The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-03-04
Mr.. MILLS TO YOUNG MEN.
BERGEN B1PTIST CHURCH FILLED
ATLAST NIGHTS LECTURE.

Ante-Lenten Service in Trinity Church
Hoboken. Observation-Disclosures from Other
Churches All Over the Country.
Standing room only was left last
night to late corners to the love feast
at Bergen Baptist Church. Evangel
ist Mills was even more in earnest and
impressive than usual. His address
was exclusively devoted to the young
men in the congregation, and they
listened with close attention to his re
marks. Mr.. Mills having announced
last week that his sermon last evening
was to be to men only, no women We're
present.
A choir of one hundred male voices
from other churches for the occasion
were on the platform, and sang frst
Rock of Ages This was followed
by a scriptural lesson from Ii. Samuel.
Mr.. Greenwood, the tenor soloist, then
sang, Where is My Boy Tonight
A prayer was then said, and Mr..
Mills announced his text, which was,
s'Is a Young Man Safer After q talk
of q few minutes Mr.. Mills requested
that any one that wished to leave the
church would do it then, and not
later, but added that he would not
keep them very long. He then expa-
tiated ON the case of the descent of the
downward path, and how much more
difficult it is after each lapse to recover
righteousness. :.
He told his hearers that DR.. Jekyll
and Mr.. Hyde was OF the most
powerful allegories that he ever read,
DR.. JeSyll having the inclination to
take the position and transfer himself
to the Hyde at intervals shorter and
shorter each time. He also found it
on each occasion more difficult to re-
turn to his respectable character,
until at the end, three times the
amount was necessary OF the potion, as
he was continually lapsing into Hyde.
Mr.. Mills then talked of skeptical
young men, telling his hearers that he
had never heard of a happy agnostic
in his life; that in reading the writings
of the prominent infidels, he could
always find a confession to that effect
after a few pages. Even Voltaire, with
his great intelligence, was forced
finally to wish that he had never been
born.
The next illusions were to the young
men who, without being Christians,
were not skeptics. He related a tale of
a signalazman who, while walking, dis
covered a broken piece of track. He
fell, his lantern going out. The train
was coming fast. Not knowing what
to do, and being completely stupefied,
as the train came laundering by, he
shrieked and dashed his lantern against
the pilot house. The man at the en-
CINE at once suspecting something
wrong, stopped his train and pre-
vented the accident.
Children, he said, are frightened as
the ice cracks around them, but among
the men here the ice is cracking and
there is danger, danger, danger, and
no man is safe until he has given his
soul to Jesus Christ.
The hymn, "Why do you Wait,
Dear Brother was then sung, and a
prayer closed the young mems meet
ing.
A Lecturer from the Garden of Eden.
An interesting lecture on Mesopota-
mia, its climate, people and customs,
was delivered in st. Paul's Church,
Third street, last evening, by Bedross
Krikorian, anative Of the country. Mr..
Krikorian, appeared in the costume
worn by his countrymen-a long robe
of red and white striped cloth and a
Turkish fez upon his head. He has
been in this country nearly two years,
and is studying for the ministry at
Drew Seminary. When he graduates
he will return to his W land to
preach. He says that he believes the
Garden of Eden to have been in Meso-
potania. He described the state of the
country in the time of Abraham, who
was also a native Of the country.
The county is now governed by Ma
homedans, and the Christians do not
have much show. AT the close he told
how hard a time the Christians have,
but the cause is steadily gaining
ground. He described the condition
Of the women as something lower than
that of the animals, but their condi-
ton is becoming better from day to
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