Birmingham state herald., 1895-11-16
HOST WHILE I SLEPT"
pr. Whites Subject at Last Nights Service. Great Interest Manifested at the
 Revival.

The services at the First Baptist church have been largely attended and much in- terest and enthusiasm awakened. Since pr. White has been conducting these meetings the church has numbered about twenty-five additions, and pr. Gray says that there will be fully twenty-five more to join the church as the result of the re- vival
 Another large crowd was present last evening to hear Dr. White deliver his last sermon in Birmingham before departing for his home in Macon, Ga, where he goes to fill his pulpit Sunday
 There will be no services at the church today but both morning and evening services will be held Sunday.
 MT. Jacobs, who, with his sweet sing ing and excellent management of the choir, has added so much to the success of the services, will conduct the music at the services on Sunday.
 E Dr. White read as the lesson last even ing the parable of the rich fool-part of the 12th chapter of Luke, beginning with the 18th verse. He chose as his text Tor the evening l Kings, XIX, 40: As thy ser want was busy here and there he was gone"
 Many people. when they come to an swer the King of Kings, will offer as an excuse for their derelctions the same plea of the servant who had allowed the prisoner to escape, "AS l was busy here and there he was gone"
 The Lord will not take such an exsuse. He intended that men should be busy, but not too busy to attend church. You hear men say that "I did not go to ser vices because I was too busy. There IS no business more urgent than that or at- tending to the welfare or your soul Christ was a busy man, for he showed the plane upon the bench by the side of Jo- seph. Daniel was busy man, and yet he had time to pray three times day, and Daniel was a true man or God. lt is a great pity when man Will sllgnt God s service, and 1t IS coNelous spltiI that makes him do so. .
 There are some businesses man can't engage in. An extortioner cannot find favor with God. A man cannot extort money from his fellow man and oppress the widow and orphan without meeting with divine disapproval In Elizabeth City, N C., a lawyer was pleading ease in behalf of an executor who had robbed a poor widow. When he began his eloquent appeal to the jury he placed his left hand upon his breast, raised ms right hand to Almighty God and ex- claimed, q will win this case If l die and go to hell the next binute." He won the case and was a dead man when the jury returned it's verdict, and his bones now lie bleaching up the soil of North Carolina. Oh, my friends, God speaks sometimes.
 bartender sells his soul TOT the price he obtains for drink. A man cannot sell whisky and be a Christian. It will not do to say there is no other way to earn living. Yet this is what you some times hear nominal Christians offer in extenuation of the sin of the bartender. These half-hearted Christians do more harm than good sometimes. Oh, that men will let the devil hoodwink them. It won't do to say we are too busy to be Christians. It Is our first duty to seek Christ. Oh, my friends we haven't but one soul let us take time to save that
 The reflection is very sad "as he was busy here and there he was gone" A gentleman walked into his orchard with his little daughter. He lay down in the shade of tree and fell asleep, while she, in childish glee. was running about gath ering flowers. She wandered away. When he awoke he began a search for her and found her lying at the bottom of a ravine, alb ruised and mangled Oh, the anguish in the cry that burst from his lips "Oh. God, murdered while I slept" As you go around careless of your obligations you will cry, Lost while slept"
 At the conclusion of the service twenty five or thirty asked the prayers of Chris