Morning journal and courier., 1892-03-17
SERMON TO A CABMAN.

led his revival services at English hall last stories Illustrating the religious truth he intended to convey, appeals to better life and acceptance of Christ, and stanzas from we'll known evangeljstic songs. Soon large number of people were gathered around the speaker and entering earnestly into the services. MT. Hammond after ex- plaining that an open air meeting was to be held repeated verse of hymn which | the people who gathered around, assisted | by several ladies, sang. Then the speaker | began. Several years ago, he said, I was holding 8 revival in hall in Canada, but l the people present were all church mem l bers; so, said, am going down on the | green and preach there tonight.
 During the day the rain fell in torrents, but at night went down and found only 8 cabman He asked me if I wanted cab | and told him why had come. 'Well," he said, Tiff you want to preach to anyone yoa will have to preach to me-" So I got into his cab and read to him from the Bible. Two years afterward I went to that city and got cabman to drive me long distance. When offered him money he said: Don't you know met You peached to me on the green two has been we'll cared for and fat. My wife and children are now we'll, happy and prosperous. I can't take your money. Your teaching me Christ was the greatest gain I have ever had"
 Why do these women come out here in the cold and sings Because they believe there is heaven to gain and he'll to shun.
 Rev. Mr. Collins and Rev. MT. Moss.nan also made brief appeals to the audience.
 Then the people went into English hall: ex-Judge Blydenburgh, who was present in the hall. Said he: heard him talking to an infdel, and knew he was converted by the way he knew how to answer the mans difficulties from his own experience. In the Presbytery of the city of Glas- gow every minister is required at least once month to go out from the city and
 preach somewhere by the roadside.
 ! Last Sunday there was little girl here who seemed continually in motion while
 was trying to talk. To-day I saw that lit l ing down her cheeks. I asked her what l was the matter. She said, 'I feel that I am 8 sinner and want to be saved" A | lady went home from my preaching in l Scotland and awakening her sister said, 'tDo you know you are lostg' The woman, 1 but half awake, thought the house was on l fire. ttNo, it is not that" said her sister, divining her thoughts, "but if you should
 lost."
 | So we are all lost. It is by the atoning work of Christ that we may be saved. We have earned the wages of sin. It is death.
 God will deprive of his presence those who
 after breaking his law do not accept of his
 grace through Christ.
 Christ has appeared. He will appear
 again, and everyone will see him, even
 those who have cursed him. Then in a
 powerful manner the speaker gave his i'm
 pressions when near the place of Christ's
 crucifxion. Is it not enough that you
 have sacrificed Christ once? If you come
 unto God through Christ's suffering and
 death and get your pardon, as l have
 heard Sturgeon say, the angels will ring
 the bells of heaven for joy.
 ! In San Francisco at an open air meeting
 one of the daughters of governor looked
 out of window in wicked part of the
 city and listened to our preaching.
 She had eloped with villain and was
 then in den of vice. When the epreacher
 asked his hearers to accept Christ, she
 said: "That isn't meant for me. There
 isn't a woman here that would speak to
 me-" A night afterward she came to one
 of our meetings and said:~ "Jesus came
 to me in vision last night and said,
 though your sins be as scarlet, they shall
 be washed winter than snow"
 What should she do then? She
 could not go back to those places o1 on their knees and prayed for her. Nov her father was Goddess man and said h. , would never take back his child again
 But God sent his holy spirit and put it in
 to the heart of her father to go to Califor
 mia. He and his wife went there and } looking about the city, they came upon on l of our open air meetings. They were at
 tracted to it and went inside and thei
 conviction of sin came upon them. Stay ing for the after meeting, they met theil daughter. She rushed into her father arms and begged him to forgive her
 "What have to forgive in you?'' he said
 as the tears streamed down his face, "I who have so much to be pardoned for iron , God, :" and through Gods grace daughter
 was given back to her family and thre'
 souls were saved.
 PERMANENT AND LAsrING-MR. HAMMoND' WORK.
 To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 |
 nent results of such meetings as are helc by Rev. E. P. Hammond in English hal ', this week? As there are those that fanc, such efforts evaporate into efferyescence
 it is interesting to note in last week.
 Watchman of Boston the following edito rial reference to Mir. Hammond's labors il } our neighboring city of Bridgeport: "I ? is an opinion often expressed, and some
 times as the result of careful observat ion \ that converts gathered into churches
 through the labors of 'evangelists,' ar less likely to hold out well in the Christian . life than those converted in times of les
 excitement, through the use of the com 5 times fail to sustain this opinion
 We notice the statement that tn Rev. E. P. Hammond, famed for tn , number of child converts he has won in ! recent visit to Bridgeport, Conn.,, ad 3 dressed the Sabbath school of the Soutl - church, among the teachers of which wer F some who were converted in his meeting
 there twenty-seven years ago. The clerl of the church, who has served in that ca pacity thirty years, stated that at that tim 8 about seventy joined the church, who hay held out well, many of whom are no, l earnest workers in the church. A genuin
 revival is work of Gods spirit, and gen q uine conversions are wrought by the sam 9 divine agent. And whether the mean :. employed are ordinary or extraordinary those who use means to that end need t 7 feel profoundly their dependence on tn
 spirit of grace"
 Rev. I. w. Hathaway, D.D., is one o \, the conservative, respected ministers o the Presbyterian church in Jersey City : MT. Hammond recently held 8 series o t union meetings with the churches in Dr a Hathaway's locality. At meeting a -fe, :. weeks ago in Rev. J. L. Scudder's tchurc . Dr. Hathaway incidentally made the re
 mark that if the Christian people of lowe r Jersey City did not enter heartily into tn n work, they would be ashamed of them :, selves before the end of the meetings. H also said that he believed that MT. Ham !, lnond had during his long career as a - evangelist been the agent under God c f leading more souls to Christ than an
 other person now present on the face o
 the globe. 'I say this," he repeated, "de @ iberately and, believe, intelligently, no @ excepting MT. Mills or MT. Moody or an q evangelist, and if you will fall in with hi
 plans and support him with your praye, 5 and efforts, you may have rich blessin l. from God here."
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