The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-01-11
TO BE NO MEETINGS TO-DAY
DIR. MILES AND HIS ASyrST.4yTs WILL HATE 4 DAY TO REST UP.

The Various Meetings Held Yesterday
 Were Well Attended-Mr. Mills Preached
 on Peter's Denial and Profit and Loss@.A
 Special Sermon Monday Noon-Prorram N ss
 for To-morrow's Meetings.
 The revival meeting at Grand Opera house at noon yesterday was we'll at tended, a larger attendance being pres- ent than at any previous noon meet ing. Prayer was offered by Ret. MT. Ives of stratford, after which Rev. John P. IIillis, one of MT. Mills as- sistaHts, sang a solo. .".rwill Surely Come" MT. Mills prefaced his address with announcements as to meetings. saying that there would be no roon9 meeting to-day and that at the Mon- day noon meeting he would preach a special sermon on What Society Must Do to be Saved" He preached from the text Matthew 5:16: Blessed are they which hunger and thirst after right eousness." He said in substance:
 Christ tells us that is the hungry and thirsty who are contented I do not know of ia more delightful sensa- ton than hunger when sitting at a bountifully spread table. know of no pleasanter sensation tlhan thdrst when you are beside a sparkling spring. Some people hunger and thirst for wealth and fame In 6 series Of inter views printed in prominent newspapers a year ago, a dozen of the richest men
 in our country declared thalt their wealth did not make them bit hap pier, and most of them declared that the happiest days of their life were those when they were struggling for a place In the world"
 During the service Mile. Jane May and other members of the Miss Pyg- malion'' company occupied ia box.
 Att the 3:30 service in Calvary Baptist church after the ladies' prayer meet ing the body of the! church was filled and the attendalrce was one of the larg- est which has yet been present in the afternoon.
 Following the praise service MT. Mills spoke from the text Genesis 2:13: sIpt dwelt in the cities of the plain and pitched his tent towards Sodom. But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before tile Lord exceedingly {, He said that he would in his sermon touch upon the theme as to whether it pays to be real Christian, or nod real Christian but half-hearted one. This is best illustrated in the experi- ence of Lot, who gives to us a. type of what we might call a world Chris- tian.'' MT. Mills then spoke in part spoke from the ext Genesis 2:13: {. LOU in his personal character collsi dertng the age in which he lived. Hei wanted to get tihe best out of this world from a goddess standpoint, and then get what he valued of the world to come. . He made his choice just as anybody else would who wanted to get rich and settled in Sodom because he thought that the best place in which to pros per. We all make a mistake at the commencement of the Christian life if we thing thatu because we happen to be in this city God intended us to live here. It is not right for a man to come to this place or any other in order to get rich, not right to go anywhere for a home or for business. unless that home belong to God. N
 Lot was mayor of Sodom and a banquet was given by the politicians of Sodom in honor of his election to the office Lot, of course, attended the banquet and his laction in doing SO was like that of the president of the United States, who with his cabinet officers. including Sunday school superintend- ents and other church officers, attend ed the greaiu Columbian celebration, in New York and the big banquet Wlniclp was held during the celebrations. At that banquet so much wine was used that a place outside had to be built to holdo the 5000 bottles of champagne used. At that banquet some of the So- ciety women of New York became in- toxicated, so intoxicated that they were
 unable to sit up and later in the even- ing as the orgies continued the dishes
 were broken ta'nd the affair ended in perfect bacchanlalian orgy. So Lot losth is aims, his honor and himself. think the most wretched night in Sodom was not the one when the lire touched the city and destroyed it, but that night when Lots soul seemed at last to have yielded ito the poisonous influences around him and in the niser- able debauch of his banquet night his family was forever lost and his uo- bility stripped from him. I also think that Lot realized at last, as I pray that you and I may realize that it does not pay to try to serve God and Mammon."
 The service closed with the singing of ''My Soul Be On Thy Guard" and a prayer by Mr. Mills.
 THE EVENING MEETING.
 The audience room was completely filed when the meeting opened at 7:30 last evening in Calvary Baptist church and many persons were standing att the back part of the room. The meet ing was opened by the singing of g solo by Rev. MT. Hillis, after which Mr.
 Mills read from Luke g. He also an- nounced the various Sunday meetings and stated that there would be no 1 meetings to-day, but that on Monday the regular services of revival will be continued. He then desired all those in the audience to call the attention of their neighboTs and friends to the various Sunday meetings and the small army of ushers went through the church giving out the printed notices of meetings in bundles to all who agreed to distribute them. The hymn, His Loving Kindness" was sung, after
 which Mir. Mills announced as his text