The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-19
MOVED HIS HEARERS
DIR. wHARTON's SERMON AT THE
 AUDITORIUM.
Several Churches VIII be Closed TO- Morrow to JOtn With Services by Evangeltst-Special Rail-
 road Rates.

The revival services conducted by
 pr. H. M. Wharton. the Baptist re- vivalist at the city auditorium contln-
 9es to grow in interest and in atten-
 Last night Dr. wharton preached to almost a capacity house, and by ms oId old fe.xss. s.ory thss is ever new" he drew an expression from his congregation. He moved upon that hundreds to the altar in acknowicdg- :. ment of their need of the Savior or whom he preached. :. Montgomery is represented in these meetings at tho Auditorium and pr. c. A. Stakely announced last night .hst special rates VII bs put s,ty on tsae sae thsmselves of this opportunity ef hear, ing pr. wharton. The churches Of xiee. ieessSmsly sunaay s except Sunday school are the Adams Avenue Baptist and the
 West End Baptist and the Central
 the regular Sunday morning service. worshiping at night with the congre- gation at the Auditorium.
 ditorium tonight. but at 6:3o o'clock this afternoon Dr. Wharton. cordially
 invites the men-young and oid-oL | Montgomery. to meet him in half hour
 of prayer at the Bible House. on Dex- | ter Avenue. Tomorrow there will be | three services, morning, afternoon and
 evening, The afternoon service VII VII | will talk about Death at a Frolic." 1 Unto me. who am less than the least | of all saints. is the grace given, that
 should preach among the Gsnsiies mnsa the sians i'll. 8. This was the text from
 which I,r wharton preached last night. I He contrasted the humility of Paul with | said that God could not use a proud man. He can use only the man who is I humble. only the man who can say, T persuaded that He Is able okeep that ] which have committed unto Him until I that day"-until a man gets to that point he has not reached the highest Dr. Wharton likened Heaven to the Treasury Department at Washington. Just as there are many street car lines in that city that lead to the Treasury that lead to the Treasury Department of Heaven. Tn the Treasury Depart ment of Heaven. he said, there are three rooms and he took his congrega- The first room Is Christ's ability to save, His power to save; the second the great temptation of ambition and
 the third the temptation through the soul
 "The three temptations that are
 sweeping souls to perdition today"
 he said "are satan. sin and death : These three stand between every soul and Heaven. Christ had to overcome them and the temptations that Christ
 withstood are the temptations that are dragging men to hell. These three are the temptations of the body.indui- rences to excess-through ambition to be great or rich and through soul temp tations.
 overcome death. He came forth from
 the grave saying, T am He that liveth
 and am not dead, and He that believeth
 in me shall never die.' The unsearch-
 able riches of His pardoning love- flows tonight like a great river through
 the infinite depth of your immortal
 soul. You can't describe it, but you
 have felt 1t and know what 1t is"
 Several hundred persons responded to
 the invitation to go forward and make
 public acknowledgement of their need
 of a Saviour and of their willingness to
 trust that Saviour.