The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1893-01-16
RED HOT" PULPIT TALK
Rev. j. Wesley Hill Speaks Plainly
to a Large Audience
of Men.
He Puts a Direct Question as to
Why They Continue
In Sin.
St Paul's Church Was Packed Last Night
and Services Closed With u

Tho revival meetings attracted large con
cregetions to the st. PauFs Methods
Episcopal church yesterday. Tho peou
liarly interesting service of the day wa
the one for men only" held in the audi
forum Of the church at $3.50 Y. IN. Those
who know say this was the largest congre-
cation OF men, assembled together for reli
gioua purposes. ever seen together in Hell
ena. there being at least 400 present. Tn,
Pulpit Talk" given by Rev. j. Wesley
Hill. was of a red-hot cha acter, and die
not fail to awaken an unusual interest il
the question which he urged with all power
viz, that of immediate surrender to GOD
He began by say ing, II just want to have u
face to face talk with YOU this afternoon
and pray that my words mas reach ths
heart of every man present. | sometimes
think that the world is preached to sleep
If NOS to death-sad that the great need OF
the hour is for ministers to get down out OF
their stately pulpit, and to appeal to the
great fee heart OF She people so yield to
the law and love of God. This
Bible is a wonderful book. Il tells
ms OF my origin in a few
lines and devotes all the other
lines to declaring duty and destiny. One
chapter autedntes the cradle and all the
others are index fingers pointing toward
eternity and waning me of the necessity OF
preparation to meet God. There is only
one thing that 1t ~denouuces. aud that Is sin,
aud for that reason men array themselves
against it.
The drunkard docs not like it because 1t
decries drunkenness; the liar because it
toCGa him ont of tina kipuHnp1 nf GDd. the
hypocrite because it unmasks him and
excommunicates him from the fellowshipof
saints, and the libertine,, because it drops
the coal of hell upon his black sin and
casts him into perdition.
Now, if it is ain shat God hates; if it is
sin that all the Calling guns Of heaven are
pointed at; if 1t is sin that in Vets it's hell
ish poison into every corppscle OF ths blood
and transform the soul and body into n
loathsome carcass OF death, why is it that
meu nurse it to their bosom? Why ia is
that they continue in sin?
u take this sttalght, plain question for
my text: Why DO You Continue i'll Sin?
Not why does the city Or the state. or your
friend or neiQhbor, but why do you and
you and you continue in SIN. Ia it because
you are ignorant az to what sin ls? All, no!
For every mar in this land of Bibles knows
what it il to break the law of God. Why
there Is not q sinner in Helena who does
not know enough rs to this to criticise and
find fault with church members about their
mixing up with the world and their Ginning
with the void. And let me say, every time
a sinner attempts to tell what a christian
should do, he simply proves thab he knows
the right while the wrong is pursued.
There is no ma in this house who has any
more right to sin than l; why have you a
special permit to transgress the law of God
yourself and then sit in Judgment over
others? But do you continue in sin because
cHn Hn nnf know kba rnnEprNanral nF n5p ,
Have you not cad that the wicked shall
be tn ned into help But, hold you say,
i do not believe in hell And there ia
many a man going around and saying that
he does not believe in hell: who will spend
eternity In hell. and then | guess he will be-
lievs in it. My definition OF hell is that it
is a provision tor men who have decided
not to go to heaven.
What are you going to do with liars and
drunkasds and whore mongers and deceiv-
6rs and seducers, mel whose souls are al
ready On fire with the lust and passions of
hell? Are you going to march them all up
into heaven? Why they wouldu't be there
ten minutes before they started out in
quest of u saloon, or dance hall, or whist
party. or gambling dive, or place of ptosti-
tuition. Such men in heaven? That would
be their worst he'll. They would not re-
main there long until white robes would be
turned into poisoned garments. palm
branches into dripping swosua and the eter-
Nal peaoe OF tEe redeemed into anarchy
and riot No! No. Such mon can never
enter heaven. A prayer meeting In this
world would be torture to them, and one
strain from the harp of d thousand strings
anu a few shouts of the white rohed tnrong
would turn heaven into the deepest hell to
their souls. Whatsoever q man soweth
that shall he also reap Destiny is the
sequence of character, character is the
capitalization of habit and habit is the
force that will lift you to Il topless heaven
or sink you so a bo..omless hell. Are you
continuing in sin, because you are .eckless
as to the results of SIM
God have mercy on these high handed,
reckless, hard-hearsed sinners who hurl
their black oaths right up into the face OF
God! They think that they can fight God,
upon whom this stone fail it shall GRIM
INTO IoWder.' A drunken man once rushed
at AN engine and tried to lift ii in his arms
aud hull it off the track, but the UNDER
taker soon had his mangleu remains. That
KAN, however, was not half 30 reckless, as
the man who deties God and ovorrides the
moral sentiment of the community in his
LlQh handed SHINING. lhere are men in
Helena so !ecklesg that they Hre not CON
teut to go to he'll after living out tneii three
score yeas and ten, ana are rushing down
twenty and thirty years ahead OF tlmel |
see a man walking into tho saloon day
after day and finally the doctor SAYS, QUIT
o. You will die in q year, and instead Of
stopping oil short, he gets on q bigger drunk
and gets INTO n saloon brawi and is shot
into eternity like a flash of pogde Ii
looks IKE such a man is greedy for dAuna-
s!on. There are men in eternity ungnyed
to-day who might he here in tins
meeting giving their hearts to
Christ IL they had not shot into
pera!tlon on the lightning ex 4fe8s. DO YOU
continue III sin because YOU are snt!siea
with your SIMS anu feel that they bring 10Y
TO your NE! All, no there IS no pleasure
IN reLe. ling against God. God has made it
Impossible Tor any man to be hapFy and
contented while lsndinG a lIfe of wicked
ness. DO sou think the man hafpy whose
only Goa Is gold? Follow the IneDria,e az
lie staggers into his IraYerless bed. Listen
to the moan that escapes has lips ut ths
Inldn ght hour. Look ut hIa blood-shot
zee the des. air that is stamped ugou bia
face! Call that leaspro2 Can the man be
happs who strides forth from tho fresh at
ihosrheie OF nome, casting the wife aside,
blct'lng with u foul hama the image of n
earning chiId I ON his heart and folding to
Alh !ibiolnGuS einurRce the painted har!ot?
now care he ever retu Il to the ii eside
and look into those nure eyes and fo.d
AGAIN to h!s heart the one whom he prom
ised to love aud honor md plutectEn
AT the c'ose OF the au4rebs Il large num-
Der e1 ressed q desire to De- cA istlans.
Inc chu Gu Last evening was packed and
the service was closed with q Quaker beue-
dlctlon, which meant Tor every lady TO
sLake names with everybody. which they
old he6 i!ly. Az the close of the sermon
fourteen went to the altar for prayer and