St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-05-26
"AND PETER. /"
He Had Preached in Min
neapoliS.
Strong Lessons Drawn From the
Lie of the Unfaithful Fol-
lower of Jesus.

The interest in the Mills meetings still
continues, as the large audience at the
Central Presbyterian church yesterday
showed. The wOmen's prayer meeting
at 2:30 was well attended.a as these meet
ings have been since the beginning of
this series. The services at $3.50 o'clock
began with short service of song by
the congregation, led by Mr.. Bilhorn.
Rev. s. w. Dickerson. of Atlantic Con-
EDUCATIONAL church. made the opening
prayer, after which Rev. Dr.. Ingersoll,
as chairman of the executive committee,
made an appeal to the congregation
for free-will Offering towards the sal
airy of Mr.. Mills. Mr.. Ingersol SAID
that Mr.. Mills made ne charge. and. IN
fact, did not desire to talk about the
matter at all. but it was not fair for the
churches and people of this city to get
all the good that they were likely to get
from these meetings and be Indifferent
as to the support of the man VINO gave
all his time to the work and who had
family who needed a support as the
families of other men do. Small en-
velopeS were distributed through the
audience for any money that the people
choose to give. Mr.. Bilhorn sang as
solo the hymn Tho your sins be as
scarlet"
BY request Mr.. Mills repeated "a SER
mon he had delivered in Minneapolis
Oh the disciple Peter. He read for a
Scripture lesson the twenty-secord
chapter of Luke, beginning at the
thirty-tirst verse. and chose for text a
part of the seventh verse of the six
teenth chapter of Mark: "And Peter"
He told of the coming of the women to
the sepulcher and seeing the risen Lord,
who sent them to tell his disciples land
Peter" that he was arisen, Land went be-
fore them into Galilee. The man who
had denied him, the one faithless dis
ciple, was in the Masters thoughts, even
in the sepulcher.
Peter was represented as one who had
had special advantages of association
with his Lord, as a man of unusual force
of character, and yet he denied the Lord
after declaring that such a thing was
impossible. mo story ever written
takes hold Oil my imagination as
this story of Peter and the reason of
his fall was fourfold. First, he was too
self-confident; then he followed Christ
afar off. He sat in the other room
among the soldiers, who. no doubt, said
many hard and unkind things of Jesus.
No man can be an intimate of the enc
mics of Christ without being in danger
of fall. Christ's thought and mes
sage to Peter are only another
view OF the same Father love that shines
in the story of the prodigal son or in the
story of the shepherd who left the nine
~ and nine safe in the field to 20 out
in the desert and seek the sheep
that was lost. The Lords thoughts go
out toward the weak ones just as a
mothers do toward the weak or help
less once among her children. In many
and many places in the Bible the Lord
takes special pains to show that He re
members these backsliders, and loves
them and longs for their return.
How did the other disciples look on
Peter? 1t was terrible for them to see
Christ die. They had not yet begun to
apprehend His mission; and then TO
hear that one of them had fOrsworn
Him. A graphic picture was drawn of
the case of Peter after "he went out and
wept bitterly" and the JOY of his heart
at the Masters message. and an elo-
queDt appeal to the church people to go
and find the Peters who were wander
ing from the fold today.