Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1907-01-31
Revival is
ENCOURAGING
Mr.. HolcOmb Preached A
Great Sermon Tuesday
Night.
NO SENSATIoNALISM.
First Call For Persons Ans
wered by Many Stand
ing.

Notwithstanding the unfavorable
weather that has prevailed since the
Holcomb meetings began at the
Methodist church Sunday morning
full houses have greeted the evan
gelist every night The morning
services have all been we'll attended
and deep interest has been manifest
ed from the start.
Before beginning his sermon
Tuesday night, Mr.. Holcomh spoke
at some length as to the duty of
business men closing their places of
business and allowing all employees
chance of attending morning
services. He related instances where
this had been done at other places
with wonderful results for good.
He made an indirect appeal to the
merchants of this city to do the
same thing,
He then asked Mr.. Smoot to sing
the last song that Sam Jones ever
heard. 1t was at the Jones-Holcomb
meeting at Oklahoma City, Mr..
Jones starting home and dying
suddenly in Pullman car. Mr..
Smoot sang the song with great eff
| feet.
| Mr.. Holcomb then began a most
powerful sermon. 1t was entirely
free from sensationalism. The
evangelist was so intensely in earn
est that everything that might pro-
woke even a smile was omitted. For
one hour he held up before his
audience the sinfulness of breaking
Gods laws. He addressed his re-
marks first to the people in the
church who are living in sin and be-
lieve that there is no penalty in vio-
lating Gods laws as to the right and
pure living. They say they are
getting all right and are faithful
in their attendance, and all that,
when some of them are violating
Gods laws. They think they are
better than the fellow outside the
church, when they are as guilty as
he" They do not care about death
and judgment and hell, but you will.
sometime, All civil laws and ordi-
nances have a penalty for violation,
but some people think there is no
penalty for violating Gods laws.
Whoever heard of a code of laws
without penalties? Suppose that
the papers should give publicity to
the fact that ordinances Of the city
of Hopkinsville and the laws of this
State had no penalty for violation,
what would be the result? Immedi-
ately the thugs, murderers and
thieves Of Chicago would rush down
here and soon there would be moth
ing left. They would murder and
steal and burn up everything. An.
archy would have full play and your
town would cease to exist.
He said that the sinner in the
church and the sinner out of it
are the same in the sight of God.
Some of the church members get
into the church to hide their inn
mortality. The trouble with the
church today is that so many of its
members are just like those who are
not in the church-rhey believe that
God will not enforce the penalty due
for sin. Some of them say that God !
is too mereiful and loving to send a !
man to endless punishment for vio-
lating his commandments, and yet I
God says "the wages of sin is
death"
There is no difference between the |
sinner in the church and the sinner
out Of it they are the same in the
eyes Of God. Sin is sin, and if God /
had never said Thou Shalt Not" it
would be just as wrong to kill or
steal or commit adultery. But God
has said Thou Shalt Not and the
violations Of his will, in the great