The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-01-31

wanted to turn away from his sln' want to warn you tonight against the first act of sin. If your hands are bound with only a few cords you can break them, but if you ale bound by hundred cords you cannot get away, so the complication of evil puts such power of evil on your life that you c'h never set rid of it.
 "Thirdly, is the skeptical young man safe? I never saw n my life one happy man who was not a believer in Jesus Christ. An inhdel once told me that II a man was once converted he had never been an infidel. I have seen inidels with good credentials converted. The two greatest infidels in the country cho- sen to speak at the Tom Paine celebra- tion in Cincinnati some years ago, Ell jah Brown and Reuben Daley, nave both since been converted, the formef being now editor of the Rams Horn, a Christian publication, while the latter is minister of the gospel.
 How can man have rest when his soul is disturbed within by questions of destiny? Destruction and misery are in his way. I don't say that there has never been any good done by 1nhdels but if you were to write them down l doubt if you would find enough to make one line Infidelity is not building up. It destroys what is, but puts nothing m place of 1t. The destructive passion IS an awful one.
 'Infidel writers themselves express the practical wretchedness of thelr lives The most damnable passion or the human heart is that in which a man steels his heart against the revelation of God through His Son. Unless you have given yourselves to God, although your lives are pure, there is one thing you lack-you are like a rope which al most, but not quite, reaches a sinking ship. You are like S100 to pay $1,00o taxes with. You are good enough as far as you go, but you don't go far enough. Brother. rouse yourself tonight. The broadway is not an unpleasant one-lt is easy; you start on it and go still more rapidly until some day you cannot stop. There are three ways in which a man may lose his soul. Helrnay curse God and die; he may smilingly reject Christ and die; he may do absolutely nothing and die.
 Young man, salvation is a positive thing. Rouse yourselves; lay hold on eternal life.
 "Fourthly, is the procrastinating young man safe? The old saying that hell is paved with good resolutions is true. There is no one in the lost world tonight who wasn't once nearly saved. Oh, young man, if there be any good | i,,,, iT hoo ,.f o l- on it. The life line is thrown to you. Say you have an honest impulse to be- come a Christian man."
 At the after-meeting following the address several answered MT. Mills in- vitation and answered in the words he requested them to use, 'I want to serve Christ" During the after-meeting the audience and speakers were greatly an ncyed, even during the prayers, by some one playing piano in one of the rooms back of the stage. Finally on a request being sent to him the disturb ing player ceased.
 A fine pipe organ was placed in posi- tion on the stage yesterday, it having been secured through the generosity of August Bolze, the State street music dealer.
 The program for Sunday meetings is as follows:
 MT. Mills, Second Regiment armory- 10:10, To laboring men and women; 3:3o 7:30, to all classes.
 MT. Biederwolf At 10:30, East Haven Congregational church; 3:30 and 7:S0 Polls, to all classes.
 MT. 'Murray.-At a. m, to the prison CTS at the jail; 1O.3O, City Point M. F. church; 3:30, Westviile Congregational church; 7:3O, Whitneyville Congrega- tional church,.
 UNION MEETINGS. l Howard avenue Congregations church. Rev. Dr. F A. M Brown. | Dwight Place church, Rev. MT Ma. son.
 Church of the Redeemer, Rev. MT. Pc teat.
 | Fair Haven Congregational church Rev. pr. W. l.. Phillips.
 At the meeting last evening small en velopes were passed through the au. dience in which those who desired were requested to put whatever contribution they cared to make, writing their name on the outside. These envelopes are tc be handed to MT. Mills, his assistants or to any pastor or usher. This is ab solutely the only remuneration MT. Mills will receive for his labors in New Fla 1 ven.
 l SERMON TO STUDENTS.
 Yesterday being the day of prayer al Yale university Mir Mills, preached tt large audience of students a tDwigh hall at o'clock p. m. on the subject '"The First Gift" taking II Co.,, viii, , as his text, "They first gave their own selves upto the Lord"
 "We have talked so much about giv ing ourselves to Go," said the evangel ist, that the expression has alnos fallen from grace. There is scarcely al occasion of worship when in sermon ol prayer or song or testimony some men ton is not made of the giving of tn, man to God.
 | What do we mean by a gift, ant how does gift differ from the transfer of an article under other circumstances In the first place, gift must be volun | tary. You cannot force a man to make you a gift.
 "We all know people that do goot things from unworthy motives. Virtu, | is something more than mere negative goodness; it is a voluntary choosing tt be right because it is right. And tn, | giving of ones self to God is the sur render to God because this,is our req sonable service.
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