The record-union., 1892-06-10
THE War ON SINFULNESS.
Evangelist Mills Unloading His Store
of Brickbats.
Another Large Audience at the Pavii-
ion-Practical and Theoretical
Atheism Assaulted.

! Last nights revival meeting held at the
! new Pavilion under the direction of B.
/ Fay Mills was attended by approximately
the same number of people as on the pre-
ceding night. The church people seemed
to have consolidated and united in flock
| ing to the standard of the evangelist.
; The services began as usual with sing
/ ing, and a number of select hymns were
very well rendered. The hymns sung
were: Jesus, Savior, Pilot Me-" "Seek-
ing for Ne, ""Follow On, "Jesus Saves"
Christ Receiveth Sinful Men"-the lat
ter being led by Mr.. Greenwood, and the
chorus sung by the choir was very good.
This hymn was followed by prayer
by Rev. j. B. SilcoX, delivered il an
earnest and impressive manner. AL
though quite brief it was a fervent and
comprehensive supplication.
Mr.. Mills then stepped forward and an
nounced the services for the balance of
the week, as appeared in the afternoon
/ report.
The hymn, SINNERS, Turn; Why Will
1e Die?' was next sung by all, and then
came solo by Mr.. Greenwood, Where
| VIII You Spend Eternity?"
A HARD HIT.
1t is perhaps needless to state that the
! title of the hymn embOdies a hard ques-
I ton, and everybody was nOn-commital.
| However, the solo was good thing, al
! though, as announced, it was a very
solemn proposition to spring upon an un-
suspecting California congregation. 1t
had an abrupt flavor, but would have
been worse about earthquake time.
After the audience recovered, the
] Act
s. q: Thy heart is not right i'll the sight
| of God. AS man thinketh in his heart
so is he,'' etc.
y man dies to-day, said Mr.. Mills,
and people execrate his name, when, had
he lived a little longer, he might have
told that Gains anger would have pro-
| duced murder? In sight of God, man is
judged by his heart. If man has the
seeds of hate in his heart he is a mur-
| derer, If he has adulterouS thoughts, he
is an adultereI. An atheistic heart may
! be different from an atheiStic head.
NO INTELLIGENT NAN CAN BE AN
ATHEIST.
| He is not an atheist but an agnostic--
| but an atheistic heart is "a different thing.
| LII a man says, in his heart, there is no
! God, he wishes there should be no God
If the soul has no desire for God the man
| is a practical atheist.
All idolatrOus heart is not right in the
sight Of the Lord. A man did not need
to worship wood and stone images to be
an idolater, but he was not so sure about
gold. If a man prefers anything before
| God he is an idolater. Seek first the
Kingdom of God-this is the one great
condition. Give Him His proper place.
In olden times it was a test OF idiots to
place before them an apple and piece of
gold. Ii the subject took the apple he
was an idiot, as he did not distinguish
! value.
| THE GREAT SECRET OF LIVING
Is to discover the right relationship of
! things. Every man is a practical idola-
ter who does not put God first.
From this point the speaker expounded
! reliable old gospel truths, arraigning sin
tul man in variety ofattitudes. Hespoke e
rather bitterly of men who talked of
| Universal Brotherhood without first
| thinking of Universal Fatherhood, and
said man who had any bitterness in his
| heart was not right, and thai a man could
never get into the kingdom until he was
willing to forgive every ard all injury.
His idea of finsubordination was that it
was a fearful sin, and deserving of sever
| est correction. Man must give up every
thing TO God-must make
TOTAL SURRENDER
! OF will and spirit. AS an instance of his
| idea he spoke of his child, who refused to
say please said he couldn't. He first
| tried gentle measures, and then tried other
measures uutil the child wanted to say
| please" constantly and upon every oc-
! casion. In his own words, he ''broke
him." He touched up the general fail
ings of pride, unconcern, lethargy and
| procrastination of mortals.
The sermon was followed by the hymn
almost Persuaded"
THE AFTER-MEETING.
A very large proportion of the audi
ence remained to the after-service. Mr.
Mills told of young lady who had
| formed a resolution to give her heart to
God If he would spare her life for one
month. But on the twenty ninth day
the hand of death was laid upon her.
1t is a dangerous thing to postpone the
settlement of this matter.
An invitation being extended several
scores OF persons rose in various parts of
the house to request the prayers of Chris
tian people that they might henceforth
lead godly lives. The choir sang, softly,
two verses Of Just as l am, Without One
Plea"
/ Mr.. Mills earnestly invoked the Divine
blessing upon those who had the courage
to indicate their desire to become fol-
lowers OF the Master, and prayed for the
continued manifestation of the Spirit dur
ing the meetings yet to come.
The conservation cards were carefully
distributed through the audience. while
Mr.. Greenwood rendered a solo, Though
Your Sins be as Scarlet" the choir Join
ing in the chorus.
Mr.. Mills invited those who had signed
the cards-all who were not Christians.
backsliders and intimate friends Of these
classes-to remain to a later seayice.
which was held in the large room imme,
diately in front of the speakers stand.
TO this last meeting about 500 persons
remained. pass Me Not, o Gentle
Savior" was sung.
The evangelist said that all men have
sinned-that no one has ever been cleansed
by any human agency, and that God has
provided way. The Lord cannot cure a
man so long as he will not confess his
sins.
Prayers one sentence long were asked
for, and there were many who responded.
;. When the leader makes a request of that
kind the petitions should be very brief
a single sentence, if possible. One special
merit in Mr.. Mills methods is that he
guards carefully against prolonging the
exercises to unusual length.
Cherished passages of Scripture were
repeated by many active workers, which
proved very interesting feature Then
a number rose and signified their accent
ance of Jesus Christ as Savior. Fifty
signed the cards of conservation.