. The one hundredth anniversary of the Haystack prayer meeting celebrated at the ninety-seventh annual meeting of the American board in North Adams and by the Haystack centennial meetings at Williamstown, Mass . outlines, is a very dream of beauty. If you love beauty inarchitecture it will repay you to go a hundred miles out of yourway to spend a half day to see that chapel. More than a thousandpeople thronged its nave and transept at this service. A greatchoir of college men preceded the procession of gowned andhooded dignitaries into the chancel. When the choir sang, withexquisite beauty, in
. The one hundredth anniversary of the Haystack prayer meeting celebrated at the ninety-seventh annual meeting of the American board in North Adams and by the Haystack centennial meetings at Williamstown, Mass . outlines, is a very dream of beauty. If you love beauty inarchitecture it will repay you to go a hundred miles out of yourway to spend a half day to see that chapel. More than a thousandpeople thronged its nave and transept at this service. A greatchoir of college men preceded the procession of gowned andhooded dignitaries into the chancel. When the choir sang, withexquisite beauty, in Latin, Mozarts Gloria in Excelsis, andthree college presidents discoursed on the sanity, the heroism,and the world-meaning of that old haystack prayer meeting, Icould but ask myself what Mills would have thought, or what hedid think as he looked down from heaven and saw his faith andhis ideals come to their own in that solemn and beautiful higher than all in religious emotion and power in that servicewas Watts great hymn, O God, our help in ages past, sung bythe whole congregation, and the brief closing prayer of WashingtonGladden, a prayer which took hold almost visibly on the throneof mmM^ Edge of the Grove, with a Glimpse of the Haystack Monument. ADDRESS OF WELCOME. 63 ADDRESS OF Henry Hopkins, , President of Williams College, Mr. President, members of the great historic corporation of theAmerican Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, honoredrepresentatives of other great missionary organizations, distin-guished representatives of widely scattered institutions of learn-ing, who, having responded to our invitation, are here present,young men and women eagerly looking forward to missionaryservice, beloved missionaries returned for a time from distantfields, converts to Christ in far-off lands, brethren and friends, oneand all: It is my high privilege to greet you in the fellowship andservice of our common Lord, in whose love and serv
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