The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-07

duty aud lived up to the model which Christ mas
given as, Christ will be with him. Whenever
ne departs from il. then he must leave Christ.
Whenever he goes off from the stra'ght
road in which the steps Of Jesus Christ
would led him. then he deparsss from Christ and
Christ is no more wen him. Put it little
Christ is hsiure the world. and the world has
of him that he will live the life
| OF a Christians true. honest and faithful dis
| ciple OF Christ Let that man be caught down
| here on the street going into the front door or
| back door Of bar-room. Do you suppose Jesus
| Christ is going in there with him? Sitting
| up in my room at the Bates House. and
| looking down on that public street. Sunday, as
it was. saw peonle lodging in and out of the
| side doors of these beer-saloons like lizards |
| expect some of them, too were professors
have known good many professors
TO DO that sort Of thing. some some
| in that way keep their jug at home Do you
think Jesus Christ is around the house of man
that is protesting to be Christian and has jug
of whisky in his closest and is going to church
| with his old nose looking like head
!, mt to locomotives There is not a
more anorna,c.. thing in the universal world
| than one of those purpss nosed, whisky-bloated
Christians Do you suppose jesus o,':se IS 60
! ing into these theaters and balls with your 10
you SUPPOSE Jesus, Christ goes In the the
| ball and skips up and downs
DO you suppose Jesus Christ is
going with you and set down at the card table
and play for a BOBBY prize at progressive euchre
| THAT is the best name I have heard of-booby
! prizel, when you know that to play for prize
| at all is gambling2 / have as mnch respect
for one of these blacklegs that plays
faro, or seven-up, or any game. as | have FOR
one who will sit down and play progressive eu
| chre. The responsibility of the party cannot
take away the principle involved in the game
The principle is to play to gain something and to
| carry, it away as prize. do not care
whether the prize is the finest work of art or so
many silver dollars laid on the green cloth, the
| principle is the same, and Jesus Christ
would pass the Judgment it.
! Christ suffered for and left
an example that you; should follow.
1t is the business Of every Chrstian-I repeat it,
| business and like that word business say it
| is the business, the daily, hourly duty of every
Christian to keep in mind the life of Jesus Christ
| to keep in mind the thought. the spirit, the
Judgment of Jesus Christ, and to live and act in
| public and IN secret under the eye of God and
man, to be at all times able to say. II am
conformed to Christ; He is my model and my ex
amplar" Let me tell you, brother, that when
man takes this whole record and reads of Jesus
Christ, of His acts, His teaching, His doctrine,
when he has to be thorough
iy saturated with the knowledge of
Christ. His life, His ministry and the princi-
Piles upon which He acted, it is the highest,
the happiest and the best point he can reach
here. and he will leap from it into eternity and
| be with God
| The Christian has right to be a stumbling
block to those who are out of the church of God.
| 1t is my duty protesting Christian to let my
| light shine so as to let all men my work and
glorfy God, who is in heaven. 1t is my duty to
let every man see that Christian
| ity is TO follow the model that Jesus
Christ left him. that it has had the effect of
! making new man and better man. i'll all re-
spects. out of him than he was before. know
it had that result with me. cannot stop to
explain to you what the theologians
called the birth. l cannot stop
to explain to you the process
by which came to understand how was born
again | can only say to you this, that know
some grand, some supernatural transformation
took place in me, and l am not the man
Was nine months ago lean take you to Atlanta,
and | can get 10000 people to go upon the wit
ness-stand and swear to that They
know what was then. and they know what
am now, and they know | am no more like
what was then than any two different people
that ever lived in this world. 1t is the business
! of every Christian, when he has joined the
| church of God, to SO 1.-Two that his entire life
! shall be perfect and in thorough harmony and
accord with the example of Christ. 1t will be
so different from his own life that everybody
| who knows him will be willing to swear that
| there has some supernatural change taken place
| in him
| Irepeat, there is no excusesfor any man or any
| woman who wants to be Christian. not being
! one in every essential of Christian life. Christ
has given the life, and God the the revelation
and record of it in the life of His Son. and the
| Holy Spirit gives the power to liveit out The
only reason we fail in it, is because we will
| ingly reject it, and sinfuly despise
it. The church of God is ever on
trial with the sinfdel and unbeever, the sinner,
| and those who continue to reject Christ. If you,
| my brother. or sister. are a protesting member
of the church of Christ, go home to night and
| if this talk has brought you to think of your
duty, thank this meeting for that, if for nothing
| else. Take this one text home with YOU and
learn how you ought to conform your life in
| every respect to what Christ has given you in
his example.
Before we separate to. night I want to ask
everybody who is a member of the church, or
who wants to conform his life to the model that
Christ gives us, to rise Nearly the entire
| audience rose. Well God be praised there is a
large number. Let us be examples TO our neigh
bors and friends Let ask them to come and
be like
Rev. Dr. N. A. Hyde pronounced the benedic
ton and the audience was dismissed.
Notes OF the Meetings.
At The close Of the afternoon services Mr..
Small came down to the reporters tables and
ebool h apds with all remarkinp 81 was once in