The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-07-30
CHRISTIANS WARNED.
Do NOT DESTROY
THE FOUNDATION!
REVEREND cocHRANE PRESTON
breaches AT UNION
SERVICE.
HOLD ON TO FAITH IN BIBLE
Declares That to Take Away One
Part is Almost an objectionable
sin-Must Accept Gods Teach.
ines.

The Union services Sunday nigh
were attended with unusual interes
and the auditorium of the First Bar
list church was filed to it full ca
pacity The music was especially
good Several selections and hymns
were sung by the choir. Guide NJ,
o, Thou Great Jehovah was sung a,
an anthem with a pleasing solo by
Miss Kittie Brownlow and a duet by
DR.. Ernest Sheppard and C. A. Comp
ton.
Rev. T. H. Athey presided over the
service, opening with a prayer, fol
lowed with song and a prayer by
Dr. A. G. Dinwiddie. Rev w B. Ca
pers read for the lesson the hrst
twenty verses of the fifth chapter St
Matthew.
Rev Cochrane Preston, of Bates
vile, Ark, the speaker of the evening
was then invited TO take charge of the
meeting. Mr.. Preston read the elev-
enth Psalm and selected the third
verse for his text. If the foundation
be destroyed. what can the righteous
do
The speaker referred to the text as
applying to the Bible, which he said
was the foundation on which we all
must needs build in order to reach
the kingdom of God We are builders
of life for the glory of God We
build not for this life but for the life
TO come, and he who stops to consider
this building, is compelled to acknowl-
edge that it is the greatest opportuni-
ty that people ever had thrust into
their power, to build for God and
for his kingdom.
There are three necessary ele-
ments,' said the speaker that the
man of the world must take up and
deal with in order to reach that bet
ter home with God
First, he must repent of his sins
and believe in Jesus Christ and ac-
cept him as the divine son of God
Second, he must have faith, i'm.
plicit faith in God and when we say
faith there must not be one doubt of
what's laid down for Us = book
of books
Third, obedience to God in the
moral law We must acknowledge
Him the judge, the loving Father, and
king above all else. He is the guar
dian angel of every soul and we must
learn to look to Him as SUCH
The speaker then delved into the !
teachings of the Bible and of Jesus !
Christ as the son of he living and |
only true God. He handled the sub
iect in mastery manner and was
inspired with his teachings.
I'VE must accept Christ as the son
If God he said, and believe on Him
or else when the great day of count
comes We will be cast out into the
)lace prepared for the devil and his
lngels, and this place is hell, a place
With seathing mass of fire and brim-
tone. This is taught us in the Bible
md if we do not believe the Bible
What are we to do? 1t is the founda-
ion of our great government and of
ur educational institutions and our
hurches. Take it away and where
1ould they be? They would soon
ink and fall into nothingness.
And he who takes one part away
rom the Bible is guilty of a sin that
almost objectionable For is not
cd teaching us every day through
latthew, Mark, Luke and John that
lese things are and were and will
e, and We must accept them to be
)unted among the children of God"
The speaker then urged that the
eople read the Bible and be their
Vn teachers of the word of God A g
ltural knowledge, he said, would come y
one who reads, and reads with 3
,sire to believe and understand. And y
loose the Bible or one part of it g
,,,1J y,aoap tho Ice. - 81 %
DR.. Athey delivered the benedlction, 3
It before doing so announced that r
e union services next Sunday night e
luld be in the First Presbyterian d
urch and that he would preach. q
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