The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-12-10
LAST VISIT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
Passing of Religious Opportunities
Theme of Rev. Truetts sermon
Thursday Night.

Rev. Truett can be here for only
two more services and he asked at
the beginning of the service Thurs
day evening that the christian people
do their best during the time that
remains. He then spoke of the num-
Der of school children who accepted
Christ at the 4 O'Clock service for
children Thursday, and how care
fully they should be dealt with by
parents, Sunday school teachers and
other christians Rev. Truett's SER
mon Thursday night was in part as
follows:
II come with a solemn word on
a solemn theme. The passing of re-
ligeous opportunity The shadows
are upon me as | think how soon
these meetings shall cease. That fact
has suggested this solemn theme. |
read a passage from a chapter in
Luke, and when he was come near
he beheld the city and wept over it,
saying if thou hadst known, even
thou, at least in this thy day, the
but now they are hid from thine
eyes
There is no more touching pic
ture in all the bible than this picture
of Jesus weeping over Jerusalem.
! Tears are always felt You cant see
a child cry except your heart is stir
red, if you have the right kind Of
heart, but here the savior of man
| is sobbing o, sight to move the
heart and stir it to the profoundest
depths! There must have been
great reason why Jesus wept. Jesus
wept that day because Jerusalem a
! city had altogether let slip by her
/ religious opportunity. These oppor-
tunities had gone forever and this
called forth the sobs of Jesus. This
pictures the passing, the losing of
ones religious opportunity, There
Iuse to be an expression of deep sig
nificauce, the day of grace; passing
] the day of grace. | can remember
! that | heard long ago the old preach
er proclaim in trumpet tones that
1.-THE soul could pass its day of grace
/ 1t was that which made Jesus weep
ION this occasion. Jerusalem. city.
had let pass her day of grace and
there is such thing as ones losing
his religious opportunity, letting
lpass his day of grace. Jesus is here
no more in the flesh, as he was when
he was in the land of Ga1i2ee, but he
is here in the person ~ power of
his spirit. Before Jesus went back
to heaven he said 1t is expedient
for you that | go away: for if go
not away, the comforter will not
come unto you. And when he is come
he will reprove the world of sin and
of righteousness, and of Judgment.
Has your soul longed to be right
with God? Have you had any incli-
Ination to be right with God? Then
that inclination is the direct work
of the spirit. How does the spirit of
God come to men? How old were
YOU when there came your first relig-
eous Impression? One of the grave
Questions for the parent is, how old
must my hid be when it reaches
1.-THE age of cCountability 10 God?
lGod's sp:!u comes TO most of IS
Ielrly in lii" and begins TO convict
us of our need of God and our dan
ger. The ways the spirit employs to
do this are many. Sometimes it
home the pointed sermon Of some
preacher, Sunday school lesson
faithfully taught by some Sunday
lschool teacher, the conversation of
the father and mother. In all these
ways God S spirit may come to man,
but the solemn truth comes to us
that the visits of Gods spirit may
be resisted and despised,
Jesus, when he was here on
Iearth, was often in the home of
| Mary and Martha just as real does
his spirit visit our hearts. The spirit
comes drawing us, teaching us, but
the spirit may be resisted, the door
may be shut in his face. Here comes
/ in the power of choice-the highest
possible dignity TO a human being.
Every human being must choose
land here comes in the great danger.
But there is one thing sure that God
is never to blame if sinner is lost.
! He has done his best TO save you
iall he can do except destroy his will.
Hell teach and persuade you, but
! he'll not destroy your will God