The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-12-02
Rev. Geo. W. Truett.

"Prepare to meet thy God. Text.
The meeting Wednesday morning
and night was well attended We'd
nesday night the main auditorium
and Sunday school room of the
church were filled.
Rev Truett talked to the chris
tian people again Wednesday morn
ing on prayer. Text, Lord increase
| our faith" Luke 17:5. He spoke of
how prone humanity is to put faith
4, in human appearances and showed
how it is adverse circumstances that
/ tests our faith. "Our faith must
stand in the wisdom of God if we
are to accomplish any thing for God.
If a very Paul were to come and
| preach to us and We put our faith in
Z him We would be left floundered.
I The cry of Jehovah is put your faith
in me-
! Not only do we misplace our
faith when We put our faith in hui
man appearances and agents but it is
misplaced when we limit God. The
Psalmist said They tempted and linz
tied the holy one of Israel. We often
put God in straight jackets. This is
the tendency all along when we come
face TO face with some great sinner,
we stand back and often times hope
! flees. This is but limiting God. The
humblest child in the Sunday school
if he is saved, must call forth divine
power and the same divine power
must be called forth, if the greatest
sinner is saved 1t is a miracle, but
all God does is miracle
Then how are we to increase our
faith?
First--Pray for it, an atrocious
sin it is to lack in faith.
'Second-Plead the promises of
God. Thou hast said, On thy word
We place our feet, and our faith
4 shall be increased
"Third-Put out all evil. cast out
all sin.
! Fourth-,Still again seek the pres
ence and guidance of Gods spirit
and then follow that spirit We will
do strange things if we do, but the
right things after all"
Wednesday evening Rev. Truett
took for his text, Prepare to NEE,
thy God" In part he spoke as fol
lows:
The text is in brief, an old one
yet most important theme possible
for us all Five short words from
the book of Amos Prepare to meet
they God AS you shall go away to
your homes this evening, pray
) that this admontion may stay Will
you Prepare to meet thy God How
many are prepared to meet God? Are
you? Meet him you must, answer te
Him you must Are you ready?
We must all appear before the
, judgment seat of Christ. You shall
|, answer TO God for the use or abuse
: of the mercies he sends to you Are
,, YOU prepared"
+ Rev Truett broke up his discours,
into three questions and made it Sc
simple that child would under
stand it.
First-Why prepare to meet God
Second-How prepare to NEE
God?
Third When prepare to NEE
God?
r These are all vital questions, mo
mentous, eternally important. Why
Let's look at that question first. |
. would be enough to say, because Go,
commands it, One burden of Hi
book is the revelation of the trutl
that man needs God. Man is to pre-
I pare to meet God That is his cry
troversy. Why prepare to meet God
: because We have revealed our sal
: condition by reason of sin. We ar
estrayed from God and yet must ans
wer to God and because of man
condition His cry is Prepare to NEE
thy God Man is lost. The son o
man is come to seek and save tina
which is lost 0 what a world of hoT
ror is wrapped up in this little wor
Lost You are not to wait till yo
die to be lost but the unregenerate
man is lost even now. Gods cry !
> Prepare to meet thy God. God o
. Grace, by thy spirit teach simmer
they are lost This is the one praye
we want to pray increasingly. Whe
this truth comes home to the con
I science of men then will Nthey say
Where is the savior and where shal
] / find him?' Rev. Truett then re
ferred to the incident of the kidnaI
ping of Charlie Ross. How he hear
his father read the account in tn
paper and how his mother woul
Il ., all oh he,