The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-01-16
MANY ASKED FOR PRAYERS
GREAT INTEREST AROUSED IN REP.
b. FAY MILLS MEETINGS.


Successful Services Last Evening-Ad-
dressed by MIR. Mills and Mr.. Biedcrwolf
Mr.. Murray to Speak to Policemen 10
day-Arrangements for Other Special
| Meetings.
Rev. B. Fay Mills spoke yesterday
at the Grand Opera house on the sub
ject What is Love?" He said in parts
God is love and outside of Him there
is no love. If we could make ourselves
believe that love were AM emotion
which We could possess without putting
away our selfshness, there would be
no hope for some of us. They say
TIL endure SO much and NO more;
but love endures aid things. Love Is
willing, wise. forbearing and unselfish.
God revealed Himself ito us on the
cross, and we never would have known
God If 1t were not for the crucifxion.
| do not mean to justify that act any
more than would Justify our sins
which tear open His wounds afresh.
II assume that we believe that there
is a God in some form or other. Does
| God hate us? is He Indifferent to
us? Adam and Eve and every son
and daughter of Adam and Eve that
failed failed because they doubted
1 the love of God. Christ was a man
and no man ever looked upon such
a tangle of human schemes ais CON
fronted Him, but He succeeded because
He never doubted the love of God,
THE Episcopalians, Congregatio
lists, Baptists, Catholics, Jews and all
\ the others have failed because they
doubted THE love of God. When Al man
believes that God is love and that
love is God, he is indeed born OF God.
The man who loves is all powerful.
Such an one can never be plunged
into the depths OF despair.
THE knowledge that God loves all
the world is not new; you have known
] 1t all the time. should think, old men,
that it would prevent you from sim
ming; young men, should think that
knowledge would crush the irnpurity
out OF your being; o women, should
think it would cure you of selfishness
and frivolity."
THE AFTERNOON MEETING
| AT $3.50 after the ladies' prayer meet-
ing, Mr.. Mills addressed a large meet
ing ait Calvary Baptist church from
the text Genesis 20. He spoke Of the
sacrifice God called upon Abraham to-
make and said further: "God requires
US ito make sacrifices in order that He
may test our faith, and for this reason
He called upon Abraham to sacrifice
his only son. You will remember that
this awful test was mot the first one de-
manded of Abraham by God and if
1t had been Abraham would never havs
attempted to fulfil it. Little by lit
tie he had been led UP to SUCH a state.
that he would obey. Before this hef
had been requested to separate him
self from his people. He moved but
took his relations with him, which did
not fulfill the command of God. Abra-
ham was not a man wonderful for the
fertility of his belief or obedience, but
was a conscientious man. When the
time for the great test came God
tempted him. wish we might all fully
understand the meaning of the word
temptation BY the devil we are
tempted to evil, by God to good. God
tests or tempts our faith. It was a.
pathetic belief to Abraham that God
! was waiting at last to put his fait1i
to the test. The hard tests for him
were that he must overcome his maturaI
i feeling; that he was called upon to vio-g
late the most SACRED feelings Of man;
and that the request seemed a seriously
unreasonable one
Abralhanl was called upon to kill the
child Of promise, Him of whom His ex-
perience had been most sacred. The re-
quest seemed unreasonable with every-
thing to lose and nothing to gain. tt
required on the part of Abraham per-
sonal performance of duty. Abraham
did not confide I'M Sara concerning his
great trial. God never asked a. woman
to kill her child.
Abraham was reconciled to the COM
mand of God by what he knew of God
and this is the only way for any of US
to become feconciled to Gods demands.
Abraham is held before us as an ex-
ample because he placed implicit con-
fidence in God. When we feel as il we
were worthless and AIS if all our life
were fruitlegs, if we have personal
experience of God and feel that we can
trust all to Him then we have gained
the victory. This story is not of the
sacrifice Of Isaac, but Of Abraham. God
never takes the deed for the will.
Maybe you sit dn a church pew and
outside you fulfill the commands OF
God, but except your Righteousness ex-
ceed that Of the scribes and Pharisees
you cam never enter the kingdom OF
God. MFR. Hills sang II Have Heard
Thee, Savior, Calling"
At 1880 in the evening the Calvary
Baptist church audience room was COM
pletely filed with an audience of about
| y,