The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-10-12
WENT FROM A SALOON
One of the Converts at Tab
ernacIe Last Night.
Evangelist Greenwood breaches 10 Large Crowds
Big Mass Meeing Tor Men Only
Sunday

The Baptist Tabernacle was again the
centre of attraction to two good-sized
congregations yesterday.
The afternoon audience outnumbered
any preceding week day attendance, it
being the third address on the Holy
Spirit.
The evening meeting as usual was de-
voted to a sermon to unconverted men
and women. A new song was introduced,
entitled Honey in the Rock which the
audience caught with great alacrity and
sang with vim and spirit. Mr.. Green
wood introduces these songs from time to
time and they break the monotony OF the
familiar song service.
peculiar text was chosen for the
sermon last night, the wods selected be-
ing the names of four men, in Genesis
29:31-35, Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah.
The Evangelist said in part:
"Of old when men named children the
name meant something; there has been
many a George Dewey born since May
1st, 1893, but the name does not always
mean anything. These names by inter-
probation hold the whole Scope of Chris
tian experience. The name Reuben means
Behold a Son..
Usually when men get stirred up on
the sin question they begin to look to
something they can do to save them
selves. Don't look to yourself, to the
past, to your failure or to others, but
look to Jesus.
Look unto Me, and be we saved all
We ends of the earth
1.-THE name Simeon means Hearing.
This is My beloved Son, hear we Him.
"Men choose places of amusement
rather than the house of God as the
former entertains and please them, while
the latter makes them consider sin and
conscience and many do not want to do
this. but when you desire to be and do
right, the sweetest thing in the world is
Gods message to you.
THE word Levi. means Joined This
is p.h~t ('~H does when a man places faith
in Christ, He joins him to Himself-'Heirs
of God and joint heirs with Christ
Christ is the first and last letters of
the alphabet and every letter between,
and all that letters can spell He will be
to the man who trusts in Him. Judah,
by Interpretation, means Praise
God fills the saved man with joy, as is
seen by the happy faces of many here
who have very recently found Christ.
There is no song in heathenism, not till
Christ Eliminates the darkness. The
world has fun and pleasure but really
saved man only has joy. The world itself
shall be delivered from bondage when
Christ comes and there will be hallelu-
jah chorus grander than any yet COM
posed by man.
Il knew of a man who was converted
in mission, to whom his old companions
said he was getting paid for telling the
story every night, whereupon he described
his old home and family, his wanderings
and wretchedness, and then said as he
told them of his salvation, You are
right, boys, / am getting paid for it,
Many life here may be like the bird
whose years of captivity had robbed it
of it's power to fly. but who, when at last
it was liberated, by single ray Of light,
had brought to it the knowledge of unused
powers, arose to its place in the eye of
the sun. If you are bound by sin and
wrong Christ will set you free"
very interesting after service was
held, among the incidents of which was
the conversion of a business man of
standing from another part of the State,'
whose testimony electrified the assembly,
as by his own confession he had come
from a saloon to the church.
Mr. Greenwood announced the services
fer today at $3.50 and 7:30 and also that
a big mass meeting would be held in the
Academy of Music. Sunday at O'Clock,
for men only. Free tickets can be Sc
cured at the opera house Saturday and
Sunday and also at the church today at
both services. 1t is expected great mass
of men will attend this meeting