Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-09-14
RELIGIOUS 1NrE111eENoR.
Notes Gathered From the Various
Houses of Worship.
AT THE BAPTIST CHURCH.

appears tLldL l0 lS uu0SlluS tuC GA pSC-
tations of the church to a gratifying
degree. His meth dis are orthodox,
conservative, and, as he himself
assured his congregation yesterday,
he will not be found straining after
novelty or sensationalism. He con-
ceivts it to be his duty to present the
gospel without rhetorical flourish or
oratorical display. lie, however, is
fluent and easy speaker and has
fine command of good English. His
utterances are given the closest heed
by the young-a result difficult of
attainment by many ministers. This
will be one of Mr.. Boone's strong
fortes. His theme yesterday morn.
ing was the restraining love of Christ.
The world, he said, is swayed by no
influence as powerful as love. 1t
zones the world, binds continent to
continent and shapes the destinies of
nations. He illustrated the kinds of
love and scope of each-the mothers
love being second only in order of i'm
portance to that of the SaviOr's.
The young minister extracted much
that was of practical value from his
subject, presenting it in phases differ
ent perhaps from what some of his
hearers had viewed the matter.
The evening sermon was suita-
BILE companion of the preceding one,
and had to do with the birth, life
and character of Christ, being
based upon this Scripture, found in
part of the 10Th verse of st. Luke
"The shepherds said one to another,
let us go even unto Bethlehem and
see this thing which has come to
pass, which the Lord hath made
known to u.s." After referring to the
misconceptions and errors which OBJ
tanned even among the Jews contem-
pOraneous with Christ concerning
his personality, mission, etc, and
which, more or less, still exist, the
minister proceeded logically to ex-
plain that all prophecy had been ac-
curately fulfilled by His birth, the
particular period of the worlds his
tory at which He was born being it.
self confirmatory of his divinity.
AT THE METHODIST CHURCH.
The Methodist congregation heard
two excellent sermons, yesterday
morning and night, delivered by
Rev. A. Coke Smith of the Wander
bilt University. DR.. Smith is a
comparatively young man and is
one of the finest pulpit orators that
has visited GAINESVILLE recently. He
has excellent delivery and his
thoughts are couched in fine Ian.
guage. His subject at II o'clock, was
Christ choosing his disciples. He
handled the subject in a mastery
style and greatly interested his
hearers. His discourse at night was
none the less interesting, it being
founded on the faith of John the
Baptist. The people who heard
both sermons agree that they were
among the best that have ever been
delivered in the Methodist church
here. Large congregations attended
each service.
AT THE PREsBYTERIAN CHURCH.
Rev. J. H. Patton filled DIR. Lup.
tons pulpit last night, his subject be
ing the conversion of the thief on
the cross.
The first point made was the little
knowledge the thief had of Christ.
The second point was the magnitude
of faith based upon such little know
ledge. The third point was the I'M
seltishness of the request. He did
not ask to be saved he felt that he
did not deserve that, but simply
asked TO be remembered. And
Christ looking back of that modest
request, saw in this thiefs heart a
living faith, and said: ayes, | will
not only remember you, but to-day
shalt thou be with me in Paradise"
The speaker then discussing the word
Paradise, made it to mean heaven,
diScarding altogether the idea of an
intermediate place. And then he
drew two very practical lessons
from this truth. The first one, let no
sinner despair. The second, let no
sinner presume. None need dispair
because "Christ is able to save un
to the uttermost all those who will
come unto God by him. The saliva
ton of this thief stretches away TO
the utmost limits and embraces the
possibility of every sinner to be
saved. But upon the other hand let
no man presume some may console
themselves with this thought, like
the thief must put off this matter of
my SOULS eternal interest until the
last moment, and just before my soul
shall launch out into eternity, like the
theft. l will call on Christ to save me.
But there were two thieves crucified.
And then with gratifed touch he
drew picture in which the angels