New-York tribune., 1901-08-17
INFLUENCE OF NORTHFIELD
YOUNG PEOPLE TRAINED IN ITS
sCHOOLS-A CONFERENCE SERMON.

is the closing day of the summer session Of the
Mount Hermon School. across the Connecticut and
hundreds Of the conference visitors went there in
the afternoon is being done in this place
TO perpetuate the influence of Northheld begun by
D. L. Moody. Mr. Morgan Mr. Chadwick and other
speakers were heard there. or three of the reg
uiar meetings being given up to enable the people
TO take this excursion.
while the conferences overshadow all other lines
OF work in the summer. they form small part of
the Northheld movement The schools here and
ii lineage reach more young people than many Of
the wen endowed colleges IF the land. Young peo-
pie are trained only to enter the best univers
ties IN the land. but in thousands OF homes in New
england and in States far remote from the beauti-
Iui connecticut Valley they are using the knowl-
euse that they have gained here and living the
uuths that have been taught by precept and ex-
ample 1t is difficult TO think of a better invest
rnent from educational point of view than TO
establish scholarship, endow a professorshfp or
erect building at Mount Hermon or the North
neiu Seminary Persons about to make their wills
OF seeking to do good while living do no better
than to write to William R. Moody for particulars
regarding the four schools whose heavy burdens
rest upon his shoulders.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
DR. C. / scoheld. the popular pastor Of the village
church and the president of the Northhed Training
ochool, has answered questions for four mornings
this week at service called for that purpose The
IoIowing are some of the questions and answers:
ohaI we know our earthly friends in Heaven?'
Assuredly; as Dr. Talmage says We shall GER
IalhIy not know less there than do now We
are members OF the family of God not lot of
pardoned criminals. We have the communion of
saints on earth and in Heaven. The transhgura-
tlon scene supplies answer to our question
Moses and Elijah, who had lived centuries before
were known both to Jesus and to the disciples"
What is meant by the expression in Matthew
VII Q; Give not that which is holy unto the dogs'?"
reply by asking. What are the pearls of our
christian life? Are they the ScripturaI in
I IN rf
perlences as we go in Christian life? Do
not these to unbeievers: they do good and they
cause TO stumble. The Lord tells US some things
that we should repeat only to believers. and some
we should repeat to one"
What is the meaning of the phrase baptized for
the dead'?"
I'VE must admit that this is one of the difficult
places OF Scripture. One explanation given that
| IN the early Church. when a person died before
Delng baptized although really Christian. some
member of the Church would be baptized for the
| one who had passed away The trouble with this
explanation is that il seems to have been made in
order to explain difficult passage We may there
fore reject it, Baptism is formula for putting on
publicly the Lord Jesus Christ The apostle thinks
OF the Church procession ever moving onward;
its members are bearing their testimony until one
after another they fall asleep in death Like a
regiment in a battle as one soldier after another
falls their places taken by others and the bat
tie goes To what avail is it that these take the
place of those? Paul asks If those who have gone
before are dead. why are others baptized for the
| dead?"
What is the distinction between soul and
| spirit in the Bible?"
THE spirit is that part of the man that knows
the intellect. the mind; while soul is that part
which call the will, the desires the affections
| the appetites. Spirit and mind synonymes and
| soul and heart
us it not wrong to Judge one who does not at
tend all the meetings others think he shouId?"
Most certainly. 1t is wrong to Judge any one
| about anything you haven't all the facts"
PLANS FOR THE POST CONFERENCE.
| Mr.. Moody announced this morning that the
| plans for the post conference, which begins on
| Tuesday, complete. Mr. Morgan and Mr..
Chadwick will speak every day for a week includ-
| ing Sunday, August %. DR.. Scoheld will follow
| them the following week Mr. Morgan will give a
series of Bible studies the epistles of Peter Al
ready there a large number of guests booked to
| remain during the rest of the month and orders
coming in from those who find greater pleasure
and profit from the addresses at these later meet
ings than from the many given at the regular con-
| ferences.
A pleasant feature OF the morning service was
the leading of the singing of one of Fanny Crosby's
| hymns, Rescue the Perishins," by W H. Doane
who wrote the music for the hymn. which Is known
wherever Gospel meetings have been held. At the
| Hotel Mortified, Mrs Myrtes Chandler Macdonald,
of New-York sang THE Homeland to the de-
light Of the large company of guests who meet for
family prayers every morning. During the month
of August Mrs. Macdonald sings every Sunday af-
ternoon in the Central Branch of the Young Men s
Christian Association. in Brooklyn. and the
Broome Street Tabernacle. in Manhattan, each
Sunday evening. DR.. A. T. Pierson led the prayer
service in Weston Hall this morning. Mr.. Chad
wick was the morning preacher and Mr. Morgan
the evening preacher at the Auditorium.
BELIEF AND PRACTICE.
Besides his work pastor Of the Chicago Ave
nue. Church, of Chicago and as superintendent of
the Moody Male Institute. and preacher at con-
ventions and churches outside of Chicago during
the year. the Rev. r. A. Torrey, one Of the con-
ference speakers has found time 10 prepare and
recently issued and sale here are entitled
What the Bible Teaches and How to Work
for Christ" The first is thorough and compre-
hensive study of what the Bible has to say of the
great doctrines of which IT treats 1t is the result
Of years of study, and is a successful attempt at
a careful, unbiased. thoroug ghgoing. instructive
study and statement of Bible truth Exactness of
statement is first aimed at in every instance and
then cearness Of statement. The second book is a
compendium Of methods that have been found ef-
fecttve in reaching men, it is book of theories
but one of methods that have been tried and found
TO succeed. The first chapter deals with the i'm
portance and advantages of personal work and
then the conditions of success and some Of the
methods which the writer has used given. The
last Dart of the book deals with the preparation
and delivery of sermons. The two books on the
study table Of pastors and Christian workers
effect great change in belief and practice. They
can be secured by addressing the book store. East
Mortified Mass
HOLINESS NOT PERFECTIONIsM.
The mastery manner in which Mr.. Morgan
treated Christian Science and those who teach SIN
less perfection In this life in a sermon on Wednes-
day has caused unusual comment. He believes in
divine healing but in faith healing. so-called.