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tinually prominent as the great truths, of our. ministry, along side of which, in its Scriptural relation, was always placed the blessed hope of the Lord’s personal, visible, triumphant, premil- lennial return. Scarce anywhere have we ever known of such genuine ful filment of the Saviour’s prayer that we “ all might be one.” None knew his fellow save as brother ; and heartily did each so recognize the other. This writer only regretted that a multitude of his own denominational brethren did not share the high privilege of the conference.
er’s views with those expressed by every other. A profound spiritual at mosphere, not tense hut with heart- throbbing in it, was almost continu ously remarked. The impression was unavoidable that the gathering repre sented men who were vigorously alive in evangelism, missionary interest, church welfare; in short, not at all to be classed as men of one idea. Fidel ity to the authority of the Bible as the Word of God, manifest exaltation of Christ as very God, unfaltering faith in redemption through the aton ing death o f Jesus Christ, were con
“What Went Ye Out for to See” A CROSS the sea, along the shore, In numbers ever more and more, From lonely hut and' busy town, The valley through, the mountain down, What was it ye went out to see, Ye silly folk of Galilee? The reed that in the wind doth shake ? The weed that washes in the lake? The reeds that waver, the weeds that float?—
“ A young man preaching in a boat.” What was it ye went out to hear, By sea and land, from far and near ? A teacher? Rather seek the feet Of those who sit in Moses’ seat, Go humbly seek, and bow to them, Far off in great Jerusalem. From them that in her courts ye saw, Her perfect doctors of the law, What is it ye came here to note?— “ A young man preaching in a boat.” A prophet! Boys and women weak 1 Declare, or cease to rave: Whence is it he hath learned to speak? Say, who his doctrine gave? A prophet? Prophet wherefore he O f all in Israel’s tribes?— “He teacheth with authority,
And not as do the scribes.”—Arthur Clough.
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