The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-01-08
MILLS REVIVAL MEETINGS
CHEAT INTEREST ETIDENCED IN THE VARIOUS MEETINGS HELD.

The First Noon Meeting in Grand Opera
 House Yesterday - Afternoon Prayer ! Meeting and Address--smal Attendance at,Last Evenings Meeting-Mr. Mills Says Theological students should Keep Vice : Out of New Haven.
 The first of the noon meetings of the
 revival se; ies being conducted by Rev
 B. Fay Mills was held yesterday in the | Grand opera house, owing to the cold, stormy weather the attendance was not
 so large About two hundred were pres ent. There was preliminary praise
 service, lasting ten minutes, led by John
 P. Hillis, which was followed by an ad-
 dress by MT. Mills after brief introduc 1 tory remarks by Rev. Dr. TWltchell chairman of the executive committee i'll | charge of the meeting.
 | Mir Mills spoke from the text Acts i l0:9, T ask therefore to what extent y" ! have sent for me?" In the course of his | address he said that he had come to bring no new message to New Haven as he believed that God has revealed all l 10 man that will be revealed to the re-
 1notest ages Continuing, he said We have not come to discredit any ordinary forms of work in the churches.
 I believe in churches, but believe that l they should do many things they are
 not doing. We are not here as critics. We have not come to do your work ! for you. There has been an evangelist ! trust organized the past year. In some respects the word trust has some hell
 ish applications, but I believe in a
 trust for religious purposes--the com | bining of religious men in their efforts
 for effective work. But We don't be lieve in the formation of a, religious
 trust to secure large returns without capital Some one has said that We are { living in an age which is broad, but not 1 deep nor lofty. I have no sneers for | agnosticism. l have no sympathy with 1 the man who has had no thought in ! the doubt over the destiny of mankind ! O. God-that divine unrest which means l progress"
 ! At 2:30 ?. m. the regular ladies pray
 CT meeting was held at Calvary Baptist church, and at 3:S0 the afternoon ser ! vice was held there. After the praise service from 2 o'clock until 3:30 MT. | Mills read from the second chapter of illppians, after which Mir. Hills sang ! a solo. Prayer was offered by Rev. Mr.
 Luckey of Humphrey street church. l MT. Mills announced his text from Mat I thew, fifth chapter, third verse, Bless ed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is 1 the Kingdom of God" He spoke at | length on the grandness of humility,
 and said that only those man can be i filed with God who are emptied Of
 themselves. Until it was taught by
 Christ there was no thought of putting blessings on humility, but by this It
 was learned that sef-etfacement was
 the greatest virtue on earth
 1 The evening meeting began at 7.S0,
 and the first of it was devoted to the praise service, as is ths custom at all the meetings. MT. Mills read scriptural passages and spoke from the text He- 1 brews. 6:9, But beloved, we are per suaded better things of you, and things 1 that accompany salvation, though we l thus speak" He spoke substantially l as Follows:
 1 'We in these days need to consider | whether We are ready for SpiTitual 1 awakening and need to be careful to examine our hearts to see if there is 1 falloW ground there, if they are suited 10 receive the love of God A great question to each of us is Are We in ! possession of the assurance of salva- l tion? Some people think that this as- surance is signif1ed by 8 sort of tick ] IiDor fpn1ii1c- n tfs tt I,.,s.
 the incarnation of love and the incarna- ton of righteousness. Faith is a eual- 1 ity of righteousness like unto that which man sees in Jesus Christ. We are born spiritually much as we are physically, as babes with this differ
 ence, in spiritual life we can grow rap idly, while in physical life we cannot Christian joy accompanies Christian salvation and Christian strength Christ in His gloomiest mood was filled with joy, strange as it may seem, and the river of His life ran with the peace of the eternal one. A man in circus may ride two horses at once but not if the two are going in different direc- tions, yet some of us have been saying | good Lord and good devil, and won- der why we do not have Christian joy while we are doing some good things and some evil things at the same time. If there is not in the heart a
 spirit glad to forgive injury then there
 is the spirit of q lost soul whether the person be a. minister of the gospel, d. church member or whosoever it be- and
 if such person comes before God for
 judgment he will go to the everlasting
 judgment. The Christian life is one of
 joy, because it is full of love. If We
 really love Jesus .ye have solved the
 problem of life.
 Here in this city. famed for its cul-
 ture, full of educated young men, there
 should be no vice, The young men in
 the theological seminary should make
 that impossible. One church filled with
 the power of the Holy Ghost should
 keep vice out of the city and make il
 throb with the word of God"
 The address was followed by an earn
 est prayer by MT. Mills and the meet '5ng closed by the singing of "Oh for
 Heart to Praise My God
 There are now four hundred singers
 who have agreed 10 help in the choir.
 but these will not sing all at the same
 meeting at present. At the evening
 service the choir consists of about l25