The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-02-08
MEETING GROWS IN INTEREST.
Large Audiences Attended Sunday
Services at Baptist Church.

ing ana evening. AT night the main
auditorium and the Sunday school
rooms were taxed to their utmost.
Mr.. jolly sang before and after each
service. Little Miss Joicie Gates also
favored the audience Sunday night
with song which was appreciated
by all. Mr.. jolly addressed the Jul
Nor and Senior B. Y P. U. at 6:30.
He gave a splendid talk on the sub
ject of Service" Those present re-
ceived fresh courage and inspira
ton for the work. Rev. Nevins took
for his text Sunday night the 23rd
verse of the 9Th chapter Of Romans,
For the wages of sin is death; but
the gift of God is eternal life,
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Following is the sermon in part:
This is wonderful statement,
the whole gospel in one verse All in
the bible almost is wrapped up in
this statement. What is the apostle
here talking about? Something we
all know something about-a word
that makes you sad--tdeath. This
word we find in the text. Have you
any recollections connected with
death?
Does it call to your memory
some scene of gloomy hour you
have passed through? Tennyson
said, Never morning wore to evening
but some heart did break AS we
/ sit here tonight, some one not far
distant is bending over dying
| form. But you say this is a gloomy
subject We don't like to think about
it, but l want to bring you face to
face with this subject. | wish that l
| hot mi or
sleep if you are a lost sinner. Physi-
cal death is terrible thing-just to
see one die-to see the agony on
the face-hear the death rattle in
the throat and you say in your
heart, If could just help them die
When one has passed through ply
steal death and you pass from the
room you can but say you are glad
it is over The writer is talking here
| in our text about spiritual death.
Take physical death, multiply it one
million times and stretch it out
through eternity and you have some
conception of spiritual death. Physi-
! cal death is but for a moment. If
YOU say this is too horrible we will
let Christ talk TO you tonight. Christ
said If thy right hand offend thee,
cut it off and cast it from thee; for
| it is profitable for thee that one of
| thy members should perish and not
that thy whole body should be cast
| into hell; where their worm dieth
not, and the fire is not quenched.
! Christ, the Son of God spoke these
words. The picture is this: Take
| worm that shall never die and put
the worm into fire, that shall never
| go out and you have the picture of
hell that Christ gives us. And Christ
| doesn't eXaggerate The awful real
] ity of spiritual death will be worse
| than the picture Christ has given.
| The wages of sin is death. Christ
| has also given us the cause of spirit
ual death. 1t comes about because we
have broken Gods law. If we break
lust one commandment we are just
as much lost as If we had broken
every commandment. All have sin
ned and come short of the glory OF
1 God What is this spiritual death?
1t is wages. You know what wages
is. If a man goes and works for ano-
Their and he is paid for his work
this is wages. God says We have
| worked sin and our wages is death
spiritual death. You say Is there
any remedy for this death? is there
nothing | can do?' Yes. God will give
| you eternal life | want you TO no
| tice the difference between three
words, wages, reward and gift Wa
ges is something you deserved,
something you worked for. A reward
| is something given you for some
thing you have done. A gift is some
thing given you when you have done
nothing and deserved nothing. The
gift of God is eternal life
"How are we to get eternal life?
We all want it. You can't work for
it and get it. Do the scriptures say
the reward of God is eternal life?
Do the scriptures say The wages of
God is eternal life?' No. Nothing you
can do will secure it. The whole race
stands condemned. Adam stands up
in the court room of God and aswers
guilty SO all through the ages We
must stand up and plead guilty. We
! worked sin and God paid us death
This is one side of the question. The
other side is The gift of God is eter-
nal life not the wages or reward
but the gift. For as in Adam all die,
even so in Christ shall all be made
alive For God 50 loved the world
that he gave his only begotten Son
that whosoever believeth in Him
should not perish. but have ever
lasting life We might go on indefi-
nitely quoting the bible showing
that salvation is the gift of God.
Man need not try to reach heaven
by works. Don't think because eter-
nal life is gift that it did not cost
anything Your salvation and mine
has been bought at the price OF the
suffering of the Son of God upon the
cross. Jesus paid it all. All to Him
| owe. Sin has left a crimson stain.
He washed it white as snow. All we
can do is to say, o Lord we are lost
sinners, but we do turn to thee and
put our trust in thee. The worst
person in all this world is not the
murderer or thief but the person
, with ingratitude in their hearts
Some of you are guilty of ingratl-
tude. The greatest sin in the world
is rejecting Christ, being migrate
, full for what He has done for you
"In the civil war they drafted
mon into the army A certain man