The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-01-24


 and hls wife reformed woman, con duct home for fallen women,
 "We believe down there that the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses. How have groaned at the idea that drunkenness was disease, and could be eradicated by the injection of drugs. That idea is wrong,
 "A drunkard can only be saved by the grace of God, When a man is so driven by satan that he has nowhere else to go, and comes to Go, then drunk enness leaves him. Not long after Jim Edwards conversion my brother, Col onel Hadley, now well known mission worker, was saved. One day he had taken tifty-three drinks, the last six of which were brandy cocktails and in the evening, naturally feeling badly, he came to my house. He stayed to sup per- and after supper went to the meet ing with me. When I gave the invita- tion to people to come forward. he was among the first to do so. but oh how had prayed for him, The Lord had heard my prayer and saved him. He began mission work at once, and now has a fine mission church with $10,OOO organ, both given by Cornelius Wander bilt and his mother,
 "A man discharged from the United States navy for drunkenness came to the mission one night, and at the inyl- tation came forward. There In the presence of 400 seamen who had known him as a drunkard. he told of the love of Jesus, and Of that 400 many were touched by his words and also came to Christ the same night. He was called to take charge of the navy yard mission some time afterwards and has since organized Christian Endeavor societies on each os the six ships of the White squadron I wish I could carry you with me to that place where men at first stand up with faces like beasts, and afterwards with faces beaming, and in clean clothes, telling of Jesus to men who have been. in jails and sa- looms with them in former days.
 .We are obliged to use perseverance, i'll our work. One night a man came forward in meeting and told me that he had just come from the penitentiary. He said that he wanted to be a Chris tian. He was a carpenter and had been sent up for stealing in a house where he was at work. One day he told me that if he had tools he could go to work for his old employer I told him we would pray about it. Many people with pockets full of money pray for money for the mission work but do not shell out. If a man prays from his heart the Lord will bring the money out of his pocket and that night after a prayer the Lord made me put my hand down in my pocket to give the man money to buy tools. The next week he went ito work and after work ing two weeks, one Saturday night he failed to show up at the mission. l was greatly troubled and late in the even ing a man came in and told me that Dan was up on the Bowery "paralyzed," :" the term we use for a bowling drunk Well, got him back again and for three times he repeated the perform ance, but I finally landed him and he is now safe on the rock of Jesus Christ.
 myself was converted in a moment. in the twinkiing of an eye and would TOW be dragged through the street at the end of a rope for Jesus. I was nearly dying in a saloon one night when Jesus came to me. I had the tremens and had sold everything to get drinks Suddenly felt divine presence. saw my sins in letters of fire and thought I was about to die. I went to the station house and asked to be lock ed up so that I could not get drink The horrors of that night I shall never prayed. A fellow prisoner wished to send out for a drink for me, thinking, I was sick, but by Gods intervention the liquor was kept away from me. Nine years ago I went to Jerry Me Auley's mission and was converted. believe that my mother was that even- ing looking down over the balusteres of heaven at me. Jerry's prayer made a powerful impression on me. He told me that I must pray myself or I would be lost. With mighty effort I said: oh, Lord, help me- That was all I could say, but from that moment the appetite for drink left me and has never since returned"
 The audience was deeply moved by MT. ;Hadley's quaint narrative of his own conversion and experience in mis- sion work and many strong mem were moved to emotion MT. Hadley desired all those who wished prayers for friends or relatives to make it known and in response a lady asked for prayers for his brother in the reformatory; a little girl for prayers for her father; another lady for her two sons in New York Besides these others asked for prayers for friends and many asked for them selves. MT Mills told of man who had been for forty-five years a crim- inaI and finally became disgusted with his way of life and determined to be a better man. For six months he con- tinued in his new way of life and then suddenly disappeared MT Mills asked prayers for him. MT. Hadiey closed the meeting with fervent prayer.
 At the Church of the Redeemer last evening MT. Biederwolf delivered the same sermon which he delivered at Calvary Baptist church the evening be- foer and which was published in the Courier" MT. Mills spoke at the Cal vary Baptist church last evening on "W-ho is on the Lords Side" taking Exodus 3216 as his text. He said: s1That man is on the Lords side who practically acknowledges God as the only Lord. Many men acknowledge God as Lord Many men formally con- fess Him as the on Lord, but to prac- tically acknowledge God as the only Lord means more than any verbal con- fession It means to keep the first commandment, to say: Lord what wilt Thol1 have me do?' and then gladly and