The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-01-17
A WONDERFUL CONVERSION
REP. j. III. MURRdY's ADDRESS no
POLICEMEN Ar THE Y. M. G. 4.

POLICEMEN Ar THE Y. NJ. G. 4.
Converted in Prison-An Impressive Speak
er-Rev. Mr.. Mills at the Grand Opera
House-Large Audiences Attend Every
Meeting and the Interest Increases-Pr'-
gram for Special Sunday Meetings.
A large audience of about twelve hun
dred persons yesterday heard Rev. B.
Fay Mills preach at the Grand opera
house at the noon meeting on Love for
Everybody" from the text, IF God so
loves us, we should 50 love one anoth-
err"
After abiding to the parable of the
good Samaritan and the lesson of love
taught by it, Mr.. Mills spoke of the
great work of the Catholic church in
ministering to men and the Christian
work done by organizations in that
church on many occasions, especially
at the time of the yellow fever scourge
in New Orleans.
Continuing, he said: I'VE read that
the Jews have no dealings with the
Samaritans and the kind act of the
Samaritans was if kindnesses should
pass between Catholics and members of
the A. p. A.
THE other day a man was taking
with me about an industrial home like
the Calvary home Of this city, He said
in whisper: But, really l have heard
that over half the inmates are Catho-
lies How can 1 contribute for the sup
port of such an institution
THE idea of such philosophy! The
uselsssness of supporting man be-
cause he is a Protestant or a Catholic!
We should aid the unfortunate because
they are men and women.
IF there's Grape about the door of
the man who has bitter feelings toward
you. see what you can do tighten his
burden.
Socrates said that every man needs
friend and an enemy; the one to adj
wise him and the other to make him
look sharp about him. Christ teaches
US that it is necessary for a man to
have an enemy to be a. Christian.
Some of the prettiest people in New
Veil die lllOSG WIZ nave 'Uccl
from the lowest depths and loved into
the likeness Of God.
Il wish that we could, instead of ut
terlng our threats of violence and
vengeance, have loved the unspeakable
Turk so that he would have forsaken
his cruel way. We shall never solve
the Turkish or any other question by
exploding bombs in the harbor of Con-
stantinople. The way to win the world
for Christianity is not to send out mis-
sionaries with gunboats behind them.
We might as well have Mahometanism
as Christianity If we are going to send
a cannon with every missionary and
say, You do this or that, or I'll blow
you to pieces
Some day Love will cover the earth
as the waters cover the sea. Let us
hasten the time. Let us commence
now to live in the spirit of heaven, for
the worlds sake. Let us have heaven
in this city, and we will have city
Of God. a leader among nations. Let
US have peace on earth, good will to
men,
The audience which greeted Mr.. Mills
at the Calvary Baptist church at $3.50 p.
M. was the largest which has yet at
tended the regular afternoon meetings
The church was filled even to the gal
lery, fully eleven hundred people being
present. The sermon was a continual
ton Of the afternoon sermon of the pre-
vious day. and was on the subject RE
suits of Giving Everything to Cod
Mr. Mills took as his text Genesis %,
beginning with the fifteenth verse and
the following verses: "And the angel of
the Lord called unto Abrah ham out of
heaven the second time ETC." He spoke
In part as follows:
God will not accept the will for the
deed, but wants us to be ready for us
to do anything He requests of us. Alb
raham had great confidence in God and
did as he was commanded, and after he
had withStood the test the relationship
between him and God was very different
from what it was previously. After his
trial Abraham knew that there could
be no severer test placed upon him and
knew that he could meet any test which
would afterwards come to him. He
knew God as God knew him. They were
i'm a relation of perfect confidence. That
alone was worth the sacrifice, but there
were other rewards. Great temporal
prosperity came to Abraham.
Poverty is an indication that some
thing is wrong somewhere. Sidney
Smith said that you could tell what God
thinks of a man by what God gives to
him, but this is a two-edged sword and
works in both ways. The secret of sue
cess is to be right with God. We never
see man converted to God and want
for temporal things. The cause of all
material things seeming to be out of
order is that we are not right with
God. Enter into close relations with
Him and sacrifice all of self to Him.
If you are disappointed in material af-
fairs enter into the Holy of Holes.
When you really walk with Him you
will learn that those with Him want
for no good things. Abraham was not
only blessed with temporal prosperity
but had Isaac given back to him with
greatly increased faith and strength,
as Isaac also had gone through a
greatest. He was a young man, prob
ably thirty years Of ege. and when
he knew that it was Gods will that he
should be sacrificed he trusted in the
higher power and allowed himself to
be bound for the ordeal by his father
who was an aged, infirm man. How
much would you give to see your boy
tested as Isaac was and see how your
teachings had taken root and strength