The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1910-10-17
Season of Prayer and Fasting Begins.

woman out OF Christ this question:
What are you waiting for before you
come out on the side of Christ?
| would have you tell me
lyour real reason. I would
have you give me an honest answer.
and then | would sit down beside
you with the Word OF God, and show
you how little there is in your rea-
son.
II could do that / believe / could
get almost every man and woman in
this building that is out Of Christ to
accept Him tonight. But there is
no time OF course for that, It would
take days and weeks and months, so
] am. going to ask you to do the next
best thing ! am going to ask every
man and woman who is not a Chris
tian to forget about every one else.
and not to look at me as preaching
la sermon to a multitude, but to
think Of you and me as being here
alone in personal conversation to-
gether. face to face. viii you put
to yourself this question before we
begin our conversation, "What am
waiting for? Why do ! not come out
on the side of Christ tonight?
Now we are going to have a few
moments OF silence and prayer, and
I am going to ask every Christian
man and woman in the room to pray
that every one may be honest, and
am going to ask all of you who are
not Christians put this question to
yourselves: what am / waiting
lfor7" Let us have silence.
VIII every man and woman put to
themselves the question, what is
the real reason that do not accept
and confess Christ tonight; what am
II waiting for?" Now I will take up
your answers one by one"
To BE Convinced.
1. Some OF you have said tonight.
l'T am waiting until / shall be con-
WINGED; just as soon as / am con-
WINGED that the Bible is the Word OF
God and Jesus is the Son OF God,
VIII accept Christ as my Saviour. and
confess Him before the world" Now.
want to make an offer to every
man and woman who has made that
answer.
II you viii come to me at the
close Of this meeting | will show you
the way to find out that, beyond all
lperadventure, the Bible is Gods
Word, and Jesus Christ is Gods Son.
Now, II you are an honest skeptic,
You Will accept that offer, and II you
do not accept IL. never say again that
YOU are a skeptic. You are a hum
bug. OF course. II you are only
thriller l have no time to waste upon
you, but If you are sincere doubter,
would rather speak with you than
anybody else in the building, for I
have yet 10 find the first sincere
doubter. the first sincere aenostic.
the first sincere atheist. the first
spiritualist. the first Christian Scien-
t.st. the first Theosophist. who really
wanted to know the truth, that
could not show the way to find it.
All over the world tonight there
are men who used to be agnostics
and doubters whcm II has been my
privilege 20 lead 0 Jesus. II you
are an honest ,tic, you will ac-
'cept that offer. If you do not.
at least one good ,sult will come OF
it-you will know when you go out
of this hall that you are not an hon
est skeptlc.
You say you are sNeptics and
agnostics; so / used to be, but | was
an honest man, and when a way was
pointed out I tried TO see where i'll
led, and thank God, It led out Of the
barrennes and desolation and dark.
ness of utter nihilism into a clear
faith that cannot be shaken, that
that blessed book is Gods Word. and