St. Paul daily globe., 1893-05-31
CHURCH CROWDED.
The Last Of the Day Meetings
Packed to Suffocation.


The last afternoon session of the
Mills meetings yesterday brought out
the largest congregation of any of the
2:30 O'Clock series. Central Presbyte-
rian church was full. The seats in the
audience room were filled; then the gal
lery of that room and the Sunday school
room were thrown open and filled, and
chairs were placed in the aisles, and
they were filled. The people were IN
their seats promptly, and, when Rev.
Mr.. Leach, of Emmanuel Baptist church,
rose to make the opening prayer, the
house was already about full. Mr.. Mills
read the sixth chapter of Nehemiah for
Scripture lesson, in which the work
of rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem
after the return from BabyloniSil cap
tivity, by the Hebrews, is described,
and the jealousies of the neighboring
tribes at the success of the work and
their subtle efforts to induce Nehemiah
to come out of the fortified city and
meet them on the plains of Ono. The
text was the third verse of the chapter:
81 sent messengers to them saying am
doing a great work, SO that | cannot
come down: why should the work cease
whilst leave it and come down to
you?'
Mr. Mills said that it was not to the
interests of the tribes round about
Judea that the city should be fortified,
and that they tried in every way to stop
the work. They did not dare try to
stop it by force of arms. because it was
wall city, and the commander had
trained his men in the use of arms, as
we'll rs tools, but if by strategy they
could get them out on the plain they
could easily stop the work. Then the
fifth messenger brought word of the
thing they meant to do. That was to
send word to the king of Babylon that
Nehemiah was intending to set up
throne for himself in Jerusalem. This
aroused Nehemiah, and he determined
to forestall him. Its a good thing"
said the preacher. "When the devil gets
so mad that he comes right ont and
shows what he means to do. Eve seen him
hit weak and waVering convert slap
i'll the face and thereby settle his con-
yictions for him, but the subtitle, COM
plimentary, compromising devil is the
one you should fear. Three leading
thoughts were suggested by the text.
First, if any one is going to succeed in
saving his soul he must realize that he
has great work on hand. The secret
OF living is to find out what is the best
hing and then to resolve to make
all sacrifices to secure it. Peace pre-
supposes a conflict. Seek first the
Kingdom of God and His religion and all
the life shall belong to God. Second,
complete conservation insures success
in the Christian life. You can
not be half-hearted and succeed, but
be whole-hearted and success Is sure.
He told of the race of Atalanta, and
how the race was won by the man, be-
cause the maids attention was taken
from the goal and she was impeded by
the golden apples. This he called
parable. No person on earth but can
sin in the Christian race if he runs
straight. If you will tell me how you
started in the race, | can tell pretty we'll
how you will do in it. If you look back to
the things you have left.you will be like
Mrs. Lot. She was changed into
pillar of salt, and there are scores of
Mrs. Lots i'll the churches today.
Sometimes she is man. Life means
growth, development coming into
the life that God gives you is title to
yourself The discourse closed with
peroration describing the Christians
meeting with Jesus.