The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-01-14
AUDIENCE OF OVER l,6oO
ATTENDED THE MILES REYIYAL
 MEETING LAST EVENING.

ternoon Service-Statement Concerning
 Remuneration of MT. Mills for His Ser
 vices-Program for This Week.
 Rev. B. Fay Mills preached yesterday noon at the Grand opera house on What Must Society Do to Be Saved?" to large audience. He spoke in part as follows:
 "All agree that society is sick, and when society shall realize it's shortcom- ings then it shall be born anew. He is foolish who cannot see that society is in travail and I believe new birth shall come from the great upheaval Of the social world. The symptom of sick society is the governing of lawmaking and executive powers of selfish inter- ests. Did the Romans in their vilest degradation ever sink lower than this land where recently we heard the pres ident of a great corporation before a commission of the United States senate acknowledge that they used millions to corrUHt the democratic and republican party heads in different states in sup port of the corporation?
 Another distressing symptom of our disease. is the existence of a frivolous set who attempt to rule society by cer- tain fashions which it sets up. The Prince of Wales seems to set the fash ion for the world. A Salvation army man in San Francisco, asked to speak on Darkest San Francisco, said that he could not. He could speak on dark San Francisco, but he had never had money enough to obtain the entree into darkest San Francisco. At the Wash ington ball in New York some time ago ladies became intoxicated and fell off thsir chairs and were carried out. Af- rewards 600 servants took their places and indulged in free fight.
 ''Our divorce suits are unspeakab ble in their details and there are other social evils which I will not dwell on this morning. Another sign is the unprece- dented accumulation of money, land and other property in the hands of a few. There Is no practical reason why a syndicate of men should not own the world some day.
 There never were such selfish men and women as to-day. The belief of Christ is not only that the doctrines of Christianity are practical, but that they are the only practical things in the world The story runs that a woman in hell remembered that on earth she had once given a carrot to a beggar. She saw that carrot coming down on the end of string from above and grasping it she was lifted up out of her torture. As she was raised others l..ax n to those, so that an immense mass of lost souls Were ascending when the wo- man, fearing that the string might break, cried, Let go, that is my carrot She fell and they fell. Selfishness broke the spell. So for society as the individ- ual; not all thine is mine but all mine is thine
 There will, however be time when every man shall be living as Christ liv- ed and heaven shall overflow and bap- tize the earth with the increasing and eternal glory of love, till the Son of Man shall see the travail of his soul and be satisfied in the triumphant communion of men in the Holy Ghost and we shall all come in the unity of faith and the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a S1eIIetl llld1, uHlO lle llltdSuIc Ol lut stature of the fullness of Christ"
 THE LADIES' PRAYER MEETING.
 The usual ladies prayer meeting was held at 2:30 in Calvary Baptist church, and immediately following this came the general meeting at 3:30. MT. Mills was exhausted from his unceasing work during the past week and in his stead Mir Pia1nrwn1f Sicta y,t baJ an able and impressive sermon from the text Acts 19:2, Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed?" etc.
 The sermon was listened to by a large audience, the body of the church being filled, and was in substance as follows: ''The promise of the ascending Savior was 'Ye shall receive power after the Holy Ghost has come upon you and the disciples who worked among the Ephesians had not claimed the promise. They had not lost the power; they did not even know that it was for them to have.
 There are some misconceptions con- cerning the Holy Ghost. which are cas- fly relieved by careful searching of the scripture. In a sense this is an age of the Holy Ghost, and yet it is mis- take to think that the Holy Ghost has been on earth only since the glorifica- tion of Jesus.
 Tt is the same Holy Ghost which brooded over the waters of the deep and called the earth out of chaos with the same fullness which filled the holy men of God In those days it seemed i to be confined to a few selected mes sengers of God, but it was the same power that filled Joshua when he bade the sun and moon stand still while he led the people on to victory in the name of God, that filed Gideon and made his sword the sword of the Lord, that filled Elisha with double portion when he parted the swollen waters of the Jor- dan, that filled Daniel and made him mightier than the king and thousand of his lords, that nerved and filled every Old Testament hero and saint until they were made to realize that it was not by might nor by power, but by my, spirit, saith the Lord,-the same spirit and the same fullness that is offered to every one in these latter days.
 Another misconception is that the baptism of the Holy Ghost was confined to the apotolic age. I do not believe a word of it. It is doubles true that special gifts were given to the apostles for special purposes and those purposes l,., rs,,.- ,1G