The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-22
BIG AUDIENCES GREET
EVANGELIST MARTIN.
Services in Park Tabernacle Keep
Increasing in Interest.

SeEVlCeN III AANOR
Increasing in Interest.
Another large audience greeted Evan
gelist T. T. Martin last night in the
Park Tabernacle. The singing was
strong and bright. Prayers were Of
fered by Rev. VanDeventer and l.. A.
Cooper. The collection was taken up
by Rev. H. C. Christian. Nine per-
sons made public confession Of faith
at the close of the meeting.
In opening the meeting Evangelist
Martin announced that the Saturday
afternoon meeting at o'clock will be
a mass meeting for the children and
young people of the city; and that
Saturday night the subject would be
Hell as Taught by Reason, Infidelity
as Represented by Mr.. Ingersoll, and
the Bible Showing That They all Three
Agree on That Subject" Also that
Sunday afternoon at 5 o'clock there will
be a mass meeting, the subject of the
address to be, THE Four Social Evils,
the Theater the Dance, the Card Ta-
BILE and Drinking" And that Mon
day night the Bible reading would be
to the Hebrews, proving by them that
the Bible is Gods word.
The evangelist's text was Mark 1894:
Thou art not far from the Kingdom of
God" and he said, II wish to parallel
this mans case with some Of yours and
contrast it with that of others. First,
he was an honest inquirer after truth.
some Of you are; some of you are not.
People say: If he that believeth on
the Son had everlasting life then a
man could come here who had decided
to commit some great crime and accept
Jesus Christ as Savior; go on and COM
NIT the crime, and still be saved
mo, friend, that man cannot trust
Christ to save him. NO man can come
to me except the Father that sent me
draw him And Jesus said: Except
we repent, We shall all likewise perish,
and the very foundation of repentance
is to become honest with God, and hon
estly turn away from sin. You must
come there or perish. Then this man
was thinking. Do you think? Do'you
think on questions concerning the soul?
Too many are like Ingersoll said of old
Senator Plum: oh, no; Plun's not
thinking; he simply thinks he's think
ing Fried. did you ever think OF
death--not that others must die. but
that you yourself must die? Did you
ever walk through your beautiful GEM
etery and think Some day must lie
here?' Did you every think of eternity?
IL seems 70 me that One-half hours
close thinking of eternity would turn
this world home to God. Did you ever
think for fifteen minutes of sin, Of the
woes 1t is causing. of it's torments in
he'll? Did you ever sit alone and think
of God? Oh, this world is Keeling into
hell because 1t will not think.
But further, this man recognized
that a human being is under obliga-
tons to the God who made him. The
trouble with so many of you Is that
you are not thinking of your obliga-
tons to God, but are aiming simply
to take out a kind of eternal fire in
surance policy on the soul. Daniel
Webster is said to have stated that
the greatest thought he ever had was
Of his personal obligations to God.
But with many II is looked upon as
very little unworthy thought. Beyond
that, this man recognized the fact
that God wants our service from love
and not from fear OF hell. Away with
serving God from fear of hell. There
is a hell, a terrible hell, but the Sa-
vior dying for our sins, settles the
question of hell for everyone who ac-
cepts Him as Savior. This man had
knowledge CT spiritual things. He
knew enough to act on, and Christ
warns him of the responsibility Of his
position. So with you friend. You don't
all think; but you know enough 70
act on. You do know that Christ died