The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-01
HYPOTHETICAL PRAYERS
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 Program of Sunday Services.
 Property in its Relation to the King dom of God" was the subject of Rev. B. Fay Mills sermon at the Grand opera house yesterday noon. A large audi ence was present and listened attent- lively to the address. MT Mills spoke as follows:
 Jesus seemed almost indifferent to material things. He had these material things, but He used them for the ben eft of other people. The Christian the ory is that all belongs to God. Seek first the kingdom of God, and if you do there will be no question about the rest of 1t. ....-..
 q believe that a large part of the paralysis that rests upon the Church of God comes through the misuse of money. ...-
 'It is not right for a 5000 kind of a man to do $500 worth of work.
 q think man ought to have as much rapture in paying his taxes to the state as buying Christmas gift for his chill dren. It is to be used for his fellow beings. I know that some of our men in legislatures endorse iniquitous bills and use money to have them passed. I know that much of the money collect ed by the state is stolen.
 "The principal object for the posses sion of money is to bring love upon earth Whatever God wants done is for man to do. I believe it is more good to have business conducted on Christian principles than to found uni versailles.
 This great glaring crime of to-day is what we call competition. In the begin ming men owned their land together Then came a time when men were owned by others. It is called slavery Then it was the feudal system. The present system, called competition, has helped the powerful and crushed the weak. Now, at the present time, 200 GOO men control three-fourths of the wealth of the United States. The ac- cuHulating of money is not so much brNn work as it is the use of money already possessed Millionaires can make all those below them pay toll at their will. Capitalists take everything from the laboring man, except the man himself Are the men who work on those machines which do the work of two hundred men paid as much in proportion? No. Thousands are de- graded and those who control it are made prosperous. Competition means the destruction of life I is the atheism of civilization. Competition is anarchy. Cain was the author. To-day charge it as being the death of Christianity. This horrible, deadly principle of com petition does not believe in Christ. Take the Standard Oil company.
 ''To assume that humanity is selfish is worse than a pagon theory. Every plant that God has not planted shall be rooted up. Oh! Open up your eyes and see these things"
 A good sized audience was in attend ance at the armory last evening to at tend the last of the Mills meetings there this week. The half hour, from 7:15, was occupied in the praise ser vice. Rev. John C. Collins of this city offered prayer, and Mir. Hills sung a solo, Room in Heaven for Thee" which he rendered to perfection. MT Mills spoke from the text, And yet there is room.' He said T am sure there is yet room. This is the gospel of a self sacrificing God. There is room for all to return who will and who know God s love. During the first part of the war there were many deserters, and finally President Lincoln issued a proclamation to the effect that all who would go +r a;,. tna orIn Many did return, and justified the pres ident's clemency and remained faithful until the close of the war. Sometimes we hear people say that mans saliva tion depends upon himself, and again others say it depends upon God. Both these assertions are true When men have left Gods army it is not for them to say whether they shall be pardoned or not, but after the proclamation or clemency it is for men to say if they will come back. No one need doubt Gods lcve for him. Gods arm is still stretch ed out for us, and it is for you to &C., cept His forgiveness.
 q don't believe that the Holy Spirit ever moved men with as great power as at the present day. It is said that in ancient times 3,00O people were convert ed in one day, but in the United States lately in times of revival 10000 people have been brought to Christ in one day, and in ordinary times between 5000 and 9,O0G people each day yield to God. Whole armies are enlisting for Christ. I was preaching in Philadelphia one night, and when I gave the invitation a man got up, who said he had never be- fore ioeen inside q church and had never seen a Bible, although he had heard of it. He said that if a man could be saved by simply giving himself to Christ he wished to do it. He had been a drunken sailor and had come to the meeting from a street fight. He was at once led into the light of God, and a Bible was given to him. Inside Of two weeks he knew more of the inside of it than many people who have been church members for fifty years. He ogathered in others to the Lord, and in a short time had induced ten others to confess Christ. The man was poor, and one night I asked him where he had stayed the night before. He said that he had walked the streets. That was the kind Of spirit. l don't take much stock in a man who would kneel down for nights lodging This man said he wanted to suffer as much for Jesus Christ as he had been compelled to do for the devil.
 wish to be lifted up. Act on your best