The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-04-25
LAMKIN IN REVIVAL MEETINGS.
VIII Be Held Sunday Afternoon and
EVENING in Auditorium

The ten o'clock meeting Yesterday at
the Emporia Avenue church was a char
acteristic service. deeply sympathetic and
the sermon replete with practical and
helpful points DR.. Lamkin preached on
The individuality of Character and Ser
vice His text was John q, %: What
Is that to thee? Follow thou me-" In
the introduction he graphically portrayed
the scene on the shore of the sea of Gal
liiee that morning when Jesus after his
resurrection, recalled his fishermen dis
ciples from their former vocation by
miracle and propounded to Peter the
Lowest thou me?" Having assigned to
Peter his work, that disciple. seeing John.
asked: And what shall this man do?"
Jesus replied in the words of the text
Or. Lamkln stated as a proposition that
individuality Is a fundamental and struc
tural fact in human life and said that if
individuality is a fact each one has or
is guilty of, his own individual sin If
you condemn your neighbours type of
wrong doing remember that different
set of forces are at work in your life from
those that act on him; but the forces in
your life also produce sins. You cannot
successfully blame any one else as the
cause of your personal sins. Nobody on
earth was ever the cause of your doing
anything. The cause is inside of YOU:
the occasion arises from without but the
cause is within. Each must be saved
Individually. Each has peculiar and indi-
vidual responsibility, and peculiar and
individual work to do. There is some
one God wants You to lead to The Savior.
Your work. which no other can do, and
there is individual reward.
An enthusiastic jubilee service was held
yesterday afternoon in which a large
number testified to personal benefits re-
ceived during the meetings. High and
well merited commentators were spoken
Of the eloquent and soul uplifting preach
ing which has been so effectively done
by DR.. Lamkin, and the large congrega-
ton joined in praise TO God for the past
two weeks.
Last night DIR. Lamkin preached a re-
markable sermon on Sin and Atonement.
taking his text from John l. %: Behold
the lamb of God which taketh away the
sin OF the world. The evangelist said
that his text recognizes the great sad
and awful calamity to our human race,
sin The greatest calamity that ever
touched any human heart or furnished
any human life is sin. Sin is here. and
sin is destructive. and sin damns the
soul. and yet men so on in sin.
His second proposition was that the
provision of divine mercy for mans sal
walton is the vicarious suffering of the
Lamb Of God. the sacrifice of the ages.
whom John pointed wss Gods lamb. and
that whatever became OF those lambs
they had offered upon the affairs the pur
pose centered in Jesus Christ. Jesus was
Gods sin offering; He took the place of
those lambs.
The evangelist then spoke of the prac-
teal results Of ChristS redcmptive work.
SIN cannot cure or remove itself for the
tendency IS TO confirm or perpetuate its
course; ii cannot be pardoned without
violating principles Of Justice. and must
sinner Bat Christ stepped in and by HIS
atonement indicated the law and made
All that the lost soul could suffer suf-
fereG for it Christ was the law giver
and by the dignity OF his person and
Office could meet its demands. suffer its
penalty and taste death for every man.
Jesus took away sin by making an atone
ment for II; by regeneratins the soul and
giving = new direction 10 the heart. and
by taking away the penalty OF sin and
breaking its power Surrender TO Jesus
and God meets you with forgiving grace.
4 number Of persons yielded TO the ap-
peal and professed conversion.
The ten o'clock meeting today Will he
AZ the West side church, the last Of the
morning meetings.
\ childrens mass melting viii be held
al The First Baptist church NJ 3 o'clock
this afternoon and Or Iamkin viii
preach an appropriate sermon
His subject for tonight vii Be-, Receivv-
ins and Rejecting or \ Decision which
Brings JOY o. Sorrow.
SUNDAY afternoon there viii he another
great mass meeting for men at the
Auditorium. and a farewell service for
everybody AZ the same place Sunday
night when the meetings viii close.