Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-10-02

ICL |. 4 ] ! THEREOF
THE PEOPLE EAGER TO HEAR REV.
MIR. STUART
THIS TO Be 0UNDs uP. NIGHT
He, Made the Announcement After
Service. Last NIght-An Affecting
sermon Preached to an Immense
Audience at Broad-street.
THIS TO BE..sR OUNDs up NIGHT
He Made the announcement After
q q On II IN nc
Audience at Broad-street.

The Broad Street Methodist church has
been so crowded during the revival meet
ings held by the Rev. George r. Stuart
that people have climbed through the
hatch-way leading to the roof, and, get
ting upon it, have come to the ventilator
and have poked their heads through to
listen and see This was not noticed until
last night, when the crowd on the roof
was driven off and the entrance-way Lead
ing to the roof locked. The church was
filled and reilled many times last night,
and the hundreds that came forward
to shake the eyangelist's hand could not
be counted.
Mr.. Stuart took his text from the third
chapter and the second verse of He.
brews-"How shall we escape if we me-
elect so great salvation He gave little
time to discussing doctrine, but came. a.
he usually does, to the practical applica-
ton of the text. Mr.. Stuart has no OUT
line to his sermons but instead treats the.
Gospel by pointing out illustrations en-
tirely from life. IN his sermon last night
he said in substance, I do not believe
that anybody expects to be lost. It 1
should go through this audience and ask
every man or woman if he or she ex-
poets to be lost the answer would be
No" Everybody expects to be saved.
There is no exception to the rule. There
is young man, drunkard. Isay young
man. don't you know that liquor has
drowned it's millions? Yes he will an
swer, 'but do not expect to become
drunkard." He expects to be an exception.
l see a young man gambling TO him /
put a similar question, and in reply he
will answer mo- He expects to be an
exception.
Sinner, I say, do you expect to, be
saved? Don't you know that thousands
have died in sin and gone into the. world
of the lost? He will say yes, I know,
but I do expect to be saved" He expects
to be an exception.
There is not a sinner in this house that
expects to be lost. He has planned some
way to escape. Look out lest you fall
through the rotten bridge, go over to de-
struction, and sink to an awful hell! l
ask tonight what is your hope of escape?
One will answer, II am a moral man;
do no one harm; I pay my honest debts;
I believe that the God who made the Ten
Commandments will have some regard for
an honest man who has lived a moral
life.'' That sounds fair, my brother, but
it will not stand the test Can you look
this blessed book in the face and say II
have never violated asingle law of the
Bible? You will say that you have not
Their, it is the violation of one law of
that great book that makes you guilty
sinner in the presence of God. For ex-
ample: Here is ditch ten feet wide and
a thousand feet deep, and there is solid
bridge across it, but instead of crossing
the bridge you prefer to jump You jump
nine feet, and what becomes Of you?
You fall to the bottom like you had
rolled over the edge. This ditch repre-
sents the Ten Commandments and the
bridge sathe Christ.
Mr., Stuart pointed out the fact by forct-
BILE illustrations that living moral life
alone would not save a man; that one to
be saved must live by all the laws of
Christ
Mr.. Stuart, after giving an account OF
how he became Christian, sang "Amaz-
ing Grace, How Sweet the Sound, which
had such a great effect upon the audience
that the hymn was gradually taken up,
until the entire church Joined in the sing
ing.
SHE then took up the discussion ''Wheth-
er. There Is or Is Not He'll, and said
that there is hell, and that any preacher
who did not preach that there is hell
was incapable of saving souls. He said
that the world itself and all things in,
It. living or otherwise. were evidences
that there is a hell. I'm the gigantic
thought OF Gods universe he made every.
thing to illustrate Heaven and hell. This
electric light is an illustration. Obey its
laws and it will give light and beauty;
disobey its laws and it will give death
This church is an Illustration. If it had
not been built according to Gods laws
it would fall in and crush all that are
in it," He used similar illustrations all
the way through to show that there was
a Bible hell and Bible Heaven.
A few more remarks and Mr., Stuart
closed his sermon by announcing thai to-
-norrow night would be his Roundup
night"