New-York tribune., 1905-08-19
DIR. MORGAN ON CITIES.
NEW-YORK AND HE4VEN.
Inspiring Picture of the Ideal
Patmos Painted at Mortified.
IA rELEGRArH mo- rHE rn1R1.NE- !

behalf Concerning the latter he said that there
was nothing finer in the Old Testament than that
picture
Il am sick Of the ideals that some people have
Of Godlness." added DR. Morgan Moses broke
The tables of stone end ground to powder the calf
"lich the people had made and forced it down
ther throats- If he had been your pastor Won
would have got mad and resigned from the church
l iihe Ie red hot. white hot anger which Moses
showed against sin. The secret OF that anger was
the love which he bore the people"
IN Oh Wednesday evening DIR. Morgan spok. uDon
me me City Which Is to Come" in which he dis
cussed modern cities and pictured the ideal cit,,
"N!ch Is to come He does not consider +b,t w.
oiA Is an Ideal city, the report of the address
70 - ,ith e~ith SHOWS. but his picture Of the city
e established hereafter is truly ideal.
II Dehney, of Glasgow smoke tv,ca tod.,
- Uton The Ministry OF Jesus in Its Relation
70 HFalins," ard later to a connanv, Of r,in,s,a
mis- LOT ms subject The Dangers OF the Minis
tI'' Dr' Denney is extremely popular with tba
''PaAS that attends every meeting at which
ne speaks. He is well known as a writer. and so
ueepiS interested are friends In Scotland in his
recent book, THE Death Of Christ !" that some OF
'Heh nave placed copy in the hand OF every
Halls.
Mr Moody called attention last evening TO this
nooh' ana also to THE Atonement and the Modern
Mind and many copies have been obtained to-
oay from the book store in the Auditorium. Yes
leroay woman tried to buy Queen Victoria's
Li'e' saying that she had heard il announced
rs good book TO read She went away happy
carrying DR.. Webb-Peploe's Victorious Life IN
which attention had been called
DF' Denney, in his two volumes is thoroughly
eyanSehc The author carefully distinguishes be-
tween the terms theology and religion but
maintains that at the Cross OF Christ they meet
and are inextricably involved in each other, when
the death of Christ is understood as the New
Testament interprets it,
The preacher last evening was Dr.. Arthur T.
Plerson, who gave a graphic account of the Welsh
revival, to which he gave careful study during his
recent tour in Great Britain But more re-narka BILE
even than that experience was the one which he
related as having taken place at the Keswick con-
yention in England, when an evening meeting
continued until a.. m. Hour after hour was spent
in prayer and confession of sin by ministers and
other Christian workers. More than thousand
written requests for prayer were sent to the desk
while more than two hundred and fifty Christian
people confessed individual sins
This evening the preacher was the Rev DR.
George F. Pentecost, who has fine home in
Northfeld
FOR a BIBLE TRAINING SCHOOL.
Already plans making for the opening Of the
Northheld Bible Training School which was estab-
Hshed by D. L. Moody for the training of Chris
tian women in the knowledge and use of the
Scriptures in all the varied departments of Chris
tian activity open TO them Mr.. Moody saw that
great need OF the churches was BODY of trained
lay workers expert in the OF the Bible trained
carefully TO do personal work to lead meetings
effectively. 70 visit wisely and in innumerable ways
to supplement the pastor
There reached him also many inruirias for
skilled workers to serve as pastors assistants
rural mission workers church visitors and SAL
ar1ed Sunday school supertntendents and those
Inquiries brought forcibly to Mr. Noody's atten-
tion the fact that. practically, there was no supplv
adequate TO this demand. Another problem which
pressed much upon Mr. Moodys heart was that NJ
rural evangelization.
Nothing IS more certain than that the cities
must be saved by saving the country for the
cities grow chiefly by accretions from the country
This is problem exceedingly difficult of solution
but Mr. Moody believed the solution to lie in train
Ing layWorkers for the work Of country evangelical
ton. not to supplant but aid the rural pastor
1t soon became evident that certain courses
additional to those in scripture were essential
to the highest efficiency of such workers and so
courses in plain sewing. cooking. music and elocu-
tion have been instituted. The number of students
enrolled for the fifteen years OF history of the
school Is S34. Some have become foreign mission
aries others y. ". c. A secretaries deaconesses
rural evangests settlement and Sabbath school
workers The demand has proved the field for
such workers practically IImitIess
Friends who interested in young women who
desire TO fiji themselves for missionary work can
90 them and the school IA mutual service by ad-
dressing Miss Mabel W. Learoyd the principl
OF the school, East Northfed.
DIR. MORGAN's ADDRESS.
The following is the substance Of Dr. Morgan's
address on Cities"
basn hs p9s59n f@Ts for W. city is divine in
mendous inrush 10 the cities We are saVinr in
my own country, Pack the land" but this
orsInai plan in the creation OF man The city ex-
presses the result OF a nations dealing with a
gardcn- John Rusbin said that railway train
making its way across the landscape hurt him be
cause II spoiled the landscape and yet John Rus
KIN loved to bend over and watch anthill. with
all the wondrous working Of the ants and TO me
dictory 1'''' I'd
If to me it is interesting to watch this ant at
great locomotive as IL crosses the continent. for
work. and the final expression OF man IS not the
loneliness OF the garden. but the socialism OF the
Prince Bismarck said: Great cities are great
sores upon the body politic | believe thar to be
tory or city on the face Of the earth to-day that
But You say ali these things sound so ter
riby contradictory. You are telling one
We let Us gat se back o the Bble IT. and
the the end and Snins d as f hng nd is city e' Tha
is the Divine programme He put man into gar
nd a @ What hf did might M o T05f Kan ms T his 0 bacf as
God in the garden aud has been trying TO build
first city was named EnoGh; Cain built it. The
cities. and they have never built a city.
to You cannot be Christian and live in
any city on this side OF the Atlantic or any other
without feeling its agour surging upon YOU The
goodness OF the city is its curse. Yes brt these
the city: they the setting up here
this earth-folloW me careful!y-they saw the
setting NJ this earth OF Divine order of
things For that they sighed; for that they
watched; FOR that they waited. Every one OF
them looked 70 the establishment OF the kingdom
Of God here in the world until come again. very
revereutly. TO Jesus Himself, and for that He
u~ayed and taught pray. and 10 that He set
Himself 20 work; and the first man turned the
garden into wilderness the second man went
into the wilderness to turn IL back into a garden
and make il a city presently As the frst man So
acted in a garden that IL brought forth thOrns and
thistes, the second man made His dladen of those