The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-23

plodcn or Christ, etc, puDllsned Dy the Fleming H. ReYell CO, New York;
 Tor sale at Judd's
 Now that Dr.. Dawson the noted
 English evangelist is among us in the thick of the great eyangelistic work in progress here, it is of interest to speak
 of how he was led to give up his big and wealthy London parish which had greatly developed and grown through his rare ability as a preacher and wit CT. his zeal and his. executive
 capacity Impelled by earnest and deep convictions of duty in the case he
 gave up his great work in London to
 engage in evangelistic work and how
 he came to do it is told in the opening essay in the book before us. As the publishers wells say the volume will be found to carry message of eXccp- tional importance to ministers and Christian workers who are interested in reawakenin of the power of our churches
 Following the essay in the book are various addresses delivered by pr.
 Dawson in Plymouth church, Brook
 lyn and t.o addresses not delivered before American audiences together with Dr. Dawson's address on self
 Reservation delivered at Yale to stud
 ents of the university,
 In August, 1902. Dr. Dawson con < cluded ten years of ministry in the
 Highbury Quadrant church and in the summer holiday which followed came
 a season of rigid self-examnation in
 which as he says, he was haunted with
 sense of unreality in my work
 could accuse myself of no stint of la bor,. nor my people of any visible de-
 cline of interest in my ministry. but
 viewed with dismay the coming years. Something was clearly lacking in my
 self and my church. During ten years
 of strenuous toll the Highbury quad rant church had been built up in a
 wonderful series of organizations
 which answered every need of the sur
 rounding population. had. beside the ordinary apparatus of the church
 work. a great lecture society, young
 mems societies, gymnastic clubs and
 two large missions among the poor
 the annual cost of which exceeded s5.- k. 000, Here was a mass of perfect ma < chinery apabe of doing great work .s Such fault as there was lay not il a+ lack of machinery but in the driving ,s force, m
 Something. the doctor felt, was
 lacking, and he was perplexed as tc
 the solution of his mental struggle. Al
 last light unexpectedly came. lr
 March, 1903. he attended the sessions
 of the National Free Council held a
 Brighton and was astonished at the
 new atmosphere of spiritual warmth
 in which he found himself. HThe clim
 ax came. in the middle of the week a "a midnight meeting when the mem
 bers of the council, one thousand
 strong marched through the streets O
 Brighton gathering in the waifs ant
 wastrels of the street, collecting tht
 drunkards, picking up the sons ant ! daughters of vice and finally return. \. ed to the Dome at Brighton with sucf
 congregation as I had never seen
 Gfpsy Smith gave the address. It wa:
 simple. masculine, moving and entirely
 free from sensationalism. He pleaded
 with the lost and weary then ant i. there to give themselves to Christ. A
 the clcse of the address saw. what
 had not seen sinceI was boy ir
 Cornwall, scores of men and womer
 rising for prayer and pouring into ar
 extemporized enquiry room to seek in stant deliverance from their sins. Ant | then I knew what was the missing ele Gr1ent in my ministry. what was thu vital deficiency in my own church. I was evangelistic fervor, the spirit 0 the Christian propaganda. l returned to my church and my work consciou of a subtle change in myself whicl affected every fibre of my thought One supreme thought possessed me onlv sby the power of a living evan gelistion could my ministry and m. church be henceforth justified To in troduce that power into such churc' as mine might make or break it. ha' E no desire to discard institutions whicl had grown up with the life of tn church. Could then retain all that had, but add the program of evangel \ istic effort? How far would my peo pie respond to the new note? did nc know but I felt I must take the risl And as it turned out there was n risk When the proposition was mad < that Gipsy Smith should hold mis sion there was response which sur q prised me There was deeper cui q rent of spiritual passion running un | der the polished surface of norma \ church life than had ever imagined 4 Dr. Dawson then tells of the inaue I urauon of it's mission work in hi church Pagan London indeed la ' at the very church door-the Londo ' of Goddess wealth, abominable vic, % helpless poverty, crime. lust, miser, z Into my church with all its association 4 of cultured worship, these swept on s given night, a mass of men and wonl z en far more helpless and deprave q than those that made the midnigf A audience at Brighton. We also wen VI out to seek for the lost and the los 4 were brought in e My people. m q deaeons and workers, thousan z strong, marched at midnight an 4 gathered from the gutters and tn [ public houses. a vast congregation c f those for whose souls no man cared fl And just as I had discovered a spirit U ual readiness among my own peopl \ which had never suspected. so no' I I found a response to the call z I Christ among the lowest of the pee 4 pie which both thrilled and amaze me. Not one of the workers who CT \ tered the public houses that night re II .ceived a word of insult. The keeper
 of the lowest lodging houses persuade s the unhappy inmates to come with II S The whole neighberhood was movet Il Astonishment reigned supreme An
 am still astonished as l reflect upo # jt all T am astouished to know ho