The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1906-03-28
IMMENSE AUDIENCE HEAR THE FINE ADDRESS

The announcement that on last
evening DR.. Manhood would deal with
the amusement question under the
subject. Cutting the Anchors" re
suited in one Of the largest audiences
that has yet attended the revival
services being assembled to hear the
evangelist BY 1880 O'Clock the
main floor and the lower floor of the
Sunday school room were completely
filed and many found seats in the
galleries. IL was a great audience,
and an Interested audience.
DP. Mahood spoke for nearly an
hour and half and he dealt with
those popular amusements and other
matters of what he deemed of a sim
ful nature in a manner that was not
at all uncertain and during his em-
phatic. forceful discourse he could
not have been given closer attention
than was accorded him by the congre-
cation.
His warnings against the influence
Of evil associations, and against the
habits of intemperance and tobac-
co using and his denuncia;ion of the
dance, the theatre and the card game
could not have been made stronger
DIR. Mahood took for his theme
the fortieth verse of the twenty-seven-
tn chapter OF Acts, which reads as
follows:
''And when they had cut the an
chors they committed themselves I'M
to the sea, and loosed the rudder
bands. and holsted up the mainsail
to the wind and made for the shore.
Dr. Mahood briefly sketched the |
instance that this verse referred to. |
Paul had been taken a prisoner by |
the Romans and had been placed on
board a ship bound for Rome The |
a hn a.F
ors against the storms. but they heed
ed not. The storm came, ragged for
fourteen days and then seeing that
the only course left for them 10 do
was to beach the vessel, the crew cut
the anchors, tore away the rudder |
bands, hoisted the main sail and
made for the shore.
Calling the soul the ship, and the
sea OF sin with Christ as the shore Dr.
Manhood in the employment of this
pointed illustration. brought out the
great thoughts of his discourse. Every II
soul he declared had anchors that
must be cut and these anchors were
besetting sins of different kinds. with
these he proposed 10 deal.
The anchor of drunkenness or in
temperance was the first that he dealt
with. DR.. Mahood declared that if
there is anything in this world TO be
/
to The monster of drink. He declared
that drunkenness was on the increase
In this country and England. Statis-
tics proved It, Drunkenness is on
the increase especially among women"
he said, in one great city il was
found that there were $1,000 women
and girls addicted TO drinking
Women are using opiates In these
days to a startling extent" declared
he aNunnRligf asfThars Is. /
of eases in high society where the hus-
band goes to the saloon for his drink
md the wife to the drug store for her
ppiate. Women supposed TO be at
the top of the social world holding
high confidence have been known to
be beastly drunk. Young men in
this city are tritling with the monster
drink. and some day they will be
bound hand and foot. slave in every
sense of the word"
Under the head of intemperance
DR.. Mahood discussed the using of
tobacco. he declared he would not
say that the men who used tobacco
could not be Christians for that was
not true. Many good men and true
use tobacco but he held
that If they didn't use tobacco they
would be better Christians and have
a higher influence for the better
He warned young men against this L
habit. In every life there comes n T
crisis or test, n surgical operation.
A test of endurance or something of
hat nature and to safely meet this
'risls every young man should keep
his blood pure and not allow It to be
come tainted by the poison of drink
Dr. tobacco"
Another anchor to cut Is that of
Evil associates. Many souls are lost
because men and women refused TO
break with evil companions and as
soclations. Girls will sell their
very souls for beaux then marry the
Kings and endure lives of wretched-
less until the grave is reached he
asserted. There are hundreds of
Instances whore good Christian girls
ave married scoundrels hoping to re-
orm them when mothers and sisters
ave failed TO bring reformation TO
heir wicked hearts," He believes 4
hat girl should require the same
faithfulness and virtue in a man that Il
he man requires of the woman.
Y Dung men will revel in the friend /
snip of evil companions and go along
The pathway of destruction. These
anchors must be cut if You would en-
10y eternal life
DIR. Mahood then announced that