The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-17
William Phillips Hall Talks at a United Service at the
 Y. M. c. A.
LARGE AUDIENCE PRESENT
Business Man Evangelist Gives Inter- esting Talk i'll After-Cam-
 paign Series.

The first meeting of the series O united services for men held under tht auspices of the executive committee o the Chapman campaign was conducted yesterday afternoon in Foy Auditorium at the Y NJ. c, A. A large audience was present to hear the business mar evangelist Mir William Phillips Hal speak on the Life of Power" He was assisted by the well known evangelis singer, MT. F. H. Jacobs, whose re. mar kable gift for singing has been . powerful instrument in many cam. paigns. The meeting was presided oyer by Rev Jason Noble Pierce. "A malC chorus assisted in the singing.
 Mir. Hall used for his Scripture read. ing the fifth chapter of Mark. As ar introduction he stated that he was g New Haven boy. That he was raised and educated here. That he loved New Haven and was glad to be per. mitted to speak. He told of his career and how he and MT. Jacobs, business men, had seen thousands brought to Christ. What God had done for then and the way in which He had used them was no more than He could dc for every man. He can make every slch an one a firebrand for Him. He pleaded for unselfish interest in other men. He told a story of man who was shipwrecked. The vessel had been stranded on a reef The life boats had one by one been taken ashore filled with the freight of human lives. The one of the passengers sighted a man struggling in the water with his arms thrown through a life preserver. He stopped the boat and insisted on talk ing the man place and letting him go ashore A short time after one of the men who was handling the boat found the one who had done such an unself- ish act walking along the beach. He said Mir. F. how could you have done such an unsefish thing? l can under stand some things, but I cannot under stand how a man would take such chances for the sake of another. What motives must actuate your life?" "Well," said the man, you sec if was like this That man owed me fifty cents and didn't want him 10 ga down" "Doi t be like that said Mir. Hall Be truly ansclfish. l have ob- served this that the men who chase for money become awfully small" He pleaded for the ministers of the city The ministers of the city stand in the front rank of the firing line. They need your heln at all times, after which Mir Hall proceeded with his talk using the lives of Esau and Jacob as the basis of his theme He said that Jacob was cunning. He saw Esau in a tight fix. He saw his opportunity, and he took advantage of It. Many men get rich that way. Then Jacob was sue eessrul But does than mean anything There are many men who are called successful whose lives if you were liv- Ing 1t, would make your face turn red. Our supreme ambition should be to he true. honest and upright. There are many men to-day who are welding a bigger influence than the Nanderbilts and they are without cent. God only knows how much power there is lying dormant in mons lives to-day if God could only get hold of them. And the man that He is looking for may be you
 We need the grace that God can give to help us to he good. Mans tenden. cy Is downward and to countcract thi! tendency. We need Gods grace w need it to help us speak the truth. fot may say that you do not need it fol that but there are many mon wh' would lie if they got into a corner.
 He then went on to speak of Peter a' an illustration of what Gods grace car do in the way of transforming life Peter. weak, profane, decitful, and ye on the day of Pentecost the leader Q the people" When God chooses a, mai for His work, he sometimes chooses { mighty weak vessel from the human standpoint. He may be going to us' you. although you do seem weak now. He related an experience of which h' was personally acquainted, which oc cured at Meriden A man was ad
 iicted to the use of liquor. One day h. came home and his wife handed him { dollar with the words that it was al she had, she had washed all day to ge 1t. The man. knowing that his wifi had earned if by the sweat of her brow that she needed the bare necessities . life that his children were perishing went deliberately out and spent It fo rum. He was finally converted and b' Gods grace, had not yielded to tempta ton since th9t date. twenty-five year ago. He told of how God took tn taste of liqucr away from his lire Ii told of other instances and then sai' These are facts not fairy tales.
 He said in conclusion that some Q the greatest. miehtiest men the worl' has ever seen have been servants o God" He illustrated his point by sev eral anecdotes from the life Of Gen Grant. He closed his address by re latiug an experience about the time Q his fathers death which created
 strong impression scarcely an eye wa dry in tho Auditorium.
 The meeting was one of the strong est of the se-ies which have thus fa been held. The speaker next Sunda
 will he the Rev. Harold Pattison. Wh will give his stirring address on Bird of Feather" MT Pattison is paste of the First Baptist church of Hart ford. Conn All men are invited to at 1 tend.
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