Wichita eagle., 1888-02-22
THE REVIVAL MEETINGS.
Mr.. WILSON TELLS THE PEOPLE
SOME PLAIN FACTS
About Colleges, Corner Lots and
Pork Houses---A Synopsis
OF His Sermon.

The NJ. T. church was crowded last night
to hear the great evangelist preach. The
interest in these meetings seems TO IN
crease instead of diminish as they pro-
gress. The great throngs seem to never
get tired of hearing Mr.. Wilson preach.
There was one feature Of the meeting last
night that was remarkable: Nearly all
present seemed to he either Christians or
those who were seeking. 1T the close OF
Mr.. Wilson's lecture he called for all who
were converted to rise to their feet. y
very large majority of those present arose.
He then called for all who wanted saliva
ton to rise, when nearly the entire con-
gregation were on their feet. The eyangel-
iSt told the church members that he did
not want the members to sing all the
time, but to work. They seemed
to think that it was about the proper
thing to do, and aS result
the altar was crowded with repentant sin
ners. Mr. Wilson gave notice that the
meetings would only last a few days longer
and urged those present not to let this OPP
portunity pass.
In his lecture Mr. Wilson endeavored TO
show that man needed religion in order TO
be happy. He said: 'All of the philoSo-
pliers have taught that man ought To be
virtuous to be happy II is the experience
of mankind that there is no happiness in a
sinful life You will say know virtue is
taught in the Bible, but then | can not
line up to the teaching of the Bible. Paul
said he was not ashamed of the gospel of
Jesus Christ, for it is the power of God
unto salvation. One reason thot Jesus is
not popular is because he taught that we
must hate sin. He has taught us that
the only way to obtain eternal life is to
hate sin. Oh, you say how can | give up all
the pleasures of this world for Jesus
You say | want TO do this and | want to do
fhar That nj RI
will take YOU down to hell God says to
you, stop, turn around, do not go that way
4 mother sees her child going into danger
where it will get killed and she cries for it
to come back, turn around and come back.
She does this because she loves the child
She will not take pleasure in its death
God calls for you to turn around and come
to him because he loves you. He does not
not take pleasure in your being lost. But
you will not heed. You go on to everlast-
ing damnation.
A little boy once said to his father:
Father, what is a cross? | heard the
preacher talking about the cross" The
father told the child to so ont
and get two sticks, a long stick
and shorter stick Then he
told him to lay the short stick across the
long stick Then he said, now that is
cross, the long stick is Gods will and the
short stick is your will You make your
will the long stick Your will is wrong
and Gods will if right. 1t is a very great
mistake to suppose that you can have
happiness by having your own will. You
have seen children when their parents
wanted them to do something lie down
and scream and kick. Thae is self will,
that is not righteousness. i have seen great
big holy church members do that very
thing. Great big babies want to be fed
with spoon Qaugeter). Yes you are GO
ing to have your own way and let God fol-
low after like a poodle dog. Oh yes it is
hard for you self willed people to have
to submit to Gods will, but that is the
Only way you can get salvation. If you
can not submit TO Gods will you will on
the wrong side, on self-will side, on the
DEVILS side. You can not go to heaven III
your present condition. If you we're to do
that you would make trouble and want to
beat somebody out of his corner lot. God
says if you do not repent you will be lost.
But you will say, why, we people here in
Wichita are pretty good people; we are
charitable, and we give to the poor, and
we give our money to build great colleges
and help along education and morality,
and build great big pork houses.
daughter. The Lord help you. You
give all these things to boom corner
lots, and you give just as much
for the one as the other, and for the same
reason. And then you keep your stores
open on Sunday. These drug stores you
say have to keep open on Sunday TO sell
medicines What kind of medicines? Oh,
perfumery, and cigars and that medicine
they go in the back room after and come
ont and eat cloves. Laughter.l l have
been easy on you people. / wish some one
would come here and preach the full gos-
pei to you and not care a bit for your
feelings. Laughter Oh. yes, this way
of getting re ligion is humiliating to you
Very important You are. Own some corner
lots and river diamonds. You don't want
to kneel down among farmers boys and
servant girls. God have mercy on you
Yon will be lost. Cod cannot change his
plan of salvation to suit you. 1t Is
my business to obey God, and
that is what / am going to do. II Jesus
had said: Come and follow me and be
officers in the church and run it to suit
yourself, He would have bad more fol-
lowers But he said Leave father
and mothor, everything, and fol
low me-" The evangelist spoke with
great force and urged his hearers to give
up all for Jesus. He told several anec-
dotes to illustrate how the wills of men are
opposed and showed the utter hopelessness
of ever obtaining salvation without a
change of heart.