The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-23
MANY CONVERTS.
ScOville Meetings Have Convert
ed Over Two Hundred.
Evangelist breaches Sermon on
Life of Noses.

Twenty-seven persons answered the
invitation at the Scovflle meeting in
the auditorium last night. The num-
Der of converts in the nine days of
service now number 236.
DR.. -Scoville took his text from the
eleventh chapter of Hebrews on the
word Faith and preached from the
subject, The Eternal Choice of
World Famous Man.
He led up to the story of the life of
Moses, to where Moses had to choose
between the crown of Egypt or the
crown of life.
He said: "Sin of any kind only
lasts for a season, that a sinful per-
son may have their slaves. their SER
wants. their fine animals and car
riages and have the wealth of the
land today, but tomorrow things will
be changed. Often vice wears the
purple, while virtue the rags, but there
will come change for The Lord
knows the way of the righteous, but
the way of the sinful shall perish
Il dare anyone to follow a wicked
man for 20 years, and then come back
and say all is we'll. It can't be done.
"a great mans work will be looked
at, be Investigated and will be said
by the great men of the nation, How
| SPOdhSln lHlS man
Il can see three great professions
going up Mt. Moriah, near Jerusalem.
First Abraham trods up the hills with
MS son Isaac, to give him as a sac
rifice to God, when God shows him a
ram, which he burns instead. Hun
dreds of years lapse between and
again David and Solomon trod the
same path, up the same hill, and
again, hundreds of years pass and the
Lord Jesus Christ goes up the same
path, on the same hill, dragging with
him the rugged cross. He trod that
stony path alone-where the third
great sacrifice was given"
It was all done in the fearlessness of
COD The mother of George Washington
saw the fearlessness of danger that her
son possessed. and when the battle was
won, and George Washington came out
the victor that he did his good old mother
say, without that mother, and that pray
er, George washington might have been
anything else but what he was, and this
nation be anything but what it is today.
so when King Pharaoh send out the
to death there were ninety days that
baby boy was concealed by his mother,
be found she began scheming and devised
the plan of putting in the basket on the
water among the PUSHES, right near the
place where the kings daughter came
to bathe. This she did and when the
child was found the sister of the child,
who had kept watch, asked if she didn't
want nurse for the child that she in
tended to keep. When the answer came
that she did, the girl called her mother.
During the years that the mother had
the keeping of her son, she would walk
with him and teach him of her God and
her way of believing, showed him the
difference of right and wrong, told him of
the time that would soon come when he
would have to make that great decision
between the river Nile and the river of
Life, between the crown of Egypt and the
crown of Life, and SO Rachel left her son.
but with him she left the impression that
guided that great man the rest of his
life.
The hand that rocks the cradle will
rule the world if care is taken to rule
while it is yet in the cradle.
THE biggest fool in the world today is
| the mother who says her boy is not yet
old enough to accept Christ
Hebrew lad Moses came, great banquet
/ was prepared by the king, with his daugh-
ter, the great number of assembled hosts,
| the dignitaries of the land looking down
! lad fought the battle alone whether love
/ and duty of the king, his throne and the
/ kingdom, whether his mothers God,
/ and Moses said NO to all the king s
pleading.
| IF the decision had not been made that
way the Red sea would have never open
1 ed as it did. the mama from heaven
/ would have never come to him: He never
lost sight of his mothers Cod
He then told story of a Scotch woman
| who with her son started to Marlborough
college,; night was coming on and the
mother had to leave the boy and go back
but before she left him she told him thai
perhaps she would never live to see him
| for Jesus. She held on to her God and
| her boy and prayed that the boy might
| never lose sight of Jesus. The boy aftes
! an old man said: MY mother that nigh