The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-21
NEW YORK PASTORS SERMON
REYES HOLLOFAYAD ADDRESSED
 ALARGE CONGREGATION

In Dwight Place eCongregattODalc Church
 -Dtseussed Ghe Important Subject of
 s.Tss,,mony"-Three Divisions of the
 ToDte-Tn,sresttng Discussion of Each.
 Rev. E. S. Holloway, pastor of the West Thirty-third street Baptist church in New York city, delivered a very im- nressive sermon in Dwight Place Con gregational church, this city, yesterday morning. A large congregation attend cd and the remarks of the clergyman held the closest attention of those as- sembled. The text was taken from Acts ?. il: "We do hear them speak in our own tongues the wonderful works of God" Rev. MT. Holloway divided his general subject into three sections' speaking especially of the single topic "Testimony," the divisions being-first. Positive Testimony; second, Hopeful Testimony, and third, Faithful Testi- mony.
 In preluding his sermon the pastor stated that in the Pentecostal times the great power was not so much in the words and testimony of Peter as in the words of the one hundred and twenty others who were filled with the spirit of God and went among the people tell ing of their wonderful experiences. ''The Bible" said the preacher, lis not only the word of the living God, but it is the living word of the living God. To substantiate this fact no argument is needed by men who are filled with the spirit of God. One filled with the spirit of God has the word of God re- yealed to him, and the testimony of men is as strong and powerful as the spirit of God within them manifests."
 In speaking of posotive testimony Rev. Mr. Holloway said that we are to | speak of the things we know and un- ! derstand. A clear, strong and positive 1 testimony must be delivered, and such | testimony can only be given through life which has had clear and hope 1 full experience. If there is any one," said the pastor, "who ought to be able to give a hopeful testimony, it is one who has come under the power of the spirit of God. Gloom spreads itself all around us and shadows the lives of thousands, but with the Christian who can give hopeful testimony no such I ynrNXyoiIa Hnna ig wonderful word, and hope in the hu- man heart Is one of the great incen- tives of the living of a true Christian life"
 Faithful testimony. the third division of the general theme, was regarded as one of great importance. The clergy man said: we can conceive of no faithful testimony if we disregard the simplest teachings of God. His word and His truths must form the bases of all faithful testimony@ A faithful tes- timony betokens the genuineness of the | Christian experience, and the land be- yond is only for the faithful who have overcome evil with good and who have been washed in the blood of Christ. The most forceful testimony is that of the life of a man. His very life speaks much more clearly and forcibly than words alone. When Le Maritime intro- duced de I.aEure to the French popu- lace he said: Citizens, listen. Sixty years of pure life are now to address you Such lives" continued Rev. MT. Holloway, actually talk"
 | In concluding his sermon, which was one of the most eloquent and powerful delivered in local pulpit in many a Sabbath, Rev. MT. Holloway appealed most earnestly to any who were outside the fold to accept Christ as their guide and Saviour.