The record-union., 1892-06-15

man of ten thousand than have all the
wealth OF this Golden State.
lie thought every one who let this op-
portunlty pass would remember it here
aller-J esus OF Nazareth will have passed
by. de told about man in Chicago who
delayed. The Chicago man was so in
terested in the prospective Worlds Fair,
or some other business, that he neglected
10 JOIN the church and died in iniquity
he prolonged the last hours of the dying
mans life and had DIR. Moody administer
TO hlm, but he finally died gasping, 1.-The
harvest is passed, the summer is ended,
and am not saved !" he died a Christ
less death, was wrapped in Christless
shroud, put into a Christless coffin. buried
In Christiess grave and passed into a
ChrlStiess eternity.
IhlS, he stated, was last call and he
made a most earnest and almost fearful
appear TO the GnconVerted to stand up In
confession OF conversion
QnIte nunb ber arose in response to re-
peated solicitations, and the choir and
Mr.. Greenwood sang as seductively as
I possible. lie next made an earnest
prayer, after which the singing was re-
sumed and the request cards distributed.
As he presumed the fate OF great
many hung in the balance at this mo-
nlent, he implored none TO leave who had
any regard for morality, decency or
sacred things. Hence everybody stayed
awhile longer. The choir sang, Come,
Sinner, Come"
Alter the regular service, Mr.. Mills
said many people have an idea Sacra-
nlento IS wicked city, and the devils
stronghold, but no single influence be-
gins 10 compare with that OF the church
OF Jesus Christ.
Some thought the gospel had lost it's
hold, but he thought very differently.
10 l,-H i,na Fr-N,, Al,
clfic, from Lanada TO the Gulf Of Mexico
and saw no such spot. lie thought Colonel
Ingersoll might draw a crowd for one
night, bat that he couldn't hold one
lie thought as God had right to every
| thing on earth, people should not be
ashamed to stand up and own their relig-
ion. He touched on denominations, ard
said he cCald rarely tell ministers apart,
and that he WIS called everything bat
Mormon. Some old deacon frequently
rushed up and embraced him and saiu,
! Hail Columbia! how we Metnudists 10
swim u and then some old sister woulI
hang upon his neck and say, 80, amt
we bapiists great guns :"
MIR. Greenwood once told a strange
| brother he thought Mills was Il freSby-
terian, and the brother turnei away with
a sigh and said, 'Ah, me | s'p.se it W as
the best be could Go, but he don't look
like Zulu ~
He skipped Chinatown, but touched up
some thCaters as pernicious, and spoke
Of hand-bi.is aud posters that ought 70
be suppressed by Mayors and City
Councils.
He said ii is never light to do anything
wrong. We shouldn't even read Sunday
newspapers, and most kinds of dances,
especially round dances, are utterly per
nicIOus. No man would consent Tor one
moment that the men who frequent ball
rooms should come into their homes ana
assume the same attitude toward the
female members of TIE family that they
do for hours in the bathrooms. There is
only one way to decide about question
able acts, said he, and that is-don't do
them.
He that doubteth is damned if he
eats and all converts who had signed
the cards should Join the church, the
Sunday school, the Bible class ami prayer
meetings.
After Mr.. Mills closed, Kev. X. NJ.
Stevenson, representing the Executive
Committee, made some remarks.
Brother Greenwood made q few gra G.
ful expressions of farewell, after which
''Jesus Christ, Our Savior" was sung.
AS final close, Mr.. Mills made "a few
more remarks. He said he was converted
III the wicked town of San Francis
seventeen Years ago. lie had been ctiiei
employed in the devils business while
there, but he escaped.
He and Mr.. Greenwood go from here 10
Southern California for couple OF weeks.
Five days will be devoted to Santa Bar
bara and three to Riverside. After that
they viii assail San Francisco and bonn
bard the chief citadel of Satan. They do
not ex pect to reconstruct San Francisco
before September, and then they will re-
turn East in time for the Worlds Fair
En- route to Chicago they will stop at Salt
Lake and other places.
Everybody then marched mp and had
genial shake OF the hand OF the revival
list, while the choir sang God Be With
You"