The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-08-03
UNION SERVICES
REV. j. w. CHERRY breaches A
FINE SERMON TO A LARGE
AUDIENCE.

services at the Tabernacle is very
Gratifying to the pastors and christian
workers who have united in these
"wednesday and Sunday evening SER
vices for the summer. Inclement as
1.-THE evening was the attendance Sun
day night numbered several hundred,
and the responses from the congrega-
ton in praise and requests for pray
er, were nearly as great as when the
recent meeting was at its flood.
The pastors select one of their num-
Der to conduct these services, and
Sunday night Mr. Cherry of the First
Methodist church had the meeting in
charge. After a short service of song
he had testimonial meeting which
was followed by strikingly strong
sermon, and after that a call for pen
itents.
Mr.. Cherry's text was taken from
the 18th verse of the End chapter of
Titus: For the grace of God that
bringeth Salvation, hath appeared to
all men" Nations he said would be-
come like the God they worshipped. If
lit was a God of Battle, they would be-
come warlike; if it was a God Of
Peace, they would become peace
loving nation And so with men; a
man would become like the God he
worshipped. And one of the great
troubles, he thought, in the world to-
day, was misconception OF God There
were two Bible definitions Of Cod;
- God is Light, and God is Love"
Light is the most beautiful thing in
the physical world; and God was Xix
ened unto that; and Love is the most
. beautiful thing in the spiritual world,
= and God is likened unto that.
y In a spiritual sense God is love;
without any if or but about it; God is
all love; God is nothing but love;
r however far a man may stray away
from right paths, God still loves him;
He does not love him because Christ
died for him; but He so loved man that
n He sent His only begotten Son that
s. He might die for Him. And he bring
,e eth Salvation to all men, Just as food
r is sent by a christian people to {
S starving and hungry heather nation
1t the grace of God bringeth salvation
to all men, It is as free as the ali
ct we breathe; it is as free as the ligh
re- of the sun. The sun shines upon thu
le mountain top and down into the low
ly valleys; upon the mansions of thu
as rich and the novels of the poor. Cod
10 sunlight shines upon the world, ant
# His salvation is to all men. But jus
>. as a man may bury himself hundred
% of feet in the earth where the sur
mr. light cannot reach him, just SO h
q. may bury himself in the deep cavern
Ok of sin where salvation may not reac
no him: but even there Gods love TO
u+ lows him, and brings conviction t
him; and anywhere, any time, tina
cd any man will surrender his will t
81. the will of God, right then and Their
IN salvation will come to him. It was
+o mistake for any sinner to approach tn
altar to ask to be saved from hell
what they needed was to be save
from their sins, and that would say
them from hell. No true child ha
any good reason to be afraid of Coz
I Why should any one fear their be!
friend? If he was coming down tn
street and saw a lion coming up til
n9 street said the preacher, I would G
another way: because l would fet
the lion would injure me. But WI
should fear that God, my loving Fat
~ er. would injure me? And there is I
les reason why l should go through III
yed trembling like a leaf or scared like
arl rabbit. I am Gods child, and | liz
,,;s in His domain, and He will do me
harm. On the contrary He will sa7
'on me from my sins. And He will bril-
Wv salvation to every man who will su
u'o render his will to Him. And like Il
father who saw the prodigal son af
In off, and ran to meet him, so God W
''S meet every sinner who starts iowa
pi' Him confessing his sins. God W
sn' meet him half way, or He will go
SUI the way, if the sinner is too weak a
~ feeble to come to Him; If he will or
was raise his eyes with faith and "a
ee' Lord have mercy upon me poor S
! nc ner," and yield his will to Gods W
nei God will save him that instant; So
IN him from his sins; and no SIM
'ine saved from his sins can go to he
and no man not saved from his S
- can be saved from hell. For God
- loved the world that He gave His o
begotton Son that whosoever bell
eth in Him should not perish, but b
everlasting life"