The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-03-01
BROTHERS OCCUPIED.
PULHTS IN TWO
CHURCHES
Rev. G Hunt at Baptist and
Rev. Geo. Hunt in the
Methodist.
THE SERMONS POWERFUL
God Will Punish Sin But He
Loves the sinner-Many
Conversions.
(By the Commtttee.O

Wy the COmmdttee.)
At the Methodist church last even
ing Lawyer Evangelist Hunt spoke
upon the subject of faith.
My friends let us have faith in God.
II we do that, We can capture this
community for Christ; Jesus said If
we have faith as a grain of mustard
seed we can say unto any obstacle,
be thou plucked up by the roots, and
cast into the midst of the sea, and 1t
shall be done. When l came to this
city to prosecute this evangelistic
campaign found it necessary to lay
out about $25O.O0 in expenses and up
to the present time l have put quite
a little Of my own money into the en-
terprise, but tell you If we have faith
In God we can win out against the
world and the devil. Oh, for man
whom God can trust, who will see
large visions and meet them with great
resources.
Use Of Perfumery.
MIR. Hunt illustrated this thought by
saying that he was once asked to 20
down and preach in the mission of a
low part of the city. He had said
that he was ready of service and for
sacrifice but like good many Christ
ians nowadays, he expected that sac
rifice to be noteworthy and the serv-
Ice to be pleasant, the people were poor
and ignorant, vicious and uncleanly.
When he went to the mission he COW
cred his handkerchief with perfumery
and put 1t to his nose. He preached
his sermon but he was not ready to
get down to conflict with the man and
woman that needed saving and yet he
had said that he was ready for sacri-
flee and for serving out such non.
sense his act contained neither faith
in God or love for man.
Mr.. Hunt said that there were some
people who would refuse to give
dollar to help build the tabernacle,
where God should be glorified and
souls saved but they were wearing
red feather in their cap. He said that
this showed peculiar taste in some
folks, and he preferred to wear a badge
which endorsed the work of the Sun
beams
Is It Faith2
He said I wonder if this thing that
people call faith is faith. Will It not
be possible to live here to go through
this city and vicinity and win thous-
ands and tens of thousands for
Christ.
If all of the people of Grand Forks
who go over the bridge to eat, drink
and make merry, would cease to pan
der to lust and vice these places of
liquor and gambling would soon go
out of business. We ought to have
faith to believe this and to work for
it, although he had received more
criticisms in this than any other place
he had worked. He felt that the OPP
portunity for doing more good would
Justify his mortgaging his home in
order to accomplish this.
The meeting concluded with the u.s.
ual appeal and after service, where
personal work was done, and people
urged to make confessional and follow
Christ.
Rev. Geo. Hunt, brother of the
evangelist Charles, delivered sermon
at the Baptist church last night and
gave every evidence of being a close
student of the Bible and delivered
strong scriptural sermon on the SUBJ
ject of sin. He read as basis for
his remarks the first chapter of He
brews and made the comment that
God smoke in old times nv nronhets
and in the latter days through his
son, Jesus Christ. We ought to give
more earnest heed to the Gospel than
the ancients.
He gave four scriptural definitions
of sin. First, sin is transgression
of Gods holy and just law. We find
his will expressed in many ways.
This is my beloved son. Hear We
him." That is just as much law Of
God as any of the ten commandments
and he who dfsobeys that law is as