The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-09-24
PREACHERS nor NEEDED
AT SOME FUNERALS
Deeds in Life the Best Tes
timonials After Death.
Canister Into the Ranks OF the So
cicty of Today.

Weighed in the Balances of God"
was the theme used by Evangelist
Finnell at the First Christian church
last evening and a splendid audience
assembled to hear him. Miss Kimblc
sang "You'll BE Weighed Bye and
Bye"
The speaker read lesson from the
feast of Belshazzar and dramatically
pictured the feast with its guests at
tcndants servants and beautiful sur
roundings. besides setting forth the
wonderful physical security OF the
whole city of Babylon with its beau
tiful temples ana hanging gardens
The evangelist was never more clear.
manly and fearless I'm condemning sin
and his whole discourse fairly bris-
tied with anecdotes md well directed
irony that could not miss its mark
| Just recall one of those gddy, friz-
zle headed llirts that go giggling and
simpering along life's way living for
nothing and caring sor nothing, despis
ing the old mother that tolls alone at
home and disregarding all her loving
counsel until the girl gets into sor-
row of some kind and then she wants
ter mother, Tbats the way many
people do only some of them send
for the preacher instead That's just
what BcshazZar did when he saw
| the dread inscription and the hand
| that wrote IL upon the wall of his
/ palace. He sent for Daniel after he
| had tried all the astrologers and ma
| gicians without avail. Daniel was n
real hero for he feared not to tell
| the King that he himself was not able
to fulnll tho Kings desire except as
[ God had fitted him for 1t.
| The evangelist graphically set forth
/ the sins of humanity and asserted
/ that substantially ,hey have been the
| same since man lived on the earth
and while we rarely pronounce the
| rames of Venus and Bacchus, yet
| they are gods still, and many are the
| devotees that grovel at their feet even
| in dear old America. If any of these
| butterflies of fashion should die while
| [ am here, do not call upon me or
any other preacher to preach their
/ funeral for they will never need Il.
Just put the corpse in the beautiful
casket pile the silks, the satlns, the
| pushes and the laces in the casket,
]
or finery and strew them round about
/ and they will tell the story of the life
better than any preacher could tell II.
| or should one of these rich or poor
| booze histers" shuttle off this mortal
coil, you don't need Il preacher Place
/ him In the coffin; bring in your
Schlitz the Anheuser and the old
ryes and set the bottles round and
let the stuff that 40 the work tell its
own story for a business sought new
er be ashamed of its finished pro-
duct or If one of these fearful
/ libcrtjnes has TAKEN his departure,
bring in the innocent girls, silently
sadly let them file I'm one by one and
kneeling. let their tears and sighs and
ruined lives mutcly tell the whole
story and without spoken word all
will know the heated hell that man
must suffer-"
Two adults came forward at the in
vitation and baptisms were an
nounced for the beginning of the
service tonight Miss Klmble Will
sing one of her sweetest solos and the
sermon will be on Gods Law in the
/ Dispensatlons. Meetings begin at
I7:15,