Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1902-02-14
GRAND SERMONS.
Three Of the Best OF All Ser
mons.
Meetings Closed Last Night Much
to the Regret of Everybody.
MONDAY NIGHT.

-uOAN Ia NLATIl
Notwithstanding the fact that
several hundred people had re-
NAMED in the Tabernacle from 9
o'clock in the morning to 4, in the
afternoon, and of course we're ia.
tgued, the lower part of the build
ing VAS filled at the night service.
No doubt the snow falling at the
time, which gave abundant prom
Use of a heavy fall, kept many away
who would have been in from the
country. DR.. Pentecost has crossed
the ocean something like three doz-
en- times and bas been all over Eu.
rope time and again-iu fact, been
almost everywhere and we haz-
gard nothing in saying that he has
no where experienced as much bad
weather in zone bunch" as he has
since he reached Kentucky. But
weather never stops him. If the
people turn out to hear him they
may always expect to find him on
hand when he IS physically able,
and often when he should remain
indoors.
After reading the both Psalm,
the doctor preached a most power.
full and convincing sermon, dealing
principally on the low estate to
which man has fallen and the love
of Goodwin only can save him.
The most important doctrine of rev.
citation is the doctrine of grace.
There is no other. doctrine more mis-
understood than this, Legal doc.
trines have nothing to do with the
doctrine of redemption. BY his fall
man is heir to nothing-he lost all
when he sinned against God. The
parallel drawn between man as he
was created and his condition when
driven from garden was master
full. We have not to deal with
Adam, but ourselves.
When man was created he was
the lord of creation, not as a tyrant
or cruel ruler, but the overload of
creation. All the things of creation
were under him. He was made in
Gods own image. He communed
and had fellowship with God. AZ
ter Adam had fallen he tried to hide
from his God. He did not seek the
Lord as before, but he heard the
"voice of the Lord God walking in
the garden in the cool of the day,
and he said to God, II heard thy
voice in the garden, and 1 was
afraid, because l was naked; and
hid myself" God was looking for
him, seeking him out. Though man
had sinned and lost standing with
God, the Lord loved him. Adam
was a moral coward, and we are
moral towards, moral outcasts.
Though God had to drive Adam
from the garden he loved him so
that even then he devised a plan
for his redemption-he could not
give him up in his lost and ruined
condition. We hear a great deal
about character and reputation,
but character is not reputation.
Character is what a man is and his
reputation is what other men think
he is. But God forgives men and
pardons them. Pardon is not for
giveness. 1t is a hard thing to for
give man who has injured you
one of the hardest things in this
world for man to do. It is easy for
a man to lose his standing in the
commercial world. We make little
worlds for ourselves, and are very
careful not to lose our standing
try to keep up our reputation, but
what is reputation if there is no
character behind it? In the great
moral universe man has lost his
standing with God. Character in
man is everything-he should think
more of his character than his rep
utation. Henry Clay, the great
Kentucky commoner, was right
when he said II had rather be right
than President" He was thinking
and talking about his character.
Man was the favorite of creation.
There was nothing too good for him,
he had communion and complete
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