New-York tribune., 1901-08-19

anu poor whites, and on the plains among the
tht1dlans h They are trained nurses and physicians
LLney are librarians secretaries of Young Women S
Ing city mission work and work, and thirty
four have gone to the foreign field. One of our
two Others were shut in Peking during the siege
M MMhether at home or abroad the Northfeld girls
10 10 pass on to others some of the good which they
Yonder is Irishman who has been soldier
@ noth in the British and American armies, He has
OF Gods service, That young German was a
sailor on the Olympia with Admiral Dewey When
hodns Il IN fitting 1t & himself for more useful fe and
gun TO # Themselves for the ministry some
form of Christian usefulness
MAJOR WHITTLE STILL SPEAKING.
One of the conference hymns that has couforted
many people was composed by Major Whittle and
his daughter, Mrs. William r. Moody II is called
The Hope OF the Coming of the Lord" and is as
follows:
\ lamp in the night song in time OF sorrow,
\ great glad hope. which faith can ever borrow
10 gid the passing day with the glory Of the NOR
Is the hope of the coming of the Lord
CHORUS,
Blessed hope blessed hope
blessed hope of the coming of the Lord
How it gl!stens thro' our tears
Blessed hope of the coming of the Lord.
anchor sure to hod %he8 Storms 1o S@1e StGe u.s.
refuge for the soul. where in quiet may
Is the hope Of the coming of the Lord
call of command like trumpet clearly sound
To make US bold when evil is surroundng
10 str the sluggish heart and to keep in good
Is the hope Of ths coming of the Lord
4 word frou the Ore to all our hearts the dearest.
A parting wood to make Him aye the nearest:
OF all r'is Precious words the sweetest, brightest
Is the hope Of the coming of the Lord
MR.. CHADWICK ON SIN AND GRACE.
While tie majority Of the sermons at the con-
ference addressed to Christians. now and then
there IS one intended for these who not Chris
uars. N'- Chadwick preached such a sermon one
evening Truly cvauE-,is:ic as IL II had been ad-
dressed TO company wrere there were no be-
HeyeTs In the Gospel message. Two or three side
lights on the preachers own life came out I'm the
sermon. lie has never lad a COLLEGE training, and
he believes in cpen air preaching. His text was:
Nv here sin lbounded grace did abound more ex-
ceedlnsiy Romans y, 20. Revised VersIon) The
sermo" was IN substance follows:
Sin ard grace the two great words OF the
Ihiist'a& hnSden Around these two words
view is aeId Of the one is sure to largely in1iu-
I,leS .is conception OF the other. and have no
these two words Alright holds key to the whole
sum OF Christian dDctrine. There are no tao
greater words. two important words and
IN them ever man IS involved. Take first OF all
the doctrine or sin. Every age has its fashion OF
philosophy and theology, well a OF m6Erers
ana OF dress. Fashions change, and all sorts OF
comcly and correct in one generation becou;es
next. The very things that were ridculed a gen
stauon ago haHe come 70 be regarded as scter,-
out OF their own mouths the scorners have beeO
The hrst thing tina. modern thought has con
@ armeG that was formerly rdiculed Is the reality
Bible views or man ana Of the world II you turn
10 the noNelstz Of the last generation and OF the
they engaged in whtewashing sinners and
PfeaGn'nE = Giyinity In men whom you regard as
they have gone to the other extreme When a
the people about htin ne nearly always begins by
talking % you about thr nature that is red in
mnoIoey for the tyranny OF a selfish indyiduaI-
ism nature, re says. at tn bottom. is at warfare
the world for some reason or other is STEPPED In
GOSPEL OF ENVIRONMENT
The next thing that you find that has been con-
hrmed and that formerly matter of ridicule
is that the mischief that has come into the world
somehow is inherent In the man. and not acct
dental To- his position it Is in m the nature Of the
the gospsi Of % environment' as IL is called Won
derful term. that you don't fnd in your Bibles and
people. The gospel OF environment is not the gos-
pei that is preached by the profoundest thinkers
And the next thing want to bring TO your notice
herent evil is inherited What sport the unbeiievers
used to make of the doctrine of original sin. Turn
tempt that they used TO pour upon IT. Now you
find in these DAYS that original sin is a scientific
doctrine and seeing IL is one of the latest born
among them, IT is the pet OF the whole household.
True. they do call II Original sin'-that is far
too simple term for them; whatever else unbelief
delights in il does delight In simplicity and you
find that instead of talking about Original sin
they talk about "heredity" and they couple with
ii another word. solidarity and under the names
and the labels of heredity' and solidarity the
scientist the philosopher the modern thinker out
side the Church is preaching and teaching every
where the old fashioned doctrine of original SIN
1t matters not TO by whom the truth is
preached long IL is proclaimed and you will
have gone perfectly crazed this new discovery
of theirs mo Hveth unto himself is a
doctrine that didn't wait for the coming OF the
present generation. and on the authority OF science
on the authority OF thinking men outside the
Church from the authorities that are to be re-
speoted outside the Bible you have these three
under n curse. call II by what name you Will; that
the curse is inherent in mans natural condition.
and that the inherent curse Is ihhefited from the
generations of which he Is Dorm
Ruf there are some aspects OF the Biblical doc
trIne of ain which are still in sharp conflict with
modern thought and 10 these l want 10 can your
teaches that the scientist and the philosopher Will
not have is that mans present condition Is due to
a fail The scientist will have no fal there isn't
any room in his doctrine OF evolution for fan
He savs that every fall that has had has
been "a fan upward, and it is wonderful how
scientific scientific sometimes become; you
horn. every time you have fallen you have fallen
downward and that is the way you may expect TO
fan f Won fall all. The Bible declares that God
made man innocent and so far as his powers were
concerned perfect and while II is true that some
times we have interpreted as literal history that
which is parable and alegory, yet the fact behind
II all remains that the Bible puts forth mans COM
ing out the hands of the Creator without sin,
without defect, without anything that could bring
a curse upon him, and he fell. and the present
m and the present evT within him, and the
atna ahCut m