Evening journal., 1893-02-01
PREACHING SALVATION.
Mr.. Moody Continues His Dis
courses on Christ.
CHRIsT's MISSION ON EARTH

He visited the world TO Seek and save
Not to Condemn or Destroy-The Eli
cacy of Sensational Preaching-Three
Largely Attended Meetings.
The meeting at the Rink yesterday
4 afternoon and that at Delaware Avenue
Baptist Church last night, both devoted
\ to women alone, were densely crowded.
The services at the Rink at night for
men were the first held since the present
4 revival began at which there were vacant
q chairs, although there were compare
lively few of these. The singing at all
meetings was excellent and the three
3 several sermons reused the thousands of
. auditors to high pitch Of religious
4 fervor.
u Last nights meeting began at o'clock
= with the usual service of prayer and
4 pr aise. Mr. Sankey sang alone II am
4 Waiting for the Master, ''The Half Has
Ne'er Been Told and There were
y Ninety and Nine That Safely Lay, aud
( a duet with j. r. King, 81 am Waiting
+ for the Master" "Sin No More. AT
( the Cross, at the Cross" and other popu
y lar hymns were spiritedly sung by choir
and congregation. Rev. A. Il. keigwin
n offered prayer
4 After scriptural reading from the
& prophecy of Ezekiel and the 10th Psalm,
Mr.. Moody announced his text as Luke
xix, 10: "For the Son of Man has come
& to seek and to save that which was lost
n He said that It was one Of his favorite
texts because from that one sentence is
CLEANED Christ's mission to the world.
n All the incidents in the divine ministry
B of Jesus breathed His mission He did
& not come to condemn the world He did
q not come TO reproach the world; He did
a not come to destroy the world but to
81 give eternal life. He did not come to
II curse man but to bless him. The speaker
81 considered It beautiful thought that all
II through the Bible it was shown that
Il man did not have to seek God but that
& God strove TO seek man
MAYBE there is someone in this house
to night, continued the preacher, "who
81 says to himself, We'll, he has never
Il sought me wish He would Don't be
deluded by such thought my friends.
a There is not one here whom God has not
r sought for years. Didn't you ever hear
text that ran in your mind for days
afterwards? That was God speaking ia
you. Didn't you ever receive an earnest
& letter from your mother urging you to
become a Chrstiau2 That was God
speaking in your mothers tears. Hasn't
there come to you at some time o still.
small voice trying to WOO you to God
That was God seeking for you Dismiss
the delusion that He has never sought foI
n you; He is seeking fon you tonight
Some of you say you're not lost. The
biblical meaning Of the word lost is out
of the way and isn't every one of you
who is a little way from God out of the
way2 Have you ever been born again2
81 like the text because it speaks OF
the Son OF man, the lowest title ever
given to the Saviour. Thirty eight
times Christ speaks Of Himself as the
Son of man. When the Prince of Wales
uses only one Of his titles he always takes
the highest The Prince of HEAVIER
takes the lowest, perhaps because H'
thinks he will reach by it men in the
lowest walks of life like you and me-
The speaker recited eloquently the
story of the blind beggar, Bartemus. whC
was given his sight by Christ at the city
gate In Jericho and of the dinner follow
ing at the house Of Zacheus, the publ
can. He concluded by urgently appeal
ing to his auditors TO accept Christ a.
their master.
Many men were much effected by thl
discourse and during the singing o.
several hymns, several followed Mr.
Moody and local clergymen to the inquir.
room.
Rev. Thomas E. Terry conducted thl
prayer meeting.in the outer room.
The afternoon service began with song
Mr.. Moody chose as his text Philippian
III. IS: 'For many walk of whom l hav
told you often and now tell you weeping
Il at they are the enemies of the cross o
Christ.
The speaker applied this next to thos
who have, although protesting Chris
tiaus, spoken sightingly Of the revivs
meetings Those who did so, he asserted
spoke against God and reviled religion
Every Christian church In the world, h
asserted, was the result of reviva
Churches which claim to be of apostoli
origin must have originated At the feas
of Pentecost; the Lutheran Church frol
Luthers revival. and the Methods
Church from the revival in the Episcopi
Church und Wesley. Not only tina
but all the preachers and plominer
church workers have been convertt
daring revivals. The opposition to T,
vivals arose from a dislike Of sensation
alsm. He wished there were more r
ligious sensations
To the backslider the speaker read
descriptive lesson from Jeremiah H.
He thought the weeping prophet w
particularly the prophet Of backslider
They were generally complaining ab0
the church or some one in the churc
and trying to hide their sins behind &
shortcomings of other people He to
them to beware of broken cisterns,
they would not hold water
To non Christians he said that the
was nothing to hinder them from becol
ing Christians but their own viii.
had no doubt that every person prese
had made VOWS that We're un1ept. If
could induce them TO pay these vows u
would be the greatest religious meeti
that had ever occurred in this city.
A crowd filled the inquiry room afi
the service. The usual prayer meeti
was held in the outer room.
Much earnestness was manifested
the service in Delaware Avenue Bapt
Church. Dr. Ellis Of Baltimore preach
aud Mr. Sankey Gang.
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