The Triumphant Voice of Keswick
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KESWICK’S TRUMPHANT VOICE Edit ed by H. E. STEVENSON NOT FOR RESALE Reproduced by the X-tended Missions Network By the authority of The Keswick Convention Not to be reproduced Also edited by HERBERT F. STEVENSON Editor: The Life of Faith KESWICK'S AUTHENTIC VOICE Popular selection of sixty-five dynamic addresses from the Keswick Conven- tion, uniform with this volume. THE MINISTRY OF KESWICK Bible Readings at the Keswick Con- vention VOLUME ONE-1892-1919 Hubert Brooke, Webb Peploe, A. T. Pierson, G. Campbell Morgan, W. Y. Fullerton, Alexander Smellie. VOLUME Two-1921-1956 W. Graham Scroggie, J. Russell How- den, W. W. Martin, Donald G. Barnhouse, Fred Mitchell, Wilbur M. Smith, Paul S. Rees. KESWICK'S TRIUMPHANT VOICE FORTY-EIGHT OUTSTANDING ADDRESSES DELIVERED AT THE KESWICK CONVENTION 1882 — 1962 Selected and Edited by HERBERT F. STEVENSON Editor: THE LIFE OF FAITH, THE KESWICK WEEK London MARSHALL, MORGAN & SCOTT Edinburgh LONDON MARSHALL, MORGAN & SCOTT, LTD. I-5 PORTPOOL LANE HOLBORN, E.0 . I AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND 117- 119 BURWOOD ROAD MELBOURNE, E.13 SOUTH AFRICA P.O. BOX 1720, STORK'S BUILDINGS CAPE TOWN CANADA EVANGELICAL PUBLISHERS 241 YONGE STREET TORONTO U. S.A. ZONDERVAN PUBLISHING HOUSE 1415 LAKE DRIVE, S.E. GRAND RAPIDS 6, MICHIGAN Marshall, Morgan & Scott, Ltd. 1963 MADE AND PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY PURNELL AND SONS, LTD. PAULTON (SOMERSET) AND LONDON CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 9 I. KESWICK AND ITS MESSAGE . II WHAT WE TEACH . Rev. Dr. J. Elder Cumming 17 KESWICK'S TWENTY-FIFTH FEAST OF TABERNACLES . Rev. Charles A. Fox 26 IN A DAY OF DEPARTURE FROM GOD . Ven. H. Gresford Jones . 33 THE MESSAGE OF KESWICK Bishop H. C. G. Moule . 39 THE FAITHFUL CREATOR Rev. Dr. W. Y. Fullerton . 46 THE SECOND WATCH Rev. Dr. John MacBeath 57 HEAVEN Now . Rev. Dr. Donald G. Barn- house 64 WHERE THERE IS NO VISION Fred Mitchell 73 II. SIN IN THE BELIEVER 79 THE CARNAL CHRISTIAN . Rev. Dr. Andrew Murray. 84 HINDRANCES TO BLESSING . Rev. S. A. Selwyn . 94 UNSUBDUED SIN Rev. Dr. A. T. Pierson I00 THE CRY OF A DEFEATED SOLDIER Canon J. Battersby-Har- ford . III A SAINT WITH A WRONG ATTITUDE Archbishop Harrington C. Lees 118 OUR SECRET SINS . Rev. Dr. S. M. Zwemer 125 INSIPID CHRISTIANS . Rev. W. W. Martin 133 TEMPTATION . Prof. E. M Blaiklock 139 III. GOD’S REMEDY FOR SIN 145 DEAD UNTO SIN . ALIVE UNTO GOD . Preb. W. H. Webb-Peploe 15o FULL DELIVERANCE Canon W. Hay H. M. Aitken . 16o 5 6 CONTENTS OUR OLD MAN CRUCIFIED . Rev. Evan H. Hopkins 172 THE SPIRIT OF BURNING . Rev. J. B. Figgis . 179 THE INNER VISION OF CHRIST Rev. Dr. F. B. Meyer 185 HOW TO OVERCOME TEMP- TATION Bishop J. Taylor Smith 193 CRIPPLE-MIRACLE- VEHICLE . Canon Guy H. King 200 LIFE OUT OF DEATH Rev. George B. Duncan 205 THE FINISHED WORK OF CHRIST Rev. H. W. Cragg . 211 219 IV. CONSECRATION . NOT DISOBEDIENT TO THE HEAVENLY VISION Rev. Dr. George Wilson . 225 ENTERING INTO REST REV. J. J. LUCE 229 LIVING TOGETHER WITH CHRIST Preb. A. E. Barnes -L aw - rence 235 MAKING JESUS KING. Dr. H. Grattan Guinness . 240 THE CHRISTIAN CONFLICT . Rev. Dr. G. Campbell Morgan . 248 CHRIST OUR LORD . Rev. Evan H. Hopkins 263 GOD'S VOICE IN THE WHIRL- WIND . • • Rev. Dr. J. Stuart Holden 269 CHRIST'S CALL TO FOLLOW Rev. Dr. John M'Neill 280 AN ABSOLUTE SURRENDER Rev. W. H. Aldis . 289 PURPOSING AND ACCOM- PLISHING Rev. Dr. W. Graham Scroggie . 296 TAKING THE CROSS AND FOL- LOWING THE LORD Rev. Dr. William Culbert- son . 301 OUR RESPONSE TO CHRIST'S WORTHINESS . Rev. Stephen F. Olford . 310 316 V. T H E S P I R I T - FILLED LIFE THE THORN BUSH . Rev. Hubert Brooke 323 GRACE FOR GRACE . Rev. C. G. Moore . 326 THE BLESSING OF THE HOLY GHOST . Rev. G. H. C. Macgregor . 332 THE FULLNESS OF THE SPIRIT Rev. Dr. Charles Inwood . 338 CONTENTS HOW TO RECEIVE THE HOLY GHOST Rev. Dr. R. A. Torrey 347 POWER FROM ON HIGH Rev. Jonathan Goforth 364 FOUR MINISTRIES OF THE HOLY SPIRIT Rev. George C. Grubb 373 THE INCOMING OF POWER. D r . S . D . G or d on . 379 GOD'S PROVISION FOR ABUN- 8 DANT LIVING Rev. L. F. E. Wilkinson 3 4 ADEQUACY FOR LIFE AND WITNESS Rev. Dr. Paul S. Rees 391 WHEN JESUS IS ENTHRONED Rev. Dr. Alan Redpath . 401 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION o r nearly ninety years the Keswick Convention has been a Fmagnet drawing to its platform outstanding Bible teachers and Convention speakers, of many denominational affilia- tions and from several nations. Under its renowned motto, "All One in Christ Jesus," differences are forgotten and true Christian unity and fellowship wondrously experienced. Total attendances of seven thousand and more listen enthralled, year after year, to masterly expositions of the Word of God, and the unfolding of Keswick's teaching regarding the "life more abundant" which our Lord promised to His disciples. The records of the Convention contain a vast treasure-store of Biblical teaching and exhortation of the highest order. In delving into this embarass de richesses for the selection of addresses published under the title Keswick's Authentic Voice, the problem of choice lay not in finding the required "sixty-five dynamic addresses" but in reducing the number meriting inclusion to the total the book could accommodate. So many of equal quality and interest remained, that a demand for this second volume by no means exhausts the supply of really first- class material. If the earlier volume could claim to represent Keswick's Authentic Voice, this equally presents Keswick's Triumphant Voice, for the message of the Convention is essentially that of victory in the personal life and power in Christian service through the Lordship of Christ and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in His fullness. In order to avoid confusion, some speakers are described by titles received after the time of the delivery of the addresses reproduced here, since they are generally remembered by these later designations. Thus the Rev. Harrington C. Lees became Archbishop of Melbourne subsequently to 1908, but is customarily recalled as Archbishop Harrington Lees. The same principle is followed regarding speakers who later received honorary Doc- torate degrees. H. F. S. 9 CONTENTS KESWICK— 1892 So once again a milestone, on the way From the dim cradle to the great wide sea Which sweeps the shores of the eternal day, I passed at Keswick; and for you and me A year is over, and another year Begun. Peace sits as king on many a face On which last week fell penitential tear, While glory, in God's presence, filled the place. But surely now, beyond all other thought Must memory dwell upon that great outbreak Of Mission Fire, which like contagion caught, To give, or go, or do for Jesus' sake: While there ascends from all this mighty host One cry—to know the fullness of the Holy Ghost! Old friends were absent, only for a time, A dark presage of what must soon be true For many of us; younger men, in prime Of strength and human hope, had gathered, too, To carry high the flag of holy life Taught in the Word, and lived by Christ within. Here comes a new friend, pausing in the strife He ever wages with the power of sin Through all the busy cities of the land, To see the secret of so many found. Speaking of Keswick! Here the Mission band, Dark-skinned and white, meet on this holy ground, The East and West, workers in every zone, Clasp hands, join hearts; their motto, "All in Jesus One!" DR. ELDER CUMMING 10 I KESWICK AND ITS MESSAGE KESWICK AND ITS MESSAGE KESWICK AND ITS MESSAGE Evangelical conviction and vitality were at their zenith in Britain when the Keswick Convention was born in 1875, The afterglow of the Revival of 1857 was being fanned into living flame by the missions of Moody and Sankey. Every strata of society, and every age-group in the nation was deeply affected. Evangelistic services were held alike in aristocratic drawing-rooms of the West End and innumerable mission halls amid the slums; in fashionable churches and down-town chapels; in Universities and ragged schools. Evangelical fervour expressed itself also in most practical fashion, in countless philanthropic and social welfare activities: scores of beneficent societies sprang into being, to the inestimable spiritual, moral and physical benefit of the poor and under-privileged, the disabled and deprived; for children, Service personnel, miners, seamen, prisoners—indeed, practically every necessitous section of the community. Conferences abounded.; missions thrived; meetings every night of the week drew vast attend- ances. Amid all this truly stupendous virility of Evangelical life and witness, there was nevertheless a deep consciousness of lack, on the part of many; of defeat in personal life and powerlessness in the most vital concerns of spiritual service. The message of the "higher Christian life," brought from America in the books of Dr. W. E. Boardman, and through the lips of Mr. and Mrs. Pearsall Smith, immediately struck a responsive chord in countless hearts. A series of conferences, held in swift succession, had "snowball" effect, culminating in the great gatherings at Oxford in 1874 and Brighton early in 1875. At the Oxford Conference the vicar of St. John's, Keswick, Canon T. D. Harford-Battersby—a saintly man, yet deeply dissatisfied with his own spiritual state—entered into the "rest of faith" as set forth in an address by the Rev.