The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1893-01-30
THE GOVERNOR PRAYED.
Afternoon Mems Meeting at St.
Paul's Church Attended by
Gov. Richards.
Some Forcible Remarks by the
Pastor on the Subject
OF Sin.
Next Sunday Rev. Wesley Hill VIII
Preach AbOut PuEiiism and Some
Other Matters.

Other Matters.
The interest In the meetings at ST. PsuPs
church ON Broadway still continues and
the edifice is crowded, especially as the
Sunday afternoon meeting for men only.
Yesterday At the mems meeting Gov. hiok-
ards was present and made a powerful ana
practical prayer. The choir OF ten rendered
some very fine music. Rev. Wesley Hill
SAYS the choir will loon be built mp into .
large one. MIR. Hills remarks yesterday
afternoon were OH the subject OF "Tracksd
by Gods Detective" Tho text was ''Be
sure Your Sin Will Find You OUT
Numbers xxxii:23. Murder! Murder!
Don't do itv' was tho opening sentence.
THAT'S what conscience says to . man
every time he attem pts to engage in evil;
and the voice Of conscience, the voice OF
Justice, the voice of nature and the voice OF
revelation, all united, seem to shout in
every guilty sinners ear BE sure Your sin
will find you out Swallowed! Gods de-
~tectlves are in the world and a man might
az we'll attempt to flee from his "
shadow az to escape the kindling eye of
omnisoience, clutch the arm OF Justice, or
evade the terrible rstributions of sin. BE
sure 7our sin will end you out! Sin will
find the sinner out by its inevitable ten
dency to progress to ampler. more pslpa-
BILE and criminal developments. Sin is the
most insiduous and subtle thing in the
world. II i~nsinuates itself 80 gradually
and slowly into the habits Of men that they
know not its progress and power
until helplessly bound in its chains.
Mon do not become criminal all at once;
they do not become liars, ~drunkards,
thieves, gamblers, blasphemsrs, adulter-
ers and murderers in . single day. Prior
to these stages of degradation there have
been silent influences operating upon the
heart and will. sin, like all thinRs else, is
subject to the law of development. 1t
story, q joke or an imagination; and start
ing thus it increases in size and accelerates
in growth until it assumes complete con-
troll of its victims and rssists all attempts
TO break it's dominion.
''Hin will expose the sinner by transform
ing the body also. An Italian artist, see
ing a little boy Of exquisite beauty and low
illness, painted the child's portrait and
hung it up in his studio as a type OF heaven
his idea of the spiritual and good. He
resolved that if he should ever find q living
contrast Of that boy he would paint 1t also
and hang 1t by tho other AZ a type of hell
his ideal Of the sensual and bad. Many
years afterward, in "a distant country, in a
prison. he saw the most frightful and hor-
rid demon in human flesh he ever beheld,
cheeks bore the deep imprints of crime. He
remembered his resolution and painted the
hideous face, and upon his return hun. it
beside the portrait of the little boy. The
painter's dream was now realized. The an
Iii odes of the moral universe hung upon
%ha xvollo IF hic atniio aide nv aida- Rnt
imagine the painters surprise when, upon
Investigation, he found that the pictu 90
were of the same person. That loathsome
wretch was once that bright-eyed boy!
1--WE expect nature to make a perfect
record of her works-so perfect that We can
read them after the flight of Il million
years. In the red sandstone there are
found in some places marks which are
clearly the Impressions of showers Of rain
and these 80 accurate that 1t can even DO
detected in which direction the shower was
lnclined and f!om what quarter it pro-
ceeded and this ages ago. Even so we are
forming character upon which sin leaves its
track, not for u single day, but for ages yet
to come. Start an engine from Helena to
st. Paul and there is attached to its side a
little piece of mechanism which indicates
the number of miles it has travelled. the
number of stops it has made, the length of
time 1T stopped at each station and the
amount of steam consumed. If l want to
know the record of it's journey | need not
ask the engineer, for there is the little reg
lister that tells it all. l step into one of
these large blocks in the CITY, with its hun
dreds of rooms, lighted up every night, and
! ask the proprietor how he can keep an Hc-
count of SO much gas and he takes me
down into the basement, and over in that
corner he strikes a match, he holds it up to
the face of a dial. upon which a Trembling
finger indicates to the o~ne-hundredth part
of an inch how much gas has passed
through the meter during the past month.
And SO God has placed a seli-reRisterlng
thermometer within the soul of man with
it's hand upon the dial of his moral nature
and every time he commits a sir q registia-
ton is made-a record il kept my brother,
and SOME day standing i'll the light of judg-
ment fires. he will be called to face that
record and give an account OF the decide
done in the body
And sol tell you dear friends. that with
in your bosom there is q mo- al meter that
keeps a faithful record of your life and
when ut last God shall say: who art thou
and what hast thou done2' the record
shall have passed into the recording angels
hand, and he shalt read line after line and
page after page of enough guilt to blacken
the whole universe. Psychologists now de-
clare that every act and thought is accom-
panied by some displacement of the
particles of the brain and that in every in
stance n record of these movements 10 caro-
July Inhue. IN Il WOrq, COulQ We look into
the brain, it would be found written
through and through. with inscriptions
telling the story of every emotion felt and
thought conceived. This statement is true
of the heart. We know that in a moment
of excitement the heart changes its pulsa-
tion. but perhaps have not thought that
oil these changes however slight, are re-
corded in the organic structure of the
heart. Crimes are not ONLY published in
morning papers, but printed IN brain and
heart us well. Natures records of mans
doinQa and sayings are not confined ex.
clusively to his physical organism, but are
likewise written uYon the whole material
universe. This ia proven to be { ue by the
law of the conservation of force. No ex-
pended enorgy, howover slight can be lost.
1t flies on forever. Hence scientists tell us
that the fall of a cambria needle upon the
carpet is felt by every planet and the lift
ing OF the hand sends vibrations amid the
stars. Therefore every record made upon
the body is transcribed by tho law of
motion and the conservation of energy TO
every planet md star.
BE sure YOU sin will find you out, or to
change the figu e. the entire universe is a
telephone. along the invisible wires of
which words and thought are flying that
pierce tho heavens and reach the ear OF
God. Or again, tho universe il a tele-
graphic system. II 10 full of stations and
every mar is an operator. Wires run into
every station that connect man with ali
Wo Ids and unite him with the throne of