The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-14
AT THE TABERNACL

Sunday morning the Sunday schoo was
J greatly increased in numbers and interest,
and it was an occasion of special rejoicing
| in that so many of the school had obeyed
the Gospel of Christ and are now members
of the Church Of Christ. The devout Sun
day school teacher can but rejoice when he
realizes that the fruitage of his labor is
the salvation of souls3 from sin and death.
The orderly and skillful superintendent,
| H. n. Mum, and his able corps of teachers
| deserve great praise for their efficiency.
Christian Unity" was the evangelist's
subject of discourse. Text, John II: II, 20,
q He gave an elaborate and critical
eXegesls of numerous passages of Scrip
ture, and of Scripture imagery clearly
unfolding the teaching of the word
and spirit of God on this subject. To the
Divine word he made his first and last APP
peal, as il is written: MY words shall
Judge you at the last day" "If any man
speak let him speak as the oracle of God"
IF they speak not according to this word
1t IS because there is no light in him"
He said Christ taught His disciples to
pray Thy will be done on earth as it is in
Heaven" He propounded the follow
ing question: Do you think that in
heaven as on earth at the present time
there are nearly 700 religious sects and
parties with all the diversity and antagon-
ism they exhibit in this world, and that
they are thereby and there in doing the
will of God? Is such a diversity and an
tagonism taught or implied in the prayer
Of Christ, Father, that they may all be
as Thou art in Me and I in thee: that they
be one in Usf" No. The Christian
Unity" essential to that millennium tri-
umph in which "the kingdoms of this
world shall have become the Kingdoms of
the Lord and his Christ, and when the
prayer of Christ shall be answered-"Fa-
Their, that they may all be one that the
world might believe that thou
hast sent me"-will be effected
when and only when the word of God
shall be the arbiter to decide all questions
of the Divine will in the world conversion
to Christ. Our Lord said: "My word
shall judge you at the last day" What
then can prepare us for the judgment but
obedience to the word of Christ.
The management desire to express their
regrets that they were unable to make ar
engagements for the accommodation of so
great a number, the tabernacle being far
too small.
The subject of discourse was, Heaven;
Where is IT." In the afternoon.
The evangelist quoted several passages
of scripture as directly embodying the
points and positions deemed most import
ant. OF the scripture, 'Of whom the
whole family in heaven and earth are
named"
a 20 lod off - h. f,o k1,rA
of a family may be in heaven while the
other part may be on earth. Hence heaven
exists now. Some people say heaven is be-
You'd the stars. But the evangelist gave
very critical survey of the starry heavens
as far as the most critical scholarship of
this age has measured it but did not find
heaven. The sermon was in many respects
the most pathetic and impressive. The |
speaker showed clearly that in heaven |
would be answered the legitimate de- !
mands of our intellectual, moral and spir- |
itual nature-the mortal put on immor- |
tally.
The subject Monday evening was Hell" |
Many pages OF scripture were read offering |
testimony to the existence Of hell and pun
ishment therein. Evangelist Updike
makes no compromise on any scriptural
subject. He affirmed the existence and
punishment of hell in every form of ex-
preston of which he is master, and ex-
pressed his disgust of those who would
to dismiss the subject from the
list of essential pulpit subjects and thereby
fail to warn the sinner as Christ and his
apostles did.
The vast audience was greatly moved by
the almost incompatible appeal and warn
ing of the speaker, and when the invita-
lion was given the front seats were quickly
illed, mostly with men and women.
Workers meeting at $3.50 p. m. The
subject this evening is "Turncoats." The
number of accessions to date is 2l9.