The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-01
TIE REWARD OF TOLL.
Mrs. Robinson's Eyangelistic Services at Rob-
erts Park Church Yesterday.

| The services at Roberts Park Church yester-
day began at o'clock in the morning with
| general class. At the close, the whole member
ship marched from tie room below to the audi
ence room above, singing I'VE Are Marching
to Zion" The morning service opened by sing
| ing the Goth hymn, 'How firm a founda-
tion," followed with prayer by DR.. Mcconnell.
| The morning lesson was in the first chapter OF
| James, beginning with the nineteenth versa, and
the second chapter. beginning with the four
| teenth verse: Wherefore, my beloved brethren,
let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak.
| slow to wrath etc. This did not mean slow to
speak in class meeting, nor slow to speak for
| right, but slow to speak in anger. The oath
/ hymn "a charge to keep have followed, Mr.
| Mcconnell prefacing the reading OF the hymn by
| saying: This is the browning morning OF my
| religious experience feel like shouting from
| the depths of my heart"
| The text of the morning was Matt. xxi, 70.
| go work to-day in my vineyard" Mrs Robinson
| said: He that reads the first command that God
| gave the human family after the fall I'm the
| sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread" and
| sees an exhibition of wrath and anger, IS won
| derfully blind. God loved Adam and Eve with
| an intense love, and looked down the path
| their feet had entered, and saw
| that idleness and selfishness led out
into the hardest and bitterest experiences of life;
| and, being so anxious to keep them out of the
| pathway of sin and remorse he said, Not be-
I cause of your sin, nor because of my anger, but
| because love you will / curse the ground and
make the bramble and thorn to spring up, that
| by the sweat of thy brow shalt thou eat thy
bread. If you will study the path OF life,
| you will find it is not to the idler
that the blessings have come. but to the
| toiler, the earnest worker. The idler finds
sef-disgust and enemies. Life grows barren
along the line of self-indulgence. The saddest
calamity that befall 9 999 out of every 10, 600
young men is to inherit riches. Only one out
of 10, 900 is able to use inherited wealth wisely
1t is the money you have earned that you know
how to take care Of There is an adage that
| says the world only respects the hy-whlte
hands that have never known toll, which is un-
true. We, of the laboring class, are responsible
Tor 1t. When pressure comes and
We have to move into home where rent Is
cheaper and have to deny our children pleasures
how often we vent our bitterness and say. mo
one is respected but the man who is able to steal
by the tens of thousands" We let our ill numor
faint the children with deadly untruth. and
we know it is false and yet that is the reason so
many are investing in the bucket-shops and deal
ing IN futures and margins, feeling that If
they can only make SO much money they
will win respect If you sow that seed in the
hearts of the young you will have to dig it out
with endless remorse. The facts are, the world
lays her honors at the feet of the toiling 1t
is the hard workers that are winning the respect
lutte will are intermarried. After giving sketch
of the life of George Stevenson she continued,
land in the height Of his victory he said, I shall
do more to send the gospel into heather lands
than all the missionaries, and refused the honor
his grateful country would have bestowed, say
ing, i don't want title. In the coming ages
the plain name of George Stevenson will be
greater crown than any the Queen of England
can give me- Latta was never able to walk,
owing to an accident received in childhood. and
yet, animated with desire to benefit his race,
he perfected the steam 6re-engine, saying, i
will save more lives than all of you, and he did
It is the workingman, the toiling woman, that
lives not for self, but to do good that receives
the honor in this world No one disagrees with
me up to this point. and yet there are thousands
that come into church, and sit down to be car
oh, beloved God says. go work
in my vineyard. / can't see
why the fat, lazy, loathsome tramp,
who comes to your door to be fed out of your
hard earnings-I can't see why the spiritual
tramp is entitled to more respect than he l
have great notion to show you how some peo-
pie work initiating person in the act of half
rising when called upon to testify for Jesus
This is working for the Lord. How
we caricature religion. Somebody says
I give my means Very good, that is what you
ought to do. Have you ever given beyond Gods
limit Beyond one tenth of your possessions2
Some will give 80 cents on Saturday night to the
devils church and 10 cents on Sunday morning
| to the Lord. Oh, but they says the devil
| takes his at the door and we can't get in with
out it and they gladly give him so
cents and to Gods work only ten.
| We can never pay Him for what He has done
for us. Some are timid and afraid they will do
| more harm than good, but when He leads we
can trust Him. He has promised to take our
work and so fill it with himself that it will be
| Christ's message. The carpet weaver weaves
his gorgeous patterns without once seeing the
suit until the piece is finished and taken from
| the loom. God don't dare to trust you with
| sight of the work you are doing. If He should
| let you see it, you would get vainglorious, but
| in the glory-land you will see what you are do
| ing Don't worry about results; let God take
| care of the results. You are robbing yourself
| when you refuse to do anything for Jesus. You
| will find more enjoyment In working for Jesus
| than in all the progressive euchre parties
| and more pleasure in doing his will than
| in any theater. Jesus needs our work. say it
.reverently. Gods plan of reaching souls is
through human instrumentality. Conversion
sets you to work and you can't keep from it.
! There is no word lost. He needs tongues and
/ lips to persuade the world just as much as He
| did in Judea. Will you let Him have yours?
They nailed his hands to the tree, but glory to
| God. they were resurrected and before the
| throne with your name on them and stretched
out pleading for you and He needs hands to
bring In sinners. Will you let Him have yours2
| He had feetonce that wentgladly over thorns and
stones to carry the message Of salvation They
| were resurrected, and to-day those feet stand
before the throne bearing the marks of your sin.
He needs your feet to go upon His errands. Will
| you lend them to Him2 He says,i Give me your
brain and lend me yourself God help you to
say, will Some say, I will work quietly
among those l know but will not speak to
| those have not been introduced to. Are you
| going to be respecter of persons
| when Gods love is free2 You
may sing like angels; you may pray
| like saints; but you will never eli NIB
into Heaven over the dead bodies of those you
could have saved, but didn't am intensely
| ambitious-not to be eloquent nor learned-but
| to have Jesus say, when / pass through the
| pearly gates, She hath done what she could
1t will bel the sweetest music OF all eternity.
Are you willing to join met"
The services at o'clock were well attended
and full of power.
At night an immense audience was present