The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-11-24
MR.. iNoLIs AT CITY HALL.
The Great English RevIvallst opens
His Week OF Revival Meetl

The first Of the revival meetings to be
held all of this week, and to be conducted
by Rev. Mr.. Inglis. the celebrated English
| reVlyalist, was held in City Hall yesterday,
at O'Clock p. N. Seldom, If ever, has there
been larger audience present. Every seat
was taken and every available space was oc-
cupied by people standing Many clergy
men were on the platform, including Rev.
Mr.. Bayley, Rev. Drs. Small. Merrill and
Whitaker, and Rev. Messrs. Whitman and
Lelacheur.
A chorus OF over 100 voices, conducted by
Mr.. Bowdoin, opened the meeting with
service of song, after which the audience
joined in singing "Come, ye that love the
Lord"
Rev. Mr.. Whitman, Of the Free street Bap-
tist church, offered prayer, and Rev. Mr.. Lee
lacheur, OF the Vaughan street church, read
part Of the fifth chapter of ST. Mark. RES
cue the Perishing" was sung by the audi
ence.
Rev. Mr.. Inglis began his discourse, tax
ing his text from the sixth verse Of the
chapter which had been read "But when
ne saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped
him."
1t is one of the hardest lessons for an un.
regenerate man TO realizs that he is lost
sinner. People lay too much stress on edu-
cation and cultivation. Education is good
thing as far as 1t goes; cultivation is grand
thing. But cultivation without Jesus Christ
will never bring man nearer to heaven.
The story was told of little boy in Man
chester. who caught glittering soap bubble
as 1t came down, blown from pipe In the
mouth of another boy. When asked to open
his hand, he at first refused, because he had
had such hard work to catch II. But on the
promise of penny he opened his hand.
"Pve got now't." he said (meaning nothing),
So, man may have the wealth of a Wander.
bilt, he may have the glittering soap bubbles
of fame and worldly desires, but without
Christ he has nothing. God says 'look."
Obeying the mandate will bring peace to
our hearts and joy to our troubled souls.
The Importance of conversion was noted.
While preaching In the North Of ireland a
young Scotch girl at one of the meetings
said she had experienced a change of heart
When asked when it occurred she made
answer "0Dly wee minute ago." So we
may have salvation now; without heaving a
sigh, without shedding tear. Now is the
accepted time. There is room in our hearts
.oi pressure, iuI ouSlneSS, IOT All OF Ine az
fairs of life. Shall we not make room for
Him. who came to save us? A ship was
sinking off the coast of Wales. The coast
guardsmen fired of rocket lines. But as fast
as the lines would fall on the vessel the
crew hastily cut them. Finally the ship
sank with all on board. save one, youth of
10 After he recovered consciousness,
through an Interpreter they discovered that
he was Greek, and that the vessel was a
Grecian vessel. Being asked why they cut
ha 90 aNraAf fhnrr hn
piled: Because we didn't know you want
ed to save US. We thought you were firing
destruction upon u.s." Those poor Greek
sailors rejected the rocket lines In their ig-
when we regret the lines of salvation. God
sent his Son and the question today is, Are
wei going to receive Him ?Will we take Him
In our hearts tOday2
Prayer was offered by Mr.. Inglis, who al
so pronounced the benedictiOn.
In the evening an immense congregation
gathered, overfowing into the corridors and
ante-rOOm. There was a service of song by
the large chorus, under the direction Of Mr..
Bowdoln. Mr. lnglts read the hymn II will
hymn composed by b. +. Bliss who was
burned to death in the Ashtabula disaster.
as the manuscript Of the hymn was found iu
his trunk. The congregation Joined in the
singing.
Rev. DR.. Small Of the First Baptist church
Rev. DR.. Whitaker Of the Chestnut street
church offered prayer.
Mr.. Inglis took his text from the 80
chapter OF Job, from which he took five
going down, mans condition, fast asleep,
Gods provision. Il have found ransom,"
Gods message and Gods warming Rich or
Door, young or old, learned or illiterate, the
greatest philosopher or the biggest fool. If
unsaved he is going to the pit. The Dit Is a
direct reference to death, and death Is one
of the results of sin. One of the greatest
mistakes man makes Is that he can sin with
impunity. But a divine principle that
does not admit OF the slightest deviation is |
that whatsoever a man s0ws that shall he al |
so reap. Instances were cited where men |
reaped the consequences of their sins even \
alter giving themselves to Christ Away /
down In the vista of time, nearly 1900 years |
ago, the Son of God left heaven for earth. |
became so poor that ne was born in a man. |
ger and buried in borrowed tomb. In order |
that the debt might be paid and sinner be |
ransomed. The bondage of sin was illustrs- |
ted In the anecd0te of the man who signed |
the pledge 36 times, the last time signing 1t |
with his own blood and breaking it within |
II hours afterward. But the grace Of God |
freed him at last, "and," said Mr.. Inglis,
speaking of the awful curse Of drunkenness, |
Il wish all the liquor was in the Atlantic |
Ocean, and every rumseller in the kingdom |
of neaven."
Mr.. Inglis offered prayer and the choir
sang 20 praise the Lord with heart and |
voice" which closed the meeting.
An after meeting was held in the Second |
Parish church.
This week there will be Bible readings
from to D. m. daily except Thursday and
Saturday at Chestnut street church. Thurs
day there will be union THANKSGIVING ser
vice at the First Baptist church. Every
evening there Will be meetings at the Second
Parish church.
the TURKEY CONTEST.