The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-03-20
4 GILMAN.
Pentecostal Meetings to End Non
day Night-A QUESTION Drawer.

dtN -NlSill ~ tfuSSliOil CIdNGI
The ten day series OF meetings con- |
Quoted at the Methodist Church by |
Evangelist Smith, grow in interest At |
every succeeding service. The evan /
gelist thinks he Will be unable to ac-
cede TO the requests 70 remain longer. |
as his engagements in the States are |
pressing him. He feels that he must |
carry out his original plan to return |
TO San Francisco by the Rio Janeiro, |
due here on the 23d March. This |
leaves but two more days of these in |
teresting and fruitful meetings. a
great day is expected on Sabbath, as
the tide of blessing seems to be ris-
ing at every service. Meetings will
a. m. a Pentecostal Prayer Meeting for
workers and christians of all churches.
10 a. m. Special Sabbath School Re-
vival. IL a. m, preaching-"FullS Sal
vation." $50 p. m. a Young Peoples
Pentecost. 7:30 Revival Sermon and
Service On Monday (NIr. Smiths
last day. a question drawer will be
opened in the afternoon, and the clos
ing sermon will be preached Monday
night
The evangeIists text on Friday
night was Paslm 51:13 Sinners Shall
Be Converted Unto Thee The
psalmist connects this prayer of con-
fidence in the salvation of sinners
!. f,,II Of no Shirt
There is no effect more thoroughly
certain than the conversion of sinners
when the right conditions are being
! fulfilled in christians. Let us ask three
questions about this text, First-'Sin-
ners''-who are they? Second-NCon-
version''-what is that? Third--what
| religious state in the hearts of be-
levers will bring about the conversion
of sinners?.
These are three definitions of actual
sin given in the New Testament.
First: "Sin is the transgression of
the Iaw''-trespass against the law of
God
Second: ITO him that knoweth to
dc good and dOeth it not 10 him it
is omission of known duty.
Third: Whatsoever is not of faith
is sin''-mbelief of heart.
\ sinner then is one who tres
passes Gods law or omits known duty,
or doubts Gods word.
But you will say, care we not all
sinners?'' Does not Paul say, He
Is the chief of sinners?7 No, he says
nothing of the kind. II you will look
at the passage q Timothy 1:13-16)
you will see that Paul said that he
was before a blasphemer and a pers-
.ecutor and injurious. out l obtained
mercy" The old life was gone for
ever. And he holds himself up as a
chief pattern" of saved sinners
What is il to be converted?
The Apostle James says Games
5:2O) that man is converted when
he is turned from the error of his
ways Conversion to creed, CONVEX
sion to an ordinance, conversion TO
church is not ScriptuaI conversion.
Sinners shall be converted unto thee"
mere IDGSl Dt dl illhstlu ctS We'll Go
an outward conversion. \ man may
shake off the vices OF the outward life
and be without religion. But true con-
version is not only turning from the
er1ors of our ways, but also a turning
to Christ There must be new birth,
which is an essentially deyine feature
in human conversion. II brings in a
new power into life.
If when you go back to the beginning
of your religious life you find nothing
more than a resolution, you are no
further than a Jew. You have failed
under temptation, because You are a
moral bankrupt The most neglected
class in the world are church sinners.
Persons who have been churched and
not christened. Men and women who
have been swept into the church for
the sake of swelling numbers-comt-
ing heads TO make a show of sue
cess. Let me give you a bible illustra
ton of that-Nicodemus was the high
est kind of a church mana ruler in
the church, pillar in the synagogue;
but Christ said TO him .Ye must be
born again" Conversion involves "a !
change of heart and life
What is the relation of the sancti
fication of believers to the conversion /
OF sinners? The latter always fol- |
lows the former. At Pentecost the |
Apostles were filled with the Holy |
Spirit sanctified; the result was 5000 |
sinners converted that very day.
Peter says CActs 2:39) The prom
ise is unto you. and TO your children
and to all that are afr Off that in
cludes us.