Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-02-09
THE REVIVAL MEETINGS.
INTEREST INCREASNG-THE Pa
YILION MEETING.

The Children's Signing
the RolI-Morning Consultation
and Prayer Meetings.
There is story sweet to hear
love to tell it, too;
It fills my heart with hope and cheer,
lis old, yet ever new.
lis old-yet ever new
It's old-yet ever new
! know, feel tbs true;
Tis old-yet ever new
They tell me God the Son came down
From His bright throne to die,
That might wear starry crown
And dwell with Him on high
They say Re bore the Cross for me,
And suffered in my place,
That might always happy be,
And ransomed by Ills grace.
o, wondrous love, so great, SO vast
So bOundless and so free
Low at Thy feet my all cast
l covet only Thee.
Was the opening hymn of the revival serv-
ices led by Mr.. Hammond last evening at
the old Pavilion. The audience assembled
was much larger than those of the two pre-
ceding evenings, and listened more atten-
lively still to the speakers remarks and
manifested deeper interest. The choir, as
sisted by piano, organ and cornet, and re-
inforced by several good male voices, was
a marked improvement, and sang with
spirit and fervor and excellent taste The
room was warm, being comfortably heated
htrt he lornra pfAx
from draughts SO common in large halls.
Previous to the regular meeting the choir
sang stirring hymns, and Rev. Mr.. Needham
offered a fervent prayer for the success of
the meeting, and those who had come out
and found salvation. Mr.. Needham made
the ann ouncements for to-day as fol-
lows: At $50 o'clock this morn
ing a praise and consultation service
will be held at the Ninth-street
Baptist Church. These meetings are
of unusual interest and those who have
attended say they cannot afford to miss
them. The children meetings are held at
hali-past o'clock in the afternoon. To-
day 5 will be held in the Calvary Baptist
Church, on l street, between Twelfth and
Thirteenth. They are, he said, great sue
cess, and still greater success he predicted
Mr.. Hammond, he said, were urgent that
all the children that can possibly come will
be sent to these meetings, and that parents
who can will come with their children also
Rev. Mr.. Filben then addressed the meet
ing, saying: Tomorrow we intend to
bill the town with printed matter concern
ing the revival, that those who have not
yet come out may read and become con-
WINGED of the necessity of attending this
revival. | hope that those who read the
bills, and have no further use for them
will pass them to their friends and neigh
bors that all may have chance of know
ing of Brother Hammond's presence in
this city. We wish to thank the press of
| the city for the generous and full reports
| that have been given of our meetings, and
hope that they will assist us in the future
as well as they have done in the past"
Mr.. Hammond then took his text for the
evenings discourse from Job xxi, 81, %:
"Acquaint now thvself with Him and be
at peace, thereby good shall come unto
| thee. Receive, | pray thee, the law from
His mouth and lay up his words in thine
heart He preached with great earnest
ness. His method is simple, forcible and
| attractive to the listener. Perhaps the
greatest strength of the preacher is in his
anecdotal illustration of every point he
makes, and nearly all the stories are drawn
from his personal experiences and observa-
| tions in various parts of the world.
Referring to the text, he said the ques-
| ton was what to do to become acquainted
with God; why it should be done and when
| and where? We know about God, bat do
| we know Him? Do we know His law, are
we acquainted with the requirements by
| which man can be admitted to His
kingdom? He answered the question
by illustration, citing the case of a
man taking passage to France when it was
| under Napoleon Ill, without being pro-
vided with a passport. He was turned
back. If he had been stopped by friend
| in his hurry to catch the boat, he would
have been angered but if told of the law
of the ruler of France, he would have been
grateful to whoever prevented him making
| a blunder and enabled him to get the pass
port, and thus avoid being turned back
Have you passport to Heaven? We tell
| you of the law; we acquaint you with il ;
| should You not avail of it? There is a vast
difference between knowing about God and
knowing God. In illustration, he told of a
celebrated Scotch divine who preached of
God for thirty years and then suddenly
came to know God through Christ and
| who admitted that all those years he had
not known God. After that his elouuence
| became persuasive power TO lead men to
| Christ. The command is acquaint thyself
with him" How shall we do it? Gods
promises are always commensurate with
his commands. That is, he never gives US
something TO do without comforting the
ability to do it. Now we know the law, and
the thing to do is to yield 10 it; to seek and
| to find peace. Three minutes on your
knees in prayer, asking Jesus to take you,
| to reveal Himself TO you, will give you wise
/ knowledge of God and acquaint YOU with
| Him more than lifetime of preaching by
all the ministers in the world" Give up
your heart to Christ, for you must expert
| ence q change of heart. Christ told Nico-
| demus, You must be born again" He
| couldn't understand it. but it is true, or we
| must have new hearts, newborn hearts.
changed hearts. The way is clear; the
law You know; will you avail of it? Mr..
! Hammond illustrated, by graphically
| told tale of fireman with fire-escape 60
| ing up into a building, the chief egress
| from which was cut OFT by fire below.
| He tried to draw busy man in the upper
story to look at the fire escape, but he was
| Iepulsed; told he was too busy and all that,
and finally the rescuer was gruffly ordered
| to go about his business. Then the fire
man told him that he must come, that be-
low them the building was being eaten out
by flames, and there was no hope of getting
out but by that fire-escape. How gladly
did the endangered man then avail of it to
escape destruction. So the exhortation ran
on, with text and exhortation and anec-
dote and pleading not to delay, but to come
now and know God and be at peace
In conclusion the evangelist kue't, and
the people followed him, sentence by SEN
tence, in fervent beseeching prayer to
God to help them to receive the law, and
lay it up in the heart and do the will OF
God, and trust to His promise to sustain
and succor. Then followed the social or
inquiry meeting. The ministers and num-
bers of Christian men and women went
among the people, all protesting Christians
standing for few moments, and besought
those who did not rise to come out and de-
clare for Christ. All the time The
singers were filling the hall with
the melody of spirited hymns of praise
There were a number of people visibly
affected; not few who gladly received the
workers and asked their prayers. There
were others who listened and were anxi.
Gus, but hesitating, and in not few eyes
tears gathered, and anxiety was manifest
by heaving breasts and bowed heads while
the earnest pleaders besought them to pray
and seek for light. While this went on,
and the singing continued, the met ting