The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-06-08
SERMON ON PURITY AND POWER
God Doesn't Pay So Much Attention
10 Numbers as to Principle.

.donk meeting at the Methodist
church was attended by a represen-
tative Monday night congregation.
Monday was an unusually busy day
for the merchants and most of them
were detained at their places of
business until it was too late to go
Ito church. but in spite of this TACT
1.-THE main auditorium of the building
was nearly filled with eager and at
tentive listeners.
Prof. Ramsay has his choir well
| in hand and singing is being made a
Especial fcatIre OF the meeting. Prof.
RAMSAY is a hard worker and has
few equals as a choir director. He
believes in singing with full lung ca
pacity and when the crescendo is
reached he seems to lift the voices
of the singers to the very highest
Ipitch with a sweeping gesture OF the
right arm.
The sermon delivered by Rev,
Onderdonk was along practically the
same line of his Sunday night SER
mon 1t was designed primarily TO
iprepare the church members for ser
vice during the meeting. He said the
success of meeting did not depend
wholly upon how loud preacher
preached, but was to a large meas
IRE dependent upon the cooperation
of the church.
Purity and Power was the sub
ject of the sermon. Text, Joshua
l7:12. Therefore the children of
Israel could not stand before their
enemies. but turned their backs be-
fore their enemies, because
they were accursed: neither will |
be with you any more, except We de-
.stroy the accused from among
you"
Briefly the preacher reviewed the
account of the destruction of Jeri-
co by the Israelites. When the
walls of the city fell and the people
of Israel rushed within the city they
We're told by God they might take
certain things but the accursed
things they were not to touch. But
Achan saw some rich Babylonish
garments, two hundred shekels of
silver and a wedge of gold which he
coveted and which he thought he
could take and no one would be any
the wiser BY this act OF Achan he
broke thecovenat of God with Is
rael and because Of this sin of one
man God set his curse upon the
whole of Israel
In making his application of the
lesson the preacher said God $ prom
ises are all conditional He has new
er made an unconditional promise.
We must meet these conditions if we
would find favor in his sight
Wien the city of Jericho was TAX
en- the children of Israel We're TO con-
side" that everything in the city be-
longed TO God. Only one man saw
the rich garments ard the silver and
gold, and Old Achan probably said
to himself it would be too bad for
all these things to go to waste. SO
he took them and hid them away
and there was probably not one man
in all Israel that knew what he had /
Jnoa prt COD Iyra,t,
Continuing, the preacher said:
You people may practice things in |
your homes which you may think is
the business of no one else, but it
doesn't make any difference how |
pious you look or how loud YOU sing |
if that thing is in your heart you
know you are a dirty hypocrite and
you know God knows it. When old
Achan had hidden the things taken
from the city he sat down in front
of his tent and when his wife came
along he was reading the law and
the prophets He appeared to be in
nocent but God knew his deceit.
lut preacher lDtI LOIu 81 TIC ca
petition against All and the defeat |
with which the army of Israel met. !
God permitted this defeat because /!
his anger had been kindled against !
Israel on account of the sin of one |
man. Continuing he said, why was !
it that God let the son of one man !
affect the five million children of !
Israel? God doesn't pay as much at ,
tention to numbers as he does to |
Several little islands of the /
sea were recently destroyed by an
San Francisco was Wis
tied by a quake that destroyed the !
city: eight thousand lives We're lost |
in a storm at Galveston, but what has
all that got to do with God? He is
not botherng about our lives. He
has laid down certain principles and
we cannot get around them. If
man or woman in the church is liv-
ing in sin and God blesSes the church
and saves sinners and sweeps people
into the kingdom he Is winking at