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A DAY OF ELOQUENCE.
Many Pulpit. Filled by Distin
gnished Xethodiat Divines
BISHOP NEWMAN ON WESLEY.
new. Bugh Prets neese em Attibute of
by ieve. W. J. Dew
e.. ThEmas new...u stephesSS and
Other eme suemeteal Delegate..
Yesterday. aeeording to the program ant
nounced in Saturday's Sras. the pulpits of the
Methodist charebes of the city and of many of
the Protestant churches of other denomina
tions were filed by distinguished preachers
attending the Methodist ecumenical confer
enee. It was a memorable Sunday for the
Methodisb of the city. As a part of the pro.
gram of the conference Bishop Newman
preached the memorial sermon on John Wee
ley. He preached in his old pulpit in the Met
ropolitan Church. where the sessions of the
conference are now being held. The famous
preachers from Great Britain were in great
demand, and opportunities were offered of
bearing nearly all of them. Many of the dele
gate. went to Baltimore and preached in
churches there.
mnaor saw r
WESLET AND HIS MISSION.
Ristop :ewman'e Eeqaent sermem at the
metrupettnaa Chureh.
"There wasa man sent from God, whoe name
was John." spoke Bishop Newman from the
pulpit of Metropolitan M. E. Church yesterday
morning. and two thousand people smiled at
the appropriate character of the text. On the
program of the Methodist ecumenicial confer
ence was a memorial sermon on John Wesley.
an I Bo.'iop Newman had been selectetd from the
uanny gifted orators of American Methodism to
preach of the founder of the great evangelical
body. Never did preacher have a fner congre
g:.tion than that which filled every available
foot -,f space in the historic edifice. Every seat
was. occupied. and the two main aisles were
crowded for almost half their ler.gth with those
who counted personal weariness and discom
fort as nothing on such an occasion. A great
throng clamored and pressed for admission.
but without avail, hundreds being unable to
get within sound of the bishop's voice. On the
'tlipit were the Rev. William Arthur. 3. A.,
England's patriarehal Wesleyan orator: IRev.
Thomuas Bowman Stephenson. president of the
English Wesle an conference: Bev. J. W.
Hamilton. D. D.. of Boston. and Nev. Dr.
Corey. pastor of Metropolitan.
"Jees. the Conqueror. retas.
la r.u.nn enarrenrth arrayet.
bkkasaioEa Uver al lanintaS'is,
And tisi the earth be v.d."
Dr. Hamilton read the hymn, and when it
had been sung Dr. Stephenson offered prayer.
Then Dr. Corey read the sixty-first chapter of
Isaiah and the third chapter of the Epistle to
the Phillippians. after the conclusion of which
the chosr sang the Te Drum. while the congre
gation contributed of its material wealth.
'hen the last coin had tinkled on the hittle
heap of predecessors Bishop Newman arose
and read Charles Wesley's well-known hymn;
**Feeve ere w$o rest shall be.
C us to Thy bleestinr ade."
and when the cleang line of the last verse:
'And al mi soul be mve."
had been heartly rendered. the bishop walked
to the front of the rostruin and recited his text.
prefacing it with the announcement that his
subject would be
**JoNu wm r AND tits uiustoN.
Bishop Newman spoke without notes. Be
said:
All Methodism is a luminous commentary on
this renarkable text, which contains a princi
ple and declares a fact. It is not more certain
that John the Baptist was a man sent from
God than that John Wesley was the chosen in
etrument of Providence to inaugurate a new
era in the history of the Christian eburch.
It is a fact which rises to the najesty of a law
that all great movements of society. whether
malevolent or beneficent. originate with some
ii:ividual. It was Jeroboam rather than any
other Kang of Israel who caused the ten fishers
to apostaltie. It was Caiathas rather than any
other Jew who instagated the crucifixion of
Jeus t'hrist. It was Juliarn the apostate rather
than any other Ron.an who betructed the
sarch of Christian progress initiated by Con
stantine the Great. It was Voltaire more than
any other FIeichman who brought abut the
French r.evoluta.n. that reddene.i the streetsof
l'ari- aach Luanan blood andl shook Europe to
it. eenair. It was David Umae more than aniy
other EngXhmn who gals character to the
intidehz:r of the last century.
Ant ho.W egqnaliy true thait all those great
chanrges in society which have blessed maniand
h--re had their origin with acme royal soul who
head rasen above the selfshiiess of earth ard
tuae to the purity and charity of the skies.
The daiseovery of this new continent. destined
to be the receptacle of freemen, was the work
of the illustrious navigator of Genoa. The Gier
saune re formation was born in the heart of a
s 'la.ary monk. The revival of learning in the
mit-.nth century is due to one philospher
shb..e namer is diethlesa. And raing above all
these in .upernal glory and amajesty the re
dtinytion of our race is the workt of the man
thrist Jesus. who "trod the wine press alone
and of the people there was none with Him."
r mxaeroae or flavloss.
D'o you tell mne that nations have missions?
tisn is to give letters to ankind, another
law to the world. nother reigion to our race?
'let all hastory is in proof that in every great
nation saune individual is conispicuioas, and that
the muientouas epochs of time crystallize
aruind some man or woman. As the ages re
cede the less eminent vanish from the vision
of the world, and one namie remains to indi
'addualize a nation's life or characterize an era
of renown.
It is a truth, to which history has furnished
no exeption to the rule, that Jehovah raises up
nen to accomplish the exalted purposes of His
wilL. men equal to their times and ade-.
quate to their calling. When the hour
of Jewish exodus had come: when a
werful monarch was to he counfronted upon
throme; when the legerdemain of the Egypt
tan mmga was to be exposed; when a dispirited
p people were to be inspired with a nobler patriot.
;m Wben the muest -upeedou wonders were
te be perlermed on mind and matter, on land
and man, em mn and nations, then the prophet
of 5Bee was ealled. When idolatry was en
th usud the hills of Zion; when the week.
adasdsd Aha and the bloodyv-hearted Jezebiel
sed in Jeurnpel; when the altars of the Lor d
were thrownsdown and His. prophets slain,
tee te prge of Tiahbe was callsd and ses
as a wall set against the eneroachments
of tioemay. When the Christian church was
to her Inthney; when the learned Jew. the pol
ished Gresk. the proud Roman were to be met
in argumnent; when the Beesamee's death and
remirreectien were to be 9 mise inth syn
sigaues of hlaestine, teacropolis of Athens
and the palees... the Cesars; when inspired
spee were to he written for the church in all
diese time, than aul of Tes was called,
whose less iset and macetiled .oui
Snhhj'to eoe with the mightis foes
of the Haly7 One And in after eensurles. when
fpra e 1.l like the pall of death uon
ntons mtaedieval aimes; when the degen
maey of the chasch had terned the earth anto
a vast lazaretto; when psst were letterse and
papes were gedn. the the mnk of Erfart
- ealled, and, aseendiag the heavens like a
fLessmetset, he dipedeed the darkness of a
p ih fatheasandi ye and with the kj
eene in the visies of NIstmoe he unlocked e
dagene et the anions of the earth nd beds
the people ge bree. His burning words fell
e s treeteetenished Europe, cartlng .s
-heemmng et a theasand cane' a; Leo I
rembasedpa hi. thres and the Birma
boa move forward, remitlss as the march ot
a whirtwind.
e hew wtbj0. hehandef God diseered
erb and in th adsiehna of His ebaseb
ieshiug Weby aMis mansager and
lepreat oeiaeat ng of the third er
Sthue greek asasis of religtma mer.
F? ~ asheeiM.as wea
Man wmssaR.
With a form compact and mstrieal a
mind evenly balanced, at ease legisletive and
judicial; an intellect enriheed boee the
treasures of ancient and modem, of sacred and ,
profane learning; a andsls
suggestive; an uniusatn migute yet all
comprehending, it was like the teat In story
fold it and it was a toy in the hand of a lady;
spread it, and the armiesof the sultan might re
pose beneath its ample shade; with an imagina
tion thatborrowed its tfrimheaven'seternal
sun; a will whose ialisa were like the ever
lasting hills: a eovra e that was never blanehed
with fear; a fortit that never wavered; a
gentleness tender as a woman's; a diligence
that knew no cessation save death and no
limitations save the boundaries of earth and
time, with an oratory entrancing as It was ap
polling that could raise rhetoric anto logic and
metaphor into argument and thrill the most
debaed with the convictions of the truth: a
piety sincere as it was exemplary and a love
all embracing. Behold. the mn! The clearest
of thinkers, the wisest of philosophers, the
nost accurate of historians, the most versatile
of scholars. the most astute of logicians, who
never qailed before a fosman: an aecom
plshed linguit, who eold say with Paul "I
thank my GodI s wek ogues more
than y all;" the moos incisive and voluminous
of writers; a statesasa in the diguise. of an
ecclesiastic; a philanthropist who sympathised
with human nature rather than with human
condition; an evangelist who knew the letter
and caught the spirit of the gospel, the burden
of whose message to mankind was: "Without
holiness no man shall see the Lord." and the
Christian who had passed through all the
stages of personal experience, from the depth
of enitence to the height of perfect love, who
had tranated the sermo on the mount into
life and character more fully than any other
man sir.ce apostolic times, became the saintliest
of men. Surely "There was a man sent from
God whose name was John." He illustrated
the exaltation of purified individuality as the
reforming, controlling, conquering force in
the world rather than church organization,
with creed and litugyr and imposing cere
monials. A living Christ in contrast with a dead
Jewish church. A sanctified and consecrated
Wesleyian in contrast with the overshadowing
ecclesiasticism of Iome and the powerless
formality of the Church of England. This is
the mightiest thought and the crowning glory
of the Wesleyan movement.
TIP TnnaS asso1a0TrOW5.
Time is an essential element in unfolding the
plans and purposes of Jehovah. The consum
mation of a great result is not the work of a
day. Such is the constitution of mind, such
the composition of society, such the operation
of immutable law, that the ages are
necessary to reach a vast conclusion.
Vast conclusions require ages for their consum
mation. Jehovah takes a step today and one
hundred years hence the advance is apparenta
He steps on the summits of the centuries.
There are silent centuries in which He acts, but I
never speaks. At such times He hides Himself
and anon He drops the drapery of His invisi- t
bility. His naked aim appears and His hith
erto hidden hand writes upon some palace wall,
"3ene. mene. Tekel. Upharsin." He deals
with empires as the instruments of His power.
Kings most esteemed by mnen are as the dust in 1
the naiarice to Him. He writes His decrees of
a ingdom in the waste bock of temporary
eveata. but in His imperishable ledger He re- r
cords the progress of the kingdon. of His Son. 1
The tonmes and seasons are in His hand. Never
hurrii d. never tardy, always on His throne.
He ever heds in the hand of His -
sovereign sway the calendar of the 1
centuries and on that dread register
lie notches the epochs of weal and woe in our
mortal hint-ry. With Him a thousand years
are as yestriay. when it is passed. He calls
Abraham to found a Messianic nation, and 400
years thereafter the chosen Moses leads forth
the organized nationality. After 500 years of
judge an ? wars, prophets and inconstancies,
nolomon ascends the throne of his father
David. A millennium of years come and go. a
rege nerated people return from their exile, the
voice of the last of the prophets is hushed, the
silene of 500 years is broken by the song of
angels and the Messiah appears-the de
sire of the nations." Three and a half cen
turies are necessary to conquer a nation of
120.000.000 of pe e. whose vast dominion
is from the Euphrates to the western
ocean and from the wall of Antonimes to
the iountains of the Moon. and Christianity as
cends the throne of the Caesars, with the royal
diadem upon her head and the royal purple
upon her shoulders, giving laws from that very
ti ibunal where she had been dragged as a crim
inal and condemned as a malefactor. Twelve
hundred years of dselin, darkness and silence 1
are numbered with the ages agone when the
voice of a mash is beard as the wilderness of s
the church calling the worlkfto penitence and
faith. Two hundred years of preparation
ensue and Wesley comes forth, the apostle of a
new era of purity and love.
I be three great centuries of the Wesleyan
movement are the sixteenth, seventeenth and
eighteenth and the three conspicuous characters
are Luther. Cramer and Wesley. Each of
these immorta! heroes had his peculiarmission.
L.Eh did a work demanded bylhis times. Sub
stitution was impossible. Luther was not the
man for the eighteenth century; Wesley was 1
not the man for the sixteenth century: Cran
seer was not the man for the place of either the 1
one or the other.
lieholi the record of history: Four hundred t
years from Abraham to Moses: five hundred
years from Moses to Solomon: a thousand years e
from :.oanion to Christ; three hundred years I
from Christ to Constantine the Great, when t
cLhiasuanity ascended the throne of the
Casars with the royal diadem upon her t
brow and the royal purple upon her shoulders. t
giving laws from the very tribunal where Jesn d
had been dragged as a criminal and condemned
as a malefactor: twelve hundred years from
Constantine to Luther and two centuries from
Luther to Wesley.
Dissatisfaction with the present must seize
the people like an invisible power: the social
fabric is broken into a thousand pieces like a
potters vessel; then comes the grand crisis and
society moves forward to a better future.
The sixteenth, the seventeenth and the eigh a
teenth are the three centuries embraced in the
great Wesle) an movement, and the three con
spicuous individuals of those mighty epochsare
Luther. Cranmer and Wesley. The three re
formation. are parts of one great whole.
waaX!5 5PSctL2 sessioN.
How much Wesley contributed to this grand
result let history declare.
Methodism is not a break in Christian his
tory. The centinuity of evangelical truth
through the ages, through multiplhed errors,
through accumulated corruptions of faith and
practice, through declensiona and contentions,
wars and persecutions, through Episcopal
treacheries and lay apostoces is a sublime fact
in Providence and a ceaseless inspiration to the
faithful and the holy.
I here ar e no breaks in the history of the ad
ministration of Almighty God, There may be
declensions in numbers, but there are' no
retrocessions in His caus,. His is a perpetual
kingdom. The continuance of lia church i5
without cessation. In all the ages the darkest
and the worst. His saints, men and women,
have walked this earth In white, whomseconver
sation has been in heaven and whose saintly
lipe have testified for Jesus. The church of
God, greater than the papaLeate than the
Greek. greater than the Englishis composed
of the faithful of all creedaof all liturgiesaand
in all the centuries.
Christ always has a tomorrow. Paul wa the
hereafter of Christ, Athman=-ius the hereafter
of l'aul, Wyclife the hereafter of Athanatus,
Luther the hereafter of Wyclife, Wesley the
hereafter et Luther and yen the hereafter of
Wil~e each af the three Iflstrious reformers
now under consideration onstributed to the
splendid outeosme of today, yet the work ot
each was peculiar to his timses Did Lather
protest against organised politimeoadsIe
usurpation.? Wesley pretested agint sin as
the cause et the worid's misery. idLuther's
movement provoke the sword and lead to war?
Wesley sought such a moral change in men and
nations as to preclude the pon..aity of strife.
Did Luther pr jcuIstilcaiien by faith? Was
ley race entire sanctification by the bleed
oet lamb Did Luther proclaim his ninety
live theses against the errors of Meme? Wes
Ley gave to the church his twenty-Eve articles
of religion against all errors ad all ins. Did
the coaquceta of Luther's misin cuaats in
western Europe within forty years? And within
100 years therspfter tnhere was not enough in
teraal energy to possess the greeter
ofEurope, which could have
Sone with bitt little restraInt.
But Wesley's mission, after a growing life of
two enturius, is today marching to the com
guest of the world.
Was it the high mindon Of Cranmsr to mahe
the church of Enga...d Protessant? It was
Wesley's higher mission to make thst ehureb
EvangelicaL. Did Crammer seek the reformas,
ties of the morale of the elerg and liyb
bemse sad 'hm~s Wee ssthe
suasandwithBib inbead. tiCrammer=
subeedines his apirtsal life to prreethe
eadh of goerment andlerng W3.
tie, ricse hongs; tohe pel
Aestie et thmtldi ern whish
rights and eM happiness hae. end homeaiter.
wm r gag eesamsam, sremmm.= as
The teha1 f ma es m ~m e ri
glema t iser Of e qada8
man booe the sine and lemps et to
Rat day eaward the Weslam have
been a testifyias pe tat they yoew 6e
yond a doubt that were. lving in eomm
aiom with the rather at their spirit and
calmly and tslligst deeihred then "
mphit beareth witnses wt erspirit tin we
are the children of God." The assartas were
hailed with obloquy and the Metheiats s'
eaed the "children et the feelug."
IRtTaosat nUQaL TO !!n 1 7S .
Maie then the very heavens have been ealing
that he was right and that his erities were
wrong. The sncoess of Mashodim is the mar
vel of two centuries. The vastness of her pop
ulation, belting the globe, the multitudes an
nually ecnverted, the saintliness of her mem
bership, the spiitualitey and seholarehip d her
minister. the hrgemess of her co ut
the power of her press, the number of her ter
pes of piety, schools of learning and boomee of
mercy and the vigor wherewith she is pushing
forward the con of the world by her home
and forei umi s are facts that indicate that
the Lord with is ole
Since the birth of Methodism there has been
no other distinctive religious movement in the
church of God. There have been modlestami.
of creeds, changes in church polity, revival of
formal churches, o iss.on- to meet special
forms of vice and yie and special classes in
society, but nothing that rises to the dignity
and proportions of a great reforsaation.
Is a new movement needed to meet the eui
gencies of our times? What are the exi
gencies? Political corruption, brberin
office and unstability of governments? s the
present worse than, when kings delighted to
honor such statesmen as Bolingbroke and
Chesterfield. Walpole and Newcastle: when
prime ministers bribed the king, bribed the
queen, bribed the parliament; when elections
were rated on the royal exchange. and when
the maxim was accepted, "that government
must be carried by corruption or foroe?" Are
the clergy more worldly and the church more
formal than when Topladr said, "A converted
minister in the established church is a g ter
wonder than a comet," and when, according to
Butler. "Christianity is not so much as a sub
ject of inquirv?" Is infidelity more audacious
and assersive'than that which gave birth to the
French revolution, that dissolved the very ele
ments of society?
Are the masses more degraded than when
Whitfield preached to the colliers of Kings
wood and the merry-andrew. of some Bir
tholomew's fair?
Is literature more debased than when fame
hailed with delight such authors as Voltaire
and D'Alembert, Smollett and Paine. who min
istered to the lowest and worst of human pa
Mons?
Methodism met all those social conditions,
and behold the change !
Is it true that we are threatened today with
new perils?
Is the lust of ecclesiastical preferment, in
the disguise of a hot seal, eating, as doth a
cancer, at the vitals of the church, and
is there nothing better and greater than
office? Has the spirit of worldliness en
tered our Rion, under the pretense of
innocent mirth, and that at'the expense of the
means of grace? Is the Bible imperiled as
never before, its authorships denied and its
histories impeached?
What is the remedy? A new religions move
ment? Has rnot Methodist all her ancient ele
ments of strength: Her doctrines are as sound.
Her polity is as adoptive. Her Redeemer is as
great. The all-sufficientand ail-efficient remedy
is "Holiness unto the Lord." Lot the church
have that and the gates of hell shall not pre
vail against her.
Give us a ministry full of faith and the Holy
Ghoat; heaven called and heaven inspired,
with hearts of flesh and souls of fire. Give us
men who will preach the truth as it is in Jesus:
of dauntless courage.who will stand unblanched
before the mighty; men of tenderest sympa
thies, untiring zeal and purest motives; give
us the men who can write in lines of light and
speak in sentences of are, who can enter the
arena of debate and maintain the Bible as the
word of G9d to man, who can thrill all hearts
by the power of their own experience; who will
turn many to righteousness and shine as stars
forever and ever.
nzv. trom PaicE EUonus.
ATTRIBUTES OF CHRISTIAN9.
Rev. Hugh Price Hughes Tells Hew They
Are to Be Distinguishee.
The fame of Rev. Hugh Price Hughes, the
great leader of the "forward movement" in
London, whose mission work among the poor
of the west end is familiar to many in this
country, drew to the Mt. Vernon Place M.E.
Church yesterday morning a gathering that
filled the auditorium. For an hour Mr. Hughes
held the large assemblage's attention while he
spoke of the attributes of Christianity-an old
subject, but treated in such an earnest, simple
and yet scholarly way that with each division
of his argunpent he threw fresh light on the
subject Mr. Hughes strongly resembles the
printed portraits of O'Brien, the Irish leader.
A man of middle height, dark brown short
beard, somewhat pointed, dark hair, with eyes
looking through spectacles, he gives one the
idea of a student. His enunciation is precise
and distinct. and except in the rather broad
"a" in such words as "rather" he can hardly
be distinguished by his tones from an Ameri
can. A rather free use of full-arm gestures
gives life to his delivery, of which earnestness
seems to be the characteristic. Mr. Hughes.
spoke from notes, but he had his subject so
well in hand that reference to them did not in
pede the fluency of his speech His text was
the forty-seventh verse of the fifth chapter of
St. Matthew-"What do ye more than othiers?"
"More" is used here, he explained, in the sense
of "extra."
AN ETEroAL EXTRA.
"Christianity is an extra, not a substitute,
but a supplement to everything else that is
good in the world," he said in beginning his
sermon. "ChristianIty must- be an ethical
extra. Christians must prove tlpt they possess
sonie ethical qualities not possessed by any one
else. Lot us then this morigtake up every
form of goodness that existe in the world
2,000 yasago, and let us show that in addi
tion thre hsone good thing not then in exist
ence. Two thousand rasgo there was the
Gentile and the Jew. lthe Getile world all
that was best can be summe-I up In two words,
European and Asiatic--Socrates and Buddha.
Socratic goodness in its most perfect form is
found In the republic of Plato. Its attributes
were wisdom, courage, temperane ad tie
tics. Christianity claim all four of thesa. The
tyvis Christian must possess them all.
'Bdh nmany respects was greatly in
ferlor to Socrates. We Christians feel a sort
of grievance apus ir Edward Arnold for his
picture of Udhin 'The Lght of Asia.' But
Slir Edward Arnold has idealised Bundh. He
has Christianised Buddha. The Buddha of Sir
Edward Arnold hsa Christian. It is a maiddh
Immeasurably superior to the Asiatic Budda.
But Sir Edward Arnold has In this 'Light of
the World' drawn Christ and shown how supe
rior He is to Buddha. In the first pecJesus
Christ heegie a much more., worhble' ethie
than anytigof Buddha; a preactial rule of
conduct is laddown. The Christian re is1
a much eore jous religion than Budd hism
You ems tell a ethodist by the twinkle i1 -his
eke, or, rather, in his two eyes. He is glad all
metme sone of Charles Welyskmes
pus e e todac an that
laeslneregarding the existence et God;,
Jess Christ has spoken et God se slethat
even ehildren een understand Him, the
Christian reiinteachesthe tre .-aa...se'
The. Budhstdicil does tinase hr his ee.
sake-to ente Mivana. rla te es
a ma to cherish his ao bor as Mmi
the words of %hit,' new. e......
gives unto en t a es enseMirU
asI have tedye.
"'Ehe Jewtisems emmet upin~a
Ca ~ , is a -i ao
ssme4 geme spes he e Sesise
asiuusamus .U t
'iba'
"
Palsy's "Evidemggs," ot hEwr's "Anaalegy,
but his was the lamission. to a.lin.
asrr lre sces ersees and discover the
truth that arts men he., Two disquitieni
slevate him to his tres politios a
heelegisn. His alahassts and
'reue of the argunent s "Liberty saNeses.
Mrfeo or- review from th s il Greeks NO"
Jomatban Idoards including the &iliange n ib~gnb ead Ent ea ieaad
if Augastin. ad po an
Liopi, Lorh. ad at. plames thd
redom s human will a . t east ligh
And his answer to the Calvinists is the moet
iheriminatlg, analytical and annihlative
round in the annals of Christian do, and
rom the destructive efects of wh *h the "In
mtates of Geneva" have never recovered
As a theologian he accepted and maintained
the larger and more ompreheive truths of
the Christian stem, and it is evidence of the
oundness of aviews that his body of divinity
outained in his "Sermons ad His Notes" has
tot only remained unehangedamidthemodica.
ion of dreeds. but is today the modifier of the
rehgions thought of the universal church, and
bhat while Unitarians are retracing their heps
isk through oinlanissa io Aiiss,
he Universalists have beeose reetorationists,
hereby accepting the elements of future
punishseat, and while the ChIniste have
:ractically adopted Arminianism, yet the
Weelevans hold fast the faiths Ge delivered to
ib nkats,
ZvANGxLst.
As an Evangelist, three great thoughts fined
Wesley's mind, and were ever on his lips. The
heolute freedom of the human will In personal
ialvation. the ability of Christ to save to the
ittermost, and the revelation of God to the
:onsiousaes of each believer. Freedom,
anctifieation, assurance were the three magical
words by which he called mankind to 6 moral
'esurrection. Wesley is the apostle of the
reedom of the will against lforms and
ispects of necessity, whether physical or
moral or from the arbitrary choice of the
areator With a logical discrimination
Ali his own, he denied that man's moral actions
ire controned by an overpowering evil, or the
ribrations of the fibers of the brain, or ruling
Cassions. or controlling motives, or ignorance,
wr hate, or a pantheism that supposes the
aniverse His body and God the originating soul
if all actions, good or bad.
As an evan ge Wesley preached Christ to a
est world. His ability, purpose, willingness,
o save all, save now, save to the uttermost.
Iie preaching compassed the whole of the
yhristian life, ranging between two extremes;
'row a desire to lee from the "wrath to come
l the "perfection of love that casteth out all
ear."
Desire the Alpha; perfection the Omega. De
sire is the infancy of the Christian life, to be
manifested by desisting from specified wrongs.
y doing specified duties. It is the beginning
if a soul's salvation; it is salvation to that ex
ent; it is the bruised reed that shall not be
iroken; the smoking liar that shall not be
tuenched; it is the mustard seed in the ground,
heleven in the meaL It is a desire tofee from
in, its penalties and consequences, from its
infulness and pollution.
Such a desire, cherished and enlarged, leads
in to justification by faith, the pardon of all
ransgressions, the reinstatement of the soun
nto the divine favor, as though it had not
inned. Then follows that great change, the
egeneration of the mcral nature, when old
hinge are passed away and all things ate be
ome new, when the Christian virtues hold the
mastery over their opposite vices, when
trength is imparted to meet the requisitions of
he divine law, and when the will, conscience
nd afections are renewed. quickened and ele
rated to respond to the voice of God.
' hen follows that better, higher, completed
tate of personal purity wherein all sinful ten
lencies are destroyed, all carnal desires and as
)irations are superseded, all appetites and pas
ions are gratified within the limitations of law,
ll the higher faculties of the soul are domii
isted by love, and holiness is the atmosphere
wherein the purified spirit moves in perpetual
etivity and peace.
Wesley's Christian perfection is the distin
uishing doctrine of Methodism. It differ
ntiates the Wesleyan movement from all other
eligious movements. It is the source of the
Bower and glory of that movement on both
ides of the Atlantic. This great thought seized
Wesley like some invisible power. It domi
ated his whole being. It possessed him. He
would not be diverted therefrom. He subor
linated all things thereunto. He defended it
4gainst all assailants. He preached it, he
frayed it, he sang it. It was the one great sub
et of meditation and review at each yearly
onference. He wrote thereon minutely and ex
ensively. He encouraged those who processed
t, and his own humble and emphaM p&aim
ion of it is as clear as it is beatafmal.
By an irresistible logic he was led on step by
tep from his luminous experience of justifica
ion by faith to this completion of hisreenera
ion. It was the majority of his minority. It
was the verification of the saying of the Hiavior:
'First the blade, then the ear, after that the
all corn in the ear." It is to be "cleansed
rom all filthiness of the flesh and spirit." "It
t is to be sanctified throughout, in body, in
oul, in spirit." "It is to walk in the light as
led is in the light, and to know
hat the blood of Jesus Christ, His
Ion, cleanseth from all sin." It is
be a "perfect man in Christ Jesus." It is to
e "flled with the spirit." It is to have ''all
he mind that is in Christ." It is "bringing
uto captivity every thought to the obedience
f Christ." It is the reign of love in every
motive-desire, aspiration, passion, appetite,
bought, word and act.
In the maturing of his great powers and in
he fullness of his spiritual life, some time in
be year 1764, Wesley gave 'this sum of the
octrines of Christian perfection:"
I. There is such a thing as perfection, for ti
again and again mentioned in the Scriptures.
H. It is not so easy as justiftcation, for justi
led persons are to "go on unto perfection.'
deb. vi, 1.)
III. It is not so late as death, for Paul speaks
f living men that were periect. (Phil. iii, 13.)
IV. It Is not absolute. Absolute perfection
elongs not to man nor to angels, but to God
lone.
V. It does not make a man infallibin None
s infalible while he remnains in the body.
Vi. Is it sinlessi It is "salvation from sin."
VII. It is "perfect love." (1 John iv, 18.)
I'his is ths essence of it; Its properties or in
eparable fruits are rejoicing evermore, pray
ng without easing and in everything givinig
banks. 41 The's. v, 16.)
VIII. It is. improvable. One perfected in
ove may grow in grace far swifter than he did
efore.
i. It is amisuible, capable of being lost.
1. It is .enstantly both preceded and fol
owed by a gradual work.
XI "But is it in itself instantaneous
r .not?" In examining this let us go
n step by step. An instantaneous change has
,een wrought in some believers: none can deny
his. Since that change they enjoy perfect
ore: they feel this, and this alone; they rejoice
avernore: prey without cessing and inuevery
hing give thanks Now. this is all that I mea
,y perfection; therefore, these are witnesses
if the perfection which I preach. Bunt in some
his change was not instantaneous. They did
set perceive the instant when it was wrought.
t is often difficult to perceive the Instant
when a aman dies, yet there is an instant in
which life ceases. And if even sin eases there
must be a last mosient of Its existence and the
Iret moment et our deliverance from It.
"But it they have this love now they may
omsit;" they may, but thsy need not. Andl
whether they do or me, they have It now; they
mow experience what we teach; they now are
all love; they now rejoice, pray and pus
withoat esasng "However, sin is onIun
eded In then; it is not detroyed." 'it
wat you plese the are all love today and
'' t this doctrine has been nuch abused."
Bo has that of justlf-a of faith. But that
aoreonfrg peither this o n
5thno sei "When you wash
roar asoesekthrow away theaws
ler, bat do not throw awythe child."
"But those who think thyare saved from
lin my tht thsy have no nedof the merIts of
Thrist." They say just the eontrary. Their
Imry ~moet, Lord, I need the ameril
if thy death." They never before bad
1o deep, s uns-eal a sonvietion
if the need et Christ In all His eieesthes
save mew. 13. Therefore aN ear seer
hocid mahae pon of preaching pre toi
ailevere emn1, ese n explicitly,
ad all believera this oe thing
sad ecmatantly agoniss for It. Against
his blessed dewtine there is no law.
thitaeted cep a Wau e eapnos
leath, that the infinite God eeeo in direet
seateet with the believing semi and ertiflss to
lhe emseasemess thereof the pards. of sin
mad the eomsetd deliveramae frem all the
et ~ o er faflim ase.' Dsm 6ad
- Ged at an imsmsai.ditance gue.
he'~dhad demled a eehl lVneeodses
mad b te meesni h da s ef
~s ates m dwith mc
sebpenet hth aymm nd
the s et af e se
4 eQ
3As fs de manis mere than was ever de
.laed of the maost -in Jew. ll theo
is in Christianity, and mere, too. This is
Chitsiyto live em earth asChrimI lived on
Iearth. oew ma y de It? Row many of you
hrist. weuji hsve doug~ o eYU hn
A titer went through the chrch.
"New. many of you in this vast gathering
here en the door and up there in the gmflerae
cal yarsehee Christians: now by what right
de yeo do it? To esain the name at which
angels tremble! 'What do ye more than
others? Yon go to church, you put money in
the collestions, you arehonest, you are temper
ate; well, so are those of other denominations.
You pray; so do the Moa=mans. You may
be asgoads that young Jew who told Christ
he bad osuerved all the laws from his youth up
and yet not be a Christian. Do you try to live
like Christ? Do you endeavor to do as von
think Christ would have done under similar
cireamstaces? A Christian Is a Christ-like
man.
.cane as Tsa s0oDE.
"Sometines in our mission work in London
,my friends complain because I am forever
bringing Christ into our deliberations. Bowe
regard a free use of Christ as a sort of indig
nity to Him. But can there be any better
golds? John Stuart Mill has mid be made his
way through the mist of prejudice and hatred
to religion in whichhe had been placed by his
father when a child, that he knew of no better
rule of conduct for men than for them to live
as Jesus Christ of Nasareth lived, and if John
Stuart Mill has sand this, can we Christians my
any less?"
Mr. Hughes closed with an appeal to all to
aim at what was Christ-like in their lives, in
their business dealings and in their church re
lations, saying that Methodism would at once
enjoy that grand unity that was longed for
when all lived as Christ had lived.
say. w. J. DAWSON.
TUE GOSPEL OF LOVE.
An Elequent Exposition by Rev. W. J. Daw
son at Wesley Chapel.
Yesterday was a memorable day in the his
tory of Wesley Chapel. The newly decorated
and refurnished auditorium was opened for
the first time and three services were held
there during the day. Each was conducted by
a prominent delegate to the ecumenical con
ference that supplied so many able preachers
to the local pulpits yesterday. The morning
service was conducted by Bishop Joyce. the
afternoon by Rev. Hugh Price Hughes and the
evening service by the Rev. W. J. Dawson.
The contributions at the three services were
for the purpose of defraying the expenses of
the church improvement and aggregated up
ward of 51,000. There was a large congrega
tion present in the evening drawn by the
knowledge that the sermon would be by Rev.
Mr. Dawson, whom all were anxious to see and
hear.
nay. W. J. DAwsON.
Not very clerical in his appearance, as cler
ical appearance is popularly understood, is the
Rev. W. J. Dawson of Glasgow. Dark curly
hair, brown mustache, a little goatee and
short, closely cropped side whiskers are his
hirsute adornments. In manner Mr. Dawson
is quick almost to nervousness, but there is
nothing like unpleasant abruptness. He
strikes you atbeing religiously businsslike,
Ma .Daemen, who is now among the feremest
of England's lecturers and pulpit orators, is
about thirty-seven years of age. He
received his education at Kingswood and
at Bidebury College. Manchester. His
first important pastorate was in London.
whither he went in 1883. For two rears he
was stationed at City Road Chapel (Wesley's
old charge). Mr. Dawson commenced lecturing
in London on an extensive scale and from the
outset was marvelously successful, may of his
leotures having to be repeated because the
spacious buildings used would not at one time
contain those who desired to bear. Some of
the more famous of his efforts are: " Savona
rola; Monk, Patriot and Martyr;" "Sir Walter
Raleigh and His Times," "Admiral Blake. With
Glimpses of the Commonwealth of England;"
"The Marvelous Boy (Chatterton). a Picture of
England a Hundred Years Ago:" "Wordsworth
and His Message," "Tennyson," "Browning
and His Message." It is not improbable that
Mr. Dawson may deliver one or more of these
lectures while in Washington. In 1884 Mr.
Dawson published a volume of poems. "The
Vision of Souls," and a year later presented to
the public a collection of bright essays en
titled "Quest in Vision." "The Threshold of
Manhood," a series of sermons to young men.
appeared in 1888, and in 1889 he published
".iakers of Modern English," a guide book to
the modern poets. There is now in the press
from his pen a socialistic story. "The Redemp
tion of Edward Straban." Mr. Ds wson is the
principal editor of "The Young Man," a
monthly publication of more than ordinary
attractivenee.. Mr. Dawson's work is especially
directed toward young men, and in that fieldi
his labors have been very successfuL. The last
service conducted *by Mr. Diawsion in Glasgow
(where he has resided for two years) gathered
together in one hall more than 5,000 people, and
fully as many were turned away for lack of
room-testimony to the preacher's eloquence
and power.
Tar OOSPEKL oy LovE.
Mr. Daweon took for the sutIject of his dis
course last night the gospel of love, taking for
his text the two verses of Scripture, "Love is
the fullling of the law." and "Love is of God;
everyone that loveth is born of God." In com
mencing his sermon Mr. Dawsonsaid that there
are two desires of which we are conscious. The
first of thee. is to be the highest that we can
become. Froma this desire to become some
thing that we are not have risen all religions.
The second of these desires is to enjoy the
most we can, anel this desire takes a hundred
forms. In some the desire for enjoyment takes
a noble form, ina othere It takes a grosser like.
nsess. The church has taken various attitudes
toward this desire for joy and at time. Its in
sistence upon strict asoeticisma has driven many
men out into the darknses of agnosticIsm.
Men may give up their search for character,
but never for happiness and they will epdure
althinags in their pusut of it. But there
comes a time wheahe realise that their et
forte are vain, and tha they have not found at.
The esroh after mere happiness in this life is
eurs to end in an earnest longing for death ad
oblivion.
The two texts are at once the ratification and
the exPlanaton of the two desires. to be and to
enjoy. The answer to these two desires is to
learn to love. A mua says that he cannot live
up to the law. But he can If he learns to love,
for love is the fulfilling of the law. --Religion,"
said Joha Wesley, 'Is love." That sums It all
up. If you do net love you are not a Christian
and have not attained the chief aim In life.
You must love God and man witha perfect love,
for love as of God. The deemlogue would never
have been needed If menahad loved one anether=.
Get love ad you eanot help keeping the law.
hetebe esdes base be in sad the
wood alal of the ehreb painedn esk. A
eir has b blbeen n the rigt of
he t and here wiBl be lested alarge
which will east OLsUe VC
et the chureb he beea
Alied with stained maar af e
winde beaing ' s amass of thse
who when " woe pr-amiet in ehureb
work. Among m namhe e Mthew and
Sarah Cook, Juliet D. Emery Bobert Cohee
and Sophia A. Cohen Eleanor shhrts. Thomans
avenner, Andrew J, Duvall, Benjamin E. Oid
diTe W ams Rse. William .Broe., Minnis
.est, Jana H. Moore and Magge C. Lan
don.
At the service yesterday mraie the fel
lowing ministers occopied the p :
Joye. Rev. Charles W. Beidwis. esertarv
the American University and a former
of the church: lieu. E. B. Prettmema of -
vile. Md.. who preached his Art esermon in
Wesley Cha fifty years ago, and Rev. Luther
B. Wilson, prest paster.
The sermon was delivered by Joye,
who held the attention of the large a ievee by
his clear and forcible e of the nident
of Christ preaching on thoresef Lah Gems
eareth.
After the sermon subseriptions were received
for defraying the cost of the improvements,
amounting. exclusive - of the ors, to .
The pastor, in speaking of the ap
pearance of the church, made a public and de
served recognition of the labors of Mr. W. F.
Roderick, the recording steward, to whe ex
ertions the improvements were largely due,
and under whose perfomal sp they
were made.
- METKODESE N 1 133A3,
Rev. Dm Usary Eanes Open" en the lab
- in Waugt Chaps{.
Rev. Dr. Heary Evans was greeted by a large
and appreciative sadism last evening at
Waugh Chapel In the eengregatisn sat a
number of Irish Methodists, who were nious
to hear the noted Dublin divine. Dr. Evans is
in the most exalted position held by a Metho
diet under the British government, holding the
position of her majesty's commissioner of na
tional education and examiner for government
board of intermediate education. He is pastor
of the Abbey Street Methodist Church in Dub
lin, which is the largest and one of the oldest
Methodist churches in Ireland.
Before beginning his sermon Dr. Evans said
that this would probably be the lat time that
he would have an opportunity to address an
audience in America before leaving for his
home, and he thought he would tell them
something of Ireland, as he was sure that there
were not many persons in the audisanee who
had an idea of the Methodist church work in
that country.
DECREAsE or oR sacra.
The population of Ireland, according to the
census of this year, he mid, is in round
numbers 4.730.000, and he remembered whe
it was neariy double. There are, he said,
411,000 more Catholics in Ireland than there
were ten years ago, and fully 400,000 of them
came to this country. There are, he said.
35.000 fewer Presbyterians and also several
thousand fewer Episcopdlians. All this de
crens. had occurred in ten years.
"It is a remarkable fact." he continued "that
the Methodist church is the only one that has
held its own. It has not only held its own, but
it ha increased 65,000. No other church can
make any such statement. In all Ireland there
is not a single Methodist in prison and in al
most every charitable institution there is a
Methodist connected with its management.
"I suppose, of-coure, that you would like to
hear something about the ministers. There is
not a single minister in the Weslyan church in
Ireland who touches beer, ale, porter or liquor
of any kind, nor is there a single one among
them who smokes tobacco."
0000 woea or TaE ooxmnwce.
Dr. Evans then spoke of the good work of
the conference and said he was glad that it was
held at the capital of the nation and he knew
that all the other British delegates were glad of
the opportunity to visit this city. He selected
as his text Luke 1:4: "That thou mightest
know the certainty of those things wherein
thou halt been instructed."
During his discoures, which was attentively
listened, to Dr. Evans alluded to the work of
the conference a number of times and ales re
ferred to his native home. At the e.sissi..
of the services, Dr. Gihona, the jiastar, intro
duced the noted divine to membens et his
church and congregation, who expeessad em
selves as greatly entertained and instructed by
his eloquent remarks.
TUE PRODIGAL BO.
A Remarkabte Sermen by Rev. T. a. Usiby
at ReKenree Church.
In a style that was remarkable for its direct
ness, Rev. T. G. Selby of England preached
lest evening at McKendree Church on the fa
miliar story of the prodigal son. The theme
was really the love of God, that supreme love
which looks with forgiveness and compassion
upon the sinner. Theattitudeof the Heavenly
Father toward the weak and erring was de
scribed with all the power which the eloquence
of this gifted preacher was capable of. He
pointed out that the story of the wayward boy
was an illustration that Christ, like the father,
was ready to receive and forgive. People re
ceived forgiveness not became they deserved
it. but because Christ's heart was full of love
and pity for poor, sinful creatures. God's
love was powerful and great. and no om who
humbly asked to have his sins and tranegres
sions pardoned was evcr turned away without
receiving that for which he asked. If father
was willing to forgive the sins of a wayward
son who had spent has all in riotous living.
Christ was even more anxious, and these who
had gone off in dark way and returned to His
bosom were ready to sadup and give evi
dence of His forgiving loe.
T533RE EcREW YOUTES3.
Rey. T. B. Sarrewell's Exetten sam.n at
McEsadase Church resterda, Keening.
B1ev. D. 3. Wailer was to have proeebed at
McKendree M. E. Church yesterday morning.
but he was unexpectedly called away from the
city. and bin place was filled by Rey. T. B.
Harrowell of Oxford Place. Leeds.
Mie selected as his text the 16th. 17th and 18th
verses of the third chapter et Danina eoathe
"'Threo Hebrew Youths."
The preacher considered bust the excelnent
spirit which the youths manifaete in the timme
of trial, and secoadly. the important conse
quences whioh resulted from their conduct.
The trial was of no ordinary ohn=metr Theugh
captlives tl-ey were high in the favor of their
king. Poss elaght to slisat' them from royal
favor. Opportuniy was aeded by the Isee
ofia maandate Wticheosenecompelled them
to disobey. The Irteas of their refuel was
inflexible. They resslved to obey Ged; to eme
rince the Isemands et elf interest rather than
set aside His clatm. and sathouity. It might
have been urged that as empive subjeets they
were bound to obey the king's comeand.
In matters of teampena nature perhaps: hut
'lies between aman's seal and th great
ConcinneisGod's sind God's only, and
sooner thaa yield ehedi** te human lawn,
when by so doing we break divine rake we
ought to risk all, even ife itself. These three
were not merely takig beres; their de
ware as glorisus as their werd. The ''oea
heated seven ths serte thn itiwa waet"
col net afih these. Is their condust net
worthy our imttslThe Mnse have faels
energy, tha idmtbeeon whiskbh e
we ase imitate theib eu...m1.w .s..
they and hew seq e enseie fremem se -
flexible? It wae Is asma oeas
si$py faith In Ged. And stt is ta
a- a-te--a byeesin 3d ....t onds
*M the Gmese ista3w Ee lsggggye
en a-a---*' by lie sst ee seinvines
his meeksem, aSi essanmof gaehis s
-n adi thmien asesam~e
themsea hemed ssa
-U--- M if11411 f g IM.
g3es tol a s aeme f as Wa adug
wme tu th e s t an. .
Rimiem week in Loaes wa s esed to a
hinge audimene in Foumny (batek yestsdp
aenermee by ldies who an preseat in do
derte that ae being made ft sedalm se
manses is that great city. Me Ewa Prics
Eughes and Mr. Easard (lash, espeesssig
the West End Leaden Mission istmbemd, told
of their eserts I the redemptionef seous. Pie
ter Dees Stephensa.. the Wesey deeets of
Lo-d-. deeghter at Dr. stspheeems, speke
et the work acempihed, partimetty smeng
the children, at the (ildrea'e Eames. Over
1.00 of theme, educated and brought up to
Christian manhood and w-mah--d hWd ems
to Canada and the st e e'-be---me iadmstri
een and useful citisees. Rise Flerence BMe
-et Spoke sheet the Seul ot labor is ES Les
den. Mrs. Dr. RuB. the natisnal Seeetery,
also spoke briet. A issete of Oe survie
was the mging of Sister Dora MAd Kiss Mary
Arthur, daughter of Rev. WiNlam Artheur.
assbep Warm at the eusuh of the do
PresMent Narrisea ocepied his pew is te
ulech of the ovenaat yesterday marning.
sad, is eommao with the large aadience. heard
an elective ermen from Bishop Warren. The
theme uhich the distinguished divine ebber
aed w.. rse w ...mdes whih. be mid, s
the oetral ad grandest idea is religion.
CsOINt hd e rPateen.
At the Church of the Covenant at might 3ev.
Dr. est preeehed to a harge eeugeagdlanm
He based his dILserse n the incideat is nt.
Mark of the Pbariss's eedeaving te overthrew
Chist by questioning him sad by his answeres
warning the people. Durting the conversation.
Said Dr. Heat, Clost hId dews the cena4
ameat that thple shoald love God with aU
their hearts and neighbors as thema..ves
When people. said Dr. Hunt. loved God instead
of fsomg him they came over to the kingdom
of beeves.
Deetrtne of a mress fI..
The pulpit of the First Baptit hurch last
evening was occupied by Dr. L. R. Fiske, the
president of Albien College of Michigan. His
sermon was an elaborate ad earmned discourse
of the doctrine of a future life.
The Petnile or True Usiseghed.
The second of the series of the services of the
People's church at the Academy of Maoe yes
terday touched en Methodist matters, as the
sermon of Rev. Dr. Alexander Lent referred to
the action of some restaurant and lsach reem
proprietors in refusing to admit coered mne
her of the eouncil Dr. Eest pointed eut that
such discriminatian *howed that men had not
yet learned the principle of true brotherhood.
Reasentes at Tempse ne Toot.
A large crowd assembled at the Tempeesmos
Tent, located at 9th sad East Capitel streets
northeast, last evening to listes to addresses
from diatiaguished speakere who are here from
England and elsewhere at the ecuemical
conference. Mrs. La Fete presided and Mr
John Wills, F. B. Se., of Derby. Egad was
the lret speaker. He gave a streng Bible ar
gument for total abstinence and thsm told of
the great work teing done in his eenstry for the
chmren. He said they were systematial
oqranisod and that elrsidy two uiliea of the
children are enrled their bande op.
Mr. Wile is an active business man-en a-chi.
tet-and has deuaiged two huadred churches
In England. Dr. L. A. Belt was the mext
speaker and spoke in utrss~gteem~s for the pro
hibition of the Mr John .
Lile, C. C.. of c . 3mgd. spe
briedy, stating his great interest in the temper
ance movement in this country and h ese
dent faith in its ultimate triumph. Mr. J. C.
Lee gave an earnest invitatiom aadseverleme
forward and signed the pledge
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age. T. a. s trameseo.
@OsEMBirs* aI0CWERt.
A asEglm Cstlebrates of the aitng of
Ameri by the Gn3mt eebesr.
Today is the three hundred and ainsty.ith
anniversary of the discovery at America by
Columbus, and the event was eesrated by a
unique an interesting service at otepeham
Church yesterday afternoon. The oo.ms..em.
conference decided last week to inaugurate
such a service in answer to the espresed Wilk
of the world's fair cemhaeaee to eft en feet
a aevement for religiens cmmemes..=en
srvices In varioms churches et th oemtey.
Ethop Hurst of this city presided, ad after
the rendition et eme e...u..at minis by the
choir ad the large adiae ho dsMeered a
shart address, in whish he reearred to the fect
that Americans were eread to eeaider est In
the discovery of this eatisent. as well as Its
npbailding, the olsamsat of suligism hod never
been a sight of, sand that it had pa
morse proma-et part in that umgand
developament tha the fatesafmseger
mat had iathetablsd aetisas whm datned
their antiuiy eeaurs egoE, hpKaa
of the Methodist church in Osnada. who spoee
em the factor ef--l--i--as e pri eveer
Dr. cr......idth..t te ee-h .d ne4
been found wanting in oontributdag~mir sme
to the ultiate ltaacetf what Oslembus
deated. tea di powr ho has aeoveery
became a fact,
ay. a. erur=mum's amnas, a5sinma.
Me.Dr.flsea-eadeliveredeaensguest =e
merisl addreas, in which he sneded to the
preminsentphfollowers et Jehe Woder had
ade foeir faith emeng the retmuato et this
eountry and emod that the adessimne of
Asserie hod thet passseamm -
Addeeme w also msade by 3ev. Dr.~ Easte
Creestea, Rev. Dr. (baton et es.... and
Rev. Dr. Pitzgerald. The serrise was inter
spersed with hymans ad seriptural sedings.
Mesmbesse the 3eu...m..nd.E...- Who
Pesehd is thse e3---...a sa.
A harge number oet ee ag-aes to the esee
ef vetted hla eyeasrday, and measty eM
the Methodist pelpite in teity wereeasgaed
by iiaig divines.
Mahep Neandrix wasat Ut. Flel' and tesk as
his test, "If It ee actal I eeld he. aold
yen."
At the eveeig ariss et th -sm ehrs
3ev. Dr. 3.3 E. ehs p...aed en as ain
A(Tuioity (oh~ Mep Jeseph Uman
Eqy d.ered te seaso, which ue es the
serht et me beeie bas. In tes oemg
Map pashed at Umira n~etac.
Is ~Iwaimv~us Voenen Plase Cm
b ee Osat assmm
At the 3maan Aveme 4mmeh e. A. 5.
aanee e sdin as -mssn ad Be
Man 4 ine eeming
mmp.
...e~
C aUr oh Nyeem, Te.., at fststd (le
-e,5 Meiknost asVareer. Focis4.
Mad S. M . hlmir Of asNra. East1d. 41
ammenTeeen.
at - A. tde a cuh Tea.
Me w r. J. H. oft olMlalm.aa tan.. at
r.. Dr. J. C. Walt of Leaden at 5iyeta
Avene C110.
CAUM& A. M. . (wrt.t
the Nw Mewe. e opem fee wo ssaph
asesy er le .
am.pbI A. M. t marsb has bem ewe
pIsaed sad was serda emrWreied to se
icies warhip. he is egerai isr're =rr
-pwiid sh e anthem bM the reergeani
Chcfe, led by Prof. Job LEmoden. Ti see
rem was deteeed by Nev. Dr. A W. (lear of
MewOraimIa.. Wad the test. U1bevue-apte,
I. 3.0: "he geed (.pert through faith and
w beetar rind beygad." 1e ya.tor of the
ekseh, Be.. F. J. eet. Jr.. Closed ti.
eerese with rearb. At theaftiernoon ervac
Re.- Dr. Dyesa of MetropelitaE LEsa A. M. .
berAh of Welmgeig preached. using as big
ebset "God to Be Worhsped." tar Ander
seo, psueldest of Campbell College of Vacb.
bug. Mis.. aid Be. Dr. Kerbert of Dewuar.
0eL. made beft addressee. In the evening,.
owing to the slksoee et tie. Toenued. 1s4
tbek eseupied thef lens ag as amsernal for
his eerme the 1 at pui. e od Lna dn.
tgs far r. Mr. E. et oa. se1.
wan e gmsit of the oeveningR. 110.
fr the dy alieg.ed st.
caSatue a ussaters sN
ampbel (bur ws orgamined and ctteted
a mioion sl=l7 by Rev. Was. H. Water. 1h.
sstiag which areemphahed this ea hiel. a0
the soeet Mr. Join Rtadar. on . Hali
Fram that time taU W.fe services were cor
dueed in the little frame Mosnt Zena rkn. -4
keeI b the pastsor of Allen A. 1. .. laapi4
at Hope. Hest were Rev. Mr. Waiets,
ftem 1067 to '. Rtie. A. It. Breen ad Ise,
Thesms W. Beery, trer l11 to 'a+: Francas J.
Pe r.. ther oe the pressnt p-tor. tlK to
0: w. Deied [Dpe. 1-. and '72. awd
new. WO . M. James. 1s73. is 1.47 Be. Mr.
Deeper belk the reogh and homely littl.
traetuse knewma Msount Esae ( barte. Is
1674. sUder New. T. A. B. seary. Mont 74a:,
asami to be a missies and bename i -depasedr
of Al.. Ces psL ma ie ties its pulpit has e.
rccupied br the following paasno: Be.. Was
-Cla Beems wrt. Herry N. Dorse., Nev. R.
W. Timothy. Be.. J. H. M. lira,. heo J. H.
Melsh. Bev. BL M. Jemamen. Kre.. 'D1. J. 1teeket
sad lIer. O. D. Batsineen. Deurs tie rguge
of te hatter gestlema it was dermae.l t.
change the loaestee of tie church egaume point
meser the cester of its cengregation and more
aesible, for the read to salvation we as
as a e boulevard compaared with the oe aS
A law WOT eaat.
Aecerdiagly. Dr. abuimoa secured fem Was.
Carter N by 1 feet o the esut ade of
Nisbels aeemue. midway A5. EisaMibeth eight..
and em what was the Barry farm. lime ground
was in part donated by the owner. Dir. tum
am assceeded is aeting ihe building tart.d.
but eassist embaresamemt bleched farter
ad bwt.caared on en iDosg
CM. Oa May e .J Ptoaw J.
rived fremh asg.Wei6chg~. esty.
Md., ekes, he aet of asse A. M.
E. Church nd -spa( e[ the pubie ete.
and sueemeded . esiasi ihe ciemass-d of
camphel (berth. Al the far er vire whic
be oedurted is Douglas' bar he .ubetbed
5,ah at the see reems followed wait sad
he obised in so esumestially
that at ke Chach debt wa wised og the
slae. The b---*at of tie denyd streetor.
was stted up. ewads J. . Cotmmeedere and
J. Aran us t amber and 1Trasees H.
Deauey, I aand Gleerg. iessas did the
o ry. meB sse tre e ad
of ik ses.. emth o ls
c-adeed yestesmy thseesdeeasspgaion.
as ikheu ted e mergy ad deoie, wer
set hee m e t, lase d d O d s i oh e
- ae. oe.U . .am..
no res te t ret yaem of Dr. Ihek's
peeststs wse me. s6 m.ad e ike e et ea
day Of lst Jum he imagmatdd a camp oast
fog, e sdaa'd i tIB ike tird bmaday is
Aam eaad mitte abe OM This
w adisu*ed by mte damageaud
ersteMs as Presrirk De gImm, James A. A.
Jehmea, D. D.,peemg elder of Peiesmme
disriet; bahap waymarmof ete o Neeth Tee
messee Bew. emmoi J. P ak.s.. at
Grace A. M. M. (birch, Eastie county.
new. . M. Jebms et Ana esl; ev. Dr.
'bs o e bt -o: A. . fI e,.
Washngtem: lea. Dr. D. P. Peates of Halti
a, Bad rev. Dr. bIll of Ebeaezer (Zurek.
Washibgeae Frederick Deugim and his ens
Frederick, Jr., have been state frieade at
this teren
maFAmtow o! Mu!e taw stuawnse.
The ehaseb proper will seat aad tma Sua
day ecbeel seem ass umber. It is ai~se
in asm. A feur-huadred-denem osga and a ta
eated obeir kate ies i et
eiay at the wawt ani of the church. At te
p e end to t. pilaorm mad aromnd this is
ais e belsteede. Over the pulptis a
asemaral wisde. o J. P. Oapdlw
as bihape ie -esas th.r..tr .tome
was lide ad seer wham toe church is ammad.
The wiew cost 075 and was preenated by the
bisspe widow. I6e portrait of the davies hs
being Mreat is the glm. Behbad tie pulpat
are Ite eathedeal gls windowa. eas tas
gfe Mrs. H. Fodle of (Grimud and .
Jela m adtme etherme Mr. M.Beak e
ad Mr. 5. T. Dad. In the tower ar two warn
dew., gifts of thr ebar. aini em the meth side.
of ike eamaces lea cost wiando. dgated by
mahe easked mrough the eseismof
UuesetadmtWas. K. I~rrj o andh
satMismammyJohnson. 'ai et ti
esnesace is a rcheled waeow frem Mr.
3. Debaee, Mug. Odem. Mrs. Ford mmmd Mr.
Egpeme Gross. The rmiigwudows wete
daad by Mr. ad Me. ..e ch.Mre. A.
Edmeme- ad Mr. J. P. Alueander. lea. N.
Whasaeo et repeisma A. K. E. Ch:sar and
Mr. E. Drew. et Jebs Wesley ybem onbrs.
Mr. ainMs. Eary Deaugy, J. S. n tamessie.
aad F. Ilmoe ad wise.
sum vammws meson's camcin.
BEs. F. I. EPet, Jr., mha pystr. was hera be
shero be inl. snsled his seat inste
iem hues the Catheie beebe ik tat city
ad adsaaded ies Lana. 0g.. grammar etesi
we km hi rran was p-se of Diebhe iasreo of
that city. E graduated fres sseae
'e~ety~adstuithelg at
uas pesier et Vanley Fail mar Leacy V.abeer,
Eaa.; did duty in Camae. hsy.: aght in
h esaas of Maymed and ws p-se
at - Me sesin armsred le
Isaa-t-a As e en amm sneerabay so
laed hrm. Ib6smior is epparems. .
ees a ennenbis esse at Piesemet. 3d., me
the -e towa of Bruaswiek. med ia iagsuasse
em a lege shi is ssediang and rsin
blinded herms."
Se. ossesagtse desiase Seed.
Paul. Cheestephur Jobaesn the mem prea
meat Amea prachastoe a Alaltumere,
yeara. Kis death was umespected. though ha
had aot hea waS eine IBt, whaem km en
poismaed while perfrmmg a gurien opera
tism. 3. sesed ike dege at M. Ii. in tUGS,
the greet =sa9e== Dr. Nathn It. S'th whame
ha inessdd am ihe esair et sagsr. Ia est
be uuemodths Annraad mensreted r
emnereu. Pret. Jebemee deeud s
ammmsm - d ha.n
emaiuien, pseddeles diMarysama Aadsy
at smem Bar mmede yie ad sabar dike
Udemin an (biruagied bedey et Maypas
emet e m .* U . K. a.
the auspedistems se hr suemss af me esa
see of hr mee ae 3iipp0 sami is he
3dhrmmasemde eepp..m i h be.ppems
iiaet 4ma the miea m km
m mnes et semi. Es eg s mha ditsm em
aesm- tist U. Leasm m.. hs
IM bemik of i~qr.e mes .
-ensn e.mem 3ams mms . h
naenamesm s w
os ems d-a
180 an.Q .Je