The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-01-13

| own voice. It is oGly when you read the Bible that you are open to mercy
 and you can't obtasn thaG mercy while you cover your sims.
 Men sometimes cover their sins by setting up fallle standards of mercy
 But such standards ave misleadang. Some hypoelttes in the church are far more vicious im the sight of God than others who are not pretenders. | This city of New Haven win be worse off than Sodom and Gomorrah on judg- | ment day unless 1t be ct,ouhed, in the l robes of righteousness. A mans com | science is a good judge orly when | it is rig'hh and it is righE only when regulated by the laws of love. We are always loath to put responsibility on l ourselves. We sometimes excuse our- selves of Sim: -n the grounds that our l sins are secret or few, but secret sins
 arc all revealed Ifo Gods eye and small
 sins are rtoo prolific to be disregarded
 Some people think that memory is all | tENS hell amoulcts to. but 1t is worse | than that A noted was once dreamed l of visiting he'll and dreamed that while l there be met many wihiom he had 1 known in their life. One lady was | shuffilng cards and he asked to stop ! a bit and rest and tefQ him about hell. | She answered with a voice of the most l horrible despair, 'ReFlc! Rest! There is | no rest tn hsll!'
 Men sometimes cover their sins by
 saying Nhey have mo feeling in con-
 neduion with them, but such insensi-
 baltty i3 like leprosy, iE strikes ltihe w4iole mar3 with dsa1h, There caml be
 no escape fr-m death, and the wages | of sin 5s death.'
 THE MEETING AT GRAND
 OPERA HOUSE.
 l The meeting for men at Grand opera
 house at 7:SO last evening was also
 largely attended, although the audience | was not quite as large as the one in the afternoon Mr. Hillis sang q solo | "Throw Out the Life Line" in the
 chorus Of which the congregation join ed. This was followed by half hours praise service, after which Rev. Dr, F..
 A. M Brown of the Presbyterian church | offered prayer.
 i Rev. Dr. Twitchell explained that the
 expenses of the meetings were defrayed l by subscriptions and donations and urged that all give. A collection was
 then taken up. as was also done at the
 afternoon meeting
 MT. Mills preached from Amos 6, 4: That lie upon beds of ivory and l stI Ietch themselves. upon their couches, l etc" He said: We can scarcely look at an Israelite to-day without q feeling l O. a compassion and pity. They are a
 people without atlas, country or king, ] beca use they were not more deeply con eerned with spiritual things, They did l not live up to the light God gave them. I I believe this is also applicable to the l people of to-day under the blaze of the I kingdom O. God Woe to those at ease in the kingdom of God I would
 rather my children become acquainted l with an inftdel or atheist than with a
 deceptive follower of Christ One hypo- | critical man is worse than a thousand l intidels l believe that the tempter to 1 hypocraeyl will be punished to the same
 extent as the one who is tempted and 1 yields, and these two come together in 1 business life The kingdom of God is 1 no rival oe a mans business and it is never necessary for a man to choose between the two. The kingdom of God 1 IS an Inspiration for the puritication of | the business of the world. Sam Jones | says when man combines business 1 and religion he has no religion to mix. l All the religion a man has shows itself in the way he transacts business. There | is no religion for revenue only. Unless
 your business is religious business, | get rid O. 1t as soon as possible. Some
 men who go to church on Sunday and
 sleep through the service in their easy l Dews and get up Sunday morning in
 time to lok over the Sunday morning l newspapers, and like to hear church
 singing at church think God is incon-
 siderate # He demands more than one
 day g y7eek of half-hearted service.
 They think that Monday they are to ! go out and take unfortunate debtors by
 the throat, mark their goods with Wrcng stamps, be goddess in society,
 unfaithful in school, quarrelsome, and if
 anyone talks to them about it they call
 him and old fogy and if he is minis
 ter they turn him out and get who will l d. as they wish. Religion demands that one lend without expecting any | thing in return.
 l do not believe thatthe churcfsis in- tended to become state any more than
 the family is. It is intended to infuse 1 the spirit of God into the family and
 the state. The state is the holiest and
 highest form of alliance of man. A
 true politician is in the grandest voca- | ton on earth. To cast vote ought to | be as holy thing as a prayer To be
 an officer of the city government of
 New Haven or elsewhere is as noble as
 to be q preacher of the gospel The righteous man is like palm tree for many reasons. The tree has marvellous vitality; if stripped of it's exterior its
 heart still lives. The palm in tropical
 countries is used for 365 different use 1 ful purposes If I Were pastor of a church l would rather have one man
 good for 365 things than 365 men good
 for nothing
 | What good have you done during the
 past year? In the name of God make up tonight. Woe, woe, to him at ease
 in Zion. When the great ocean of eter-
 nity breaks on the sands of time all lines will be obliterated. and only one
 line will remain-the one separat ting
 those who serve God from those who do
 not. On which side of the line will you
 be? Let us all say, We will be saved."
 During the sermon MT. Mills was ob-
 Hged to request the usfers to quiet
 some small boys in the gallery, who made consider able noise