The record-union., 1892-06-11
EVANGELIST MILLS.
His Meetings Continue to be Well
Attended.
Some Sledge-Hammer Blows at Sin
and Sinners-Announcem
for To-day.

The revival meeting at the Pavilion last
evening was not quite so largely attended
as on Thursday, but there were probably
1000 present.
The meeting opened with the usual
number of hymns and prayer. After the
announcements for the various meetings
las given elsewhere), Mr.. Mills an
nounced his text, taking the twelfth
verse of the First Lamentation of Jere-
miah: "Is it nothing to you that you are
a sinner? p" etc.
This phrase, SIS it nothing to you,"
the evangelist carried with him through
the discourse, frequently pronouncing
the words in solemn, appealing tones.
He said there are poisons SO deadly that
single grain will kill, and sin is poison
of that kind. A man with six oats OF
rare Russian variety planted and reaped
them, until from the few seed he gar
nered 5000 bushels. Sin might be said to
increase and multiply in like manner.
There was great fire IN an insane aSy-
lum. and the lunatics when alarmed in
stead of running out by the way OF es-
cape, ran into the flames and were con-
sumed. So it is with sinners who are
not concerned about salvation-ln fact,
maniacs were wise and rational compared
with sinners. And yet some make
mock at sin.
A man once told him he was going to
heaven-that everybody was going to
heaven according to the Bible-but when
asked to turn 10 that consoling statement
he couldn't find it.
The worst thing for a diseased eye after
John /. Sullivan set-to was to have
strong glare of light cast into it, but
sore eye wasn't in it compared with
sinner when arraigned before the solemn
tribunal on the day of reckoning. y
man who was going TO priZe-tight got
on the wrong boat In his haste, and
found he was aboard a camp-meeting
barge, with all the deaconS from seven
teen parishes as gondoliers. He rushed
10 the Captain and said: 80, put me
ashore! Ill give $40 TO be ashore This
is hellp' But the man was mistaken.
The trouble was he was out Of his ele-
ment.
Lack of concern is a symptom of death
1t is stagnation. In order to get back to
life and feeling there must be something
10 arouse this placidity. When a man
became as serene and placid in uncon-
Germ as pan Of milk, nothing was more
dangerous. The only way to disturb
pan Of motionless milk is to throw live
cat into it-after aggravating the cat.
a woman was walking in her sleep on
the cornice Of a tourteen-story building
on Fourth street, Cincinnati. A man saw
her danger and sought her rescue. He
had almost reached her, when the glare
of an electric lamp struck her, and she
awoke with scream and fell-fell to the
pavement, IA feet, more or less. She
was fatally hurt. So will be the awaken
ing of the sinner who somnambulizes.
There is no need to be a sinner. You
can be made as white as snoW-if you are
in it.
The speaker interviewed some of the
lowest of the low in the slums Of New
York, worse than the rabble of any other
city. Jim Taylor and Bob Bilson were
there, and had been former friends. Bob
had prospered, and was dressed like
duke, while Jim was a vagabond and
hardly knew who he was himself, but he
recognized Bilson and said: Hello, Bobr'
Bob didn't know him in his depravity for
a long time, but finally tumbled and said:
Hello, jim! Pll be blanked!"
After discourse of fconsiderab bic length,
he said a revival was about the only time
full-grown man was ever saved. There
was no time so good. "HoW many men
in the audience would stand up who were
saved after reaching the age Of 25?" Ten
men only in the vast audience arose. He
said that meant almost no prospect for
men after attaining manhood, unless they
were moved at a revival. lie thought
some of the enthusiasm prevalent at Min
neapolis ought to be with them here.
The request cards'' were then dis
tributed, and the after-meeting was an
nounced. The request cards are printed:
Sacramento June........, 1892.
I Desire Henceforth to Live
Christian Life.
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