Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-02-04
MANY ATTEND
 THE REVIVAL Big Crowd Heard Rev. Ab- salom Knox at the First
 Methodist Church. A STRONG SERMON How the Door of the Kingdom of God Is Obstructed-Scryices Sun.
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 A good congregation gathered at the First Methodist church last night notwithstanding the rain that fell late yesterday evening. Rev. Absa- lom Knox preached strong sermon on how the door of the Kingdom of God is obstructed He said in part:
 T want to talk to you tonight on Matt. 23:13-fWoe unto you Scribes and Pharisees hypcrits! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men, Our Lord seldom spoke in harsh language. But sometime ha said. woe. He had no patience with sin, yet he loved the sinner. Those men who brought before him a wo- man was sinner, he denounced: but he forgave the woman. Jesus had a righteous indignation against a stumb- ling block. The man, said Jesus. who would offend should have milestone about his neck, and be cast into the sea want to speak to you about those who shut up the kingdom.
 The preacher himself sometimes shuts the door. Heaven has an open l, door. The holy place of the Temple was not open to any but the high priest. But when Christ died the veil Of the Temple was rent from the top to the bottom, that all now might enter. Yet there is no one but that can oDstruct this door. Peter had the keys in his day. Now you and I have them Yes, the preacher by an imprudent life may shut this door, I refer not to the preacher guilty of crime, but to the one whose conduct causes peoples eyebrows to knit. He closes the door by preaching a weak gospel, too.
 'Unwise parents shut the door against their children. A child is not apt to push its way to kingdom when their parents object. A moth- CT protested against her twelve-year- old daughter becoming Christian. The child at the time was very anx- ious to do SO. But the mother would not at all consent. Three years lat CT I was that woman's pastor and I never saw more irreverant and scornful person toward religion than that girl had now become. That mo- ther now sought the pastors help to get her daughter to be religious. Get out of the way and let your children come into the kingdom.
 Inconsistent church members shut the door. have been reading the so- ciety column and some church mem- bers are shutting the door They neither go in themselves, nor let oth- CTS go in. They ought to go in, or get out. They stop the door. God help you to get out of the way. But, sim ner, there will always be somebody in your way. If you ever get in, you will have to push your way right In. A poor woman once had to press her way through to Christ. But she got healed when she touched him. rich man, Zaccheus, climbed tree just to see Jesus. When he saw Jesus he came down and pushed his way through to Jesus and was saved. The friends of certain sick man pushed their way through the crowd and down through the roof of the house, till they were able to lay their SICK friend right before the Masters face. And he was healed. Sinner, let me urge you to push right through.
 Services were announced again TOT tomorrow night, Sunday, and posslDV for all next week. Everybody IS ln- vited to attend these services.