The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-07-23
A STRONG APPEAL
FOR BETTER LIVING
Very Interesting Program Rendered
At Meeting Of Women's Foreign
Missionary Society at Court Street
Church Last Night.

Bishop z. d. MouZon, of George
town, Tex, one of the newly-elected
Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, spoke on Friday eve-
nning at the Court Street Methodist
church. The Bishop is fluent
and his talk from the heart" as he
expressed it, deeply impressed every
one in his audience with the beauty
and sure triumph of Christian living
and the necessity of belief in God and
in mankind. His talk was well
thought out, forcibly and cleverly ex-
pressed and delivered, and altogether
convincing and beautiful.
After a hymn and solo, THE Holy
City," sung by Mrs. Leo H. Martin,
and prayer, led by Rev. w. J. Fergu-
son, of Brooklyn, the pastor of the
church, Rev. Geo. H. Thompson, pre-
sented Bishop Mouzon to the congre-
CATION. The Bishop assured the audi
ence that he would neither lecture
nor preach, but as he stood there
would give them thoughts from his
heart on the 42nd chapter of Isaiah,
to 4. Reading these verses, he gave
the keynote of his talk, "the equip
ment, method and victory of the suf-
fering servant of Jehovah" Urging
his hearers to study Isaiah, he said
that the prophets had a greater mes
sage than they themselves could I'M
derstand. That the author had in
mind no one person for the suffering
servant of Jehovah. The Bishop de-
clared he would not argue with any
man that the Holy Spirit rested on
the prophets, for if he could not see
it, it was no use to argue. He cited a
case of a student, a brilliant young
fellow at the Southwestern Presbyte
rian University, who knew hardly any
thing about the New Testament.
With all he knew, this student yet
had never read the epistle of the Ro-
mans. The Bishop had set him to
the epistle, and the story of
Paul gripped him until he was
forced to confess that he had never
before read anything like it.
The Bible, the speaker said, is SUI
preme authority in religion. Why? Not |
because it was made so by the decree |
Of some council or man, but because |
the Spirit of God speaks in it and |
through it to each one. In speaking |
of equipment of the old Testament
prophet the Bishop showed how even
the Lord Christ was qualified and |
equipped for the ministry by the Holy
Spirit being put upon him. and if
Christ and the apostles had it put
upon them, how much more do we
need it? Whether it be for a special I
service or in the daily service of a
life. it is needed. For an
example of this the life of Jno. Wes-
ey was mentioned. His ministerial
ife was almost barren of results for
thirteen years. Finally. Wesley left
ieorgia and returned to England.
Here in little meeting the Spirit of
Sod descended upon him~and worked
he great reformation in England in
he church. II
"a bruised reed shall He not break ,
md the smoking fax He will {
lot quench." AS to method.
The greet forces of the '
world are not the noisy forces,
aid the speaker. Power never blus- !
ers. The forces that lift water out I
# the sea into the clouds above us do
lot publish themselves. The Lord l
las been going on quietly with His I
york, for quietly is the method of the I
fvine Spirit Look how Elijah was I
1nght his lesson, '1t is not by 9
nor by power, but by my spirit. {
(ContinueS ~ r7ge five.) y