The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-02-10
TELLING EXPERIENCES.
Evangelist Mills Gathers a
Harvest Of Repentant
Sinners.
PROGRESS OF THE GREAT REVIVAL
Three Great Meetings Yesterday
and a Union Meeting Besides---
Mr. Mills Talk to Young
People.

me scene which greeted Evangelist
Mills yesterday morning when he steppec
upon the platform of the Tabernacle was
one to inspire a less gifted man than he
Before him, filing every seat in the vast
auditorium, sitting on chairs in the aisles
and occupying almost every inch of stand
ing room available. We're bright-faced
children and young people Of both sexes,
while behind him, extending almost to
the ceiling, was tier after tier of young
ladies VINO sang most sweetly during the
service.
The Rev. Mr. Houston, the blind evan
gelist, sat with Mills upon the platform
and made the opening prayei.
The services began with the hymn,
Wonderful Words of Life and then
the congregation arose and sang the dox-
ology. Mr.. Mills solemnly pronounced
the words beginning ''The Lord be with
thee and cause His face to shine upon
rnee, and the choir sang sHoly, Hoiy.''
The third chapter of Proverbs was read
by Mr.. Mills and Mr.. Houston led in
prayer.
The Rev. Mr.. Scudder announced that
a collection would be taken up. He also
said that the collection was not for the
Tabernacle, neither was it for Mr. Mills
or Mr.. Greenwood. Those two gentle
men came to Jersey City with the spirit
oil God i'll their hearts and asked nothing.
IT, at the end of their three weeks work,
anyone felt moved to give them nything
they could then do SO. The collection
was TO pay for printing, building plat
FERNS, posting bill etc.
MR. MILLS ASSISTANT
Mr.. Mills spoke of the Rev. Chapman,
who is to help him in the services during
the coming two weeks. Mr.. Chapman,
he said, was an old college friend of his.
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hearing Mr.. Chapman. the people prefer
red him to Mr.. Mills.
Mr.. Mills then preached an excellent
sermon on the text Remember now thy
Creator in the days of thyyyouth," He
preached the same sermon in the after
noon in the North Baptist Church
AT the close of his discourse Mr. Mills
asked those who had already found Christ
to bow their heads III silent prayer that
the spirit might move others TO come to
Him; at the same time he extended an in
vitation to those who wished to become
Christians to rise. Heads were bowed
all over the room. and a deep silence fell
npon the place. broken only by the soft,
mellow voice of the evangelist, as his
there's another" "Another,n 'StilI
another" announced each repentant as he
arose.
A meeting for those that had arisen
was held in the room at the rear of the
vice. The room was uncomfOrtably filled
when Mr. Mills said that he would give
those who have long been Christians
three minutes-~not three minutes each
but about four seconds each-to tell when
they found Christ, for the benefit Of those
who were desirous of finding Him.
AROOM FULL OF REPENTANTs.
The first to respond was the Rev. Mr..
Scudder, who said he was converted when
he was fourteen years old. Mr..
Houston said he was nineteen years
old when he found God. It was
not amid the influences of a re-
vival, but out in the open field when
no one was near him but God. Brother
Allen said he was seeking the Lord at the
her hand on his shoulder and asked him
to consider what he was doing. That act
caused him to pause in his seeking, and
he was twenty-five years of age before he
found the Lord.
A number of persons who were convert
ed in their youth testified to the fact, and
then a hymn was sung, with the chorus:-
Trust and obey,
For there's no other way
To be happy in Jesus
But to trust and obey
Mr.. Mills said that every one who
wished to seek the Lord must say those
words from his heart. They were good
words to know, he said, and had the CON
gregation repeat them twice in concert.
Then he asked those who would do just
what the chorus said to say II will"
From all parts of the room came perfect
fusilade of II Wills
1t began with one or two at short inter-
walls, tnen ran along rapidly until ten or
q dozen were talking at once and finally
died away with intervals of several sec
onds between each declaration. This
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