Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-04-26

| spencer Memorial church was well
filed last evening at the service held
i'll the eastern district by the Rev.
Charles Wheeler. Mr.. Wheeler spoke
on the subject, BE Sure Your Sins
VIII Find You Out" Preceding the
sermon an interesting song service
was given. by the combined choruses
of the Spencer Memorial and The
| Edgewood Baptist churches. The
chorus was led by w. p. Christy, who
also gave several solo selections.
Our sins will find us out" said the
evangelist. in our own conscience
first. We viii be aware of them before
any one else knows anything about
them except God They Will begin to
! find us out 10 others through our com
partnership and they will not only find
us out here on earth to ourselves and
others, but will follow us to hell and
will be an everlasting memory to us.
Hell is a place of unsatisfied de-
sire. continued the speaker. I'VE may
satisfy our desires and lusts on earth
but in hell we will find nothing to sat
/ isfy our craving. not even a drop OF
water to Quench our thirst
Mr. Wheeler laid particular stress
on the fact that he'll was a place OF
shame and remorse and we begin to
realize there what the wages of sin
really is. Our sins will follow us to
hell and there find us out and remain
everlastingly to remind us of our
shame and disgrace.
Hell Holes Here.
Sin" was the subject of the address
by Rev Tilman Hobson at the First
Methodist church last evening. Speak
ing Of sin, he likened it TO a mirage,
such as is seen in the desert. ut is
alluring. and to the soul gives the
promise that the mirage does TO the
Physical attributes 1t brings before
US imaginative beautiful things, then
it bursts as bubble, and we stretch
out in death" He cited the saloon and
licensed vice as a disgrace, and as an
example Of a municipality free of Ii
censed evils. he cited his home city,
Pasadena. Cal Following an illustra-
tiCn OF the desert mirage and the ar
senic springs of the desert. he said,
I'm Rock Island We do not see these
arsenic springs or boys. but instead
We find licensed hell holes, that take
young men and girls, bringing them to
the house of correction. the prisons.
asylums. and death You may send
for evangelists. you may send for the
angel Gabriel himself. but until there
is a reformation here the devil will do
business in your city said DR.. Hob
son.
Hits Gambling and Dancing.
AT the Memorial Christian church.
Rev. D. S. Toy spoke of the Gross"
his text being And whatsoever doth not
take up his cross, and come after me,
can not be my disciple Dr. Toy, in
opening his sermon, spoke briefly of
the cross itself, the common simple
method of execution of Bible times.
But no cross. though, so has cast it's
rays as has Jesus cross" He told of
Christs death. giving the account of
his last passover with his disciples.
and the warning that one of the disci
pies should betray him, of the betray
al. the hearing and condemnation by
Pilot. and the crucifiXion. He pointed
out that the death of Christ on the
cross purchased for all salvation, free
for the acceptance, and urged that the
unsaved take advantage of the offer
Incidental to the account of the cruel
fiXiCn itself, DR.. Toy spoke of the fact
that those about the cross then gam
bled for Christ's garments, and said
that as q Christian he could never do
two things-g&mble and dance. He
spoke of the dance as the cause of
John. the Baptist's beheading. DR..
! Toy pleaded with the Christian mem
bers of the congregation to give up
these two things, speaking more par
/ ticularly of dancing.
| WoInen-s Mass Meeting.
| A mass meeting for women will be
/ held in the central district of the city,
/ either in the First Methodist or the
Broadway Presbyterian church, Sun