The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-06-22
MANY MEN HEAR EVANGELIST
Sermon Sunday Night Was on Sub
ject Of FORGETTING Your Claim.

In his sermon to men only last
night Evangelist Walton took oc-
the wickedness of Waxahachie and
also made a statement that startled
many of the audience. He took for
text, What Shall 1t Profit Man if
He Gain the Whole World and Lose
His Own Soul?"
In part, he said: Have you ever
thought for what little amount a
man will sell his soul? | read in a
paper the other day of a man who
killed his neighbor for twenty-five
cents. Was that not awfully cheap
for a human soul? The bible says
Thou shalt not kill and gives the
penalty but men will go on doing this
knowing that they are selling out to
the devil. A man will sell his soul
for whisky. Passing along the street
Saturday night l saw on the side
walk the evidences of whisky drink
ing. You can walk along these
streets most any day and see men
who are drinking and right over yon-
der you can see the joint where he
got the whisky and also the man
who sold it to him, and what did
the joint keeper sell it for? For the
dimes and quarters there were in it.
The seller himself is selling out his
soul for the dimes he can get. May
be he says, Well, | don't drink my
self The low-down, filthy, damna-
BILE buzzard ought to be run out of
town for preying on men who have
not the will power to keep from
drink when it is where they can get
1t. The most contemplate of all the
sinners is the one who doesn't i'm
dulge in vice himself, but makes it
business to get other men to do
SO. And then there are men who are
selling their souls for lust and are
degrading the most sacred parts of
their body and not only are there
men, but women in this city who are
drawing the net around your young
men and young women, your chill
dren and grand children. l tell you
men you want to watch close for the
very devil himself is marching up
and down your streets seeking whom
he
feel like cleaning this town out
when | say that negotiations were on
last week to bring some lewd wom-
en- from Dallas down here and to
trap the young manhood of Waxa-
hachie into their dens? | wish God
would give me strong enough words
to tell what I think of these men
who are doing this. And you chris
tians are sitting here in your
homes and places of business while
this goes on, and who knows but
what your boy or your girl will be
trapped into one of these hell holes.
say, men, arouse yourselves and
stamp out this evil that is eating the
vitals of morality away in this city.
And these two sins are not the only
ones people sell their souls for. They
will sell out for most anything under
Gods sun that will give them a lit
tie satisfaction. But | am glad / can
say that Jesus offers more than the
devil can ever offer for your soul |
know there are men In here tonight
who are christians who were once
under the power Of drink who can
testify that Jesus can take that de-
sire away and give a new, clean
heart"
| At this time the preacher asked
every man who had once been a
drunkard and had been delivered
from its power to stand on their
feet. At least twenty of the most
prominent men of Waxahachie stood
and then one by one they told how
Jesus had saved them. One man said
You might say a brick bat saved
me. ! was dead drunk one day and
while in that state was hit on the
head by a brick. That sobered me
and at the same time set me to
thinking and l realized the thing
for me to do was to take Jesus
Christ as my savior. I did this and
have lived christian ever since and
have had no desire to drink" A
prominent newspaper man arose and
in most striking way warned
young men against saying they could
quit drinking whenever they
wished. He said that was a most
dangerous thing to do and that
sometimes before they knew it they
We're powerless in the hands of the
arch enemy.
Rev. Gill related the following ex-
perience of Saturday:
Il went into an office and asked a