CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1905-04-13
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Seven Converts
Sunday Getting eengsTuo
Hundred and FortySeven Have Adults
Last Nights to Skeptics.

Godsreqnires an open and public
confession with your lips and with
your life. If you are cynic, or a
skeptic, you are interfering with the
happiness and the hope of the man or
woman that comes in contact with
you. You are touching elbows with
your neighbors. knowledge to begin
with is theoretical and practical.
You might watch a machine do some
thing and still not be able to see how
it does it, but you would not disbe-
lieve the man who told you it
did the work. You would believe it.
Why do you doubt THAT the Bible will
do any more than you would doubt
what that machine would do after
you had been told.
At the conclusion of the preaching
fourteen .pvople came forward and
gave their hands to Rev. Sunday and
their hearts to God Tonight the
subject of the discourse at the Taber-
nacle will be the future punishment
Of sinners.
"And David said unto Nathan, 1
have sinned against the Lord: And
Nathan said unto David: The Lord also
hast put away thy sin: thou shalt not
die.i' The language quoted is record
ed in the thirteenth verse of the twelf-
tn chapter of the second book Of Sam
uel and was the text chosen by Rev.
Sunday for his sermon Tuesday night.
Although snow had been falling at
intervals most of the day and there
was a NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. at the time
of the meeting the attendance was
very goodi Tuesday night, probably
15uO!people being in the Tabernacle
when the services began. No stronger
evidence of Rev. Sundays popularity
could possibly be given than the man.
ner in which people turn out to hear
him in spite of adverse circumstances.
The. .favoritism shown by the people
VI Sautb SiAN toI new cuhdaN u uuc
partly to the vigor and fearlessness of
his style of preaching and partly to the
conviction that he is thoroughly sim
cere and honest in what he says.
He delivers sledge hammer blows at
sin wherever found and believes in call
ing a spade a spade. Many people
think that the gospel should be preach
ed in such a way as not to offend sim
ners: that.wickedness should be guild
ed and be made to sppe ar less hideous
than it is. Rev. Sunday does not sub
scribe to such doctrine. He believes
in calling things by their right names
and in laundering against sin of every
kind with all the power of John the
Baptist or Martin Luther. His theol-
ogy knows no compromise with wick
edness, but believes in tearing off the
cloak,,with which it is sometimes COW
cred and exposing it in all of its putre-
flying soreness to the public view.
There is difference between a man
being criminal and being sinner.
A man becomes a criminal only when
his thoughts become acts; he becomes
a sinner by his thoughts. God says,
las a man thinketh in his heart so is
he" 1 have no use for preachers that
mildly and modestly refer TO the place
of punishment God has provided for
sinners as "hades.n Why don't they
tell the truth and preach the old-fash-
ioned hell.
In response to certain anonymous
letters received since he had been in
Canon City Rev. Sunday said that he
did not come to Colorado to preach
baptism, second Bile ing, ssnctifics-
tion, predestinstion, or sectarisn dog
mas of any kind and people that were
mailing him MESA ges of that character
should save their postage stamps, as
he would not answer any of them. l
am here as a recruiting officer for God,
said he. and il there is asy drilling and
indoctrinating to do the local preach-
ers can do il after l leave.
L. Y. Kohlman and Mayor Coulter.
were drawn on the pan ell Of the Fed
eral Grand Jury at Pueblo, returned
home fpiay having at their REQUEST