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THkQPERA HOUSE MEETING
SERMON BxeRay. DIR, BROWN or
THE PREsBrTEIAN cHURCH.


Good sized Audience Present-Applause
for Rev. Mr.. Poteat--Next Sundays Ser
mon.
An audience of about eight hundred
persons was present at the religious
terday afternoon. During the first part
of he1seryice a song service was rem
dered by the choir. 1t was expected
that a quartet from the Yale Glee club
would be present and sing, but for some
reason it did not appear.
Rev. Dr. W. l.. Phillips presided at
the meeting and made the opening
prayer, after which Rev. e. M. Poteat
sang Jesus, Come" AT the close of
the hymn, the audience evidently for
getting the occasion on which it was
met, loudly applauded, but Mr.. Poteat
did not respond to the encore.
The sermon was delivered by Rev, DR..
f. A. NJ Brown of the Presbyterian
church, who first read the eighth chap
ter of Romans. He took for his text II,
Chronicles, 1912. "Yet in his disease he
sought not to the Lord, but to the ply
sicians."
Dr. Brown said that the chapter from
which this text is taken was the de-
scription of the last chapter Of the life
of Asa, king of Juda, who would at the
present day be called a law-abiding cit
izen. He was not, however, carried
away by spiritual ideas, yet in some re-
spects obedient to God. His reign last
ed forty years and during that time he
won the respect and confidence of his
subjects. He is spoken of as a Warlike
king, who prosecuted the people of God.
He was taken sick at last with fear
full disease and finally knew that he
would die if he received no help. He
then appealed to the physicians.
DR.. Brown then said that this passage
of scripture had been taken as illustra-
tive of a point in his mind in reference
to a great malady which has afflicted
the human race and the way In which
men look upon it and try to get rid of
it. This malady is sin. Man ought to
have the earth under his feet trampling
under all temptation. The man who
has fallen under the malady of sin does
not have a vision strong enough to look
on the great sun.
A tree in a nursery was once effected
with some disease of plant life and the
nurseryman cut through the bark, ex-
pecting to find q grub at work, but no
grub was found there, so he cut deeper.
He kept cutting a little deeper until he
finally cut to the very heart of the tree
and there he found the cause of the
stunted growth of the tree. In the same
way this malady of sin does not take
hold of the exterior man only and trou-
Bile the thought but it takes hold of the
heart, the very depths, Of mans emo
tional nature. Among the evil charac-
teristics of the malady is this-it causes
men to hate God ME carnal mind
hates the very mercy OF God Not till
God takes hold of man and revolution
ICES him can man become cognlzant of
the mercy of God. Men are now doing
as King Asa did They turn not to God,
but to earthly physicians. This. then,
is the great difiicultyzsnen don't pay
attention to the properer remedy and
50 are not cured of theils malady.
Friends, are you not willing to turn
to the proper remedy to turn your eyes
towards heaven and say, Jesus Lover
of My Soul?"
Three classes of persons were asked
to rise at the close of the sermon if they
desired to turn to the Lord. The three
classes were those persons who were
church members ana felt that Christ
had cured them of sin; those who We're
church members, but who were not
thoroughly cured, and those non-church
members who wanted to be cured.
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