The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-30

Thoughts on Christ's Words to the Self Right
eous Young Man.

/
eous Young Man.
| Large crowds of people were turned away
from Tomlinson Hall in the evening. The wealth
| er was beautiful. and for the first time there
was no drawback to the attendance. The upper
gallery was not thrown open, for the reason that
| it was somewhat difficult to hear from there
! and also because the occupants of that place had
| been disposed on previous evenings to be little
| boisterous The choir also larger than
usual and the music again formed an important
| feature of the EXERCISES feature, indeed,
| which in itself was worth goinR to hear. Pro-
fessor Towner brought out the full strength OF
the choir and zealously endeavored to get the
entir audience to join in, but was not SO sue
cessfui as on the previous evening The
singing was, nevertheless inspiring. Rev. DR..
/ Mcleod led in prayer and took charge of the
services until the arrival OK Mr.. Mills. He
urged more liberal response the way of
collection, and the result was a decided increase
to the fund. which is devoted to paying the ex-
peuses of the meetings. Before beginning his
sermon Mr.. Mills announced the services for
next Sunday. In the morning at 1890, instead
of union meeting. was held at Tomlinson
Hall last Sunday, there will be a service for
women only, at the Y. NJ. G. A. Hall. This
there to be communion services
in a large number of churches. Tickets will be
distributed to ladies' WHO promise TO attend. on
condition that each one of them will bring with
her lady who Is not a church member. On
Sunday evening at 7:30 there will be a service
for men only at Tomlinson Hall In the after
noon. at $50, there will be a young peoples
meeting IN Tomhnson Hall. It is for persons
between twelve and thirty years of age "We
won't let you in, said the Evangelist, "if you
not between those ages-that is. unless you
tell story about it; and if you do that III think
you need to come in bad enough to let you IN
anyhow"
Zone thing thou lackest." was the text which
the evangelist announced, it being selected
from the tenth chapter of ST Mark. ''Then
Jesus beholding him loved him and said unto
him. One thing thou iackest; go thy way, sell
whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and
thou shalt have treasures in heaven: and come,
take up the croes and follow me- These words
Mr.. Mills said. had been spoken by Christ to
young man who had told him that he OBJ
serving all the commandments and therefore
thought he was doing all that could De asked OF
him. s"Fhe thing this Young man lacked said
| the preacher, twas to surrender his will to
God. He had given up some things. but
not everything. He had not surrendered his
| inclination to the evil of avariee. The applica
ton of this verse is not so much to show that
| the young man should 60 and sell all his pos
sessions that he should go and follow Christ
He was to surrender his will ard DO what Christ
wanted him to do. You can't have your own
way and be Christian. To be Christian is to
let God have His own way. To lack surrender
ing your own will to God is to lack sef-knowl-
edge. The young man thought he had obeyed
all OF Gods commandments, but he had
not He had disobeyed the verv
first commandment, Thou shalt have other
god before me- He had another god before God.
1t was the god Of money. If he had loved his
neiehoor he wonld not have allowed him to be
in want But he didn't know his condition. and
SO. when Christ looked upon him He loved him.
He loved the goodness and the morality in him.
A knowledge of the condition of their own hearts
Is what so many men lack And what terrible
mistake that is-to leave evil seeds there, which
may not show for a time. but which, when the
favorable surroundings come will bring forth an
awful fruit of evil"
his way to the General Assembly, and stopped
at a small hotel. He asked the 1andlady if she
would not call all the inmates together and let
him conduct a prayer service She replied that
che would do so, but neglected to call girl who
employed IN the Kitchen. Il do not think
you would want her to come after you saw her."
she explained to him The minister went down
and invited the kitchen girl She an ex-
tremely repulsive looking girl and the minister
hardly wondered that the woman had not want
ed TO invite her. She consented, however. TO go
up stairs to the prayer service. At
ter the service the minister said to the
girl: II want to make bargain
some shawl if you will promise to do something
for It is very simple / want you to make
this prayer, of only four words. every day in
the week, morning and evening: Lord, show me
myself The girl did not know what it meant,
but it seemed a very simple thing thing to do,
and she promised. She made the prayer every
done mechanically, but it not long until it
set her to thinking and then she began TO
realize what kind of woman she really was.
When the minister returned, on his
way back home. she greatly troubled
in spirit, and readily consented to begin saying
another prayer which he gave her. after having
presented her with shawl for keeping her
promise. The new prayer was Lord, show
me myself" She had not repe ated this PRAYER
began to read the story of Gods love- and she
not long in discovering that God so loved
the world that He gave His OILY begottsn Son
that whosoever believeth on Him should not per-
fsh bug fa Said he
list at the conclusion of this story: "Oh,
sinner. begin praying. Lord, snow myself
If you are moral, don't fatter yourself that God
is going to judge you by the standard you have
set up yourself. He will Judge you by His own
standard, according to the opportunities you
have had. How much morality will it take to
save yon2 Where are you going 20 draw the
line over which you must step 10 order to be
safel
through this country preaching the doctrine OF
a new religion which TO take the place of
Christianity. This man was very eloquent. and
his learning was almost marvellous. In his ad-
dresses throughout this country he gave out
line of history of all the religions that had
been in the world. Those religions which had
existed before Christ he spoke of as the dawning
of the light from which Christianity came
the bright morning Then he compared
the religion which he represented being TO
Christianity what the blaze OF the MONDAY
to the morning. All men needed to do, he
SAID. was to bow his feet. and they would be
saved. Yet no one offered to follow him il this
country. because those who knew God knew
that there could be greater revelation. No
MONDAY could be brighter than the MONDAY of
their Christ He had left in their hearts no
yearning that could not be satisfied.
The wisest men who had ever lived aud were
not Christians, had never had that which could
satisfy the warnings of their souls, while the
simplest followers OF Jesus Christ had always
had more joy in their hearts than they could
hold. Read any Of the great philosophers whose
teachings reject Jesus Christ and You
would find practical expression of
discomfort Take Hume or Voltaire
The latter once wrote ST wish had never hem
born" Or, take Tngersoll-'I have neve read
Ingersol." said the preacher, because expect
ed TO find anything worthy in what he said, but
merely IN order that might rot misrepresent
him"-and he bad said, II do not pretend to
know what the truth s.p No enc knew who did
not know Jesus Christ personally.
The evangelist described the death of band
of Christian girls who burned in the great
ha,rt., mill IL snid -