The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-21
LAST NIGHTS MEETING.
Mr.. Jones breaches on the Need Of Courage to
Stand Up for Right.

1ROSe VINO were fortunate enough 10 securo d
seat at the City Hall last night came before half
past o'clock. those who secured standing room
were considered scarcely less fortunate, and to
enjoy that luxury had need to pre- empt it before
o'clock The Hall certainly contained the
largest audience it has ever held, and
hong before the services began at
least two thousand people went away
unable to get within the building. What an
audience for preacher to look upon! An acre
ofupturned faces eager to catch every word from
The lips of the gifted evangelist Among the
plereymen upon the platform were DR.. Joyce. of
Trinity NJ. E. Church, Cincinnati; Dr. Jenckes,
Of st. Pauls Episcopal Church; Dr. Mcleod. of
the Second Presbyterian Church; DR.. Hyde. of
Ehe May Congregational Church, and sew
sral other pastors of city churches.
Rev. T. Ell. Mcconnell announced that at 10
sclock this morning Mr.. Jones. would preach in
The Tabernacle Presbyterian Church. and in
the evening either Mr.. Jones or Mr. Small at the
City Hall, and that closing service would be
held at o'clock on Tuesday morning. Rev. DR..
Jenckes, of St Paufs Episcopal Church, then
made fervent prayer. He prayed for the de-
krerance of this city from all the evil forces that
are in it He prayed especially against intern
psrnnce and infidelity. (which is asking impu-
There were many amens to the Doctors ele-
quent appeal
DIR. Joyce, of Cincinnati, was introduced and
spoke few minutes. He said: Zone of the
greate0 blessings that can befall city is a re-
gival of religion; for there is not any one thing
that any of our cities need more than work of
grace. l have been asked to say a word in re-
gard to the work of these brethren in the city of
Cincinnati / do not believe that there has ever
been time since have lived IN Cincinnati that
there have been so many homes In which there
has been family prayer So far as my
own church is concerned. 125 people
were received as the result of this
revival Now, in the FIVE weeks OF that great
work that surged and flowed through Cincinnati,
we carried on the whole enterprise with the vol
untary contributions of the people Six thou
sand dollars passed through my hands in five
weeks for our expenses, and never asked man
for a.dollar. It came. They knew we wanted
L. When you have a great cause and great
gospel with the power of God upon the people,
the money will Come One single night set
apart for contributions to Jones and Small, and
one night only said would do that so that the
poorest of the poor might have a chance to give.
We passed our baskets and when they came In
we had 1912 20, and the largest amount was a
ten-dollar bill. 1t came from grateful hearts /
have lived in Indiana / know her pretty we'll
all over the State love her right and love
Indiana people. Some Of the hardest years
work of my life were spent at Lafayette,
Geencastle and other Indiana towns. There
Ia not spot of ground anywhere upon
which l would rather have the descent of
the power of the Holy Ghost than upon Iudian-
apolis wish Mr. Jones could stay here until
the 4th of July, and have grand moral cam
paign and plow this city over and over. be-
iisve Tod would give them Thousands of converts
Somebody wrote me the other day to please give
the exact results of the Jones and Small work IL
Cincinnati. wrote back: Brother, cannot
tell you. will defer the answer until we meet
sc the bar of God"
NJ o(to "a viii lat
little town like Cincinnati beat you? We will
aave to give thousand dollars tonight to beat
Cincinnati, and think you are able and willing
to do it
While the hymn s'The Lily of the Valley" was
being sung, the collection was taken up. 1t was
said TO be largely in excess of any previous col
lection of the revival
Mr.. Jones then came forward. He looked
badly and leaned for moment upon the stand.
He said: trust brethren that shall have your
prayers tonight and may God help you TO pray,
and in answer to your prayers l trust the bap-
tsm will come upon the preacher and the con-
attempt to talk at all tonight But never
feel weak and physically enfeebled before an
audience like this that 1 do not think
of DR. Robert Hall. that puny little invalid
who on Sabbath morning, when his great
church was filed like this hall; a carriage could
be seen with two of his deacons as they drove up
to the home of the invalid They walked into
his room, picked him up in their arms and
brought him to the carriage, put him IN and
drove 60 the church, crowded with an eager,
anxious throng. They took the invalid up in
their arms, carried him into his pulpit, and as
he read his hymns and prayed, they stood by
bis SIDE holding him up, one at each arm. After
he read HE text they would hold on to him five
or eight minutes, when directly a baptism of
power would come upon him and he would turn
round and say: brothers, you can take your
seats; God will hold me up" And he stood there
and swayed that great audience with the power
nf hA truth If Gndf for xhor
Gracious Father, hold up the preacher tonight
and give power TO Thy word. Give power to Thy
word God was very close to US here this after
noon. l felt his presence as sensibly as see
you now before my face Oh, my Father in
heaven, give US wonderful baptism of the d.
vine spirit tonight. We will read these words
as the text:
And besides this, giving all diligence add to your
faith virtue, and to virtue knowledge and TO knowl
edge temperance; and to temperance patience and
patience godiness and to godliness, brotherly
kindness: and to brotherly kindness charity For If
these things be in and abound they make you that
We shall neither be barren unruitfl in the knowl
edge of the Lord Jesus Christ Wherefore brethren,
give all diligence make your calling and election
sure For it you do these thing We shall fall.
For so entrance shall be ministered unto you
abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord
and Savior Jesus Christ
Six thousand years ago God said: LET there
be light and there was light" and this world
enjoyed its rays for thousands of years. For
thousands of years they knew not what it was,
and finally some philosopher stepped to the front
and said that physical light was the blending of
the seven primary colors which we see in the
rainbow They tell US that pure white light is
the symmetrical blending of the seven primary
colors which we see in the rainbow. Now
brother two thousand years ago Jesus
looked at his church, and He said: II
have here the light of the world"
and the church did not understand ii.
They did not know what spiritual light was in
the concrete. But the great philosopher ST.