The sun., 1903-06-22
CAMPBELLIN PLYMOUTH PULPIT.
London Preacher Speaks Pleasantly OF
English and American Humility.

Many more people went to Plymouth
Church, Brooklyn, yesterday morning,
to hear the Rev. Reginald j. Campbell,
pastor Of the City Temple London, than
the edifice would seat The overflow stood
about the side aisles and took possession Of
the steps leading to the platform. After
the service Mr. Campbell, who is the sue
cessor OF the Rev. Joseph Parker in the
Temple pulpit, shook hands with throng
who were introduced TO him by the Rev.
DR.. Hills.
The London pastor is TALL spare and
clean shaven. with iron gray hair. He
uses little gesticuation and does not seek
to be sensational His voice appeared
rather unequal to the task of filing Plym-
outh Church. DR.. Hills introduced him
as the pastor OF London church in which
all American Congregatonalists are deeply
interested. For the warm welcome with
which he had been received in New York
Mr.. Campbell expressed his hearty thanks,
and desired it should be understood that
he had come to America. not to teach any
thing, but to learn some Of the methods
of religious work here and possibly intro
duce them in England.
If l left old England behind me- he
said, when l sailed from it's shores | seem
not to have left its weather, for find that
your June is quite similar to our November I"
He remarked, also. that he had not yet re-
covered from his sea trip. but seemed to
feel that the platform was like a ship in
motionr The congregation applauded
when lie declared that Joseph Parker was
not the only warm friend of Henry Ward
Beecher, as he himself had very early come
to regard the great Plymouth pastor as
an ideal man.
The sermon was on Seeing God as Jesus
meant to convey the idea in the Sermon
on the Mount & and in His ;a talk to His disciples
expecting, he said. the immediate estab-
lishment of the Messiah = Kingdom on earth,
and really to see God and they did not COM
prehend the contrary until He was about
to leave this earth. They did not UNDER
stand what He meant when Jesus told them
that the blessed ones who should see God
were the pure in heart, the merciful, the poor
in spirit and the meek. Continuing, Mr..
Campbell said:
THE disciples demanded show us tho
Father, and Jesus told them that in seeing
Him they had seen the Father. II God be
like Jesus it ia well for U.s. Believe me-
you will never know any more about the
love of God than in the love of Jesus.
don't believe there is a man in New York
or Brooklyn but would have vision Of
| IOu III ne COuNl. lIltTe ls very uttle
our outward life to remind us Of God. II
the curtain is ever to be drawn aside il will
be by Christ's hand. confess l never
| say rny prayers to God the Father without
| somehow looking into the face of the Son.
| 1t is Jesus who gives me all | want. To
have visions Of God you must bring some
| thing to those visions
He suggested that the flowers that for
| forty years had adorned the Plymouth
platform and the American love Of the
renaissance Of art ws.e visions Of God.
| Humility was onn of the hoatitudes But, "
said Mr., Campbell. Il ~ not want to teach
you how to govern yourselves in this coun-
| try. find you do not excel us in humility
| think 1t was Mark Twain who at the time
] of the Diamond Jubilee, said that England
was undoubtedly referred to in that por-
| ton OF the Sermon on the Mount which
says Blessed are the meek, for they shall
inherit the earth.
To-day Mr.. Campbell will address the
New York Preachers Meeting in the
Methodist Mission Building