The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-01-15
MEETINGS WELL ATTENDED


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tried to convert them Jesus said:
Lift up your eyes, look at these fields,
they are ripe for the work" There are
people waiting all around you for you
to bring them to Christ. Too many of
us are suffering from the miasma of
worldly passion. The curse of God
rests on some of us because We have
been preferrlng something else ITO His
service, Go out into the highways and
the Lodges and gather people in. Do
mot wait for ministers to do it, but bestir
yourselves and bring them in"
REV. MIR. BIEDERWOLF'S SER
MON.
Mr.. Biederwolf spoke ait Calvary Bap-
fist church, last evening to an audience
of about 900 persons. The hymn praise
Him, Praise Him." was sung by the
choir and congregation, after which Mr..
Biederwolf made some announcements
of meetings. Prayer was offered by
Mr.. Hatchet and Mr.. Nichols of Howard
avenue Baptist church. Mr.. Biederwolf
read from the Ninetieth Psalm and an
nounced his text as verse IL of the Nine
teenth Psalm: ''Who can understand
his errors? Cleanse thou me from Sc
cret SINS
The sermon was in substance as fol-
lows:
"Sin is worse than hell, for hell is
hateful to man, while sim is hateful to
God. We cannot hide any sin from
God. His eye is ever OPEN to every
tsin of every kind. l think that the
worst torment of the lost world will be
the consciousness that the eye of God
is looking DOWN upon the wretched
sinner Through all time. Be not de-
ceived; God is not Knocked whatsoever
mann soweth that shall he also reap.
| would not dare to tempt the good
ness of God by committing sin, ex-
pecting-lto be forgiven through the for
giveneSs of God. Paul said that We
will keep the whole law if we do unto
one another as we, etc. 1t is a serious
thing. One of the secret sins is the
harboring of an unkind spirit toward
any of your fellowmen. You have no
right to act towards others otherwise
than God does to you. There are 9TH
er secret sins, giving awy to passion,
of malice and pride. I have seen
drunkang saved by scores. You say 1T
is a noble sight, but l can tell you of a
nobler sight, when you see a person
overcome a secret sin. People speak
of the awfulnesg, of murder, but
would as soon go before my father with
the blood of my fellowmen ON my
hands as with a thought of hatred in
my heart and with an unforgiving
spirit. 1t is the heart that lis cleansed
of secret impurities that will stand be-
fore Christ at last when He has gather
ed together His chosen ones. God will
never forsaka that mani and woman
who is honestly trying to overcome sin.
believe that the people of God have
often prayed for blessings which were
not granted because of secret Efns.
Secret sins will lead you into open sin.
| believe that the mani who does not
make an honest effort to forsake his
secret sins will at last come to rejoice
in 1T openly before the world. A single
sin may lose for you your soul. Achilles
is said to have been invincible. BUT
there was one little spot on the bottom
Of his heel He fought for years with
US, We may be pure I'M all respects but
one and that one, though it be little,
may destroy all hope Some people
congratulate themselves that their sin
is a little one. There is no little sin.
The single scratch of Laerte's dagger
which sufficed to kill Hamlet and him
self as easily as the scores of daggers
which pierced Caesar in the senate
chamber
Shall we not cry, then, cleanse thou
me from secret sin? o, friends, can
not you see that the only thing to do
with sin is to give it up? Don't for
sake, then, as people throw over bag
gage in storm with a rope tied to
them and when it is calm again pull
| them back but cut them loose and cast
them off forever. Some people ask me
| if I believe in holiness. There is moth
| ing in the world that I believe to be
more real. Oh that the people of God
would cry out, Take away my SIM and
| try to live perfectly holy lives. And
now, as you leave your seats and go
away may you have the determination
to cleanse yourselves from secret sins
and through Christ to become perfect
!
AT CHURCH OF THE REDEEMER.
| Mr.. Mills preached at the Church Of
the Redeemer last evening to a crowded
house from the text 1. Corinthians, 1922,
eff any man love not the Lord Jesus
Christ let him be Anathema," and gave
as the subject of his sermon 'Our Love
for Christ" He said in part:
'These words sound like a sentence
of judgment on all who have not learn
ed to love Christ. Many of us have an
easy way of disposing of these terrible
passages by saying they do not mean
this or that. Paul in this passage means
that it is a terrible thing not to love the
Lord Jesus Christ, that this is the one
great message of the Old Testament as
well as of the New. We find it in the
commandments in the words, "Take dill
| igent heed to love the Lord, thy Cod
and when Jesus came He taught the
same thing. Love is the very secret of
| life, and to love righteousness and to
/ love love is to begin to live. Our love
for Christ is the measure of our appre-
citation of His love for us, which we can
only know except as we learn to love
Him and open our hearts to Him. I
cannot imagine worse torment than
| trying to live the sermon on the mount
while at the same time wanting to lead
a selfish life. Without faith it is impos-