The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-01-23
THE BIG MILLS MEETINGS
All or rEsTGRDAY's Y'ssERYIcEs At
TENDED BIZ LARGE AUDIENCES.
Center Church Packed in the Afternoon to
Hear MIR. Mills-"The Heart That is Not
Kjght''-Rev. MIR. Biederwolf at Calvary
baptist Church Last Evening-Arrange-
ments for Armory Meetings.

Rjght'-Rev. MIR. Biederwolf at Calvary
baptist Church Last Eyening-Avrange
ments for Armory Meetings.
The usual large audience listened to
the regular noon day sermon of Rev.
s. Fay Mills at the Grand Opera house
yesterday. The sermon was the Sec
ond in the series on 1.-THE Kingdom of
Heaven on Earth" concerning which
Mr.. Mills spoke as follows: "The criti-
chsms of the old testament by modern
as know that the Bible is O living
book,-the only living book; it lives on
while other books die. The secret of
this is that Vt is the key to the mystery
of creation, to the origin and the des-
tiny of man. The history of Israel re-,
veals the principle Of Gods dealing
with man. Over and over again He
tried to make Israel worthy TO bear
His name, and when Israel failed and
disappointed Him, He tried again, and
He is constantly trying to make man
worthy to inhabit heaven.
II do not believe this earth shall be
destroyed, although it will undergo
great changes.
Gould God have been partial to GER
tain inhabitants of the earth if He had
desired to unite the nations of the
earth? No such question could be ask
ed except by persons who had i'm
bibed a God-dishonoring theology which
we have learned at our mothers knees.
Il overheard a lady answering ques-
tions asked her by children, and they
asked her why God had not given
messages to other nations as He had
used all nations alike and that the
story in the Bible about His favors to
the Israelites was given as an illus
tration. And it is true. She told the
truth.
The millennium, as it is understood,
does not cut much figure in my the
ology. Il believe that the time will
come when the devil shall not be linn
tied to a. period of 1000 years, but shall
last forever"
At $3.50 Center church was crowded
to the utmost capacity to hear Mr..
Mills. Every available seat was taken
and the standing room was welR occu-
pied.
After the praise service Mr.. Mills
spoke from the text, And her children
shall rise up and call her blessed" Mr..
Mills spoke in part as follows.
g The hand that rocks the cradle
moves the world A mothers love iis
one of the most potent things in the
universe Through the natural means
t,,fn t1o
heart of the mother a love which in its
possibility of suffering and patience and
sacrifice is like unto the love of God.
It was only by love that God could save
the world 1t Is only by a mothers love
that children are to grow up into the
kingdom of God.
There are four conditions under
which the influence of mothers might
be most potently exerted. Mothers
should have a high ambition for their
children. When that famous daughter
Of Scipio became the mother of two sons
she said, Let me no longer be called the
daughter of Scipio; let me be called the
mother of the Gracchi.' She meant her
children to be righteous men and she
was not disappointed. The mother
made the destiny of her children. l
was at a conference once where 120 min
isters got up and ascrtbed their conver-
sions to their mothers. Have a holy
ambition for your children. AS Sanu-
els mother, lend them to the Lord be-
fore their birth.
"The benefit of a Cody example IS
great. Scott's mother was fond of lie-
erature; Byron's mother was beautiful,
brilliant, but intolerably proud; Napo-
Icons mother was arrogant and selfish,
and we had in her son the most AFRO
CANT and selfish being the world evar
saw The child gets his first notion Of
God from his mother, and she stands for
God to him in a measure. 1t depends
upon her whether the child shall have
the notion of a revengeful Cod filled
with wrath, or whether he will have the
idea of a loving father who smiles upon
him in tenderness.
Mothers, always remember that
there is an angel in your child and that
it is your business to bring 1t out. What
is the proper age to begin with a child
Mr.. Holmes says one hundred years be-
fore the child is born. / would say my
self about ten centuries before the child
was born, If possible. If the child is
not converted before he is born, begin
at the earliest possible moment. I have
five children, the oldest being about
twelve, the youngest three. The three
older children are members of the
church. I would have the youngest q
member, too, but am afraid of shock
ing the church little. Jesus said, 'Suf-
fer little children to come unto me- and
if we are to have children walking
through the streets of heaven, 1 think
we should have them in the church
down below as soon as possible. In the
United States the law considers a boy
of seven years of age old enough to be
hanged for taking life. We can will our
children to the Lord. God puts a Won
derful love into the heart of a woman
through the state of motherhood, and
then He, so TO speak, enters into part
nership with the mother, and the child
is reborn and the mother is used by God
as the instrument by which the child
will grow up into His service.
"Gentleness is necessary in dealing
with children. The angel in the child
must not be brought out as the sculptor
brings out the figure from the marble,
with blows and cuttings. would have
a mother as gentle and considerate with
her children as a lover is gentle to and
coneiderate of the feelings and suscepti-
bilities of his betrothed."
Mr.. Mills closed with a glowing trib-