The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-10
INTEREST GROWS
 IN BIG REVIVAL
THE REV. MIR. BROWN WILL HOLD
 SPECIAL SERVICES TONIGHT
 AND TOMORROW, TO WHICH VIs- TYING TEACHERS ARE INVITED.

Crowds continue to come in increasing numbers to the revival services at the First Methodist church at the corner of Sixth avenue and Nineteenth street. Each service opens with series of gospel songs which are led by c. S. Curry.
 A number of visiting pastors and others are attending the services Among them are the Rev. J. W. Cary. the Rev. Robert H. Jones of Fayette, Prof. D. P. Christenberry of Greensboro, Prof. Thorn of Fayette and the Rev. W. w. Hef1in of Brookwood.
 A special invitation has been extended to the teachers of the state who are attending the Alabama Educational as- sociation and who remain over Sunday to attend the special service tonight and the services of tomorrow.
 A mass meeting of men will be held tomorrow afternoon at o'clock in which the Young Mems Christian association will cooperate with those having in charge the revival campaign. All the men of the city are invited to attend this gathering.
 This morning the subject of MT. Browns sermon will be Grit and Grace"
 The subject last night was the Two 1IllTSl5, DaScQ Oll JOllA f.lf, III WHICH is portrayed the story of Jesus con versation with the woman at the well, near the city of Sychar.
 There are two thirsts in the human heart and one of them is hungering for temporal and earthly things, and an- other for high and holy things" said MT. Brown. Those who drink of earthly things thirst again. Some men think that all things can be gotten with money, but 4I ,,,II1 a,l fa< .ff at o11 that money can kpply their souls will still long for diJ 4e things
 Happiness dofs not depend upon what you have, but upon what you are.
 "In the palace or the cottage wherever God is there Is heaven, and to be in either without God is hell on earth.
 "It Is not a sin, primarily to indulge in some isolated acts, but where the sin comes in Is the sinful method we adopt to satisfy our temporal and sensual in- clinations.
 Gambling habit when acquired leads young men to gamble away their fortune. their character and the good name of their family"
 Mr. Brown referred to some of the cur rent sins, and said:
 "The dancing habit is an inclined plane to many young people, and they often move the faster downward to sin and
  from a common plane of humanity, the glamor and glitter of the theatre dwarf and deform the honest life of the young.
 ."The twentieth century stage does more to make unhappy homes than any other institution of society of today.
 young men totter into a drunkard's grave because somewhere and at some time they took the first drink, and this led them to founder on the rocks of damnatiin.
 'sSome men desire to hold on to the world and sensuous things like an eagle that was seated on the dead carcass of sheep floating down the Niagara river, which kept picking the flesh until he floated to the brink of the falls, and when he spread his wings and tried to fly away his claws were frozen Into the carcass, and he was dragged over the falls into headth and destruction.
 '"rhe man who drinks of the fountain that Christ supplies, and stays by the fountain, shall never thirst. For Il years I have been following him and I have never had to leave him for thing yet''
 Mr Brown went on to say that we should not cultivate the social at the ex- pense of the spiritual, and that once he saw A group of young converts who were given nothing to aid their Christian life except an ice cream social once week, which finally froze them to death"
 Jesus said the water that he will give will be a well of water springing up unto everlasting life." he said. "and so men who drink of this water will be free and their spirits will be exuberant and happy, and the life will be triumphaH and the death will be victorious
 At the close of the service many came forwared and lxneeled at the altar rail. in- dicating their desire to live closer to Christ.