The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-04-12
RESULTS OF THE REVIVAL
Many Conversions and Hundreds EX-
press q Desire to Lead Better Lives.
Be Devoted to Those Who Have Been
Benefited by the Meetings.

This will be the last day of the union evan
gelistic services, one Of which is to take place
In the afternoon, at the First Presbyterian
Church, while the closing service will occur at
Tomllnson Hall tonight Saturday Mr.. Mills
begins meetings at Charlottesville and will be
there all next week The meetings in this city
have been entirely successful in point of
versions, but were not as largely attended as IL
was hoped they would be. The number OF peo-
pie who have expressed themselves having
been benefited by the meetings is between
900 and 1000. OF this number quite
q large per cent professed what is
ordinarily called conversion. Penitents who
arose and asked for the prayers of the church
were generally questioned, and then advised as
to what they should do. If their replies to the
questions were satisfactory they were asked to
sign card containing certain other inquiries,
and indicating the pastor to whose church
they desired to go, provided they were not al
ready members of church.
This afternoon meeting will be held espec-
tally for those who have made the start on
Chris tian life, aud will be conducted somewhat
differently from the meetings heretofore. Two
questions will be put TO the audience. One OF
them will be, Have you anything to be thank
ful for as a result of these meetingsf' And the
other, do you believe In revival meetings as
an advisable method of Christian work2" The
last after service was held last night as there
win be the usual exercises OF that kind after
to-nights meeting.
byrerian Church yesterday afternoon, and the
services were of unusual interest The Evan
gelist preached from the text. II will not let
Thee go except Thou bless me-" he said that
people made great mistake when they prayed
81 can not let Thee go except Thou bless me-
for that would indicate that God was holding
hao from. hast vuiuy II Tic VII
blessing merely depended on the Will OF the
person asking it, When person prayed Il
will not let Thee go except Thou bless me" and
meant It. he would receive the blessing.
At the conclusion OF the service an after
meeting was held in the lecture-room of the
church. Il was largely attended and was marked
by q deep manifestation of spirit.
There audience of 1000 people at
night IN Tomlinson Hall. The evangelist chose
his text from Luke xiv, p: And yet there is
room" He said that he sometimes felt like Mr.
Spurgeon, when the latter said: ''Other men
may preach the gospel better than /, but l am
sure that no man can preach better gospel"
Sometimes one heard it said that mans saliva
ton depended entirely on God. That was true
Then it was heard that a mans salvation de-
pended on himself; and that was also true.
From one point of view mans
salvation depended God. and another
point of view it depended on himself. In the
early days of the war; before the soldiers had
become accustomed to the noise of battle. there
were many assertions. President Lincoln,
knowing the inexperience of the men, did not
have the heart TO condemn them all to death,
and. accordingly, he issued order stating that
all those who had deserted but would return
within certain time would be given an absolute
pardon, but that all those deserters who failed
to do so would be hunted down and
executed. large number took advant-
of the proclamation, returned to the
army and made brave and efficient soldiers
Gil the close of the war. Others did not return,
but were afterwards found and brought back in
front of their comrades, where they were shot
That very accurately represented the condition
of Christ toward men. Ont of the loving kind
of His heart God offered certain conditions
10 those who had forsaken His standard The
salvation of these men depended entirely upea.
God; but it depended than whether they
would accept the conditions; If they did not
they would be condemned TO die.
There was still room in Gods kingdom for
every one-for rich and poor, educated and igno-
rant. old and young Some of the best Chris
tians in the world were rich men. 1t hard
thing for rich to enter the kingdom of
heaven, but he could do it. A man could do
more good to-day with little money than he
ever could before. Thousands of missionaries
were willing to go to foreign lands, but had not
the money to go. The evangelist mentioned
Garfield and Gladstone as examples of great in
telleetual Chris tians.