The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-07-08
LAST MESSAGE FROM PREACHER
Evangelist Walton Addresses Com
munication to Unsaved of. City.
To the Unsaved of Waxahachie:

many VINO nave DeeE ulspoSeu W
turn deaf ear to our pleadings, and
greater number who have not at
tended a single service. AS mat
ter of course the responsibility Is
yours. The christian people were
willing to contribute most literally,
not for the good they were to receive
for themselves, but to help you. In
return for this kindness there has
often been the most bitter denuncia-
ton and abuse.
Let me beg you to think of this
matter now as it will appear to you
in the judgment and remember that
the Lord Jesus has said He will
Judge those who speak Ill of His peo-
pie. He has said to His followers:
He that hateth you, hateth me al
So" but the christian people-and
II am sure that l rightly represent
them, would agree with me in say
ing we forgive you freely every un-
kind word and every time you have
criticised us unjustly
For myself and my associates
wish to say that l carry from your
beautiful city not revengeful
thought toward any of you. l know
that it is your love of sin and vain
effort on your part to justify your
self in sin that you have said these
hard things. AS matter of course
those who are conducting an unlaw-
full business made it their special eff
fort to prejudice the minds of the
public against us and against the
work that we were trying to do
forgive them. Not that | have one
single word of apology to make for
the denunciation of the foul business
used for self profit. Had / to say it
over again, I would say it as | do
now That man is doing the work of
demons who is dragging others down
in order to get dollars for himself
| I know you do not mean it to me
kind things about any one who
came between you and the accomp-
| lishment of your desires. | do not
take it as personal; / forgive you. l
pray that before it is too late you
| may seek Gods forgiveness. Do not
! imagine that this is an apology for
your work. I say to you frankly now
that l would come back from Ken
lucky to aid in bringing to justice
I every lawbreaker in the beautiful
city of Waxahachie I have been
slandered l have been maligned,
Two men have stood on the streets
and tried to interest others by ours
ing me, and I forgive them both.
! Their business has been hurt-we see
! the reason for their curses.
1t may be difficult to you to find
that the christian people are so very
jealous now during our revival and
then that after a few weeks their
zeal shall not be SO apparent. The
christian people are still interested
! in you, but it is not possible, SO far
as human endurance Is concerned,
to continue in this high pressure
| work all the year But the real diff
| Guilty lies in this, and some shallow
doubter, who is more OF an unbeliev-
er than a philosopher, points out to
you that neighborhoods and cities
at one time are more religious some
| years than others. Often a neighbor-
| hood that has been known for years
as very religious, drifts gradually
into GOODNESS and finally loses its
character. This not only happens to
neighborhoods but it happens to
countries and to nations.
! There are places on the earth s
surface today where the name OF
Christ is hardly known. Once every
one knew and honored Him. What is
the explanation for all of this? 1t is
simple; it Is plain. Any man who
wishes to know the reason will see
the reason. 1t is because the life of
the jealous christian is lived amidst
the unceasing conflict between good
and evil, between right and wrong.
| Religion is not thing that a IA
Their can hand down TO his SON. The
son has his battles to fight and If he
be a weakling, If he be sensual, or
/ reprobate, he will prefer the sin of
the world to the good promised in
salvation, and because iniquity
abounds 1.-The love of many grows
cold"
The war is waged constantly be-
tween God and the devil for the pos
session of the human heart. This ex-
plains most satisfactorily this stu
alton to every fair-minded man. 1t
is not like anything else-art, or
science, or philosophy. 1t is a ques-
ton of sin or goodness, and it can
not be both. Some man who think
eth himself to be wise" completely
misinterprets the meaning of the