The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-01-04
REVIVAL CONTINUES
ZERO WEATHER DID NOT REDUCE
ROBERTS PARKS CROWD.
You Would Better BE Anything than a
Sinner Was the Topic Of the Sermon
g O'Clock Service Tomorrow.

Though the night was cold the usual large
congregation gathered at Roberts Park
Church last night for the revival meet
ings The solos of Mr.. Crowell are highly
appreciated. Last night he sang with fine
effect They Crucified Him." When the
evangelist announced that he would preach
at o'clock Sunday morning a smile rip
pied over the congregation. May be you
can't wake up so early" said the evangel-
ist. eff not send the pastor of this church
word and he will get you an alarm clock
for New Years present. Some OF you
may fear to walk out so early. Well then,
send US word and we'll get you a car
riage. Did some one say there would not
be any one here, let him just come around
and see. 1 preached each Sunday morning
for three Sundays at o'clock in Louisville
and the churches were overcrowded and
1 find the Indianapolis people quite as
cordial as those OF Louisville
The text or the sermon last night was
Gen. xxxlx, 3: how, then, can 1 SIN
against God?" The following is an outline
OIL the sermon by Rev. Henry Ostrom:
Joseph, when tempted to great sin,
as recorded in the chapter from winch my
text is taken, allowed no time for debate
and suggested no preliminaries. but met
IT at once with an out and out, how can i?
How can L? No man ever yet fell into deep
sin who did not pave the way before him
with his thoughts. A little inclination in
dulged in is practically first step in the
wrong.
You may better be confirmed invalid
than sinner. Bella Cooke has been thir-
ty-nine years pain-stricken invalid in
bed. When 1 was in New York last win
ter she sent me her photograph, on the
back OF which she had written these words,
From Bella Cooke, tnirty-nine years an in
valid, kept by the power OF Cod There are
jubilant with the grace OF GOD. l know a
woman in the State OF Wisconsin who has
been. seventeen years bedridden and who
works from her bed like foreign mission
ary-reading and marking Christian papers
and books, devising plans for bringing pris-
oners to Christ, and shamlng many COM
fortable woman whose health is vigorous
by her sacrificing endeavors. know a man
four years in bed suffering agony -betimes
and YOU cannot visit him without feeling
that you have been in the vestibule OF
"You would better be poor than be a sin
ner. And this strikes young men in our
day. But, my brother, would not be sur
prised to learn that your father piled logs
into heap and burned them to clear the
ment, and that your mother sat up until
midnight running knitting needles to cover
those very feet which have since been car
rying you into paths OF vice ana a. ruin ruin And
very few people in the world who are not
poor. The people are poor and the most
reliable testimony tells US that nobody
zendorf and Coke put all their money into
the uplifting of humanity, and lived in
triumph, the latter dying on his knees.
Jesus Christ was poor Better be poor than
"Better be the most isolated stranger
than be sinner. It. B. Scott. a missionary
land tribes who had come down to trade
and becoming interested in him, prayed
God to guide him; then arose and went with
of the mountains. On the third day the ma
tiyes surrounded him and pointed spears at
his heart He took his violin and began
to play and sing, All Hail the Power Of
JesiIs' Name keeping his eyes closed as he
did So When he came TO the verse,
LET every kindred. every tribe,
on this terrestrial ball,
To Him all majesty ascribe,
And crown Him Lord Of ALL
he opened his eyes to find that every native
had stuck his spear into the dust. He re-
NAMED three years with these men and
when ne went to leave them on account Of
his health they accompanied him thirty
miles, begging him to return again. Then
after a brief respite in America his health
was recovered and ne went PACK there and nd
strangers who know that We belong TO a
better country.
"Better be Imprisoned than be a sinner.
LOOK at John Bunyan. His finger nails
were covered with greenish substance
produced by the dampness of that Bedford
fail vet he wrote Tor succeeding centuries,
describing the path that shines brighter
and brighter. Men great in soul. great in
intellect and righteous in life have been
imprisoned. Jesus became captive. Bet
fer GO to prison than sim
ssBetter die than continue persistently in
sin. The history Of Christianity Is all IL
Illustrated with triumphant deaths Christ
mas Evans, raising his hand minute or
so before he breathed his last breath, con-
scious Of his surroundings. speaking OF his
Fathers chariot in which he shopld g