Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1902-02-07
GREAT SERMONS.
Large Crowds Attend Each Ser
vice of PentecOst Meetings.
Increasing interest With Each
Day and the Singing Getting
Better and Better.
TUESDAY r..

A u OLA As4
DR.. Pentecost's sermon Tuesday
night was the second of five that he
is to deliver on the wages Of sin.
After the song service, during
which Mr.. Excel sang "All the
Way" with his usual feeling, DR..
Peutecost read Hebrews 10th, LIST
to 3lst verses. Before proceeding
with his sermon he stated that an
after meeting would be held every
night of the services this week. For
the benefit of those who expect to
attend the afternoon services we
will state that the afternoon servic.
es viii begin at 2:3O, instead OF ?
o'clock, as at FIRST announced. The
superintendent of the public schools
will close the schools at ] o'clock,
so that the pupils can get their din
ners and attend the afternoon SER
vices
In beginning his discourse the
Doctor gave a description of his
home overlooking the Hudson at
Yonkers, New York, which is the
manse Of the First Presbyterian
church. It's beautiful location in
sight Of Grants tomb, the pail
sades, etc. During his stay there
he has beautifed it with statuary,
paintings, cabinets of curios, works
of art, ETC., which he has collected
from all parts of the world. It was
lovely picture of a home and
home comforts but dear as it is to
him, he is going to leave it. Way
up in the New England hills, on the
banks of the Connecticut river, he
has a home of his own. For 25
years he has been preparing it.
There he expects to live out the
balance of his days. How dear the
place is to him. How he sympa-
thlzes with those who are turned
out from their homes with no home
of their own to go into. What a
sorrowful condition those who,
when they must leave this world,
have no home in heaven prepared
for them by Christ to which they
can 60! They won't accept Christ,
and are out and away from God.
They have turned their backs on
God, are satisfied with their sins,
persist in trampling under their
feet the Son of the living God-sin
blinds them. They are willing,
they say, satisfied with their sins,
to accept the judgment of God and
will have nothing to do with Him.
cit is a fearful thing to fall into
the hands of the living God" l
admit, friends, this side of the
question presents nothing to cause
you to listen with enthusiasm. "Of
how much sorer punishment, sup
pose ye, shall he be thought worthy
who hath trodden under foot the
Son of God, and hath counted the
blood of the covenant wherewith he
was sanctified an unholy thing,
and hath done despite unto the spir-
it of grace?" (Heb. 10, 20) "He
that belieyeth not is condemned al
ready" When you deal with God
you are dealing with fnality.
The tree is not finality, neither is
the bud, or the leaf-but the fruit
is the fnality. Christ is a fnality
God manifest in the flesh. Your
rejection Of him is final, it is fatal.
There is no deliverance outside of
the grace of God. Without Him
you drift on in your sin to the final
doom of all who do not accept him
as COO manifest IN the hesh. quit
ting your sins, or your meanness,
if you will call it so, cannot save
you. You may stay on your knees
until you are as gray headed as
and that will not save
you, the church cannot save you.
1t is the Holy Ghost only that can
save you. 1t is only when a man
gives up everything, surrenders,
and cries, God be merciful to me a
sinner, = that he can escape punish
ment for his transgressions. 1t is
not because he is sinner by ma
ture and has sin in him that b is
but because he y