Evening star., 1914-11-24
Address Before Bible Confer
ence by Rev. Or. Newell
Dwight Hills.
PUTS IDEAS OVER WORDS
IN TEACHING SCRIPTURES
No Preacher, He Asserts, Ever En-.
joyed Such Popularity as
Did the Savior.

Rev. DR.. Newell Dwight Hills, pastor
OF Plymouth Church, Brooklyn. in an
address on the life and teachings of
Jesus as applied to religious teachers
Of today, delivered at this mornings 8
session of the second day of the worlds
Bible conference being held all week
at First Congregational Church, re-
peated his triumph of last night.
With a simplicity which moved his
auditors DR.. Hills told of the methods
of teaching which Christ used. saying
that Jesus talked about what God was
doing and not about what God had
done The Savior Of the world. he de-
clared. never SO much as made men
ton Of Adam and Eve.
Popularity Of Christ.
mo preacher ever had such immediate
popularity as Jesus said DR.. Hills
| ''Some have said it was due to His be-
ing a social re.ormer. But there have
been many social reformers. Some have
explained it by saying He had the gift Of
personal magnetism. But that would not
explain Jesus. Some men have said 1t
was because He taught generalities, so
that rich and poor heard him slady. But
| that will not explain Jesus, for no man
ever dealt more specifically with the sins
preachers of today who believe In preach
ing the sincere milk OF the word anu
letting the saloon question alone.
| DR.. Hills told of the lack OF schoo!
training which Christ had to contend
with, and said:
l. Ideas Better Than Words.
| .sT2ut hecauae Jesus was not a uni
versity scholar it does not mean that
women and men of today should not
do the best they can for themselves.
But If you have not had the advantages
of a theological seminary, do not think
you cannot preach and teach. L know
a good many ministers who can talk
| in five languages-the only trouble Is,
they have nothing to say: If we can
give out an idea in the English Ian
guage and can give it six different eX-
pressions, it is better than to have one
| idea expressed in six different tongues.
Neat and bread are not any richer be-
cause you can order them IN twenty
| four different languages.
| ITO the end of time I think there
will always be two classes of minds
the mind that goes directly to nature
and God and the mind that needs
schools and universities. The average
mind will never see God in the rock,
but will gladly study geology. Abra-
ham Lincoln, Homer, Shakespeare,
Dante-these were primary minds. Our
minds are secondary in nature. We
Twill always need schools.
| Popularizing the Bible Is not needed
among the cultured classes. DR.. Hills
lasserted, but true preaching must be
A done among the rank and file of the
nation. among the .ninety-nine men
lout of a hundred who are always in
need, who are earning less than 81 a
day. .a!.
~ Scores War in Europe.
Man is not plow, to be turned into
a spear, or SO much material to be fed
| to war horses" declared the speaker,
| making the only mention in his whole
address Of the European war situation.
| To-day, when progress rides forward
| in powder carts throughout Europe. We
have not yet found out what the teach
T! ings OF Jesus mean.
| Rev. NJ. 3. Williams was the other
speaker of the morning.
! why are so many children of today
living in sin," he asked, while their
parents are Christians? Too many chill
dren are turned loose in the streets
while their parents are at card parties,
and so on. They are not teaching their
children the doctrines of the church"
Tonight at o'clock Rev. DR.. Frank
Gunsaulus of Chicago. who is this
afternoon addressing the Baltimore
| branch of the conference, is to deliver
| the main address. This afternoon Rev.
| Frank N. Palmer and Rev. Camden NJ.
Cobern are the speakers.
| DR.. Hills Discusses War.
Rev. DR.. Newell Dwight Hills, pastor
of the Plymouth Church. Brooklyn. N.
Y, in his address last night on the re
ligious aspects of the great war now
| shaking the earth" predicted that the
| war would result In the overthrow of
| autocratic government in Europe and
produce a democratic government sim
liar to that Of the United States for
England and her possessions. The war
| would bring about many reforms in
governmental conditions, he said. be-
cause it would awaken the people to
| a true realization Of their rights and
shatter belief in the divine right of
kings.
Mr.. Hills arraigned Germany for the
devastation of Belgium.
II have been asked to be neutral and
I am neutral" he said, when say
that all the water in the river Rhine
cannot wash the blood and shame from
Germany's mailed fist
Others Take Part In Service.
Rev. Dr. w. r. wedderspoon and Rev.
DR.. Charles Wood aided In the service.
At the afternoon session Rev. NJ. B.