The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-11
REMISSION HIS THEME.
Brilliant Sermon at Y. NJ. G. A. Mass
Meeting by Rev. g.. w Truett

MeetAng by Rev. G. w. Truett.
A mass meeting, given under the
auspices of the Y. M. C. A, was held
In Wesley Monumental Church yester-
day afternoon at o'clock, attended by
so large an audience that not only was
every seat in the church, both audito-
rum and balconies, occupied but ev-
cry available space of standing room,
as we'll.
1t had been intended only for men,
but the congregation that attended the
memorial services and which consisted
largely of ladies, simply refused to
leave at the conclusion of the first
service, and so the second, which fol-
lowed Immediately after, was given
with mixed audience.
1t was conducted by ex-Gov. w. J.
Northen of Georgia, while the sermon
was preached by Rev. DR.. G. w. Truett
or Dallas, Tex, minister whose repu-
tation for eloquence had preceded him
and whose effort at this meeting PROV
ed that his fame is well deserved. The
music for the occasion was furnished
by the Arion Quartette and by Rosen-
fields Orchestra.
DIR. Truett began his address by say
Ing, 1T will be glorious thing if out
OF this little gospel meeting some
previous soul shall be saved to Cod"
To accomplish such an end, he asked
the continuous prayers of his hearers
during his address.
Continuing he said, Il bring you this
gospel message: Without the shedding
of blood there is no remission. Re-
mission is a business word and every
business man understands it. This
word on the bottom of a bill means
pay me what thour owest;' the word
means payment of a debt. Sin, in the
great government of God, is a debt
against his laws, and 1t must be paid
or the debtor destroyed forever.
Men know this truth even without
the Bible. Uncivilized races and even
barbaric tribes know the difference be-
tween right and wrong, and know that
virtue and vice can't share the same
harvest at last. They know this even
where the word of God has not gone
to carry the message to their hearts.
Sin is the one awful fact to which
all the troubles of the world are due.
The word of God makes this plain. The
one great truth of the holy scriptures
is that man is sinner; that he is not
waiting to become lost, but is lost; that
he is not waiting to be condemned, but
is condemned now. Sin has separated
God and man, and the man separated
from God is ruined and lost. There
is no exception, and no difference, all
have sinned and are lost to the glory
of God.
Men know by the reason God has
given them that sin is a debt, and
their memory makes it impossible for
them to forget the obligation. A prison
| chaplain has said that the supreme
problem with prisoners seems to be
how to forget their crimes. 1t may be-
l do not know-it may be that the un-
dying worm in hell is a mans memory.
Cain remembers to this moment how
Abel looked when he took his fife.
Mans conscience knows the same
truth, that sin is debt and that some
how, somewhere and by somebody it
must be paid" AS examples of the sin
that cannot be forgotten the speaker
told the story Of Herod's treatment of
John the Baptist, and his subsequent
guilty fear that John had returned to
earth when he had heard the story of
Christ's work among the people.
Sin is a debt and must be paid" he
repeated, webster had this law in
his mind when he said murder will
OUT What is the teaching of Macbeth,
but that crime is punished, and what
is taught by Hugo's Jean Vatican,
but that same awful truth. George
Eliot had no other object in the story
OF a young girl that had sinned, which
is found in one of her works, and the
same lesson is taught in that poem
which deserved to make its author IA
nous beginning Three men went out
one summer night
without shedding of bl1od there is
no remission. Salvation Through the
blood of Christ, my friends is the
central truth of Christianity. The
reason for the death of Jesus Christ
can be stated in one word, substitu-
ton Christ died for our sins and
for the sins of the whole world. God
the father SO loved lost men that he
gave Jesus to be the mediator between
himself and them. Jesus Christ is
both God and man and therefore stands
between God and man."
The speaker then gave a graphic
picture of the scene in the garden of
Gethsemene and the scene on Golgotha
and closed with a request that his
hearers not wait till too late before ac-
cepting Christ as their saviour. The
meeting was closed with a benedic-
ton pronounced by DR.. Truett after a
short PRAYER by Rev. c. F. Mcconnell.