The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-02-12

hearts under three heads, but it included
a varied assortment. He told of an old
sailor who, having been asked to give his
heart to the Lord, exclaiir ed:-"Heartl
why | have not got any. II you were to
deive away down to where my heart
ought to be, all you would find there
would be the image OF q whalei"
He said that if the heart did not nc
knowledge that there was a God, it was
wholly wrong. Nobody with a head re-
fused to acknowledge that there was a
God except atheists and they didn't have
any heads. He said that science had I'M
dertaken to disproye the existence of a
God, but had finally compromised on q
refusal to affirm the existence OF one.
The evangelist said that the hardest
thing for an anreclaimed man to under
stand was the necessity he was under 10
be born again. The old puzzle of Nicodt-
mus bothered many men. He Old OF a
man to whom he was trying to explain
that to live with a heart accepting the
existence of a Savior vas his natural
condition. Suddenly the man began to
see it and Indicated his perception by this
homely simile:-"Oh. yes. | seel it is as
natural as 1t is for. a founder to live in
the mud at the bottom of a river, or q
trout To live in a crystal stream"
The Evangelist, in classifying his
hearts said that the first was a stubborn
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sistent in its opposition.
LESSONS IN FORGIVENESS.
He told ME of two women whom he had
striyen with to embrace religion. One
wanted to SO badly, but she didn't know
how. He probed her for her reason for
holding out against his opportunities.
Then he asked her if she had any hard
feelings against any one which she had
not disclosed to him.
She laid she had. He asked her to for
give. h said she couldn't as h offend
ing party was at a distance. He told her
to write and tender her forgiveness. She
said she would.
"And," the evangelist said, 81 have
seen that woman many a time in my
audiences with a face radiant with JOY"
The other was a woman to whom he
had been introduced while travelling.
Her case was precisely like the first
weman's. After questioning her and
getting no satisfactory answer he asked
her as a last resort the same question he
had asked her predecessor. She answered
that she had an unforgiving feeling to-
wards someone. He asked her to forgive.
The penitent answered with sharp asper-
ity, mo, sir" The preacher SO ~truthfully
mimIcked the sharp accent of a woman
who wanted to pull another woman's
hair that the audience laughed outright.
"And / have seen that woman he
said, lin my audiences with her deep,
doubtful eyes, and I could see that way
down in through depths there vas a liv-
ing hell.n
The evangelist said that the other two
hearts were the wavering heart and the
pr-ocrastinating heart, and he depicted
the dangers of a procrastinating heart by
an allegory.
At the end he invited those who felt
partially moved to adjourn to the lecture
room in the basement, and while two
thirds of the audience were receiving the
benediction the other third filed out of
the chur CHI and disappeared down a pair
of stairs that were very much like the
stairs that lead under the stage of q thea
tire. And her the main performance was
over.