The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-19
Familiar Hymns Are Being Sung
at the Special Services at
the Trinity M. E.
Church.
REV. PoTTER's SERMON
Believe in Jesus the Same as
You Would Believe in Your
Mother and it vii!
be Easy.

The revival service al Trinity Meth
cast church is of tie old fashioned
Kind Last evening the forepart Of
the service was devoted to sony, using
.ch songs as Come We Sinners,
"Are You Washed in the Blood of tn :
Lamb Happy Day" and number
more equally as aged. Songs that are
lust as inspiring today as they were
in the days of our fsthers, and songs
that will never lose their inspiration.
There are a great many of these old
songs that we can look at in much thu,
SAME way as We look at the dear old
bible. The bible in which our saliva
ton is recorded is old, yet the plan OF
salvation recorded there is just as re-
freshing today and as new as the day
the book was given to mankind, we cat
speak In a like manner In regard to
these dear old tunes for they too. are
Just as inspiring and refreshing as
they ever were
In connection with the singing Of
these songs the pastor related Incl
dents which fit in splendidly and were
source of profit to those present.
The lesson for the evening was
found in the eighth chapter of Ro-
mans commencing with the fifth verse
Tread verses 5, and u and added to
this all of the second chapter of First
Corinthians as recorded by Paul.
The text on which the evenings SER
non hinged may be found in the
fourteenth verse of the secord chap
ter of First Corinthians. But the
natural man receiveth not the things
Of the Spirit of God: for they are
ioolishness unto him: neither can he
Know them, because they are spirit
ually discerned.''
Now In the handling OF the text 4
ceep vein of logical thought sprung up
and the came was woven more or less
throughout the entire sermon.
TIE thought was presented that It
would seem foolish to call in lot Of
Olnd men. to criticize a work of art,
and that while this same body of men
might capably criticize the rendering
o. piece of music. vet in order to do
'hls they must themselves be pro-
nclent in the art to which their crit
lcism is directed.
Inc idea was brought out that
through educational process man
soula SO equip himself that he would
become master Judge. but only in
regard to that where in he was COM
peient.
for instance, Blind Tom could
.Aecu1e the most difficult and class
lcal music from memory but he re.
sulrea guardian in other matters.
saac Newton for instance could not
sauare poetry and Chas. Sumner
ffv ,a'l nave nothing to do with figures.
u lneteiore 1t is clear to the reason
- mind that VIC must be developed
s'Ons The line of things with which we
layc TO deal.
~ ulher IN their capabilities. for
~ ,ls'ance, some are expert along one
NC a'ld some along another.
,,n, NV we come to the application as
'p ~ directly TO the text
,e. .ne unborn spiritually cannot un.
.ana The word of God. and here
,a.a s'aie up with verse eleven of the
~ srs0au chapter of First Corinthians
NJ. Nnat man knoweth the things o;
/, /. save the spirit of man which
tpora a.' even so the things of God
God D''u' out the spirit OF
nm, There should be in our, lives d.
n, sun The kind that will do a chris. |
,trsj sptu "a. and that viii make him walk
ssv s s the path of life, and in this
an ov,s 'naii De the means of setting
Il t saainple that will be an influence |
whose around us inueice
ps na1' ne strange circumstance han.
sr sa where in certain city, . Officials, nap p
ago had 'a = quite number of years
as sealea : certain we'll in that town
that Tho ~ W on account Of the fact
out Of th na'er was communicating and 7
families No. sad well in question six /
Ter sunni, 9 depending up their wa.
we'll was o, snd at the very time this
h that tow osea up, thirty-six saloons
eben '0Nn We're running wide
'aorities know s1,oW VS., how well the. an
What not. N'0V what to shut up and
men out or ngure used was that of two
re prospect in the e''i lan over .r rhe