The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-11-21

Friends church.
Sunday was notable day In con-
nection with the special union evan
yelistic meetings that are in progress
IN the city and in which twenty of the
churches are united. In the Sunday
schools in the morning there were spe-
cial services that resulted in many of
the children making confession and
the report submitted by the various
pastors at the night meeting was high
ly encouraging. In the afternoon there
was a great meeting for men and boys
at the Gennett theater and at night a
audience heard Evangel-
list Mahy at East Main Street Friends
In the morning Mr.. Mahy at
tended the First English Lutheran
church and spoke both to the Sunday
school and congregation. At night
there was supplemental service at
the Fifth Street Methodist church SO
that the entire day was filed and the
benefits Of the united effort were
more manifest than at any time since
the meetings began. It is believed that
the closing week of the effort will see
a great deal of additional good ac-
At the Sunday night service at the
East Main Street Friends church the
seating. capacity of the great auditor.
ium was exhausted A striking trib-
ute was paid the late L. A. Mote, who
was an active and consistent Chris.
tian, and who week ago had sung in
the large chorus. Out of respect to
him the audience stood short time in
silence and then sang the song that
had been his favorite, ut is Well With
My Soul"
Many Refusing Christ.
Evangelist Mahy said at the begin.
ming OF the evening service that he
had found many pleasant things in
Richmond, but had found one thing
that surprised him, and that was that
while he believes God is holding out.
arms to Richmond, there
are many Christians who have turned
their back on Christ in having failed
to attend and aid these meetings. II
they were the work of men, such &C.
tion. he said. would be justified, but
If God is back of the meetings. and he
believes and as the pastors of the city
believe, then they have no choice in
the matter; their duty is plain. Some
have been kept away from fear of sen.
sational methods, he said, and cheap
work, but they have not found it, He
urged that in this closing week there
be renewed effort and interest in the
work of saving souls.
Mr. Mahy's sermon Sunday night
was from the text, the words of Paul
Wherefore, O. King Aggrippa, l was
not disobedient to the heavenly Wis
ion." From this he delivered a strong
appeal to all people to give heed to
the heavenly vision, for there is some
time in the life of each when the ap
peal to turn to God and to His work is
felt. He referred to the self life as
narrow and unsatisfactory and end
ing in shadows; it is an eternal failure
in the judgment of God and man. The
evangelist declared there are some
people in Richmond who must lose
their regulations before they can gel
because their regulations
are sham and fraud and they are
without real character. You are
face to face with the vision. and you
can't fool God. You may put OF the
personal worker, but not God" The
evangelist believes in personal devil
that needs to be resisted.
Held After-service.
An afterservice followed the ser
mon, for which many remained.
A large audience OF men and boys
attended the special service at the
Gennett theater Sunday afternoon
and it was one Of the most effective OF
the entire series, the audience beine
greatly impressed by the earnest and
truthful remarks of the speaker. s. E
Jones presented Fl. s. Weed. secre
tary of the Y. NJ. C. A., as presiding
officer. A solo was given by Mr.. Nor
gan, prayer was offered by the Rev
Ebert Russell and the closing prayer
was by the Rev. Levi T. Pennington
Evangelist Mahy's talk on personal
purity and the social evil was sane
and sensible one. Plain and forcibIe
in the presentation Of the needed
truths, it WAS permeated with the spir
it Of purity in the speakers own atti
tude to the subject. and in his treat
ment Of it. Az In all his addresses
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