The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-01-16
WILL CONTINUE
REVIVAL SERVICES
TWO RoUslNG MEETINGS HELD
LAST NIoHT-oNE IN PREsRY.
TERRAIN CHURCH AND THE
OTHER IN FIRST M. E.-RoTH
WERE PACKED.

terrain church will be continued this
week. They will be held eacn evening
except Saturday at the Presbyterian
church.
Last night two rousIng union serv-
ices were held. One was at the First
Presbyterian church. where Rev. r. A.
Beard of the First Congregational
church delivered the address The
other was at the First Methodist
church, where Rev. A. r. Peterson Of
the First Baptist church preached.
Both churches were crowded to ca
pacity.
Doctor Beard said in part:
| Let us notice Gods perfect way as
it is illustrated in the kingdom Of ma
/ ture.
| l. What thoroughness. Every mi
nutest detail in all the remotest cor
ners of the universe is arranged and
adjusted with infinite precision. God
seems to have worked from the minute
outward to the vast. When He would
| lay the rocky foundations that are to
| be the pillars Of a continent He does
| it by piling together countless little
grains of sand; and when He would
fix the beams of his chambers in the
waters He does 1t by gathering to-
/ gether countless little skeletons until
the coral masonry rises in mighty
majesty the wonder and alteration of
man; and when He would FURNISH and
| adorn some hidden cavern with the
beauty and splendor OF crystals that
| ouJshines all the works of art or of
mans device He does it by dripping
into the dark gallery, drop by drop for
! thousands of years. the waters that
He holds in the hollow of His hand"
Nothing is sighted
2. What order. Even the teeth in
the capsule Of a moss plant are ar
ranged in arithmetical order. So with
| the limbs on the trees. What is true
Of the vegetable and plant world is
also true in all other departments of
| nature.
| 8. What beauty. The colors of the
| flowers and the beauty of the land
scapes are beyond description. The
greatest of the worlds painters can
not reproduce them.
"Who can paint like Nature?
Can Imagination boast, amid its gay
creation, hues like hers?
Or can it mix them with that match
less skill,
And lose them in each other, as ap-
pears
In every bud that blows?"
And the poet Young tells us. "The
course of Nature is the art of God"
Now let us notice Gods way as it
| is illustrated in the kingdom of grace.
| The ways of God can only be known
and understood by man through study
ing the walk and conversation of Him
who came to reveal God, Let us learn
what Christ has to teach us Of Gods
| perfect way.
1. His love in the form of compass
sion. A leper came to Jesus. and
/ Jesus was moved with commission
and healed him." His heart went out
in compassion to the widow of Main
when He saw her weeping for the loss
of her son.
2. His love in the form of gentle
ness "A bruised reed he will not
break, the smoking flax he will not
quench." Thomas was skeptical about
the resurrection, but Christ has no
word of rebuke for him. BY gentleness
He wins him back to the faith. Peter
denies him, but Christ loves him back
to loyalty and service.
| 8. His love in the form OF forgive
ness. IF we confess our sins, He is
faithful and just TO forgive us our
sins" Who? whatsoever win NAV
come" When? Now is the accented
time" No man ever sank so low in
the mire of sin as to be beyond the
reach of Gods love. Whoever is lost
will be lost not for lack of Gods love
but in spite of it, The most ont
standing and the sublimest character
istic of God is his fatherhood. But
there is great difference between
fatherhood and grandmorherhood
There is hope for all who do as the
prodigal son did. If sinners comb
only know how much God loves them
and how ready He is to forgive and
restore them, they would not reject
His pleadings.
In the light of all these facts are
we not ready to exclaim, in the words
of the text, "As for God, His way is
perfect" And If our Fathers wav IS
perfect, shall we not all give our lives
into His keeping absolutely? Our WAYS
are very imperfect, and we know N
Our heavenly father yearns to helm
US TO become what we may become
with His help and guidance
At First M. E. Church.
| Rev. A. e. Peterson delivered a most
able discourse. His theme was sin
and Breaking With God.
He began by telling of the original
sin which took place in the garden of
Eden and said that in the beginning
man lived in Paradise which God had
made for him, and he told of the re-
strictions that the almighty had placed
on man, Just the same as the natural
father of child does today, and Adam
just as the child of today chose 70
disobey and the natural consequence
was punishment.
| Sin leads us to break with COD. that
was true Of the garden of Eden. inst
as it is true today. He then told of
the sin that had caused the first MR.
der, when Cain killed Abel. Sin be-
clouds reason; sin leaves its victim j
homeless wanderer.
In closing he made a strong plea for
the wanderer to return to God and be
at rest with himself and his fellow
men. He said that this was the bet
/ ter life to lead because it was the most
satisfying
twas one of the best sermons that
have been delivered since this series
of meetings began.
A CLOSE CALL.
Mre rnllfna AInons+ MAJ -.