: There lived a man of whom it Was said that He was tempted in all points ike as we are, and went through all the i fire of human passion and temptation, yet when He came out there was not even the smell of fire on His garments. This man was born and lived in a'warm Asiatic country, and could have the S same excuse as you have. Young man, Jesus Christ when you are 7  The speaker suggested the three words , IS profitable rule to gauge life by, and ,losed with an eloquent appeal to his . learers to remember Jesus Christ as < hey remembered their friends. wives / md children, and his closing words, = which were spoken in such silence as we = lave before witnessed in the Grand op- r ra house, were, Begin to remember esus Christ-now." c