The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-03
Of the cnmners but he is inaefatiga-

inertia of the campers but he is indefatiga-
BILE in his efforts and has already pro-
duced a very perceptible chanGe IN me
general conduct and conversation Of TIE
rented community. He has announced that
he intends to conduct revival meetings on
the old style and that every doctrine
of the church Will be preached and every
phase of salvation impressed upon the peo-
pie. 1t Is TO be a week OF holiness meet
ings. At $50 each morning there Is to be
a family prayer meeting IN the pavilion
when families are requested to seat them
selves together. The service is TO last thir-
ty minutes. The next service is the chill
dren's meeting at 9 o'clock, conducted by
Miss Belle Moore and Miss Laura Jen-
nings. At 10 o'clock is a morning sermon
Is another sermon; at { o'clock IS a young
peoples meeting, conducted by Key. j. l.
Jones, and at 1880 Evangelist Hartsock
holds the final meeting of the day: This
is the daily programme for the week. To-
day DR.. Charles w. TIngley. OF Jefferson
vile, breaches the afternoon sermon
At the revival services yesterday the
evangelist spoke in the morning about
Hezekiah, how he worked with all his heart
and prospered. The lesson he inculcated
was the need of taking an interest end
pleasure in work wherever il might be.
In the evening the subject OF his discourse
was Christ Crowded Out He described
how Christ was crowded out or politics,
out of business, out of church, out OF the
home. out of life and out of the heart;
He said that if an election was conducted
to-day on gospel principles Christ himself
could not carry an out township. BUSINESS
men find it to their worldly interest TO
stite the voice Of conscience and the pew
dictates to the pulpit. The lack OF sociabll-
ity has Shorn the church OF its spiritual
power and in the home the worldly am
bition for greed and gain has so absorbed
the mind of the people hat family prayer
and devotion are largely a thing or the
past. 1t was al excellent sermon and was
we'll Illustrated by many pointed stories.
Rev. +. G.. Browne. the assistant editor
of the western Christian Advocate,
preached the leading sermon of the day in
the afternoon. The subject was 'Christs
Mission and Work in the Church 1t was
a powerful discourse and greatly impressed
Like Christ" said the speaker. the
church is sent by divine authority. The
consciousness that they were cent OF God
gave the apostles courage and nope IN the
prosecution of their work. This burning
conviction has been the secret or the zeal,
the heroism and the achievements of sue
cessful workers for God in all ages. The
divine authority of the church is the war
rant for attempting the evangelization or
the world and the authority which war
rants the work must command success for
her If, like Christ, the church is true TO
her mission.
In point of purpose there is an i'm
portant analogy between Christ and the
church. Her mission is to the same classes
that Christ visited. The church has never
been so weak or so poor as when she got
away from the people or suffered the COM
mon people to drift away from her. She
is never so beautiful. never so g~loriods,
never so near the divine ideal of what she
ought to be as when her affairs are
%thronged with the devout of all ages, ranks
and conditions.
IF the church succeeds in her work as
Christ did in His 1t must be by compliance
with the same conditions. Nothing is ac-
complished in the Christian life for the
furtherance of Christ's kingdom without
prayer. The advancement Of the Kingdom
depends also very largely on the impor-
lance we attach to personal work. Martin
Luther used to say: The Lord is a great
worker but He likes to be helped. When
He has important work to be done he
lays His hand upon some man and says,
There is thy work; do with thy might
what thy hands find to do All that has
been accomplished in the extension OF Hls
kingdom has been wrought by the effort
Of human personality, divinely touched and
~enthuSed.
The baptism of the Holy Ghost Is an
other abiding condition for success. The
church was never so capable so far as
money and methods are concerned as now;
wealth and power of the Holy Ghost. II
the churches of Christendom during the
next twelve months should give themselves
to concerted prayer for the outpouring or
the Holy Ghost before the twentieth CEN
fury daWnS upon US the world would pc
won back to God. Men everywhere would
acknowledge the triumph of our Christ and,
like Julian of old, be constrained TO cry,
oh, GaIilean, thou hast conquered
The young ladies of the Dew Drop, Inn
struck their tent yesterday and stole back
to their homes in Shelbyville and else
where.
George Mcbride, wife and son, of Shelby
vile, began tenting yesterday.
Miss Claude Bernard Kyle, of Aurora, is
visiting Miss Della Reed.
Miss Emma DaShiell was visiting ner
father Yesterday.