The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-01-23

deemer, Rev. Mr. Biederwolf speaking
in the former place and Rev. Mr.. Mills
i'm the latter. Both churches were we'll
filled.
Mr.. Mills spoke from Acts S:21, "Thy
heart is not right in the sight of God"
He said:
"An atheistic heart is not right in
Gods sight. There are very few men
who have atheistic heads and a great
many who have atheistic hearts. Very
frequently 1T depends upon what the
definition of God may be as to the ques-
ton whether certain men would say
that there is no God or not. The tend
ency to-day of all that school of science
that has been in the habit of denying
the existence Of personal GOD has
grown almost entirely away from the
theoretical atheism into agnosticism;
and now the tendency of all scientific
thought is clearly towards the acknowl-
edgment that there must a personal
Creator and Governor of the universe.
o man, il there is any law of God that
is irksome to you, you are cherishing
the seeds Of atheism.
An idolatrous heart is not right in
the man to whom this text was spoken
by Peter, There are men to-day who
do not begin to- keep the first COM
mandment. I believe that if man
keeps that commandment he will Go all
that God will ever ask of him. and do
all that God wants him to do, and will
become all that God wants him to be.
The man that puts God first has found
the key that will unlock every perplexi-
ty concerning the development Of
character and the attainment of power
and influence. The man who puts any
thing before God is an idolator.
IAN unbelieving heart is not right
in Gods sight. BY that I mean the
heart that does not believe in Jesus
Christ. A righteous man wants to be q
Christian. A man could not love right
eorsness and hate wrong without want
ing to be a Christian. The reason Of
this is that Jesus Christ is incarnate
righteousness and practical righteous
ness. You are self-condemned unless
you have come to this place to say
Master to the Son of God
"a dishonest, unloving heart is not
right in Gods sight, as is also a
divided, variable heart. Here is a man
who is trifiing with God; now he is
serious and now he is thoughtless; now
he is earnest and now he seems dead
and unmoved; now he is awakened and
now he seems drowsy; now his heart is
sensitive and now it has grown hard
again; now he is starting heavenward
and now he is turning back.
"a hard. impenitent heart, and a
careless, proerastinating heart are not
right in Gods sight. The devil makes
people proud of very strange things He
makes men proud that they are brutal,
and lustful and selfish and mean and
avaricious and cruel, and even makes
people proud that they are not proud.
l think that some of the proudest peo-
pie / have ever seen have been those
who seem to be proud of their humility.
But the strangest thing Of all is that
he Is able to make people proud that
they have hard hearts, hearts that are
unconcerned about sin and righteous
ness and Judgment and the mercy Of
God, and the love and service of God
and men. You have the wrong name
for the thing that has made YOU uncon-
cerned about the way of life. 1t is a sin
itself, some deadening form of sin-a
sin of avarice. of selfishness, or of
pride. Brother, if your heart is not
right you are all wrong.
1T will not do for you to prefer
som ething else to God If tonight there
be in you a disposition to delay the
payment Of your debt to God, that very
disposition in as indication that your
heart is not right in the sight of God.
A large measure of the sons Of men
lose their souls by saying to God, Not
to-day There is an allegory of the
council Of the devils in Hell at the time
that Satan heard that a revival had
commenced in a certain community. Ac-
cording to the story, he called his coun-
sellors together and asked their advice
as to how this spiritual atmosphere
might be changed. Different ways were
proposed to break UP the revival, but
all We're rejected until finally one said
that he would go to the revival and tell
people that the Bible was all true, that
there was a God and heaven, devil
and a hell, and that the people were
making their choice in this life as to
where they would spend the future ages
but then he would say, but you have
plenty of time. Put this off. Wait un-
til Tomorrow and Satan said to him,
Go! This is only a parable, but think
that it is true tonight. l believe that
this emissary of satan has come into
this audience and has been saying to
the people here, Put it off, You will
heed this voice at your peril. Listen
rather to the voice which says, My son,
give Me thine heartp Now is the ac-
cepted time Now is the time of saliva
tion. Which voice will you heed?"
Evangelist Biederwolf preached fine
sermon last night at the Calvary Bap-
tist church. His subject was "Sin"
Perhaps no fact" he said, sis more
generally known and admitted than
that sin exists in the world Some men,
of course, are foolhardy enough to deny
the existence of everything good. But
we must in truth confess that the prin-
cipIe os evil has existed in this world
from time very soon after the worlds
beginning. 1t is a strongly significant
fact that all attempts to define sin with
out the Bible have ended in error and
delusion. Some call evil an eternal
principle, and thus destroy mans re-
sponsibility. Some make it weakness,
and thus exalt the tiger principle of the
survival of the fittest.' According to
this then the murderer is better than
his victim Sophistry will say: What
ever is, is right Sin is. Therefore it is
right. Sin s good and the devil is good