The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1898-04-08
AT THE TENT
An Interesting and Instructive Ser
mon on conscience"

\ large audience was IN at
tendance at the tent last night,
and Evangelist Lee preached a
powerful sermon on conscience.
and, in the mind of the reporter,
he pierced a good many scared
ones by his fearful arraignment
Of that invisible but all govern
ing and conquering, intangible
mentor and motor Of the human
heart and mind.
OF course the excellent singing
continues to be an attractive fea-
ture of the religious gatherings
and the speaker is growing in
favor as he is rounding the sec
tiOns of the religious quarter
track and warming up with inten-
sified zeal and devotion as he por-
trays in a maSterful manner the
joys and peace and happiness Of
the convicted, converted and
sanctifi9d sinner, and the rough
and stony path Of the needless,
headstrong, willfuI. unmanage-
able Child, whose steps have laid
hold on Sheol.
Before launching into his SER
mon he gave out several anounce-
ments. Among them, a meeting
this afternoon of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union in
the Methodist church. He re-
marked that this noble institu-
ton, second only to the church of
God in redeeniug the world, in
Ocala was not in very flourish
ing condition, numerically speak
ing, and expressed surprise and
sorrow that so few women were
members Of it, when all should be
interested in the grand work.
He could easily see why saloons
tiourished in Ocala and the back
doors to some were unbolted on
Sunday and some men belonging
to the church visited them on
that day. It was because the
women did not do their duty.
He assured his hearers that the
w. c. I. I. was no political or
ganiZation and had nothing TO do
with wpman'S suffrage, which he
I nor the Southland did not believe
in. He called on the women pres
ent who belonged 20 the w. c.. T.
Z. to stand up. Half a dozen did
SO, on whose heads he invoked a
blessing. He then appealed to
the women to attend the meeting.
He wanted twenty, compromised
on ten and got eleven to stand up
and say they would attend.
He touched on temperance and
saloons, and remarked that there
was a place in town near the T.
G. & P. depot, where people took
an elevator to get a drink, and
outside indications pointed to the
fact, from the presence Of certain
teams hitched conveniently near
and whose owners were members
of the church, took this method
of hosting themselves to a drink
and hosting the drink from an
elevated plane. He said these
people should be ashamed of
themselves, if they We're not, for
bringing reproach on the church
of Christ. He felt certain that
their animals were ashamed of
the inconsistent, unchriStian and
Gcsccrating acts Of their masters.
The evangelist remarked that
the people Of Ocala could depend
upon it that he was in earnest in
the cause of temperance and that
he would shell the woods before
he got through and when he did
they had better look out.
/ In this connection he also spoke
Of private and public dancing and
theatcrs, both Of which he con-
denued. He gave fair warning
that he would not leave Ocala
until after the big ball of next
Tuesday and trusted no woman
or her daughters who belonged 10
/ the church would be seen there.