Los Angeles herald., 1892-05-14
STILL SAVING SOULS.
Rev. Mills Continues His Har-
vest.
Features of the Meeting Held Last
Evening.
who is on the Lords Side?-Parts of Mr.
MilIs's Sermon-NumerOus Re
sponses to His APP
peals.

There were fully $500 people at the
Mills meeting last night and the aerv-
ices were characterized by the same
q earnestness manifested at the previous
meetings. The services were opened
with devotional exercises, and Mr.
Greenwood then sang a lew hymn,
Drifting Away From God, after which
Mr.. Mills came forward and announced
his text as Exodus, xxxii, 20: "Who is
on the Lords side?" The custom oi
asking people who is on Gods side is
not modern innovation. Moses asked
this question, John the Baptist
asked it, and Jesus Christ asked
it. Moses, when he came from
communing with God in the mountain,
asked who was on Gods side. No man
is on Gods side until he begins to put
the teachings of the Bible into practice
in his daily life. If there be any revela-
tion of God this is one, and it will pay
you to try it. As Walter Scott said, the
only argument against the Bible is bad
life. Ii we commence to do what God
says, then we will get his light in our
heart. There is something radically
wrong in the man who does not ac-
knowledge that Jesus Christ is the son
of God. The Bible is utterly worthless,
unless it is a supernatural revelation,
and the man who believes that it has q
supernatural origin must also believe
that Jesus Christ is the son of God.
There is no such thing as law unless
there is law giver; there is no such
thing as moral LAW, unless there is q
God back of it. There is no reason to-
night why should not take you by the
throat and crush the life out of you and
take your property unless there is q God
above us. One particle of truth that you
have and do not practice, will curse you
for all eternity.
Suppose man is willing to prac-
tice the right, where is he going to get
it? From his fellow man? 1 believe
there are many men, who are good, but
there is only one man who was
without sin and that ia Jesus
Christ, that great and serene
man OF whom even Robert Ingersoll said
Ipay the homage of my tears 1t is not
hard to fulfill our duty toward people
whom we love, and if we love God our
duty toward him should be no burden.
The only secret of living or loving or be-
ing is to know Christ. The man is on
Gods side who recognizes Gods church.
l read line in the paper that Thomas
Paine said that in five years not another
Bible would be printed. That was some
years ago. What a prophet! You
would not want to live in community
without a church of Jesus Christ. They
started town in Minnesota without a
home of God. They hanged Jesus
Christ in efigy. The Indians descended
on it, the place was visited by fire,
a cyclone struck it, and finally
they sent to the American board of
missions for missionary. Real estate
is not worth having in a town where
there is not church. You sometimes
see in newspaper that another Sunday
school superintendent who ia cashier OF
a bank has gone astray. Do you know
why it is always the Sunday school su-
perintendent who goes astray? Well,
it is because they are the only men who
can be trusted.
''That man is on Gods side who prac-
tically acknowledges Gods spirit. A
man may not understand the Bible or
theology, but if he will he can respond
to the touch of Gods spirit. That ia all
that is necessary. am on the Lords
side because it is the manly, the noble,
the reasonable side. Every reason in
the mind of every reasonable, upright
man is q reason to be on Gods side, the
side of the helpful, noble, righteous
people of God"
At the close of Mr.. Mills's remarks q
revival and experience meeting was
held, and fully 200 souls were won to
Christ. 8tFE