The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-12

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| plague was stayed from Israel
All the troubles that we have very largely
come from some sin we commit. There is very
little that people suffer, but when you take it
back to its origin it was sin and transgression of
some law-generally some law of God. We dare
not transgress them without suffering. He tells
me to work six days and rest on the seventh, and
has fixed the weekly period in man so that he
cannot transgress that law without suffering for
it. A man who is so tied to his business that he
gives seven days in the week to it may be over
taken by typhoid fever He doesn't see how he
can spare SO much time from business. His doc
tor tells him he can look for change on the
seventh, fourteenth, twenty eighth thirty fifth
day. We don't know how, but somehow God
has put seven into the typhoid fever, so that
man is bound to respect it, and all the medical
skill in the world has to, also. God says. Now.
sir, am going to make you pay back every one
or those days you took from me, with interest. "
God tells man not to debauch his body with
| whisky. Some mon will say, II know what
whisky is good for. It's good for my health
| must have little for my infrmity I believe
| I've got right to do it, for Paul wrote to limo
thy, and said to take little for his infrmity."
| You can't read anywhere where God told Tim
| othy to take cocktail before breakfast half a
dozen glasses Of beer in the forenoon more beer
and whisky in the afternoon. and wind up at
| night with regular jamboree man has
poor excuse to take. in his desire to make a sot
/ OF himself, poor Timothy's inirmities.
fellow In Baltimore issued circular, and
said that Jesus Christ was distiller, because He
made wine at the marriage feast. And all the
| dlstll!ers and whisky men in the country will
| bring up Christ's example IN making wine at the
same time they are denying and rejecting Christ
In everything else in the world. They are awful
| friends of Jesus Christ when it comes to defend
ing themselves on the wine question. Christ
never made any such stuff as that they sell
down In these places. Whatever He made, He
made for some good purpose, and to do some
thing that did not interfere with customs of His
| time | could discuss that question with you.
| but don't think 1t necessary. There is nothing
/ in that to justify man in selling fusel OIL and
sulphuric acid, and all those things that de5auch
| men. and run them crazy man will say, 81
don't know where got all my inhrmities,' and
| asks the doctor if he knows. If he could run All
electric light down into his stomach. and iliumi-
nate it so he could see it, he wouldn't wonder any
more--all eaten OUT no wonder he is sick.
| Whenever man takes his nature and violates
| the commandment of God, runs contrary to God,
did you ever notice how quickly he gets into
| trouble and how different it is when he runs
| Gods schedule man has to run according to
| the mechanism God has put in him. The Sab
bath question is illustrated in beast as we'll as
man. The London donkeys found to be
| able to travel further and better with six work
| day in the week than with seven.
| am opposed to all this seven days work. OPP
posed to everything that is done in this country
violating the Sabbath day God gives you six
| days for your own business. and he only asks
| for one for himself. The idea upon which this
movement was erected was that we are the spe-
clal children of Providence, and that 1t was our
| duty to be faithful and grateful to God, and give
him that which is his Statistics will show that
| the most successful generals in the late
were the men who avoided Sunday fighting as
much as possible.
| 1t is the especial duty of the American people
| to enforce a quiet Sunday in this country The
| people who are coming into this country demand
| ing that we shall give up our Sabbath to them,
with their beer drinking and carousing, are as
much enemies of the American idea as If they
| had their guns trained against this country and
were firing at US. There are two battles we have
| got to fight i'll this country before we are
completely free and have the wheels of
| our progress unclogged. One is to settle
| the Sabbath day all over the country as holy
and sacred. and the other is to drive ont this in
| fernal liquor traffic [Applause and cries of
| "A men. And it is going to be done We
might as well give them notice now. and let them
get ready to conform to it, or get ready to move
| Germany under Bismarck than live
| in indianapolis and be run by men
who have the Bismarckian idea. Applause.
The men and women who fear God and love
Christ. who love their children and the future of
America, are all of them of one opinion and one
accord on this question, and we don't intend to
| give up this country of ours to the domination of
foreign ideas LApplause,I We don't intend
that Sunday shall be holiday for every body to
| get drunk and have a rip-roaring jubilee on,
| and we are not going to have it either ZAP
| plausel as long as there is town in America
| where they won't let whisky stay / am going
to be citizen Of that town and have vote
| there. We are running whisky out of the South
and we are going to run it into the ocean, into
the gulf. run it North here to the lakes and into
| Canada, where all the balance of our live devil
ment goes. lLaughter.l l look back over my
| past life and see all the trouble | had nine
months ago when | was rampageous sinner,
and where had left the teachings of my parents
and was breaking the law of God. I tell you
whenever you break a hole in the fence and get
out. then you are out anG you are up to all sorts
| of devlment out there, too.
| We have erected this altar here in this city to
| entreat God to stay the ravages of the plague in
| this city. We gather here and make our prayers
to God for the stoppage of this plague We
ought to get on a foundation where God can do
| for us, and until we do it God can not help us.
| AS long as we are resisting Him, rejecting Him,
He can not take hold of us and lead US to safety.
His hand is not weakened to save US any more
| than it was to save David's people. All we have
| to do is to hold up our hands in the direction of
| His, and He will reach While have this
altar erected let US pray God to stay the plague.
| Mr.. Small said il any wanted prayers for
| any special person he would like to hear them
| say
| An Elderly Genteman-'I want you to pray
| for brotherin-law, who is absorbed in
| business that he has no time to care for his
soul.n
An old gentleman, Uncle Andy Smith, here
rose ana spoke approving OF what mad been said
on the Sunday question He had driven hogs
to Cincinnati, in an early day, from this county.
but he would never drive on Sunday He had
never lost anything by it, and ne passed those on
tho road who drove Sunday, and reached
the market first and got good price. II have
| gone said the old gentleman, Through creeks
and rivers and lost a hog in my
| life. have raised sixteen orphan children, who
didn't have any sheepskn to show they ever.
had any father or mother, and I've always had
enough to eat in my house. The children are
living well, and never touch the article. want
| you to pray for my neghbors.
Mr. Small-"God bless you, Uncle Andy.
May God bless you ALL and give you your loved
| ones redeemed to Tod in heaven"
| The service closed with benedcton.
THE NIGHT MEETING