The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-02-24
ENDING THE REVIVAL.
Six Overflow Meetings Yes
terday to Make Room
for Worshippers.


the past few weeks, is said to be unprece-
dented in the religious annals of this
city. Night after night two OF the largest
churches have been thronged with enthu-
siastic audiences, and other churches
have been crowded at the afternoon SER
vices No less than six overdowing meet
ings were held in various downtown
churches yesterday. Mr.. Mills addressed
1900 people yesterday morning at the
North Baptist Church, and another inn
mense meeting in the afternoon at the
Free Reformed Church. In the evening
the Park Reformed Church woul dnot-
begin to accommodate the vast mum bers
that fiocked to listen to the last regular
sermon of the series by this eloquent and
phenomenally successful young evan
geiist.
GREAT THRoNG OF CONVERTS.
In the after-meeting, held in the base
ment, the crowd was so great that Mr..
Mills was forced to invite the audience
back into the main auditorium Here q
most successful after-meeting was held.
Scores stood up and announced their in
tentions to begin new life in addition to
the scores who testified that they had
already taken up the cross under the in
huence of these services, and hfty-three
signed cards of promise.
Mr.. Mills was agreeably surprised upon
counting up the number of converts since
the meetings began. when asked for the
results by a JERSEY CITY NEWS reporter
at the conclusion of last nights service,
to find that The number reached ,553
closely calculated.
"There are doubtless many he said,
sin addition to these, who have signed no
cards.
Tonight's services will also swell the
number.
Nor was Mr.. Chapman less sought
afaer at yesterdays services than Mr..
Mills He spoke to large audiences at St.
Paul's M. E. Church in the morning, at
the Scotch Presbyterian Church in the
afternoon, and at night the Tabernacle,
it's auditorium, isles, gallery and i'm
mense stage was packed with admirers of
this earnest and effective h u of Evan
gelist Mills Mr.. Smith le. ,he singing
at the Tabernacle, Mr.. Greenwood at the
Park Reformed.
TWO SERMONS FROM ONE TEXT.
Both Mr.. Mills and Mr.. Chapman chose
the same text for last evenings dis
courses. They related the story told in the
first chapter of Deuteronomy concerning
the Children of Israel's near approach TO
the promised land, and their subsequent
wanderings tor forty years in the wilder
ness, as q result OF disobedience and lack
of faith in Gods promises
With their fate did both compare the
possible future of those who had. night
after night, listened to the sermons dur
ing the pending revival and yet still re-
fused to listen to the wooings of the Holy
Spirit. They had been brought near to
God, on the very borders of the promised
land. Were they still unwilling to take
God at His word
Each made an effort to impress upon
the minds OF the audience the terrors to
the sad torturingst thought, And was
once SO near the Kingpom OF God that one
step coul0 have taken me over.
HERoD NEAR CONVERSION.
MIR. Chapman declared that the human
heart WAS either constantly hardening or
constantly softeninG.
.sThe same sum- he said; 'that shines
upon the mud and hardens it, shines also
upon the ice and melts it. Herod would
have done anything for John while listen
ing to his preaching, and yet the influence
of sin hardened his heart and he sent q
man to Johns cell and ordered Johns
head brought to him iD charger. Plate
was almost persuaded to be a Christian
when he first listened to the Saviour. He
was prejudiced in His favor. Yet he
yielded to the clamoring of the multitude
that wanted to cruelty the Lord, saying,
as subterfuge, Take Him away, I've
washed my hands of the whole transac-
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had reached Kaoesh-barnea, but he
lacked the courage of his convictions to
90 over and take possession of the fruitful
land God had promised. What a sad
thought must it be TO him in eternity.
Judas, the man who sold his Lord. still
hears the clinking of the thirty pieces OF
silver. No doubt his thoughts when
moving with Christ amid the scenes of
earth were:-I wish / were a true fol-
lower of Christ Even tonight in the
lost world he remembers such words,
Were in your place. continued Mr..
Chapman, looking earnestly into the
faces about him, ''you who have sat and
listened to the sermons preached from
this pulpit and others and yet have not
given your hearts to God, to sit alone
with my memory would be torture
enough for me. / pity such a person. If
someone would come to me for the pur-
pose OF singing or praying would feel
pray We carry into the next world the
memory of it also very near to God, yet
lost
A STORY FROM MOODY.
''Mr. Moody tells of man who, with
his wife and two children, arose one
night after listening, to one Of his SER
mons in Chicago, and asked for prayers.
The man left. Mr.. Moody looked for him
the next night. The man did not come
again. Mr.. Moody hunted him up, and
found him sick, but convalescing. Wait
till get we'll he said to the evangelist,
who approached him upon the subject of
his souls welfare, while sitting upon his
piazza The man had a relapse. Toward
the last his wife was passing through the
room where he lay dying, What can
do for your she asked, seeing painful
look sweep over his countenance
Nothing he replied. The harvest is
past, the summer is ended, and Pm not
saved
Mr.. Moody paid him another visit
No hope, said the dying man. That
evening as the sun was going down he
turned his face away from his wife. The
harvest is past. the summer is ended. and
! ---' He died with these words upon
his lips unfinished. They wrapped him
in Christless shroud, put him into u
Christless coffin and lowered him into a
Christless grave. Oh, my friends. pray
you do not let this fate befall you DO
not, like Agrippa, put the question off
till a more convenient season. know
there are some students inclined to think
his remarks to Paul, Almost thou per-
suadest me to be a Christian, were ironi-
cal. l do not believe 1t. He was in
earnest First he trembled, then he
manifested spirit of Indifference.
Both Mr.. Chapman and Mr.. Mills, In
their sermons last night, related an in
stance in connection with the sinking of
the Royal Charter Off Queenstown after
her trip around the world had been al
most completed She had sailed from
Liverpool On her homeward journey
she had reached Queenstown and the
friends Of those on board had been tele-