The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-01-24
In THE CHURCHES.
Yesterdays Services Were OF Great Inter-
est. Revivais to Continue.

The revival services at West Presby-
terian Church are the most successful that
congregation ever held Revs. A. Edwin
Keigwin Of Millville, New Jersey, by his
clear and torcib!e explanation OF the
Scriptures has caused an awakening IN
the church which has already shown great
results. Over sixty people had asked for
prayers until Friday night The number
was increased to seventy last evening and
of the additional twenty about ten met
the session of the church after the service
and Joined the church. There will be no
service in the church until Wednesday
night, the young pastor having engage
ments at his home
He will return We lnesday afternoon and
will conduct service that evening and
Thursday evening.
The services OF yesterday were of an es-
pecially interesting nature. Miss Nina
Ramsey, q sweet voiced Gospel singer of
Millville. sang. Pastor Keigwin sang at
the evening service. ss:s,
Mr.. keigwin chose his morning text
from Exodus "a 80. His subject was,
Humanity Transligured" He said in
part:
"rhere are three transformations men,
toned in the Scripture and q striking
similarity is to be Loted between them.
Moses was TRANSPORTED. When on the
man. and offered himself sacrifice for
their sins. Christ was transilgured when
nn Mt. Hermon. He accepted the will of
God that he should become a vicarous
sacriice for sir. Stephen was tIaDsilgurol
when he offered himself sacrifice for tho
truth.
There are three distinct and special as
sur9nc,s OF Chrst's acceptance with God
The first, when Mt his baptism he gives
hi al Il ipic tk n,,I hup
Oh tho mount of lransfiguration he givo'
himself to die; the third, when Mt no last
supper he gives himself to die tho Just for
the IN Just, and in each case voice from
Leaven les flied TO his divinity"
From which the preacher said wc arc to
learn that transfguration is tho resnlt of,
i, toasocrh ion TO IL mission; :, communion
wiki God; 3 personal sacrifice. Ho point
ell out the fact that transtgurntloh often
occurred in n cloul, and that they arO
manifest 10 those about us. Transit yuri,-
tion i, tho signature Of God upcu he fore
head.
Tne key thought of his discourse was
We GO by giving. In closing Mr.. keig-
win rcciIed an original poem, entitled,
Reflected Glory"
IN the evening Mr.. Keigwin spoke OIL
the sibjna5 And he said Tomorrow IIo
p:cirrI his remarks wi Ii tho story Of
Fh' ~ = p'usuc VI iEoS' hii VIZ iUilcl
i.aruh 4uugnt. lhe command of Moses
to PA"rJh to pray to Goi for relief WAS an
sw,'rei by Pharih in the words Of tho next
.A.,i he said Tomorrow" Pau!'s story t.
Agri!Wa concerning the Kings salvation
wa, al 70 answered in tho words And he
sail tomorrow ASK a ch ll," said Mr..
keigwin .'wnrn it will accept Christ and
it will say Tomorrow. Ass: young man
and he will say tomorrow Ask an old
man and he will say tomorrow.
Nha. u dangerous Gospel is this Que of
tG-mo.row! LII is II foolish Gospel because
there is no better time to be saved than tho
p.rscnt and because there is no aSsu aucU
of tbs future.
I he preacher described sin aslike n hill,
tho nearer one gets to tho bottOm tho
harder it is to got to the top; like II tree
because the more it grows tho harder 1t is
t. cut, and like II reed because the less it
is prOpogated the harder 1t is to eradicate.
The worst sin he knew OF was The sin of
Tomorrow BECAUSE it decelves II man to
his eternal punishment.
Mr.. Is Sc!gwinapplied he text to those In
his consrcga ion regarding their conver-
sion and when it occurred. Hand raising
showed nobody who had been converted
after 70 years. Severa! had between 90
and 70; morJ between ~ and 80 aud u host
between Is and 81 The test was to illus
trato that the majority of Christians had
been converted In tEeir youth, to-day.
Continuing his sermon he said the Gospel
OF Tomorrow was the most pernici0us
doctrine that can be preached. 1T Is. tho
DEVILS nur:ery,' he said. He summed up
his remarks in tho words "will you build
your hopes on the idol of tomorrow or ac-
capt lho God of tO-dly?'