The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-05-09
DfllvfRANCtS OF GOD


of Key. Gsoyrs II, SfNAFt last even
! ing at The revival seryEee The house
Was filled 10 oyerflowtng and many
| went away unabie so obtain even
standing room In or near the audi
torlum Rev. Mr Nesins of the Bap.
tist church led the opening prayer.
congregation Joined heartily In the
singing of many familiar hymns.
| Mr.. Excell is hoarse but he is In
| the best Of spirits and leads the
singing At every service.
Mr.. Stuart announced that ne was
going to preach to boys and girls on
! Friday afternoon and that he would
work Saturday his usual rest day.
/ preaching to women only AT 10
O'Clock and at night 10 all who
| would come.
SUNDAY | Will preach three times
| II ! hold out said the evangelist,
Every service. morning and even
| ing, is Witnessing numbers OF pro-
| fessions of faith and the work OF
grace is deepening. All the churches
are united In the effort, the various
ministers OF the city working in the
congregation and at the altar service.
Taking up the text from this
Psalm of David the minister said In
part
Poets are born, not made. The ola
Latin proverb puts 1t and puts 1t
well.
David tells us of his God in the |
language and spirit of the real poet
God is David's hightower. his shep-
herd. A good old ranchman near
San Antonio told me that sheep can
not drink in swiftly running water.
So David tells us that the Lord as
our shepherd, leads us by the still
| waters. In a thousand ways he de-
jlivers US. The devil in this text is a
bird catcher and you and are 'ne
, Iunthinking. unwary birds. Our Lord
8 and master in his teaching tried tt
@ make us see the gospel. The SAVING
. gospel In everything around Ms. TIC
!, 1.-THE shepherd he spoke OF the love
! for the lost sheep, to the farmer he
likened his kingdom to the seed he
had sown in. his ground, to the fish
erman the kingdom was likened to
the draught Of fishes, some good,
some bad to the vine dresser he
pruned the vine in spiritual things;
to the housewife he preached by the
;leayen-and even the old sun as he
lifts his head each day he makes 10
preach to you and me in the line fe
are the light of the world In the
salt we see and use everywhere Jes-
us has planted the gospel rms text
has the snare of the devil In IT put
| God will deliver us. | went duck
hunting and the boys put their de-
GOV ducks out on the river and we
hid ourselves. After awhile high up
in the air we saw the ducks. They
saw our "decoys" and began 10 CIR
Gle. Whenever you see a fellow begin
to "circle" around the devils decoy
duck YOU may depend on 1t he viii
light directly. They circled lower
and lower and then on the water
they came and our guns went bang
bang. and we had dead duck, broken
wings and general havoc. You know
the DEVILS most dangerous decoy
It's nominal member OF the
church. a professor of religion with
on, any religion These titled dign-
taries that dabble in every devil
ment damn more boys than any
character in town. The church has
studied morals for centuries ahu
the concensus OF opinion ut All the
Intelligence aud conservation of all
4 the churches Is that cards strong
| drink. dance halls and theatres ar"
against hish morals and the deNel-
opmeut of great manhood aud "otu-
auaood Mud II / we're you ! would
respect the thought uf the church "t
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are t3phoid germs in that spFiug IL
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