Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-01
CHURCH PEOPLE AND CONVERTS
LISTEN TO SUNDAYS AS.
sIsTANT.
MEETING IN KEEPING
WITH REVIVAL SPIRIT
Speaker Declares That While There
Are Few outspoken InfideIs Today,
World is Permeated With Unbelief-
Essential Fact chanseIess; Moral
Law the Same.


tendance, music, sermon and interest
were all in keeping with the revival
spirit now at full tide in MARSHALL
town. 1t was not an OCCASION how
ever, for the usual number of conver-
sions. In fact a very large majority Of
the audience were church members or
those who have come out for christian
ity during the evangelistic campaign,
the outsider" evidently remaining
away, on account of Mr.. Sundays alb
sence from the city.
Mr.. Frank was the speaker and his
sermon was the best he has delivered
in the city. Mr.. Fischer sang as a solo
ITO Thee I Fly" and responded to
hearty encore.
The text upon which Mr.. Frank
spoke was from First Samuel, 1928,
Come We again to me with certainty
and 1 will go with you" having refer
ence to the pursuit of Saul. The idea
that exists in the world today regard
lilS3 liS dlNl4llty VI llC SCIl SSs
Jesus Christ, and the claims of chris
tianity. 'It is apparently an age of
doubt" he asserted. "The truths and
tenets of the christians faith some
how do not appeal to the average
man as they should. There is too much
| mysticism, too much fog and mist.
Furthermore the existing religious
condition appears to be a cold, icy,
heartless Indifference, needing vivify-
ling sunshine.
World Permeates With Unbelief.
people require something more
| tangible, more absolute, more real than
the church is giving them today" he
said. He insisted that there are COM
| paratively few outspoken infidels now,
| but at the same time both the church
and the world are permeated with
doubt and unbelief. "He who does not
deny all claims of holy writ says, I
don't know. ] don't know and this re-
tards the progress of the Lords work
more than blatant infidelity. Life in
general, is an Interrogation, a quest
ton mark, and uncertainty dominates
! the masses everywhere. This is not
altogether disheartening, however, for
this uncertainty prevails in science,
philosophy and all the great problems
with which humanity grapples and
gropes."
Essential Fact changeIess.
Mr.. Frank then demonstrated forci-
bly,, that the fundamental, the essen
tial fact is changeless, no matter how
much we differ. or charnge in our be-
| liefs or opinions. 1t is the same today
as when Jesus walked among men.
There is something, however, he de-
clared, that seems to be a spark or
fragment of God and this needs but
the proper appeal to blaze into life that
shall be what he desires.
Moral Law Will Never Change.
The speaker then elucidated a series
of propositions for the unsaved, chief
of which is that there is an absolute,
eternal and Interchangeable difference
| between right on the one hand and
| tons have changed during the ages
changed and never will God can
change all else but not that.
| Another proposition was that every
honest, intellectual man will try earn
estly to follow any clue that will lead
to the right side Of the question when
solved He declared the truths of the
bible could be satisfactorily tested
But you must get on your knees" he
declared. <'You can't bluff Him. Con-
cessions will be made by you, not him"
The third proposition was that a
man ought to follow the light he has
and that he has enough to save him.
The fourth was that Christ does save
every man who will accept and serve
| him.
| About 1900 people listened most at
ltentively to the discourse and three re-
| sponded to the invitation.