The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-03
LAB0RING MEN ADDRESSED
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so DaCk to perlSn m the Wilderness! or three hundred men about to die and whom l have known to seemingly re- pent, only ten had really given up their sin, as was shown when they recovered from what had threatened to be their last illness. Really, only one out of @ thousand people repent when they are dying. And now in the crisis of this moment l am to give you one of the last invitations can ever give you on earth to enter the kingdom of God. How many will say that they want to cross the border land and come to the king dom of God?"
 SERMON ON "TO-MORROW."
 MT. Mills preached at S:3O o'clock yes- terday afternoon in the armory to all classes on "To-morrow." He took his text from Exodus viii, 10, and said:
 ITO decide at once for God will re- lieve you of burden, and the conse- quence of sin. The putting off until to- morrow is deadly. There is such thing as a last time for the Spirits call. It seems to be out of the sinners pow CT to say yes. The things that he would not, those things he does, and those things he would do those things he cannot do, It seems that a tragic period is put to the day of opportu- nity. Those who at these meetings have put off their souls salvation have been keeping others out of the kingdom. Another reason for instant decision is that influence is needed now. It is now easy to enter the kingdom Those who refuse to enter hinder, and are stunrb- ling block in the way of others. Decide now Do not wait till tomorrow. De- eide in this, almost the last meeting.
 Those who are saying tomorrow are missing a great deal of joy. You can in this meeting have more solid joy than you ever knew before in your life, not tomorrow but now where youare sitting, by taking Christ as your Saviour. The goddess do not know what joy is. The Christian is always joyful. You need to lay up treasure in heaven. You need to change your home and your deeds, and all that is yours in- to the coin of heaven. Would you go as pauper into the presence of God, or would you not rather go laden with the treasure of work to service and deeds done for the Master?
 Then there is the brevity and uncer- tainty of life! Boast not myself of to- morrow, for thou knowest not what the day may bring forth!'
 ADDRESS TO LABORING MEN.
 A large audience of laboring men, members of the Central Labor union, and their friends assembled in the ar mory yesterday forenoon at 10:3O to hear Rev. MT. Mills, who by invitation preached a special sermon. After read ing from Corinthians, thirteenth chap ter, MT. Mills took as his text Jon xiv, +, My father worketh hitherto, and I work" and spoke as follows:
 All the deviltry in the world comes from the spirit that denies men to be the children of God. Believe in Christ, not as a theological creed, but as the One Who revealed the character of God to the world and as the One Who show ed us that God is our Father
 Never think anything about God ex- cept what was revealed in Christ. Jesus was gentle, unselfish, helpful; all love- compassion, service Christ was a God man and man-God. Jesus revealed to the world the perfect man that we might be like Him and grow up in His image.
 God works; yes, He works. He lives to work and He works to live The very pulsing of your heart is the energy of God. He is the first brain-w worker the first hand-worker, the first mechan- ic, the first farmer. Your very think ing is Gods energy, and your feelings are pulsations from His own. He is the great builder, the great architect of the universe.
 Man cannot create even a grain of sand or a blade of grass. And yet God is unable to do things without you. He furnishes the soil and the seed; but man must do the rest.
 "Why does God work? The answer was revealed by Jesus Christ in the miracles He wrought, always for the sake of healing and restoring. God is working for the development of a whole, perfect, undying race.
 The cross of Christ proves that God would stop at nothing to get love into the world God did not wish anybody to be sick, but all to be strong and well. The miracles were but a proof of the natural order of things.
 'When I was child I imagined there was an antogonism between God and Jesus; that God was one thing and Jesus another; that God hated men and Jesus loved them. But such view is the lowest sort of savagery and heath- enism. The story of Jesus was the story Of the Father. God was in Christ re- ccnciling the world unto Himself
 Jesus never worked selfish miracle, never had one thought for Himself. If He had. He would not have been God. It was because His life was administer ed on the basis of love that He became our Saviour. Jesus showed Gods meth cd of work, which is by love.
 "Now about the work of man. Man must work. Both the purpose and the method of true work by man are the same as those of God. Work is some thing helpful to man. Running a sa- loon or q gambling den is not work. Men engaged in such traffic are encum- brances on the ground in this world.
 Man must work because God has not got through making the world, which in it's present condition is like the first rough outlines of the future master piece. God is now working through man to do the rest, to develop the world to it's proper perfection
 ''It is a sin not to work. It is a dam nable sin to be rich and idle. It is also a sin to be poor and idle-if you can get