The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-01-07
FIRST MILLS MEETINGS
OPENED TN CALFARf BAPTIST
 CH URCH LAST ErENING.
The Church Well EilIed-John II. Hills in Charge of the Choir of Nearly a Hundred Noices-One Hundred and Twenty Ushers Necessary--Iist of Meetings to be Held Each Day-Address by B. Fay Mills.

| Noices-One Hundred and Twenty ushers 1 Necessary-Iist of Meetings to be Held
 Each Day-Address by B. Fay Mills. 1 The first of the series of revival meet
 ings in this city conducted by B. Fay 1 Mills, the famous revivallst, opened { most auspioiously last evening at Cal vary Baptist church. The church was completely filled as far as the seating capacity was concerned The platform has been built out, so that it's seating 1 capacity has been nearly doubled, and on it last evening, besides MT. Mills,
 were seated the large choir, gathered
 from the various city churches and consisting of nearly hundred voices, and members of the city clergy At
 the front part of the platform Is the desk of w. H. Douglass, superintend-
 ent of ushers.
 | The services were opened last evening by Rev. Dr. Masden, pastor of the First | Methodist church, with fervent pray
 CT. Rev. pr. Twtchell, chairman of
 
 meetings in charge, next spoke briefly of the object of the meetings and in be- 1 half of the clergymen present told the members of the choir that their duties were great, as singing would be exceed 1 ingly helpful in the work to be done He was followed by John P Hills, who travels wit hAIr. Mills and leads the choir, with a solo, Child of the King dom"
 1 Dr. TwNchel then announced the | meetings to be held and said that at 2;3O D. m. of every day this week there
 would be ladies' prayer meeting, fol- lowed by a regular meeting in the audi ! ence room of the church at 3;S0. At 7:3O each evening, including Friday | evening, there will be another regular service. MT. Mills will conduct the S:9Q ' and 7:30 meetings, and also the meet | ings to be held at the Grand opera
 house from F noon to 1 p. m. every
 day, beginning with to-day,
 Dr. Twitcheu then said that judging ! from the work which has been done ir other places, he thought that great
 things would come ffirom the meetings in New Haven The meetings are espe-
 cially designed for business men. pro- | fessional men and students of the uni
 versity. It is urged on all men who can spend the hour to attend the noon meetings. He concluded by expressing great pleasure al the large attendance, and introduced MT. Mills
 MT. Mills began by reading a portion
 of the fourteenth chapter of Jeremiah
 Following that the choir and congrega-
 tion sang Savior, Visit Thy Planta-
 tion"
 | MT Mills then spoke and called espe- cal attention to Jeremiah, l4:S and part 1 of 9--"Oh, the hope of Israel, the Savior thereof in time of trouble, why shouldst
 thou be as a stranger in the land and 1 as wayfaring man that turneth aside f to tarly for the night?" He spoke sub
 stantially as follows:
 | The time will come when the power of God will be manifested without linn itation, and it will be realized thae the same earnest desire to promote the wei ! fare of the community is in harmony with business, education, morality and | the idea of God. The origin of revivals
 was Gods own thought and plan In 1 early times there were lasts and feaSts; people left their vacations and came l together sometimes for months at a time, to give themselves to the worship of God. Before the coming of the Saw for there were revival preachers, John
 the Baptist being one of them, and if Jesus Himself was not revival preach CT then He was no preacher at all. He continually asked men to indicate out wardly their position, that is, on which side of the line they stood. If the church was not born in the revival with exactly such methods as those used at the present revival, then it was not born at all.
 We would not sit here tonight glo- rying in the United Etates of America had it not been for the religious awak- ening of the seventeenth century. Out of great religious awakening has come | our colleges and the great missionary spirit of the church. In 1S20-27 -37-57 there were great national awakenings. 1 think We will vet see a. great nation al revival than Isaiah ever dreamed of and greater than any mentioned in Jec- eRiah. The world never before saw such revival as We and our children will see. A whole city and a whole na- ton, as the heart of one man, shall be converted to God. Never were the pros poets for revivals so bright as at pres ent. I believe that We need to realize ehword of Christ Greater work than I do shall ye do.' Some ask why We do not see spiritual conversions as our fathers saw them. In answer to this, We do. This is asked because some persons are naturally unbelievers. There is no time in history to which we can turn when people were converted in so great numbers proportionally as at present, MT. Moody has preached in London to one congregation of 70O0 men. of whom 1000 stood on their feet and began to lead Godly lives. Wesley never witnessed such thing
 I have been here long enough to know that the gates of hell are open and that the community is full of wcrldliness and falsehood. Those who are named as people Of Christ should be careful to depart from iniquity. If should see this church crowded with those not now members I am not sure but that it would be a curse if the church is not ready to care for her children. A great argument of unbe- lievers is that there is a lack of char apter in church ,,,au,borr -rt,1-- e-,,.