The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-06-13
AT THE TENT.
Or. White Still Continues TO Weld
an Influence.

DR.. White selected rs his text for the
morning service at the Baptist tent meet
ing from the nth chapter, Goth verse of
the book of John, "Take We away the
stone" In part he said;
ssGod never does for us what we can do
ourselves We may pray until we are
dead, but unless I'VE try to answer our
own prayers it will do no good. Work as
well as pray and pray while we work.
Some of you sinners expect God to take
you up and give you feeling. You know
you are sinner; that's enough. Do your
part and God will do his part.
"Unbelief must be taken away. One
element of faith is expectancy. When
you come here in this tent what do you
expect? The world has not seen the
power of God because of unbeiief.
"Unforgiveness must be removed.
Don't pray any more until you can tor
give. Get right with one another. and
then we can get right with God.
"An unwilling heart is another stone
that must be removed. Some of you may
be criticising this meeting. 1 don't care
a snap of my finger. 1t takes brains to
do thing, but not to criticise.
"Stubbornness is your trouble. You
are afraid somebody will influence you.
You need religion. g.
can Indifferent heart may be your him
drance. The Indifferent church is due
either to formality or worldliness. Any
pastor who will let his church dance and
play cards and drink whiskey is shorn CT
his power Don't forget covctous world
illness. Many wife stands in the way
of her husbands growth by her stingi-
ness.
."Mothers sending their daughters to
dancing school and pretend to lie Chris
thar you will reap the whirlwind. Shame
upon such mother. I'll tell you, you've
got to give up your worldliness. You
must give it up OF you ought to get out
of the church. Get clean for God's
- M..s. INCONSISTENCIES - = -
by O'Clock last night ali the. seats in
the large tent were taken and numbers
were forced to stand in the aisles and
along the walls. The opening services
were conducted by DIR. l.. G. Brouehton
and Rev. t. j. Shipman Announce
mer is were made for services ut the
churches at II o'clock this morning and
at the tent at $3.50 and 8 p. m. The $3.50
O'Clock service will be especially for rail
road men. DR.. White then took charge
of the meeting and after reading the re.
quests for prayers, selected his text from
Acts, 2021, "Testifying both to the Jews
and also to the Greeks; repentance to-
wards God and also to the Greeks"
What is repentance? listen: Repent
ance consists of three things; first,
change of thought! second, change of pur-
pose! third, change of conduct. You have
not the right thoughts about Gcd and
heaven and conduct and sin. The wicked
must forsake their thoughts. Repentance
is a change CT will; every man can will
to serve God.
There must be a change of conduct;
you must give up sin, give up evil and
follow Christ and do the will of God.
Every sinner is conscious of the fact
that he is a sinner, and your sin is against
God It is bad enough to sin against
man, but your sin is against God vi
Repentance Is not fear. You are afraid
to die, you are afraid of hell, but this is
not repentance.
Repentance is not feeling. Some of
you have been waiting for feeling, and
waiting for God to come and take yo,,
and call you over, but He will not do this.
Sorrow is not repentance. The man
getting over a drunk is sorry, and says
he is not going to drink any more, but
takes some more the first time that it is
offered to him. Don't you think that
you have told lies enough about this.
Quitting one sin mt time is not repent
ance, but it is the orsaking all sin. In
your mind give mp all sin and God will
enable you to give it up in reality. We