The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-02-14
FIFTY CONVERTS AROSE
When Evangelist Mills
Asked for Repentants
Last Night.
A SERMON OF STORIES,
Another Great ThrOng Joins in tn
Revival at the Park Church.

success which attended his efforts at the
reyiyalist services at the Park Reformed
Church last night. After his eloquent
lecture and subsequent earnest exhorta-
tion in answer to his call fully fifty stood
MP in their seats and expressed a desire
to become christians.
Every available place of vantage In the
church was occupied. On an elevated
platform a choir of over fifty voices was
located. During MI. Mills lecture the
audience seemed wrapt up in him. The
large audience was thrilled by the earnest
lfervOr of his DISCOURSE. Mr.. Mills pos
lsesses considerable personal magnetism
land manages to hold the interest or ms
hearers by an unlimited supply Oh eVery
day incidents.
After the choir had rendered "Christ
.Receiveth the Sinful MAJ" and Come,
Sinner, Gomez under the leadership OF
Mr.. Greenwood. Mr. Mills stepped upon
the platform. After he had
the services for next Sunday at the differ
emit churches, he said that the attendance
at the morning services at Hedding
Church n Second Presbyterian was
highly aattering. Prayer was offered by
the pastor, and Mr.. Mills read from Luke
x, 10 to 10.
SHALL B sAvED TONIGHT.
Mr.. Greenwood sang very effectively,
s'Shall | be Saved Tonight" Mr. Mills
then opened by saying:-The most I'M
DOIpa0G SuE20Sb]OU Ill but UlOlC 10, W my
mind, the thought of opportunity, as x
pressed in Isaiah Xix. 10: "We m in
the noonday as in the night" He related
the story of the Fig Tree as in the Bible,
in which God had cursed the tree because
it was capable of bearing good fruit, but
the fruit did not mature, and quoted
Gods words:-s'No fruit shall grow on
thee henceforth." II
$50 it is in this land,' said he; ''you
will find that wherever the grace of God
is hat nation will have peace and pros
perity and will bear good fruit. But
nation that will not adhere to Cody pre-
cepts shall not bear fruit and will bring
down Gods and curses upon it.
81 think that any man who is not a true
Christian in every sense of the word is
very ungrateful, and if he will but COM
mence with himself for any length of
time he will realize his ungratefulness.
This has a peculiar application to those
who can easily avail themselves of the
means of salvation and refuse them.
AMEAN L SKIN FLINT.
~ knew of one woman who said she
lived near enough to a church to curse
her ! knew another case. An old fell
low, fully seventy years of age, living
about three miles from a church and q
regular attendant but not q member of
the church, said to met know more
about the Bible than a good many min
listers. / have read it over and over again
There has not been a team passed here on
its way to the meeting house for the last
forty years that l have not Joined, and |
think / could teach a Bible class Well,
Ireally do believe. brethren, that this old
hypocrite was really the meanest, mar
rowest-minded old skinfllnt that | have
ever met"
The suppressed merriment occasioned
by the last story of Mr.. Mills gave place
to another feeling the next moment.
Il heard a story. brethren, about a
young mar tonight which is indeed a sad
tale. A few weeks ago this young man,
vino was the cherished hope CT g widowed
mother. left his home in a small country
town in this State to lead a career of vice
and dissipation. While plunged into the
vortex OF crime, q telegram was sent him
stating that his mother was very III, and
that if he desired to see her alive he must
make haste home. He boarded the first
train and got off at the station. He
journeyed along the road he had tripped
so merrily in childhood days. On the
road was a graveyard. While passing
the yard he noticeda newly made mound.
and with grave forebodings examined
the Inscription on the tombstone and
sank down helpless. Some paSSerS by
heard him calling .Who will tell nae now?
Who will tell me now?" in an anguished
voice."
A TOUCHING STORY.
Mr.. Mills told of the ungratefulness of
sinners in offending God. 'In a town in
Pennsylvania said he, 'there was an
old man whose wrinkled face and SCARED
hands were being ridiculed by a number
of boys one day. The leader Of the boys
who weretaunting the poor old man was
a little fellow about ten years of age.
IAN elderly person who happened to be
Spassing at the time, said, My dear boy,
don't you know that old man whom you
~are ridiculing? That is the man who
saved your life from a burning building
when you were an infant, and he still
Sbears the scars of the burns on his
Hands l can safely say that boy did not
Ebother that old man again.
NOW, my dear brethren, is not the
action of this boy a simple illustration
which we should profit by2 The act of
bthis boy was but love compared to the
Emanner in which sinners treat Jesus
FChriSt."
A STORY OF PATRIOTISM.
Mr.. Mills told O story Of a soldier who,
while dying on the battlefield, asked a
Soldier of the opposing side, who was
passing at the time, in piteous tones for
Y q glass of water to quench his dying
thirst, and after his thirst had been graft
fled, picked up his musket with a supreme
effort and shot his benefactor dead. This
is nothing but love, brethren, to the many
was in which we offend our Redeemer.
/ remember at q service like this, held
in Belvidere, N. j.. a m interrupted
the services by crying aloud, "Oh, God,
can't you save my ~husband?" several
times. After the services were over sew
eral of the ladies of the congregation APP
preached me and asked if it was not an
outrage that the woman shonld interrupt
the services in such a manner. Several
days after | was informed by these ladies
that oil the night of that woman's cry her
husband had taken his life.
IA man said to me THIS morning, Mr..
mills, I don't want to come now: there is
kroo much excitement but, brethren, re.
member delays are dangerous, and it Is
very dangerous indeed for anyone who is
not affected at this time.
.sAt a great flood in the Connemaugh
valley last summer, houses were swept
away and a number of human lives lost.
lJ7he water had risen almost as high as The
railroad bridge; a rescuing corps was
organized and formed on the bridge.
Pretty soon O human being was seen
FLOATING down the torrent. clinging to the
top Of a house. When the man neared
the bridge, the rescuers implored him to
kcatch at a rope which they had thrown
lshim, but he was afraid to let go his hold
on the ROOF. The corps sang out, Look
out for the next bridge The next bridge
Fwas reached, Il the half drowned man,
with one hand on the roof of the house,
attempted to catch a rope with his other
Ehand, but missed the rope. A cry of hor-
Tor then went up, and the crowd hol-
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