The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-10
He Continues to Conduct the Meetings With
out the Aid of Mr.. Jones, Who Has
Not Arrived in the City Yet.
Mr.. Small Talks in Plain United States
Language About Hypocrites.
What He Thinks About the People Who OBJ
ject to Plain Talk in the Pulpit-The
Slavery to Satan of Sinners.
THE DAY SERVICES.


Mar. Small Devotes n Sermon to the DenuDcia-
ton of Hypocrisy,
There was larger audience at the noon meet
ing at Meridian-street NJ. Z. Church, yesterday,
to hear Mr.. Small, than on the previous day.
The text of his sermon was:
Behold my hands and my feet. that it is myself
handle and see.''
This passage. he said, would be widely recog-
| nized as the invitation of Christ to His disciples
after the crucifxion. They had followed Him
| through contumely, sorrow, distress and almost
despair and had seen Him cruciied between two
thieves. and hope was almost dead within them.
They did not know what to do, or whittier to
look for help They were looking with despair
upon their future when Jesus appeared in their
midst. No wonder they thought it was an ap-
paration conjured up by their imagination out of
the terrible sorrow Of their hearts, and they
were filled with CONSERVATION and fear.
Nothing could have equaed the deep
pathos Of their situation at the time-no imagi-
nation give an adequate idea of it. In
their minds was the nope that their beloved
Master was not dead and with it the fear that
they saw only an apparition. His words, there
FORE were only the more reassuring to them. He
would give them tangible, physical demonstra-
ton of His existence, and He therefore said:
''Behold my hands and my feet" for they conld
see where the nails had gone through His
precious hands and the dreadful spikes through
His feet. These were signs that they could I'M
derstand; and, to further reassure them, He
sald "Handle me and see." Thus Christ gave
all these demonstrations to His disciples to prove
that He was still living Savior, and they be-
lieved Him and have been teaching others to be-
lieye Him ever since This was one of
Christ's principal characterist;cs-to satisfy peo-
pie. Those disciples at that time are but type
of modern skeptics and infdels. There. are men
yet who demand that we give them tangible
proof of Christ's existence. They will not be
lieve the record; they will not believe that He is
yet to you an actual, living Christ. To the
Christian this Bible is the record that He is all
He claimed to be- it is the orbit in which Jesus
Christ, the Son of God, runs on and on forever
Men say they cannot take the Bible wholly on
faith, because there are some things in it they
cannot understand and believe WE'LL my dear
brother, that's the very reason why do believe
If there Is a person now living who can explain
all the mysteries of the Bible to me, that would
be proof to me that some man might have writ
ten it. Those mysteries are the chief proof of
the inspiration of that blessed book, and when
get to heaven will have plenty of
time TO sit down and learn OF them. But
there is enough plain. undoubted truth in
it to demonstrate its truthfulness No myth or
fable has ever survived to have a continuous and
increasing influence on the world and the lives
of men, They may have had their influence on
some particular action or epoch, but they never
remained living, active force. Thank God
can have no doubt as to who was the author of
this system of Christianity, which has blessed
the world for eighteen centuries. It was by the
energizing influence set forth by Jesus Christ
thab nations have been naised from darkness into
light, from, baroarism to civilization. and when
men ask me for tangible proof that Chr.s. . yet
o living force, point to the conquest of the
World by His religion. and the inconceivable
good 1t has done Jesus Christ has given us
every civilizing influence and He has spread
Christianity all over the world. All that has
been done to advance the world has been done
by those consecrased persons who have done and
are doing His work.