Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-08-31
ADVENT cAMpMeETING.
interesting Service, Yesterday y-The Interest In
Meetings on the Increase.

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est. Last evening Elder H. G. Basney
delivered an able address on "The Seal of
God" He started with the text In Rev.
1877, 8. "And there was war in heaven
Michael and his angels fought against the
dragon; and the dragon fought and his
angels and prevailed not neither was their
place found any more In heaven.
The drift of the whole went to show
that Satan, when he rebelled, started q
war which has never ceased since that
time, and that he was cast out to the
earth having access only to the tree OF
knowledge of good and evil, and later
becoming prince Of this world by way OF
his usurped dominion. After this, Satan
carried on his work through psganism,
and by it he caused the people of God at
times to lose sight of the Sabbath, which
was a memorial of creation and the
created works of God, by instituting
another day, namely, the first day of the
week, in honor of the sun, and how that
this day has been handed down by the
papacy, to the present time and is today
kept by many in ignorance of how 1t
came about and what 1t means.
Friday forenoon, Elder P. B. Osborne
spoke from Cd Timothy, ii: 7S. "Con-
slider what 1 say. and the Lord give thee
understanding in all things. Remember
that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was
raised from the dead according to my
gospel.
Friday afternoon, Elder NJ. G Huff
man preached very earnest and heartfelt
discourse on Luke xiii: "a, "Strive to
enter In at the straight gate for many l
say unto you will seek to enter In, and
shall not be able"
He said "This language is true. I
When Christ was living here upon the
earth, His work made many glad and it
made some mad. The occasion that
brought forth these words of the Saviour
was a time when He was putting forth
some very straight truths. One was this:
Suppose We that these Gallileans were
sinners above all mem tell you nay,
but except We repent ye shall all likewise
perish
Two classes Of people are here brought
to view You all know that the meaning
of the word strive Is to struggle. l be-
lieve the meaning of the Greek word is to
agonize. Every soul that gets into the
kingdom of God will have every wrinkle
taken out of his character, even as a wo-
man takes the wrinkles out of the clothes
with the iron.
"You or 1 may belong to hundred
churches and if we have not been con-
verted We will not be saved in the king
dom of God. II we love father or mother
brother or sister, or wife more than Jesus
Christ. Then we can not be saved. You
cannot ever love them as God wants you
to love them, unless you love Him more. -
At O'Clock, a meeting of the Maine
Tract Society was called. Important
business was discussed in the interests of
the Tract Society work.
At the book stand, which is the first
tent as the ground is approached from the
street, there is large assortment of
books, tracts, pamphlets, papers, etc,
which discuss the leading Bible truths in
scriptural manre and give the neces-
sary proof or the Sacred Word This
reading matter is not placed before the
people as money making scheme, but
for tho good Of those interested in their
souls salvation. Miss NJ E. Manson of
West Palmyra, has charge of this reading
matter.
In the evening. Elder r. C. Porter of
Massachusetts, delivered another dis
course which had the solid backing.
His text was from Rom. T. 16, For
am not ashamed of the Gospel OF Jesus
Christ for it is the power of God unto
salvation unto every one that belicvetb;
to the Jew first and also to the Greek -