The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-01-14
THE HARRINGTON PUBLISHING GO.

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 ''There is a power that can take the things of God and burn them into the hearts of men until they shall cry in deep concern, Men and brethren, what shall We do?' and this power is yours by promise and lies within your reach. No brighter day .has ever daWned upon, the church of God than this in which we live; in the heart of every hopeful Christian there is no room for such deadly pessimism, but in every loyal Christian breast there burns that hope which is born of the spirit of God.
 Still another prevailing misconcep- ton is that this baptism is only for the preacher or the teacher, or those who, as we say, are engaged in spiritual min- istration. But this is not true. The separation of business into secular and spiritual is not according to the idea of God. Christ in His day did not be- lieve in such deadly dualism. God does not believe in 1t to-day. All things that are not sinful ought to be made spr- itual and mans business ought to be a ministration of the gospel of God"
 The service closed with prayer and singing.
 At 7:30 in the evening, when the reg ular evening meeting began, the main audience room was literally packed full and as large numbers of persons con- tinued to come an overflow meeting was organized in the lecture room in the basement, and this room was also soon packed. The overflow meeting was conducted by Mr Biederwolf. MT. Mann led the singing. There were at least sixteen hundred persons in attendance at the two meetings.
 After a solo, Breathe Upon Me, Holy Spirit" by MT. Hills, and prayer by D. B. Tucker, Mir Millse announced that next Sunday special meetings for young people would be held in various parts of the city.
 At every noon meeting this week MT. Mills announced that he would preach about Love" the sermon at noon to- day at the Grand opera house to be on "The Power of Love-" and tomorrow on What is Love?" During the rest of the week there will be afternoon meetings at both Calvary Baptist and at the Church of the Redeemer. MT. Mills and MT. Biederwolf alternate in conducting the services at the two places.
 The choir and congregation then sang after which MT. Mills spoke from the text, Isaiah 43; 10 and 12 "Ye be my witnesses, etc. He said: ssIn case at law good witness is an important part of the case. If the judge is incor- ruptible and wise, and if the jury has the spirit oe fairness and the witness can speak intelligently of what he has seen there can be no trouble in adjust ing the case, and all the advocates in the world could not prevent a right eous decision. God never had but one representative on earth, and that was Jesus. God has chosen people to be messengers and people to be witnesses of what they know of Him. He places great dependence on the testimony of those who have His word. Suppose God has nos witnesses, or those who speak from incorrect knowledge or their testimony is of such character as to be against the glory of His word, then God is hampered in His work.
 Never was such opportunity given to a people as has been given to us, but there is not single seed of evil which, carried death and destruction to na- tions of antiquity which is not already sEToutin.g in the land of ours America should be the leader of nations into a heritage of peace. It needs to be a spiritual a powerful witness for God We are hastening forward in mental and physical development but we must also hasten along in our spiritual de- velopment, and with this development we may see established on earth ver- itable city of God. I believe we may yet see the millennium established be- fore we die. if the young people get themselves to work. They must believe that Jesus revealed to us not only the character of God but the possibilities of man. In four ways God calls upon us to bear testimony in His behalf: First, by the bright, blazing purity of our Christ-like lives. There is no use of our having consecration meetings and joining the church and protesting ourselves followers of Christ unless our lives have been purified by Him. A second way is by the joy and peace of Christ. I don't blame people some times for not wanting the sort of re- ligion some of us have This nlelan- choly attack of blues some people call religion, I don't want. I would only want such religion when I go to die and then only enough to carry me through the pearly gates. I do not, however, believe that one person in 10,000,000 is truly converted on the death bed. The meanest thing in the world is what we, for lack of a better name, call a worldly Christian. We might as well speak of a white black man. A worldly Christian is contradiction of himself. To God there is vast differ ence between being conformed to the world and conforming the world. The third characteristic is self-sacrifice and about sacrifice people have confused ideas. The word means to make holy or sacred, not necessarily dying or suffering. I wish people could get the idea of sacrifice as meaning living by love, so that we may say, Father, un- to Thy hands I commend my spirit
 As much conjecture and many state ments have been made about the city concerning the amount alleged to have been promised MT. Mills for his ser vices in conducting these meetings, and on this account the executive committee has given out the following statement:
 In answer to questions which I under stand are being asked in the eommuni- ty, and to correct any misapprehensions I would state in behalf of the executive committee, that no contract has been made with MT. Mills, nor has any prom