The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-12
THE DAY MEETINGS.
MIR. Small Gives Notice that He Will Turn At
tention to Sinners Next Week.


tention to Sinners Next Week.
The attendance at the meeting held at Central
avenue Church by Mr. Small yesterday morning.
at 10 o'clock, was quite large, and the services
were Of unusual interest The subject of Mr..
Small's sermon, which was rather brief. was
Jonah's visit to Nineveh, in which, by COMPARE
son, he illustrated the condition of Indianapolis
at the present time.
DIR. Gilbert opened the meeting at Meridian
street Church at L o'clock, Mr.. Small and his
sistants having failed to arrive there at the ap
pointed hour, owing to the services at Central
avenue Church continuing longer than the APP
pointed time. The attendance was not as large
as usual. The services were opened with sing
ing, and prayers were offered by Revs. Anderson
and Gilbert The text of Mr.. Small's sermon
was:
$50 nightly grew the word of God and prevailed"
Acts, xix, 20.
AT the time referred to in the text, Mr.. Small
said, 'Paul had come down to Ephesus, the CEN
ter of education and civilization. There he found
many persons who called themselves Christians,
and who were endeavoring to show that they
were no longer heather. Yet when Paul came
among them he found that they were doing many
things that were being done by heathens. Pau!
asked them how they had been baptized. They
said that they had been baptized into the bap-
tism of John the Baptist they had not heard of
the baptism of the Holy Ghost This revealed
to Paul the secret of their commingling with
dolators. So he began to preach to them the
Holy Ghost, and as soon as they got the Holy
Ghost into them many that believed came and
confessed and showed their deed You see they
made confession. They said they saw
plainly then why they had not differed from
idolators. When you get the Holy Ghost into
man or a woman they begin to unload. Amens.
Many of these Ephesians, also. who used curious
arts, brought their books and burned them.
and the price of these books was
in our money $500. That was business /
like that sort of thing. When the Chief jus
tice of Georgia, last year. did something of this
sort, he was the best entertainer in the country;
he had the finest wines and Whistles in his cellar,
and when he saw what this was doing for him
self and his son, he saw the whole question just
as it was When the temperance question arose
the father and son worked from the same plat
TORN for prohibition. He did not give mis-
Whistles away, either, or sell them. He took
leading minister with him and went to his cellar.
smashed the bottles and spilled the whisky from
the barrels onto the ground Applause And
now want to see next week, before Brother
Jones and get through here, about thousand
decks of playing-cards brought out and burned
iAmens, vigorous and prolonged. And some
fellows are going to empty their jugs. too; they
may not do it in public, you know. for it is not
known, except for certain little sign feeling
his noseI, that they have jugs. When you see
fellows unloading all these things you may
know that the Holy Spirit has got hold of them
Any sort of revival that is not preceded by
some such unloading as this will not be perma
nent Such conversions will be like mist upon
mirror. There is nothing can do in the way
of preaching and singing that can do any good
until get straight in these things. These sin
ners who are laughing and having a good time
because I'm jumping onto Christians in this
town will have turn next week. believe it's
insult to invite Christian to ball pro-
gressiye euchre party Let's put ourselves on
record against these things. Let us prepare to
push this work next week on the right plane, and
on next Thursday night week, if we are faithful,
we can have the grandest time down in Tomlin-
son Hall this side of our reunion in heaven.
Now, let's see if we can't ante-date heaven in
this meeting, and to that end let pray"
Following prayer by Dr. Gilbert, at the close of
the meeting Mr. Small asked those who were
willing to pledge themselves to the work of
Christ, and who wanted to live upright lives
which "would give forth pure white rays of
Christian light" to stand up, and all present
arose in response.