Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1904-11-07
SUNDAY WITH BAPTISTS.
A Large Congregation Hears Good
Sermon BY Rev. I. P.
Holloway.

Assembly Rooms, was unusually large
both yesterday morning and evening.
There we're many strangers present
and the sermons by the pastor. the
Rev. Thomas L. p. Holloway, were
forceful and were listened TO with a
great deal of interest and pleasure.
The subject for the evening sermon
was "The Stolen Lord. - The text was
taken from John, 20 :1S: He said:
MARY Magdaline with prisoned
faith had felt that she had lost her
living Lord at Dark Calvary Now,
standing by the empty sepulchre, she
was grief stricken with the thought
that her dead Lord had also been
stolen from her. Multitudes have been
tortured by such an experience as this.
How many souls, who once walked in
inspiring companionship with the
living Jesus, have lost their Lord and.
with tears in their hearts il not in
their eyes have cried: They have
taken away my Lord and l know not
where they have laid Hint A stolen
Christi Sinful unbelief (not the hon
est doubt that is the growing pain of
faith) steals away the Lords influence
from once faithful souls. Business
methods that are strange to the ethics
of Jesus, steal away the Lord as liy-
ing power in practical life.
"Stultified spirituality. religiosity
that has a name but is dead, that sub
scribes to a code of conduct which il
never intends to keep, is the unspeak-
able thief that steals the Lord from
human hearts. Nurtured sin that in-
sidiously sensualizes the appetites of
the body and mind robs the soul of its
rigthful Master. No person can find
housed sin and Christ in the soul
at one time. Mary Magdaline found
the lost Christ by going to where she
last saw it. The first time she made
the discovery of the empty sepulchre
she ran away to tell Peter and John
of what she then felt was most alarm
ing news. 1t was not until she return
ed to where she had last seen her Lord
and remained there, that she found
Him again-now not an embalmed
dead Jesus, but the Risen Son of God.
If your own wicked or neglectful life
has stolen from you the presence of
the Lord, or if the pernicious influence
of outward circumstances has robbed
you of Experiencing the presence of
the Master, with fearful eyes and sad
denedSsoul, go right wheresyou saw or
felt the Christ last.
eff it was in the church then to
church you must go to find your
Jesus. If the last time you saw him
was in the Bible, turn again to its
blessed pages for there you will redis-
cover the Lord. If the last clear recol-
lection of the presence and power of
Jesus was in private prayer. then go TO
your secret room and alone in prayer
call for Him who is all and in all to
the human soul. Right there you
will find Him again. Right there the
risen Savior will call you by name.
and most blessed theophany will
greet your awakened spiritual
senses.
MARYLAND AVENUE NJ. E. CHURCH.
At Maryland Avenue M. E. Church
last night, Rev. Il. E. Peters preached
from Isiah :18: "Come let us reason
together. Though your sin be like
scarlet they shall be white as snow !;
though they be like crimson they shall
be as wool" He said in part:
"Man 10 the only creature made by
God that is able to reason, and yet he
reasons so little. Most of men are
imitators. They do, dress and be-
lieve as other men. Very few men
have determination enough to do as
they like regardless of the conduct of
others. Sin is a motive and not the
deed. A person might accidentally
kill another and yet not be murder
er. The outward acts are but the result
of the inward motive. Man judges
man by deeds, and often makes mis-
takes, but God, the all-righteous
Judge, measures man by the inward
life. Another mistake that man makes
is to think that when we are convert
ed that we lose certain faculties, such
as temper, pride, and the like. But
when we are changed these things are
not taken away from us, but are puri-
fed and made to serve the purposes
of our Father.
"Desire of money is natural, but
yet some people think that to have
this desire is to sin. 1t is not the de-
sire for money that causes such suffer
ing, but the use we put it to. AL
things are ours to use for a good pur.
pose. 1t is our duty to have all ouI
faculties cleansed. God gave His only
begotten son that we might have our.
selves made pure, and therefore it il
our duty as well as privilege to be
come a child of God. Let us, there
fore, come to God and have ourselves
renewed and go forth praising God
and do the will of our Master. ="