Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-08-28
THE WORD OF GOD
Preached to Large Audiences As the
Adventists Understand It.
Unabated Interest in the Meetings BEING
Held in This City.

LuglhHu COilleFtHct, ANU EiUeT W III
Covert, president of the Vermont con
ference, will materially add to the interest
Of the meeting. Elder C. P Whitford Of
Florida comes to assist in the work and
to add his voice to the choir.
The morning prayer and social meeting
was well attended; after dozen or fiji
teen prayers We're offered the time was
devoted to telling OF the goodness of God
and individual experience.
At O'Clock Elder r. c. Porter oc.
cupied the time, preceding his remarks By
reading Romans xi :33, ''Oh the depth
Of the riches, both Of the wisdom and
knowledge of God how uusearchable are
his judgments and his ways past finding
out, He told some of the different
phases OF the work, especially the persecu-
lions Of Seventh Day Adventists in Ger
tain part Of the country He asserted
that this work of the enemy of ali
righteousness is becoming more and more
thing OF magnitude and is growing so
fast that there can no longer be any doubt
in regard to the fulfillmcnt of the prophecy
in Rev. xiiil5-1s, "And He had power to
give life unto the image of the beast that
the image Of the beast should both speak
and cause that as many as would not
worship the image of the beast should be
killed, and He causeth all, both small and
great, rich and poor, free and bond, to
receive mark in their right hand, or in
their forehead; and that no man might
buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or
the name of the beast, or the number of
his NAME
1t is so evident that these prosecutions
are caused by religious intolerance that
some other able ministers of other de-
nominations are coming to realize the
fact and are thereby led to investigate the
matter and so are brought to see the truth
In regard to the Sabbath question, and the
Importance of regarding it. Elder Porter
mentioned four ministers, who have lately
taken hold of Gods Sabbath, from this
cause-namely two Methodists, one Bap-
fist and one First Day Adventist eye
can do nothing against the truth but for
the truth" 1.-The wrath of man shall
raise Him 1T Is hard for thee to kick
against the pricks Bible
After Elder C. p. Whitford sang the
song entitled while the Days Are Going
By" the forenoon service was opened with
further service of song, and Elder P. b. |
Osborne preached from Rom iv:23 25.
1t is thought by many that this camp
meeting will be the best meeting the
Seventh Day Adventists have ever held In |
this State.
Why" asks one of the members of |
the denomination, should 1t not be so? |
The work Is a growing work, and if 1t is |
the work of God, 1t will succeed and all
that men and devils can do against 1t
stop 1t, while if 1t Is not OF God 1t |
will come to naught anyhow. Then why
need man worry about it?
The afternoon sermon was by Elder
VIM. Covert, at 80. His text was from
Eph. ii $40 "For by grace areye saved
through faith and that not of yoursely es
it is the gift of God Not of works lest
any man should boast. For we are his
created in Christ Jesus un-
to good works, which God hath before
ordained that we should walk in them
Grace means the favor of God as mani.
fest toward man in saving him from sin.
1t is the manifestation of unmcrited favor.
The text also tells US how He saves Us byl
faith. 1t is not of ourselves, it is the gift
of God. If man should save himself hy
his own good works, there would be some
occasion for boasting. God does not In
tend for US to have occasion to boast. If
am saved it will not be from any good
thing that have done
If any man should save himself nv
good works, then when he gets into the
kingdom of God he could say to someone
who had not been saved by works, but by
faith, L am better than thou You see
he would have OCCASION to boast. God
ordained in The creation that man should
walk In the ways OF God. -
At the close OF the sermon C. p Whit
ford sang solo, entitled He Is Just the
Same Today" which or atty pleased the
audience. Afterward liberty was given
for n short praise service, In which quite
u number took part.
The evening service consisted of preach
ing by Elder H. c. Basney on the subject
of creation and the memorial of that great
work. I'm the beginning God created
the heavens and the GARTH Gen. 1: /.
The sermon was a powerful one and was
attentively listened to by the large audi
ence present.
The firm of Pinkham & Sherburne.
one OF Augustus most reliable clothiers
and shoe dealers, are about to return