The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-04-15
ADDRESS BY DR, 6. F. HALL
CHICtGO EVANGELIST AT DWIGHT
 PLACE CHURCH.
Spoke Last Night on the Advantages of Being Christian-subject Tonight VIII be ..The Model New Womnn.N

Will be "The Model New Woman" Brotherhood night at the Dwight Place Congregational church was the occasion ot 1 an eloquent oration delivered by pr. | George +. Hall, of Chicago. pr. Hall pos | sesses an interesting and manly personal- 1 lty, and those who have heard him can | readily understand his great success as an 1 evangelist. His simple and dignifed, hear ty way of talking and pleasant anecdotes l only served to heighten the strong impress sion made by his oratory. Dr. Halls con gregations in Decatur H., have been the largest outside of Chicago, and he is about inauguratlng an evangelistic campaign in the Chicago Auditorium, which seats 5000 people. Those who heard him in any one Of hls four addresses yesterday will be elnd to know that he will give another 1n tAe Dwight Place church this evening at 5 o'clock. The subject is "The Moaei New Woman"
 Dr. Halls subject last night was "The Advantages of Being u Christian," which was preceded by q devotional service with music by the choir. He said ill part as follows:
 With this subject we must ask first what it is to be Il Christian. Many people who have professed Christianity for many years are not able to give good answer.
  swers, one of them being-a Christian is one who wants to go to heaven: But there are many who want to go to heaven who are not worthy to be called Christians. An other answer Is that | Christian Is one who wants to do better. l know many people who want to do better, who are forever wanting to do better and forever doing worse. A third answer is, one who IS sof- " for his sins; but there, are many also of these who are not Christians.
 ''SO we see that the word CDrlStlQD IS n much misused term. We learn that the di sciples were the first who were, called Christians disciple was originality one who belonged to learned school of phil osophy, and in this sense there were disci ples of Plato and Socrates and Aristotle. But in the New Testament the term Is used specifically for one who believes on the Lord Jesus Christ and obeys his commands Such a one is a Christian.
 Now, what are the advantages of being q Christian? If l were to tabulate them l could not enumerate half of them. can therefore take up the time in discussing a few of them
 "First, you gain the advantage of Gods favor. You please the Father, and you please those about you. It pays. to please others, and is one of the chief elements of please you take away the spirit of Jesus Christ and half there is in life. Jonathan Edwards, who used to preach about here, was q great preacher, one of the greatest III history. put tne Worlu uoesii U want ms kind of preaching. It is not preaching about hell, but preaching which will bring sunshine into our lives that we need to-day.
 "The second advantage is that you please Jesus. Why shouldn't you please Jesus? He gave His life for us, and why should we not give ours for Him who is not now de spised, but the judge of the quick and the dead? But 1t is so hard to get men to be- come Christians so hard to get them to come out of the minsma of sin on tirmer basis.
 Another advantage is that you gain par don and forgiveness for sin You must be forgiven or you will be lost. Jesus blots out your sinful record and leaves the page clean and white to write upon, and when He forgives He also forgets."