The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-05-26
CONFERENCE CLOSING
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| evangelistic meeting which closed the
| days sessions of the Bible Conference
! John P. Hills reused the congregation
i, into enthusiasm by leading the congre-
| gationai singing. Under his direction
| the general singing and chorus work
has been brought to a standard higher
| than ever before.
DR.. Hiram Bingham led in. prayer
and the congregation sang More About
Jesus, Then Mr.. Fred Butler sang in
his inimitable manner Mr.. Hills beau
tiful hymn, 'tWill I Empty-Handed
Be-" Hon. P. C. Jones, chairman of
the Finance Committee made state
ment regarding finances. He said that
he had heard it stated that DR.. Ostrom
was being paid we'll for his work, He
stated that not only had DIR. Ostrom
not received a cent but he had adj
vanced nearly $500 to the expenses of
bringing the mission here from Seattle.
DR.. Ostrom had refused to accept a
penny until all the other expenses of
the campaign We're provided for. He
had not said a word about money but
Mr. Jones thought that he should re-
ceive a most generous offering for his
hard and untiring work. A collection
was taken up last night and will be to-
night and Sunday night for DR.. Ostrom
After the singing of the "Glory Song
by the audience in the different Ian
guages DIR. Ostrom announced his text
from Acts 26:1s, 'whereupon, o King
the heavenly vision He said in SUBJ
stance;
obedience is one of the great and
cardinal laws of Gods creation. Jesus
fence. He was 'obedient unto death, /
even the death of the cross When the
outward law says This is the way .
mans best Judgment says That is the
way and his heart confirms it. The
outer law and the inner law must
tally and be in accord.
when the scripture speaks of old
men and young men seeing dreams and
as we see now. Visions of day
when government shall be righteous. !
when houses of i'll fame shall be closed.
when the world shall be Christ's. We
all may have visions. One cannot read
poetry without its bringing him vi /
sions. So if We can see visions III :
these things why cannot We get an in
sight into Gods government. Paul,
endorsed on the Damascus road saw a
vision of the character of Jesus and his
claim on his soul and so acted that he
was able to say to Agrippa L was not
unto the heavenly vision
Men will admit that insight is all
right in the realms of science and in
vention, electricity, in arithmetic, in
forecasting the weather. but many of
them refuse to believe that insight and
vision are possible in the religious
realm. But 1 insist that it is all right
in religion History records many ex-
amples. Such heavenly visions came
to Martin Luther John Knox. John
Wesley. Charles Sturgeon and scores of
others. heroes of the Christian church.
They We're not disobedient unto the
heavenly vision.
"Such a vision came to that modern
St Catherine who cried out to William
Booth We have rung the bell long
enough for people to come to us. Let
US go out to them That began the
great work of the Salvation Army, that
which has saved millions.
[ think with all honor to William
Booth that the great power that moved
the Salvation Army was Catherine
Booth
II have mentioned these few
and you may say: oh, yes, but I
can't be as great as these Yes. but
would remind youN that the little
spring is as important as the gushing
we'll. If they had the great mountain
.op vision We can have the little knoll