Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-17
FiFTY-FoUR IN AFTERNOON AND
THIRTY-oNE AT NIGHT
MEETING.
breaches TO SINNERS
AT EVENING SERVICE
Hopeless Condition Of Those Who Look
Upon the Teachings of the Cross as
FooIishness is Depicted-sunday
Makes Strong comparisons-Many
Attend From Out of the City.

Eighty-five were converted at the
tabernacle meetings Saturday after
noon and evening, which were the
last meetings of the third week of the
revival. Fifty-four came forward in the
afternoon and thirty-one in the even
ing Rev. Mr.. Sunday preached at both
services. In the afternoon he had an
audience of about 1000 In the evening
LOO, about fifth of whom, as
shown by the uplifted hands, were
from out of town. The majority of the
afternoon congregation were young
people.
The hopeless condition of the I'M
saved, who look upon the teachings of
Jesus Christ as foolishness, and the
power the preaching of the cross is to
those who are saved, was his theme for
the evening sermon.
Text From Corinthians.
His text was First Corinthians 1:1s,
For the preaching of the cross is to
them that perish as foolishness; but
unto US which are saved it is the power
Of God"
In opening Mr.. Sunday spoke of
how man, from the earliest time had
always sought and coveted power, and
how he had discovered and brought to
subsection for his own use such great
powers as steam and electricity. He
showed how in the beginning these
great forces, and the theories of the
men who discovered them, who were
far ahead of their times. had been
considered nothing but foolishness, but
how in later years they were accepted
as established and common everyday
facts.
Scores the Unsaved. i
Rev. Mr.. Sundays sermon was in
part as follows:
my text comes down tonight like
the hand Of judgment to divide the
saved from the unsaved. If the bible
is foolishness to you, you ought to be
alarmed because you are lost. That's
why it is foolshness to you. You are
perishing If the words of Jesus Christ
are no more to you than any other
book.
my text is the same thing as saying
the world is one thing to a man who
can see and another thing to the man
| who can not see. I do not need any
other argument, to prove to you the
power of electricity. but to point to
| these electric lights and that street
car. do not need to prove to any rea-
sonable man that there is power in the
religion Of Jesus Christ. All have to
do is to point to some man who is
living a christian life.
christ's Religion InvincibIe.
Speaking of the great onsweeping
power of the religion of Jesus Christ,
he said, "you might as well try to stop
the limited express by putting dish
Of ice cream on the track as to try to
stop the christian religion. You might
as well try to stop a cyclone by spit
ting at it as to try to retard the pre-
gress of Calrist's church. The Roman
power has gone, but the power of the
cross of Jesus Christ is the greatest
power in the world today. This tab
ernacle would not be standing here to-
night if Jesus Christ had been a fake.
"The religion of Jesus Christ proves
it is the power of God by what it does
for people today. 1t lightens the bur-
den of the guilt of sin. One look at the
cross of Jesus Christ and your sin is
gone.
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