Wichita eagle., 1888-01-20
REv.wILs AT THE F1RsrM. E. CHURCH

| q. w. Wilson are daily growing in inter
/ est. The evangelist holds his audience in
wrapt attention and an intense religious
/ feeling seems to pervade nearly the entire
throhg which daily assemble TO hear this
/ remarkable man expound the Scriptures.
| Not only in the church is this interest
manifested, but on the street and in bus
1 mess houses and offices the sermons, as
outlined by the EAGLE, are the subject OF
animated discussion. The afternoon meet
! ing yesterday was well attended Mr..
| Wilson, in front of blackboard was writ
/ ing his text when the reporter entered,
church. His subject was Holiness, and to
prove that his hearers must be entirely
consecrated TO God he had written on the
board: Eph., Sd and sth; Rom. 9th and
I'd; Gal. I'd and Goth; Rom, sth and I'd; 1st
Cor, 4th and 4th: Acts, 9th and 10th;
/ Rom. Sth and 9th: Rom, 18th and 18th.
| Mr.. Wilson explained each of these texts
and eloquently urged his hearers to make
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/ God and not depend entirely on imputine
| Christ's righteousness TO themselves. At
| times the good points made by the elo-
quent preacher was greeted with regular
fusilade Of amens all along the line.
The storm last night had the effect OF
keeping some of the people at home, but
the house during the night service was
comfortably filled and seemed to make up
! in enthusiasm what it lacked in
numbers from the previous night. The
services were opened by regular
| old fashioned song and prayer meeting
hundreds testified TO their faith in
| Christ.
| Mr.. Wilson took for his text tn twenty
! fourth verse of the eleventh chapter of
Mark. Therefore | say unto you, what
things soever We pray, believe that ye re-
| ceive them and We shall have them"
He spoke of the power of faith and gave
his hearers beautiful definition, sing as
an illustration the parable of the big tree.
''We must have faith" There are con
ditions breeding faith, that is we must
have holy desire for the thing which is
| the object of our faith
Parents must not desire the conversion
of their chilcren for selfish purposes Min
listers sometimes desire a revival of relig-
for selfish purposes. Over in Illinois
(Laughten) The preachers here desire re-
vival all for the glory of God.
You may desire better house
and get it burned down in answer to
your prayer. People will stand up and
say they desire conversion or santiication
and then will go to hell before they will
come to the altar. They want their own
way about it, A mother once said to me,
have the witness that my sons will be
saved but | just want you to pray for them.
] told her that there were a great many
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| wanted to put in my time praying for
them. If you have the witnesses that they
will be saved what is the use in my taking
up my time in praying for them. This
presentation this witness that your child
rem will be saved is the devils switch. Do
not trust in presentation that they shall
be saved but if you desire their salvation
pay for it and We shall have it. i just want
to stand here and preach the word Of God
just as he intended it. If ] can do that we
will have a revival of religion. A man
said to me once: Il have been trying for
week to think l am saved. Oh. / want
to have faith" l said: Have you re
pented, and have you tried to right the
wrong you have done your fellow mem"
oh he said, Il was not trying to get
salvation that way" These were some of
the previous conditions of faith which he
had neglected. Ii you want salvatio on ask
for it.
If go to the store to get spool of thread
T do not 90 in and say, Oh, 1 want
something, just anything you have,
a mind to give me. l ask for just what
want and get it. If you want any good
thing ask God for it and We shall have it.
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blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall
see God. have seen people come to the
altar and groan and dodge and pray for
some great immense blessing, when their
souls were too little to contain a big
blessing Pray all around the world and
get nothing That false doctrine of i'm
putation has robbed many poor soul. If
you want bread ask for it. Yes, but some
one says, All, believe. Yes, of course you
do the devils in hell are orthodox be
levers, and can quote more scrip
ture than some OF you people here
Faith is to put out your hand and take
what is promised, Promises are worth
nothing to you unless you get what is
promised A draft on a bank which prom
ises you money will do You no good unless
youssg and get the money. You don't keep
the draft and say oh, have the money: !
am trusting in the promise. The governor
may tell criminal, convicted for felony,
if you will ask for a pardon / will grant it.
The promise does the criminal no good I'M
I'll he asks for it and receives it. | some
times let my bills run, but the store keeper
is not satisfied with promises to pay;
he wants the money. My friend
70 ha
to the bank at noon ne will give me ten
dollars | 90 and get it, / was not sur
prised because believed my friend Ii l
had not gone to the bank | should not
have received the money. Oh, why can
you not believe that God will fulfill his
promises Blind teachers tell us to pr AZ
for faith more faith. God can not answer
such prayer as that because we can not
pray unless we already have faith. Some
peoples faith are like this, they say | be
lieye God will bless me when believe but
l am a little afraid He will not forgive Iae
after do believe Yes, you doubt it, you
question Gods veracity. He says ask and
We shall receive.
Mr. Moody illustrates in this way. He
told his little girl, now come 10 the store
and viii get you a very nice doll" Lit
tie Mary put her arm around his neck and
said, ''Oh, father; believe you will get it. "
She went with him to the store and saw
some dolls hanging at the deer. She chose
the largest and said, this one, father
She was not willing to take his word that
he would get her a very nice one but that
particular one she would have and that
one she got. Several days later Mary's
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buy her much finer doll than the one she
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