The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-15
Harvest Of Souls is Being Reaped
at Big Revival
GREAT SPEAKER MAKES CONVERTS
NEVER BEFORE IN HISTORY OF
CITY HAS SUCH A SPIRITUAL
RENAISSANCE TAKEN PLACE

"Earnestness" was the chief charact-
eristic of the Christian Mass meeting
at Central Christian church yesterday
evening.
MANY were Influenced to accept the
baInine hand of salvation by the earn
est words of DR. Breeder last night as
he adnonished his hearers to think OF
the terrible wages of sin.
The systematic work Of the different
pastors who are assisting the evangel-
ist is beginning to tell and the harvest
Of souls is steadily growing all the time.
II is doubtful if eastern Washington
ever had a greater spiritual awaken
ing than is now going on in the midst.
of Walla Walla.
That the law of God was light and
the opposite darkness was the central
thought of the great sermon on Sin
which held the large audience spell
bound last night.
1t was in part as follows:
"The most terrible word in the Eng
fish language is a small one possessing
only tree letters; it fills our jails. our
hospitals our lunatic asylums; it is
the origin of fueds; il is the basis OF
Observation-Disclosures; it is the source OF
corruption, the fountain head of ma
| tional and private disturbances; hid,
eous, deformed and horrible; SIN
sin. 1t has genesis and pedigree
est The Bible gives history of sin,
but praise and thanks to God, it also
supplies an antidote. James tells US
/ that Lust, when it hath conceived
bringeth forth sin and sin bringeth
forth DEATH
I But we are not concerned with the
origin of sin. how it came into exis-
tence what disturbed the sweet far-
monies that existed before the times OF
| trouble We are, however, concerned
with actual sin and its definition
Wha tevcr may have been the conse-
quences of original sin, u is<not as we
understand it today. faint nor hered-
itary trouble. but it is an act. An act
Of the body as an evil deed: an act OF
; the mind as an evil thought: an act
of the tongue as an evil word: or an
act of the heart as shown in rebellion
against God and His law.
/ Gods law is light and the Bible is
| the means of publication of that law
which is line of demarcation beyond
which if you pass. you sin. If Goo
! gives us a line Of conduct and we fai
to measure up to it, we sin. We sir
every time we attempt to exclude tht
! light suffused by His spirit.
+; THE Bible is pro.;i1c in figures o.
| sin. Isaiah says that it means first Of
all separation. Your iniquities,' HI
says, have separated between you an(
your God. He hath turned his fac
against YOU SO that the man who sin:
must be out of direct communion will
God and suffer irreparable loss. Goo
is all loyalty; sin is all treachery
God is the highest virtue: sin sinks t
the deepest vice. Proximity does no
always mean nearness. for a person
may sit by your side and yet be sep
arated from you by an impossible
are emptied of sin. whose hearts arr
not made the nests Of treason agains
his authority and whose minds are no
nursing rebellion.
| "Sin is blindness, for as the apostl,
says the God of the world hath blind
ed their eyes. Let your eye be single,
that is. normal. natural. and the Who'll,
body will be full Of light Blindness il
the figure used by both Paul ant
Christ, to typify sin and how terribl.
it must be to be blind, to foreve
stare into vacancy. to be blind to tn
| starry heavens. to be denied the priv.
ilege of looking upon the verdant fields
and to observe the smiles of loved ones
and yet spiritual blindness is infinitely
worse than this. It is far better tina
the glorious sun and the coming sprin:
and the flowers that bloom. should b.
excluded from your vision eternall.
than that you should be morally an,
spiritually blinded by sin.
But. friends. in spite Of the pictur
drawn of sin, there is way Of escape
and liberty. purity and holiness can b.
found in truth because the truth cal
make you free. If there is a falsehoo;
In your character. 1t Will trumble ant
fall to pieces. the whole superstructur
viii! fall to the ground Come AMI b.
free and ha1.o thu falco rc