Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-08
REVIVAL SERVICES DRAW
 LARGEST CROWD 0F WEEK


 The largest congregation since Sun day attended the revival services com ducted by Rev. Oakes at the Methodist church last night, and the evangelist s sermon, delivered in straightforward, convincing manner, made deep impress sion on all who heard it.
 A striking feature of the service was the singing of ''Rock of Ages" by Miss Kenyon.
 The sermon, in brief, was as follows:
 wish to speak to you tonight on the topic of the New Birth"
 You will find my text in John 3:1, "Ye must be born again.
 Nicodemus, ruler of the Jews. came to Jesus by night to ask him the way of salvation and light. The Master made answer in words true and plain, "fe must be born again."
 Whatever our attitude toward Christ we must admit that He always treated every man and every question of life with perfect candor and, having thought every question of "The Life That Now Is' through to the bottom His answers are fnal--all things elese may change but TRUTH abidcs for ever the same. Hence the New Birth is fact of life and experience, not theory or faith to be rejected or be- lieved at will. Our trouble is largely that of Nicodemus-we are stumbling over the elbows" and "wheres' and "whys' instead of going straight to the Master for TRUTH, and experienc- | ing for ourselves the glorious fact of new heart and pure life. Jesus did not state the New Birth as a matter of convenience hut ''Ye Must and ''Except man be born of the Spirit he cannot enter into the Kingdom of | God" I call your attention to the fact that this is not an arbitrary rule or law in the moral realm but is uni yersal truth in passing from lower fact or form of life to higher one. 1 You can find in a clod every element of material substance in plant life but you cannot transform it into plant life without taking germ of life from the higher kingdom of plant life and putt ing it down into the lower kingdom of matter and letting it die and in its death the matter from the lower king dom is raised into the higher and To ono seed has brought forth an hundred fold or MATTER has been BORN from | ABOVE and has thereby entered 2 higherform of life and existence. Sc it is with every transformation iron lower to higher form of life and ex istence, "Ye must be born again. " Ant why should it not be sol If you car take pure child and drag it to thu lowest depths of demon incarnate ol earth is it too much to expect of al eternal God and Father that he cal "save to the uttermost. That h. can break evcrcy fetter of sin and SC the captive free. It tell you there i no cure for any form of sin like tn "Calvary Cure ''Ye must be borl again. Hear him all ye who woul' enter that glorious rest and sing wit the ransomed the song of the blesi "Ye must be born again. / | call your attention to some of th evidences of the New Birth as mani tested in human life and character. Cor. 5:17 reads, "Therefore if any ma z be in Christ he is a new creature; ol
 things are passed away; behold a . things are become new," and Jno. S:3
 reads, eff the Sontherefore shall mak , you free ye shall be free indeed"
 The first evidence then of the ne' birth is freedom from sin in every forn
 He who is born again walks the cart a child of the King. Free for time an ' eternity.
 Second: He who is born again hats
 sin in every form. Paul said "Tf a things I once loved I now hate. i, Christ said, "No man can serve tw ,- masters. Either he will love the or k and hate the other or he will cleay ' to the one and despise the other. ! e cannot serve God and Mammon. ? There is no middle ground. A God lov' l. is sin hater. To be born again bring
 ono into the family of God. The brot . erhood of man and the heritage ( a saints. An heir of God and joil il heir with Jesus Christ "Ye must |. born apainp