The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-03-08

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ment and plea. and gave evidence of
a tenderness as we'll as OF courage, Of
conviction, which entirely won his
audience. He drew the scene of Paul
the grand advocater standing before
Felix, the licentious and corrupt poll
tition. with masterful hand. and
then he took up the theme of Paul's
discourse. and himself reasoned with
his audience 'of righteousness, self
control, and of the judgment to
come" His definition of righteous
ness is well worth remembering. He
said: do you know what righteous
ness is? 1t is just rightness, and right
ness means a straight line. in mathe-
NAUTICAL terms. You can lay a straight
line upon top of another straight line,
and it will cover exactly, or YOU can
run them parallel with one another
and We will have straight line.
There are many sorts of crooked
lines. which turn to this side and that
side. but only one straight line, and
that is Righteousness"
In the course of his remarks about
stirring up a revival in the north, Mr..
Hunt said that the people of the north
are as cold as the ice that You saw
in the river, it looked to me to be
about three feet thick. Down south
he said we can have Il revival in. ten
days, but where We're you ten days
ago. Mad, mad as the devil, tears
very near the surface with the warm
hearted southerner, but it takes about
ten days to get the northerner mad,
and then ten days to get him to weep
over his sin, and then ten days more
to fill him with JOY in his salvation.
So from this you know about where
We are in this series of meetings.
When Mr.. Hunt turned to the sub
ject of self control, he quoted phrase
from the scripture, the reason of
temperance" Now of course Paul
was not speaking altogether Of liquor
drinking. Self control is a large term,
but while am on this theme, want
to say something, am not going to
talk about the matter tonight, but at
ter while when get all of my facts
on hand, am going to tell you about
your drug stores. Are you aware that
there is only one drug store in this
city that is not in the liquor business?
l am lawyer by training, and am
not going to make any statements that
cannot be proved. am having the
records relative to the property in
East Grand Forks looked up in the
court house in Crookston, and l am
looking for your druggists too, and
when l have these facts in hand, am
going to let you know about it. And
then if you do not get out after these
blind pigging druggists and either put
them out of business or convert them
to Christ, it will be because you are
as hell bound as they. Ask your fav-
orite druggist to lift the lid in one
of the prescription counters tomorrow,
and see what there is there. You who
are customers of this trade, you know
what would be found in that counter,
II there Is anything worse than
saloon it is blind pigging drug store.
When God can save even blind pig
ger, and may be do so in this city.
But after Paul had got through
. reasoning of righteousness, self con-
troll and of that sure judgment that
is to come. the most dreadful consid-
GRAFTON that the SHINING man can en-
terrain, Felix said: Go they way for
this time, don't talk to me any more
now, you are trying to persuade me
to be christian, and that is simply
impossible" He who says such words
as these, is simply the devils dupe.
After the sermon Mr.. Hunt made
very strong appeal for decision to
follow Christ, he said that almost
home is not home, remember that.
When came to Dakota in 1882 in
that severe winter eighty-five people
were frozen to death. One pitiful case
was that of man whose team came
into the yard near the house, and
there in the cold and storm-died.
Evidently the man had crawled from
his sleigh, and with bundles under his
arm sought shelter of his house, but
he never reached it. He frozen to
death in great drift of snow. He
was almost at the door of his home,
very near to the love of his wife, and
the warmth of his household fire, but
he persisted. Don't perish tonight,
turn to Christ, as though this were
the last time you were ever to hear
the gospel preached. In response to
this invitation large number of peo-
pie arose in all parts of the house,
and pressed to the front, while the
personal workers went down into the
audience and prayed with those who
needed help and encouragement.
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