The Mena weekly star., 1911-07-27
GREAT REVIVAL
 SWEEPING MENA
sohn b. Culpepper Preached Strong sermon on Sabbath Dissertation Thirty Eight Joined the
 Church Wednesday Night.

NiurcH ueuneS0ay Night.
 Culpeppers, father and son, have
 been boring down on sin pretty
 heavy and hard for the past ten
 days. In fact, they have been dig
 glng stumps, profanity, gambling.
 social card playing, dancing, and in
 fact all forms of worldliness have
 been exposed. But they have also
 declared that among the modern
 evils of the day, tattling seems to
 be the greatest of all.
 MT. Culpepper has preached on The Black Horse of Sin" Back sliding and Malice" and the young CT Culpeper has preached along lines of "The Way of the Trans gressor Is Hard" Run, Speak to That Young Man." Sampson" My Son, Give Me Thine Heart" In fact they have swept the entire hu- man gauntlet in their pulpit utter ances.
 Services are being held at 10 o'clock in the morning for the whole town, at which time the stores all close. At o'clock each day the younger Culpepper address ses mass meeting of the children.
 Wednesday night elder Culpepper brought a message to the people which seemed to bring the might fest conviction--in fact it had the old time ring to it, for there was shouting and clapping of hands and great rejoicing. His theme was, Remember the Sabbath Day and Keep it Holy" MT. Culpepper de- clared that the Sabbath day was the greatest of all commands that God gave to the world. He stated that to violate it or desecrate it would incur Gods wrath. He stat ed that he could explain the pres ence of the Jews in America. God told the Jews that if they did not keep His Sabbath he would send them into exile. They refused to do so and God sent them into cap tivity. He brought them out and warned them concerning His day. Again they disobeyed Him, and God scattered them abroad, making them hiss and by-word among all nations. Mir. Culpepper declared that Sabbath dissertation was anti American. That was why our fore fathers came to America-that they might worship God. He declared that it was a larcenuous act of trust that God had given us six days in which to do our work and that the seventh was His, and He had asked us to keep it. But in- stead, we had appropriated it to our own use. He also stated that it was burglary, for when we are born into this world we find the Sabbath day, and that we have broken into Gods most precious plan and stolen his most precious treasure, and in so doing we have made ourselves burglars. He also stated that it was suicide. It is a physiological fact that man needs one day in seven to recuperate; the horse, the OK, in fact all life, is based upon this one day in seven to rest, and if a man does not take this seventh of his time to st that he is killing himself and will cut from five to ten years off of his life, appearing before God sui eide. He also stated that it is mur- der. You have working for you men and women: you force them to work on Sunday, as the railway companies, mining companies, street car companies, dairymen, drug stores, etc., etc. You are causing your employees to work when they need rest, and in so do- ing you are killing them and will have to stand before Gods judge ment bar to be judged for it. He declared that most of the inmates of asyIums were women, and th two-thirds of these women were domestics working on Sundays. He went a step further and declared 1t was q sin against the Holy Ghost to violate Gods holy day; that Jesus Christ was raised from the dead by the power. of the Holy Ghost on Sunday; that pentacost fell on Sunday, and that this is a Holy Ghost dispensation, and in violating the Sabbath you are sin- ming against the Holy Ghost.
 H;e last noinf was the strongest of all. He declared it was worse than the Egyptian despotism when pharoah demanded of the Jews their tale of brick without fur nishing them straw; that the world today laughs at the preachers-at the church demands and good civ ilization-but they are not furnish ing us with any straw. When you spend your time buggy riding. soda water drinking, going on excur- sions. boat rides and numerous other pleasures which take you from the church. you are demand ing of the preachers that they fur nish good civilization, and you are giving them no chance to furnish it. Stand by your preacher, de- clared MT. Culpepper. Go to your churches on Sunday. Remember the Sabbath Day and Keep it Holy and YOU will have better town, your hearts and homes will De brighter. God will be honored and you will be happy.
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