Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-02-10
THE REVIVAL.
Interest Among the Children-The Meet
ing Last Night.

Interest Among the Children-The Meet
ing Last Night.
A special feature of the Union revival
meetings is the morning prayer and in
quiry meeting at $50 o'clock at the Ninth
street Baptist Church. At this hour daily
the lecture-room, where these meetings are
held for this week, is filled to overlooking
those who desire to experience change OF
heart. Mr.. Hammond yesterday took &C.
casion to note the great number present for
! morning hour. 1t is made meeting for
| reports of the work of the day previous,
| and for prayer for the services OF the day.
Mr.. Merrill, reporting for the down town
Mission, Second and X streets, where
services are held for short time early each
evening, gave brief sketch Of the CONVEX
sion of young sailor, native of Switzer-
land only five years from his native cour-
try, and said ; There is many sailor
who is extremely happy when ashore,
but never was there one more happy than
this man, who lis now rejoicing in his
| new-found hope. Help was offered him,
but he manfully refused it. Offers
to secure work for him were protfered,
but he said, No! | am well and strong,
the Lord gave me work to-day and / earned
two dollars; | am willing to trust him for
tomorrow and every day" He added
the saloon has had the last dollar it will
ever get from me"
Many of the ministers ard others re-
ported increased interest in those attend
ing the evening meetings and also many
conversions. The interest, they say, may
not be so manifest physically, but il is a
deep, strong under current and is breaking
up here and there through the crust OF in
difference that seems to have frozen in the
sensibility of Sacramento.
The children's meeting yesterday, at the
Calvary Baptist Church on | street, near
Twelfth, was the largest by far that has yet
been held, there being many hundreds pres
ent. There was the same kindly instruc-
ton and ferYent exhortation by Mr.. Ham
mond. and the same eager interest on the
part of the children. Opportunity to COW
enanI as Christians was given, and there
was large response. Over one hundred
children, up to this time, have professed
conversion in this way. The meeting OF
the children will be held in the Congrega-
hOnal Church on Sixth street, between |
and J, at $50 P. NJ, to-day.
LAST EVENINGS MEETING.
The seating capacity of the old pavilion
was nearly filled by the large audience that
assembled to hear Mr.. Hammond's fourth
discourse last evening. The audience,
without exception, was largely composed
of ladies. Rev. Mr.. Herrick, the first
speaker of the evening, made some
remarks very pertinent to the oc-
casion, and urged upon his hearers
the necessity o. doing all the good
that they possibly could in this work
of aiding the meetings. Mr.. Hammond
selected as his text, Romans xiv, II, upon
which he dwelt with great earnestness and
evident emotion, bringing out the points he
wished most distinctly understood by re-
lating anecdotes, and he has one for every
occasion.
The text ran: For the Kingdom of God
is not meat and drink, but righteousness
and peace and Joy in the Holy Ghost" 1t
was part of letter by St. Paul, induced by
great revival that created much debate
among certain Romans and he wrote as he
did defining the Kingdom of God" 1t is,
he told them, righteousness from which
flows Joy and peace; not outward appear
ances, meat and drink, but righteousness.
Religion is derived from parts of speech
meaning to bind to. If men do not tie up
somewhere they would be like planets fly
ing wildly in space; and here Mr.. Ham
mond told of a wonderful meteor he saw
when in New Haven. He heard many
say ! don't want to be lost. I'll be a
Christian sometime, but I'm in no hurry"
Like meteor they are aimless, attracted
first one way and then the other, and they
drop into a Christian meeting or a saloon
just as it happens, and like meteor they
| will fall some day aimlessly. He told a
story of a wild young fellow who rode up
to store and asked how far it was to hell.
He was in too great hurry to wait
for an answer and spurred his
horse around a corner; the animal
fell and the young fellow was killed.
He compared a man without religion
to planet without fixed orbit, and dwelt
| upon the illustration fixing the thought
that religious conviction is a conservative
| force, steadying and mOlding character and
binding men and women to steadfast orbits
obedient TO the greatest of all truths. 1t is
well nigh impossible to present an adequate
idea of Mr.. HammOnd's earnest exhorta-
ton. In many respects it is novel, UNIQUE.
He states point, tells an anecdote, sand
witches it between two others, punctuates
II with an epigram or two, Eliminates each
story by another or collateral thought and
finally gets pack to the original and initial
point and applies the whole mixture to it
to develop its truth and force. At the con-
clusion of his address the social INQUIRY
meeting began, the choir singing spirited
songs and the exhorters moving among the
people and urging sinners to declare for
Christ.
Tonight will be a gospel temperance
meeting. The announcements call for all
men who feel that they want to quit the
| cup that inebriates to come out and learn
| how it may be done Mr. Hammond said
to a reporter: Il have nothing to say
against temperance societies. They did a
good work. say, Godspeed EN-. But l
| believe conversion alone secures completely
a man against the appetite. John B
Cough told me some years ago that he
never knew but two men thoroughly in
the grasp of alcoholic appetite who, getting
free, remained free, except through the say.
ing grace and help of Christ"