Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1907-02-02
Rev. Walt Holcomb Deliver
ed Powerful Sermon
Thursday Night.
INTEREST INCREASING.
Mr.. Smoot Called Home to
the Bedside of His
Mother.

There is no diminution in the at
tendance at the services at the Meth
odist church and there are evidences
Of increasing interest.
Mr.. Smoot, who had left the city
in answer to a call summoning him
to the bedside of his mother, at her
home in Washington, Ind, will re-
turn if his mothers illness does not
prove fatal.
The song service Thursday night
was conducted by Mr.. Holcomb.
After a fervent prayer by Mr.. Bull,
pastor of the First Presbyterian
church, in which he invoked Gods
blessing upon the services and asked,
if agreeable to the divine will. that
Mrs. Smoot be restored to health,
Mr.. Holcomb announced as his text
the first and second verses Of the
9Th chapter of Galatians.
His remarks were addressed to the
members of the church. Thus far
he had not appealed directly to sin
ners, but he expected to have some
thing to say to them later on. He
showed in a most earnest and forci-
BILE way the duty of the spiritually
strong to their weaker brothers.
The law of Christ is law of love
| He does not require anything that
love does not demand. The attitude
of the spiritually strong should bc
one of helpfulness. Eye which are
spiritual, restore such an one in the
spirit Of meekness; considering thy
self, lest thou also be tempted"
When a man is overtaken in a
fault we should not jump on him
with both feet and crush the life out
of him. There are some in the
church who are as guilty as the sin
Iner outside, only the latter have
been caught in the act. There is a
great difference in being overtaken
by sin and overtaken in sin. Some
in the church are so mixed up in sin
that the devil has got you fast.
Every backslider here tonight knows
this.
Who is to restore them? "Ye who
are spiritual. We are not only to
reform but restore them. Some of
you church members will answer
"that lets me out" because you say
you are too meek" you can't do
anything. They do not know the
true spiritual meaning of meekness,
We must bear one another's burdens.
The greatest joy in this life is to
have brother roll the burdens off
his heart on to yours, and then roll
the burden of both on to the'heart Of
Jesus. God will hold you responsible
for what you might have done, and
not what you have done, and will
Judge you accordingly. Many Of
you backsliders are keeping out of
Gods kingdom because you have
fallen and your lives are not what
they should be, and the reason these
have not answered my call to them
is because you spiritual have not led
them back to Christ and | couldn't
drag them over your heads. You
can never get them nearer to God
than you have been yourself,
1t seems sometimes that as soon
as the Lord saves some sinners they
turn to be idiots on the spot. They
go Off into worldliness. The women
go to the theater, play cards and
dance some women only quit when
they get so fat they can't dance. and
Others so lean that the men won't
dance with them. Then they quit
and think the Lord ought to reward
them because they have quit dancing.
You never get sinners any further
from the world than you get
yourself-never get them any nearer
to God than you get yourself. We