The gold leaf., 1893-11-16
AT THE Y. NJ. G.. A. SUNDAY.
Mr.. ]. L. Currin's Address---The
Largest Crowd Yet Assembled.

Mr.. J. L. Currin's Address---The
Largest Crowd Yet Assembled.
The rooms were again crowded last
Sunday, and the service was one of the
most interesting held in the rooms for
some time. Mr.. J. l.. Currin, who deliv-
cred the address, said, among other
good things, the following:
Although We are assured by the word
OF God that Jesus Christ came into the
world to save sinners; that He gave
Himself ransom for all; that He tasted
death for every man; that He Is a prOpl-
tiatiOn for the sins of the whole world;
yet it is no less certain that there are
many sinners who will not be saved by
Him. Indeed, we have great cause to fear
that but few will be saved; few, not III
themselves considered, but few in com
parisOn to those who are lost. This,
however, can not be imputed to any
want of power in Him who is almighty
to save, nor to any want OF Willingness
in Him who died for all and would have
all men TO be saved, and to come TO the
knowledge of the truth Where, then,
lies the fault? In men themselves; they
are not willing to be saved.
'' ! e will not come to me- said our
Savior, "that We might have life. The
same may be said of the greater part,
not only of mankind in general, but even
of those who profess to believe the gOs-
pei. Some are SO full of themselves that
they feel no need Of q Savior. Others
shut their eyes and will not see the way
that leads to Him. Others see it but
will not walk in it: they have their bus
mess to attend to-their lands to till,
a. f- do t1,r1
| state is thing so remote and out OF
sight and scarcely affects them; or if
! they should be led to think of it they
console themselves with the reflection
| that they are Christians; they were bap-
tised in early youth; they have not re-
nOunced their baptism; they believe
| Christ to be the Savior of the world and
His merits will supply what is lacking in
them Whatever, therefore, may become
of others who are without the pale Of the
church, they can not doubt that they
shall be saved And this is the great
reason why, of SO many who profess to
believe Christ, so few are saved.
If they truly believed in Christ they
would be in Him and the Apostle tells
US that if any man be in Christ he is q
new creature; old things are passed
away; behold all things are become new.
And to the same purpose is the passage
in his Epistle to the Galatians, that sin
Christ Jesus neither circumcision avail
eth anything, nor uncircumcision, but a
ncw creature" What are we to under
stand by a new creature? He is alto
gether different man from what he was
before: for he is now transformed by, the
renewing of his mind; old things are
passed away; behold all things are be-
come new He is the same person indeed,
but he no longer understands, judges,
thinks, wills and acts as he did before
He has new sense OF things, a new judg-
ment, new desires and affections, new
hopes and fears, new Joys and grlefs, and
so leads new life. He hath put off the
old man with his deeds, and hath put on
the new man, which is renewed i'll knowl-
edge, after the image of Him that created
him.
Such only as are SO renewed in the
spirit of their minds as to make it their
constant endeavor to please God and tC
do His will, can hope to be saved by
Him. Not every one that saith unto me
"Lord, Lord, shall enter the kingdom o
Heaven, but he that doeth the will of my
Father which is in Heaven
Consider this, ye who are still in your
sins, before it be too late. The dreadful
judgments which God has threatened il
| His word against sinners, hang over
your heads, and must fall on you at last
if YOU do not turn to Him. You viii
then feel that it is in deed fearful thing
to fall into the hands of the living God.
Many were undoubtedly drawn out to
hear the address of Rev. John Surgius
of East India, who was announced tC
speak briefly on the second coming o
Christ. Mr. Surgius is a patrlarchal look
ing old gentleman, with long hair anC
beard, and presents q very interesting
; appearance. He speaks in broken Eng
ish, and is rather difficult to understand
though his Hindustan dialect is peculiar
and interesting. He touched on the" lost
tribes the building of the temple under
Solomon, the second coming of Christ
and the old and new dispensations, anC
was listened to with interest, and when
he described his first experience in smOk
ing he was amusing in the extreme. He
was advising the young men to let to
bacco and whiskey and beer and the bal
room and theatre alone. He said he
was never drunk but once and that was
since he had been to America. He was
advised by friend to smoke cigar fol
"tooth Sickness" He didn't know what
to do with the smoke SO he swallowed it
when suddenly mis- head began to "swin
round and round' He assured his au.
dience that he preferred the tooth sick
ness to drunkenness of that sort. He
called beer " washer-woman's water, SOAP
bubbles on top
Mr. 7. I. Hicks will deliver a lecture
next Sunday at 3 o'clock, on "Charactel
VS.. Reputation