The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-11-26
THE Y. M. c, A. MEETING
HELD YESTERDAY AFTERNOON At
GRAND OPERA HOUSE.
A Good Attendance Despite the Stormy
Wc"ther-Special Music An Address
by Rev. Mr.. Irvine

a GOOD Attendance Despite the Stormy
Wcather-speciaI Music An Address
by Rev. Mr.. Irvine
notwithstanding the storm of yester-
day goodly number Of men attended
the Y, M. c. A. meeting at the Grand
Opera house in the afternoon Special
music was rendered by one of the asso-
cations male quartettes and the as
ISOLATION orchestra, led by Professor
Henry G. Nichols. The address deliv-
cred by A. #. Irvine was the last one
in series of four on the Coincidence"
the subject being conscience Awak-
ned-Transformation Through Obedi-
enee."
There are" said the speaker "many
whose consciences are asleep. You all
remember how Christ took a few of His
disciples and requested that they watch
while He went apart in the garden to
pray and when He returned they were
SlecplLlB' w ell, lilS - all llluoll alum
of how conscience sleeps The Lord ex-
cused them under this general heading
and we use the same excuse many
times. The spirit is willing, but the
flesh Is weak
Another illustration is the picture of
the rich man and Lazarus The rich
man was not concerned about Lazarus
in this world, but there came a time
when he was awakened to the fact
that what concerned one brother man
in this world concerns another.
'Then there is the conscience of the
man who is knowingly disobeying God
and 1t has to be forcibly awakened ere
he can be right with God. To have
man tell you that the reason of his
downfall was that someone met him on
the street and asked him to so and have
drink is to confess that he is some
Thing less than man, Sometimes we
are awakened by gentle means, some
times by q mighty cataclasm man
plays with conscience and he is in the
same danger as a man asleep in boat
above the cataract of Niagara. Some
time when he wakes up he finds him
self behind prison bars Beware, be-
ware young man lest there come a day
when the fiend that has been drawing
and dominating you and alluring you
on to destruction, beware, ] say, lest he
bring you to a pit from which you can
not escape and when he will leave you
and laugh at you.
"Pauls conscience was awakened While
he was on his way to Damascus and
he turned about and went to work to
build up that which he had been de-
stroying You say L cannot be Paul
No you cannot, but there is little
bit of the world which only you can
touch, but you can't do it till you are
awakened, as was Paul. You must not
only see the heavenly vision but be
obedient to it, Wendell Philips was
awakened. Somebody spoke to Moody
and that converse ton led him to be a
Christian. God has not finished MAX
ing Moodys yet. You may be used by
God to help awaken a mighty worker,
but you must first be thoroughly awak-
ened yourself.
AT the opening meeting in the Hy-
perion about year ago an address was
delivered in which used the expression
Bend to the will Of God The next
morning there was knock at my door
and a man came to talk with me about
his soul. He had been at that meeting
and had been touched by that thought
He had been rough swearing man,
but from that Monday morning he has
been leading a clean and victorious
Christian life and he is here to-day.
Gods arm is not shortened that He
cannot save to-day. Will not some of
you bend to the will of God and live
for Him?'