The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-11
DR.. THACKER HEARD
BY GREAT CROWDS
Several Hundred Turned Away
From the Church
MEETINGS ALL WEEK
Takes As Topic, "Is There HELIX" AT
Night Service-Preacher Spoke
Five Times at Various Meet
inEs Yesterday
MEETINGS ALL WEEK

Several hundred people were turned
away from the First Presbyterian
church last night before o'clock. The
Thacker- Fisher meetings reached their
climax yesterday, when the revival be-
gan to show a great awakening in the
Sunday school, in the membership of
the VIII ole Presbyterian church, and in
the conversion of souls.
Without any sensational appeal to
sentiment, but with logic drawn from
nature and the Bible, DR.. Thacker set
out to prove that there is hell, and
then that the love OF Jesus is higher
than heaven and deeper than hell.
! He spoke five times yesterday. At
the Sunday sch DOL services in all the
Presbyterian churches the children
made their decisions by the score. Yes
terday afternoon the Majestic theatre
was crowded with men, who heard DIR.
Thacker preached on What Consu-
| tutes a Fool" 1t was meeting that
will long be remembered by the 500
men who attended.
Last night, preaching on rs There
Help the evangelist used the text,
"These shall go away into everlasting
punishment, but the righteous into life
eternal"
"While we may defy hate, loathe and
detest hell" he said, mo explanation
points will change it." He laid the
predicate that III there is such a thing.
and God gives us way to escape and
light along the way, 1t is great
mercy" His idea not to picture fire
and birthstone. but to magnify before
his audience, the great love of the Lord.
DR.. ThacSer undertook to prove that
there is a hell. because it is a necessi-
ty of immortality, of nature, OF law, of
love and of atonement.
Both the Bible and the inner con-
sciousness teach the souls immortali-
ty, as was shown by number of Bible
quotations.
Taking up the analogy of nature, he
said that nature always satisfies desire,
thirst. and hunger in the animals The
hog is satisfied in his wallowing In the
mire. But how about these deep long
ings in your heart and mine? How
about our desire for things sweeter,
nobler and better than anything We
have here?
1--WE do not all love to follow and
sing His praises now, and yet all of us
must go somewhere. Death doesn't
stop you from going where you are 60
ing. IL you are loving Jesus now, you
will love Him hereafter. II you are
rejecting Him now, you will reject him
hereafter.
II am not preaching to you fire and
birthstone, though 1 would rather have
my ashes scattered to the winds than
TO have my own conscience burn with
guilt when it is too late
The evangelist's next thought was
that hell is a necessity of law" Law
reigns everywhere. There is no such
thing as sin without a penalty. Ma
lures laws always fight back. He'll is
the penalty of broken. violated spirit
ual law"
He also showed that hell is necessity
of love.
"If our own hearts condemn us, God is
greater than all of us and knoweth all
things" He said that justice is the foun-
dalton OF GOu lOft, poihhihS W
homes stricken with drink, and half the
human race dying in infancy, he said
that Gods love cannot be measured by
human standards of the love of mother,
father and friends.
But God, in His infinite love. has pre-
pared you a way of escape. He would
save you for time and for eternity, for
He has given His own Son, and there
is none other under heaven given among
men whereby you may be saved.
Its hell on earth to find a place
where nobody loves God, and nobody finds
a place for Him." An awful, vivid pic
ture of the death of murderer and sui
eide was followed by the statement,
wherever he went-thats hell 1t means
woe and wretchedness and misery. and
from such a place as that may God de-
liver all of you"
Finally he said that hell is necessary
for atonement. "The Judge of all the