The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-01-13
THOUSANDS HEAR MILLS
GRAND OPERA HOUSE FILED WITH
 EAGER LISTENERs.

Evangelist at 10 a. m.--The Men's Meet ing Last Evening Had an Immense Audi ence- Packed to the Door.
 Special services in connection with the B. Fay Mills revival meetings were held yesterday in various parts of the city. and large congregations greeted the famous evangelist everywhere he spoke. At 1O;30 a. m. he preached in the Grand avenue Congregational church in Fair Haven. It had been ar ranged, if necessary, to hold an over flow meeting in the Grand avenue Bap- tist church, where Mir. Beiderwolf would speak but although the Congregational church was crowded full to the doors, the overflow meeting was not made necessary. MT. Mills spoke from the text Corinthians, }, 19: God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Him sels''
 MT. Mills spoke in part as follows "1rhis text is the heart of the gospel, and is in the midst of one of the great est statements by the Apostle Paul con cerning God and the world, Christ and redemption and opportunity. The three misconceptions that seem to be here set right are that this is the devils world; that Christ was reconciling God to the world; the thought that certain individuals were selected as the spec ial objects of redemption. The world has never belonged to the adversary of men, although some passages Of Scrip ture have suggested that interpreta- ton. These are simply references 10 an apparent triumph of evil which was by no nnea ms permanent. A Christian must certainly now believe that the world is redeemed and not lost; that redemption is a part of creation. It was God who was in Christ reconciling the world un- to Himself. The father watches the pathway with longing, and sends his lcve after the boy. God loved the world and had always loved the world, but i. was necessary for it's salvation that the world should learn to love God and in this way that revelation was brought about Gods choice of men is that he may baptise them unto the spir- 1t of Jesus, and that they may be priests unto God in behalf of their fel- low men. in their loving ministry of deliverance for their fellows.
 The three doctrines taught are that the atonement of Christ is the intense and eternal experience of God; that this is a redeemed world; that the in dividual salvation for all is certain for these who surrender themselves to the love Of God as manifested in Christ. The life and suffering of Jesus in the presence os sin was a revelation of -1,ot 1,od ,lator ;,, God He was the manifestation of the Father, the brightness of Gods glory, the express image Of His person, and by His love for men He showed how God had always felt concerning sin and what it had cost Him to forgive the transgressors oe men.
 David was called a man after Gods own heart, and in our highest spiritual experiences We never reach any more exalted point of communion that in con- ncction with some of the utterances of the Shepherd King. It was, however, necessary that Jesus should come not only that men might learn the charac- ter Of God and their relation to Him, but that they might also learn their re- lation to one another and that the worlds misery might be put away and EeitE Oi uittf CI GclI ptcICc llllSllI udWTl by the banishing of sin from the world in the triumph of the brotherhood of man. It was the world itself that Christ came to save, to quiet it's confu- sion and make this earth unto the city fthe External God. God is not will ing that any should perish, and the bitterest drop in the dregs of the i'm pertinent sinners cup Of woe will be that it was needless and worse than needless because of the worlds redemp- ton through Jesus Christ
 The first doctrine is the great oppor- tunity to save the life the second is the awful peril of repecting the redemp- tion oe Christ. and the third concerns the importance of to-day. As an am- bassador for Christ, as though God did beseenh you by us, again do beseech you in Christs stead to be reeonciled to God, that ye receive not the grace of God in vian; for now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of saliva tion''
 At English hall at 3:30 Rev. Mir. Mur- ray addrasesd a large meeting, speak islg from the text Acts 16:31: And they said, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved and thy house. At tihe same time MT Mills was addressing ait the Grand Opera house a mammoth audience, es- tinn'a'tsd by George E. Bunalell of over, 5000 persons. Every seat in the theater was occupied and Hundreds Were stand : ing up i,l various pants of the house The corps of 125 us,hers we're kept busy every minute seating the continually outpourlng crowd, and finally the out side di5OTs were locked and a man sta- riclaed 'tflers notified the large numbers who yet demanded admiititance that no more could be accommodated. On the stage was seated the choir numbering 300 voices and as they with the audi etnce sang tine hynmki of lthe praise ser- vice, the opera house resounded With a. chorus, the magnitude of which has per'fa ps bee1l rarely if ever equaltad in New Haveml The singing was in charge of MT. Hifiis, who also sang a solo, .D11ifting Away" On the platform were several ministers of the city churches.
 Mir Mills spoke from the text Prov erbs 2S:1S: sfHe that coverefh fils sims shall not prosper; but whose confesselth and forsa keith them shall have mercy" The sermon was in substance as fol- lows: "The greatest curse of sin is in- keneibiaity. To be pure because we are compelled to be so is Mo virtue. To be