The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-03-23
ONLY ONE MORE MEETING
IN THE SUNDAY AFTERNOON SER
VICES. AT THE Grand.

Rev. Mr.. Mason Preached Yesterday
Singing by Miss Loveridge-Prosram for
Next Sunday.
A large audience was present in the
Grand opera house yesterday afternoon
/ in attendance at the religious service,
one of the series being held there.
Rev. DR.. Brown offered the opening
prayer. Rev. DR.. Phillips announced
that Mrs S. S. Thompson, who was to
have sung, was i'll and unable to be
present, and instead introduced Miss
Lorevridge of the Humphrey street
church choir, who sang zone Sweetly
solemn Thought" and another selec-
ton. Dr. Brown announced that there
would be only one more Sunday after
noon service and Mr.. Douglass, super
intendent of the ushers, announced that
Hon. John G. Wooley would speak at
Calvary Baptist church this evening on
Christian Citizenship"
The sermon was delivered by Rev. Mr..
Mason of the First Baptist church who
first read from the third chapter of
Genesis. He took as his text, Genesis
iii, 8, mentioning the latter part of the
verse, Where art thou?"
Mr.. Mason said in part: This is a
solemn question from the lips of God,
an appallingly serious question falling
from the lips of God on the hearts of
guilty human soul. What a revolution
had been wrought by sin in those two
hearts. The day before they stood be-
fore God as a loving father and could
talk trustingly to Him, and to-day they
are fleeing In terror from Him, frenzied
to escape Him. In this connection we
notice especially two things, the logical
Transformation wrought by sin in
hearts and the impossibility to escape
when God calls for a soul. Gods ques-
ton was not one Of geography. He
knew where Adam was. The greatest
distances are not geographical dis
tances but moral distances. God asked
the question for the sake of arousing
the man to his own condition and an
instant revelation came with the ques-
ton.
This is not a text for the uncon-
verified or for the Christian alone, but
for everyone. Christ has said that
everyone must be with Him or against
Him, and this applies to everyone here
this afternoon. Unchristian people are
of two classes. those who are Indifferent
and those who are somewhat interested
in their spiritual condition To Chris
tian people I say Where art thou?'
Have you found a divine force work
ing in and through you every day? Is
Jesus Christ enthroned in your heart?
Have you the consciousness of the fact
that Jesus Christ loves you with the
limitlessness of a divine heart? Does
your love for Christ manifest itself in
Christian zeal?
II wish that all could ask themselves
whether or not they love their new
lives. This is an especially critical time
for those young people who have lately
given themselves to God. Every soul
here this afternoon is a sinful soul ac-
cording to Gods standard. He said
that the Lord Jesus Christ came that
we might be saved. How are we to be
saved if we neglect that salvation?"
At the close of his sermon Mr.. Mason
asked all those who had given them
selves to the Lord during the meetings
to rise and then all those who
had done so previously and who felt
that they had been strengthened during
the meetings. Nearly everyone present
rose up. Mr. Mason concluded the SER
vice with prayer.
Rev. I. G. Meserve, Of Davenport
church, will preach next Sunday after
noon at the last servise, and a large
. chorus choir will sing with Gervase
Green, Yale '94, of the Church of the
Redeemer choir, as soloist.