New-York tribune., 1903-08-06
SCEPTICISM TO FAITH.
Professor James Orr ArouseS Ap-
DLQuSe at Mortified.
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the evening. The afternoon service had for
the first speaker the Rev. DR.. G. Campbell Morgan.
and meeting to-day was better attended than
was this. He took his text Truly our fellow
ship is with the Father" John /. Taking human
friendship and what it means as basis he showed
how much deeper and closer the friendship.
the fellowship with the Father. He deplored the
use of the word friendship as it was now used. A
man. for instance. calls another man friend with
whom he has only speaking acquaintance.
Real friendship, declared DR.. Morgan, is some
thing far deeper than that. This is when
can unbosom himself to his companion with
whom he feels perfectly safe; who he knows
will not misunderstood or miseonstTue what he
says The Heavenly Father is such a friend,
one to whom be carried all the doubts.
all the perplexites which up in daily life.
He urged his hearers to take more time to talk to
God. and to give God more time to talk to them:
ask many favo-s Of the Father, but to tell
him about everything that concerns their lives.
The reason. he declared why there was not
fellowship with the Father to-day is because people
will take time for it.
Dr. Morgan conducted as usual his Bible class
at $50 O. clock this morning, taking as his sub
ject the "Phophecy Of Habakkuk" The regular
morning service in the Auditorium at II O'Clock
was preceded by a song service of a half hour in
length. The Rev W. H. Griffith Thomas con-
tinued his series of addresses on the Various As
poets of the Christian Life" This morning he
spoke on THE Power of Faith in the Christian
Life" In the course of his address he brought
out clearly that in the Bible faith and reason are
never contrasted. He said that many people think
that if a thing is rational it cannot be brought
into correlation with faith, and, contrariwise.
many people seemed to think that If thing is
connected with faith they must shut their eyes
to everything else and swallow 1t whole This
idea the speaker controverted. and emphasized
that reason is part of faith. and that faith and
reason never brought into opposition in the
Word of God.
On account Of the inclemency of the weather
the service that is usually at Round Top was held
this evening in the Auditorium Dr.. Altman,
missionary in Japan, described in an interesting
manner the history of Christian missions in that
: country, and the success and failure which the
missionaries had met
The regular evening service in the Auditorium
was addressed by the Rev. DR.. A. T. Pierson. OF
Brooklyn who for years has been speaker at
this conference.
A BOOK FOR CHRISTIANS
In making the announcement at the morning
service. Mr. Moody called attention to book
which he believes to be the book of the decade
for Christians who beset by doubts with re-
gard to the atonement. The name OF TINS oook
is the Death of Christ" by Professor James
Tenny of the Free Church College Glasgow, Scot
land Mr.. Moody said that he did not know OF
book which calculated to do so much good-
There is a Mortified publication which is always
of interest to those who attend these meetings
"The NorthfeId Echoes" This publication con-
Z
! dresses delivered at Northfeld in course of the
summer. These addresses are usually sent for re-
vision to the speakers who delivered them -Four
numbers are issued each year Th'
Introductory one. the second Is devoted TO the
students conference which meets early in July. the
! third to the young women's conference whlch
/ meets in the same month. and the fourth 10 the
/ conference which is now in session
The first number. which is now out contains
the following articles: DR.. Weston in bis Rose
Garden at Crozier." Some "reminiscences of Henry
G. Weston" The Character and Purpose OF the
Four Gospels a sermon by Or. Weston; Kew
! Samuel Chadwick. of Leeds. England" Christ
at the Door," sermon by Mr., Chadwick; Build
ers of Nor1hheld" New Testament Ministry and
! Teaching" a sermon by the Rev DR.. c. Camp
/ bell Morgan; Around the World with r. A. Tor
! rey," "A Revival from on High" an address by
the Rev Dr. R. A. Torrey; Mortified Sum
mer Home and Mount Hermon and Her Sons
This publication is not money making scheme,
yet when there are any profits they turned
to the support of the schools which D. L.
Moody founded here
The arrangements are in progress for the observ-
ance of Missionary Day next Monday, and Mr..
Moody has requested that all missionaries at the
! conference should register.
PROFESSOR oRR's ADDRESS.
Below will be found Professor Orr's address on
/ THE Drift from Scepticism to Faith" When DR..
/ Orr had finished he received round of applause.
unusual thing in the Northfeld Auditorium.
Dr. Orr has given many years to the study of the
/ subject, and therefore is able to speak with
/ thority He said
/ If there is one thing that history teaches us more
than another, I think surely 1t is this: That
in all me spheres of Of hs life It would take me TOO
thing else but the fact Itself I think is undenia-
Bile In the sphere OF thought, for example man is
! in this very peculiar condition. that he needs a
! heIent and satisfying view Of life and yet he can
not lay that foundation Of certainty for himself.
- zen 9eeqq tooaoau9n OF assurance and certainty
and those great and throb6ng oGeslions of 6ao5n
/ thought and vet man cannof and never " vel has as
been 9nle 10 lay that foundation with certainty for
himself: Ne often think this Christianity of ours
this religion OF ours this Gospel of ours, had never
! been assa!led in any serious way by before
scholar evefy leader Knows that. so FAR from his
S SQ Sloe oe5hg ie pens put 70 the test more
has gone through tar hercer controversy already
/ Do you think, brethren, these sceptical and
subtle pagans of the early centuries did not see
or what they thought 10 be the Weak points o;
thls rebglon that had come among them; tnat in
have remained US, some of them as clever some
( OF them as sceptical as any that issue from the
they did not bring al the power that they could 10
bear upon mat stone IN that way assisting the
arm OF persecution 20 seek and crush that religion?
1 And do you thnl. that IN the Middle Ages. there
with great inburst or outburst OF new learning
and new ides that appeared in the world at that
time, there was not immense development
Of scopticism and threatening to oVerturn this
stone that God had planted? Why il might seem
We're beng Shaken But vet here m it vs STOOD m
able as ever And do you think if you come down
blacker in the outlook for this precious stone
than they are today with al these massive forms
OF uhDeHet thal We speak OF about US? Only think
Of it, brethren Only turn your mind back to il
70 taaf eig!ateenth century Think Of the ration
France; think of the Deism in England; think Of
IRe con- u nate[aIsLn nan tLtt eatiied the very life out
or dead spiritual torpor that vas only broken by