The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-03-28
WHITE FLOWERS WORN
IN MEMORY OF MOTHER
The ExaYtation of the Home Was
Stressed in the Services We'd
nesday Night.


| trail Presbyterian church Wednes-
day evening. The sermon OF Evange-
list Hendrfck was on the subject OF
1.-THE Old Fashioned Home" and
most of the songs of the evening
were well suited to the occasion.
Evangelist Carter sang God Give
Us Homes and Memories of Moth
err
A white flower worn by every
person in the audience in memory
. of mother added to the beauty Of
the service A committee of ladies
stood at the entrance of the church
with an abundance of flowers and
as the people came flower was
pinned on each one. Large vases of
flowers were placed on the tables
and stands in front of tho pulpit.
In spite OF the slow rain which
fell during the afternoon and a
threatened continuation OF the pro-
lcipitation in the evening the church
was almost filled. The service was
decidedly the best one that has
been held At the conclusion of the
sermon and when the invitation was
extended to all unsaved to come
forward and give the preacher their
hand as token that they believed
In the religion of their mother and
desired to be saved from sin score
or more of young people responded
Young men and young women. boys
and girls fTocked to the altar to
shake hands with the preacher.
Evangelist Hendrick said he was
glad it rained, and he believed the
revival was just starting.
During the preliminary song ser
vice prayer was offered by Rev A.
C. Parker.
Evangelist Hendrick said he had
been asked since coming to the
church If he was going to change
his subject because of the rain. He
said he told them no. He said when
subject was announced he thought
a preacher ought to go ahead and
preach on It.
After reading two passages ~
scripture for a text Evangelist Hen
drick said he had read somewhere
that the most sacred spot on earth
was the home. He said the building
might not be palatial and the furn-
Iishings might not be costly but Il
Twas a home. He sale some people Of
( ten referred 70 the capitol at Wash
lington as being the home OF the ma
u ton, but he declared the real HON
+ of the nation was In the quiet home
Is all over the country. He said h
g hoped the people would AWAY
9 stand for the American home Fl.
9 Idea of a religious home. We have
: drifted away from the old fashioned
8 home. he said, and we ought to
I stand more and more for the AM
erican home where christian love
, abounds He snid IL the ROM
! Ian Catholics lead the prot
. estants In any one respect It
was in the value they placed on
, childhood. He then spoke of the
undying love Of mother for her
child. Many persons, he said. have
ridden safely over the pillows of life
on a mothers prayer He said we 60
through life and think we are TAX
ing care of ourselves when in fact
1--we are influenced by a mothers
: prayer He appealed for the highest
4 religious ambition In the home.
Some children grow up, he said,
without ever hearing prayer In
the home or blessing said at the
table. We are leaving something
out Of our American life,
The said, when we do not have high
Religious ambitions for our children.
He said there was no greater re-
sponsibility than the responsibility
OF the home. We need few more
good old leveI-headed fathers and
mothers in this country, he said.
The evangelist said when he was a
boy he never heard Of the curfew.
7 They did not have that kind of law
then. The only curfew he knew, he
= said, was enforced by his father.
He declared that the great battle
for God and righteousness must be
fought out in the home. II there is
II a deck Of cards there, he said, burn
them UP. Let the sideboard be
| swept clear of all kinds of liquor.
Don't put liquor In the fruit cake,
i he said. If you soak cake in liquor
and some member of the family be-
comes drunkard who IL to blame2
he asked He said he did not be-
lieve In liquor in any shape, not
even for medicine.
II In discussing the evils Of dancing
the evangelist said II you keep the
private dance out of the home you
will keep the public dance out OF
:, the town.
/ ItfEarIy christian training was urg-
ed. He said the children ought to
climb out OF the cradle into the out
stretched arms OF Jesus.
At the conclusion of the services
the evangelist announced that he
would probably preach this evening
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