Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-03-28
FILLED TO OVERLOOKING
congested Crowds at the Big Revival.
Eight Additions Last Night.
Great Mems Meeting Sunday.

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people trying to get within hearing.
Many had to leave disappointed.
Evangelist Lockhart was in happy
vein and spoke elouuently concerning
mother and mothers place and power.
Mr.. Limit directed the music in his
matchless way, the chorus sang
Meet Mother in the Skies" and Miss
Evelyn Massey sang Nobody Knows
But Mother"
There will be no service tonight,
but a great day is being planned for
Sunday. At the morning service Evan
gelist Lockhart will speak on the
subject, "The Cross" The afternoon
service will be for men only, and
Evangelist Lockhart promises to talk
straight on mems Sins" The sub
ject Sunday night will be 'Who Will
Be Saved?"
A brief synopsis of the sermon on
mother follows:
There is a saying so old that it is
almost trite, and yet full of truth, that
the three sweetest words in the Eng
lish tongue are mother, home, and
heaven. And the two latter words
cannot mean the most to us until we
learn the meaning of the former.
you have only one mother, my boy,
to pray
That in the good path you may stay;
Who for you won't spare self-sacrifice
rare,
So honor that mother always"
We ought to honor these mothers
while we can. There will come
time when we shall look back with re-
greet if we fail to remember mother.
1t has been one of the joys of my min
istry to hold one service in every
meeting in honor of mother.
Jesus Christ, the best of all friends,
said, Woman, great is thy faith"
And woman has always been noted for
her loyalty to Christ 1t is said that
ninety-five per cent of the young
men of our land are without Christ
This cannot be said of women, though
God knows enough of them are with
out. Woman is the crown of creation
the last of Gods created beings; and
If woman is the crown, the browning
of womanhood is to be a mother.
/ speak first of mothers influence
It is said that the hand that rocks the
cradle is the power that rules the
world Back of every great man is a
-graat-~sSs;sse--- as IIsIfiF5a5aaeoh WAS right
when he said: "The greatest need of
France is for good mothers" And
God save us as nation from the time
when like France today, pension
must be given mothers to encourage
motherhood.
So we honor mother tonight be-
cause of mothers influence. But
mothers of Palestine, if you shall be
one day be remembered by your chill
dren with reverence it will be be-
cause you prove yourself worthy of
that honor.
What you and are today is deter
mined by three factors: First, by the
kind of lives lived by our fathers and
mothers before we were born. Sec
ond, the kind of environment they
threw around us in the first years of
life. Third, the potentiality we have
to break away from hereditary influ-
ences and environment. Parents, two
thirds of the Influence which goes to
make up your boys and girls charac-
tiers is in your hands.
All. men, how we need more of the
simple faith we used to have as we
sat at mothers knee. Have the bust
ness cares, and the pleasures and sins
of the world obscured your vision of
God, and Christ, and heaven? Then
listen: Henry w. Grady, that great
journalist and orator, arose one morn
ing with the realization that he had
lost his vital touch with God. He
knew his loss, and stepping to the
phone, called up his wife and said:
81 am going to see mother" He took
a train down to the old home and said,
Mother, / have come back to get my
boyhood faith. want you to tell me
the old stories, want you to sing the
old songs" And that night the great
man sat in the old kitchen by his
mother, and she told him again of the
loving Father and the Savior. He
leaned his head against her bosom as
she rocked to and fro, and later said:
Now, mother, want you to put me in
bed, and she linked her arm in his
and together they went up to the lit
tie bedroom where he slept as child
Then he said: Now, mother l want
you to pray with me-" And she knelt
there and prayed, and then tenderly
wrapped the comforts about him, and
kissing him good night went away
The next morning he came down say
ing, IT'S all right; it's all right" and
went back to the worlds work.
How many of you are here tonight