New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-11-12
ENGLAND'S BIG REVIVAL.
pR. HILLS SAYS THAT IF NATIONAL
RELIGIOUS MOVEMENT DOES NOT
COME HERE THE PREACHERS
WILL BE To BLAME

''The Return Of the Tides of Faith" was the
fheme yesterday morning Of the sermon by the
Rev. DR. Newell Dwight Hills, IN Plymouth
Church. The Doctor discussed the question
whether religious faith IL to be again over
mastering enthusiasm in this country. and de-
Scr1bed the manifesto lions OF the religious
enthusiasm in England. He declared that If that
National movement does not come IN this country
st will not be the fault OF the people. who are
ready for it, but of the preachers who have failed
70 discern the opportunity their day and genera
tion He said In part:
Many thoughtful feel that the era now
skies have reused h r@ TOR wa sne the era of
criticism and ANALYSIS Scholarship became analy-
Puckeed to pieces the OLD poems the old histories
self. The love Of dissection with many degenerated
into a passion. Men forgot that he who picks a
each page OF the Bible for errors. many welcomed
furnishing a welcome excuse and presently they
went away to their days of recreation and physical
AND that he critical age has S ' passed BY
discover that mult1tudes have suffered spiritually
PULPITs LIKE ARsENALs
There never was book in the world that has
ignorance Of its students That il has survived the
sorts of creeds have been dug out OF it, and the
old denominational leaders used those creeds as
pits like arsenais and away few the shot But the
Of sorrow and sin Of which the Prototype cannot
be found in the Bible carrying IN fits train words Of
away. it has, become a garden into which people
The tide OF unrest and disbelief Of the last twenty
years has turned, and aoodtme OF religious
none can stem il 4 few years ago men felt that
a fanciet scientific mistake in the Bible they dis
carded H.
critical studies have given way to a missionary
movement the enthusiasm OF faith amounts t to
Nationa simuaneon 1 Nilsson. AN assault upon
indifference London begins
January IS and ends on February 6, at which time
to concentrate their work in the nations capital,
preaching in the churches. in the great halls Of the
guilds and theatres. and upon the streets And the
hold that the movement has upon the English PEG.
The Stock Exchange have asked the Lord Mayor TO
open the Guildhah for the opening sermon by DR..
Their from February lS to February 26 these great
spirit at least of Robertson. Of brighton, goes to
Macaren to Manchester while in the list Of APP
pointments made 10 the various cities OF Eng and
that country. Then in March comes movement
a committee of six hundred has planned for
house to house visitation that shall bring this call
consciences of every individual in England. In this
the various churches. have united guiding COM
mittee Men hitherto known for extreme conserya-
into this assault upon the indifference of nation
TO the higher religi9us life: For at bottom these
men realize that all the SORROWS ana woes ana
problems OF society are IN reality religious prob
the soul IKE in hours Of penitence and as
piraton. and the soul can find peace only by rest
Ing in Him.
CONSCIENCE IN POLITICS.
In land there is a widespread desire for a
universal religious movement for the beginning of
the century Politicians feel that this Of greed
and corruption among municipal rulers has become
unbearabie The people feel that conscience must
have place IN politics. The workers feel that
the laws of right and wrong ana goodwill must
enter into the relations Of the classes Science has
done much for the increase of knowledge. bat
Acknowledgment the elements that make up a clod or
star is poor bread with which to feed soul that
hungeTs for God and His friendship
We have just witnessed remarkab BILE political
campaign. in which a candidate for President and
the opposing candidate for Nice-President have
journcyed over the country. and enormous crowds
have assembled 10 hear them. Not since the days
OF the anti-slaverY movement have men assembled
in audiences 50 vast II would seem that 50 far
from The voice having ceased to have power
Instrument OF instruction and reform. the of
the orator has but just begun. Who doubt that
If the leading OF the churches of this country
Were TO come together and plan similar
ment in New-Nork for January. and like move
uent for February. and IN The country districts for
. March. would witness in this land SINH
lar 10 those that being enacted in England
And Il this National movement does in
this country. il viii he the fault of the people
who are ready for it. bat Of the preachers who
have failed TO discern the opportunity of their
and generation