The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-02-11
ruE BAPTIST MEETING.
The Wednesday Night sermon IL
Heard ny Large Audience.

were many attractions in town last
night the Baptist church was filed
and there was a good meeting Be
fore the sermon MIR Jolly sang
THE Judgment" Tonight will be
Mr. Jolly's last night, as he is due
in Hot Springs on Sunday. The day
services are proving very interest
ing and instructive and pastor New
ms sermon on Romans was fine. The
church is comfortably filled at each
of the services. Last nights sermon
follows:
Text, John, 3rd chapter. 10th
verse For God so loved the world,
that he gave his only begotten son,
that whosoever believeth in him,
should not perish, but have everlast-
ing life"
1t is sometimes difficult to preach
upon a text like this because the text
is SO plain-you feel that you can
add nothing to il by words We can
speak If | were to stand here and
simply repeat the words of this text
| it might impress you most. There are
three things God tells us in this text
! First we are told that God loves the
world-that does not mean the
world of material matter but the
world of humanity-lost men and
women, and we might bring the
truth closer to our hearts and say
| God loves me. A beggar was stand
! ing one day on the streets asking
! aims. Some rich people came and
dropped in some pieces of coin. Pres
entity here came a man who showed
by his dress that he was in hard cir
! cumstances. The beggar asked aims
of him and he said. Il am sorry,
my brother, but | have nothing to
| give" "Ah," he said. You have
give me more than all the rest, you
have called me brother" God has
called you more than brother. He
calls us children, He wants you to
become his child. There is not a man
so sinful that the love of God does
! not go out to that man. 0, the great
love of God-if we could just get
this idea that God loves us.
How many of us here tonight who
have not been made better by the
love of some one?
We know how that love has made
us nobler, purer and better. II may
have been a mothers love. All of us
have experienced this. It has been
said that a mothers love never fails.
O, how true ii is! 1t will follow the
| wandering boy on and on no matter
how he may steep his soul in sin.
/ The mothers love would draw the
wandering boy back, throw her arms
of love about him and protect him
from every thing that would harm
him | remember hearing George
Stuart tell this story. He, said on
the train one time he noticed an old
lady in black. She was making the
trip from North Carolina to Texas.
AS the train went on he noticed that
she became interested in the fellow
passengers. She would speak to men
and tears would fall from her eyes
as they would shake their heads.
AT last the old lady came to him and
said, Il am on my way to Texas
George Stuart said, well, mother,
am on my way to TeXas-let us
talk about it," She said, 20, | know
YOU are not going on the mission |
am going on. / have a boy in Texas.
He has committed some terrible
crime and they are going to hang
him. He does not want me to come
but | must go. How could ! let them
take him and hang him till | had
thrown my arms about his neck and
lOlu MIN Nouiu tAoi ipi 'ohN iii'ii
though the world turned against
him.
Afterwards, the sheriff who had
seen to the execution of the boy told
how the old woman came to the
boys cell and asked to see the boy.
They told her the boy wanted to see
no one and wanted no one admitted
to the cell. She cried out. 20, but I
| : h. g no I hoNp all
the way to see him. Do you think
could let them take him and kill
him till | had thrown my arms about
him and told him | still loved him. y
This is a mothers love. All! the love
of God is greater than that. When
my father and mother forsake me,
God will take me up. God loves you,
lost sinner, God loves you.
Not only does God love us but
God has proved his love for us He
so loved us that he gave his only
son to die for us. | read not long
ago of an engineer His train was
dashing on and as it rounded curve
a short distance in front of the en-
CINE was heap of rock and dirt that
had fallen down from above. Two
things must have flashed through
4 nlo iHluus toh jump INV S"' ~ A''
self or stay at my post and save the
lives of the Others" The engineer
stayed at his post of duty but was
crushed to death. He was brave
man. Don't you know those people
loved him because he sacrificed his
own life for the lives of others. This
engineer felt responsible for the lives
of those in his care. Christ, when he
came to earth, came not to save
those for whom he was responsible
but to save lost and rebellious men
and women in sin. God could have
sent his angels and destroyed this
world but he did not do that for he
loved the world. For scarcely for
a righteous man will one die: yet
peradventure for good man some
! would even dare to die. But GOD
| commended his love towards us in
that while we were yet sinners,
Christ died for us. Think of the re-
bellious boy, Absalom, of King Da-
vid. You remember how he had
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