Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-04-11
PULPIT ELOQUEN.CE.
Good Congregations at Sun.
days Services.
GAINESVILLE People Hear Some Excellent
Sermons From Strange Divines-
Profitable Reading.
METHODIST CHURCH.


congregation at the Methodist church
Sunday morning to hear sermon
delivered by Rev. T. G. Blake, Of
the Cumberland Presbyterian church,
who is here attending the present
session of the Lebanon Presbytery.
The text chosen for the occasion was
as follows:
"For / am not ashamed of the Cos
pei of Christ for it is the power OF
God unto salvation to every one that
believeth to the Jew first and also
to the Greek. "-Romans j, Is.
The central thought in the sermon
was the grand truth proclaimed in
the gospel of Christ. The minister
mentioned many reasons why man
should not be ashamed of the gospel,
but laid more stress on the breadth
and comprehensiveness of its plat
form. 1t embraces everything that
is good and holy. 1t is free to all,
both Jew and Gentle. 1t takes I'M
der Its wing the inhabitants of the
entire globe. 1t carries peace and
good will to all men, regar dless OF
color or condition. 1t is Gods word
to His people. 1t goes to the isles of
the ocean and removes the scales
from the eyes of the benighted wor-
shippers of idols. 1t says: "Come
unto Me all ye that labor and are
heavy laden and l will give you
rest" 1t says this to the heather
that are $50 disgraceful, so hestial
that they will be improbable and
unneeded." The gospel goes to
them and fits them for usefulness.
A contrast was drawn between the
countries that are well supplied with
the gospel and those that are not. 1t
is not our manufactures that make
us great not our fine country and
elegant property, but our religion.
1t has withstood every assault and is
to-day stronger than ever. 1t sur.
mounts every obstacle and defeats
every foe. Some one asks If we be-
lieve in the divinity of Christ? The
answer is plain and in the afiirma.
tive. In the face of all the assaults
that have been made by the foes of
Christianity the religion of Christ
prevails and has more followers to-
day than ever. The temples of inf
deity havet been destroyed and the
lips of their teachers sealed forever,
but the religion of Christ prevails
stronger than ever before in the his
tory of the universe. There is no
reason then why man should be
ashamed of the gospel of Christ.
A the close of the sermon the
choir sang that beautiful and appro-
pirate hymn:
"Jesus shall reign where ere the sun
Does his successive journey rum
His kingdom stretch from shore to shore
TIL moons shall wax and wane no more"
CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
Rev. A. M. Growden filed the pull
pit at the Christian church last night
and preached an able and interesting
sermon on "The bible distinction be-
tween the Sabbath and Lords Day."
He took for his text:
And upon the first day of the
week when the disciples came to-
gether to break bread, Paul preached
nu.to them. Acts Xxx, 7.
From the second chapter of Gene
sis to the sixteenth of EXOdus-a
period of more than $500 years-the
observance of the Sabbath by Gods
people is not mentioned. The crea-
ton theory, that is that the Sabbath
was observed from creation and in
commemoration thereof, can not be
sustained from the scriptures.
The questions, therefore, to be
answered tonight are first, when
was it observed? Second, for what
reason? Third, by whom? Gods
word only will be consulted. God
liberates Israel. In the de ,ert God
feeds them with mama. Exodus
xvi, % 29-"This is that which the
Lord hath said, TO morrow is the
rest of the holy Sabbath unto the
Lord So for that the Lord hath
given you the Sabbath.
Let no man 60 out of his place on the
seventh day. On the seventh day
no mamma fell.
For what reason was the Sabbath
given? Moses answered one ques-
ton in Deut. V, l5-"And remember
that thou vast servant in the land
of Egypt, and that the Lord thy God
brought thee out thence through a
mighty hand and a stretched out
arm; therefore the Lord Thy God
commanded thee to keep the Sabbath
day" 1t commentaries, then, the
liberation from Egypt.
To whom was its observance COM
mitted? Therefore the Children of
Israel shall keep the Sabbath