The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-11-23

COURSE AT CALVARY CHURCH
IN THE MORNING AND DIR.
MCCONNELL AT NIGHT CHARMED
A VAST AUDIENCE DISCOURSE
BY DR.. JONES ON "STONEwALI
JACKSON" PLEASED A VAST
MULTITUDE.
The Calvary Baptist Church was
crowded TO its utmost capacity Sunday
morning and standing room could hardly
be obtained: ali were eager to hear the
able and eloquent Rev. r. ]. Willing
ham, secretary of the Foreign Mission
Board of the Southern Baptist conyen
ton, of Richmond, Va
The services opened with song vice
and devotional exercises, after which Rev
Dr. Ticheror read the first chapter of Rev
elatins aud invoked Divine blessing.
DR.. Willingham took his text from Rev
Citations 1:13>-'Aud in the midst of the
seven candlesticks one like unto the Son
of Man" The subject of the discourse
was Christ in the Midst of the
Churches
book. There Is much in 1t that you do
not understand and mucl, that I do not
understand. In the study of this truth
that is presented to us this morning, L
Will suggest some thoughts that you can
ponder over with the hope that you can
understand:
The speaker related the meeting be-
tween John the Baptist and Christ in tn.
southern part CT Asia Minor, and the
words of the latter, "Fear Not, be not
afraid"
"My brethren, if we could see Christ
we would ftH PROSTATE at His feet The
seven candlesticks means the seven
churches, and in the first pl ace Christ In
His last Re seiati ions tell us that He is for.
ever standing among the seven churches.
believe in the coming of Christ. be-
lieve He will come in the clouds; but,
thaEk God, believc.l another doctrine
that Is, that Christ stands among the
seven churches, and when we speak we
ought TO speak words that will honor Je-
sus, for verify believe that He is among
the churches all the time. am afraid
that sometimes when we are entertain
ing this visitor and that visitor that we
are forgetting our duties to our Master
ICED wants us to be faithful faithful
unto death--and 'I'll give you crown of
'ItO' liz oOCS HOu letCu us u De success
ful. He speaks words of reproof and cor
rection, as we'll MS words of love and
peace. Read how he reveals Himself to
the different churches. We all ought to
be more consecrated than we were ten'o
twenty years ago. The Lord Jesus Christ
also teaches us church discipline. We
need great revival in all our churches
| Not to take in members, but to put
some out The man that continues in
this and that sin is dead branch on the
tree, and drawback to the church. We
must remove these causes or Christ will
| remove our oandlestick out --of its place,
we must have church Discipline
! DR.. Willingham closed his discourse
with an eloquent appeal in behalf OF for
| eign missions.
Solos were we'll rendered by Miss Annie
Moomaw, of Cloverdale, and Prof. Wolf
sohn The services'closed with prayer by
Rev. DR.. MOrehor Sc
The Calvary Baptist Church was filled
Sunday night b fore o'clock, half an
hour before the regular time for services,
and hundreds were turned away and had
to go to other churches. The services
| began with the usual devotional exer-
| cses, after which Rev DIR. Mcconnell, of
Lynchburg, preached to the vast audi
ence IN his usual eloquent manner.
Miss Taylor, of Petersburg, rendered n
solo that deserves especial mention.
DR. Mcconnell took his text from Jere.
miah S:22. els there no balm in Gileads"
This text was meant that there was
some hurt somewhere. At this age we
are living $50 times faster than our fore
fathers. We have undertaken to handle
great many things that ought to have
been handled otherwise The monopolies
and the concentration of money have al
ready gone mad With power 1t has been
said that corporations have no soul. They
have no soul. We feel the effect of the
com binations of money affairs in our re-
| ligious circles anu our churches. Labor
| ers are soured by trckery and filed with
| discomfort. They are knocking at the
| churches and we have to handle it to the
| bdst of our abilities. 1t conironts us this
| way: Power VS.. the people, and people
vsA power. We have the same gracious
ao$pe that was preached ages ago before
theAe things were ever heard OF. Some
of TIE great corporations in this State
runRsi heir trains on Sunday and force
theft employees TO go out on the ROAD, all
| foraheir own greed for gain. Our Sun
daHI' and home life are in oIeat danger
Wet have to settle things in the church
Jh&a should never have come there.
&rhe Lord Jesus Christ never made Il
chttfch palace sleeping car or a place of
ease$put II place of love, labor, toiling,
sacrkfe and struggling
lne Baptists are giving more money