The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-14

Chat there are FIVE thousand lost women walking
khese streets, will anybody say that there is not
NEED of revival in indianapolis.
The best thing in the world Is for every man
10 be the priest of his own home and see to it
that his own home is thoroughly religious See
o man stand forth before God and best of God,
ard his wife walk up and take his arm and his
chsdren fall right into line, and the whole fami-
IL march into the kingdom of God preacher or
40 preacher. | want to see the day come In the
history OF the woodland then we will bring on
thu millennium--when every father shall be the
priest of his own home, the word of God shall be
read and prayed over by him, the
wife and husband unite in instructing and train
Ing their children for God. and when little Mary
Is ten years old, or six, or eight years of age
tho father walks upto the preacher. of a W dnes-
day night, and says: open the doors of the
church at our family meeting, on Sunday morn
Ing My little Mary was converted and yester-
day morning, by the family altar she
gave her happy experience Again, the same
father is at the door of the church
ssying that willie was converted to God last
Tsesday night. and he has rich experience in
IArst Jesus That father brings his children
60 God and to Gods church. If such could be
ths influence in this country it would make
fryival an unheard-of thing.
am engaged in revival work, and as long as
this world stays like it is, and parents neglect
themselves and neglect their children like they
ia no man .of sense has word to say against
D revival of religion. You say. I'VE had
big revival here last year What has come of
III Why. we are worse than we were before. T"
Way, where do you reckon you would have been
II you hadn't had revival That is the way to
losk at it. iLaughter.i 1t was but a little over
ayear ago, at Nashville, Tenn, when the citi-
tsAs of that town said to me: I'VE have sub
s1ibed ten thousand dollars and more to procure
ysm a home in this town which we will present
to you IL you will move here" Well / said,
s-kreshren, I am just as grateful as a little
hsarted man like me can be- but l have got a
iistle cottage home down in Georgia that is good
enough for me, and am afraid if move the
dsvil might work it to my disadvantage. / am
csntented where / am"
Then they said. 1--WE will fix the cottage
Home / felt that God did that through my
frsnds, and on the 25th day of December last
We dedicated that home solemnly to God. Just
hEe your church is-the same ritual, the same
process. did not give my house and lot to God
beeause / thought / was good, or because my
VIE was so good. but will tell you, gave the
home to God because we had six of Gods chill
drsn there to raise for him, and | wanted to
rHase them in Gods house, and L want
to tell them that it is house
ssZemnly dedicated to God. 1t was
tia sweetest service / was ever at in my life.
tel you, my congregation. this afternoon, if ev-
DEY man and woman in Indianapolis, when they
went home this afternoon, would solemnly dedi-
cate their houses to God it would be different
city from this time on. | will tell you another
thing. When you talk to a man about his wife
fEa his children. and to woman about her hus-
pand and children, If you do not touch the ten
.lssest spot they are twice dead and plucked up
by the roots. I never have my little innocent
chsidren throw their arms around my neck,
bzt that | think to myself of the
children God has blessed me with, and it seems
my children have the poorest father. Mothers
Whenever yau feel your innocent childrens' arms
about your neck and they imprint the kiss of
Innocence upon your face, have you not felt a
vsry great responsibility and task to raise these
children for heaven?
If | could not preach the gospel to as many
people in my own town as preach to anywhere
Isouldn't preach anywhere. I have preached
% more people in Gainesville than I will
preach 10 in this city You can put
: thSt down and thank God have
preached and worked in my own town until
have seen the last associate of my boyhood days
converted to God and joined the church ZAP
plAnse.
Are you where you can give anything to God9
What man gives is test of what he is. At
least that is the way to live. There are men
wac are so stingy they cannot give dollar to
led, and there are men who will
give both dollars and house to God.
TAey are publishing all over this country that
dianapolis if | was Laughter You don't
pay some of the preachers you have here, find,
already. How much did write you l wanted
ftg my services, Brother McConnel9
Mr. McC0nnell-Nothing.
If have mentioned money to you or anybody
else before this minute, | am not standing
hsre before this audience. If I was after
money would have accepted the offers of lee
tuse bureaus long ago. They said to me.
I'VE will pay you 5000 night for one hundred
nights" Do you know how much thatis-$6, 600
. month. That is pretty good pay; but here I
alu speaking two or three times day, and as
hard as can. And they say "Hurrah for Jones. :"
Hs doesn't care for money. He could get
500 day If ne wanted to, but he couldn't leave
ms work, and he is working his head off here,
and not getting anything for it. You do some
thing, so | can hurrah for you here. l am
going to try you this next week.
will tell you right now, tomorrow morn
ing, az half past 10 o'clock, we are going
10 have preaching. If you have got something
else to do have too, and l will take the first
train that leaves this town and go home. have
a sick family at home and have no time to preach
to people who will not come to church. don't
need to waste my time here talking to three or
fssw hundred people. There are 500 cities and
owns waiting for me, and they say that they
arc willing to help me.
Mr. Jones closed with beautiful illustration
ii the effect of giving, in comparison between
tho pond that had no outlet and was dried up by
The SUM- and the brook which carried it's cup-full
of water to the river and from thu river TO the
ssa. and which was returned to it in the clouds
that broke upon the mountain down the sides of
which it ran.
THE EVENING MEETING