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9 NORTHFIELD NUMBER
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VOLUME ONE.
NO. TWENTY-EIGHT.
BEA UTIFUL NORTHFIELD: A C,TADE HI^F FAITH "
0 be at Northfield is inspiration—scen
ic, soulful, sensible, spiritual inspira
tion I Surely there is no other spot
just like it on earth I It seems that the
God of nature and the God of the Bi
ble—being One—determined that here
among the emerald hills of sturdy New
England—here by the crystal waters
of the rolling Connecticut —here where
“The lips of Heaven, stooping,
Rest the lips of Earth upon,”
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He would give to the world the simple but powerful
life of the man who was destined to make this
spot, under God, such a citadel of Bible Faith and
Bible power! No one
<can visit Northfield, pass
through the daily uplift
of one of the con
ferences for Christian
Workers and see the
wholesome, practical in
fluences going out from
the Northfield Seminary
for Girls and the Mount
Hermon School for Boys
without having two
thoughts constantly re
curring—the first and
most important, of course
--the marvelous influence
of one life wholly conse
crated to God, and the
other—the beautiful coin
cidence that D. L. Moody
was born and reared at a
place so wonderfully de
signed by Heaven for
the crowning work of
his life that has meant
and will mean so much
to the cause of our con
quering Christianity.
From The Old Home
stead to “Round Top.”
Just contem|plate the
achievements within the compass of a hundred
paces! There at the junction of two avenues
in East Northfield where thousands at the Confer
ence pass every day, is the old residence, still
occupied and in good repair, where Dwight Lyman
Moody was born. And out -there on Round Top,
a pretty grass-covered knoll barely more than a
hundred steps away, sleeps the sacred but eloquent
dust of the great man’s body—his faithful compan
ion by his side, awaiting the call of the Resurrec
tion Morn. And yet between the birthplace and
the grave, behold the work that was done! Thous
ands of souls on both sides of the Atlantic lifted
to God out of the gutter of sin, or brought from
their pedestals of self-conceit and morality to bow
with the joy of the redeemed at the foot of the
Cross!
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Nor is that all. Out in Chicago, like a Spring
Perennial in that busy desert of commercialism and
wickedness, stands the Moody Bible Institute, train
ing hundreds as Christian workers at home and in
foreign lands, while a great congregation of devout
men and women meet week after week as a “Moody
memorial,” to bless thousands more in the name of
the Christ whom Moody taught them to love!
Nor is that all. For there is Northfield—greater
if possible than these, where ' nearly a thousand
young men and women are receiving every year the
real meaning of Christian Education—carrying with
them into the frosty and blighting atmosphere of
some of the universities of New England, and like-
BIRTHPLACE OF DWIGHT L. MOODY.
wise, upon the broader campus of the world beyond,
the vital warmth of a living, unquestioning Faith
and the quickening-passion of stalwart, productive
Christian lives!
A Gibraltar of Orthodox Truth.
As I stood by that little mound at Round Top
and read the simple lettering on the plain grave
stone at my feet I uncovered my head and lifted my
heart to God in thanksgiving for “the power of an
endless life”; for a Faith that asked no questions
of God, and for a Love that hugged the Bible to a
regenerated heart as the priceless Revelation of God
to man. And while that song of thanksgiving as
cended I could but remark to a friend at my side
that men who believed like Moody and Spurgeon,
Wesley and Whitefield, Fuller and Hall, Bunyan and
Luther, Chrysostom and Paul—whether famous or
,ARS A YEAR.
Emory College X rs a con.
Oxford Ga -*—
forgotten, were the only men who have ever lifted
the world out of the ditch up to God. And this is
the supreme Truth for which Northfield stands—
the absolute inspiration and Authority of the Scrip
tures, the Deity and atonement of Jesus Christ and
the complete consecration of the life redeemed to
Him. There be many, especially in the South, who
have an idea that the “hobbies” which Northfield
rides are “The Pre-millennial Coming of Christ,”
and a sort of mystic, mysterious brand of consecra
tion known as “The Spirit-filled Life.”
Well, I have been to Northfield two years right in
the heart of the greatest teaching by the
greatest teachers, and it so occurs that I
have never heard a set
This is the spirit of Northfield. And this
spirit, backed and emphasized by the solid foun
dation work being done by the Northfield schools,
while the loftiest type of scholarship in England
and America bows here at the foot of the Cross
with the faith of a little child, makes Northfield
indeed a spiritual Gibraltar against the tides of
isms and schisms which have long been the bane
and blight of religious life in New Jflngland. And
here like another Jerusalem “wither the tribes
go up,” five to six thousand stifrrents, preachers
and Christian workers of every class come up every
summer to drink at the fount and
grow on “the milk and meat of the Word,” and
then gp back to their fields of activity refreshed
and strengthened for the battle against Sin and
Unbelief! s
sermon on “The Pre
millenial Coming,” while
the message of Professor
Erdman, of Princeton,
on Sunday night on the
Holy Spirit, was as
sound and >as (sane as
Dr. J. If. Kilpatrick of
or Dr. B. H.
Carroll, of Texas, would
be expected to teach. He
said the Holy Spirit is
given to every believer
in the hour of regenera
tion and remains until
the Heights of Heaven
are reached; and he de
clared that the believer
needed not to pray so
much that “more of the
Spirit of God be given
him, but rather that he
give himself more to the
Spirit of God.”
The Book! The
Book! ! The Book! ! !
Down with the traditions
and opinions of men and
up with the Book of
God!