The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-18
HEAVEN AND HE'LL
REV. T. T. MARTINS SUBJECT AT
OPENING OF PARK TABERNACLE.
GLIMPsES OF FUTURE LIFE
PICTURED BY THE KENTUCKY
EVANGELIST.

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inEs Held Under Auspices of Min
isteriaI AssOcintiOn-Each Sermon
! Preceded by Song Service of Half
an HOur-Music Furnished by Vol
unteer Choir. Conducted by L. A.
COoper-GIimpses of Heaven and
Hell Yesterdny's Subject-Rev. MIR.
| Martin CInims John Jasper Most
ELOQUENT Man Produced by Amer
lea.
Rev. 7. T. Martin of Louisville, KY.
| conducted in the Tabernacle yesterday
| afternoon the opening service of the
series of revival services that will be
given under the auspices of the Minis
terial Association during the next two
weeks. There was a large attendance,
| the Tabernacle, which has a seating ca
| pacity of between 5000 and 1000. be-
| ing very nearly filled.
The music was furnished by a vol
unteer choir, under the direction of Mr.
L. c. Cooper. The singers were seat
ed on the speakers platform, which
was also occupied by the members of
the Ministerial Association, those pres
ent, being Rev. W. A. Nisbet, pastor
of Westminster Presbyterian Church,
who made the various announcements
and who introduced Rev. Mr.. Martin;
! Rev. Dr. j. D. Jordan, pastor OF the
| First Baptist Church; Rev. DR.. w. P.
| McCorkle, pastor of the First Prespy-
! terian Church; Rev. ]. A. Smith, pas
| tor of Epworth Methodist Church; Rev.
| DR.. A. NJ. Williams of Trinity Metho-
dist Church; Rev. A. r. Miller or the
! Christian Church. and Rev. D. s..
| Edenfeld of the Southside Baptist
| Church. In the audience were Rev,
! Robert VanDeventer. pastor of the
Duffy Street Baptist Church, and Rev.
| c. A. Jackson, pastor of Grace Meth
odist Church,
The meeting began with a song
| service, which lasted half an hour, then
| Rev. Mr.. Martin read the first lesson
! from Acts, tenth chapter, and then
| pointed out the lessons taught
and applied these teachings to modern
| life and conditions. This lesson
| teaches, according to the speaker, that
| Gods preachers are not to discrimi-
nate between men and women.
! hAAhth NO DlcIAncIIOns
IF a drunkard comes down that
aisle, said Mr. Martin, land processes
| repentance for his life he will be re-
! celYed by me with as much pleasure
as would a banker be received if he
came with the same confession, and a
| woman of the street shall be received
| with the same sort of welcome that a
| society woman receives. The church
That makes a distinction between men
| and between women tends to widen a
| breach in society, and for this reason
! l nave no sympathy with-the work of
| the salvation Army, which is confined
TO the people Of the slums, and with
that of the average society church.
| shall begin and conduct these
meetings on this plan: that all will be
received; that a helping hand will be
reached out to every man, woman and
chlld. l was told before l reached Sa-
Nannah mat our Catholic friends are
| quite strong here. | have no abuse for
them because they believe some things
mat don't, or because l believe some
| lhlngs that they don't, and | shall be
glad to see them at these meetings."
The speaker further announced that
ne intended to put no propositions to
the congregations, asking persons to
rise or to hold up their hands if they
| oelleVed certain things, or wished GER
tain things. Il won't force any of you
10 pray he continued, for if you
| can't pray because you are moved To
1t or feel the necessity for it. your
prayers wouldn't rise above your own
| heads.
Story of Sam Jones.
ReVerting again to the matter of
making propositions he said that Sam
| I4pes lsnpast master in making them;
| that IL he can't catch his audience on
| one proposition, he can on another.
| Illustrating this he related story that
| ne SAID occurred in one of Mr.. Jones
| meetings when having exhausted about
all propositions without receiving any
response, he finally asked all who
wanted TO go to hell to stand up. One
man stood up, because, being drunk
| ne mad not understood the purport
OF the suggestion. This created a laugh
| IN the audience, which was heightened
| when the man, addressing the preach
er, said: We'll, brother, l don't know
what the question is, but 1t seems you
and | are in the minority"
After a prayer by Rev. DR.. A. M.
Williams, and hymn, the speaker de-
iVered the sermon that had been an
nounced, discussing "Glimpses of
Heaven and He'll" founded on Matt.
XIV, 46, And these shall go away into
everlasting punishment: but the right
eous into life eternal"
III tHiS SERMON the speaker sought to
show, by numerous quotations from
the Bible, that despite the popular
idea, heaven is a great place in which
are countless multitudes, while hell is
small place, being always referred
to as such: The pit" "the lake." new
er the sea or the ocean.
Hell is Ignorance, he said; heaven
the completeness of knowledge.
PREACHERS are continually asked he
continued, about recognition in heaven
or course there is recognition in heav-
en-, but the desires of the people should
not be on the recognition of father,
mother and other relatives, but on the
recognition of Jesus Christ
Praise for John jasper
Reasoning on this line he told story
of John Jasper, the negro preacher of
Richmond, whom he described as the
most eloquent man that America. ever
produced, telling that at a service. that
Jasper had conducted he had declared
that when he got to heaven, before he
would accept the white robe, or allow
the crown to be placed on his head he
would ask for "Marse Jesus" to kiss
his feet in that he had died for him.
Before closing the service Rev. Mr..
Martin announced the subjects of 9TH
er sermons to be delivered later in the
series. These will be held each after
noon and night during the week. and
In the afternoon on Sundays In the
afternoons the song service will begin
at 4:3O o'clock. and the sermon at 3
and at night. the song service at & and
the sermon at $50.
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