The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-30
CROWDS HEAR OLIVER
Biggest Audience Yet at Meeting
Last Night.
PREACHED LIVELY SERMON
CHARTED OUT THE ROAD TO SAL.
WALTON.
Told His Hearers How Hard It Was
to Travel This Road, But How
Comfortable They Would Feel
When They Finally Reached the
End of It Letter Received.

The largest audience which has as vet
assembled in the niff NJ. E. church TO
listen to Evangelist French Earl Oliver.
congresated in that edifice last night.
The preacher took up the thread of
his discourse where he left off on the
night previous. and proceeded to poi. y
out TO his hearers the way to find sal
walton, and he incidentally trod upon
Few susceptible corns during the
process
The text for the sermon for the even
ing was selected from SoIomonis song
chapter III. and the first three verses:
BY night on my bed 1 sought him
whom my soul loveth; 1 sought him.
but l found him not
Il will rise now. and go about tbe
city in the streets, and in the broad
ways, l will seek him whom my soul
loveth; sought him, but l found him
not
The watchmen that go about the
city found me; TO whom l said, saw We
him whom my soul loveth?'
Soul Seeking God.
In prefacing his sermon proper. Rev.
Cllyer proceeded TO analyze his text as
being the picture of an honest soul
seeking God. Nearly all yearn to
Know him" he said, there are many
right here in Salt Lake who are in
doubt, and there are men right here in
TINS town who would gladly draw a
check for $1,000 if they could only know
Tor certain that Christ liveth and <lt
they do not realize If they would only
search for him that they could find him /
Tor nothing. ! tell you, my friends, the
cardinal sin OF America today is care /
lEcyl0szGS thO1l oh t,ol > he
men who swear, do it thoughtlessly, |
without pausing to think and what !
want TO do tonight is to get you to /
point where you will think You can't |
lie on your bed and seek Jesus Christ: |
you must get out and about and seek |
MIN, and, let me tell you, no man or /
woman ever presented an honest draft |
on the bank OF heaven and had it dis
honored
go out on the streets and seek him.
o1u won't find him on the broad and
wide thoroughfares. though. The gospel
road is not wide enough to admit of
card parties and dancing.
Some people have been telling me
that they don't believe in REVEALS 1
tell you that unless people are brought
together in revivaLs there is very little
hope for them. Don't you be afraid
that the work is busted all to pieces in
this town, for God is working right /
here; the quicker the battle is on, the
sooner the victory is Won, for God !
never knew defeat
At this point the evangelist drew
from his stock of anecdotes to illus
trate his arguments in favor of reviv-
ais.
Continuing. he proceeded to enumer-
ate the various streets wherein the
searcher after truth might encounter
salvation.
Where to Find Salvation.
Now, there is Bible searching street
The trouble today is that people fuss
around the Bible and never seem TO
find out what is in it. Why. some peo-
pie profess to read their Bibles, and |
they can't even tell you the names of
the books contaited in it," The preach
er went on to state that were it not for
Colonel 1ngersOlfS suggestion to Gen.
eral Lew Wallace Ito read the Bible
and see what rot it contained" human :
ty at large would not have been bene- /
flied b. the production OF Ben Hur,"
and its author have become converted. {
'IngerSoll didn't know ii, but he was
preaching the gospel at that time"
Then Famiiy-prayer street received !
attention at the hands Of the evangel- '
ST. who interected two or three more
anecdotes to illustrate his point. "A
.ome where thew don't have family :
prayers he said, is like house with
ut roof-sCbject TO all the storms of +
{
Restitution and Forgiveness streets 4
we're then reviewed in due order and \
placed among the prominent thorough !
ares which LEAD 10 higher and brighter I
ives and ultimate glory. P
Confession street in the opinion of \
ne preacher, perhaps. after all, was c
ne OF the hardest points to traverse in !
he entire Journey. There is many a
man," he said, who would rather lay =
lis head on railroad track than walk Il
own that street. and l tell you it is a 5,
mighty hard thing for dirty blackleg D
to be a man, but unless YOU h
ralk on that street you will go to hell 4
1st as sure as if you were there t o. =
iEht.' Il
On Church-going Street. y
Coming down to Church-going street. F
Ir. Oliver stated that he had heard of K
lore spiritual wrecks in Salt Lake City u
IAN any other town in the United
tates. solely because the people who 7
anne here neglected to aHgn them ST
elves with a church. but let their e
lurch letter lie in their trunks for ST
often. Get it out and join, but if =
on haven't the spirit of the church and ~
njoy the forms and spiritual institu- NJ
ons of the same, 1 tell you you can so "
} he'll out of church just as quick as J.
Du can out of a saloon" Jo
Going-forward street was the last 70
aiding thoroughfare in the route TO III
aviation treated by the preacher. who
t out straight from the shoulder at
lie number of church people in Salt q an
axe who combine religion with theatre :.
Irties, card games and dancing He -,
,cuSed his attitude on the subject by =;
hrming that he was not one of those -,
-eacherS who told his flock lust to ~ ~
good and repent" he said he went ",
rther than that. 81
When these streets are traversed''
ntipued the revivalist, you will find
e Waterman; he will be looking for
"; you won't have to look for him
re YOU do for the policeman in Salt I'M
AXE. where the gambling hall runs he
de OPEN" ma
Calm avenue and Halleluiah boule- We
I'D were the last two paths dwelt TT
ION BY the preacher in his outline of
e chart TO heaven. In commenting
ION them he said: Personally, 1 pre-
r the latter. l wave my hands low ME-
ely at those upon the other road, and
ey answer back cheerily: You folks G
AXE more noise, but we haven't more 6a,
ace" he
IN conclusion, the speaker depicted frs
2 meeting at the converging point fac
d the watchman's description of the siv
Jmised land the pilgrims were on the ed
rye of entering. Yol
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