The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-04-09
SO that the voice Of the blood may bt
ever for our complete salvation.
EVENING SERVICES.

was crowded from the doors 10 the pu1-
pit. and it was an attentive and appre-
ciative audience.
DIR. Dixon prefaced his sermon with
the announcement that he would to-
day hold a service lasting from 10:30
to 1890 o'clock, at Metropolitan Hall,
which service he invited everybody TO
attend, especially the business men.
He thanked these business men f0r
their attendance upon the day ser
vice yesterday, and requested that they
close their places of business to-day for
one hour, and give that hour to the
service of their redeemer.
He read the 14th chapter of Luke,
beginning at the 10th verse, and select
ed as his text the nth verse.
'Come, for all things are now ready"
DR.. Dixon. in stature and gesture, is
not unlike his brother, Rev. Thomas
Dixon, or rather his brother is not un-
like him.
His face is not characterized by that
hard, classic look of his brothers. 1t
is softer, and, perhaps, more pleasing
His eyes are bright, but they don
sparkle with that fire which flies unbid-
den from the orbs of the other Dixon.
His hair does not fall in that careless
ana PHIaUStGSl iIietSN tAAeAb III Toy A7AAiA
fringes the brow of the younger Dixon.
DR. Dixon's hair was almosa coal
black before it's locks were mingled
here and there with gray His features
were very pleasing and his thin black
moustache makes his face even more
attractive. He dresses in faultless
black. and at times during his sermon
his body sways in graceful eyolutions
HE in Ir11nTpGSTEP
and becoming gestures.
TO see him in the pulpit you would
not resist in the least the impression
that he was of very charming and
attractive personality.
He is very earnest, very candid, and
at times very eloquent. chaste, well
rounded, touching, and at times al
most poetic sentences seem to flow
from him unbidden His voice is clear,
and has in it a touch of rhythm. He
speaks rapidly, and at all times with
out hitch or the least awkward pause.
His maner, his appearance, his voice
and his actions are all in harmony, and
together they rivet the closest atten-
ton and attract the admiration of the
audience.
His sermon last night was forcible
and convincing. 1t was comparatively
short One of DR.. Dixon's strongest
points being the quick and ready man
ner in which he handles his subject,
and goes from one point to another.
"The gospel Is a feast, said DR. Dix
on last night, 'and if you make d flu
neral of it it is your fault"
1T is feast set by the Saviour deep
er and brighter, and better than any
fun, amusement, or pleasure.
"A man said to me once. why,
there is no pleasure in your religion.
you get together, sit and cry for an
hour, and then come away and say how
happy you are, could never stand TINT
crying kind Of joy
Il said to him that if he never had
10Y that made him cry, he had
never tasted genuine pleasure"
A Brooklyn mother lost a little four
year old boy. He was gone for three
days. lost--then the door bell 70 the
mothers home rang. a man with blue
clothes on. stod there with thelost boy
beside him. That mothers JOY was like
river She cried, oh, yes, she cried
for JOY.
You can have that JOY, the JOY that
| fills the soul so full that it oyeTfows.
! The feast is a Christian feast, pre-
| pared by God and the angels, and all
/ are United. The por tramp asleep on
| the roadside may awake and come 10
/ that feast. There is a place for him.
| His ragged shoes or clothes need not
/ keep him away.
/ The Bible and the Holy Spirit is a
/ feast all the time, and God invites YOU
Come, for all things are ready"
-
( and you take away from them sadness
/ and solemnity. they are more unhappy
/ but If yolI cant be d Christian without
this, why stick to it,
4 II don't know what you are going to
do with your sorrow in Heaven where
( all is JOY, and where they have no use
for these things; but never mind, God
will take care of that"
81 went to hold a meeting with one
Of these .sorrowfu1 old brethren. He
told me that the church and the COM
munity were in cold, sorrowful con-
dition. that everybody was cold and in
different ! preached to a few the first
night, to a good crowd the next night,
TO a house full the third night, and we
had a score or more Of conversions,
who were ready to join my brothers
church. I thought Of course that this
brotherl would rejoice, but he didn't,
and in a talk to the crowd he stated
that he was afriad we we're going too
fast, too much excitement too many
converts. he feared some of them
would not hold out.
Come into the light of joy come
to the feast of God: the feast is pre-
pared. 1t is feast of peace; you don't
have to make any peace.
II have heard of peace you make
with God. The peace you make with
God IS not worth the making. It's
making peace that the devil can un-
make. God has already made the peace
for you, and this peace that God has
already made is the peace you need.
There III an army of five million IN Eu-
rope organized to keep the peace. There
I is no peace there to keep, If there was
peace there would be no need for the
army. God has made peace and any
/ warfore on this peace is guerilla war