The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-25
DE-. Breeder Expresses Appreciation
Of City Press
PAYS scRIBEs 4 FINE COMPLIMENT
LEARNED DIVINE WONDERS HOW
UNION REPORTERS COULD s.
WRITE SUCH STUFF.

EIOLl dlluOSl UdCk u Tie IOOI
Central Christian church was packed
yesterday evening with the biggest au.
dience it has ever held, to listen to
DR.. Breeder in the last of the union,
every inch of space filled where a
chair could be placed but the door
ways and steps in the lobby were filled
with those eager to get glimpse or
hear the voice of the great divine who
has stirred the hearts OF the people
of this city so profoundly for the past
weeks.
Three hundred souls has been the
weeks and several little children came
into the fold last night. Pastor after
pastor testified yesterday to the good
work that had been done each in his
own way. Not only have many joined
all the different churches but further
large additions are expected. In the
Congregational church many names,
among those of Whitman college stu
dents, were announced yesterday who
will unite with the church shortly and
this denomination was not formally in
the revival union.
Hands Papers Boquet.
Many nice things were said about the
papers of Walla Walla by DR.. Breeder
yesterday evening. He said the papers
of the city had been uniformly kind
and he much appreciated it.
The beautiful harmony which has
characterized the meetings was anothe
thing specially mentioned by DR.. Bree-
den in that short speech of thankful
appreciation which he made at the
close of the services yesterday even
ing.
Making excuses and putting off sal
walton was the burden of the message
which H. O. Breeder. d. D., gave to
the dozen hundred people in Central
Christian church last night. His text
was: And they all began to make ex-
cuses.' He said in part:
This picture of the banquet is
great heart figure and it is used
again and again by the Master in his
discoures. 1t is indica-
tive of plenty, of joy, of the conviviaL
ity that is not supported by the viands
of the world. There is a banquet to
which all are invited, but those in at
tendance will be from the ranks of
the good, true and noble of all ages
who will sit beside Abraham and
Isaac and Jacob, who have long gone
before us into the holy of holes.
There will be a great host and the
sweetest music that ever charmed
the ears of man. Choirs of celestial
singers, of cherubim and seraphim,
and even the music of the spheres will
be given to make the people who sit
at this table happy.
Products Of Universe.
THE viands will be the best ever
placed upon any table and gathered
from the best products of all the uni
verse. But they will not be the sue
culent morsels that please the physi-
cal palate or crafty the carnal appe-
tite, but they will be the viands of
ness, Of devotion; all that appeals to
the refined and spiritual man. In
looking at this parable one is inn
pressed with the unnaturalness of it,
the man had prepared a great feast
and had hidden people to come to it,
but one had bought land and must
needs go and see it; the other
had bought some oxen and want
ed to try them, while a third
had married a wife and he could not
come. Now is it not absurd that d
woman would refuse an invitation to
a banquet and that a man would alb
sent himself willingly from such a
function? No, he would. or some men
there. The delightful naturalness of
the stories of Christ is missing in
this case.
1T lacks the naturalness of the
story of the good Samartin and of the
prodigal son. and it only shows that
men IN matters d1IectlnS tnelr eternal
welfare always act unnaturally until
brought into direct union with Christ.
There is no excuse ever offered that
will stand the test Of reason. A gen.
eral may offer all the excuses in the
world for not winning a battle, but
the fact remains that he was not sue
cessful; the boy at school may offer
excuses for failing to pass
an examination, but the fact remains
that he did fail. Thus it is that ev-
cry excuse offered is confession of
failure. The excuses offered by these |
people were not essentially and vitality |
Dad. A man had a perfect right to |
,uy oxen; to become landed proprie-
or; to marry, but when he interposed |
hose things between himself and the |
Almighty and allowed his eternal des-
my to become affected by them the
ceased to be valid.
Family Circle.
Social duties aften keep man
rom Christ. There are few things on