The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-06-22
REVIVAL AT EAGLE LAKE.
Evangelist Mitchell Continues to
Draw Large Congregations.
DIFFERENT KINDS OF BLINDNESS
Physical, Moral and Spiritual Blindpess.
People Can Not Tru,hfuiIy Say
They Live without Faith.

| Iucy Live NtthONt Faith,
Eagle Lake. Texas June 2l-E,lns lis,
5. q. Mitchell continues 10 hold the boards
| under the great tabernacle and is preach
| ins TO the largest crowds that have ever
| gone TO meeting here. His text last night
was Psalms. III. IS. "Opcn thou mine eyes
| that may behold wondrous things out
OF thy law" He said in substance:
| iherc are three kinds of hi. ndness In
| this world that demand the attention of
these who are IN good ana sound condl-
tion with the help OF God thrown in. that
the world may b. better and our friends
may he SAVED here in this HE and in that
TO come The FIRST is a physical blindness
aud what can bc worse condition than
to be physically bind. with all the bouu-
ties shut out from your enjoyment and
no way even to look upon the face of youi.
mother or father or your loved ones and
YOU being close to the grand things Of
TINS M? While this H. terrible, con
q ton. yet with it God always sends /;
blessing that will always overcome it. Tor
you never saw blind person that was
not in some way IA 4 for The loss OF SIGHT
Many OF them are a great blessing to This
old world and carry sunshine evervwh.r.
they 70. blessing the lives of all they
who were able to do many wonderful
things, etc.
The second is moral blindness, and con
stiiutcs one of The most dcploiaplc con
di,ions in this world and TO all who suffer
with this malady 1t brings the d rest con
sequences, as II reaches the homes. the
business, the character, the life. and de-
stroys them all and slodts over the result
holding lis carnival OF death on the car
cass of its victim. while IL pcrches read,
to slay another. till all he destroyed.
Jccts 10 all that Is pure. true good and
rehi, and. like tho shuttle fish, darkcns
all the space about IL. disabling It's victim
TIL II can destroy II. and thus the warfare
goes ON.
There are men in this community WHO
arc SO blinded morally that they will vote
70 iicrrs,, that hcllish Institution. the sa
iooI ana by ther practice sustain it;.with |
all its attendant hroCG of vipers knowing |
mat II is set to pull down their own
all that it touches with its poisonous
tanss. and yet to call themselves chr s. |
uans and lovers of Christ is a parody on |
religion. a buriesquc on Christianity. and
blackencj lie of hell. given representa-
ton IN human form Christianity never |
dld never San and never Will represent
any such a 70 as that. but is set 10 destroy |
II and all Ats effects.
ihere are people about here who are
morally blinded by money. coveto,isnnss
adultery. lying. stealing and such things
so that they are totally incapable of a |
correct estimate OF themselves till their
eyes have been opened and they can 500
themselves as God secs them. and then by |
leopard spots and the Etheopians skin,
ana be made like unto Him whom to
know Alright : life eternal.
Tho third and most awful condition of
blindness is TO he spiritually blind with
the spiritual under standing darkencd so
.lat 'hey can not see at all, and all the
wonders of Gods law are shut out so they
San not Sac them, and are forging in
Their blindness and sin till they VIII wake
mp In the end ruined and lost forever. No,
you don't see the wonders of the Bible
because your spiritual eyes are closed
against II. and You will not come to Him
that you might have life. Come now and
YOU may see that the Bible does teach us
about hell. heaven, God. love. truth
purity. right, man, Judgment, and all the
r r1 =, mat are TO be given to man. and
al that are to be Withheld from him us
the result of his obedience or his dis
In the morning the evangelist spoke on
Psalms. xiv, l, THE fool hath said in his
heart, No God" and presented infidelity
versus christianity and it VIA, the verdict
O. inc immense crowd that the preacher
poor ilttle infidrl skeptic and unbelievcr
and delivered one of the most powerful
arg ar, guments in defense of the religion of
thc 'ible that was ever heard in this see
ton, and has put more people to thinking
town.
claimed that they lived without faith sim
Ply He'd and that was all that there was
OF ", ana Tor thoin to say that they did
not believe the Bible because they did not
nnIcrs'and 1t was but 10 acknowledge
'helr Weakness. and as God did not re-
uulrc that they should understand the
,s,pie any more than they understand The
Jaw of gravitation. or the chemistry of | :
water. or the law of the assimilation of
Iood, II was the purest nonsense for men
10 say that this was the reason why they
ila not accept the Bible. and as ali of us
aa, drink, sleep. walk, run. live by faith,
and there was no possible way for us TO
,ve without it,, so God demands that we
n faith. and ask no questions, and every
nan man VINO docs SO has the promise OF God ,
nat he shall know of the doctrine !
whether II be true or not That nature, ,
VAS iull OF proof of the ex istenre of God,
ma that rcvelat. on was in happy accord
WIN nature and l.fc in all It's forms, and
imor"ed abundant evidence OF the great
ns' cause that was self-exisient. created
~ thlngs and from Whose power came
~ ~ !hlnes that are and by Whose ON &
y, ,sioteiice ms very plan is instituted and =
,nered TO you for the salvation of the .