The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-02-07
THE RELIGIOUs INTEREST,
NJ. HammOnd's Meeting at Trinity
Church Last Night.
Services at other Churches.
The Meeting Last Night.

suffering from severe fatigue and in
disposition, preached with great earn
estness and power to a congregation
that literally packed, not only the
auditorium, but the parlors, while
a large prayer meeting was held in
the lecture room, where ladies and
gentlemen in the hall labored assidu-
ously with those who, being unable to
get places within, were lingering al
the doors.
After reading a portion of the
scripture the burden of his comments
was Look to Jesus" Let no one
say l am a better or more consistent
christian than my neighbor. Look
not to man, but let US keep our eyes
On Jesus. He said an establishment
at Munich, for the care and educa-
ton of waits, was accustomed to have
a likeness of the poor. ragged, and
destitute children taken in all their
dirt and Indebtedness as they arrived,
and after educating them and teach
ing them some profession, sent them
forth into the world. Lest they
should forget their humility the off,
GERS were accustomed to take the
graduate aside and show him the pic
ture taken of him on his entry. This
Jesus found it necessary sometimes
to do, lest we forget he humbles us,
that we may look to Jesus, and if we
would know Jesus we must draw
nearer to him.
After a brief prayer and singing
the hymn Revive US Again" he
preached from the text, Behold the
fields are white for the harvest"
Paul was called mad, and Jesus was
accused of casting out devils by the
power of Beelzebub. It was, there
fore, not to be wondered at that men
preaching the salvation of Christ
should be assaulted and called fanat-
ical. Some persons became estab-
lished in their religion, and disIiked
to be stirred. He told a story in IL
lustration of this, of young man who
became interested in the meetings at
Elmira, New York. Going home, he
tried to interest his father, but he
told the son be was established, and
it was folly to urga the matter upon
him.
Shortly after that, in trying to haul
a heavy timber, all the power they
could bring to bear failed to remove
it, and the son demonstrated with the
father for urging tho horses, as they
were evidently like him =" estab-
Iished." Let US pray that some argu-
ment like this should be found that
would reach the hearts of those indif-
ferent and established " Christians,
even if the arguments were ridicu-
lous.
When Mrs. Longfellow's dress
caught FIRE, she fed from her hus-
band aud friends who tried to
smother the flames. because their
efforts caused for the time intense
pain, She persisted. Jesus in
ficts pain, that he may save"
WALNUT STREET PRESBYTERIAN.
The services during the day in the
Walnut Street Church were of Pc
culiar interest. In the morning the
Sabbath School and Bible Glasses
were assembled in the Lecture Room,
and the exercises were of the charac-
ter of an Inquiry Meeting. In IRE
spouse to the invitation of the pastor,
almost every person in the room, old
and young, stood up for Christ. An
unusually large audience assembled
at 103 O'Clock at the forenoon public
service. The pastor, Rev. j. p. E.
Kumler, preached from the text,
" F0lioD me" MAT. 9:9,) strong and
convincing sermon to inquirers and
the impenitent, answering their objec-
tons to an acceptance Of Christ,
from a want of faith or feeling, main
tanning that it was obedience and &C
ton that God required, even if the
former were absent. The pastor was
assisted in the sermon by Rev. @. @.
Hart, of ShawneetoTn, and w. II.
of this city. The afternoon
was occupied with meetings of young
converts and inquirers. at 3 O'Clock,
and of the Young Mems Association
at 4 O'Clock, which were of much
more than ordinary profit and inter-
est.
UNION PRAYER MEETING OF sATUR-
DAY.
The Union Prayer Meeting on Sat-
urday morning, held in the Lecture
Room of the Walnut Street Presby-
terrain Church, was probably more
largely attended than any previous
service. We regret that our
crowded columns this morning, pre-
vent us from noticing many interest
ing incidents. A number of letters
addressed to Rev. Mr.. Hammond by |
children in this city, who have the
past week been converted, were read |
By him and the pastors, many of |
which were quite clear and express
sive in the narration of their chris
tan experience. To the second, or
Inquiry Meeting. more than three
fourths of the audience remained, in
Guiding larger number Of anxious
persons than at any former prayer