Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-08-08
WHY BELIEVE
The BIBLE
ReV. Allen Fort Spoke to
Large Audience
BUSINESS WAS GENERALLY CLOSED
This Afternoon Stores viii Suspend
Business Again During the -four
of the Services. Topic viii Be
Ibid Jesus Rise From the
Dead?"
BUSINESS WAS GENERALLY CLOSED

Business was generally suspended
in the city of Americus yesterday af-
ternoon for one hour, to o'clock,
to enable the business men and their
employees an opportunity to attend
the tent meeting. Many availed
themselves of the opportunity, and
the tent was comfortably filled with
an attentive audience. This afternoon
the stores will close again for the
hour, and another large gathering is
expected.
The services are among the most
interesting that have been held in
Americus in a long time. There is
no doubling the intense earnestness
of the speaker, Rev. Allen Fort In
addition to the interest in the mes
sage he has to deliver there is the
natural desire On the part of his old
friends and associates to hear Mr.
Fort speak. With every address he
seems to develop new strength, to
bring to light new sources of spirit
ual power.
Yesterday afternoon Mr. Fort spoke
briefly with all of the force of his
nature, with all the earnestness of
one who is thoroughly convinced, on
the reasons why he believed in the
Bible. He spoke of the great change
that came over men when they ac-
cepted the teaching of the Scriptures
and found rest and peace and strength
in Christ of the wonderful revolu-
ton that it wrought in their charac-
ters, how their lives were modelled
anew and the whole trend of their
existence changed. No other book,
not all the other books, in the world
had ever been known to do such
things. If anything were sufficient
to establish the claim of the Bible to
it's position as the word of God it has
been the tremendous change it has
wrought in the lives of the men in
all ages and all countries who have
accepted it as their guide.
Mr. Fort referred to the internal
proofs of the veracity of the Bible,
of the prophesies it contained that
had been literally fulfilled, of the pic
lures that were drawn in it of fu-
ture events that had come to pass
just as typified in it in former ages.
He told how the birth, and life, and
suffering and death of Christ had
been foreshadowed by its sacred wri-
ters hundreds of years before He had
come upon the earth.
The fact that the great mass of the
good men and women of the world
believed in the Bible was advanced
as another reason for its acceptance
as Gods word. The great change it
had wrought in the life of the world,
the nobler heights to which it had
lifted men and women, its constant
elevation of every character that al
lowed itself to be influenced by its
teachings, the fact that it sweetened
earthly existence, purified the soul,
gave to its believers the peace that
passeth understanding, we're refer
red to as reasons why men and women
should accept it is their daily friend
and counsellor.
The address closed with brief al
lusion to sin as a destroying agent,
running character, running the mind,
running earthly prospects, running
happiness, rapid growing cancer
destructive of all that was best i,
life and sending man to an eternity 0
woe.
This afternoons topic will be "Did
Jesus rise from the dead"