The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-04

soon as you make up your minds that there shall be no saloons in New Haven as soon as you care as much for men as you do for money, then you can stop the saloon business and you will be fit to enter the city of the eternal God,
 q want to say to those who were church members when these meetings began that great responsibility is upon you. If you are weak and un- spiritual these new converts will be the same, You must be pure, holy and full of the spirit of God. l charge you to- night that you bring all these children home with you let not one drunkard go back, not one young girl go back into the miasma out of which she has been drawn, not one young man go back into the dark abyss of doubt Oh what call is there to you for these who have just taken the first steps into a Christian life. I would like to preach sermons to you on Bible study, on pray CT and on obedience. Study the Bible as men search for gold, as a hungry man searches for food. Pray at regular times and places, morning, noon and night Best of all, pray increasingly. If you will learn to pray with all there is of you you will not need the sermon in obedience. All perplexing questions as to playing cards, dancing, working on Sunday and dishonesty in business, etc, can be easily settled by paying heed to this maxim, It is never right to do wrong If there is any doubt about it don't do it. He doubteth is damned if he eat and he that doubts is damned if he dances It is wrong to do any thing which may make your brother stumble, by which he is offended or by which he is wronged The best way to decide all this is to decide to do what God says and then ask Him what it is. These are not questions for you to de- eide for yourself
 The saying I can decide for myself is the meanest saying of the devil You must not say Jesus will You go with me to the dance tonight? If Jesus has to follow you around there is something the matter with you. Find out where Jesus is going and go along. It may be that there is all the difference be- tween heaven and hell in the saying Lord show me what to do and I will do it and Lord show me what to do and I will think about it. Now you will ask me what l think about it. I don't dance. Some say Of course you don't, you are minister. See here, do you want a higher standard for your minister than for your wife, sister or children? If you are going to be Chris tians, be Christians; don't try to see how small you can be, but how big and powerful you can be in your Christian ity. If you are going to join the church don't join simply the meeting house. Join everything that God believes in, not for what you will get out of it, but for what you will give.
 T don't believe you can let these meetings go by and not feel impressed thereby and be the same you were be- fore. We have been seeking not yours, but you. We are not unmindful of your generous gifts but we would rather see one more soul brought to God in New Haven than to receive all the gold in the city. If you go to the lost world you will remember these meetings. Perhaps you have been waiting until the last moment until the eleventh hour. This has now come to the last invitation. Will you accept it?"
 At the conclusion of Mr. Mills ser mon brief remarks were made by Rev. Dr. Brown, Rev. Mr. Griffin, Rev. Dr. Phillips and Rev. Mir. Mason. Follow ing these gentlemen MT. Mills, MT. Biederwolf and MT Murray made fare well remarks and MT. Hills in place of speaking sang a solo. After the bene- diction the many friends of MT. Mills crowded around him to shake his hand and say goodby. He with his assistants were driven to the depot and when they arrived there they found a large dele gation of the choir present to bid MT. Mills farewell. The choir stood on the depot platform next to the railroad and sang several songs until the train pulled out. The members of the choir pre- sented MT. Hillis with a fine token of esteem in the shape of an elegant leather travelling case.
 The expenses of the meetings have been about $4,00O and about the same amount has been raised by subscription and collection
 MT. Biederwolf will preach at 3:3O this afternoon at the Grand avenue Baptist church and at 7:30 D. m. at the Grand avenue Congregational church in Fair Haven.