The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-11-23
CARD PLAYING CHRISTIAN
Better Cut the Head OFF Than to be
Wrong.
DANCING, THEATRE GOING TOUCHED ON
Mr.. Pearson Says # the Foot or the Eye Offend
Il is Better to Cut il eff or Pluck
il Out.


r. G.. Pearson, continue to attract large
congregations and to make deep and
abiding impression on the multitudes who
attend each service. Last night large
congregation heard Mr.. Pearson preach
on practical Holiness. 1t was the
shortest sermon he has yet preached. He
stated that his physician had warned him
that he must not tax his strength by
preaching long sermons. But it was
long enough for him to drive home the
impressive truth which he knows so well
how to put on the heart and conscience
of his congregation. Tonight he will
preach on "Backsliding." A prominent
citizen said last night upon leaving the
church that if all the backsliders in the
city attended there would be no room to-
night for the sinners or the saints.
Mrs Pearsons Bible Readings are
greatly enjoyed by the women who at
tend every afternoon. She is quite as
effective in her way in interpreting the
Bible as her husband
The preliminary service last night.
otter gospel hymns, was opened with
prayer by Rev. +. N. Ivey, d. d. The
Scripture lesson was read by Rev. Mr..
Butler, of the Christian church. Short
prayers were offered also by Rev. M. M.
Mcfarland and Rev. Eugene Daniel ID. d.
BE Ye Holy for | am Holy" was the
text First Peter lis and 16.
The word holiness never occurs as de-
scriptive of the moral character of any
deity in mythology or of any of the gods
except the true God. The world had no
bp, was n
heaven. God had TO coin word 20 con-
vey the idea of holiness. 1t is hard to
define because II means so much that no
one definition can include it ALL
The subject was considered under two
heads:
l. GODS HOLINESS REVEALED.
2. THE HOLINESS OF GODS PEOPLE
IS COMMANDED.
Under the first head Mr.. Pearson asked:
WHAT is HOLINESS? and answered it:
i. Conservation. The Jewish temple,
the Jewish people were consecrated and
were called holy.
q Freedom from sin. In this sense
the angels are holy. The evangelist said
he had rather be sinner saved by grace
than an angel even Gabriel himself.
9. Absolute moral purity. This ap-
plies to God and only to God. He gave
the characteristics of Gods holiness and
illustrated it strikingly In this con-
nection he answered the argument that is
often made that because God is good and
kind and merciful all men will be saved.
The New Testament says: Our God is
q consuming fire" God will not save
man at the sacrifice of his bond
HOW HAS COP REVEALED HOLI-
NESS? he asked
/. IN THE SABBATH DAY, He SET
apart the seventh day of the week and
hallowed it. There must be time set
apart for us 20 commence with God and
hold fellowship with Him, hence the
dedication of the Sabbath day. The desc
Grafton of the Sabbath saps the very vitals
of practical holiness. Child of God, how
can you spend the Sabbath day as If 1T
were gala day? ! tremble for any
Christian that desecrates the Sabbath.
q IN A HOLY PLACE-in the burning
bush, in the ground wherein God stood,
the holy tabernacle. THAT | may have
place with my people, declared the
Lord. If you are going to live in COM
In your heart where He can dwell. Our
bodies must be the temples for the Holy
Ghost.
Holiness is not an attainment 1t is
not to be obtained in a mighty pow-wow
where by some ecclesiastical summer
sault men are supposed to attain into it.
Holiness is God in the mantle possess
sion of the man by God. The measure
OF Holiness is the measure of Gods pos
session of the man. He quoted from the
Old Testament and in reputation of
popular misconception cried out The
Old Testament is not an Ecclesiastical
Almanac.
g. IN THE INCARNATION. Holiness
Is personfed. Heretofore it has been a
theory; now it is a man.
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