The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-17
THE DAY MEETINGS.

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Members Who Don't Suit Him.
| Meridian-street Church was we'll filled yester-
day morning with people who had assembled to
! hear Evangelist Jones, the audience being com
posed largely of ladies' The hymns sung pre-
liminary to the sermon were BLESSED be the tie
that binds" "Stand up for Jesus" 'Come ye
that love the Lord" and Marching on to
| Zion" Following the singing of 1--WE
| found a friend in Jesus by Mr.. Ex-
| cell, Rev. Mcconnell offered prayer. The
convention of prison chaplains adjourned to at
tend the service, and the members were given
seats in front at the service The words of Mr..
| Jones evidently shocked some of the reverend
gentlemen, although some of them could not re
strain themselves from laughing at what he said.
1 The text of Mr. Joness sermon was from the
second chapter of Revelations:
know thy works. and thy labor and thy patience,
and how thou canst not bear them which are evil
Nevertheless have somewhat against thee,
because thou hast left thy first love.
! He said: when read this text 1 realize
that it is the great Am, the great God over ALL
my Maker, who shall finally be my judge. The
mere reading of this ought to bring us all to our
| feet and then to our knees in earnest prayer.
know thy works; God knows ALL l believe
would be considered orthodox enough if / were
! to assert that God made you and me and every
| body, and surely if He made us, He knows us
| through and through. He knows me. He knows
| who my mother was, for He heard her earnest
prayer for me. He knows who my father was.
| He knows who my wife is and who my children
are, and He watches over them by day and by
| night The three great facts that confront us
are: God made me; God knows me- and God
| loves me. and with these three facts in mind,
we ought to be all God expects us to be. 1t
should be written over every pulpit in the land,
in every household, in every Office store, and in
every street, Thou, God, seeest me-
| Mr.. Davis said that the most intolerable thing
about his imprisonment was, not that he was de-
| prived of his liberty, not that he was kept away
| from his family, home and friends, but that in
every conscious moment wherever he- went,
whatever he did, the two burning eyes of the
| sentinel were upon him. AS one sentinel went
| off duty and another came on. the latter's eyes
were fixed on him before the formers were taken
off. He was forever the object at which two
| eyes were looking It was intolerable-awful
Brethren, If the eyes of those sentinels grew in
tolerable to that man, if your life is not right,
| how awful must be Gods eyes to you. Every
precious fact in this world is that He does see
| and understand everything we do. am so glad
that he is to be my judge and yours We fre-
quently misunderstood each other, and miscon-
strue motives None of us are perfect at our
best, and we only see each others faults and
mistakes; but He sees all. and knows when we are
trying to do right and obey Him. To good man
the sweetest fact in the world is that the God
who made him and knows him through and
through will be his final judge. 1t must be
sweet to know that God knows him, and will ex-
pose the hypocrisy and shams of an unfruitful
life. Nothing is hid before the eyes of Him.
Some men are doing great work aud some
small work. but l want to say that there is
nothing, however small, in the way of good con
duct too little for him to see. have thought
| many time that while the great Shepherd went
into Gods harvest fields like mighty machine
and gathered thousands of sheaves, that even
we poor workers. who gather only single head
still are working for heaven, and will get our
reward.
few days ago. as walked around ocomo-
| tive engine and admired its wonderful structure,
1 saw the engineer get down and oil all the
parts, great and small, from the same can, and
that all the parts were essential to the perfect
| whole, and said to myself, "Glory to God that
| |, whether great small, can get some grace
from Thy great storehouse. and it is indeed,
blessed privilege"
There are preachers about whom great deal
| is said and written in public and in the news
papers l don't know whether that is fortunate
or unfortunate but do know that there are a
| great many people about whom nothing is said
| in the papers in public, who, in the final
| judgment of God will be given very high
| place. There is many poor pastor. earnestly
striving to serve God and save souls, who in the
| great hereafter, shall reap his reward. great
deal is said about evangests Moody and Har-
rison and the rest; but brother, to your earnest
| faithful pastors you owe about all you have got
| pastors who are serving away for years and
years until some evangelist comes along aud
fhn nrAn hnpx xuitt thnxr h4x,a
What could l do if there were no pastors? /
couldn't get convert in twelve months. Broth
ers, if you quit I'll quit, too, for can't get
along without you. l can do nothing without
your help. Then, again, you may find a
woman who goes about doing good, caring
for the sick, helping the distressed,
going along in an earnest, humble way.
| Sister mans eye may not see you, but
Gods does. Look at these ministers here to-day
| the chaplains of prisons. They have cut loose
from all the freedom of the world to labor among
| the lost and fallen in prisons. There is no more
Christly work than this-givng up your lfes
work to save those whom society has cast out
| The most blessed fact in human history is that
those who are in prison are not in prison. that if
God makes US free. We shall be free indeed. They
imprisoned John Bunyan. but God gave him
| wings TO fly all over the world in the Pilgrims
Progress" God alone can make US free. The
| slavery in the South was something awful; slav
cry to sin is a Thousand times worse for it damns
both soul and body. Thank God, there ls polit-
ical freedom all over this country now. | don't
believe that south of Mason and Dixons line
there to-day one thousand people who would
be willing to again enslaye the negroes. / am
from Georgia, and in every county in that State
/ thank God, every civil and political right
which the white man has the colored
man also enjoys. That's the truth We are
getting so we love God down there. and when
they love Him they love everybody else. God
sees what we are doing. and He knows whether
we are doing right or wrong, and let Us, there
fore, this morning ask Him to help us to do our
duty. He knows how we are denying ourselves.
The happiest life a man ever lived in this
world is one of self-sacrifce, Happiness con-