The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-10-02
THE PENTACOSTAL.
Dr. Carradine's Eloquence Continues tc
Attract Crowds.


Salem, Va, Oct. Especial. Jon
Wednesday night about 1000 people re-
paired to the tabernacle and heard DR..
Carradine preach from the twenty eighth
chapter of Proverbs, thirteenth verse,
HE that covereth his sins shall not pros
per, but whose confesscth and forsaketh
them shall have mercy
The first point taken was that poverty
was not necessarily Il curse. Sin makes
hell i'll our hearts and n pandemonium
in our homeS 1t burns and consumes
reputation and character. So terrible is
it that God compares it to the hideous
disease of leprosy. God likens sin to re-
bellion, for it is rebellion against Him
and his government. Will you uncover
your sins and surrender or be locked up
in Gods penitentiary? He said that peo-
pie did not cover up fire when they wished
to extinguish it, but they expose it in or
der that the firemen may use the nozzle.
1t is so with sin. The ghastliness of it
must be exposed in order to stamp it out.
Mans first instinct after committing sin
has always been to hide. Adam, instead
of going to God and confessing his sin,
hid in the shrubbery of Eden, and Judas,
after betraying Christ, tried to hide the
sin, but conscience goaded him with it's
scorpion whip until his body fell with n
dull thud into the pit. God says, Gun
cover and will forgive" He then gave n
description of the way the mud was
scraped from the sewers of New Orleans
and piled on the streets in order that the
sun might kill with it's hot and healthy
touch the germs of disease that lurked
unseen in the mass. Sin must be reveal
ed, acknowledged, confessed before it can
be forgiven. The Holy Ghost tells man
that he is a sinner. He spoke of the false
doctrines of the Agnostics in the days of
Paul and drew therefrom the truth that
man cannot sin without being conscious
of it. There is sin, he said, which re-
generation cannot touch. 1t can subdue
but not eradicate. Speaking of the dis
position in man to cover up sin, he said a
part of history itself had been suppressed.
Another class are those who make out
that they are right when they know that
they are wrong. The worse n man is the
better he dresses up the outside. He
often dresses we'll and talks well, but
with his wicked heart poisons youth with
his sublety and takes them down to death
and hell. Christ says: "Uncover.-
In speaking of the doctrine of sanctifica-
ton not being accepted by some because
they say it is a mystery, then, he. asked,
how can they accept the doctrine of the
! trinity and of regeneration, for every
thing that God has given us is n mystery.
Inc neAC point taken was THAT no man
who covers sin will prosper for any length
of time He may prosper for a time, but
when Gods clock strikes and his date
comes round in the almanac, he will set
tie with the man and it will be fearful
one. Even penny, he said, gotten dis
honestly was wretched money.
Again, you will not prosper physically
if you sin. Sin affects the body. Dis
eases often have their root in troubled
| conscience. We can't prosper physically
or spiritually as long as we harbor sin.
| There are many regenerate babes in
Christ who, on account of sin, still live
on milk, for they Cannot, on account of
sin, stand the meat of Gods word.
Finally, men don't even prosper in happi-
ness unless they uncover, and then all
will be well. Confess, uncover and for
sake and you shall have mercy. Do this
and God will remember your iniquiti es
no more.
The morning services were conducted
by DR.. Carradine, who preached from the
text, Matthew, 5:8 BLESSED are the poor
in heart for they shall see God.'
AT O'Clock in the afternoon the Rev.
l.. l.. Pickett preached to large congre.
CATION from the text, LIST Thes., 2:3