New-York tribune., 1901-08-06
PRAYER ANDPRAISE HEARD
PROFESSOR TOwNER STARTS A MUSICAL.
INSTITUTE AT NORTHFIELD.
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East Northfied. Mass, Aug 6-The programme
or the General Conference heightened this
morning by the addition of Professor ID. B. Town
ers Musical Institute at O'Clock Large num-
Der of persons were in attendance at this hour and
the probabilities that this departure will
prove popular feature Of the conference. After
MS introductory remarks upon the institute and
religious music in general Professor TOwner took
up the discussion of church hymns. The morning
devotional service at Camp Northfeld at the same
hour was attended by a number of conference Wis
ltors' Mr. Shorey. OF London, England, conducted
the exercises. The Rev. DIR. Weston president of
Grocer Theological Seminary. held the close atten-
fion of III his hearers this morning he spoke in
the Auditorium THE Lords Prayer"
lie said that there could not have been a re-
quest more appropriate. more important than that
of the Disciples Lord, teach to pray" They
did the right thing. 1t showed their conception of
prayer; it showed the relation into which they
had been brought to Christ. that new relation
which inspired this request for something that
they had before. Prayer he said is the in
stinct of humanity There is nothing more uni
versal in the human frame than that which
swers to the relation Of prayer. Every religion
provides It. God has trained the human race
to pray before its first conscious conception He
added that think nothing in this world so de-
eisive of a godlike character prayer-the high
est energy of the soul, which brings a man into
communion with God, DO you wonder he asked
that the Disciples would not know how TO pray?
II weston tnen TOOK UP tne petltlonS III ue'aA'
saying In part
"Our Father which heaven There is not
a h WoTd mere but what will repay study. our. (.
that breathing of the great Christian grace. l0ve
shed abroad in the hearts of His people. That
IrSt word, how it sounds out as with clarion note
| Ihls great change in mans heart from what he
was when he thought only of himself when he
| only idea of prayet was to tell what God should
| DO for him, and now there sounds out the first
DO you know what that relation signifies? / don't
| wonder that Christ uses that term. l think with
single exception In every recorded PRAYER CnIlst
! says Father God made man in his own image
! infinite love of His HOLY nature Do You know
What MIA that Is? And God wanted somebody TO love
! Which art in heaven That isn't locality.
| Our Father who art in the heavens. our heavenly
Fataer precisely the same form OF expression that
all spiritual blessings in the heayenles" Hal
| lowed be Thy name. Why is the Christian Church
such that its very first petition must be petition
| to keep from profane swearing? Why this first
| gins with a Thanksgiving and petition combined.
cellent hymn Holy holy, holy Lord God Al.
d5 he am Of God T, is the ne Feyea0n rev Of
the most precious thing in the universe. 1t is and
/ Thanksgiving "HaIowed be thy name" let il
! De held sacred and holy. the cherished object OF
/ our affections
/ DR.. Weston will continue on this same subject at
/ future meeting At the twilight service on
! lgious work among the poor whites in the South.
/ described what she is doing to help these people.
/ The Rev. Mr. Morgan spoke at the evening audi
/ torium service.
/ DIR. PIERsON ON THE GLORY OF JESUS.
! one Of the favorite preachers at Northleld from
the beginning OF the conferences until the present
] time has been the Rev. DR.. Arthur T. Pierson,
| whose summer nome is not far from the audi
torium Whenever it is known that ne is 10 speak
| he II g. CHI
admitted that few preachers equal him IN Bible x
! positions lie says that his friends rally him on
his foudness for sevens. he insists, however. that
he does not make them, he simply finds them in
| the Scripture. In the sermon which Is printed
/ herewith there is fine example Of this tendency
| In his preachings-the sevenfold proof that Jesus
! the Son OF God and the sevenfold proof that
! lie human. the God Man.
| Or. Pierson has delivered several sermons re-
| Gently. following the young women's conference
and during the present meeting. The following is
! the substance Of given in the auditorium on
! The Glory OF the God Man" study OF the first
two chapters OF the Epistle TO the Hebrews
There is always at least one place in the Word OF
'iQd wheTr every great subject IL stated one foE
all and this IS the only where the doctrine OF
she % is ono one Igr all fully & ana eGmPTte %
| God and man have been properly and perfectly
united. Christ merely God in a human
/ proper God and proper man. absolutely joined III
one-two natures. one Person. w have a unique
| before and viii be again. In all our
studies OF the Goldman Ne have nothing preceding
| Him whereby as an analogy TO Judge Him. We
have deal with Him in Ills uniqueness, and con
sent that many things remain mysteries We ma!
as vel give up trying to pHq.ophikT, los we mus, mus
In the beginning OF the INST chapter OF Hebrews
OF Jesus Christ and then IN the second chapter his
perfect manhood In the latter part or the second
| ence to mans death 10y sin. and mans defeat by
| intrusted 10 him as recorded in Psalms viii
God. who at sundry times and In divers man an
| ners; spakr IA time past unto the fathers by me
! by his son whom he hatn appointed heir ner OF al al
| being the brightness of hs glory and the express
! Image OF his person. and upholdmg All things by
! purKrd sins. down the right hand of the
! Majesty on high; being made 30 much better than
more excellent name than they And Ia the nth
unto the angels hath he not put IN snbJection tht
| world to come. whereof We speak You the
and the Father. II W. believe the hrsl few verses
Of The Epistle the Hebrews this settles the ques
PROOF OF DIVINITY.
Look at the sevenfold proof that lie is the Son
by others lie made special use of Jesus Christ as
tis tnal mOuthpiece. In these last days lie spoke
- am = the 'i truth. and When God spoke by me he
unveiled His whole mina 10 & the ch9r1h t h o men, en-
had seen and heard Him had seen and heard the
Second. He is the heir OF all things" When an
estate is administered. II child gets the whole,
| things in whom also We have obtained an in
herltance We Shall have no Inheritance save I'm
Thre are three Creations OF God One is the
matter worlds. which We call spheres; another is
is the life worlds which call beings Here we
S,g M6r,t told puit np the ages by Christ and for
Christ and Christ. and for the glory of Christ
All We cali time is 2ut of from the mysterious orb
Of eternity and built up for the glory of Jesus