The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1911-11-27
THE
MUNROE g. CHAMBL|SS
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0CALA, FLORIDA
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DEPOSITORY
AT THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH

an earnest, eloquent sermon yesterday
on the topic of strong men and what
constituted the same, but unfortunate
ly the weather was such as to try
mems strength TO the utmost and con-
sequently they were left in too feeble
a condition to go to church. With the
women, however, the case was differ
ent, for tho only members of the weak
er sex, yet the weather conditions had
but little influence on their strength
and they turned out in goodly num-
bers.
Pastor Coleman took for his text
Paups first letter to the Corinthians,
1913: "Quit ye like men, be strong"
He said that the church at Corinth
was not only the richest and most
learned of its time but was the most
wicked, having degenerated into the
basest idoltary, at one time having a
| temple in which 1000 females acted as
| priests. Physical strength is not the
only qualification of a strong man,
man m. ght have the strength of an OK
| and yet morally be weak man, nor
could mans strength be estimated
by dollars and cents, for tho certain
scientists have declared that the actual
producing value of the average man is
| d
above price.
| To be a strong man a man must be
socially pure. The preacher spoke most
earnestly of the man whose life was
forfeited to the state not many hours
ago, because the social impurity of his
life had led him to commit one of the
greatest crimes ever recorded and the
law had declared him menace to So
| of To he strong man man must
/ be utterly unselfish. Selfshness, he
said, was the distinct characteristic OF
| a hog and was the essential difference
| between man and a brute. 1t not only
/ took intellect to make q strong man
but likewise spiritual power Man to-
day has conquered nature; he can con-
/ troll the lightning. harness the floods
make two blades of grass to grow
where only one was to be found orig
inal1y, he can mould human thought as
in the work Of the school teacher. but
for all that man is not strong man
unless his faith rests on the rock OF
Christ. He spoke of a church where
80 per cent were men, 1S per cent boys
and 30 per cent women, and quoted
some one as saying that there would
not be men enough in heaven to sing
bass. He said that strong man would
Railways be found in membership of q
church of the living God in Oeala to-
day are hundreds of men who neve,
enter a church, some have a wife, sor
or daughter who is a church member
and living a consistent Christian life
and they appear to think that in the
end they themselves will be redeemed
through the goodness of their family
While every strong man is a saved
man and a member of some church
yet every church member was not {
strong man or a saved man, many {
man gets into trouble or meets III
with some great sorrow and directly
they recall the fact that they are mem
bers of a church because many year:
before their names were entered on q
church book, and ministers are OTTER
called to officiate at some mans fun
leral of acknowledging by his life
they had no knowledge that he ha6
ever made a profession of Christ. ye
Ibis name was to be found some ole
church record. That man was any
thing but a strong man. Nan owes tt
his church all that makes him differ
ent from the rabble. The strong mar
in the church is man of sympathy, s
man of service and man of sacrifice
sympathy for the sorrows and bereave
ments of others, willing to give OF hi:
time and means to the work OF the
church even tho it entailed a grea
sacrifice. The burning shame, the cry
ing shame of the city of Ocala~ was th'
indifference of those who profess Il
be followers of Christ and members o
his church. and IN this he said ever.
: preacher in the city agreed.
In speaking of the snares and temp
tations in this city laid to destroy TIT
boys and girls. he said that two the,
were known to nearly all present ye
were they unspeakable, and that tn
off GERS of the 1aw-whose duty 1t wa
to protect these boys and girls ant
remove from their path the terrible
, evils placed before them-were onl.
what public sentiment made them. An'
, until such time true men, strons
men would sacrifice a part of thei
time for the benefit of their boys ans
girls and fellow citizens. these thing
would continue to exist.
1t was a soul stirring sermon ans
Mr.. Coleman was urged to repeat ii a
some time when large attendance o
the men of Ocala could be present.