The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-31

Sunday marked the beginning of the
 third week of the Twentieth Century
 Gospel Campaign being conducted by the Protestant churches of Montgomery.
 Notwithstanding the extreme incle-
 mency of the weather fair audience was
 at the Montgomery Theater Sunday after. noon at 3:30 o'clock. Rev. Neal lander son preached.
 Rev. E. E. cobbs of St. Johns Epis- copal Church conducted the services at the Central Presbyterian Church yester- day morning.
 The section meetings were held at four of the churches in each section last night, and fair attendance was present at each.
 At the Sunday afternoon service at
 the Theater special music was rendered. Members of the various choirs of the city
 were present and rendered splendid sing ing.
 Rev. Mir. Anderson delivered a strong
 sins according to the Scripture" Corin-
 thians xv, 3
 He spoke lin part as follows:
 ''The history of Christ is unique in that His public ministry the events connected
 with His crucihxion and death consume
 by far the larger portion of the story
 His death is thus the central fact oi
 the Gospel as of all preaching Many explanations have been attempted to ac. count for this fact.
 Q) It has been said that the death of Jesus was due to unavoidable circum- stances He came too near the whirline
 wheel of evil, ard was torn to pieces. Christs own statement, I lay down my life that I might take 1t again. No mar
 taket hit from Me. but l lay it dowr of Myself. l have power to lay 1t dowr and have power to take 1t again. Wher the Roman authorities arrested Him He for moment displayed that power and the soldiers fell prostrate to the earth be- fore Its resplendent majesty. go It is said that Jesus died to teach the world certain great lessons: (a) Some say He desired to set the example oi moral heroism and a perfect character
 meeting the last great enemy. As well however, expect to make a sick. maimet man we'll by showing nim a perfect speci cursed humanity with perfect example of moral vigor. As a matter of fac the moral stainlessness of Jesus aggravat ed the consciousness of guilt in men sinful man O Lord, and even the devil | besought Him to leave them alone in thei | helpless misery (b) Jesus died to sho7 l Gods sympathy with human sorrow. Bu | adds to the tragic hopelessness of human
 woe! Co Jesus died to show how Got l hates sin. The punishment of the in | nocent, however, so far from impressini the guilty with Veneratlon TOT ana Tea | of authority, weakens respect for law | for where the innocent are punished thu l guilty may go free
 Jesus died for our sins not accordin, 1 to the speculations of men, but according | to the Scripture, and the element of trutl l in each of these views makes them nom | the less dangerous
 .'The Scripture explanation Is found il | Isaiah 53rd chapter, which we may re | gard either as proof of prophetic inspira | ton in remarkable picture of events hap | pening hundreds of years after the pro l phecy was penned. or as afrordng an in
 spired statement of meaning of the Deatl | of Jesus.
 | n) Christ's death was Gods answe | to universal human need, All we nk sheep have gone astry, hesentmen | against the charge of universal guilt mus