'-* (T, .0^^^°^S C?.' 5 THE REV. 1 BeWlTT f ALMAGE Sept. 25th— lUct. 3r6, 1878. .f»^ .lOSEPH LOVEDAY, PRINTER AND PT'BLISHER. tec ^^^&l?^ Price e?-.^^ h^-M. .^^H 'h :^i^^- -v^^^ 1 Cents/ .... lr< • {Late ABBOTT (0 McDGNALD,) Implement and Seed Dealer, MARKET S8UAUS. OTTAWA. '«•*»•"•»". »»".♦ •»»■».' •. \ i o S ^ • ^ •: w < « A FULL ASSORTMENT OF Tliresliiiig Machines, Sinviiij? Maeirnies, SIraw Cutters, Gang Plows, Cultivators, Stoves, &e., &c., AT LOWEST PRICES, CONSTANTLY IN STOCK. .0 >^z%tmf^MmtmM''-s-i>i^:£:''7^.s^WMmw.^'' ' 'm^^:^i:j^^ >fm ^:m ^i^ ij - I III irr- ' ii rm ii ~i« i v n il - II I ■' III i ;]tX' i ,i ' | nn i -y g sg; THE SL La wnea Ceatral toip 6?oiiM ^^S THE pJlTHEHlNG IS TO BB UNDER . THE ^ / pATHBRSNQ OP pNUSUAL JmTEREST TO ^UNDA-Y pCHCJOI. )VORKE^S ItiY BE ItXPECTED. Ill f t l "» l | l ,^ oe 1 ( I- -^u a-H?-^ rF^^ FIFr ON PAGE TWO OF rnVMR) Cim NOW BE P0R0HA8E1> AT fJrom $15.00 to $25.00. each, i !COBP^O TO LOCATION. i> the intention \tf the C&nwdttee to raiuthe pnee next year, [ Vot lalbrmation i^>|3*y li^pon the 1^^ ovto Re V. JL D, TBA j^^ SOngstony Oatajpio. ^^ ^ ai^!^l ■ atil^lJ^:)i;J jg B^iSs^^3gTI^^ THE CELEBBATED ailislM3p8ticBe}{s,ClestPFOfecfflrs,LM|Ii?iprators 3.^St jLt5* EjlCx, ]b For Die cure of almost eveiyfoi'in of Chrcfnic disefee, o? aiiy "bodily ov functional weiiknir»lysis, Ague-, the various forms of Bheiimatism. Indig<^.e.tion. Liver Complaints, Con.^tipHtlOtt, Inttrnjii WetiinesH, (reaeral I>ebility, Etc, Etc. These appluwices are manufactured onlv hv Mksskh. WSTTON a CO, of 48 Eegent Sttoet, Loadon. Kngiand; and have l^en recctttlv' introduced in America where they have ah"eady atb,iiied a very high reputation. The following, which is among; the most recently receive*! testimonials, ilhistrates their general action : — FuLL.tR'-ox, Ont,, September 13th, lH7il Dkah Sib,— It affords me i>leasure to iiitcnn you that the most pleasing residts have attended the use of the " Magneticon " Throat Proteetur purchased from you last February. For several ye&rs I had been greatly tE-ouhled with what is commoniy known ^s Olergymau's Sore Throat, and had been tx-eated for it both here and in the United States without t?et»nnng any peT-mauet't relief. But the u&e. of yooi- ai>pliaii' ax a few days enabled me to profonu an amount of labor such as I had never before been equal to in tlie winter season^ and I am happj to say I uni able t« do, ^^ith coraparidvtj comfort and satisfac- tion, as much work as is generaxly required froar men in the MethcwiiBt Itiner'aHcj. I may sicift say that Mm'&n'.n hm ~ ^xjiafieiiced r^alts no lesgi ijatisfaotory from 'ihe m& of tl^e ^i^t ])*oeuK»d from yvk ks^ ^xme Her npiM^tit-fi 1ms Tnu<*h imr^roT^d^ digiestion ha^ 'i>ion assistid, and the ^aiuB in h&r hack' bive entii'ely left her. Hatifig reeni vedsutth hei-^efit from the use o^ your Mstguetie appU- anees, we cannot bul hojje that those who suffer from like 'eauses taay avail themselves ot the he^^^ vou offer. JAMES P. MCE, Bible Chrutian Almister. ' Thme^ appliances are pranged on thelateat scieatinc ptmoipies, . i are at the game^^m© simple mi ooiiteaient, requiye m> preparation, are not worn in sonl^efv with the skin, and do ixot |^ve any uapl^fcsa&tc si^eatioti. They ar« iin- ttjestioHably THE BS^T mftans of ireatiiig tue majority of cases of Chronic t'ttUi^S OB rSCiJipt wi ptmje. .i^j. _* \- Call on oy address, THOMAS J. MASOH, • ■ ^ ( WE'IWPOMIE CO. r" 125 -Gliure^Bfereet, Pronto. Ml^BS. WETTON & CO, SOIJg MANUFACTURERS, 48 Regent Street. I^cmdon. W., si.-nd 08 Kigls Sti-eot, Chelt^nliaru, Eni,daiid ; (ii 17 Mftitlft^ Street, £diiiha!$di,.ikatknd_; 9 I..owei.aaekvllle Bsre&t, Buldin, : li-oland: and 1*^5 Church Strei-t. T^rjonU,. 'Jairifla. ■. Toiwjnto. Sept. 16th, i.57.1 m ^T. ,L/VWREJNICt: p£!MT:-:AL C/^.^AP 'QFiOUND. V ill.- ^' J^T ' • -^ ~i ■ ^, Mei't- 'lUf^ (Trouiid, is siiiiaa; on :i hi^-ii Muti' ot' tlic Si. Tjuvn icnce l^ivcr. in tlie First ijoiicc-siou oftlio Tuwii^bijj i>i" I^lizabctli- tov.n, (Joiinly <>t' Li'cds. Uniario. Tlie ^-nmii'! i^ iudt'eLl Iteautirul husiiiuilioii. (MiiunaiKiinu" a tiiu: view oi"tiu' luajc'.tic 8l Lawiviice lor many luilc^ each way. Nature lias doiu' niiich to make this spot a coveti^d .-iiniiner retreat tVom the oxtrcine lieat nf city I lie. and a ta\'()!-iie report tor a.inuse- mont. The i-Tounds. cniia'aeinii" some t\veiii\-ti\e aeres. aie tinely woixled. aiid naturally lei-racc^d. one corner olVcrin*:' an easy naiiiral dcseeiit t<> llie river'> edii'c KxeeiienI hathinir atid ti-^hini;' ii'rttnnvl is wiiliin ea-^y leaeh. The ({rounds are .i<»w owned anay <»>uinte Conferene*' ol ihc .Mdiioli-t Kjiiseopai (Miiii'ch in Canada, having' hren |mreiia-ed hy Ivcv. A. !>. Ti:\vkm.kh and olher .Mini>>icr.->. tor Camp Me»>tini:; ]Hir]»o--cs. in 1875. A s])aei(ais Tabernacle, a lioardiuii" llall. atid about thirty biMUli- thi (/Ottaii"e> ha\e been creeled, and others are in proee-s oj' ci'cetion. Two Sessions of* IieliL:-iou> Ser\ ice- are held carh yeai". ojR' in .lu!i.^ and ihcothtM- in September, .\moni;- th(^ d ==r5-rr ^rr-=H cJ; :: SIXTH REMQIOUS CAMP MEETING. conttJinplalod improvements of the present season, are a new Telegraph Office, a Post Office, and a Customs Office. Five Series of Eeligious Meetings have been held upon the Ground, — the one reported in this pamphlet constituting the Sixth. All of the services have been marked by deeply hallowed spii'itual influences, and the converting and sanctifying grace of God. Though none of the Religious Services have l»een uncrowned with the blessing of God in the conversion of men, yet the great advantage of the meetings has resulted trom a quickening of the graces of God's people resulting in renewed consecration and a deeper baptisni of the Spirit of Christ. Accordingly it has been found that members and ministers returnini' from these Meetino-s have almost invariabiv kindled the flame of revivals upon their respective charges, in which liuiidreds have been led to ("hrist. The favor with which the lleports of the last Camp Meet- ing were received has induced the writer to ]>rej)are the pres- ent one, being assured that many hundreds who were unable to attend the Fall Camp Meeting will be both jdeased ami pi'«)fit- ted by a pamphlet Report of thti same. Among the special attractions of the present publication will be found the Portrait and Sermon bv Rev. T. BeWitt Talmage. the Jubilee Sermon ^f Rev. Di\ Aylsvvorth and an extended a'-count of the Special Providence Meeting. With the hope that the circulation of these pages may help to scatter the seed of life in human hearts, the writer com- mits this Second Report to the public. fi. f. Aji.SJjN I i I a\f^=^ m Sixth Religious i£amp ^fleeting. ^REPORT. Tup: Oj)enin,i'' Services cuii^i>le(l ofa Prayer .Meeting and Fel- lowslii]) S»Mvi<-e led Ity Kiv. W.m. Blair. The minislers and mi'inhers piirtieipating seemed intensely in earnest tor the presence of God. At the conclusion of the Prayer Service the leader in a brief, pointed exhortation referred to his deep desij-e that this and all succeeding Eeligious Services on the Camp Ground might he crowned with the >alvjai()n of sinner.-*, lie liad hitely heen reading he said a series of articles dispar- aging Camp Meetings as mere jdaces of amusement and culture and ly no means in the line of the <-onversi(m of men. He pra^'ed God to make this the spiritual birth place of many. He was exceedingly jealous that God should he honored and His will consulted in all things that he might honor the Services with His presence and blessing. The Eevs. Ausxrx, Tr.wkli.er, Mvvetv. and Lani<: all tbllowed in the same strain and both ministers and members in their testimony and prav- ers evini'cd a hungering and thirsting atler a greater fulness of the Spirits iiitluence as a means of greater success in soul win- ning. One sinner in the audience arose forprayersand afterward came forward as a seekei- of salvation. The brethren rejoiced and gave glory to God for this signal proof of His favor in the tirsi meeting. May it [)rove prophetic of the conversion of multitudes to God. Amen. On Thursday morning a heavy rain I'ell, but lasted for a short time, when the cloud.s broke way and a slight breeze soon re- moved all traces of the past storm. Two Services were held ! in the Tabernacle during the forenoon, led by the Hew A. I). a. ■ .CI t KTXTH KET-HJIOrs CAMP MEKTI\(f. i TRAN-ELf.KR niid tlic llv\ . H. L.vNK. llio tiiuo was principally takcji up ill ])r;iytM- and tc>i!imniiy. ii Liracioiis spirit of* revival rortliug upou ihv people. Among iho$o taking part in tho Services Tve may nioniion tho Rdv. BKN.soxSMrTff, who>e pref;- once is alwa\s liaii»M! willi delight by hi-- hmfhrrn. and whose words are trea-ared a>> sacred iVoin hi> lileli^nu,' sei'vires to Methodism, ile is the. hero of nianv a hard-tbui^dit hatth* with Athei>(s, (Tniiarians and t'niversali-^ts, and luMice cvei-y nie- niento ot" I iiis veteian d' thi' (^-os^ j^ dniv to all his many friend^. Fn one of the Ibminon Sei'viee- he said, iii his (twii tjiiaint \va..\' ; — I iiavi' ))een ^ivt.v-iwo yt«!u-K (m tin track. 1 have M^i\u some liaid seivk-*? duvent out of my path. I saw the mean- ing evt-n in my bleep, and nevei' hud any more difficulty about j)rnyiTig in a meeting- ' ' ' A » I On Tl\ur>dav al'lernoon (he I{ev. (\. S. BEb[. ]>reaehed a jjraetical and eacnest discourse, tVorn Nainb. x. 29 — Come thou irirh us, and we iciU do thee youd ; for the Lord hath spohen (jood concerning Israel. He alluded to the eircumpLuiees under .-.hi-.-h the- iii\itation was given, juul then proceeded to iilu^ti'ate and eut'orc^- the duty of every Chnstian, by word of mouth and the ehirjuence of godl\ liviuellion against (fod. as these often exhibited 8T. LAWRENCE CENTRAL CAMP GROUNK. 5 thf qualities tliatjx'iin^ 9iinctili«Hl, would lend the Cliurchto pnKsjvrity. Miiiiy a ))rotesHed (.'hvi>tiiiii was ashaiiu'd to iuvitf the sinmr to riirist. Siiiut-rs Avere asb-imed of the devil whom they i?eived, aud lukewarm pmfef^sois of the preHeiit day won- ashailied of Chiint. Christians must so li\e tliat their lives will be iuvitiuji — that when by word of mouth they invite the siuuer into the service of Christ, tiiv testimony of their li\eK to the truth of reliuion niid its blessed eft'eets on the heart and life, mip^ht be powerful ♦non^rh lo constrain men to become dir.ciples of Jesus. \ In conclusion, he pressed the invitation upon the unconverted to con\e intn the fold of Christ — hito the Cliurch of (rod — urj,'ing the promised of God to the Church, nnd lier jjloi-ious fntni-e as a motive to [ireseiit i-on^ecintion to God. On Tlmrsday evening the Rev. T. W. Pickett pre;icl)eraelitish c^imp under the terrible inliiction of tlie jdatrue of ser]^)enis. The consternation and sutierinf;: of the bitten, and the f«'arfully faliil eticcts of the serjieihts' bitt% were depicted in language that aroused attention and s tin-id the lieart. A deputation was doubtless sent to Moses to make knouii the terrible attiiction of Israel, and to beseech him to seek a reniwly from (iod. (iod hi-ard the and health v vw his. It was not only a speedy and easy remedy, but it was a universal one. It wrought salvation in every case. Now sin wiis lilte ' the sei-pents' bite, full of poison and ending in a deplorable death. Domi South lately a fiiend of his had slept one night in a company with a tent in apartin- festexl with sei-jients. There was one kind peculiarly vici(nis, whose presence could be detected by its smell. In the night one of the company awoke, and concluding there was one in tlie room, stepped out to get a light, and hy chance st^'pped upon it aud received its bite. In a fev* hoiurs his limbs and joints were swollen to a frightful extent, and he soon died a most honiblo I death. Hin, though apparently harmless, is awfully fatal in the soul's destnic- tion. There anus l»ut one remedv, and that was CJhrist. It was a speedy remedy — the sinner no sooner getting a glance at Jksus tlian he was healed. It was an easy remedy — that i>f simple faith in Christ ; aud it was a uiivi^rsal one — "Whosoever will, let him come." (-hrist 6 SIXTH RELKilOUS CAMP MEETING. must Ix- lifted iij>. There wan no other wlj of salvation to mau than by the c'luoifixiou of .lEsrrs on the cross. Chiist ?«?/>/ ])e lifted up. He prayed each sinner nii;.'ht jie.t the fiiil force and mejiuincf of th;it >iiu.--t. It ought to pierce every sinner with contrition. He had sttU Roman Catholi;^ chihb-en wearing tJieir little images of tlie crucitied Saviour. To-night he held up before a dy- ing sin-bitten audience a crucitied Jf.si'«, whose blood alone could atone for sin and destroy its i)Ower. .\ man who was penitent over his past life li>id gone into a meeting where Christ WHS ridicult^d, but found no comfort in hearing Christ defamed, 'roing out, he went forth singing — •• There is life for a look at the crus them at the forenoon meeting. In commencing his addi'ess, Bro. Blair asked the children t<» join him in singing a stair/a of the hymn — '• There is a ^aie that stands ajar. And through its portals gleaming," Which they did as only children can sing. What a song that will be when we all get home to glorj', and with the innumerable multitude sing the song of Moses and the I.amb! He had come to address them because innted to do '^o by the Committee, in the absence of the appointed speaker, but chiefly because asked by a little Sunday School girl to come and talk to them as he used to yeai'S ago. All the children he knew were divided into two classes — tho8<' who loved Jesus and those who did not. Childi'eu need^jd the culture and protec- tion of the Sunday School and Church. The children had seen apph' tiees by the way side rid(tloiii>n. Tlu' llvx. gcnllonian tlion procticdod to lt'a«i a Chiklren's F^raycT Mectiiii;-, durinLC wiiifh llio urcut h >eekors of rdiiiicjn. Tin- iSci-vico wa8 in- teiLsc'iv inloi'i" i (hen made, and oxhibitini^ in not a few instances blosed re- j sult> from labors thai appeared at the time altogether in vain I but were subsijquently fruitful in biesfting. The loving allu- ! >ions to early teachers were touching and encouraging U) the i hearth oi' all th(^ teacher> present. ! The liev. A i>. Tuavei.leh. in gi\ iiii: Ids experience, ivnd the followini;- extract :— i iWv. Mi:. Taylor, jit a gn-ut Suudiix -school ni*»'tinn Lu fauada la>t \\t,i\v«t u "JO and SO. ahou* the muiic ; and tin reiuauidcr undti- 2(K At tl)e Afternooi] Children s Meeting the Hex-. W'm. Sehvick and B. F. AistIxN addressed the Childi-en. The fonner alludi-d to liro. Hi.Ani's story in the for»'iioon. ahout disoheyinj,' liis father durin;:; his absence, and in h-avinfj the sheep expost'd to the wolves, reniarked. that the sjH'Hker had been eiirefnl to ;tto]) at the riirlit jioinf. and (ouitted to t»'U his hearers what prohaldy folhnved. after his father <-aiMe home D^ Ljl r^ ■ -^ l .. ■J,J- SJ.JL. —t t., .--L. i- eta spes TAJ i Wr H Hi^ ' i^ I SPECIAL &iXTPO»PiRY OFFER : The LauFgest and lBest Story f^atferil^Jlaihdd in Ajiiorica, fall of interestmg GRAND PREMIUM to EVERtiUBSCIlIBiER. We want ip iat^nce fte *' HOtJSEKOLD JOtJBHM. '\ into eirery family ia the eoantry, an4 make iEe foildwJBf 6ffer : — PiaSMIGJi- Hov 4.-^%on recis^c)! $1,00 we will p^d^ HOIlFS^HOLDj JOUlENAIi oae^esu* to 8iiy alMy^s, fe*»^ ^'onr own Ha«e Ale iijia «5^fift# Bubber Stamp fo? marldiig jtmeii oy |ai«tmg ear^s, togetjieir mtli a bottt© of Itidelible I^, bottle C&j^i Ink, wekage of Oold l^oaz© for makiug gold lett^s, and 50 YiS2i4ng Oards. ' ' PREm^M H0viTtI^»^W*^:ii*^W^^»2^ JOUENx\Xi ©ne year, and oiir ^rfectmfie geiii of a MagIc X.AirrEBK, 18 Views* Throws an IS in. picti3re uponisTdl or ^asistas/ is$ isspecially deaign^d for Parlor oriEoaasenttertawai^esat- wortk^5 fi)i»^^^^ It isiA l^eaatifriljsrfseii^ FP4MIUM No/fct7poo>©eei|t ot^.Od we \nl^ JOURNAL one yeM-, aad oae set Genuine Silver Plated Tea Spoons. Pnre stiver plate on a ooatibg of haard white nifi^|e, and wawanted to .weay. The^ cannot lie sold ty aay retail deakr for lesse tibai Jl. 35 p^^ JPREMIOM No.4.-^-U}>oii receiptof $t.00 W€ >viE ii%il iiieBOTSEHOIiD J0URNAL one year, and om two new and Ixjatitiiiu: dtoomds *' Sunset on IducB reHiium:— Otta^^a, Sejiember 5th, 1878. Messrs^ 33. G, RlDBOUT d Co.-~OEKm^I received fee Rfevbiv^r aH sale; many thaiia. I have trse4 it to test its range; and I find it will caiTy 90 feet and pie?ce a w^it plank tero inch^ thicikv then susrogs an opehing 10 fee*, and tbrongh an inch dry boftitd, suod for all I know ihe ballet may bs going yet*^ It is a regular little terj^r to c«my a ball. Thise^ or f ow of n^g? Me^b ajse going to aead^QT one. v S^^ly ¥^Jh*s, GEO. P; BLISS. , TaisRevoii^r #3^p«^ifr%n*^t4iL00^ This offer is unlymade to indac© you to try the HOUSEHOLD JOURNAL one yea^r and wo feel couftdent you will alwa?9 be a reg^ilar reader after taking it one year. Bont thiak because we laatee this ^m theJB*E§!: ia w^tbl^fe. Yott will be as ol^a«<6d wiUi it as we are jtrcud «f it. WILL YOU ftr UFaSUB? Itwilltake youBht ft Ih&ftHittte wmw^ Chib c^ Ift or l§«ub«cr»berg, fnd weinake y«a|bi«jOgeei 0^f tt^ tl«0O iremfeina- If 3R>u««i*a ta«ill§-Mifo|' p fafesc»il^s»W& will mail you aeo^ry of ibe ^^r cne yel^jr, «Hd the Bcmama SetetrShot H)etelves*i Ee^ member every subser iber in the clab wiU be entitted to a pixjaium the same m for a single subscription' HOW #&jr WB jSl^tobb imd bo imSB, ip the first qnesticfts nattratlly a^ked, wad we wiitl ^nd^'^oi^ to apswer it to your satisfactiGn. We either raannf aetore or have Baade to cfer order dl th« articles we use as piifemiuras in very large qaaatatiest benee we are able to do ^is and make a profit. Bnmll *tis ^e, Mt it p«y» iis «M mtR^nc^ oar jettmal. 0«r circHlatloin is alr^acfy very lai^ and increasi^ig at a rai>iil:rfttei Preminn and paj>er maih'd to any addr^s post paid apoa receipt of price. EXXaA<^tom:^|tY l|rbU(»l^^g X# AGENTS. 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THE DPPER CASADA TRACT SOCIETY. w'*^*%*%*'Srf'v»*».'<*«''S»*»»*Si'v*^»^*»** the Upfek Cakajda Tbact Socisxt daferg lor sale, at the lowmt prices, a llffge sWt of BOOEB stdtable for Miniateritd, Congregational, and Sunday ^ckil liibmries. Oatalogties forwarded Free on application. The society al8<>snpplie8 all the h^t Bnaday School Periodloals, inciuding JSelje lor Teachers, asid lUtiatrated Papers for the Ghildr^. Price list Free by M«dl. &Bpcsitdryv fGffonge^trmt TORONTO. T— rr !l ri ST. I.AWR; vrK r iVTKAi. CAMP GROT'XD. 9 and fduuil thiiti'cii o'i hi.> :-li< i p »! .'i. •.',.. a MoLC-fi:.,'. il • v. i.-, . . ti) «m11 tiir ;ittrntion of ).':nvnts |»;irtiful;irly to ih^- hid. tliut it •v:i!- tiu ir »luu to t^t r tlifir ohildivu duly g-thcivu into th theirs. In tnniin'_r to thi' cliildrcn, hi- oalh'cl tluir atti'nti'Hi tii^t to the l>i!.l( - history of man in liir^ innoffncy, to (Tod">* sfracions df.-l'.m^ f'»' h'- c.-ntiniuil holiiiess and happiness, and the sults-'qiK'nt fall of man imo mu and niiscny. All the miserv of life — vith uliicli iv»u vhildi-fn were soau Ahai <*<'uv<.rsant sprani^: onl of sin. Sin in the hera't was man's vnin. but ('litis! en Jd reniov* it. He nrji'ed llir i-iiildi'fii to a presrnt aci-( ptMucr of >ih.'tii>n I'v fjiitli in •'h'ist. The Kev. B. F. Akti.n >ailiit\vd) 'lad hoeu wondering why all this tifiihlr and <\i>ense on their aeconnt. T^vidmtly yonr parents tliink nuu'e of yon tha)i they do of their liorscs and shee]), hnt irhif .' Why do tiny Iniild sflu^ol-honscs, Jiire traeht-is, pay ont money for yon '.' Wh\ do ministei'.s and patriots;, and all good men take so much intt'rcst in yon? LJcvMusi' you arc to take the plaees of these men in a i'fw years, and the country will he v.hat yon make it. Tlie Clnnvli will In what you niak».' it. Because wt ]io])c to make you good men and women we go ic all thi.-: la'tor and trouble in order that you may he able to bless the world. But no doubt you surmise this is not the (mly reason. Tf one of you shouM die. how diftVr- entlv vour parents would he affected than as if a horse or a >ae. .. hi I died. How different the treatni 'Ut of your l;od> ; fter il-atli to tint of tlie <<\ or horse. 11'/'.'/' TTow is it. wliy is it thai tin )•■ is such a diiVerenee in the treatment of a hoy nod a horse? // /..•/*.•//(/■;. (':ii-Ii httij }i-r< -i luJ llat imu.! lir<- I'oirvcr in }i-'(tv<'n er }i '}J ' Now. how shall T teach \i.v.\ ihi- ? Whe;,-vou see me, what organs do you u>e ? Tin' eyes. Then the eyes see. do thev not? If so, the hamls handle, the feet wmII;. tin eyes see. Now. as vou all assent to thi^ view, let US see if it will hold good. You have :.ll seiii a dead jjcrson. Had he any ec it is iiot the .-ye ih.it sees. l)Ut the .-oiil that fr»;es through tlie eye. and handles with the hand. It i^. the -oul, that u.si^b Lhe.^t; in-tniment.s. that leaves tin body in death, and lives on b\ itself, and will live forever. Now the soul \\ill never die. You know a man m:\\ live \n ,i house and it may he torn down. _\et h-' can live on. ^iu tin-; soul livv s on after the body peri.shes. If .\ou took your d:\W and marked it full of little m.ti-ks. the soul would livi' as many years as there are marks. Th,' .t ycni to start here to-day for lieawjj. If you ^^ down to Broc!;- viHe. you may go from there East to Alontre;!!. or W. .,t to Toronto. So >iart- gF& SIXTH RELIOIOUS CAMP ilEETINO. ing in early life you may go up or down. If you were going to Montreal you would not start and go half-way to Toronto and tiien turn East to Montreal again. You would start at onca for the place and not have to retrace your steps. God held the ckildrcn now to start for heaven and go all the way through. *o" On Fiiday evening the Eev. A. Shorts preached to an at- tentive and deeply inteiested audience, from Matt. xvi. 15, 16 — Be said unto them, But whom say ye that I am f And Simon Peter answered and said^ Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. It was a pleasant part of religious experience, he said, to meet with 'one's brethren here in this beautiful place, to enjoy life for a time in these pleasant cottages, and share each other's presence in social worship, but there was little of Chi'istian duty in it. One very essential element of Christianity he believed to be Christian confession of Christ. Christ must bo confessed as the Saviour and the only Saviour, the Mediator and the only Mediator, the Advocate of mankind and the only Advocate. Men may have a good deal of religious en- joyment and comparatively not much religious duty. Duty should be done regardless of enjoyment. Christ should ba confessed before the Church and world. This is easy when the heart is right, but when cold in religious ex- perience, duty is difficult. There was a difference, too, in the confessions Christians made when fully devoted or when lukewarm. Wi"n in the path of consecration the confession always was, " Thou art the Christ! " When luke- warm it was apt to be like the disciples' confession, " Some say that thou art, etc." If filled by the Spirit we can confess Him anywhere. Some confess Him, like Peter did, in His presence, " Thou art the Christ," but afterward, when there are many foes and few friends of Christ, they deny, at least by their actions, that they ever heard of Hira. Christ wants a. personal confession. Whom say ye that I am? ^Vllom f^ay ye that I am, by your profession? — By your life? — At home? — Away from home ? Is y^ur confession the same in the house of God. and among Cin-ist's enemies ? The little maid had but to point out Peter, and say, *' Surely tliou wast with //m," to bring the stout denial of his Lord, for whom he hud de- claimed his readiness to die. Christ wants a cow^tant confession. If Christians were constant in confess- ing Christ by word and deed everywhere, fewer disciples would backslide — there would be a gi'eat many more converts in the Church. Clnist did not expect the unconverted to boar testimony to Hi ^ divinity, or to His salvation. No ; let all men deride Christ but Christians, and let them confess Him, and the world will yet bo His possession. "" " . ' , Christ wants oil to confiss Him. The man of one talent was just a? re- sponsible for that as the man of ton. It wug very important in our confession of Christ that our faith in Christ embraced all the essentials of the Christian si= M ■ ST. LAWRENCE CENTRAL C.'MF GROUND. 11 ! lelij^on. Pptcr's faith, as embodied in his confopsinn, omhr;iced a confession of Chiir,t — (1) AS thL» fulfilraent of nil prophecy, type nnd shadow of Judaism. (2) As the Christ — the only One. The Son of God, and the only Son, hence the only Saviour. (3) The Advocate of mankind, and the only Advocate. (1) As the IL'ad of the Church, jind the only H',ad. Hence a Petrino faith ex- cluded all trust in works for salvation, all trast in human or angelic media- tion, all acknowledo^ment of another headship in the Church than Christ's. Oilier foundation could no man lay. In concluding an excellent discoui-sa, of which the above is a very imperfect summary, the prc-vcher made an earnsst iippeal to his audience to confess Christ by the harmonious testimonij of the lip? and life. A very ^-pi filed and powerful Prayer Meeting followed, in which the people of God were greatly <]uickened, and sinners led to seek the Saviour of mankind. Unconverted persons, determined not to submit to the triumphant Captain of Salva- tion, were compelled as aforetime to leave the Tabernacle and aei beyond the range of the arrows of divine truth sent fi'ora the Gospel bow, out of the Lord's C;:mp. A Prayer Meeting such as that of Friday evening, is a tr'um pliant answer to the cha:gc (hat the glory of thi? time-honored instrument- ality in human salvaMon, known as Camp Meetings, has departed. May such testimonies to the presence and power of Ciirist with His people bo multi]died. Amen. On Saturday morning the Hev. John Mavett, of Brockville, ' preached jm interesting discourse. We regret that we> have been unable, from any source, to get a synopsis of his Sermon, which, we are informed, was listened to with delight and prolit by those who heard it. On Saturday afternoon the Kev. J. W. BRiaas preached, selecting for his text Mark i. 15 — Repent ye and believe the Goi>pel. Our Divine Tencher, after John the Baptist was cast into prison, came forth " Preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God." By this we ui:derstand that the time for the establishing of the Chi'istiau Church had oume. " The kingdom of God ' — Grace in the heart — the true Church iu the world. •r-1 — 1 — I- ' - -jj 12 ,n,- SlXTil KEl-r(H<»rS CAMP MEETING.. A^'ttii). the sui)jtoth ot tiie kijif-'doni ol" Ood, are tliosse vvlio have rcpouktl of tlicir bins, and become couveited not to the church, not to the minister, not to the society, but to the living -God. No other conversion wUl save. We must l)e c inverted to Him who can .save to the uttermost all thost.' who \>e- li eve the Gospel. -. t . - .. .; What is the (jile jn'oof of tlie tnith of tlie gospel, and those iiavuig this e^i- dence cajuiot donbl iJ!<,t Ire gospel is of God. Tliis glorious gos]tel sliews us our ruin ])y sin, and the remedy of s?ilvation. It points us to Calvaiy ::nd offfvs, on condition of our repentance and faith, to lift us up from "Natui'o's darlcness into the kiiigdom of gi-ace, nnd from the lungdom of grace to tho kingdom of glory. The way into this ' kiiigdom is pointed out in tho text : "Repeat;. e and heljevie the gosjiel." Now repentance is not all sorrtiw or giie^' pvei' past sijis. It is a turning away from them to God. I Jeiids to l)eace iind joy of reconciliation. '^ , '.'.'. Repentiuicf iau~t be genuine, not legal like that of a cvimiui; ho, on ac- count of btiine dread ciinV(i, hns been put into imson, and sees before hiiii the punishm*'!!:. It may bf the thought of the dangling rope before him which causes hin; to repent. IVIany postpone repentance till the dying hour and then seek after God, for fear of the punishment awaiting sin. ^We want gosjiel wjientanee, springing up in the heart at the \iew of Goil's wondrous love to us. God's love, as reveal id in the gospel, is designed to melt our hearts into deep contrition of sin. Repentance opens the way to the kingdom, but faith bring,^ us in. Not the theoretical faith which devils have jvR well as (J'hristian^, but tlic frtith tho Aiwstle speaks of in Galatians, ' Faith Avhich worketh by love." When once into the family of God, we continue therein by childlike faith. Our life is a life of faith. Chiistians of to-day need a much stronger faith in God's Wt^rd. A faith that nnikes the promises personal uiul ins])ireB to heroic activity. te-t^thren, Jetf hh have faith in the Glorious (rospel of Christ. It must and ^^^n pi-evail Let us ha^ e failih in the Great Captain of our Salvation, who ia " Mighty to save " and help us. Sinners, to-il;iy God's command is, " Repent and believe the gospel." >!. . I On Saturdav eveniui'- tlio Rov. J. H. PtOBEsox prcaohed. ST. LAWRENCE CENTRAL CAMP (UtOUND. J3 i Bolocting for his Wxt Matt. xxv. 46 — These s/uill yo avatj into everlasting prmishment ; but the righteous into life eternnl. I This is a sttitemeut from tht word of God. It is by the knowledge iind bc- } lief of the tnith men are to be saved. Chi-ist. the Author of all Tnith, is the Author of this statenutut. It i-. worth}' of si)eejal consideration from its three- fold repetition by flini. The doctrine of futme and eternal punishment is im- plied,— iji In nian"< five, moral ai^ency. Every man is eonseions of moral freedom. WiLliont this there could be no '" oood ' or " bad." no accountability. All hxvf goveruint;' humanity is based up(»)i mans freedom. The peiialtit^s in- flicted on crimiuiils could not exist wt-rt- there not a universal conseiousness of moral freedom, and lience moral accountability. In all the Ha^^our■s teach- ing, in faot in all Irfevelation it is implied. The parable of the live talents taui^ht man's responsibility most unequivocally. Plan's moral freedom abused brought him condemnation and misery here, and would liereafter. (2) This doctiine was implied in the Scrijitural dooti-jne of the judgment. We are most plainly taught in Scripture tlmt we will all be arraign'^'d before God's tribunal to render an account of our lives. He hath appointed a day inwhicli He will judge the world, by the ^lan. Chnst Jesus. '' It is appointed, ttc... . after tliis the judgment." '' Every (>ye shsll see Him." Death and Hell shall givf ui) thiir dead. The sheep shall be divided from the goats. The wheat shall be gathered into the gnrner, but the chaff burnt up with imquench- able fire. How solemn the scene, :\\(m awful the events of that day ! The righteous go into cvt^-lasting life, but the wicked into everlasting' punishment.' (3) This d'oeti'ine is implied by the entire phraseology of the Word of God,- by the whole tenor of Bible teaching. The commands, and ]))-omises, and exhortations of the Bible all proceed on the supi)osition thai a pivpamtion is necessary here for happiness bereafter. The carnal mind is in a state of enmit asfainst God. A radical change of heart is necessary to happiness h?re and hereafter. God idaces life and death before men. and those refusing to accept flalvatio)^ here would likewise refuse hereafter. The scnil that has not moral conr!!.:; • to H6s are emplovf^d to charactt rize the puuishment of the sinner — iierms tliat are employe«l also to di'uuie the reward of tlie righteous — '* Depart from me, ve cursed, into everlastuig tire." Hcri]>tm*e si)eaks of those v.h'>sluiill be punighed with everlasting destruction from, the pro»^enc(^ of God and the glory of His poTver. To limit the teriu of punishment of the wicked is to limit tlie peiiod of blessedness to the righteous How shall we escape the doom of the sinner ? By Heeing to Christ while salvation is offered and finding safety in Him. " Turn ve. turn ve, () house of Israel, for whv will ve die ? " "^~ ' ?if-f J .. ./ ;i . •• •( .It b o >t's camp meeting. '"'^^' Special Prouibence Jfleeting. ' ='■''- As announced on Saturday cvcninc; a mcet;nudence. When he grew up he ran into infidelity. One ni^ht he dreamed that he was in a deep, dark dungeon with only a single ray of lij^ht, and, f illowing it up, he at last dug his way out. After awaking he concluded that the ray of light was (Jod's last call to him. H3 commenced seeking, and after being several nights thus engajjed, an old man named HoRTONsald to him, '-'• Now, you have been many niihts at this altar, and have never opened your lips. If you don't you'll he d.iraned." He arose feeling he could kill that man. He concluded that he had given him the lie and concluded never to seek I religion again. . .Ggiug houi,e sonue diviae ,iuflueuce came, upon, him and I •'^ SIXTH ny.LIGIorS CAMP MEETrNO. secmeil to chain him to a spot, near a big tree, in th»> forest. He re- solved to commence a;^ain seeking God, and when be wa3 willing to re- ceive instruction from any one — when he got a meek and teachable spirit, God came and saved him. He counselled all the voung people to trust in Divine Providence. ,._.,;'■ 'ft? ■ I • . "' • '*•:;.■ "■•*' '■ -"■"V Rev. T. W. Peckett — Had bad none of these remarkable interposi- tions in his life. Was converted at eighteen, and entered the ministry at twenty. God had wonderfully opone4-his way. He especially praised God for His faithfulness in raising up fr'ends, fathers and mothers to the young men in the Ministry. .,,,,,. Rev. B. 1 . Austin — God had led him in a way he had not known. So lovingly, and gently , and constantly bad He opened up his pathway before him, that it seemed as if all his life had been a providential in- terposition. He felt to rest confidently in the arms of that wonderful Love that had thus far supported. J, Bro. Baxter — Christ bad said. "If I go not away the Comforter will not come." Thank God the Comforter had come. ^^ .- • • j--* , "' ' Sometimes midst sceue!< of tlcep«^st gloom, -ri.:rrr|;; m; i' go^^g^j^gg ^.jigre Eden's bowers bloom,etc. - ' ' '" *• "^ • 1) ' , ■ Bro. Clow — It was through the wonderful providence of God he was before them to-day. When I look back I am constrained to say, '' What has not the Lord done for me ? " There is not a spot in my history upon which I can lay my finger where God has not ltd me. Prai^'e His name ' Years ago He had rowed passengers across the river for 25c. each, but God had wonderfully blessed him, and he had never lacked any good thing. ' ' Saviom-, more than life to me, I am clinging, clinging close to Thee. Sister Brown— God bad, by His providence, opened her way and given her many direct answers to prayer. Bless and praise His namel ' '"^^ Bro. Partell — If there is any principle in the Bible, I believe in, it as in God's special providence. God had put it mto his heart, when very young, to refuse the intoxicating bowl, in the midst of great temptation. He had led him into a Christian family. He believed it was providential he had been led into this Church, as he did not believe there was another. on earth that would suit his disposition so well. ., i, Sister Lane — I too have had a life of wonderful providences. Only to mention one, she remembered that when given up by all her friends, when the physicians said she must die, God had raised her up to life, IM ST. LAWRENCE CENTRAL CAMP OROUND. 17 and she was hetbre them to-day because of God's special interposition ill her behalf. Bro. A. Arkett — Thirty-two years ag-o he had commenced to serve God. His parents were Roman Catholics, and he used to be called the poor Frenchman's boy. He worked out ut $').00 per mouth, and re- membered his mother's walkin«j^ from the Connecon to Picton to get three months' wages from him. He labored on, getting increased waives. God had th'own him into a kind family, and he was led to meeting and iiuxe his heart to God. He had been providentially guidt d and blefwed all his days, in his temporal affairs, and God had enabled him to give somt^thln^- to the cause of God. Ho alluded to the building of iho Picton church, and how God had helped them in the darkest hours. r>r(). SioRviUK here remarked that the darkest day he ever saw was i when eui^aged in that work, he had gone to Bro. Arkktt's, and after j consultation there seemed no hope iu the case. He went out to his stable j , and there in the stall poured out his heart to God. An hour afterwards j , he had the promise of an advance of a thousand dollars. Frequently j he had come to the close of the week with one or more bank notes to j m<;et and apparently no way of meeting them, but God had always helped j them in the critical moment. He had come down to Saturday evening, at five o'clock, without a dollar to pay his men, who were promised their pay at six o'clock; but in some way or other the Lord had always pro- vided. Banks had discounted paper for him when they would not for any one else. There was a veiy special Providence in their dedication. Twice the time was tixed, and God had interfered, and afterward it was f seen that to have dedicated at the hours proposed would have been certain failure. One night he dreamed he was passing along a narrow : path and saw before him a bridge over a rapid torrent and now, thought he, I shall surely be swept away. He went forward in the dark and when his foot touched the bridge a lialo of light overspread the heavens and with a bound he passed over. Now, said he to himself, that means a successful dedication, and it did. Two days before dedication thee came down a wonderfully refreshing shower upon the thirsty 'iarth (there had bc^n a long drought) and the crops looked so much more promising that the people came up on dedication day and paid the debt. Glory to God. The mor>t interesting and profitable Service so cheering to the heart and strengthening to the faith of ttie Chrisiinu believer was concluded by the doxology. i 18 SIXTH UELIGIOCfci rA.MP MEETING. On Sabliatfi laoriiin^ii', tifier ihcSpeciai iVovidoiicv Electing, Kcv. B. Lank M.A.. <>f Belleville, p;-e,iche={ to a I arL>:o audience a scrijion ot' i>reat powej- and unvtion, tr.»ii ILeb. xii. 1 — Wher^'fore seeing u:e alao are eoinpassed nhout n'ith so great n cloud of witnesses, let us huj a.<>.de every u-e>f/ht, and the sin v:hkh doth so easily beset us, and lei us run with patience the race that is set before ?/.y. . . . • . , jl Did you iiotif i^ how it is the jivoiiomi //>■ nil tln^ \\>i\ throni,'h the verae ? " Let i/s- Ift}- asi(h^ tlio sin tlint so easily ht^sets (/x an..! let t(f i-un with jmtience the nice set heforr its." Thw? is vo eompivmrisr h(-ro v.ith -^iii, Tlirbestof mva make mistakes. It wonld havilly do to deny that In view of tlie tact that Moses, the man of weakness, fell into anger ; Dwid, the man aftt-r God's heart, into gi'ieveous sin ; SoT.OTtioN, the wisc^st man, was led astray; Petku equivocated and compromised. It would nut do to deny it in view of ordinary Christian life and experience. Ytt I ohjoct stron^^ly to the custom of a tjreat many moralists in selectinj^ the weakest specimen of Christian character with which to compare their own. Select the best as the standard. Take your life and place it along'side P.vrT.'s or that of Christ. Cliristian life in its ordinary aspects is the most wondei-ful in the world. The marvel with mf is not tliat men should make mistakes, and tall, l^ut wlien I eon^idor all there is in a man to he tempted and all there is outside a man to tempt the moral marvel is tliat man should ^tand at all. But T must not leave the question liere. When wf consider the inttnite Rufticien(\v of Olivine qn-ace Cln-istian life is no l()nf;(n' a marvel. There is no more excuse for sin. I loo?c witli comjtassion upon humau infinnity and all defects of human conduct hut there are things we are ho^md m)t to excuse. There are many things in ordinary Christian life and chajacter that take on all the ;ippearanc"s of nursed indulgonets and sins. We call them our iciah- )U!Siy('^, our iitjiiinitiis. That is the kind of pla^-ter weajtply to a sore conscience. We console oujselves with the thought : —It not expected that we should 1>e perfect. I do not believe that in the light of tl)e Gwnt White Throne any of these nursed indulgences will be nustaken foi* imtirmities. John Wi'.slev taught that in conversion the hcari was not fully sanctitied. Ther*^ were roots of bitte now tlie time of racing come and the multitudes gathered to witness it. There are many competitoi's. One comes with his feet bound. Another bearing mighty bags of gold. Another having bundles of merchandize. But another comes free, stripped for the race. Now, wliich v-ill win? Christ says to all candi- dates for the crown of glory, '* Lay aside every weiirht." Why? Because there is intinite danger if you do not that you will fail. How shall we get rid of them ? Educate tliem away, says one. Well, have you over succeeded in doing this? Have you outgrown these besetting sins '* No; well, how shall I get lid of them ? Pray. Ask God to com'i to yoiu" help. But, re- member there is no use in praying till in the i)rofoundest depths of your na- ture you have resolved to lay them aside. The trouble is, we try to make a compromise with God, and just as soon as we attem})t any comprtmiise we fail utterly. There can be no half-way measures here. There is but one power in all the universe to save men, and tliat will not save them in their sins but from their sins. Tlu' old prophet proi)hesied of One who should be Minhtij to save ; and the apostle tells us of One who is able to save to tlw uttennost. (rod will have all men holy that will profess His name. Besetting sins \\ill damn a man, for shi invariably brings condemnation and finally punisliment. How many are ready to be crowned victors tliis morning ? Will you be fnllv saved this hotu- ? 0, uiisaved nutn, there is helf for you in Clirist, and this mightiness of divine giace is your only hope. God help all to embrace it now. In the atti'i'iioon \hv Kcv. B. F. Acstin, B.A.. preached, selectino- for \m text Luke xv. 11-32 — The Parable of the Prodigal Son. This is by common consent reckoned the masterpiece of all our Lonls parables. Had He uttered nothing else He would stOl be the grt atest of teachers, and it would still be true " never man spake like this man." The w- TT — T r r' 20 SIXTH RELIGIOUS CAMP MEETING. i I writiug? of all othur t+^acliers do not embrace so much of hiimAn exi>enence, disclose such depths of human riuffering and of divine compassicn as this simple Btoi7 of the Prodigal Son. It is intended to teach m not only the fact but the manutjr of divine forgiveneBB. The immt^at« object of om- Lord ijj uttering it was doubtU^s to justify His conduct in vif-iting publicans and siimers, and to rebuke Phai-ifltiic i^ido and bigotry, yet the lesson He designed all ages to learn from it is doubtless the outgushing teudemess of God towai\iHis i>eniteut chilud the joy with which He forgives and embraces them. Spoken in immediate connection with that of the loet^coiu and lost sheep, it dilVers from them in revealing more of the hurajyi element in salvation. In th.^ others we wee in the shephei'd searching for his lost sheep and the woman for her lost coin a type of Chiist seeking the lost soul, while in this parable we discover the sinner's fall, penitence, return and reinstatement in tlie divine favor. The first question of course is who are the two sons ? There are three answei-8 given. — (1) They represent angels avd men, (2) Jew and (itntile, (3) Phiirisee and Publican. These are usually spoken of as rival modes of inter- pretation, while the fact seems to be that so hy as the circumstances are par- allel they may represent these thi*ee classes. Our attention Is not however to be fixed upon the elder lirother but conceiitratrd upon tht younger sun. He ifi a type of sinning humanity in general and of < veiy sinner in paiticiilar. He is the ideal simier. In this portrait so irutlifully sket-ched by tbf divine Artist every sinner can discover featm'es of his own likeness. He rends (licfein the greatness of his possible fAll and the glorious j^ossibility of hisrecoveiy. Tbe first feature in this piirture of the ideal sinner shared by all shniers, is /• dr.sirr to be free from rhjht ml control . — "Give me the portion that falleth to me," said the yoimger son. H(» grew tired of parental restraint, desired to break (»ft' the \oke of home authority and give loose rein to passion and a))'! tite. This desii"e for fi-eedom from law and for undisturbed control of all tlie endown- ments of life in the gratification of the fallen nature is a universal ( luuacter- istic of sinners. Men um*euewed by divine giace are every day asking and receiv- ing of God the portion of life, of natural endownment, of prinlege and opportunity that falleth to them, and spending them in sin. And God allows men to receive and misuse His mercies just as the father in tbe parable refused not the younger son his pi>rtion. God everywhere recognizes man's free moral agency. The second feature of similarity is in the desire to get beyond jtarentwl inspection. Not many days after the son now jiossessed of his patrimony sets out for a distant bind. It is not enough that he has become juast^^r of him- self jind liis possessions, he must get outside the scarcJiing gaze of a father's eye and beyond the anxious questionings of a mother's lov»\ So suniers flee fronj God. from His Son, from His Church, fi*om the light, because tlicir deeds are e\Tj. Sinnei's shun the plain declaration of God's woid, the searching light of conscience, and tvy to escape tliem by keeping the Bible closed in their homes and the voice of c(tnscience quiet and in their hearts. A third feature of similarity is in the (;(lur.'^e pursued — a waste of substance followed by famine. All sin is wast« of time, t^ilent, and opportunity, followed by a period of soul 8T. LAWRENCE CENTRAL CAMP OROUND. famine. There comes a time in every life of sin when pleasure's cup baa been drained, passion and appetite no longer please, and the soul utterly dissatisfied with earth begins to experience the awful pangs of eternal hunger and send up its ceaseless cry for food from a land of mighty famiae. Riches, friends, health ai'o soon dissipated and the soul looks out upon life wasted and begins to realize its awful doom approaching. With no thoughts of repentance or return yet the jirodigal now joins himself to a citizen of that countrj" and sinks to the posi- tion of a swineherd. So the sinner from being the follower of many vices becomes at last the slave of one and loses all respect for self which is the last plunge in the downward course of sin. In his wretchedness Reason comes back to her seat and be begins to reflect. Reflection leads to resolution and resolu- tion to action. Every true Christian has taken these three steps and no man could return to God without them. Conscious of his misery and recollecting the abundance of his father's house he starts homeward deteimined to confess and ask Gome menial position again at home. Not di-eaming that a father's love oould entirely overlook his crime or of his poj-sible reinstatement in filial re- lationship, he determines to ask a servant's place. Who can describe the meet- ing ? A father's love sees him afar off*, with bounding step meets the prodigal to encircle him in arms of parental afiection and rain tears of compassion upon his neck. There is no delay to hear his confession, there is no opportunity to stipulate any terms of reconcilation — there is npt even time for him to ask a servant's plac€, so eager is the ontgnshuig tenderness of a father's heart to welcome the returning prodigal. Love swallows up ^11 the past and with it all couditionn of pardon. There are no upbraidings for past folly — no pledges re- quired of future behaviour. He takes a son's place again. Brethren, God has given us more than a servant's place. Noic are we the sons of God. •■ Sinners, learn from this parable the joy with which God will to-day receive you. Yon liave followed the younger son in your transgression, follow him iu his reiwntauce. (1) Reflect; (2) Resolve; (3) Act. Come to the intinite mercy of God ti\at waits to welcome yom' return, and learn - • How freely He'll forgive. "J, 1 On Sabbath evening the Rev. A. D, Traveller. Presid- in:r Kldcr ot' the Kin/^stoii District, preached a practical and moving disconrHo from a pari of 1 Cor. xv. 11 — So we praich. , . , . . , The general style of the preaching upon this Camp Ground has been good. There has ])een little or no desh-e, on the part of the people, to hear, or the preachei-s to preach something else than the Gospel. There is no danger of getting tired of it hO long as the hearts of preachers and people are Avann witii love to God. God's economy in human salvation is truly wonderful, and in- tensely interesting to the earnest Christian at all times. His revelations to 22 SIXTH RELIGIOUS CAMP MEETING. man have not been by observation or tliey would luivo lost all interest to humanity long sinct'. To the Christian receiving this rc%clation by faith, there is a constant increase of meaning in God's Word, as his faith becomes more and more perfect. The central doctrine in our preaching is Salratioii hy faith. And this faitli is in a Crucitied Saviour. The Unitarian has said that thedoctiine of salvation, through the blood of Chri.-;t, smells of the shambles. Ycc, it is taught in the Bible, and so we la-each. To the question, what are we to preach ? there are diverse answers given. He could say to all who preached the fimdament^il doctrines of oui' holy religion, yet diiieiing in un- essential points of creed : If thy heart be as my heart give me thine hand. There are two great facts with which all his hearers would agree. Fii'st, the Bible contains records the most wonderful and important ever recorded. Among these we may mention the creation and fall of man ; the divine decree that the Seed of the woman should bruise the head of Satan ; the wonderful plan of salvation — the masterpiece of divine wisdom and love ; tlie incarnation, suffering, and death of Christ ; tlie gift of the Holy Spirit ; and Christ's con- tinued intercession for humanity. So we preach. Salvation provided and offered, and available, taught through the intercession of Christ. Another in- desputable fact was tliis : The Bible contains the best rode of law the world has ever known. The best human government and la\\ s were faint imitations of the divine. H this code were universally recognized it would restore Eden, do away with war and bloodshed, and do away with the necessity of officers of tlie peace. Love, tlie central piinciple of divine laA\ , worketh no ill to his nc'ghbour. We preach to-day as in apostolic times, Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, and if om- doctrine and experience agiee witli that of the apostles, I believe we are in the true Apostolic line. This Gospel wat> declared then to be good news to sinnei-s. Samaria and Galatia, we read, received it with joy. So we preach a gosi)el of good news to men to-day. We need not go back over eighteen centimes to catch the tirst note of joy from the angels' song, " Fear not, etc." We need not stand by tlu widow of Nain to witness the recovery of her son, or the restoration of Lazarus. The Gospel is good news to-day, and works the same miracles in tlie hearts and lives of men as it formerly did in their bodies. John Wksley himself, usuallv ex- ceedingly guarded in his language, cried out niidor the joy inspiring influences of the Gospel ; A f ISIv soul mounted higher •i- Than a chariot of fire. And the moon was under my feet. Time's effacing linger can never blot from the page of my memory one etonny Friday evening, when the joy of it came to my heart. I could say tlicii : [,,, t My soul is light, disbm-dened of her load. . , , , . And swells unutterably full of glory and of God. m ST. LAWRJSVCE CENTRA]. CAMt» GllOrND. 23 It st-emed, after my oouvei-.'i<>'i. im \ny \Nciyto and irmn tlu- itt.-ajis of i^iiiee. that i could step froiJi fanu to fanu. 'I'lie b'oiiblo witii uitiuy (,iiii>tiaus and cluuclu'S to-diiy s they are m> afiuid of >(jni ■ littlt- iniproiuiety iu woiship that thfv h;iv it ihat lU'^n who will not av -l-ji m bu>iut.'S:4 a worthh->s bank bill, will aci-ept :ni\- Idnl of a lifeless a})ol(>;iry for h'\Trtfelt religion? Siu'h reli;^on liriujis no eomfort. S^>eak to such l'TOfe^sors and they have a hopf that they will ht' anvtul — bnt there is no joyons assurance of pardon. What, a hope to ]»e saved*, vhen (roddedarc-. thiit: H* will s]>ne the Inkewarni out of Ilis mouth. Now. even one cim |»roach tiiis -gospel wiio experien<.*es it. and v.ithout the experience all tlie ordinations oi th.- O'lrtrch and the diphnnas of collef,'es will not make a minister. Fath-t's ard mothers can preach it in the home circle. So can children. A ministfi' of his acquaintance saw a little <(iri in his revival meetinir como forward and kneel at the altar. He concluded to tell her to i?o away, but knelt lir-t by h r side and heard her prayinpr for her parents, and brothers, and sisters. Tliat ( veninjj her father, with stresimuifjj eves, desired a moetinf? to be held at his house, and all the family were next evenincT at the altar seekinu-. Af t t their conversion he asain hejird her ]>ray- inir. " And, now Father, bless me, even me." Lord, help all to go to work preachinof .Tesns. On Monday forenoon a Prayer Moetini^ and Kxj»orionr-o i Meetini; wa-- led bv the llev. \\\\. Service. -' ' Tn the afternoon the Rev. J. P. Wilson, B.A., preached, selecting for Ids text 2 Tor. xii. 10 — For when I am weak then [ am sfrom/. Viewed fr()m the human standpoint alone the text was stmng-ely self -con tradictory. It i- one of th*' many paradoxes relatini? to Chnstian character with which the Bible abounds. Jesus, the omnipotent, eternal God, the Creator, is yet mm. TT" is tb » Lion of Juduh. and yet the Lamb h'd to the slnuditer. He is the Son of David, and yet David's Lord He is bruised for our iniquities, and y.t there is healins? in His strip;^s. All these statements seem contradictory, yet there is a wonderful mine of truth hidden in eacli. And even- man cm understand enouqfli for his soul's salvation. The way- fai-inpr mnn need not err therein. Human teachers often fiiil to reach any but their own class of minds. Christ's teachinjj is desisnif'd for and adapted to the lifting up of the masses. Through His Word and Grace the simplest and weakest mi-'lit Hud instruction and salvation. Illustrati(m of the truth of the I .J^ ' SIXTH RELIGlors CA3IP MEETING. text and the explauiitiou of that tnitli might be drawn from chiuxh history. There was the JewiHh church oom})osedof a poor aud despised race, occupying a Binall te)-ritoi-y iii tho inidrtt of poworful and hostile nations. Yet she could not be blotted out from histon , but went on fultjllini^' a divine mission to the human race, strong in the midst of her weakness. The early Christian Church outwardly was but weiikness. A few fi.^ihermen. with a divine commission, went out to oppose the might of Roman Paganism, and the cultm-e of Greek Philosophy. The cross was to the world a symbol of shame and weakness, but in it was hidden tlie omni])otent power of (rod. Philosophy could not un- derstand it, but it had proved itself the mijilitiest I- ver in human society, over- tuniinc: philosophies, banishin,'' sniierstition and all false \vo»\ship. and is des- tined yet to subdue th'- world. I'he seen^t explanation of t))e fact of the text is that huriian weakness flies for refu','e to the divine power, and thus becomes onniiiMjtent while in the })atli of duly. When th.- I hureh of Clu'ist fomid worldly prosperity, and bc^fan to trust in riches and the favor of princes, she lost her power. The Monk of Erfurt well illustrated human weakness linked to divine strength. Christ's whole life and ministry was a proof and illustra- ' tion of the weakness of humanity joined with tlie sti-ength of God. David, going forth with a sllsig, witliout helmet or shield, aj^ainst the armed giant of the Philistints, shows how human weakness may become, through divine Jiid, victoriously strong. When a man sees his utter wealoicss, he is nearest the attainment of strength. This realization of weakness leads to prayer. It leads to watchfulness. It leads to full dependence on Christ, and trust in the promised help oi God. And God does hel]) men, imparting divine energy-, courage, faith to the Christian soul. How. we do not know, of tlie fact we are certain. No man could ever be saved without a nalizing sense of his own utter weakness and the divine ability to save. ^Vhen the soul can realizingly say , -. >,*, .; Jesus, the Binncr's Friend, to Thee, , •. • . Lost an of Antrnsta. on tlie hanks of the St. Lawrence, in the vear 177!^. It was rec'oniniended ])y the ^lissionary Board and the several A nnnal Cou- ferenees, that this year should he celehrated us the Centenary of Canadian Me- thodism. But the (xeneral Conference decided that, inasmuch as there are some douhts ahout the exact date of the first Class, it wotdd he preferahle to fix ou a date, at some future time, ahout which there could he no douht. In t'le meantime it is a well-authenticated fact that an indepeiident Methodist Epis- copal Conference wns organized in Canada iu the year 1828, and consequently this year may be very properly celebrated as tlie Jubilee of ^Methodism in this country. I propose to-night to speak of the gieat Methodist Revival as a subject of prophecy. The prophecy, which I think refers to this revival, will l)e foimd iu Revelation xiv. 1-.') : And I looked, muK lo, a Lamb stood on tlie mount Sion, nnd with him an hundred forty and four thousatid, having his Father's )uim<' irritten in their fore]iea{U. And I heard a voice from heaven, ox the voice of nianij waters, and as the voice of a rir'at thunder : and I heard the voice of harperx harping with their Jiarps-. And thetf suny /i.s it were a new j sontf before the throne, and before th'' four beauts, i unto God nnd to the Lamb. And in tJieir mouth iras found no guile : for thetf are without fault before the throne of God. I hold tliis text to be a prophetic description of tlie Methodist Renval— (1) Because of its position in the Book ; (2) Because the Renval was worthy of the prophet's notice ; (3) Because the metaphors employed in the text vei-y appropriately represent the Revival. I. Some commentators have pronounced this Book Incompreheusibb, and they have come to this conclusion, becaufie they could not miderstand the un- fulfilled portions thereof. " No prophecy," says Pktkk, " is of any private in- terpretation ; " that is, no prophecy can be interpreted until it is fulfilled, and then the historic fact explains the prophecy. ' ' These things," said the Saviour, " have 1 told you that when tliey come to pass, then ye may know that I am He." The prophecies of this Book have been fulfilled up to this chapter ; and Albert Bauxes and othei-s have ti'aced out their identity with the various 1) lali • SIXTH RELIGIOUS CAMP MEETING. historical factB foretold. Tlic bc^rinnin^' of the tenth ch:i})ter is plainly tlio mighty angel or agency of the liefonuation.. 5a\iug in his hand " the iittie hook open," which is plainly th(* printed ]:>ible opened, after having been so long closed by the Pope and tlie ignorance of the people, llihlariilxon is the Greclc word used to denote the printed book, and is found nowhei-c else in the Greek or any other language. The angel stood witlx his right foot on the sea and his left t»n the land ; that is, standing on England iind Germany, faeing tlic foe on the sev(!n hills of Ronu', and when he spokt^ the seven thunders uttered theu" voices. The remainder of tins fourteenth ehaptt^r is likewise descriptive of wliat followed the Re\ival. as we shall presently see, so that we are now living in the fourteenth chapter of Revelation. •If ye will receive it," sidd Jksis, " this is Elias." The Jews were looking for Er.iAS, and behold he was there with them. We are looking for the fulfilment of propliecies. and if we will receive it, they are being rapi00.00Oscholai*s, and circulates 13.000.000 licvini Liuirt's annually. (2) Therefore, so far as members are concerned, there hiis been no revival so extensive in the Church 'of God since the days of tlie A))ostles. And in very many respects is there a parallel Ijetween the Wesleyan Revival and Apos- tolic times. But the magnitude of tliis Rf^nval cannot be fairl\ measured by figures, but, we must take into account, its iiilluonc^ upon otlier churches, and upon the nations and the ci\ilization of the world. The Wesleyan ReWval saved the Refcnination, because it quickened all other churches, and particularly the English Church. Says Isaac T.vylor, him- ST. LAWRENCE CENTRAL GAMP GROUND. 27 self a clergyman of the Cl\urcli of England, " The Episcopal Chui-ch owes to Mcthotlism, in a gi-eat part, the modem revival of its cnci'gies ; " and he says the same fact holds tnu;, also in relation to the influence of Methodism, on all other Protestant denondnations generally. The ritual of the Chui'ch re- tain.s many of the ropish dogmas, such as the office of the seven sacranrents ; the real and essential pres-cnce of the liody and hlood of Christ in the conse- crated elements ; the confession and absolution of the pnests. They do not pray in the name of saints, hut they have 147 days set apart in honor of 08 saints, and have a particular semce set apart for the)n. The subsequent and present efforts of the ritualists, to Icild the Cliurch back to Rome, show that England and the world woiild be back under the iron lieel of tlie papacy had it not been for the Methodist Revival. " It is enough." said Isaac Tavlok, " to say that -when Wesley was in his cradle, the Reformation had lost sight of all personal and practical religion." .■•:.- ^ (3) Methodism saved the Church and the world from relapsing into infidel- ity, heathenism anil gi'oss inunorality. It is a sti'ong argument in favor of the divinity of Cluistiauity, that it prevailed and spread against the preju- dice, tlie lasts, and the persecutions of the people, and Wesley could ex- claim. *' Best of all, God is with us," or the mobs excited because of his de- nmiciatiou of sin. would have prevailed. Of the abomuUng wickedness of the last centui-y there is araide testimony. Said M. Wesley, ** What is the present characteiistic of the English nation ? It is ungodliness. Ungodli-. ncss is our universal, our constant, oiu* peculiar character." , ,j . ,:, ,,,.,. ./ Archbishop Secker declares, " Such are the dissoluteness and contempt of religion in the higher pait of the world, and the profligacy and intemperance, and the fearlessness of connnitting crime in the lower, as must, if this toirent of impiety stop not, become absolutely fatal." • < » • Taylor says, " The i>eople (before the Weslcyan Revival) could read the loosest pages of such writers as Conwreve and Drydex without a blush, biit those very authors, so obscene and atheistical themselves, abound in the most cau-tic passages on the immorality and iri-eligion of thiir times, and the reader is called upon to imagine what cannot be described, the utter iminety and profligacy of a period which could fall under tho ban of such degenerate pens." ' Dr. Abel Stevenh says', " In England, the Coui-t bec'aine a rdyaT brofhel. The drama of the day could not now be read without blushes, nmch less be exhibited. The masses of tlie people sank into incredible vice and bnitality, and England lapsed into virtual heathenism."" Some of the bishops were living in adultery, and if, " like priest like people," is a true proverb, what must have been the moral condition of the masses ? This fact indicates the force of the phrase in the text, '* These are they which are not deflled with woman, for they are vu'gins," which means by im- plication that there, were others wlio were defiled with woman ; that is, those who kept not theii* marriage vows. .They must have been a generation of L ' -. I..,.: - ^ ■^ 2P> SIXTH RELIGIOUS CAMP MEETING. vipei-s, whtu for preaching tho truth, the clergjniicn themselves excited mobs against Wesley and his preachei-s. In this abounding profligacy, infidelity, true to its instincts, revelled. After the Reformation those sceptical philosophers, who remained quiet under papal oi)pression, began to oppose the Refonnation as soon as it promised to be a success. And this very religion, which then delivered them, they now attack and falsely accuse of the veiy oppression from which it delivered tliem. Says Stevens, " Tin- Church, degenerated under the English deistical writ- ings tliat entered Germany, into Rationalism, and, to a gi'oat extent, substi- tuted infidelity for the displaced papacy." " The inlidel works of Hoims, Tyndal and Collins, Shaftesbury and Chiiu!, were in full circulation, and were reinforced by ,threc of the greatest giants in sceptical error, which modern times have produced, IJoLiNonRooKE, Hume, and Giukon." At the same time France was entirely at the mercy of Voltaire and Rosseau. Through this dark land of infidelity and sin, the lightning of (rod's word j?leamed and flashed from tlie mouths of "Wesley and his preachers. To this fact the Revelator refers, perhaps in the 7th vei-se. "Saying with a loud voice fear God, and give glon- to him ; for the hour of his judgment is come ; and worship him that made heaven and earth and the sea and the fountains of waters." This is a rebuke to Paganism and Atheism ; for both are materialism and both deify the sea and the fountain instead of the God who made them. As Moody's revival at Manchester rebiikcd the gi'cat materialistic speech of Tyndal delivered there a few months before, so just at the very time when Hume was declaring that the Christian religion had become extinct, the great Methodist Revival swept over the coimtiy convincing the multidudes that tlie God of heaven is the God of the whole eaith also. . (4) Methodism has succeeded also in awakening mankind to the condition of the heathen world, and giving a powei-ful imj^etus to theMissionary cause. To this fact the sixth verse refers when he "saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven having the everlasting gospel to preach imto them that dwell on the earth, and to everj' nation, and kindred and tongue and people." It is a little singular that Albert Barnbs failed to perceive the exact liistorical fact fore- told by this prophecy. Two things arc now true ^nth regard to the Chiistiau Church which were never true before. One is that now tlie whole world is ex- plored mid open to the reception of the gospel. In the days of the Apostles very little of the world was known to the Chui-ch beyond the regions borti}ict and peculiar (luctriue of early Mftlioilist tt'tiching was I'litirr sauctincatioii or perftct love. It was taught as a scriptural doctriuo, and Mr. Wesley, after having spent many yeare in soul saving, gave his experience tliat those who souglit it could obtain the Messing of saiu'titieation a few days or a week at most after having rec(>ived the blessing of justification. The ))reaching of this blessed ] the* gospel. This was a change from the old habit of reading connnon place }»liititudes on moral or religious subjects. Tne advant- age is all on the side of the preacher who is on th'e andean prt'ach the minlity truth of (rod from his lieart, with tongue aiul eye and gesture. This Methodist Revival develo[>ed an immense wealth of latent talent, which otherwise would have remained buried, and so lost to the world and the church. John Wesley himself has had no suj^erior since the day of the apostle Paul. The seraphic John Flki chek was one of the keenest logicians that ever lived. Adam Clark was called the most learned man of his time. iliCHviio Wat- son had a master mind ecpial to Bacon. We think of the popularity of Beecher, Spi'Roeon and Tal.mao. to be consideralde, but, as we are informed, either SuMMEKKiELi», Moifit orBAsco^[ could till to overflowing the largest hall in any city in the United States on the stcu'miest night, by a half day's notice. And time would iail me to tell of hundreiLs of other great minds raised up by Methodism on both continents. Added to this there was in this Methodist Revi\ al a concentration of jiurjiose which is characteristic of all revival efibrts, and which must produce «'tt'ects. The early Methodists like the early Christians Avere a peculiar peo}»le zeahuis of good works. To account for their gi-eat prosperity it was said of them thov were all at it, and always at it. ]\Ir. Wesley like Paul was in labour more abundant than they all. He preached on an average fifteen sermons a week for fifty years. Only think of that, and some preachers now think it hard to preach two or thret* times a week. Besides ]\Ir Wesley wTote sennons, wrote tracts, wrote books enough to make a good library, (ulited and published a magazine, did as much pastoral work as most preachers and travelhal ten times as much as any of them, and so economized his time that he claimed he had more leisure than any man in England. Such activity must have imposed itself into the minds and hearts of his fcdlowni' These followed tlu! Lamb whithersoever he *.vent ('J) In the second place Methodism has developed the power of Christian ii=^ ^•ri-^':,fis:; lanufoeture a Sup^ior Grade of WMM. I^pecial attention given io CHURCH BIS£.I«S. ILLUSTJIATED CATALOGUES 8MNT FllEr,, tj FOURTH EDITIOH JD8T PDBLISHED ; Tn.A>PwQiit. the Woman, and ths Odikt^sioiial, By Bev. a OhiniqtiT. Price,^! Over 6,000 ccypies sold. Agents wanted for this book. 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MACBONAIiD, Mamging Dinct&r ST. LAWRENCE CENTRAL CAMP GROUND. 33 soujx. Charles Wksley is ctmceded to be one of finest poets the Christian Church ever ])rocluce(I since the days of the sweet Psahnist in Israel. The Church has never had one whose honii^s and hynais so perfectly expressed varied ex- penences of the awakened regenerate heart. Methodism revolutionized Psalmody of the Christian Church. Formerly singing found veiy little part of public or private worship. Tlie public singing consisted mostly in chants by the choir and that often in Latin. Since the days of Charles Wesley the singing talent of the Chureh has been awakened and utilized And to this important fact the text clearly refers inmost astonishingly accurate hmguage: " And I heard a voice from heaven as the voice of many waters, and as tlie voice of gi-eat tliuu(U'r, and I heard a voice harping with their harps, ;ind they sung as it were a n<'w song before tlie throne, and before the four beasts and tlie elders ; and no man could learn that song but the hundvt'd and forty -four thousand, whieh were redeemed from earth."' Tluy sung as it were a new song ; indicating a change in the shiging ; and none but the redeemed could learn it ; indicating that only tliose who an? con- verted could sing with the s[arit and tlie understanding also. It was as the voice of many waters ; indicating the newly discovered powin* in Christian song. The power of the Gospel in song has been manifested by such men as Philip Phillips, Ika D, Saxkkv and others. And Christian song is not only now n-garded as tlie most importnnt and delightful i)art of Christian wcr- shi}), but is a powerful agency iu leading sinners to repentance. The ]Metho- dist people hav(i always been observed for the excelhnuty and jjower of their singing. " And the ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with songs, and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads." (3) In the third place, the strength of Methodism consists in the simplicity of its organization. Perhaps the one hundi'ed and forty and four thousand indicates something like cur organized army. TNlethodism, as an organization, }>egan bifore John Wesley was born. Johx Wi'slky's mother was the first Methodist. She ^[ethodized her time and work or how also could she have raised nineteen children vvithout a servant, and found time to give each religi- ous instruction every day, aloiu; by themselves. John Wesley learned method and order from his mother, and while ?.Ir. Whitfield's labors were only a rope of sand, Ma. Wesley's resulted in an organized force, arranged to perpetuate the revival. Prominent among these forces are the Class Meetings and the Itinerancy. Now, ii" it is true that we arc livuig in the fourteenth chapter of this book, the h of our institutions, and of our principles, itc. Lately one expressed his contidence that Methodism was destined to take the world. I do not so read the signs of the times. Among the lit'ty millions of North America there are only about threo million Me'.hodists ; and only one million among the thirtv-tive millions of (rreat Biitain. This is the fruit of one centu y. and before the world is taken, other denominationa will have room to stretch out their anus. -m 34 . / SIXTH RELIGIOUS CAMP MEETING. If we are living in the fourteenth chapter, then the tifteenth and sixteenth chapters, and all the rest of the hook, are yet to he fulfilled. And in these chapters there ai"e many hloody and dark pictures, intei-spersed with an occa- sional ray of light. Blood is to come even to the horses' hridles. The seven last plagues are yet to come, and the seven viaLs of (rod's wrath are yet to he poured out. There is to he yet a grievous sore, and the sea is to hecome as the hlood of dead men, and ever> livmg soul is to die in the .sea. The foun- tains of water are to hecome l)lood ; and men are to he sc )iched with tire until they gnaw their tongues with pain. There are to he thundeiings and light- nings and a gi-eat earthquake. The three frogs are to come out of tlie mouth of the heast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet, and out of ^he mouth of the gi'eat red di-agon, to gather the kings of the earth together to the great day of almighty God. But, facing tliis dark future, our safety is to lahor, trust and wait, for the Lord God Omnipotent reij.meth. On Tuesday morning a very interesting Service was held for the Narration of Unusual Experiences in Religious Life. Man}' participated, and all attending felt stimulated to a higher faith and nobler life. In the afternoon the Rev. I. B. Aylswortii, LL.D., again addi'cssed the audience upon a subject chosen by the Commit- tee, viz., Modern Scepticism. Modem Scepticism is not an unmixed evil. Even out of sin itself some good may arise. " God he thanked that ye were the servants of sin," said Paul, " but ye have obeyed that form of doctrine, which was delivered you." Rom. vi. 17. It was because you felt the exceeding sinfulness of sin that you were prompted to make a vigorous eflFort to free yourself from it. Many a man has reason to be thankful that he was once poor. Because he keenly felt his poverty, he was led to resolve and do, to economize and plan, until he made himself comfortable. And now ha\'ing obtained his competency he knows how- to take care of it and enjoy it. Many a man has reason to l)e sony that he began with plenty .'Uid ended with poverty. Many a man has reason to be thankful that he once was ignorant, because the consciousness of his ignorance led him to study and develop his intellec- tual power. It was possibly the consciousness of his own deceitful and treacherous heart that prompted Jacob to pray, and he became in time a pm*e hearted patriarch, and an eminent and honored servant of God ; while the natural goodness and generosity of Esau betrayed him into a prayerless life, and finally he degenerated to a profane person. Then let us go back into sin and continue therein if it is so beneficial. Not ST. LAWRENCE CENTRAL CAMP GROUND. 35 so, no more than you would choose to go back into poverty, oi' ignorance, or slavery. Now, in the same way we can trace out some advantages of scepticism. It has led to deeper reseai'ch. It has cleared away much rubbish, which in the centm-ies has accumulated around theological and human teaching, it has caus- ed the defendei-s of the faith to dig down and strike the smv foundatic of om* holy Christianity, and establish christian doctrine on a defensible and im- movable basis. I believe the agitation in consequence of the heresy of this century, known as Universalism, has accomplished the result of so thoroughly impressing the minds of the Church with the truth of orthodoxy, that it never can be eradicated. If it had not been for this fact I believe the Church would now give up the doctrine of eternal punishment. It is estimatt.'d that twenty per cent, of the Protestant pulpits deny the doctrine. Mr. Bp:echek, Canon Farrar, Mr. T. J. Macdonell, and a few Methodists living have taken sides against it. Goodwin Smith proclaims that the doctrine of eternal punish- ment will never again be believed by the muss of the people. But the thorough possible tliilling compelled by the discussion of the subject, the fii*st part of this centm-y, has so rooted and grounded the Chm-ch in the belief of this Bible truth, that the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And this tem- pest of scepticism, which is now agitatmg the moral tu-mament, will only clarify the elements so that the things which remain will be permament. It is due to myself to say that my theme for to-day was chosen for me. Some may doubt the propriety of discussing such a theme on such an occas- sion, or of giving any attention, at any time, to such a theme in the pulpit. But, as Dr. E. O. Haven apologized for his sermon in reply to Col. Ingersol's late lectm'e, stating that tlie lecture was before the country and in the papers and if not replied to, the silence would be construed into consent or inal)ility, so Scepticism is before the country, in nmch of our literature, in various fonus and under various guises and cannot be ignored. But, in dealing with it, we must be wise as seii)ents and harmless as doves. We must be as wise as they ai'e. We umst know as much history, as much science, and as much theology and philosophy, otiierwise we ave helpless in theii* hands, and do more liaiin than good, ^^^len some one asked Horace Grketa' if he thought a woman ouglit to speak in public, he is reported to have said, " it depends upon what woman it is." Thousands of women, and hundreds of thousands of men have no gift for public speaking. I heard of the preacher who stated in his sennons all the objections he had heard of against the existence of God, and these objections made a more profound impression upon his audience than his replies, and, after the service, an old lady said, " She did not care what that preacher said, she believed there was a (iod anyway.'' ]Modern scepticism has the advantagt; of having many able, learned and even pious advocates, and they carry a powerful intiuence with students and the in- exp«!rienced. They assume an air of infalibilit} of judgment in religion, and it weighs with the unwaiy who have followed them in then* splendid scientific achievement. They have tlie disadvantage however of not being able to put something where there is nothing, and give as well as take. Thev mi 36 SIXTH RELIGIOUS CA3IP 3rEETING. find ample scope for their gigantic strenfjtli in rippiii^r up ftinl pulling down existing institutions, but when they come to fill the Toid they have made the task is not so easy. They have been repeatedly urged to inform the world what they propose to put in the place of God and Christ and the Bible if they succeed in their-destructiou, but precisely here modem Scepticism breaks down. If a stranger comes along and pei-suades the farmer that his reaper is not just the thing, that it is a dangerous instrument, harming many ; and that the man who made it is a swindler, and that he had been cheated and imposed on, and finally by the glibness of his tongue induces the farmer to throw it under the fence, if he then looks around for something better with which to secure his crop and finds nothing, he Avill conclude that he has been mocked, and ^^'ill perceive that the clever scoundrel who talked him out of his machine is a hum- bug. It is the easiest thing in the world to deny everything, and say you don't believe anything. There is no knowledge nor wisdom nor gi-eatness in that. Mr. Underwood, in Napanee, said he had read Fnlet/)> Kvldcnccx. and was not convinced. Surely. Suppose a man would say he had read BacoiCs On/aninn, NewUyiis Principia and he was not convinced. You would conclude that he had not brain enough to comprehend tlieir profound principles and problems. It is an easy tiling for Mr. Underwood to say, I am not convinced ; but it is a far different thing for him to damage, disprove or overthrow one single position or argument propounded by the immortal author of Satunil TheoloiJi/. I read a report a few months ago of a clergyman, who en being introduced to a gentleman in the parlor, was infoiined that the gentleman was a free thinker. So in the conversation the clerg^inan said "now friend tell me what you believe." "Oh yes," said he,"v.ith pleasm-e. Well I don t believe that story about the flood, about the land all being submerged under water, there is not water enough; and about the ark, all the pairs of animals being kept so many days in so small a craft. The whole thing was a physical impossibility." "Yes," said the clergy- man "that is what you don't believe, but I was desirous of knowing what you did believe," "Oh, well I will tell you. I don't believe the Israelites ever passed through the Red Sea on dry land and Pharaoh and his hosts following were all dro\Mied. Such a thing could never have occun-ed" ! "Yes exactly that is something you don't believe, but that is not what I Avished to ascertain. My desire W'as to find out, if possible, what you did believe." "Oh, yes, well, 1 can tell you easily enough. I don't believe tliat great fish storj-, about Jonah being three days and three nights in the whale's stomach, it would have killed him " ! ! This man believed nothing and knew nothing, and it requires no gi'eat amount of brain or research to know nothing. And the tendency of modern Scepticism is to nescience. The particular doctrines attacked by moo.tin Scepticism are the existence of God, the person and divinity of Christ and the didne authoi-ship of theBible. The scientific Deists deny any possibility of detecting traces of intelligence and wisdom in creation, or of divine proddence in the progress of events. The German Rationalists would tlirow discredit on the fact that there ever was a man Christ Jesus, or if ever there was such a person, that he was more than a ST. LAWRENCE CENTRAL CAMP GROUND. 37 very good and a very smart man. The free thinkers add to all this their hatred of the Bible, in Avhich they profess to have fomid so many contradictions and discrepancies that it is unreliable. I doubt not but that the doctiines and teachings of these men have been subjects of prophecy and that we are living to witness the fulfilment of these vciT prophecies. In the Book of Daniel xi. 37-38, we read "neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women [the natural desire of women was expressed in the prayer and desire of the mother of Samuel. Women used to consider it a disgrace to be baiTen ; now it is coming to be looked upon as a disgrace to be a mother ■ , nor regard any God. For he shall magnifv himself above all. But in his estate he shall honor the God of forces." It is a remarkable fact that many of the most prommeut men in Science, are attempting with all their might to show that force is God. That blind intelli- gent force has produced the universe including life, intelligence and man. All material elements are called forces which mutually con-elate and are indestruct- able. This tlieoiy has been called a discovery which shall forever inmiortalize this age. To support and teach it we have professors Gbove, Mayer, Thompson, Carpenter, Joule, Faraday, Spi:ncer, Huxley, Tyndal, and many others, who claim to be leading lights in Philosoi)hy and Science. " In their estate they honor the God of forces." In Matthew xxiv. *2-4, our Saviour predicts that, " There shall arise false Christs and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wondei-s, insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the veiy elect." The point which stiikes me in this passage, ij the possibility of deceiving the veiy elect. We have this fultilled in the case of those religious teachers, who proclaim salva- tion by faith without an etibrt. The purport of one of their hymns is, " cease yom* deadly doing and live." And, as an evidence that you are saved, you simply believe the Word, If you ask them what evidence they have that they are saved, they point you to the Bible, saying, the Word says so, and God's Word is true. They forget that devils believe the Word, and ti-emble, and remain devils. They forget that the Spirit itself must bear witness with ours before we can have the assurance of faith. Many of the elect, we know, are led away in this en'or, because it is so plausable and has so much truth in it. It does not ignore Christ nor the Bible, nor salvation, and yet it vitally fails. It leaves a man unconverted, and yet dreaming of being saved. It is good as far as it goes, but does not go far enough. In Mr. Beecher's senuon on Charity, reported lately in the A dvoca tf — the ship weighs anchor in forty fathoms of water, with only twenty fathoms of chain. The chain is good as far as it goes, but worse than useless because it does not touch bottom. So also in 2 Peter ii. 1, it is foretold tliat there were false prophets also among the jieople, as there shall be false teachers among you, "who privUly shall bring in damnable heresy, denying the Lord that bought them and many shall follow their pernicious way." This is precisely what the German Rationalists are doing, " denying the Lord tliat bought them." " False teach- ers," for they began to teach their " damnable heresies" in German theologi- . — p i 38 SIXTH RELIGIOUS CAMP MEETING. cal universities, and to the amazement of Protestant liearcrs. The divinity student began to re-echo the autichristian dogmas from the very schools which Christians had instituted. In 2 Pkter iii. 3-4, he says, '' Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last daysscofl'ers, walking after their own lusts, and sa^-ing. Where is the pro- mise of his coming ? for since oui" fathers fell asleep nil things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation." That is they do just as it was predicted, vehemently contend for the perminancy of Natm-e's laws, and the im- possibility of their ever changing, and therefore since there never has and never^can be any change in Nature, it is impossible, if there be a God, for him to manifest liis presence and power to om* understanding. There can be no mii-acle, no mark of design, nothing but straight contiinied unvaried march of blind natm'al law. How exactly omniscient Wisdom detected and desciibed the modem sceptic, But Peter shows there premise to be false and therefore their conclusion must be. For the earth, even as modern Geology teaches, has been the subject of violent convulsions and supernatural changes. And the hand of God can be very distinctly traced in the changes and transmutations re- corded in histoiy ; particularly in those historical events wliich have fulfilled many of the prophecies. It is not my pm-pose, even if I had the ability, to undertake to present a studied discourse upon any particular phrase of this subject. I had expected Dr. Badgley to be present, who, according to advertisement, was associated with me on the topic, and I am sure that learned gentleman could do the sub- ject ample justice. But, being alone, I can, perhaps, do no better than pre- sent just a few siuiace ideas of two or three prominent individuals who are now opposing the Chiistian religion. Col. Ingersol came under my notice, fii*st as a flaming Republican orator, in the late presidential election, and was repudiated by the religi- ous press of the nation, as he was about to be rewarded l)y President Hayes with an impoi-tant mission to Germany, who was restrained by the vigorous protests of the Methodist papers, so that the New York World said, " Presi- dent Hayes could again look a Methodist preacher in the face." Inerately died rather than recant their o})- p( sllion to anything. While martyred Chnstians, \>ho have chosen to die rather than surrender their faith, have numbered more than the popula- tion ol the State of New York I And yet a lecturer has the etl'ronterv, before an American iindience, in the hist ([uarter of tlie nineteenth century, to hold U)) Chri-^tiiiiis as })ersecutors, and scejitics as martyrs ! " Sceptics, mai'tyrs ! The idea is one of the most laughable that you can imagine. You might as well make a cannon-ball out of nmsh-aud-milk ! What is there in a sceptic to make a martyr of '.' Ho believes nothing. Why should lie die for a nothing".' He tliinks himself only a highly developed ape. Why shcmld an ape die for an i(»ea ? There is not pluck enouirh in all the sceptics of Ni'w York to fuinish one decent full grown martyr ! And if there sliould luippen to he one who would substitute ob.stinacy for real belief and die Ijla- a bull-dog, all his folio wei's would proi)i'rly call him a fool. Why, I ask you, should a creature who profi'sses to be a nol){)dy die for what he thinks to be nothing?" A few months ago a missionary in India spoke to an old native about (lod, and the native replied, '• God, God ; I never saw any God. I have lived in this country seventy years, and tr.ivelled :it least fifty miles arouml and never saw any (lod. If there was any (iod I siu-ely would have seen him by this time." Sucli an objection is founded u]ion the fallacy that nothing exists which ce.nnot be seen, when, in realitv. all the forces of Nature are invisible. This objection is of the same family as Hume's. In reply to Pvr.Kv's arjru- ment from design, Htme says, " We have seen a man make a watch, but we have never seen God make a universe." And, like unto it, is M.A.Tnr:w Aukold's echo, " I have no experience in world making." That is, I can have no con- ception that anything was made unless I saw it made. Very few people ever did see a watch made, and vet thev know a watch did not make; itself. And if we sau the operatioii of watchnuiking we could not see the real man. We see the hiuvan tigure now, but the mind tlnit controls their movements we never saw. A savage from the forests could know that this plain board stand did not make itself, and was made. He has had a previous experience with his knife and hatchet. But if you present him with a steam engine, \\ill he say he cajnH)t tell whether it was made, or whether it made itself. If the plainer structure evinces a maker, much more the more intricate. Joseph Cook tells the story of old Lyman BEEcnEii, whose [class told him that the @ DRYSDALE & CO., Have special arrangemenU for Supplying Ministers, Teachers, and others with ITCLOPEBIA, A DICTIONARY OF UNIVERSAL KNOWLEDGE FOR THE PEOBLE. 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PALr.v's Suspended Chain with an Invisible Link, answers that objection. Against the existenee of God Hr:nnKFiT Spencer constructs the following argument: — "If v>e adinit that God is uncaused there is no need of assuming a cause for anything" To which Dr. WuEr>F.N replies that thi.-; is the same as saying ''Because some objects have the quality of redncs>, therefore every- thing is red. Because God is uncaused therefore even-thing is uncaused ;" which does not follow. Tlie objection is founded on the fallacy that every ob- ject must have the same attitude. Spencer's central idea is that whatever God there is, Ho is '"The great un- known and anknowuable." This idea is not er.actly original with him, yet he makes the bist po.-sible use of it. Paui. fouiid them in that dileuaia at their having erected a temple to the unknown God; and he said therefore," Him whom ye ignorantly worshi}) Him declare I unto you." This o'ojectiou is founded on the fallacy that we cannot know anything because we do not know e,very- thuig. When a few years ago I stood in the city of London, England, I had the impression that the city was diii'ereut from other cities I had visited. Monti'eal, New York, St. Louis, Chicago, I rvmld take in with one grasp of the mind. But not so Lcmdon. It was too immense. It w;>s fifteen miles this way, ten yonder and six another. I gave up the ellbrt. But uew because I did not see the whole city is it an error to say I did not see any of it ? Science insists upon our knowing a small section of th' vast universe yet the immense universe beyond we know not. We oidy know in fact concerning anything in this united sphere. Yet it would be absurd and ruinous to give up wliat we do know because there are some things we do not know. When I stood by thf- ocean I knew it was the ocean although I could not comprehend the length and breath and deptli thereof. I touched its v>aters and felt the thiill. So God can touch onr hearts, and we know this is God; and who by searching can find out the Almighty to perfection? (2) And beside this if we concede the existence of God at all we must admit that He can reveal Himself to us. And if He m;ide us for the express pui"pose of knowing and lovii^g Him, and is making any etibrtto communicate a know- ', ledge of Himself to man, who slnill limit the power of the Almighty ? This is the meaning of the Christian religion. This the meaning of the Bible. It is a revelation not merely of the will of God, but of God Himself And for this pm'pose our Saviom- came to shov,- us the Father, and this is life eternal to know God and Him whom God sent into the world. (3) In addition to all this man h;'.s a moral nature the function of which is to apprehend and know and love God. It is the preculiar work- of the gospel to aw^ake and develope this moral faculty. "The world by wisdom Imew not J: 42 SIXTH RELIGIOUS^ CAMP MEETING. God" "The natural man «liscci*ueth not the thmgs of the Spirit of God, neither can he know them, they are foolishness unto him : they are spuitually dis- cerned."' That is man in a state of nature, uninfluenced by divine grace, cannot loiow God. The meaning of conversfion, or the new birth, is the awakening of this moral faculty. "Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God." In the natural realm our perception of objects depends upon our faculties. Professor Tyndal while ascending the Alps was annoyed by the grating nmaic of a very small insect, which hi.i guides and attendants did not hear, bo 'ause their ears were not sufliciently rehned to hear such delicate sounds. A few months ago a German and a young lady with a surface education visited the Yosemite Valley, and when they came to the insi>iration point, the young lady said "Icfu't it beiiutiful." But the Gennan fell on his face and exclaimed "I thank God that he made me." The inspiration of the moment stiiTcd a deeper chord in his soiii, when he felt a thrill and had a gliuise of the future glory that shall be revealed in us. In the days of the Hon of Man there came a voice from heaven saying, " This.is my beloved Son in whom I am well i)leased. Hear ye Him." Some said it tlmndered, and others said no ; there was the distinct articulation of v/ords. Well, then, an angel spoke. A few however recognized ihe voice of God. (•i) Pa< L con=>ideri'd it a disgrace not to know God. " Some have not the knowledge of God; I speak this to your sliame." God is the most imjiurtant object of all knowledge. All the aspirations of man's soul are concerned in a 'mowledge of God. God Himself is anxious to be known to all men, and lias Miadc intiuite condescension for that purpose, and yet men content themselves without this knowledge. A wealthy American traversed tlie ocean to vie>v tlie wonders of the old world ; and sought an interview with Lord Byhox. The lii-st tpiestion from Bykon was about Niagara Falls. To an Englishman Niagara Falls sire the wonder of the New World. I heard Rev. Joseph Parker i.reach in London, and had an interview with him afterward, and when he bamed I was from Canada, thelirst question was about Niagara Falls. Well, 'vhen Lord Bykon found that this wealthy American had lived within liftv :ailes of the Falls and had not seen them, and was thousaiids of miles from liome, spending his money to see sights, and had left the gi-eatestof all wond- vrs unvisited, he left him in disgust, and refused to talk with liim. And what can we think of people, and many learned people too, who, in all their eflurt.- lo acquire knowledge, leave God out of the consideration altogether ? (5) It certainly is more encouraging to set k a knowledge of God tlian to ■ind anything substantial in Hi:rreut SrKxci:R\s Philosoi)liy. Th(.' jirocess by which force produced tlie miiverse. he calls evolution. E\olntion he de- lines to be a " change from the incoherc-itheterogeniety, to the coherent liomo- geniety through various difterentiations and integrations." That is, open vom- inouth, and shut your eyes, and he will give you something to make you wise. The lawyer presented his bill to his client, whose case was lost. TIk; client thought it rather hard to lose the case and pay |17 also. But the lawyer said it was a case of coram uonjudice. Oh, wlII, said the farmer then I will pay [§ ,__., ST. LAWRENCE CENTRAL CAMP GROUND. 43 it ; but I did not think the case was so had as that. There is a charm in a Ion;; obscure word, and Hekrert Spencer knows well how to use them. Perliaps, fo- this reason his enthusiastic admii-ers call him the modern Akistote. Mr. UxjjERWoon said the word God was like tho letter X in Al.,t'bra, v.~r the very purpose of woiking oul the solution and finding God. In working out any problem two things ai\- tsscntinl. (1) Something must 5)e taken for gr.inted. (2) Correct methods must be employed. Geometiy, Astronomy and Trigonometry are built ujion a few simple sidf-evident axioms. In finding God we mu-t take it for gi-anti'd tliat He is, and that He is a Re- warder of those that diligently seek Him. If we wish to solve a problem in Geometry, we take a slate and i)encil. If we wish to te-^t a chemical force, we go into laboratory. If we wish to make an astronomical discovery, we take tlie telescope and scan the heavens. If we wish to find God, we diligently seek hhn by faith and prayer. Some months ago a public debate was to take place in England, betiween an Atheist and a city Missionary. The large audi- ence havmg assembled, before the debate began the Missionary said to the Atheist, I Anil prove to you that God is, if you will follow my instructions. All right, he agreed; now what? "Well, get down on your knees." His cheek blushed a little, but he got down. " Well, now what?" "Well, say, God be merciful to me a sinner," He hesitated, as much as to say he tlidnot believe there was any (rod, and he was not willing to admit that he was a sin- ner. However, he had agreed to follow the instructions. So he said, " God 1 } merciful to me a sinner." " Now, say it agam."" He said it again, " God be merciful to me a sinner." So he kept him repeating the Publican's praver, and in about fifteen minutes' time God did have mercy on him and touched him, and answered his prayer, and he stood up on the large platfonn and tes- tified that he now knew that God is, and that He is a Rewarder of them that diligently seek Him, When I first studied Geometry and came to the -ITth of Book 1, and read the enunciation of it, I said to myself, it cannot be tiT^e ; and if it is time it cannot be proved. But, I said again, the problem has been in the book for nearly three thousand years. The most learned men of ail times have left it there, and there must be something in it. So with this faith, I proceeded with the demonstration, and found after all that it was true and could be proved. So the best and wisest men of earth have believed in God, and Cluist and tlie Bible ; and since the world began, no man ever sought God in His own appointed way, but he found Him. Many centuries ago, it is written, 44 SIXTH RELIGIOUS CAJIP MEETING. " This poor man ciied unto the Lord and the Lord heard him." "And it shall come to pass in these last days, that whosoever calleth upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." In tlic evening the Rev. T. R. Fauli, preached an interest- ing discourse which we failed to hear. On Wednesday morning a Prayer Meeting was led b}- the Rev. Dr. Jacques. On Wednesday afternoon, at 2.30 o'clock. Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, of Brooklyn. N. Y.. preached to a large concoui-se of people, from Psalm xix. 18 — The statutes of the Lord are right : — Old books go out of date. They discuss questions of no living interest to the present. They endeavor to right wrongs akeady rectified, or to advocate institutions now obsolete. If they are works of history, all their facts have been better certified and classified in succeeding books. If works of mytho- logy, the world has no room for morning mists in the broad noontide. If works of morals, the civilization of to-day cannot be satisfied with conjecture. What care we to-day for the teachings of Sappho, the pathos of Simonides. the grace of Philemon, or the wit of Aristophanes. Of all ancient books there are only two or three that have any infiuence on the civilized world to- day. Books are human, and have a youth, a middle age and an old age and burial. National libraries are national cemeteries in which authors are en- tombed. Some have been flagitious, and met a dishonorable end. Others vir- tuous, and have a regretted demise. We behold occasionally tall shafts erected to mark the memory of philanthropists. Would that there were monuments to mark the grave of books. Poetry, Science and Religion would make grate- ful pilgrimages to such a shrine, and weep tears of gratitude over the pioneers of the world's progress. But there is one Book that has not grown old. It is the Bible. It grew under the theocracy and monarchy. It lived under all forms of human hate and persecution. It was greeted by Wickliffe in Eng- land. It came across the Atlantic in the Mcnjjloicer and struck against Ply- mouth Rock till the waters gushed out in blessing — gushed out over a continent, schools and colleges and churches springing up along its path. Last Sabbath 50,000 gospel ministers in America stood between the living and the dead and proclaimed the everlasting Gospel of the Son of God. Nor is its mission ended till it lights up the hut of the Laplander, warms the heart of the in- liabitant of Greenland, mingles its gold with the gold of California, its dia- monds Tivith the diamonds of Golconda, — not until all thrones are melted into one throne, and all crowns arc melted into one crown. I was not sui'prised, a ST. LAWRENCE CENTRAL CAMP GROUND. 45 short time ago, to see a man in a railroad car take out a Bible, and after read- ing a few vei-ses, thinking himself miobsei*\'ed, kiss the Book lovingly. In com*ts of law men are accustomed to kiss the Book sometimes, as mere cere- mony ; but there are hundreds here to-day that, in memory of all this Bible has been to them, can kiss this Book with a kiss of undying affection. WTien my mother died we were all called home, and ail of us were called in to re- ceive in tm'u a memento. Being youngest I had the first choice, and select'^ my mother's Bible. O dear old Bible — how I love you ! It was en its pages that the marriage imion had been recorded. For seventy years it had been the staff upon wliich they had leaned. How I leafed you over on my mother's knee, she looking for the promises and I for the pictures. May my children desert in a dying hour, may joy flee my soul and life become a plague, may my name become accursed if I forget my mother's Bible ! How precious is the Book di^'ine By inspiration given ! I want to show you to-day that the Bi])le is right in its autlienticity and gen- uineness, in its style, and in its effects. There is not so much e\ideuee that Shakspeare wrote Macbeth, that Milton ^vl•ote Paradise Lo.-it, that Walter Scott wrote Marmion, as there is that Gob by the pen of the inspu*ed authors wrote the Bible. Suppose you if any work were forged to-du} crashing into the prejudices and sins of men, that it would not be detected and scouted? Here is how men succeed in obliterating the Word of God. Wlien they com- menced an organized pei-secution of the Book there were about 300 copies, — now there are about 300,00(),()00 copies in all the languages of earth. There was not one word omitted, not a sentence erased from the good old Book, by the efforts of its foes. Some had been pulling away at Genesis, yet Genesis remained ; and others at Joshua, yet Joshua remained. All the efforts of these men in all ages had not taken away as much of the Book as the point of a fine needle. Glory to God ! Yes, I say. Glory to God ! Those men will perish who oppose the Omnipotent progi'ess of the Diyine Word. Suppose 10,000 people had been smitten with a sore plague ?.nd some medicine had cured them in a day, you would admit that was a remarkable remedy. Now, which would be most reasonable to believe, a multitude who said Lhey had never tried it and therefore knew nothing about it, or the 10,000 cured by the remedy ? Men said to-day that the Bible and Science were at war. Among all the names of the Foreign Societies of Europe there was none that stood higher in Science than that of Joseph Henry. No name was more revered by scientific men in America. A few years ago he told me that he believed the Bible all through, and since then he died in the full belief of the entire Book. Here was a man knowing all the facts of Geology, a believer in Gene- sis. He knew all the secrets of Astronomy, and yet believed in Joshua. He knew all the anatomy of man and fish, and yet believed in Jonah. Mention to me the name of any eminent scientist disbelieving the Scriptures, and I'll give you one equally prominent who is a finn believer in them ! Isaac New- ton and Joseph Henrt believed all of the Bible. The Bible speaks of a 46 8IXTI1 RELIGIOUS CAMP MEETING. city biiilt entirely of stone. Ahsunl, says Infidelity. Yet Laborde and others have found the remains of the verj' city on the walls of which God had writ- ten in sculpture the proof of divine prophecy. The Bible .speaks of a shower of brimstone that consumed Sodom and Gomorrah. Absurd, says Infidelity, there could not be any such shower. Yet Lieutenant Lynch, sent cut by the United States Goverament, has dup: up, on the borders of the Red Sea, proofs of the descent of such a shower. The Bible spoke of Nineveh being destroyed by fire and water. Al)snrd, cries Infidelity, as they are antagonistic to one another. Yet Layard and Kkitii go on, and by explorations demonstrate the fact that one part Avas destroyed by the Tigris river, while the burnt bricks and calcine slabs dug up prove tlnit the rest was destroyed by fire. Mosfs speaks of gi-}ipes in Egypt. Absurd, says Infidelity, Egypt don't raise grapes. Yet on the walls of Ilithia were found sculptured bundles of gi-apes ; and vases were dug up ntill encnisted with the (b'cgs of wine, proving they were grown and used in Mosi:s' tim»\ Tlie meanest thing on eartli I know is InudcHtif. Suppose an aged man. walking with lantern and stafi" over a very dangerous mountain at nightfall. You go and take his light and staff, and give him a better lantera and a better stati. You have done a good thing. But suppose you go and blow out his lantern and break his staff and leave him on the brink of an awful precipice in the dark, that is a most magnificent action compared with the infidel's, who would blot out the Bible ! Secondly. I am to show that the Bible is right in its style. Many imagine the Bible a very dry book. They do not know how to read the Bible. Sup- pose a man should undertake to read a book by commencing to read at the 4fl0th page, reading next the 320tli page, then the 68th, then a line on the 143rd page, etc., how much sense and good could he get out of it? It must be road in course. liike the ))alace it has an entrance and an exit. Genesis is the door to enter this palace of dis'ine truth, and Revelation the one to go out. Suppose you get a letter from a business man and endeavor to read it by reading random lines, how much good could you get out of it ? That is not the way yon do. You commence at " Dear Sir," and conclude witli " Yoms truly". Wliy don't you read it, as it is a letter from our heavenly Father to His ening children ? Many only read the Bible when they feel dull or sick. Now while it is to be read at such times, it ought also to be read in good health and spirits. It is when the mental appetite is good that the rich clusters of divine truth are to he gathered and eaten. Each word of Scripture is full of meaning. Each sentence is double-baritded. Each para- gi-aph is like the banynn-tree, sending down its thousand rootlets of tnith into the heart. Joiin: Hazelbeck read over the first chapter of Isaiah to his con- gi-egation each Sabbath for twenty-one years, making comments on the same, without exhausting his subject. No pearl-tliver ever brought up half the pearls that lie hidden in each promise. Ail the good books of tlie world were only the Bible in dilution. Goethe, who is revered by all sceptics, had his cottage at Weyn.ar decked with Bible scenes. Macaulay's most brilliant peri- ods were rounded with Scriptm-e quotations. Addison's Spectator was watered ST. LAWRENCE CENTRAL CAMP GROUND. 47 with the River of Life. Poi'E is saturated with Isaiah, aud his most successful work was the Messiali. Thoji.vs Carlyle stole his imagery from Ezekiel. Painters, poets, orators aud authors had all drawn their iuspiration from the Bihle. This was the most hitensc book ever written. We have heard much of anxiety expressed for another's good. It was reserved for Paul to say " I could wish myself accui'sed for my brethren". Other books had much of pa- thos. The Bible gathered all the cypress that ever grew upon human graves into one expression — " He was the only son of his mother, aud she was a widow ". The Bible is the ring that unites heaven and earth, while all the angels rejoice at the nuptials. It is the broad lirmament in which all the smis and stai"s of truth, all the iuhuities and immensities, revolve. Where is the yomig man whose soul thrills not at Jidah's lament, at Paul's March of the ResuiTection, at the Song of the hmidivd and forty and four thousand, and ':he Blast of the Archangel's Trump ? God knew that historians would read ':hc Bible, hence He had Moses write Genesib. He knew that poets would "ead it, hence he inspiied IsAL\n : He knew musicians would read it, hence He had David summon a Grand Orclujstra, witli beasts and birds in the lower •ow, momitains aud hills in the second roAV, fiiv and vapor in the third, sun md moon in the fourth, and all angels in the highest, — and then break forth into one universal harmony of Praise to the Lord of Hosts. Thirdly. The statutes of the Lord are right as to Doctrine. Now there !.re two great docaines in the Bible, and only two, aud we do not differ on hese. When I go into an Episcojuil Church I can say heartily, if I find room lo say it, " Good Lord, deliver us." We do not difter much with the Baptists as we are all sheep of one fold only dillVr in tlie way of washing. Wlien I go ;uto a Methodist meeting, I am generally shouting happy. Wh^ii I get to heaven I sliall see Cuiusx at the right hand of (xon, Paul next, John Wesley next. The two doctrines of the Bible are — (1) Man is a sinner ; (2) Christ is I Saviour. Man's pride must go down. Christ must go up. The whole Bible ^dan seems to me to be this : — Christ sejited on an elevated seat in the centre, vith all tb.e prophets up to the time of Christ throwing light on Him from be- liud, and all the Apostles and Martyrs shice from before. The most wonder- iil statement in the world is, " This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all icceptaliou, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners." There is mother passage hi which every word weighs a ton : " God so loved tlie world, hat He gave His only begotten Son, that wliosoever believeth m Him should lot perish, but have everlasting life ". The whole Bible in one word is Mcrcij. The divine mercy is sec^n in the diiierence in the way of God's treatment of :he sinner and man's. When a man does wrong, Society kicks him out of the iocial circle, out of business contidence, out of chiu'ch. But when a man sins, God calls to hhu, " Come back I " And the fm-ther he goes the louder God calls ' Come back ! " You see the contrast, dear friezids, l)etween God's pardon and nan's. If a man shi, his fellow man will scarcidy forgive him. If a woman .4u, Society has no forgiveness for her. If Society spurn her— all right, she deserves it. If she starve, good for her. There is more mercy in th-> rattle- m n\. & 48 SIXTH RELIGIOUS CA^IP ^lEETINft. snaki/B tooth than iu the heart of ';Voman for a fallen sister. If she, sinking in thr deep waters, reaches out and grasps the Rock for safety, go and stamp upon her fingers till she let go. Let her sink. But Christ says, " Go, and sin no more ". Some time ago, in my audience, I saw a man weeping as the services were closing, and went up and spoke to him. "0," said he, " there's no hope for me. I am a captive of strong drink. I came here hoping you might help me, but there's no hope. If I should mention my name you would know me. [He was a lawyer of eminence, the head of the legal profession in Illinois. ' On my way here I sat by a man in the railroad car. He took out a flask and invited me to drink. The old appetite came back. I seemed to see fiery tongues coming out of the flask, and hear them saying, ' Drink me ! Drink me ! ' I arose and got out of the car, and stood on the platform. It seemed as if I was pui"sued by the demon of Diink. I came near leaping from the car, but it was running at a fearful rate, and I dare not. O, sir, there's no hope.'' Yes there is, I said ; God can help you, and He ^nll. After prayer, I took him to a drnp, store, and purchased something to quiet his nerves. We shook hands alone on the street comer in the gaslight, after I had conmiended him to God. A few days after, I received a letter from him, enclosing the trifle expended, and stating that he had not used it — had not needed it. God's gT*ace had taken away uie appetite for di-ink. 0, the mercy of God, it is high as heaven, deep as hell, and broad as eternity ! Again. The statute> of the Lord are right in their effects. Flowers are always beautiful, whether for burial or bridal. So were the truths of God's Word, beautiful in tlie hour of joy and iu the horn* of mourning. Beautiful in life and in death. The Bible is the softest pillow for the dying head — softer than the down of angels' wings, ^^^len I die I want no other pillow than my mother's Bible. Chhistmas Evans, that gi-and old Welsh preacher, on his dying bed had a tit of rapture, in which he thought his bed was a chariot. The friends standing at the head were the steeds, those at the feet his chario- teers. Raising himself iu the bed and waving his hand, he shouted, " DRn*E ON I " A young man falling asleep with his heiji pillowed on tlie word of God xN-as aroused by the sobs of his mother some time after he had become uncon- scious. ••\Miy did you call me back?" said he, "I was half way up the stairs." Put this Bible on tlie table, in the home cii-cle, and 'it becomes a power. It dries up tlie poisonous streams of polygamy and divorce. It di- vides human soitow. and multiplies human joy. "SMiat is needed is the Bible in tlie counting-house. "VMiat is wrong with Wall Street? It wants more Bi- ble. Men need to learn that a dishonest dollar csui never be T)uried. Yon may tlig down deep and pile upon it rocks and momitains. but it won't stay dowiu Wliat is wiuited is the Bible in all oiu' public institutions. Palsied fon^ver W the hand that would drive it out of our public schools. Educate tlie head only, and you make an infidel : educate the heart only, and you have a fanatic ; eilucate botli and you have tlie ChristLin. Take this Bible into your homes, your hearts, and your lives. Young j>eople, take this Bible home, oj^vu it on your chair, and kneel l>ef ore it reading, and besec'ching God's bless- ST. LAWRENCE CENTARL CAMP ttROUND. 49 ing. how these young people need the Bible. Eight young men went away to spend the Sabbath in drinking and card-plaj-ingupon a beautiful island, and were just about to proceed with their Sabbath breaking, when suddenly one of them turned pale and said, " Did you hear that? That is the church- bell, and I am going to church." Instantly they all began to mock and jibe him. One proposed that thoy baptize him. They had seized and were hur rying him away to the river, when he said, " I am in your power, but wait till I tell you my story. When I left home my mother — who was always an in- valid — said, ' Now, (xEouiiK, when you have packed your trunk come in, as this is probobly the last time I shall see you. I want to give you my last testimony.' I went in, and she said, ' Georue, whenever you hear the church- bell, wherever you are, remember if I am living I am praying for you. Re- member my last testimony — If sinnerit entice thee consent thou not.' " He went and his companions still jeering went with him. To-day six of them are sen-ing God and occupymg prominent positions in church or state, all because that one yoimg man dared do right. Come, young man; I know all about you. Come to God this afternoon. And these aged ones, are you all Chris- tians ? You need to be saved to-day. "^^'hat a time we had at our house last night ! "' said a recently-converted man, " I felt I must pray or die — and I asked my family to kneel with me. But I could not pray. The thought of all the yeare I had spent in sin choked my utterance, and I could only say, '0 Lord,' and my wife was so overcome with joy at thinlcing I began to pray, that she could only say, ' O Lord,' and had to stop. And there we knelt weeping, but I could not pray." I said. Why you did pray. The verj- lii-st tear that fell, fell not upon the cari)et. It was caught upon an angel's wing and wafted to the presence of God, while all the heavenly host shouted, " Behold, he pray- eth!" Come into the kingdom, young man. Come to-day. Fathers, mothers, compel them to come in. They are comhi^ in. You need not pray a long prayer. Just " God be merciful to me a sinrer". Is that too long? Then say " Lord, i^ave me ". Is that too long? then shout, " Help ! " I want all now who will start for heaven to rise. All not ashamed of Jesus, arise. About twenty-tive arose, after which the reverend gentleman led in a brief but fervent Prayer for their present salvation. A Prayer Meeting followed, led by the Eev. Dr. Jaques and Eev. Eli W<'01)C0ck. and the vorv interestino- Services of the afternoon closed. I In the evening the Pev. Charles Frizzell preached the Concluding Discourse of the Session. After a Prayer Meeting, in which large numbers ])artici- pated, the Religious Services of the Sixth Camp Meeting on St. Lawrence Central Camp Ground w^ere brought to a close. jL .'^ ^ ■; % t i 1^. ■* >i^>&fc^4«Cr^i,- . %■ c-7 <^MS7 (^^5 Oi' tf.4 ;. >S J-^^ ^" 4 •- -3' tJcr.-~-.->' .-_cr-« PKi -C:^^- TEK •';Uv^>■- -. < _ ,»»3_ c •• COR. PiEORrTE & DALHOUSIE STREETS O T T A WT A. - e • ■ T ORDERS PROMPTLY AND NEATLY EXECUTED. • . ♦ (tS rUK snOJiTKST soticf.. ^STANLEY IN AFRICA. 3 The ;ijUTiitivo of Stanlky's t'xpediticm to Eiiuatorial Afiica, and his Magiii- iicont exploration of thf Couf,'o— one of the j^'raiukst achievenients of uuxlern times— is puhlishetl l>j J. B. 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