Norwich bulletin., 1909-11-10
CARD PLAYING LEADS TO SIN
Dr. Slough Posipones Talk Dancing to Reinforce Words of Previous Night-Evngests to be Associated

they have not lived here to be ready for the fellowship there. The hour is coming when you will take your last journey alone, provided you have not prepared to meet your God.
 Who then shall prepare you? To the cry of the need of man comes the. an- swering shout of courage and hope soul, He that believeth on me, though he die yet shall he live, and he that believeth on me shall never die" To- night Jesus is the Saviour for eternity, the Saviour to redeem us from our sins here and now with power that will keep a man in comforting holiness and at the last lead us through the valley of the shadow of death until we reach fair Canaan's side. How shall you prepare to meet your God? Yield your heart to him and trust him tonight.
 Tn the after meeting number pro- fessed Christ.
 Afternoon Meeting.
 An afternoon meeting in the evan- eelistic campaign was held Tues- day at Trinity Methodist Episcopal church with good attendance to hear tho excellent sermon preached by Rev. F. O. Cunningham. The opening song service was conducted by Arthur l.. Herring, and prayer was offered by Rev. c. H. Ricketts,. Mir. Herring ren- Hdered the fine solo number, Come Ye Yourselves Apart and Rest Awhile.
 From the 92 Psalm Rev. Mir. Cum nihgham selected the words 'The righteous shall flourish as the. palm tree'' for his text. clearly and con- vincing1y making the analogy between the palm tree and the Christian. The palm tree, he said, first indicates mois- ture, and wherever you find Chris tian you should find one who is planted by the rivers of water. one who can- not live without the refreshing streams of divine grace, and one who should always indicate the presence. of God. The Christian has no business to be anywhere that people following him should find they were going away from the waters of salvation.
 The Christian ought to invite people, just as the palm tree is an invitation, and then the Christian ought to be able to supply. True it is that Jesus is the water of life and the source of all truth, but he says in his own word that his people ought to be the chan nels through which the grace of God f1owes out to the world. The palm tree Is always upright, growing up towards heaven, and so the Christian grows when the weights are removed. The Christian ought to be straight. The world likes to see people of the straight type, morally, religiously and spiritually. To be a Christian means to be straight.
 As the leaves of the palm tree and it's fruits are near heaven, so the Christian needs to be. We need tall men, spiritually and morally, moral skyscrapers, with their heads near God and heaven. It is also a trait of the palm tree that it is most fruitful in old age, There is no dead line in the Bible, but when man gets less and less tied to business he should be more and more tied to the Lords work. Th} path of the just is as the shining light which shineth more and more unto the perfect day. The near CT you come to the borderland the more you ought to give your services to the king whom you are so soon to meet. The palm tree also presents the lesson of extreme usefulness, from the varied uses to which it can be put, and it has no parasites. The word of God should be hid in the Christians heart as a defense against the besetting sins and parasites.
 And one lesson most important that the palm trees presents is that it is ever. green. We want a Christian ex- perience that stays and lasts, not of the effervescent and spasmodic kind. We are too apt to be creatures of our moods, and the palm tree teaches us to be ever green. Finally this tree is a type of beauty. Jesus is the one altogether lovely, the chiefest among ten thousand, and we ought to be like him. There is a beautifying influence thai works out in the Christian life, faithfully lived, and 1t is Gods desire to have our lives beautiful in the highest sense, drawing close to him.
 At the close of the. sermon the en- tire congregation accepted the preach- CTS invitation for an expression of re- consecration by coming to the altar 10 kneel or kneeling in their places in the pews while prayers were offered by a number of the ministers and laymen.