New-York tribune., 1902-08-16
WORK OF SOUL WINNING.
DIR. SHAW, OF NEW-YORK, AT NORTH
FIELD-COMMENCEM DAY
AT MOUNT HERMON.
tBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE.1

Come to Boston and deliver that same Sermon
in my church, said DR.. A. c. Dixon to Dr. Sha"
he greeted him at the close of the morning ser
vice.
Il shall try to get DIR. Shaw" said leading
layman ito to Boston and deliver that ad-
dress before the Congregational Club. We need
that message badly in New-England churches
DR.. Shaw came here from Kenne Valley, in the Adj
rondacks to deliver this single sermon. but the re-
suit worth the effort. For nearly an hour ne
held the great audience wellnigh spelibound Be
ginning with the remark that winners of souls
should cooperate with the Holy Spirit. he showed
wherein that cooperation possible: First
when one yields himself to the Holy Spirit; sec
ond. when shares the purpose of the Spirit,
and, third. when one joins Him entirely In his
work.
The address repete with incident and expert
A cannbal chief. who became converted
and started out to do mission work, bought boat
which he could sail among the islands to carry
the gospel to other tribes. He had abandoned his
dugout for the sailing boat but he soon brought
back the better one declaring that he could not do
effective work while using it. His ministry was
not blessed. and he himself was in danger of going
back to cannbalism. Some of us, said DR.. Shaw
will have to give up boats before we can be-
soul winners Give UP your boat my brother,
If it is weakening your efficiency as a winner of
souls"
The preacher closed with a personal experience
which moved many person to tears. Dr. Shaw
had Adirondack driver. named Harvey, with
whom he had ridden hundreds of miles While
subjects,
had fair religious conversation until one day
when they were riding together the preacher talked
with him about the claims of religion man
kind. and last invited him to attend the village
church where he to preach the next Sunday
evening. Harvey promised to do so, but he was
unable to keep his promise The next morning he
was taken Ill. and died days later. DIR. Shaw
him alive again He was asked to take
some part in the funeral service "Very wel' he
said; but cannot speak. and not worthy 10
wi rpad a mas q
This he did and when he walked with the friends
take farewell look at the face OF old Harvey,
he said that the inscription the coffin plate
seemed 10 him be missing and instead of the
usual wording. announcing the name and age OF
the deceased man. he in letters Of light, these
words. "A lost opportunity"
More lost, I believe" added DR. Shaw solemnly
more lost TO than TO old Harvey
MOUNT HERMON COMMENCEMENT.
This afternoon the closing exercises of the Mount
Hermor School were held. and hundreds OF people
went across the river to the beautiful school cam
pus. which to Mr. Moody's heart. He
loved the seminary for girls for 1t first love-
but he accustomed 10 say that he understood
boys better than he did girls Mrs. Moody was in
the audience and William r. Moody sat on the
platform and introduced the speakers. Colonel
Janeway, the president Of the Board OF Trustees.
presided. and brief addresses made the
young and their friends who filled the beau
tful Moody chapel. by the Rev. F. B. Meyer. DR.. |
H. B. Spnan OF Cohoes n Y; Professor Hitch
cock of Amherst College: ]. Willis Baer OF Ros-
ton trustee OF the school, H. NJ. Moore. OF Bos- |
ton. the president OF the seminary. and the Rev.
DR.. Henry E Weston OF Grocer Theological Semi |
nary; Or. A. c. Dixon, OF the Ruggles Street Bap
fist Church. of Boston. and DR.. John Bancroft |
Dcvins. OF the Broome Street Tabernacle of New !
York.
one Of the speakers told OF meeting a delega-
ton students from the seminary and the school
on their way TO the students volunteer convention
Toronto last winter After leaving Buffalo sew
eral college delegations entered the car, and soon
OF them began song. in which unpleasant |
references are made to members OF race largely
represented in New-York. The moment that this |
song ceased, the Hermon boys started the hymn:
Ye Christian heraIds go proclaim
Salvation through !mmanueIs name.
And plant the Rose of Sharon there
There IS not another hymn IN the books, the |
speaker added appropriate as this 10 rebuke |
the spirit of the song thoughtessly started by !
Christian young people their way 10 a mission |
ary convention. But no rebuke was Intended ny |
the Hcrmon boys and the seminary girls: it was |
simply the Mortified spirit manifesting itself sup
planting the bad with the good-not pumping the |
of the glass. but pouring the water IN 1t |
was displacfng it by simply what one might expect
from, those who had imbibed the spirit OF D. l.. |
Moody The effect startling. Scarcely had the
last words of the missionary chant been before
the singers of the responded with the familiar
hymn in which every person in the car Joined:
Blest be the that binds our hearts in Christian
The fellowship of kindred minds is like to that
above
After DR.. sillman had spoken Mr.. Moody in
formed the young that he had given the
science hall that bears his name and equipped 1t.
Now that the school has outgrown the building pro-
yided Dr. siman has given $4,000 with which 10
erect an addition, 40 by so feet which will contain
a large lecture hall and numerous classrooms.
NortheeId has never had a better friend than Dr.
Suliman At the suggestion OF Principal Cutler
tho efficient head of Mount Hermon. the members
of the school to express their thanks 10 thel
yoperous hearted benefactor. Many another school
and society here and abroad could properly IoLo"
their example and to the same man Also
Nearly four thousand boys have been at Mount
Herman since It was opened. twenty years ago
When Mr. Moody died many members OF the
Alumni Association felt that the association should
receive into membership all those who had been
students at Mount Hermon, who were loyal 10
Mount Hermon and the memory of Mr. Moody
This step was taken and under the progressive
leadership of jeremiah Holmes, a graduate or the
school and the cordial cooperation OF the Moody
family Principal Cutler and others. the association
is beginning to be of real value to the school |
This work among the old students has led to the
necessity of having a secretary devote part
of his time to the work. Lormer Drury. Mount
Hermon '9S and Brown University, '02. has been
orpointed to this position His duties will include
the nanagement of alumni publication which
will help in keeping former students in touch
with one another and with the school; keeping
track of the students who have gone from
the school; assisting in the administrative work
of the association, and the raising of the student
fund. which has grown very rapidly
under the direction of Professor Dickerson. In a
word the secretary will be the representative of
the old students at the school, and will also be a
member of the faculty and will assist n the de-
partment of history
This morning at the auditorium, before aIr. Nor