Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-02-22
THE REVIVAL SERVICES.
Last Nights Subject at the Old Pavilion
The Afternoon Praise Meeting.

Yesterday was the first day of the change
of hour of the daily prayer and praise meet
ing. This meeting has been held at $50,
but has been set for the afternoon at
o'clock, and down town, to accommodate
many who could not attend at the morning
hour. II is now held at the NJ. E. Church
South, on Seventh street, between J and K.
The change awaited to increase the attend
ance, and among those present were visit
ing ministers Rev. Mr.. Lockard, of
Dixon, and Rev. Mr.. Davis, of Los Angeles,
and several converted Chinese from the
Christian mission schools of the city. At
ter introduction by Mr.. Hammond, he said
he desired the meeting should take the
form OF praise meeting, in which each
one present should indicate " one thing to
thank God for" in connection with the
present meetings. Here followed
AN INTERESTING SERVICE.
All over the church persons rose in sue.
cession and made half-minute statements.
A woman said Il thank God for three
members of my Sunday school class who
thank God for the good that has come to
my own heart from these meetings. An
aged man said: q thank God that the city
seems to be waking up Another said
:" | thank God for the conversion of two of
my children in the meetings held by Mr..
Hammond in San Francisco thirteen years
ago." A young lady said 81 thank God
Tor the surrender to Christ OF one for whom
l have prayed Such statements as these
followed in quick succession " / thank ,
God that the young people of our Sunday
schools are giving up" =" l thank God
that last Sunday saw Christ, and mis- love
for me as l never saw it before" - / thank
God that he has given me grace and
strength to work in the inquiry meeting"
g thank God that Jesus Christ came to
save men, and that he reached me-" An
other said !" thank God that he put it
into the hearts of some of the Christian
women of the city TO work specially for the
fallen" 4 minister said: " thank God for
the meetings at the railroad shops
and on the public Streets A visiting
minister said ~ came TO the
meeting from an adjoining town to get
inspiration, and l thank God / am getting
it." A Chinaman present said g l came
from San Francisco to preach to my
countrymen +; here thank God that about
three hundred listened to the preaching on
Sunday last" The meeting kept up in this
earnest, hopeful strain for over an hour.
The meeting will be held at the same place
and hour, tomorrow and during the week.
Al IhE lLkOAD ShOFS.
At noon the meeting was addressed by
Rev. Mr.. Herrick, Rev. Mr.. Filben and Rev.
Mr Bauder, while Mr. Hammond. in an
other part of the ground addressed a crowd
on horseback. The men listen atten-
lively and keep perfect order and quiet
during the service. An increasing number
of ladies attend this service to assist in
singing. The evening open air service was
held last night under the electric lights in
front of Weinstock, Lubin e. Co.'S. A great
crowd gathered Led by the organ, the
ministers and ladies sing Mr.. Hammond
talks little while, leaves the meeting to
the ministers and mounts his horse and
gallops off to open the pavilion meeting.
Last night Rev. Mr.. Lockard, of Dixon,
and Rev. Mr.. Davis, Of Los Angeles ad-
dressed the meeting. They urged the
reasonableness Of Christianity. and invited
all to accept Jesus as a Savior. This meet
ing closes at 7:30 sharp. Many of the
crowd follow TO the pavilion.
THE PAVILION MEETING
Was opened with prayer by Rev. Mr.
Lockard, of Dixon. The announcements
for the week were made, as follows: To-
night, sermon on 1.-THE Divinity of Jesus
Christi Thursday night, sermon to law
yers, with an account of the conversion of
Hon. Thomas a. d. Fessenden Saturday
noon, grand children's rally at Old Pa
vilion Hall.
Mr.. Hammond read portions of the Dist
and 22d chapters of Revelation-John's
vision of heaven. He emphasized the
glory of heaven, specially by contrast with
earth and beautifully of the delightful ex-
perience he has had in the contrast of
chilly Denver and snow-robed New Eng
land with the oranges and lemons and
a. LII, 80 I
mento valley in February. But" said
he, this is nothing compared with the de-
hghtsome and transporting contrast be-
| tween heaven and earth that the revelator
almost bankrupts human language IN at
tempting to describe" He said his sub
ject was the
RECOGNITION OF FRIENDS
In heaven. My text is Ps. cxii, 6: The
righteous shall be held in everlasting re-
| membrance,' that is, those who have seen
themselves as unrighteous in Gods sight
and have accepted his provision OF right
eousness through Jesus Christ, these shall
| be remembered for ever and ever. 1t is
natural impulse of the human heart to de-
sire to be remembered; we see this more in
England and on the continent of Europe
than here Men there build monuments
of remembrance, such as Napoleon built
at Boulogne, but after few hundred
years they crumble. Here is promise of
| everlasting remembrance. Can YOU define
eternity, or tell how long it will take to get
to it. Time is only an inch long it is only
a mile to death, but it is a million of miles
| beyond it. Here God promises that YOU
] may be remembered that long And it is
a specially desirable kind of remembrance
| that is offered here Men are often remem-
hered in the earth in execration; this is
| remembrance in affection. Where? On
earth ? no, the best are first forgotten here,
but in Heaven, by God himself, and by
| those with whom we have been in associa-
| ton here in the earth, with whom we have
| taken sweet counsel in cur trying pilgrim
| age The Bible is full of this assurance
| As to God himself, it is said that he has
craven the very names of his saints on his
| hands, and as to Jesus Christ, who loved
us here so much as to bear so much for us,
| the buffeting and scourging in Pilates
| Hall, the knocking on the cross of Calvary
the crown of thorns, and the cruel mailing
to the tree, of him it is said, having loved
his own he loved them TO the end and
| neither life nor death, nor principalities
nor powers, nor things present, nor things
| to come, nor hight, nor depth, nor any
| other creature shall be able TO separate
| from the love of God that is in Christ
Jesus Yet men often have no love for
this in return, they love everybody but
Jesus.
| SHALL WE KNOW THE FRIENDS
4! We have known and labored with on the
earth Yes. Some one asked Sturgeon
| this question. He answered, why should
we not know themf Surely, we shall
know as much there as we do here That
is to be good time for eyangelists then
They have a hard time here, but we are
only in the workshop now; we shall get
out of it bye-and-bye, not to do nothing
forever and ever, as the old lady said, but
to sit down with Abraham and Isaac and
Jacob, with the fellow-toilers of earth,
knowing and known and to enjoy sweet
fellowship and blessed recounting of the
struggles and victories of earth. / expect
| wonderful reunions there. l have known
! multitudes of the blessed in the earth. l
shall re know them there. l was favored
with the friendship of Thomas Guthrie, of
Scotland, whom l consider the greatest
preacher of the world. l shall meet him
and know him there. This grand saint of
God seemed back to his childhood in his
death hour. He prayed:
! Now lay me down to sleep,