The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-28
SUNDAY SERVICES
BY EVANGELIST
c. E. Hills Spoke Three Times Yes
tcrday and the Meetings
Were Among Greatest
of Series.
THE WoMENs MEETING
Meetings Will be Held Every Evening
This Week Excepting satur
day and Will Close
Sunday.

The meetings yesterday at the First [
Baptist church were amongst the
greatest that have yet been held. |
Evangelist G. E. Hills spoke three
times. and Mrs Hills conducted a
woman's meeting in the afternoon at
2:30, at the church, when about 400
or 500 women turned out to hear Mrs. !
Hills. 1t was said to be the largest
women's meeting since the revival OF
Evangelist Sunday. Mrs. Hills
preached one of the strongest and
most wonderful sermons to women
that has ever been heard in the city
of Keokuk Mrs. Hills is polished
and sympathetic speaker, reaching tie
hearts of her audience in most woll>
derful manner.
Evangelist Hills preached in the
!morning at 10:45. on the subject, "A
Vision of Heaven. It was discourse
that seemed to lift people away from
earth and catch wonderful glimpses o.
the life beyond. 1t was very tender
land appealing sermon. He then
preached to another splendid audience
In the afternoon at 2:30 at Baker Mis-
sion.
But the greatest audience that has
yet assembled during the campaign
was last evening, when it was esti-
mated between 700 and 500 people
crowded into the large auditorium OF
the First Baptist church to hear Evan
gelist Hills After the main auditori-
UNI was crowded full, which seats
about 900 people. then the Sunday
school rooms had to be opened to &C
commodate the people It was an i'm
mense audience, and for over an hour
the great throng of people were held
spell-bound by the words of Evangelist
Hills, as he preached on the subject
of The objectionable Sin The audi
ence sat as if held by magnet as Dr.
Hills spoke
DR.. Hills took as his text Proverbs
1924 to 81 and Matthew 1918, 80: 81
have called and We refused; have
stretched out my hand and no man re
sponded Ye have set at naught all
my counsel and would have none Of
my reproof. I will also laugh at your
calamity ! will mock when your fear
cometh. when your fear comets as
.desolation and your destruction COM
eth as a whirlwind: when distress and
anguish cometh upon you. Then shall
they call upon me, but ] will not an
swer. They shall seek me early, but
shall not find me. for they hated
knowledge and did not choose the fear
of the lord. They would have none of
my counsel and they despised all my
reproof, therefore shall they eat the
fruit of their own way and be filled
with their own devices" Matt. 1913,
80: Wherefore l say unto you all
manner of sin and bIasphemy shall be
forgiven unto men, but the blasphemy
against the holy ghost shall not be
forgiven. And whosoever speaketh a
word against the son of man it shall
be forgiven him. but whosoever speak
eth word against the holy ghost ii
shall not be forgiven him neither, in
this world nor in the world to come.
These words, said DIR. Hills, are
amongst some of the sternest words
found in the Bible. Do not blame Coo
but the people to whom they were
written, for they hated Cod, hated his
knowledge and would have nothing IL
do with him, then God said they mus
eat the fruit of their own ways an(
be filled with their own devices. Coo
left them alone; left them to them
selves.
What is the unpsrdonable sin? Lis
ten It is this, hoiied down 1t is TIL
continual and persistent rejection o
the offers of Jesus Christ to be
christian until by and by your hear
becomes as hard as a stone. Yol
shall not be forgiven in this worl
nor in the world to come
A great battle said DR.. Hills is be
ing fought in the words of our text
1t opens with the beautiful gospel o
hope and closes with the horror of a
eternal doom. The gospel OF hope, al