The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-10
THE NIGHT MEETING.

one, and Mr. Small. though suffering with
marked hoarseness. made deeply stirring
sermon, drawing illustrations from the
days of slavery and making wonderfully vivid
and apt application of them Many persons re-
mainei after the service to shake hands with
him. Mr.. jones' has not been heard from, being
at Cartersburg, Ca, with which there is said to
to be tslegraphic communication, but he is
expected to be here this evening.
The services opened last night with prayer
by Mr.. Small. Prayer was also offered By Rev.
McClan A number of gospel hymns were
sung. Mr.. Excl sang, with great feeling and
fine expression, 1.-THE Handwriting on the Wall.
AT the feast of Belshazzar and thousand of his lords
While they drank from golden vessels as the Book OF
Truth records
In the night as they revcled in the royal palace hail.
They were seized with CONGRATULATIONS the hand
upon the wall.
Bee the brave captive Daniel he stood before the
throng,
And rebuked the naughty monarch for his mighty
deeds of wrong
As he read out the writing-twas the doom of one
> and ALL
For the kingdom now finished said the hand upon
the wall.
Mr. Small spoke as follows:
trust you will pray for tonight while l
bndeavor to speak to you, and that you will give
me your prayerfui attention. and as quiet atten-
ton as you can because | am suffering some
what from hoarseneSs contracted from the damp
hess to day. AID | want you especially to pray
for Gods blessing on these services for the pres
Dnce of the Holy Spirit with us. The great fac
tor in these meetings everywhere are the pray
srs of the people. Wherever we have much
prayer on the part of Gods people we have al
ways had large, successful and blessed meetings;
and wherever there is little prayer there are lit
tie results; for God gives what we ask for. and
He gives rs according to our faith and our fdel-
Ity: and as much OF the visible success of these
meetings will depend upon your fidelity to God
In going to Him In prayer as upon the preaching
any other of the instrunen talities employed.
The subject for the sermon to night is taken
from the fourth chapter of the gospel according
TO st. Luke. and is found in one phrase of the
eighteenth verse of that fourth chapter, where
Christ went to His own town Of Nazareth. and
went into the synagogue and received the Scrip
lures from the minister, and turned to the proph-
ecy and read that which was to be His DECLARE
ton of His ministry earth. lie said: The
Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because He has
annointed me to preach the gospel to the poor.
He hath sent me to heal the broken hearted, to
preach delverance to the captives and recover
ing of sight to the blind; to set at liberty them
about which l want to speak to you
tonght-'to set at liberty them that
are bruised IL there is anything in
our human life and experience to which we
In this world it is physical, human slavery. We
are, as sinners, the slaves of Satan, and we are
serving him ir sin. When our first parents in
the garden of Eden were tempted and yielded to
Satan they not only fell themselves. not only
fell into the bondage of death, which is his char
aeter of bondage. for be has power unto death
over men, but they did another thing. They
sold their whole posterty into slavery to him
from that day down to this. They issued to
Satan there Sn the garden of Eden compre-
hensive omnibus mortgage to every human Great
ure that should spring from them as the fount-
ain source of the human races; and from that
day to this we have been under the dominion of
Satan ard we have been slaves to Satan in our
natural estate, and we core 'Tvfia SIC
live in this world under that mortgage upon our
lives and ceecczz our I'm immortality, that was exc
outed to him by our first parents IN the garden
of Eden. And every man in sin to day is to
carry out the terms of that mortgages every one
OF them is but living out the servitude that he
was bound to in that transaction; and he is to-
day in slavery and in bondage more terrible
in its character than any form of human slavery
the world has ever known. And | desire, to.
night, to call your attention to the wonderful
analogy that exists between the sinful estate of
man and the estate of slavery of a man to a hui
inan institution of bondage.
Solae of you do not know what slavery IS
Some on you do not know all that is comprehend
ed in the term Slavery" Some of you have
ideas of IL 90, hered from reading Some of you
have ideas of Il ', ethered from intercourse with
vour fellow men vh,. did know what slavery in
this country at one tins was some OF you nave
read OF it historically, ana sohe ol you nave
read of 1t romantically; but IL YOU nave ne'er
lived where it was, II you have new uea :. III
Its actual existence, you have no aces "'o iuo"
tonight of what human slavery is l Was oorh
and raised in section of the country at a tim
when could take in and know what was the
character of that institution of human slavery
/ speak knowingly tonight in all that refer TO
f0it nd T hoe
to my mind, it is the clearest the concisest aud
the aptest analogy of the condition of sinner
that know OF in all history In those old DAYS
In the South, when you passed along you would
meet one OF those colored mon in the road and
say to him, well, Uncle. what is your nameW
My name is Tom SIR"
who do you belong to- sirl"
Il belong to Judge So-andSo, up on the hill
there, sir.
What did that colored man mean by that He
meant to say to you that Though am a man
made in the image of my Maker; though l am
man with heart; though / am a
man with ell the appurtsnances OF man
hood2 though / have emotions and passions;
though have brain, though unedncated it be;
though have ali the sensibities of man, and
though l stand to day with the conscious fact
that the same God is my God as He who is the
u od of the white man, yet, sir. stand before
you to proclaim the fact that am owned by
that man the hill" What did he mean by
thatf he meant that though they both were
creatures OF the same God, yet there was
ditiou of affairs in the world that made
him not man to himself, but a
man to another who held authority over him,
and he meant that he was absolutely owned In
his body in his person. IN all that belonged to
him a man he was the slave, the property. the
ehattel of another man. All of his time be-
longed to that other man. All of his muscle be-
longed to that other man. All of his abilities,
on the farm, or in the workshop. or wherever he
had been trained to labor. all of them belonged
70 that other man. All the product of his labor
In the field, ia the sunshine and in the snow, in
In the summers heat and in the winters cold,
fll that he produced belonged to that mar. He
was the absolute property of that man. He had
nothing OF his own. He had nothing that he
could make his own but the ar he breathed and
the thoughts he dared not utter. He was man
made in the image OF God, but he was bonds
man to another man who made to be his
brother under God There is man out there