New-York tribune., 1905-08-11
JAPAN GIRDED FOR WAR.
BELIEF OF DIR. MORGAN.
Measles and Hymns COMPARED at
Mortified.
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heli' out at the same time he said that he could
not overlook facts, and he believed that God had
glrded Japan to make missionary effort free in
Manchuria
This afternoon parlor meeting was held at the
Northfed Hotel, led by Miss SorabH of Poona
India, one of the interesting and picturesque
visitors at the conference. In her striking East
ern costume of hlmy. floating amber silk which is /
the perfect expression Of the Oriental love of |
beauty grace and color inspires interest in the
lar on East Miss sorabj represents the people |
VINO to-day stand foremost among the nations that |
make up the wonderful land of India She is in !
TINS country voicing the needs of the children Of
the Parsees, of which she is representative |
f1ltherto these people have been unreached by mis-
slohary effort, but Mrs. SorabH and her daughters
nave discovered that the one open door to their |
hearts is that of education and SO they attract To
'neT educational institutions the very highest |
classes MISS Sorabjfs special plea this visit is
Ior her school for Parsee children who despite |
the opposition of the Zoroastrian priests and tue
fact that she insists daily Bible lesson come
Willingly to her This is the only school for Parsees
"hlch offers only Christian education and only |
thls Christian family of their own race could reach
people intrenched behind such almost unpassabls
barriera
Ihere are women Of birth and culture giving their
IVes 10 work that augurs much for Indias future
MISS SorabjIs work is highly ndorsed by heads of
CnuTch and state in India, we'll by missionaries
and visitors from Western lands and calls for the
sympathy and help OF all those interested in a !
speedy evangelization of India She makes no plea
Wten speaking at conferences, confning her mes |
sage to the general need of education for the women
Of India.
Mr. Alexander led the song service this morning |
ana, In introducing new hymn said:
ms hymn is just like the measles; it is catch
lns' When you get it you give it TO somebody !
ese therefore, get it right and you will give II |
right" -
Or. j. r Carson. of Brooklyn, spoke at the Round |
Top service. and the Rev Thomas j. Villers Of |
indianapolis at the Auditorium service
THE REV. DIR. Ross's SERMON.
The Rev Johnston Ross, who preached the SER
mon Sunday morning, spoke on Our Lord at |
Prayer" He said:
ann enre is ot6a6g at IN minds 3 be continually
Ts5 s thrist and especially of s present activity
g0iPg 0d t,t8 to ask you 10 study Him with me as we
We're fbpk6rp d prayer "a & some Of us here Yesterday
INN thiak Of Him at the highest of all His works, at
final form of His activity for man-an microscopy
obygg and study the seventeenth chapter Of
must be, but it may be that we may lay hold Of
yourselves ferWafd and also WITCH P9 %on av 0ur f6r 6
cp Hf Nv dsaa DO aPpy S thai to otheF b pants Of holy
henceforth be even more precious to you than it
Scriptures of the New Testament as indeed we
m may Teverenty claim that it is an innermost holy
May I remind .you, Of the position which this
PTyeT o6c0PeS up o IN Johns story Of Jesus The
twelfth and beginning of the thirteenth chapters
chapter Of John and viii look over the Very first
verses OF it, you will feel that you are beginning
His disciples pie, into the upper room that He might
es 4F me R things that We're nearest to His own
about God and about Himself: and inasnuch as
strife amongst them as to which should be tRs
were To- Jecei Ei Gy b IGT clearly no" n1ted th9s
begins His instruction of them in that room as
and as mothers begin to teach their little children
hrst by object lessons and in silence He. grdng
servant the dress of servant. and taking basin
that He might instruct them in the deepest of all
truths: namely, the humble ard STOPPING heart of
God; for that God has a heart that stoops; that
God is as Jesus was amongst US as one that
IN service for His own that is the deepest of all
truths In heaven and in earth. That is what Jesus
saoTame5t mt Of 1b wasSin ~ e Of Silence OF the
Then, from object lesson He rises to conyersaton,
JOINS enq wRc hi me is aeys Ike eh9Pfr 0
20 me. that altar of incense Of which it is said
in the Old Testament that 1t was in the holy place.
est of all.
CHRIsTs REVELATION OF HIMSELF
But then. from conversation He rises to a height
higher still to intimacy closer STILL and allows
ing their feet and listening to HIS marvellous CON
ahd Thfh ha5 essn ega @ @ sop
all that. He now permits them TO overhear Him
| If he is an honest man never can you get such
insight into his heart as when you listen 10 him
of jesus chrs Of 5s Hmsef and n0 Of
God, as He turned to His Father to commit Him
was twenty-four hours before Jesus Christ's death
| Now, that position that this chapter occupies in
the New Testament, it seems to me. constitutes
This prayer be worthy of this august POSITION the
position which 1t occupies in the whole course of
| Gods revelation of Himself? Will it be worthy of
the situation? 1t is always useful for to remem-
| Der that the elements of our human thought move
within certain categories; that is TO say there
God next our Individual iife the eaning of our
own life; next the course of the world outside Of
us God. myself the external world; these
the three great subjects of human thought; they
move. You are always thinking about one of these
! Let us begin with this chapters revelation Of
God Let me say in passing here that all the time
He is speaking of God, of Himself and of the
US speak as in His presence. First OF all then,
| about God. There are three ways in which
First of all the simpest BY the names s that are
given God. Jesus three times addresses God in
| eleventh and twelfth verses. as Holy Father and
then, in the twenty-ffth verse, as Righteous
their full value if Jesus first placed in
supreme prominence the character Of God. and
than n these two words Holy
| righteousness? Holiness is goodness in itself and
@ IS as m m @ E SPod SPod T ha6as
ness is the will and mind OF holiness falling upon
sin 20 righteous Father, the world hath not
known thee" But take the two together. and you
viii find that nowhere in the literature Of the
conception OF God is given in these three words
holy righteous FathSr II yqn % are gong 20 GaI a
rightsousness Even in the first century the dan
an unholy familiarity therefore Sald Feter II
We call on him Father. who without respect or
See that Vou pass the time OF your scjournng here
in boiT ave. 4forasnuch as ye know that We
ND qoId hut with the precious blood Of Christ
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