The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-05-22


now prepared for the rush.
GEORGE s. ALCORN.
dies, he not only goes to hell, drawn
thither by the natural force of
spiritual gravity, by the approval of
God and the angels, but by the COM
mon consent of every other man
in the universe. A good mans
tendency is onward and upward,
and higher and higher. And just as
sure as goodness and righteousness
lead to life hereafter, just so sure he
that pursueth evil pursueth 1t to his
own death. The natural tendencies
of men are evil, and all man
need do to be doomed here and
damned hereafter is just to fol-
low the inclinatiOns of his own
heart and ways. Sin is a disease,
leprosy, cancer of the soul.
1t isn't question with you of what
church you belong to, or how you
were baptized. The only question
for time and eternity with every
mortal man is this: Has this virus
of sin been extracted from my soul?
Every sin of mans life is direct
stab at his conscience. If you keep
on SHINING, by and by your con-
science is honey-combed with the
stabs of sin, and it expires and
breathes It's last, and you walk
through life without any conscience
at all. Will you let me say to you
tonight, that the great trouble with
the world to-day is that conscience is
stabbed to death-National cOnsci-
ence, State conscience, individual
conscience, aud church conscience
is dead. Pursuing evil not only kills
conscience and stabs sensibility to
death, but it is death to the powers
of resistance-the brakes will soon
refuse to work. And he that pur-
sueth evil pursueth it to the death of
his intellect and reason. Oh, friends,
let US stop tonight God pity the
man that debauches his intellect
and rolls on and on and on. Tenn
peral death is not eternal death.
There is no death to a good man.
Blessed be God he lives in eternal
life. Oh, brother and sister, let us
never sin! Let us endeavor to begin
a new life tonight Let us never
die-give ourselves to God and begin
eternal life!'
Tuesday.
The crowd in attendance was larger
Tuesday than it had been before.
Early in the morning they began to
come in from the country, and be-
fore the 10 o'clock service commence
ed the streets near the tent was lined
with vehicles.
One of the great features of the
meeting is the music, led by Mr.
Charlie Tillman of Atlanta, Ga, a
noted composer and publisher OF
music. A piano, organ, and cornet
are the instruments used; the choir
is composed of hundred or more
voices, and for a half hour before
each service the people are treated
to rich feast of inspiring songs.
The first service Tuesday was on
the purity of christian character,
and imperviousness to sin. He said
that true christian had reached
his highest aims when he reached
the point where he would lie down
and die and subject himself to the
torture and death rather than smirch
his character as a christian. That's
the christian haracter-princely in
nature and pure in character. If he
had but one prayer between this and
eternity, he would pour out his soul
in this one petitions; God, give me
a pure heart and pure life-the puri-
ty of christian character AS tC
imperviousness to sin, he said
Now, if I,were to say right here that
an honest man cannot steal, every.
body here would say, That is true
If L were to say that sober man
cannot get drunk, they would say
That's fact If were to say thai
a chaste man cannot be vulgar, they
would say, That is true Well
now, brother, if truthful man, as q
truthful man cannot tell lie, anC
an honest man as an honest mar
cannot steal, and sober man as 6
} sober man cannot get drunk, if logic
is worth anything and common sense
and religion will mix up at all, thar
/ say, is there anything unreason
able in the proposition:
He that is born of God doth no
commit sim" Don't you see? 1t is ;
5 moral can't, not physical can't
The idea of the divine Spirit taking
possession of our hearts means
about this: My time and life anC
hands and feet and tongue all be
. long to God. l never intend to worl
for the devil. L have no time. Oh
= Lod, give us that sort of religion al
over this country"
!, Lively wit and biting sarcasm wa
sprinkled all through the sermon
He told the audience not to crit
else him, but criticise themselves
n they could pick a thousand flaws il
his sermon lint he didn't car