The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-02-02
MTSCELLANEOIIS.

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\ FEED THE PEOPLE, The following,
which we cut from one of Beecher's
last Sermons, may assist some preach
ers to answer the question which they
Sometimes ask, their congregations =
why do not the people more generally
attend the church services: OFT 2
Various reasons are given why men
do not 60 to church. The fact is
they are not fed when they do go.
Human nature is true to itself, and
men will not go where they are not
fed. IF there was a discriminating
preacher in the pulpit, and he sert
men away with better judgments, and
with better moral convictions, and
with better balanced states Of mirt;
if be sent them away feelig
that the sermon went home with
them, and that they needed it, he
church would be a place to wh,h
people would resort far more TIM
they do now. And never was Their
time when men wanted religious firth
as much as now. Never was there
time when so many were hungry or
knowledge of things that pertainto
manhood here and hereafter as at
this very day. And when they goto
church, and get nothing but cut straw,
and straw raised FIVE hundred years
ago at that, and will not come gan, q
[ honor them / leHg ta6 2alnlel
| lay this law as much to myslf as
to my brethren. [ never .scol6d you
for not coming to church, and never
will. I do not mean here, br you
almost always fill this house but if
my prayer meetings and lectres are
not we'll attended, it is my fult and
not yours Z know it. [ donot be- 4
lieve, as long as human ntupe req
mains true towhat il. is, that he herds |
will refuse to come to he rack !
when there is Juicy fod6r there 81
and if they do not eome.it is. be-
cause there is nothing to- eate
Therefore, when our eTeIng meet |
ings have fallen off, T have al
ways said to myself. %Youare falling
off, and not the peoples Even when
/ have not remedied the evil, / have
known the cause of it al the timeot
And, on the other hand, he moment I
my own soul was full, all my symra !
thies flowed in overwhelming tides
towards my. fellow men [ have no
ticed that my meetings fave gone up, 1
If a man sleeps under ny preaching, |
[ do not send a boy to axe him up;
but ] feel that boy hd better come
and wake me up.
THE Noon PRAYR MEETING
Our Chicago exchanges give the most
encouraging accounts of these meet
ings in that city. TIE Chicago Hi-
bm,e says: b m
The meetings with have been in
creasing in numbes and deepening /
in interest since thu Week of Pray
err" were even NOR largely attended
than on ne preceding day,
and the spirit of tie meeting gave m
dication of such scondition of inter-
est prevailing thenearts of the CHRIS
tian people of or city ashhas long
been hoped and rayed for. ro Z
DAILY UNIoNPRAYER MEETING
So much interet has been shown in I
this meeting tht it has been decided
to continue i during this present
week, and hereafter until further nc
tice. At the leeting Saturday morn
ing this was Cecided by a unanimous
vote. The parked feature of that
meeting was a short and pleasant
speech from Rev, Mr.. Scott, a tiUe
fom India. His illustra-
lions and, wGds Of encouragement and
counsel will be remembered by al oil
present. We learn that the meetings
In the Congregational Church will /
eoptinuel each. evening of the week,
and though our, information is not
positive, there is little doubt that the 4,
and Methodist Churches will I
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