Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1904-04-28
REVIVAL SERVICES
Now Being Held in the First Baptist
Church.

NIiuIIII.
The attendance at the revival SER
vices in the First Baptist church
Sunday, at both morning and even
ing hours, was unusually large, the
galleries and Sunday school room
being used to accommodate the null
fftude Of interested hearers.
DIR Tyree filled the pulpit at both
services. The burden Of the preach
er's theme at the morning hour was
the neglect Of parents concerning the
spiritual welfare Of their children.
The discourse was full ofWise counsel,
burning eloquence and intense earn
estness. 1t seems impossible that
any father, mother or guardian who
heard this masterful, searching SER
mon, delivered in 50 much love and
tender 9ollcitude, could help but
arouse from their S$cming lethargy,
take more serious thought and be
moved to greater effort in the direc-
ton of throwing safeguards around
those whom God has entrusted to
their care and keeping, and for
whose eternal destiny they Ere large
ly responsible. 1t was indeed a
great sermon, from a great mind,
and no doubt accomplished gDeat
and lasting good.
Several persons asked to be re-
membered 10 prayer at this service.
At the evening hour every avail
abBe seat in the house was taken and
the Sunday school room and galleries
were crowded.
DIR. Tyree's theme was "Indiffer-
ence to the Things of God" The
preacher seemed entirely lost to him
self and his surroundings, and with
H-tar-away look, as il gathering in
SEPARATION from the very throne of
God, he delivered a message the
like Of which has rarely, if ever,
been delivered from the pulpit of
that church, and 1t means something
10 say this, when Il is remembered
that some of the most eminent di-
vines the State has produced have
filled this pulpit. This writer has
no hesitancy in making this state
ment. Great thoughts, c0Uched in
simple language, delivered with the
zeal and intense earnestness Of 2 dy-
ing man to q perishing people,
marked the entire message. The
speakers soul seemed to fill every
utterance. IF this had been his last
effort in the service Of his Master on
earth, he could, possibly, not have
improved the opportunity. The
large audience seemed spell-bound,
electrified, and the profound silence
lent added solemnity to the occasion,
as the preacher in matches elo-
quence unburdened his soul and
declared the greatness, mercy, long
suffering, and the final justice of
God. 1t is not the will of God that
any should perish, neither will He
withhold justice when all His plans
and purposes have been rejected and
the hour of grace passed, declared
the speaker; and no sadder spectacle
ever presented itself than the rebel
lion of a human soul against it's
Creator. God owned the world;
every dollar in it, every industrial
and commercial interest, every kind
and manner of thing of which the
world is composed; and every sign
and condition of life God holds in
the hollow of His hand. Man was
made in His own image, endowed
with the power of choosing Life or
Death-eternal happiness Or ever
lasting doom. No man had a lease
on time or life; was debtor to God
for each pulse beat and every recur-
ring breath; and each moment of
his life was Gods by right. No
man, however wealthy orinfuential,
or what his social position or envir-
onment might be, was genuinely
happy without the love of God per
meated his being; and why mar was
so d~isinterested in his souls saliva
ton is a profound mystery to the
Christian world. In conclusion the
speaker showed the relative ages at
which men generally are converted
and the corresponding percentage Of
those dying in their sins, proving
conclusively that the preponderating
number accepted Christ ID youth or