The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-01-24
MISSION "REMINISCENCES
4DDRESS BY s. 1T. HADLEY OF THE
 FAMOUS M,AULEY MISSION.

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 "A Great Meeting in Center Church. Rev,
 MT. Mills Sermon Last Evening "A Rous-
 ing After Meeting-A Frank Man-His
 Conscience Blunted-special Sunday
 Meetings-Men's Meeting Tonight.
 The usually large audience of about sixteen hundred greeted Rev. B. Fay Mills at the noon meeting yesterday at the Grand opera house. MT. Mills preached on 1.-The Kingdom of Heaven and the Teachings of Jesus," and said, among other valuable things:
 There are some people that hold these two gospels-the gospel of the kingdom and the gospel of grace. One we'll known gentleman says that we should not attempt now to live accord ing to the gospel of Jesus because 1t would create confusion; that one might as we'll try to obey the laws of the Unit ed States in Germany. He believes that Jesus being away, the king being ab- sent, we should not attempt to follow the gospel until we had been translated to His kingdom, some far off heaven. But I cannot bring myself to accept such rule. The gospel of Jesus Is a gospel of love and was intended for this earth. for this time and all time.
 Jesus said that the Kingdom had come. There Is no principle for the re- generation of the world that is not working now. The kingdom is here just as summer has come when the svioletS appear. It was March when Jesus said that the kingdom has come; 1t is June now and summer with it's full fruitage will come when the gospel of love pre- walls.
 Jesus represented love as producing life. The old idea of an eye for an eye and a tooth for tooth has been super seded by the teachings of the Savior which says that you are to love your neighbor as yourself When Jesus came to this world He said the kingdom had already come. His teaching was the spiritual influence. His last command ment to the disciples was, Go forth and disciple all nations, and 10, am with you unto the end. While there is. d coming of Christ, it is yet to be. Butt the fact we need to fix upon our minds iF that He is with us all the time.
 The nations that have lived accord ing to the gospel have prospered. Do we not see to-day the great ruler or the east. the Turkish empire, isreceiving it's punishment because of its exchlsiyeness and bigotry. And so it must be with every nation that 1t not governed by the gospel of love..'
 Ganfpr x,h1It.So o'clock yesterday afternoon, when the. regular afternoon meeting began. It was expected that MT. Mills would speak. but his friend, s. H. Hadley of New York, successor to Jerry Mckinley. at the head of the famous Water street mission under the bridge in New York, wals present, and at the request of MT. Mills consented to speak. MT. Mills introduced him, paying a glowing trib- ute to his great work in the home mis- sion field MT. Hadley on rising to speak began by singing two verses Of ITO Save a Poor Sinner Like Me- after which he said: My dear friends How I thank Glod for this opportunity to speak of the dear Savious, of whom [ have been singing. Our mission work in the Water street mission is not the outgrowth of evolution, but is a! sudden leap from he'll to heaven. The people with whom we work are past worldly help and the cases which come to us are beyond human aid: they are coml pelled to fall back on Jesus Christ. Many people come down ito see the sights and some come to help along. Sister Whittemore came down some years ago to see the sights She was one of those church members who go to balls, thea.ters and church indiscrimY inately and who, if they want to be saved, would not know whether to go the theater, to balls or to church. On the night when Mrs. Wihittemore was there when Jerry McAuley asked all who wished to come to Christ to stand up, she was the f1nst to rise. You know how God l1as used that woman of re- finenent and wealth to start homes fon her fallen sisters.
 MT. Cutting, at present treasurer of the mission and a prominent Episcopal layman, came down one night to help and after being there awhile he kneeled down and said: Oh Lord, haven't got the faith these men have andl mean to stay here until get it."
 'sThe mission is a clean place. There is no absconding of funds or running away with other men's wives, as is sometimes the case in other places so that when was called to take charge of it I realized the great responsibility. I was a good nanipulator of cards and could deal with ease either from the top or the bottom of the pack, but in this matter felt like going cautiously. Four years after was converted I re- ceived the call and prayed over it. The Lerd told me to go ahead. I wanted proof that was called by the Lord. On the first night of my taking the charge tremb1ed. That night crowds of fel- lows from Murray Hill and ladies in fine dresses came to give me a send off. tremlbled all the more, and asked Ged if He had really called me to give me at least one soul that evening. The re- suit was that He gave me one of the biggest scoundrels and drunkards in New York; he weighed 260 pounds. His clothing was brief, almost too brief to mention. His trousers and jacket wers each too short at both ends, and for a spacebetween the two there was no cov- ering at all. He was dirty and ragged and drunk, and had just come from a stale beer dive on Mulberry street. His name was Jim Edwards, and at ths close of my talk Jim was the first one