The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-03
LAB0RING MEN ADDRESSED
REV. MIR. MILLS' SERMON TO THE
 CENTRAL LABOR UNION.

Yesterdays Meetings All Largely Attended
 The Last Sermon To-day--The Danger
 of Single Sin-Mr. Biederwolf at Poli,s
 Theater-Revival to be Held in Fair
 Haven.
 THE EVENING MEETING.
 An audience of over 4,5OO persons was present at the armory last evening to hear MT. Mills last Sunday evening ser- mon in the revival series in this city. At o'clock the crowds began coming and in half an hour all the available seats were taken. The praise service of 8 half hour preceded the address and was led by John P. Hills, MT. Mills assistant and musical director. Rev. Dr. Twitchell offered prayer and was followed by a solo by MT. Hillis, "Corna Simmer Come" Dr. Twitchell made a few remarks and then collection was taken up. MT. Mills began by making some announcements. He will preach the last noon sermon at the Grand Opera house to-day. The service this evening will begin at o'clock instead of 7:30 as usual, as MT. Mills will leave for New York shortly after g, o'clock. Nearly all the churches in the city in- terested in the revival have arranged to hold special meetings on Tuesday, Wed- nesday, Thursday and Friday evenings of this week. MT. Mills preached from the text Deuteronomy 1:19: And we came to Kadesh- -barnea." He said. "The people of whom this text ds writ ten never came into the land of Canaan but when they had arrived at Kadesh- barnea they distrusted the promise of God and sent scouts ahead into Canaan to see what sort of a place it was. They were just on the border land and if they had gone on they would have soon en- tered the land of promise, but tho scouts brought back news that the land was inhabited by giants and said it would be impossible to make a settle ment there, so the people turned back I into the wilderness to perish. Only two of the scouts brought back favorable tidings and these alone entered Canaan.
 q have selected the text because i'm this city hundreds and thousands of | people and in this hall is a great mul- titude who have come near to the Kad- lish-barnea, near to the kingdom of God, as near probably as they ever will be unless they now go over the border l land. Menlmay come near to the prom 1 ise land and only one thing keeps them out. The same question confronts you | tonight which confronted Pilate: w hat q shall do with Jesus?' Be careful lest you turn back when you are on the bor- l der land. e+
 | Sometimes practical sins or one sin keeps people out of the kingdom of | God. One sin, the same sin of the lost people, may keep you forever away 1 from God though you come near to Him. | Sometimes it is the love of money U wonder if anyone here tonight is SO near Christ and only lacks one thing. l Unless you are willing to give your money for God, you only come to Kad- esh- h-barnea Sometimes selfishness keeps mem from Christ. I don't know how near to Christ one can be and yet be lost. Sometimes simple inaction keeps people away. Better know only one thing and do it than to know a thousand things and do none of them- A minister once on going to a new par- ish preached a fine sermon the first Sunday and was, greatly praised by his same text, but nothing was said of it as his people thought perhaps it was through a mistake. But when the next | Sunday he preached again the same sermon the old deacons of the church. came to him and remonstrated The minister said: Wasn't it a good ser-; mon? Yes was the answer. Them said the minister: Have you practiced lit yet?' Good sermons and all the good you hear only condemn you the more | if you don't live up to them.
 ITO do the will of God, that is. to build on the rock of salvation. You are lost souls tonight unless you are ldoing the will of God. You have only come ito Kadesh-barnea unless you be- gin to live Christ-like lives Sometimes pride keeps people from the kingdom of 1 God. When Naman was stricken with leprosy and came to Elijah to be cured i he was told to bathe in the Jordan. This was too much for the proud king to do, but finally he did it and was cur- ed. That was when Naman came to Kadesh-barnea What was there in the Jordan to cure leprosy? Nothing ab~ solutely nothing. There were many lep- CTS in Israel, but only one was cured in l the Jordan and was the time when Na- man stood up in meeting, when he was | literally baptized; it was the outward sign that he was willing to do what had been suggested to him by the lrlfn- ister of God. believe that a minister of the gospel has a right to ask who will follow Gods will. I don't believs that standing up ia meeting will save any one, but there is no secret entrance to the kingdom of God, and you can't have your own way about single thing and be Christian.
 At one of my meetings once a wo- man arose and wished to kneel at the altar. She said that twenty years be- fore she had been nearly converted at a. | Methodist revival, but at that time would not kneel at the altar, as was the custom She kneeled down at my meet l ing and prayed as much like a Metho- | dist as possible and she was saved. 1 believe that she would have died lost woman if she had not been willing to | indicate that she was willing to submit to the will of God. You can't make God submit to your terms. My brother, you may come to Kadesh-barnea, but only go back to perish in the Wilderness unless you are willing to obey the will