Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-07-16
STRONG SERMON
 ON BAPTISM Evangelist Violett is Heard By a Record Breaking
 Crowd.
AN ELOQUENT SERMON
Here To Preach the G0speI-TOnight Shall We Known Each Oth-
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MT. Violett addressed. an unusually large audience of attefftive people in the tent at Fifth avenfs and Main street last night on "Wltat Must I Do to Be Saved. - reading ssthe Twenty second chapter of Revelation from memory as usual. The evangelist further endeared himself to his ap- preciative audience by his very cx- haustive handling of this all import ant theme and especially by his broad mindedness shown in the manner in which the various texts were quoted The evangelist showed where this question was only asked three times in the Bible after the establ ;shment of the Church on the Day of Pente- cost; once on the Day of Pentecost when Peter told the three thousand souls to Repent and be baptized ev- Christ for the remissons of sins and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit Second chapter of Acts; the second time when Paul was on his way down to Damascus to persecute the followers of Christ and bring them bound to Jer- usalem, and Jesus appeared to Paul and made himself known to Paul which caused him to ask of Jesus. What Shall Do to Be SaveI?" Twen- ty-second chapter of Acts; and the last time when ths jailor asked the question of Paul when the earthquake has shaken open the doors of the pris- on; sixteenth chapter of Acts. The evangelist stated the Bible plan of sal vation namely: faith, confession of Christ's name, repentance and bAp7s tism. He showed very conclusive1y that the reason the servants of Christ did not in each case commence with the admonit1on in each of the three cases for the seeker to have faith. then confess, then repent and then be baptized was because of the fact that the seeker in each instance was found at different was station on the way to salvation. The three thousand had travelled along the route to the station of repentance, therefore, they were told to repent and be baptized; Paul was found by Ananias at the station of Baptism, therefore, he was told to be baptized and wash away his sins; and the jailer with his house. hold we found off the route entirely and Paul had to commence with a sermon and create faith in them and then carry them along this road to the other terminal and ending up with baptism. Mr. Violet contended that faith only would not span the chasm between mans lost condition and his eternal salvation, neither with confess sion only, repentance only nor baptism only, but all four of these together would bring the lost soul in touch with the blood of Christ which clean ses the lost soul from all unright- eOuSneSS.
 While MT. Violett was answering some questions which were handed in he made a good impression upon his hearers by stating that he was not in the mud slinging or fight business; that he was in Pine Bluff to preach the gOspel of Jesus Christ. He said that his mother taught him fArst to be a gentleman, in fact, he said that a man could not be first class Christian without being a gentleman.
 MT. Violet will preach tonight on
 Shall We Know Each Other in Heav-
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