Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1906-04-21
Subject of DR.. Crossfeld's
Sermon Last Thursday
Night.
WORDS TO CHRISTIANS.
Interest Increasing and AC-
cessions to Church Every
Meeting.

,
singing, THAT Will be Glory Fo
Me-" the great rally song used b,
DR.. Tory and his singer, Mr.. Alex
ander, during their work in Europe
last year. Rev. I. D. Moore ther
offered a fervent prayer. Mr.. st
Johns solo was Drifting Away
From God" 1t was believed by
some that this was the best song that
Mr.. st. John had yet sung.
Before DR.. Cross6eld began his
sermon he asked that ladies who
were wearing hats that didn't cost
more than S25 remove them. A
good many were taken off, but a
large number were not. Whether
any of them cost as much as S25 is a
question that only the wearers can
answer. The evangelist is very in
sisteut on this point and will doubt
less carry his point long before the
conclusion of the services.
DR.. Crossfeld's subject for the
evening was Drifting" He said
that it is not only the sinner that is
gradually drifting farther and far
Their away from God; Christians
good people-are doing the same
thing. He spoke first of the latter
class. So absorbed are they in do
mestic affairs that they gradually
get away from God; some are so
fond of society that they forget
their duty to the church; others are
drifting away on account of politics
and many other things which causes
them to forget religion altogether.
He believes that it is possible for a
Christian to drift away from Gods
grace so far that all reviving power
to pull for the shore, and despite
the current and the tide, save them
selves-they gradually drift into the
great Niagara of death and get be-
You'd redemption, "Take heed,
brethren, lest there be in any of you
an evil unbelief, in departing from
the living God. Heb. 3-12. Christ
is become Of no effect unto you,
whosoever of you are justified by
law; We are fallen from grace. -
Gal. 5-4. These two passages were
quoted by the Doctor as confirming
him in the belief that even Christians
drift away and are lost. He said that
neglect of prayer is another cause,
probably the greatest cause, of Chris
tians getting away from God. They
,an talk about almost any other
thing, but when called upon to pray
IN public they answer, 81 pass
Then there are men drifting who
will not believe all the Word of God;
they don't believe. this and that and
the other the translation is reason
ably reliable and accurate, but they
can't accept the sayings of the in
spired writer's in their entirety. Tom
Paine thought 100 years ago that he
had killed the Bible and that in fifty
years it would not exist except in
where a price would be
charged to see it. Now it is pub
lished in 500 languages and dialects.
He showed that it is simply impossi-
BILE to kill the Bible and that Paine
was failure as a prophet. as about
5000 million copies are printed
every year. Among other things
that cause Christians and other peo-
pie to stay away from church is the
big Sunday dinner. A Christian
can't grow unless he attends church
services any more than a man can
live without eating is as essen
tial as the other. Then there is the
devotee of fashion. Men and women
must keep up with the styles-the
man must have exactly the correct
crease in his pants and the woman
must know that the bird on her hat
has as many eyes in its head as the
one across the seas. Then there are
the women's clubs. ut seems to
me that the American women are
almost dubbed to death" They
are all very much alive to these
things, but when they are called on
to help in a revival they are dead,
very dead"
DR.. Crossfeld then made a most
urgent appeal to those out of Christ
to stop drifting and come back tc