New-York tribune., 1902-12-02
MANY MISSION SERVICES.
BISHOP POTTER PRESIDES AT Blu
MEETING IN CARNEGIE HALL

There VA. a notable gathering Of men prominent
in the Episcopal Church at the first OF tour mass
meetings forming part Of the speciai ADVENT tne @
sionary revival last night in Carnegie Hail iH0
audience packed the large auditorium Bishop rot
ter presided and said the Church's responsioiii.s
for missionary work would be strengthened oy 'ile
meetings. bringing together great mui'l'u"e u
people for common purpose.
Bishop Brewer OF Montana touched on tne sooo
that would come cut of arbitration both at lne
Hague and by the commission appointed oy Flesl-
dent Roosevelt settle the coal strike. Inc
stars and Stripes and the Union Jark he SAID
waving side by side would compel universal peace
I'VE must do our duty to Cuba and Porto Rico
he declared. and must uphold and plant missions
and pray for and support them as long as we i've.
The Gospel for the Modern City vas the topic
of Dr. w r Huntington, of Grace Church he
said in part:
1t is not strange that in a community wherein
20 per cent OF the population is urban and |nere. M re
cent attend public worship great revival should
be held The wording OF my su6leSI 5egS 9
its own don't believe that
DR.. Huntington then compared ancient Athens
with New-York. He said that in the Grecian city
in the wear 45o B. C Boss Rule existed under
PericIes and within the lifetime Of men stin hv-
ing New-York under the rule OF Boss I"eed'
Bishop Tuttle of Missouri said:
When YOU find men honest in Wall Street and
Schools Schools and home. even If We don't see them In
that tie Holy Spirit is at work guiding them
Yesterday noon at Trinity Church, the Lord
Bishop of Thetford, England. preached the sermon
The church was crowded The Lord Bishop said
in part:
No one passes through this great city hut he per
ceves the devotion to work Every one Is AT u
The boy first in school has that as his great ann
If he does not work he must eventually go 70 lne
wall and the sooner the better and IL IS WeH.
it is the law of Cod. We read' six days shalt
Some business men do not read the Fourth Com
day being of rest but do not follow the I'M
plfcit instructions that six days shall be WORK
days Therefore. there is no room on earn; ana. H
the idle man or woman
He related an incident of English servant
girl who after confirmation sneeringly asked
by friends what it meant to her She replied;
'I can't explain exactly, but know that since
then I have swept under the beds, and I didn't
before
Regarding the meetings OF the week he said the
work was most important. He declared: There
is no other work that can compare with it
At the noon service in ST Paurs Chapel DR..
Partridge Bishop Of Kioto. Japan. spoke. He said
in part:
The hardest trials which the missionaries have
to bear are not those resulting from pnyslcat dS-
comfort they not those incident to their sepaT
ton from friends and kindred, they are not lnose
caused by the opposition of the heather world NO
al the missionary Is ready ana glad 10 meet
Rut mis- hardest trials come when he sometimes
feels that those who have sent MIN out nave ieiI
him to die on a foreign shore
At the Church of Zion and st. Timothy yester-
day afternoon The Influence of Colleges in Carry
ing the Spirit of Christianity to Heathendom was
the subject. The speakers were BlShop partridge
and President Smith of Trinity College