New-York tribune., 1904-08-08

Denver. for the benefit OF INDECENT oonsumptives-
This work has been brought before Northneld
audiences before, and among tho tents which COM
prise THE White City described by Mr.. Danner
is one erected by students OF Mount Hermon
School!
Pledge cards for defraying the expenses OF the
conference. which distributed yesterday. will
be collected Monday evening
THE REV. CLELAND b. MAFEE'S SERMON.
After a brief introduction dealing with the ten
dency shrk responsibility and to excuse our own
lack OF activity, Mr.. McAfee on Wednesday last
spoke follows:
preaching OF the Book OF the Acts and IN the
hopeless attitude is the most pitltl gosptIIess at
ttude there could be, and 1 don't know how any
is preaching when there is note Of hope in what
he says when he does not down in his own heart
he does believe III the field where he is working.
minister came oTt & 70 our Gity TiGn e rs NOT 'i9
may day he-a minister came out 10 Chicago
from the East where everything IS SO much better,
and he had not been there more than about "A year
before he packed up his bag and baggage and came
that he had found Chicago-et ms quote his words
ipi@ritl Wei now IS mat is So that is the very
best place on earth for Il man 20 be. lie could not
sntIe @ w 129S iTnI M 'ie m m tst"n An,
when ne comes there and finds that supeIlative de-
OF need, then he found the SuperlatiVe degree
eyes xed on the discouraging things in his fied
in his surroundings. and doesn't see in those
challenge OF Gods enemy to him, Gods friend,
he might Just well go back, that is all over
and over, in talking with men about their work
for would have you know that l patriarch
In the ministry man said TO me, he thought /
was very young man. Well, ! know better. He
thinks he knows. but he doesn't know. Why |
have got one hundred and twenty-five sons I'm
the ministry: l have laid ordaining hands on
seventy-hve OF my own intellectual children to go
into the ministry; and you see. l know very
tions are But in talking with the young men, as
almost always giving the reasons for their dis
couragement. giving those reasons the things
that ought 20 have been TO them constant in
spiraton We are in hard fields and things 20
badly, DO they? WE'LL now, there must be some
especially good reason for the gospel of Christ to
be at work there, or IL would not be hard We
do not want easy fields: / think we ali agree 10
that. And you find II hard, my dear Christian
friend not at all minister, you find Il hard in
your little. narrow field of life to be what yo,
ought 10 be. do you? There things discourage
ing there Then that is thousandfold more rea-
son Tor oeing just what you ought to be there
There IS an inspiration about that. II the city Is
a conglomeration OF filth and founess and in
iquity; tnen. In Gods name. put the purifying
needed. ~ 10
But you see If a man stops with the filth and
foulness and niquity. his ministry never can have
the great big note of hope about that IL ought To
have Not blind optimism. not saying ''Oh
things viii come out all right People say that
very cheaply and easily They have talked TO me
sometimes, and they have said. 'Oh, I am suro
IL u al righti II VIII all come out ali right some