The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-01-15
MEETINGS WELL ATTENDED
TITO 0REYITAL SERVICES HE'D LAST
 EVENING INSTEAD OF ONE

Shurch or the hedeemer-Speclal Meet
 ings to be Held.
 Rev. B. Fay Mills yesterday address ed a large audience at Grand Opera house, speaking from the text Galla- tians ", 1914, By love serve one an- other. For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even ini this; thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyeslf" He said: "The two thoughts suggested by these words which would nigh be left in your hearts are these: that love is the only power that works for righteousness and that the might of love is resistless. Divine and human eloquence. spirituaL capacity, intellectual endowment and culture, a vital and powerful faith. unresrevd beneficence, the spirit of con- secration even unto death+-all are noth- ing, absolutely nothing, without love, And now abideth forth, hope, love. these three; but the greatest of these is love- Love has power to remove pre- Judlces. What a beautiful story that is of the godly Scotch1nan going with his Masters message into the midst of the prejudiced people, and learning, in the French language at first, only how to express these thoughts. God loves you: l love you; and then walking through the streets of Paris with cutstretched hands and streaming eyes, repeating over these tender words until the hearts of men were drawn unto him, and there commenced one of the 1nightiest mope- ments of the triumph of the gospel of modern times.
 There is no prejudice between men and men, there is no prejudice between the classes and the masses that would not be dissipated by the spirit by the manifestation of love. Love has not only the power to remove prejudice but it can also banish bitterness.
 T would God there might be men filled with the spirit of love, who in these days of awful social unrest and terrible threatening for the future might speak to those who are oppressed by the awful systems that have been the growth of years of industrial and commercial despotism, and speak to them of loving patience until we shall see the full noon of the better day which even now is dawning, when there shall be a hOlier reconciliation than that of the narrow tomb; where the wicked cease, not from trouble, but from troubling, mad the weary are atS rest.
 Love has not only the power to banish bitterness, but to bring strengtfl to the tempted. A noted pastor has said that he has never known anyone who was so hardened by the gaining and possessing of wealth that in him there was not some thing, of the Son of God. We need ito learn to believe in mem and trust them with a confidence that shall banish their suspicious and shall uproot their dishonesty; to see in our fellows the possibility of the rnanifes- ltationI of the full Sonship of Jesus.
 There is power in, love to bring hope to the hopeless and help to the help less. We have been leaving people for dead as sometimes soldiers are left on the field of battle when wounded. There is no limit to the power of love. Let Us believe in the instrumentality of God for the saving of men. Let us leam what it means to bear amlother's burden and so fulfill the law of Christ, and let us remember that we may re- ceive God just so far as we are willing ito lose ourselves-that if we die unto self we may live unto God; and let us to-day give ourselves to His blessed will that He may baptize us with love and send us forth to share with Him the sufferings of love, and to join i'm. the final and certain triumph of tqhe sacrifice of Christ
 THE AFTERNOON MEETING.
 of NnJ orxya r vrf church at 3:30 p. m. was the largest which has yet attended the afternoon service, the body of the church being filled and the gallery partly full. MT. Mills preached from Judges 5:23: Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the Lord, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants there- of; because they came not to tine helu of the Lord against the mighty"
 He said: "The people of Meroz prob- ably did some noble things but they failed to respond to the appeal of God and His curse was put upon ittem and they were plotted from the face of the earth. They were willing to share in the prosperity of their brethren, but not ito share in battle the dangers. Their sin was simply that of inactior, the deadliest kind of sin. The judg- ment of God Is visited upon those who remain in inaction. The people of Meroz were probably towards. but there was ITO reason for their remaining in their cowardfce. God does not want people brave as lions, but those ready to do what He calls upon them to do.
 When the great centennial opened in Philadelphia, the great engine which was to run the machinery failed to start. A mechanic finally found a Mt- tie piece of steel not so large as his ltt- tie finger lacking and after this had been put in its proper place the great machine started at once. It may be that the success of this revival here is waiting for some one to put just a little finishing touch to it. If we could touch the lives of those about us with powerful Christian experience, we could set all in motion and bring them to glorify God. The people living in Meroz of to-day are kept inactive by lazineEs and procrastination. Some people say too much zeal in saving people does more harm than good, but believe that where one man is lest by over-zealous- ness on the part of others, one hum dred millions are lost because of mot enough zeal, The trouble with the most of us is that we are always try ing to get ready. wonder t there ars any women of Samaria here in New