Waxahachie Daily Light (Waxahachie, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 1, Ed. 1 Monday, March 26, 1917 Page: 3 of 6
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4 7:30- -Sermon subject "Sam 4
4 1’. Jones and His Last Sermon. 4
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4 TOMORROW. 4
4 10 a. m. Sermon subject 4
4 "TbeDeity of Christ. 4
4 4 p. m. Meeting of High 4
4 School gill.1. Central Presby- 4
4 terlan Church. 4
4 1 p. m. Men's meeting for 4
4 prayer and conference chain- 4
4 her of Commerce rooms. 4
4 7:30- Sermon subject The 4
4 Cnpardonahle Sin." Old Sold- 4
4 iers night. Seats reserved for 4
4 all old soldiers. 4
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must he lived up to.
* * *
Thou slialt not commit adultery
— I have learned to l>e suspicious of
I hose who cry out against a dis-
cus-ion of such -ills. Our men wo-
men hoys and girls ought to tie
w unit'd.
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When you become untrue to your-
self Cod’- blood-hounds take the
tiail and some day will overtake
you. it we are to have the sin of
Sodom we must have the fire of
SoduTU.
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The road of impurity is flit* road
to 11*11.
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t believe tlio divorce mint was
cor-eeived in
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There is only one ground in
(bid's court for divorce—the ground
of infidelity. If impurity enters the
home you are free to seel divorce
hut on no other ground.
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Honor thy fatb'r mid thy mother
is the only command with promise
of reward.
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I honor the hoy or gill who first
l ist and all the time slam by his
lather and mother. 1 have a su-
preme eontempt for the cigarette
smithing loafer who t'ltul* oil the
street and talks about his father
and mother as "old man" and “old!
woman."
The Sunday services of the big
union revival meeting brought thous-
ands of people out to the tabenuii'le
and they listened with breathless in
terest to the thro sermon-lectures
by the evangelist. While the results
thus far attained have not been what
wore hoped for. there is evidence of
a great spiritual awakening to conn
and Christian people are pressing
forward to that end.
Kvanuelist Crown is persuaded
that the time isalmost here when
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those 8
Shabby Floors I
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a clean - ""r Ikiint forms a smooth haul surface H
H iruE:N casiK ^ tile. No uee-1 of hack g
acme quality I
floor PAINT H
‘is easy r1 v“'ers 75 square feet two coats. ||
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8. THOMPSON LUMBER I
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' H' ''»•! I " people V. i! 1 got
ln* on th.dr hearts and make a
» unbined arsau t upon sin in everv
t-trtn which will bring Waxal achle
the greatest revival she has ever
known. The crowds at the morning
service tin afternoon service and
the night service taxed the seating
capacity of the big tabernacle. At
night the crowd reached far into the
streets where people stood through-
out the service listening to the magic
words of the speaker.
Weighing a City.
The Sunday night subject was the
"Weighing the City." The evange-
ist read from the nth chapter of
Daniel and took for his text a part
of the 27th verse -‘‘Thou Art
Weighed in the Balance and Found
Wanting." He called attention to
the fact that here in this short chap-
ter we have practically all we know
ot King Belshazar. This king made
a feast and many men and women
were gathered in the banquet hall
eating drinking and making merry.
While they were tints praising gods
of gold brass and stone judgment
came very suddenly. Judgment al-
ways comes when we least expect it.
In stressing the thought the
evangelist said "if you take up the
papers with this thought in view
you will be impressed with the fact
that the most recorded deaths are
the sudden deaths. Thousands and
hundreds of thousands are carried
suddenly into the great beyond.
There are thousands dying in the
homes that fall without a word. It
does seem therefore that if on" is
going to make preparations to meet
their God they ought to do it while
they are strong and well—if you
wait for the notice from judgment
you may never make it.
"Notice when the finger of fire
began writing on the wall—did
King Belshazar gather about him
the half dozen drunken men and the
nude women—No. He did exactly
what other men do in time of troub-
le.he turned to God. He thought
first of his mother who leared God.
He wanted her to send for Daniel.
"The devil is to pay with many
\ding girls if they are not allowed
to roam the streets at all hours of
the night unchaperoned and many
young boys run wild but just wait
till Die hand of disease or the law
is placed upon that boy—then he
.-end; for his mother and his moth-
er's pastor. lou wait young lady
some of these days the fall will
come and when disgrace finally be-
comes fixed upon you. you will then
Lo ba k to your mother and decide
slit's not such a fool alter all.
"Farants you had bet cr know
‘what your chi! Iren are doing. I Jo
not. say keep them under .'our nose
ill dry. but 1 do say keep them un
jer your e > • all night. .1 udgir.en..
is sure to come and the man who
laughs loudest is the man who prays |
loudest in judgment. The jeering* j
against your religious inclinations
are jeering* of a white-livered cow
a rd.
•• u is writ ton that the hina wa>
weighed in the balances and found
wanting. That very night the king s
blood llowed with the wine but it
Is not my desire to talk to you of;
that throne that rotted to dust but
i want tq get down to the 20th c-n
tury. Let’s consider Waxahacliie.
Your sins will l»e weighed in the.
balances if God should drop the
scales tonight how "lany of us
would be ready? I forewarn you
the judgment will come unexpected-
ly You will stand or fall by the
plainly written truths in tins old
h. »nk.
•Let me call your attention to
some of the sins. God says remem-
ber the Sabbath day and keep it
holy. How many takes the Sabbath
end make a holiday out of it. Lots
of families go to church in the morn-
ing then load up into their automo
biles and frolic all the rest of the
dly. You are taking half of the
Sabbath and are desecrating the
Sabbath.
-Thou shall not take the name ol
thv Lord in vain 1 would not swear
i i were a sinner. It's downright
cowardice. The man who swears is
much of an outlaw as the man
who bootlegs or steals according to
vour laws. Profanity is a violation
*0 the laws of common decency.
-Thou shall not kill I had come
believe the nations were begin
to hold human life more sac
red. but an explosion occurred m
...t millions ure beiiu*
>
berom« a murderer
" Hiou shalt not commit adultery
•Som ■ ieople s-iv stub things ought
aot to be discussed but 1 have
learned ;o be siirpictouH of those
who erv loudest against a dV.cusslon
of these sins. Our men women
boys and airls ought to be warned.
■No sin wrecks as this sin wrecks.
When you become untrue to your-
self God's bloodhounds take the
trail and someday they will overtake
you. If we ar to have the sin of
Sodom we must have the fire of
Sodom.
“There is more than one way to
commit this sin. All over this land
there is a tendency to lower the
bar;. The United States leads the
world in divorces. I believe there
ought to be regulations thrown
about the marriage vows. There
ought to be a stated term of court-
hip and a certificate of clean health.
Crimes against the unborn are com-
mitted.
“Honor* thy father and thy mother
This is the only command with a
promise of reward. If every disobe-
dient son or daughter was stoned
to death like was the custom in
olden times there would not. be
nough of the living left to bury tbe
dead it is too often that a sweet
little mother is crowded off into a
timer with no part in the home
and is sorter half way tol-
erated. Nothing should be too good
for a noble father or mother for
nothing was to good for you when
you were a child.
“Thou shalt have no other Gods
before me—This is the weight be-
sides which millions will be found
wanting.
“Friends L want to know how
many of you are big enough and
honest enough to say if the weigh-
ing should take piece tonight I’d
be afraid.”
SINGING OF CHII.DKEN
I E YTl IiE OF MEETING.
Evangelist Brown not only preach-
ed a soul-stirring sermon Saturday
night hut another great feature of
the service was the singing by the
children’s choir. The little people
filled the choir platform and they
sang with a vim and enthusiasm
that put the older people to shame.
Their voices rang out in praise and
the large tabernacle echoed and re-
echoed with the melody of their mu-
sic. The scene was perhaps one of
the most inspiring of the meeting
end the children were applauded
time after time for their excellent
xnging. Considering the fact that
the children had only one rehearsal
their singing won tin admiration
:r.d erai e of the entire avdimvo.
There were immediate demands that
the children be permitt -d to have
the choir platform to themselves
.-gain during the meeting and Mr.
Guice lias promised to let them sing
grain next Friday night. No bettei
singing from a children's chorus has
been heard here in any previous re
vival campaign that lias ever been
held.
Evangelist Brown spoke Saturday
night oil "Choosing the Highest.'
His sermon was based on the choice
of Moser who preferred to suffer af-
fliction with the children of God
rather than dwell in the house ol
the wicked. The sermon was center-
ed around the incident of Moses
turning his back on the wealth ol
Egypt and going to dwell with Fir
own people who wore in bondage
He emphasized the importance 01
(boosing Hie higher and noblei
(rings in life. At the conclusion ol
the sermon about fifteen or twenty
children responded to Hie invitatior
and accepted Christ as their Savior
VPD REVIVAL
I AliliE AEOIENt'K HEARS
SI NO W >IO!!M\(i SERMON
\ splendid collection at the Sun
day morning service knocked a bis
bole in the local budget and witl
this part of the expense out of tin
way anticipations wore high for t:
great meeting during the comitif.
week which marks the closing woe)
of the revival campaign. This col
lection was taken at the eonelusior
of the sermon and amounted it
round numbers to about $800. J
U. Mayhew chairman of the execu-
tive committee gave a brief state
meat as to the expenses inourref
for currying on the campaign especi
ally with reference to rent on flu
building lights and other Items in
eluding the salaries and traveling
expenses of the evangelist's party
exclusive of Mr. and Mrs. Brown. 1
was stated that the daily collection:
amounted to about $1100 and tha
equally this much more wu
needed to take care of the local bud
pet. Pledges from $10.00 down tt
si.00 were then made before tie
plates were passed.
Preceding the sermon Mr. Quiet
conducted an lusnirutionnl song set-
vice.
Evangelist Brown preached on th-
subjtct of "Get There and Sta}
There” the subject of one of tin
late Sum P. Jones' most famous lee
ujt<». but the sermon differed very!
much from the lecture.
The text used wan the first verse j
of the sixth chapter of Galatians j
The sermon was chiefly an i ;ipeal j
to the church members to take care j
of the young converts after the re-j
vival campaign has closed.
He declared that while there are j
some who are reaching out after j
j those things which are worth while!
there are also those who arc; reach-!
ing down after the things which’
degrade and debauch. Every move- j
merit for the uplift of the human
nice he declared originated in the
unselfishness of Christ on the cross.
Happiness he said does not come
through indulgence but through
sacrifice. “The best fruits the
choicest fruits are found away up irr
the tree and you have got to climb
to get them” he declared. "The
most unselfish person is the happi-
est person in the world.”
He declared that at the close of
all revival campaigns there are
those who say the meeting was
great but they expect a lot of the
folks who were saved will go back
to the old ways. “The same Christ
who saves” he declared “is also
able to keep. When you predict
the downfall of some young convert
yon are possessed of the spirit of
the devil head and heels and the
devil can use you to discourage
young converts. Your attitude to-
ward the young converts will deter-
mine in a large measure how they
live their lives. If there is anybody
who ought to be happy and smiling
all the time it is the Christian. The
way you as church members re-
ceive the young converts will deter- j
mine where they will spend their
life.”
He declared that there ought to
he an organized effort in the church
to look after the young converts
and go out after those who fall. He
urged church members to get on the
job and help conserve results after
the meeting closes. “You have got
to go after the drifting brother and
hold him or you will lose God your-
self." he counseled. “You cannot
make a success as a Christian in
fifteen minutes. To succeed you
have got to pay the price and meet
the conditions. The Christian life
is the happiest life in the world and
when lived it is an easy life to live
if you pay the price."
He urged the young converts not
to rest until they had identified
themselves with some church. “If
you are gcing to stay out of the
church" lie -aid. “you can count on
i backslid! ig.“
j He then took a few shots at the
church members who move from
one community to another and leave
their church letters behind or forget
them and said they probably did
this in order to flirt with the devil.
He said some people would ask
him what church to join and his
only advice was to join that church
in which they thought they could do
the most good. He declared that
sectarianism is the cheapest thing
in the world. “Get into some
church” he said "and get to work.
Everybody who joins the church
ought to be made to work. In many
churches today the trouble is we are
wearing out the harness at the
wrong end. 1 would not give the
flip of my finger for a revival that
does not increase the prayer meet-
ing. On the last night of the meet-
ing I am going to show you an af-
fecting scene. 1 am going to have the
pastors come down here in front and
1 am going to have all church mem-
bers who attend church only during
a revival to come up here and tell
them goodbye until the next meet-
ing comes. Uet into the church and
go to work. Every one of our
churches ought to be a beehive of
activities. You get olit of religion
what you put into it. Put yourself
into it. You should not only go
into the church to work but should
go in to pay. 1 don't believe God
will bless the children in any home
where their fathers and mothers
who are taking what belongs to God
and spending it on themselves. The
man who grabs and robs God never
grows in spiritual things. To he a
success in the Christian life you
: have got to join the church to work
pray watch and read the Bible."
NOTT'.lt Si)\(i »:\ WCKUST
SIMiS AT >1 ION’S Ml K I I Mi.
While the singing of the chil-
dren's chorus at the Saturday night
m rvice was a g eat treat there "as
also another great treat in store
for tHo men's meeting Sunday after-
i ta ou. One of the most noted song
evangelists on the American eonti-
; net was present and favored the
1 large audience with a song. That
i1 person was I’rof. K. O. Kxcell of
• ! Chicago who for many years was
associated with the late Sam I’.
Jones in e\ uigelistie work. Mr.
Kxeetl was tie: a stranger to many
In the a ttl cnee having sung in a
• meeting here a few years ago. Many
! n < •igni/.ed him as lie entered ttie
' j tabernacle and greeted him with
lajptause. Followiug the regular
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■Ml'IlWf - .. ... .—
song service under the direction of
Mr. Guice and the annoum -'taenia
and collection Air. E> -ell sang “1
Am Not Your Juu-'i He kii oly re-
sponded to an encore and sang a
temperance song that was equally as
enthusiastically reteivod.
Mr. Excel! had to hurry av.ay to
c; teh a car back to Dallas but
promised to return one day during
he week and sing again on which
occasion the ladies will have an
opportunity of hearing him.
Evangelist Brown's sermon was
perhaps the greatest he has deliver-
ed during tills series of meetings.
He made one of his strongest ap-
peals to the unsaved men in the
audience hut Hie response was
rather discouraging. Two men came
forward for prayer and one definite-
ly accepted Christ.
The subject of the sermon was
“Danger Signals." and was based
on Romans ti: 23 "For the wages
of sin is death; hut the gift of God
is eternal life through Jesus Christ
our Lord.”
He said there were probably no
two words in the English language
which concern us more than the
two words life and death—life
with all it means in temptations
pleasures joys and responsibilities;
death with all it means in the glare
of the eye. the twitching of the
muscles and the heaving of the
bosom.
Ho declared that it lias been said
that old humanity loved that thing
called life and fears that thing
called death. People cling to the
thing called life they crave it.
"Death! We fear death” he de-
clared. "There are those who say
no and who boast that they do not
fear death. It's a whistling coward
passing through a grave yard at
night.”
Ho declared that life so far as it
exists this side the grave and death
have only to do with the body hut
the word of God teaches us that
there is a life eternal and a deatn
eternal.
"The death that ends at the grave
i= something that we fear hut God
tells you not to fear the one who
j can destroy the body but to fear
i Ho who can destroy both soul ana
[ body if eon love life if you fear
| death if there is a life teternal and
i
;> death eternal what is it that pro-
duces and perpetuates that fear 01
death? We are taught that the gif
et God is life eternal; we. art
I ' i - s
•ai'g.u taut the wages of sin is
death and it is that something call-
ed sin that produces that thing
| called fear of death. Death is a
a direct result of sin. There Is
1 nothing in the world that can hurt
| a man nothing that brings the tears
to the cheek nothing that causes
pain that is not the direct outflow
1 of sin. All the sorrow all the
1 t attaches and all the tragedies of
! the world flow out of tout one
| word called sin. What Is sin? Sin
is a transgression of the law; a
violation of the holy laws of a holy
God.”
He declared that to every law
there was a heaven side and a hell
side. To keep these laws is to live
/a long life crowded full of health
land happiness. “The laws of God”
I lie said “extend into the ages of
j eternity and to keep God's laws is
to go in on the heaven side into
i everlasting life.
“To violate these laws is to go
I into eternal death. Is there a life
I eternal? Is there a death eternal?
i What produces death? Sin and sia
! is a violation of God’s laws. What
j is the death to which sin leads?
j There is more than one death to
| which sin leads. D leads to the
! death of conscience to the death of
i character to the death of will pow- *tt
! or. to the dea lt of the body and to
i the death of the soul.”
The evangelist then devoted the
remainder of his sermon to a dis-
cussion of the five deaths to which
sin leads.
—
j SI'\ DAY SCHOOL
PARADE SATURDAY
i
—
j One of the feature attractions for
! the young people was that of the Sun-
I day school parade or. Saturday after-
! noon. The procession was formed
j at the tabernacle and march was
made through the principal streets
of the busiuess district. Beautiful-
ly decorated automobiles were pro-
vided for the cradle roll and the
larger children marched In the pa-
rade. led by the Boy Scouts.
After the parade the evangelist
preached to the children and there
was a very large number present to
give their closest attention.
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