Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1893-07-28
DR.. WHARTON'S SERMON
REVIVAL. SERVICES DHs AWNING
TO A CLOSE.
" what VIII YOU DO VVlsh Jesus P''
the Theme of the Great Preach
er-SHanv Persons Array Them
selves Om the Lords side.

er-Manv Persons Array Them
selves On the H.Ord's eide.
As the revival services that have been
conducted for the past two weeks by
Rev. DIR. Wharton at the First Baptist
church draw towards the close the inter
est increases and many seekers after
Christ nightly accept the invitation and
find the peace that passcth all under
standing. The service last evening was
attended by as large crowd as has bcen
there on any evening, perhaps. DIR.
Wharton read a great mauy requests for
prayer, among them one for the Chinese
Of the city and another for the saloon
keepers and their clerks. A solo "Moth-
er's Way" was sung by DIR. Wharton in
a way that reached every heart. His
sermon was on the text
What shall do then with Jesus Matt.
27.22.
This is a strange question" DR.. Whar
ton said. ''If it read What will Jesus do
with me p it would seem more natural.
The people had taken Jesus before Pilatc
and said This man says His name is
Jesus of Nazareth, and He claims to be
equal with God. He has been stirring up
the people, and we want Pilates consent
to put Him to death But Plate said
to the crowd Il find no fault in this man.
They replied We'll report you to Caesar,
and you'll lose your head So Jesus was
given up to the mob.
"Pilate went against his convictions.
He did not see any harm in Jesus, yet he
delivered Him into the hands of a mob.
He should have acted the man. 1 know
men who go about on two legs, but they
are not really men. You know the right
and approve it, too, and condemn wrong,
| while day by day you go against your
convictions. 1t is a hard thing to do.
You cannot kill conscience. The worst
criminal in the world has a conscience,
and once in w hile it tells him he is doing
/ wrong. 1t is not an easy thing to go
| against conscience every day. Another
thing about Plate, he acted against the
advice of his best counselor, his wife.
| Now the married ladies will go home
sermon tonight Pilates wife told him
\ to have nothing to do with that just
| man. But he did not obey her. II you
| would only act as your wife or mother
| wanted you to. you would come right
| up here and confess your sins.
| "Pilate said to himself Il can't lose my
place; will let them have Him. That is
| the reason why you do not come to Him
There is some reason behind your delay,
some pleasure you do not want to give
up. When you reach the point where
you don't care what you lose, then you
are in good wav to be saved. Just
say, Lord, 1 will leave all and follow
thee There is only one of two things
or reject Him. We can take Him as our
leader or reject Him and go out into the
| world and fin ally spend eternity in dark
ness.
"What is the consequence if we reject
Him? Some day misfortune will come
upon you and you will look up for shell
ter and there will be none to shelter you.
Every hope will be gone. But suppose
say 'As far as know how 1 accept Je-
sus.' What is the result AS soon as
gle stroke of the recording angels per
every sin is blotted out. He takes my
shoes and take His. He says Through
every evil will care for you
Which will you do, accept or reject
Him Make up your minds tonight
One or two more days and my sermon:
here will have ended. You may never
again hear the words am speaking to
night. Let me tell you that you neet
Him. What will you do with Jesus
Christians let us try to love Him a Httl'
better. Let us, members OF all churches
say Lord, make us more useful o
| He is all in all to us. Let us step httl
closer to Him. To those not christians
best friend you will ever know. Jesu
> died for you. Will you take Him as you
Savior? Some of you will go out AM
say 4 reject Him; will not take Him a
my SAVIOR Don't say that. Com
: and own Him tonight and He will tax
j care OF you. SOme OF you get furthe
8 away as this meeting draws nearer an
nearer to it's close. Don't do it. TAX
= Him at His word. Accept Him tonight.
The invitation was accepted by larg
!, number of persons who wished to rs
!, | nounce their sinful ways, and bapp
!, | after meeting concluded the service.
DIR. Wharton will hold no services tc
morrow. On Sunday. however, nc wi
evening will be the closing one of th
2 revival, although the christian people {
Asheville wish that he might renal
!. longer.