New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-13
N0RTHFIELD TALKS.
SERMONS AND DRIVES.
The ReU. Samuel Chad5cick on Back
to Bethel"
Inr rrIraRApu 10 rHE rR1nuNE.l


& perfect day. OF the best from various points
OF view. Between the meetings as many people
have been riding as could find livery teams avail
able. Many have driven 10 Mount Eermon to see
ths beautiful site upon which Mr.. Moody founded
his school for boys and young men
There are beautiful drives and rambles in every
direction: some along the shady hillside and noun
tain gorge others through the ancient, elm-arched
streets OF Mortified village and along the placid
Connecticut Among the most charming and pop
ulsr drives the following may be named: Notch
Mountain, Louisiana Mountain Walk. Lovers Re
iTeat. King Philips Hin. Ice Cave. Obers Look
cut. Crag Mountain, HeTs Back Kitchen Drive,
French King. Ashuelot River Drive, Ashuelot River
Drive via Winchester Mountain. Huckle Hill via
Vernon. Bears Den. Warwick Brook Drive via
Winchester and Warwick, Turner's Falls Slough
tons Bird Track Quarry, Erving and Hermit
Rock via Mer's Fails Brattleboro. Greenfield.
Poets Seat. aiiller's River Drive, and spoffard
Lake.
The Stone Chair, Cathedral Pines. Bonar Glen
Chalet Roeburn and Wanamaker's Lake are some
o. the favorite resorts within easy reach of the
nature loving pedestrian. In the afternoon from
10 o, Drs and Mrs Henry G Mabie rendered
reception to the conference guests at their beau
uful summer home Chalet Roeburn, on the
Winchester Road. Prominent missionaries were
present including the Rev. DR.. House. of the Amer
ican Board at saionica. Turkey the Rev. Mr.
kirkpatrick, and DR.. Weston. the venerable pres
ident Of Grocer Theological Seminary. Each one
made few remarks 10 the guests.
: q. m. with prayer service conducted by Dr.
Weston. Although coming so early in the day
this meeting was largely attended. At the next
hour DR.. Morgan continued his series Of lectures
on The Minor Prophets He spoke this morning
on the prophecy OF Zachariah.
The Rev Samuel Chadwick who is speaking each
morning at the II o'clock service spoke this morn
ing on The Resurrection" He said that in the
Christian dispensation when a person wants to
know what God do he takes him back to the
is he mir OF vim
power the supreme demonstration of power In
this one act Of resurrection, all the miracles are
wrought in one miracle In each previous case
OF resurrection men were called back to mortal
life Jesus Christ was not recalled as were they
The risen Christ is the power of the Gospel Per
honal salvation comes when there is personal APP
preparation and Identification One word which
sums up the whole condition of salvation IS sac
cept. Conversion in Christian experience is the
counterpart Of Chrsts resurrection miracle.
Mr. Chadwick took occasion to suggest that
theological professors who hold that conversion is
by education or revolution should take a six
months course in the Jerry McAuley Mission to
see II this IS So Conversion is Gods supreme
miracle in Christian experience. Save the man. he
said, and you have solved every problem in which
he is involved.
At O'Clock the Rev. H. W Pope. who is asso-
ciated with the NorSnheld extension movement
gave an address in the Auditorium on Soul Win
ming"
At the Roundtop service the Rev. Len G. Brough-
ton, Of the Baptist Tabernacle Atlanta, Ga, was
the speaker. His subject was The Ship Without
The Fishermen" The Church represented by
the ship. and the members of the Church by the
fishermen His sermon earnest presenta-
tioE of the idea that the Church has failed to
the lost sinner The sermon was filled with in
cidents IL his own evanselistic work The last
speaker % the day wac the Rev Dr. Campbell
Immediately after the general conference of
christian workers series OF addresses has been
planned, which viii continue through August and
requests of various people that of the speak
present m detail Certain n Of hrisan ofSG af
To this end Professor James Orr. Of Glasgow
Dr. MORGAN. of East Mortified; the Rev. W. H.
Griffith Thomas, or London: the Rev. Samuel
Chadwick. Of Leeds and others have signifed
field This win give an opportunity for those who
There are also fewer meetings during this gather-
search and for consultation with the speakers.
The warm sunny days the changing foliage and
the natural beauty OF the place make an autumn
JIeImon School and the Northfed Seminary with
thelr many interesting features; are In session at
aG qG9b daily ShSe Exercises are held IN, In
entertainment Of guess the Northdeld a hotel
situated about one hundred yards from the church
There are also tents on Seminary Campus. Mar
Quand Hall and Camp Northfeld, at which guests
Mr.. Chadwick. who speaks every morning in the
fd up broken down MISSION es This @ missions eeq had
eteIoT5ted rom an attendance Of 900 TO an aver
the place was crowded. and a little later it was
churches forced 20 affiIiate themselves with
the Central Mission and they: too. became crowd
land. we're established. a dlspensary was made
I9r[ OF re tie church night l, schools began great
selves 20 the Of the mill girls who swarmed
employed and 50 sensible and businesslike was Mr.
Chadwicks administration that Oxford Place
Chapel was transformed from lifeIess place of
worship TO A model Wesleyan community. Mr..
ohad%iek himself IS the kind Of man his work
Speaker. and a preacher Of the New Testament.
THE REV MR.. CHADwICK's SERMON.
On Sunday he delivered a sermon Back to
Bethel" in which he spoke in part as follows:
let US arise and go up to Bethel"-Genesis
Bethel was the place Of visions and OF vows.
s%5n VISIONS f ana VOWS were peculiarly charac-
OF glorious dawn. We enter upon our work and
upon our being with the instinct to be predominant
q hopes. OF resolutions the period of angels and
$ diis. AN thllss are possible TO youth DIFF
possibilities are TO yield their secret and become
Ife Al IT'S oro1jrt 49, 80 - 49,. a. PooI
ishes no ambitions that registers no
and The Vision came to him at a peculiarly i'm,
he oeheld ne ladder reaching from his feet right
away into the heavens. 10 the very footstool of
God. End between the eternal God and his own
sohtsry ne ne found the angels passing, ascend
ing and descending. II revealed to him the fact
The voice of the Almighty. speaking 10 him; and
ne a~oke; anG II was = dream but dream n
was followed by decision. decision which led
low and il became an altar; revelation that led
70 his surrender Of his life into the purposes of the
Eternal and the confession OF God IN the pres
ence OF the angels.
He stepped out that morning with a new sense
Of divinity in his soul. with high purposes and
noble ideals, THRILL of gIadness in his heart that
Cod pledged to His service expecting heavens
blessing 10 rest upon him all his days; and con