The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-04-11
large number went to be prayed Tor
NEW MEMBERS RECEIVED.


pulpit at the First Baptist church yes
terday morning and professed Christ be-
fore men.
This occurred after the strong appear
of DR.. A. c. Barron. of Charlotte VINO
is at present conducting a most success
/ full revival in that church.
His text was taken from the twenty
! second verse of the fifth chapter oil
! Gpnisis "and Enoch walked with God
after he begat Methuselah, three nun
dred year. and begat sons ana daugh-
ters.'
The sermon was to the unconverted
or backslided church members and was
one of remarkable force and power.
EDENTON STREET METHODIST
When Rev. DR.. Norman arose to an
nounce his text at the morning service.
he stood among ferns and palms ana
Leautiful clusters of flowers, fit emblems
Of the beautiful and everything truth
that he was about to preach.
The services had been opened with an
E,ster selection on the organ by Prof.
| Prvnnt. followed by the rendition by
the choir of a charming Easter anthem,
,un Is Not Herr He Is Risen" The
nostor read a part of the fourth chap
fer of list Theselonians, after which the
congregation. led by the choinr, sang
hymn No. 9O3.
I'VE shall sleep. but not forever,
There will be a glorious dawn;
We shall meet to part no never.
In the resurrection morn.
The musical programme by the choir
was very much enjoyed.
Those in the choir were: Sopranos,
Mrs Prof. Bryant. Miss Mamie Rob
bins and Miss Nellie Young; altos, Mrs
Jas. f. Brown and Miss Gertie Them;
bass. Mr.. ]. w. Cooper and Mr.. Viii
Reid. of Portsmouth; tenors, Messrs
James and Thomas Reid.
| The offert6ry. awake the Song OF
Jubilee" male quartette by Mr.
Cooper and the Reid brothers, was splen'
didly rendered.
Mr.. Normans text was from the 11tf
Psalm. the 18th verse: II shall be sat
isfied when / awake in His likeness"
"The saints of old said the speaker
! "bclieved in everlasting rest in heaven
Their ideals as compared with ours were
crude. yet even then they lived in the
dim twilight of Christian revelation
They were steadfast believers.
David exclaimed, In thy promise is
fulness of joy. and at thy right hand
are pleasures forever more
They all regarded themselves as so
i iourners longing and looking for eterna
rest"
Mr.. Norman brought out three dis
tinct points from the text.
First. we shall sleep. The scriptures
strip from death much of its hideous
ness. its terror and it's sadness.
I'VE shall Sleep" says the text, as
though we were lying down to a quie
rest.
Two hundred populations are sleeping
Il to-day. while we are amid the tolls and
trials of life We, too, will sleep; WI
shall take our places among these mil
lions and sleep.
We shall sleep unconscious Of the suf
ferings or the trials or the troubles OF
those who are left to push along in the
worlds activity. / can feel the insplra
ton Of the poet when he sang:
The storm. the wrecks, the winter sky
No more disturbs their winter repose,
Than summer evenings latest sign
That shuts the rose
We shall awake in His likeness.
''The millions who have fought ant
died for their eountry's honor, they sleel
and hear no longer the bugles call, but
they shall hear the command of the great
captain as in the final day he bids then
awake
"rhe millions that he buried beneath
the briny waves of all the oceans, viii
hear that voice calling when the seas
give up their dead.
The worlds grave yards and cemctcr
les will TEEN with life as their millions
awake in his likeness" what body shal
comfort il matters not. 1t is sOwn il
natural body; it is raised a sDiritua
body: nothing that touches that new
body can corrupt it. 1t is uncOrrupta
BILE. We have TO watch our present bod
les, guard them against danger, agains
disease but when we awake in his like
illness nothing can harm our bodies then
There will come to us all a final day Of
suffering of dissolution, but for the saint:
of God who have awoke in his likeness
there is joy forever and life of everlast
ing youth.
And then there is that glorious fina
promise, we shall be satisfied.
We can never be fully satisfied here
we accomplish hopes and views but they
only inspire us TO strive for more; the
cOnquests of the warrior arm him fol
more conquests.
The ambition of the statesman causes
him to lead on up flames ladder aspiring
higher and higher.
The millionaire Graves for more mil
lions, and the earnest, sincere Christian
is naturally the happiest of men. but he
knows that he must go home to dwell
with his God before he lis fully satisfied
But we shall be completely satisfied
We shall sleep; we shall awake in His
likeness and we shall be satisfied It's a
great work, but it great God that does
it.
"A all the redeemed of God who have
been redeemed from sin and death Join
on the resurrection morning in one glad
anthem of victory what glad morn
ing that will be-, what u day of triumph
for the redeemed who have awoke in
His likeness and are satisfied.
AT EDENTON STREET SUNDAY
SCHOOL.
Edenton Street Sunday school room
was crowded yesterday afternoon to en-
JOY the Easter music and recitations by
| the children of the Infant class of the