The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-06-29
Buxxards Seek Carbon and the Hum
ming Bird Hunts the Glover
That Ii Richest.
MEETINGS WILL CLOSE TONIGHT
EVANGELIST HAS SPOKEN TO FIFTY
THOUSAND PERSONS.
Greatest Audiences OF the Revival
Season Pack the Gospel Tent Mt
Days Meeting.


sharp and clear over the somber of
heads that surged around the straight,
manly figure of Rev. Milford H. Lyon last
night at the gospel tent on Prospect street.
Let those three words sink into your
hearts; for it is so, the great gulf is fixed;
the difference between the lost and the
saved is wide and growing wider" This
was the subject of Mr.. Lyons sermon, ad-
dressed to the largest audience that has
yet gathered on the corner of Prospect and
Linden streets. The soping sweeps of the
canvas did not cover the crowds. Every
chair was filled, the aisles were packed and
around the edges people were lined far be-
yond the reach of the canvas. Behind Mr..
Lyon the choir of two hundred voices was
banked. Three thousand people heard the
sermon last night, while at all the meetings
yesterday Mr.. Lyon spoke to over five thou
sand people. An orchestra was furnished at
the evening meeting to accompany the sing
ing. Before the sermon a collection was
taken for Mr.. Lyons compensation.
THE GREAT GULF
THE great gulf" continued Mr.. Lyon.
'is the distance between the lost and the
saved. 1t is a great gulf. and it is gulf
cannot be saved because of the~rejection
of Christ by SO many. And for this reason
there are two great classes one going in
the right direction and the other in the
wrong, and between them the gulf. We get
this lesson from the incident of the rich
man and Lazarus. The rich man was not
condemned on account of his riches, but
on account of his waste; Lazarus was not
saved because of his poverty. but because
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the smallest blessings of God. He received
God, and through Him came out of lowiy
poverty. into the fuller richness of life.
The rich man lived on for the qualification
of his own selfish appetite and kept on
rejecting Christ, an. went down to his
death and doom. Thus it Is we are either
r I.g in our own earthly desires or en-
cannot do both; you are either for God or
the devil. I'll vouch that there some
in this audience who, if their desires were
written on their foreheads, would get up
right now and sneak out of this tent. There
are some here who say they do not believe
in hell: Well. my friends. I'm afraid that
you will have to believe in hell sooner or
later, and you will have to suffer in hell.
L believe that eternal torment will be
mental torment, the worst suffering and
burning that God could infiict. But some
of you say: oh, but we are Christian
Scientists; we don't believe in suffering.
Well, just stick your hand in the fire and
see whether it burns or not No earthly
A.
your selfish days are drawing to an end.
POWDERED FACES.
Some women, who have more powder on
their faces than brain in their heads, come
home from a magnificent funeral and gossip
for hours on the beautiful services My
friends, the most pompous funeral in the
world cannot save you unless you are on the
right side of the gulf
Win cid fha Il hol;a hat
could persuade you of the correctness of this
cause and effect. Whatsoever a man sows
that also does he reap. You can't sow
burdock and thistles and reap wheat. Sec
Snd the law Of f, affinity The old adage still
gether. The buzzards seek the carrion in
the field; the humming bird goes where the
clover blooms. Third, by the law of habit.
The river to-day flows in the gully that it
So the gulf is already fixed, is being fixed,
and Is growing wider. Friends. you are
either humming birds or buzzards. You
cannot get around 1T, and your only hope is
to take advantage of this opportunity and
come across to the side of glory
Mr.. Lyon spoke at length the serious
ness of the rejection of Christ, when oppor-
tunities are on all sides. His sermon was
one of the strongest he has yet delivered.
and was received with the utmost attention
by the large audience.
TRIBUTE TO FRIENDS.
Before the sermon Mr.. Lyon paid tribute
to the pastors who have helped him in the
revival meetings. He said that in all his
experience in evangelical work among four
teen different denominations over the coun-
try he had never seen the pastors and con-
gregations work in such unison and earnest
ness as here, on the South Side of Indian
apolis.
Two meetings were held yesterday after
noon. Mr.. Lyons spoke to the women at 3
o'clock in the Edwin Ray Church on
Knocking at the Door," His thought was
the cure of sin in women, which he gave
as the entrance of Jesus Christ into their
souls. The little church, which seats nine
hundred, was not able to hold the crowds
of women that sought admission. Hundreds
were turned away.
AT $3.50 o'clock Mr.. Lyon conducted a
mems meeting in the tent. He spoke to
about twelve hundred men, old and young,
ing the day there were twenty-five professed
conversions.
Tonight the meetings will close. Mr.
Lyons closing subject will be THE Closed
Door," He requests that all the converts
attend the services tonight, he intends
to hold an afterservice for them.
Mr.. Lloyd, who has led the singing, will
not be with Mr.. Lyon after the meeting to-
night. He will go to Chicago to attend the
Chicago School of Music II. c. Coulter, of
the Moody Bible Institute, will take his
place. Mr.. Lyon estimates that he has
spoken to $4,000 people at the revival in In
dianapolis.
Charles Tucker I'm the Tolls.