The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1902-01-27
SERVICE IN
OPERA HOUSE

The last Of a series Of services con
Quoted by Ferdinand Schiverea was
held in the Opera House Yesterday.
Rev. r. A. Ellegood presided and
on the part Of the y. M. {. A. asked
| II the audience thought the services
| OF much Importance. An affirmative
reply came from all parts of the Opera
House.
lie then announced that for three
days and three nights Mr.. Schivera
would be at the West Presbyterian
church; and that the afternoon meet
ingS would br for women and children
and that men would be instructed in
the evening.
On "Wednesday night he would de.
part for at her fields of labor and a
great meeting would be held on that
evening.
On next Sunday, Thomas Horncy
will be the speaker at the Gospel SER
vices and following that Judge George
Ashman. Of Philadelphia, will speak.
Todd Hall will then be here, and at
all the services good speakers will be
present.
He urged that these meeting be
made a feature of Wilmington life, so
that stranger here on Sunday could
60 to the Opera House the same as
ON week day and enjoy it just the
same. Mr.. Schiverca ,lr., sang and
was followed by his a1hcr The lat.
ter read a passage from the Bible
where it speaks of the rich mar whose
crops 50 filled his barns that he was
obliged TO tear them down and build
larger ones and having done This and
filling them with plenty OF all things
lie calmly set back saying to himself.
have plenty, now will | sit back and
eat. drink and be merry. There are
two sides To thi, question, he said,
and thai God would give hlSmcn time |
to argue their side and then he would /
speak, and His argument would bc !
decisive.
God said to this man. Thou fool. }
This night Shall be required Of you
thy soul and who will have all that
for which you spent your whole life.
The speaker said hat lie could never
understand why God had called this
man fool, for he wa, everything but
that.
Ills harvest was good. lie had
enormous crops and he knew how to
spend his time Was such Il man a
fool? He was worth millions, and
vas sought out by all men in need of
ldvice He was the center of politics
n the state in which he lived. Per-
laps there are some such men here
oday, who are following the same
life as the man spoken of in the Bible.
'lrs' they do not have anything TO
to with these from whom everything
has come and absolutely refuse to
ecognize them. Men are doing this
very dag and they will not have very
much to do with God Almighty.
The cause of all business failures, of
alamities and crime, suicide. and the
eed of policemen was due to the fact
hat men had put God out of their
and plans and tried to
ct along without him. 1t was due
the same thing that 100000 men
ad found drlnkards graves during
he first year of twentieth century.
ii this he said was because men
ollld not let God into their conIidncc
nd because they formed their plans
Ithout their assistance.
Criminals would never have been ,
nown if men had not said, l do not |
eed God. Here he told of card play
s at Il game. One of them secured {
full house ard said that he would 90
alone. He then found that some
lie else had a better hand, and that
: had been defeated. 1t is the same c
ay with me, he said l
They tell God that they will play it !
one, that they have enough to take u
EN- through life and that they will s
ay it alone. There would be no Q
ch thing as gallows and the electric u
air If God had not been left ont and I
my fail utterly on this account. lie Ii
id that when he caught man in I
c act Of committing crime he u
yer believed in ccnsuring him, but II
expressing pity, reminding hi, II n
arcrS Of that old song. He's more u
be piticd than ccuSurcd u