The Beaumont enterprise. [volume] (Beaumont, Tex.) 1904-current, 1904-09-12
DR.. RAY FILLED
BAPTIST PULPIT
CONDUCTED MORNING AND EVE,
MING SERVICES IN ABSENCE
OF DR.. MCCALL.
LARGE CONGREGATIONS ATTEND
Forenoon Sermon on Witnessing for
God, Which Minister Says Must
Be Done by All Men at All
Times.

DR.. G. w. Ray. of Fort Worth, Tex
as, a Bible teacher OF renown, who
has been in Beaumont the past week
conducting Bible study classes in tho
Y. NJ. C. A.. conducted the morning
and evening services at the First
Baptist church yesterday. Dr. Nc
Call, the regular pastor, Is out Of the
city, holding meetings at Johnson
Bayou. DIR. Ray Is a Congregational
minister but devotes most of his time
to Bible study classes through this
section of the country. Yesterday
morning DR.. Ray preached TO large
congregation on Witnessing or
God"
He spoke from the text but ye
shall receive power after that the
Holy Ghos; shall come upon You and
ye shall be witnesses unto me both
in Jerusalem and in all Judea and in
Samaria and unto the uttermost parts
Of the earth" The passage is found
in Acts lis. DR.. Ray said that God
wants all TO be witnesses unto Him
and that all are witnesses unto Him.
and that it depends upon the man
what kind of a witness he will be.
The portion of the text referring to
bearing witness in Jerusalem, the
speaker said, meant that man should
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salem being the home of the Jews.
to whom the scripture applies. The
minister urged that everyone bear
witness to God in his home. He said
man might fool his grocer, his
banker, his butcher. his business
partner or any one else with whom
he comes in contact. but that he can
not fool the little woman who sits op.
posite him at breakfast every morn.
ing. nor the children who cluster
about his knee at night. The home, |
the speaker said. was the most effect.
i've place to bear witness to God
Try II on Neighbor.
After man has practiced witnessing
God in his home, DR.. Ray said. he
should go out and try it on his neigh
Dor. This is what is meant. the
speaker declared, by the injunction
to witness in all Judea. Judna meaLl
mans neighbors. Dealing with the
question OF who ones neiehbOr t.. n
Gr. Ray said the neighbCr is the man
Who lives next door, whose chickens
Zig up ones flower beds. whose dog
PARKS and keeps one awake at night
whose pigs break through the fence
md eat ones cabbage This is the
nan with whom enc is eyhorte1 to
Witness FOR God.
That part of the text urging that
:od he witnessed for in Samaria,
he speaker said, referred to man wit
essing for God among his enemies,
or the Samaritans were the enemies
: the Jews. 1t was the custom Of
be Samaritan to spit on the ground
very time he met a Jew. to show his
isgust. In illustrating this phase or
is subject DR.. Ray related a story
+ an old fiddler. Uncle Joe, who in a
he church for the natronaee of the
eoDle. Uncle Joe wanted the people
} dance so that he could earn money
laying for them. Every time there
'as a revival Uncle Joe would nut
way his fiddle. saying there was
Othing for him to- do. When the re-
wal was over he would get ont his
idle and begin coaXing the people a
} dance. Finally they would again {
% to dancing.
Urcle Joe Converted.
This contest kept up for several
ears until at last Uncle Joe himself
as converted. He had made many 2
iemies because OF his grabbed dis C
osition but the night he was CON {
erted he went to every one of Z
ZEN and asked their forgiveness for
asst wrongs he had committed and
lid that in the future thew would be
lends. as the love of God had come
to his heart and he desired TO wit f.
aSs God among his enemies. ;,
The ahiurgation TO witness God nm q
the uttermost parts Of the earth.
r Raw said means inst what it saws
that man must not he satisfied with
airing witness where he happens 10
, hut must go into every communi-
. among every people and to the re-
otest corners of the world and v
each the word of Christ Tho
.ealier told Of Gods instructions to !
rillip. of Pauls witnessing God in :
ONE and Of other men who served y
,d in countries and places far from
cir homes and urged his hearers
follow the examples set by them. 3
e. said. I'm conclusion. that every
an can witness God. wherever ne