The Portland daily press., 1895-03-25

Services.
Sunday was in many respects the most
remarkable day yet of the Mills meetings.
Three large gatherings taxed City hall to
its utmost capacity. In the forenoon it
was general audience, in the afternoon
women alone came, and in the evening mon
alone we're there If such a thing is possible,
The number who attended the three meet
ings was greater than on the Sunday before.
The arrangements for closing stores for
tomorrow will not be carried ont as far as
making it general is concerned, but il Is
understood that many places will close at
2 p. m.
Wednesday afternoon Messrs. Mills and
Hills leave for Louisville, Ky, where they
Will begin their next series of meetings on
Monday.
last evening envelopes were distributed
labelled "Free-win Offering for Rev. r.
Fay Mills Whatever is given in these en-
relopes will be the only recompense which
Mr.. Mills Twill receiye. All other money
raised has been applied to the incidental
expenses of the meetings. The circulation
of the envelopes, as Rev. M. S. Hughes,
explained, WAS done by the committee. with
out suggestion from Mr.. Mills.
The meetings today will, at pm. and
7,30 p. m. be in City hall. Tho subject of
the afternoon will be Heaven on Earth"
THEfMORNING SESSION.
very large audience was present at City
hall Sunday morning. Mr.. Hills led the
singing and Rev. Mr.. Roberts of Boston.
offered prayer. Mr.. Mills then announced
that arrangements had been made for the
holding of family prayer meetings Tuesday
all over the city. about eighty having al
ready been arranged for. 81 am praying for
yuu.'' was then given by the choir and con-
gregation. after which Mr.. Mills preached
from Exodus viii, 1O-fAnd He Said To-
morrow
am inclined to think that this was just
what the king did not mean for man who
was oYerrun With frogs would have desired
tLeir immediate removal. While frog is
all right in its place frogs il the bed cham
ber, on the table, and frogs baked in the
very bread could not have been desired ,and
with the land of Egypt overrun with frogs
what the king must have intended to say
was Remove them before tomorrow when
Moses said tc him, When do you want these
frogs removed?'
But if the king said tomorrow, and if
he did desire to have the frogs remain for
another day, 1 can tell you still stranger
thing and that is that men in this very
room are saying today, ''Let me :clin. unto
my sins until tomorrow" l. Lbelieve that
more men have gone down to the world of
the lost because, they have said s.tomors-
Tow'' when the spirit has pleaded with
them, than because of any other one Iea-
sons. yes than all other reasons combined,
Now ] propose to show you some reasons
~by you should give UP sin not tomorrow
but now.
Because it will relieve you of the burden
and encumbrances of sin. There is danger
IN delay. The last straw will break the
camePs back. There may be last resis-
tance that will eternally fix the character
Of II man, and there may be the fatal sin.
II is best. and it is safest to give up sin now
to act before tomorrow. A man had on the
French coast his foot caught in great
chain that is anchored off shore, and
though the tide was low he could not get
il free. The tide there rises forty feet and
rises very rapidly. Men came to him and
said, 'tyou must have Gyour foot taken off,"
Ind he said ''l'd rather loose my foot than
my life, but send for the blacksmith" Be-
fore he got there the water was too deep
fer him to use his tools, and when the sur
Reon got there IL was too deep for him to
use his instruments and he died. Friends
j wish l could make you understand that
the time may have come when you must give
up your sins or your life.
Your influence is naeded now There will
be men who will give themselves to Christ
the last night of these meetings. And lhey
will by bolding back have lost an infinite
opportunity to have brought others to him.
In this city it is very easy now to talk to
men of spiritual things for but little else is
talked of. There are other men here on this
foor. or looking down from the galleries
who are held back by your Indifference. A
young man who gave himself 10 Christ the
first night of a series of twelve meetings
drought eleven others to BIN. man who
was called he wiekedest man in the regi-
ment, stood up in a regimentnl prayer
meeting and quietly said Boys. I'm going
TO be a Christian hut,the next mig hit he
said II don't know that can bea Chris
tian. l have just heard that two persons
ruined by me have just died. Can such
sinner inG mercy" He did find mercy,
but mis- prayer to the day of his death was,
''Lord helr me TO do good enough to count
elbalance the evil of my past life"
Then you are missing great deal of JOY.
At meeting I asl-ed the quest ion, "do you
propose 10 wait longer?' and a man in the
audience said. mo sir' After meeting
l saw him ard said ''Did you mean it?'' and
he said II did, ''Then 20 on and serve
Christ" He wasn't used to meetings and
he thought that when a minister asked
question he expected that some one would
reply. -Four Gays later he found comfort
in just standing up for Christ, while long
winded irother was running down. Five
years later he said, ''my cup runneth over"
Friends l cannot begin TO tell you the joy
there is in living life with Christ
You need be laying treasures UP in
Heaven. I want TO live for eternity aud
to have my earthly influence tell in eter-
nifty. We ere to take our money and time
and talent and set themaall for God Hndshis
righteousness. ! have sometimes asked my
self when n rich or noted man has died.