Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-02
EVANGELIST OIL
YER LAST NIGHT
A FINE SERMON ON DRESS RE-
FORM'--LARGE CROWD TO
HEAR THE SPEAKER.

Evangelist Oliver talked to one of the
best congregations at Mountain View
church last night that has greeted him
since his arrival here in Butte. The
house was filled. to hear his story of
the great love of God, under the I'M
usual caption of Dress Reform
The title had it's foundation in the third
chapter of Genesis, wherein it is record
ed that on their leaving the Garden Of
Eden. God made for Adam and Eve coats
of skins as protection against the cold
outside world. This declaration, and
ehe accompanying promises. made
good picture of Divine kindness. which.
though it might insist on the fultillment
Of promises of evil for dsobedience,
would yet find a way to care for those
who proved truly repentant
Il have sometimes heard fellows say
that they didn't believe the Bible as
divine work, because they could write
a better book themselves. They lie, and
they know it, and you and l know it.
If they could. they would. and would
soon have more millions >hf>n one could
count; for the sales of ths, E:ole are
thousand times that of any other book
ever published. The man who says the
Bible is full of Inconsistencies knows
nothing about it, He told the story of
a blatant young fellow from a piney-
woods college who had read the Bible
through three times and found it UNI
worthy of his credence. Did you ever
read the book of Hezekiah?" asked the
evangelist certainly" said the alleged
Bible student. pompOuSly. AS there is
no such book in the Bible. the speaker
pointed out this incident as a character
istic one of all this class of so-called
critics. THE Bible is the only work that
gives a satisfactory account of the ORR
gin of man, and of all things that are
1t is Gods word, and does not depend
on our belief or disbelief. Men have
for six thousand years tried to shake it's
position. but failed miserably"
Some one has said that Christ and
his life appeals to him as the exern-
pl;fica ton of love, but that God is hard
and cold, and the early part of the BIZ
BILE. which comes before Christ. is th.,
record of a murderer. of the destruction
IF people because they happened to DIS
| obey His most trivial comma ndmants.
| But they are wrong. Through the Bible
history runs the golden thread of prom
! Use of Savior to come. back to the be-
F.! ginning of the book. God designated
| the family tree through which the Sa-
!
re cord clusters around His attempt to
keep His word inviolate by preserving
| that family from the heather who at
| tackled them. and in giving the chosen
| people themselves the chastisement
their shortcomings deserved. He could
not overlook the wrong doings of even
| the chosen race, who violated His COM
| mands.
The reason there are so many homes
dismantled and wrecked. and the di
vorce mills grind out so much of their
hellish product is that lust. not love.
rules the world. In public and in pr-
| vate life, what we need is a couch of the
love of Christ. when divorces would be
| Gnheard of. If only the love of God
could get hold of the homes of Butte. it
would 1enOvate the city as if ty magic.
The speaker closed the address with /.
touching and very apt story of Williams
Writ. who reached a seat in the Unit.
States supreme court. He was brill
liant young lawyer in a southern city
but got to drinking heavily. and one da )
fell on the street in drunken sleep. I'M
der the shade of a great oak tree. His
afiianced bride. beautiful. spirited girl
pa sed by, but instead of leaving him
stopped and laid her lace handkerchiSt
over his face as a shield from the sun
Waking, he found and recognized the
article, and then and there determined
that such love called for d better retur,
than he had been giving. Through ths
reform the incident wrought in his life
his entire life was changed. 1t is sucl
love as that. said the speaker. tina
Christ offers the sinner.
There will be no meeting tonight. blu
the service will be continued through
the coming week a,ladnleb-tNrah tha
the coming week. and all are cordiaH
invited to attend. A mass meeting fo
men will be held at the Auditorium
Sunday afternoon at O'Clock. to whc
! all men are asked to come.