The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1901-12-13
STUART MEETING.
Cont .Iued from First Page.l
Tuesdays Services.

The First Methodist church was
never before SO thoroughly alive
with humanity as it was Tuesday
crowded and packed from
chancel to doors Mr.. Stuart said,
before he began his sermon, he did not
know when he regretted so much before
the last day of being at place He
leaves here Thursday morning will
stay over one day with his family at
Cleveland, and then go to Greenville,
one of the worst doomed whiskey towns
in the State, and help in the fight
there next week to abolish the license
and run without saloons. Mr.. Stuart
said that he had done his best in
Columbia, though the weather, the
world, the flesh, and the other fellow
had been against us, and he thought
we had good cause to be encouraged.
Mr. Ramsey sang that beautiful song
81 want to go to heaven, don't your
the choir and congregation joining
in on the chorus.
Mr.. Stuart then read this text
"How shall we escape, if we neglect
so great salvation" This becomes a
very practical text when you read and
understand the context. The WORDS
were written by st. Paul to his Hebrew
brethren God used to talk to people
by angels, and if their message is
transgressed, how do you expect ours
not to be2 When God talked to us by
angels. when the people transgressed,
they went down. Every disobedie nee
was punished. All of our disobediences
of these latter days will be as surely
punished sooner or later.
The man who deliberately throws
himself in front of moving train and
is thereby crushed, is fool; but he is
philosopher compared to him who
tries to avert the judgement of God
Almighty ON an eternal soul. No one
deliberately goes to hell by choice but
the bridges and plans he builds tC
eternity are rotten, and he drops into
hell. Every man in hell had a purpose
at some time to keep out of hell. Every
fellows theory is plausible when there
is no comparison. Mr.. Stuart made a
pretty little illustration of sowing
bread upon the waters and someday it
will return to you, by speaking of the
overflow of the Nile; how the people
| would go out upon the waters in theil
| little boats, and SOW rice. When the
waters receded. the rice sank into the
soil, sprouted, and great harvests were
reaped.
1t is easy to pick up fool notion
and run off with it. If you depend
upon morality to carry you to heaven
it must be perfect. If you break the
least of the law, you are guilty of the
whole; you are guilty before God, an(
must get out of the ditch. Gods tel
commandments are stretched over thu
eternal chasm, and if you break ont
you roll off like all were broken. Jesu
is the way. Take him, brother. You arr
going on your morality. Don't do that
The greatest men are the humbles
when it comes to seeking Christ. Ant
f! the least have less of humility. Take
the Lord Jesus Christ and don trust
your own morality. You might pas
over the awful cataract of God. Som
men say, I'm skeptical Of hell. Got
wouldn't make his poor children, ant
then big hell to receive them.
The railroad RUNS with certain thing
to be observed, and if they are not
a great catastrophy will follow. T.
be SIRE, then, such big thing as lif
will be run by certain laws ant
rules. There are two great factors il
existence-etern heaven and eterna
hell l believe in both. God don
put you into hell God never mad
anything without verities of an eterna
heaven and an eternal hell Every Law
he made illustrates these two grea
facts God is too good to make any
thing bad. 1t is only bad when wicke
children make it bal If you violat
the law, you must take the cOnse
quences. God could not make HEAVIER
without leaving hell; nor an eterna
home without eternal darkness. Go
tries to keep you out of hell. H
breaches at you through his ministers
There is nothing clearer than heaven
Il want to go there, don't your
You can't go unless you start. That
the only way to get there Start at
tonight. Don't wait until ''som
day that is fatal bridge you may e
down under ''In the hour you thin
not the day cometh. " You may b
the first to die. Don't wait for NOR
convenient season. Don t fight agains
the Holy Spirit. God help you to say
"I'll escape eternal hell and acceE
Gods plan of salvation. .
When Mr. Stuart made his PROPOSE
tions many responded thereto. Man
have promised to burn the bridges be
hind them and try to serve God hence
forth the best that thew know how,