The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-04-03
JESUS KNOCKING 1T
THE DOOR OF THE HEART


the Central Presbyterian church
just before the benedietion was pro,
nouneed. $50 far / have touched
that subject gently, but it is my
purpose to handle it quite severely
tomorrow night in general dis
course on sinful amusemeuts. How
parents can fix up their daughters
| and send them out to take lessons
from a contemplate, lecherous
dancing master or dancing mistress
is more than can understand"
The evangelist indicated In his
announcement that he would have
something interesting to say on
these subjects tonight 1t is expected
that he will be quite severe in his
| denunciation of the dancing evil
| All previous records were broken
| in the attendance last night 1t was
believed Sunday night and Monday
| night that the seating limit had
been reached, but the ushers man.
aged to crowd in a large number of
extra chairs, and then quite q nnm-
Der of people were forced to stand.
So densely packed was the crowd
that the collectors had difficulty In
getting through to take the evening
offering.
The preparatory song and prayer
service was good and the solos by
Evangelist Carter were impressively
rendered; The two evangelists
sang, Saved by Grace" the congre-
cation taking up the chorus. BY re-
quest Mr.. Carter sang 'tHe Lifted
Me" and when he had finished he
appealed to the unsayed to let Jesus
lift them up out of sin into new
life.
Evangelist Hendrick announced
as his text Revelation $3.50, 'sBe-
hold, | stand at the door, and
knock: If any man hear my voice,
and open the door, I will come in
to him, and will sup with him, and
he with me-"
The evangelist began his sermon
with an illustration of some one
standing at the door of friend and
knocking for admittance. He said
Christ had been seeking an en-
trance to the hearts of people ever
| since they we're children, If the
door is oponed, he said. you must
4 open 1t from the inside. Christ Ii
4 knocking but YOU have the doc
], closed against him
u He said the first thought Ii
d wanted to notice was a closed hear
Via heart closed against Christ an
\ against salvation. He said that q
!, there was no room for the Chris
r child at the Inn SO there has been n
room since then for him In man,
human hearts He said that TIN
heart was closed by reconsideration
Salvation Is the only thing that car
| satisfy the longings of human
heart. and yet people keep the door
closed against Christ. Inconsidera-
ton he said, was a very serious
thing The heart is not only closed
by reconsideration, but it is closed
by prejudice. Christ and his doc
trine, he said were never popular
with some classes He said some
people were prejudiced against re-
ligion because of its requirements.
He said he liked the christian relig-
| ion because it pledges us to sonic
thing definite Another prejudice is
that some people in the church are
hypocrites. Il regret that this is
true he said, but the existence
of counterfeit by no means proves
the non-existence of the genuine.
have a counterfeit dollar at home,
but that does not prove that there
are no genuine dollars. We are no1
to be judges of the lives of people
while we live down here. We don't
expect to live perfect lives. We are
surrounded by too many things that
are liable TO lead US astray. There
may be hypocrites in the church,
there may be some counterfeit
christians, but there is plenty Of the
genuine article and there is a great
deal more of the genuine than the
/ false
/ Another prejudice, he said, is
that religion is gloomy. This he de-
MED. These preachers here" he
said, are not gloomy. / don't sup
/ pose there is anybody who is hap
per IMAM tbcg dIS. IlSItStoH IL nv
something of sadness but IT Is some
thing of gladness. 1t cheers us up
when our friends are passing thru
the valley of death. and 1t strength
ems us when we come to tell ouT
loved ones goodbye. / have seen
some people who claimed to have re-
ligion who looked gloomy. but that
was not caused by religion; there
was probably something wrong with
their liver. The man on the outside
doesn't know anything about the
joys of religion because he has new
err tried it,"
The evangelist said the Savior
was often excluded from the heart
by presumption. He said we should
all do the best we could, but We
should never be satisfied with per
sonal effort. We should open tbs
door of the heart and let Chris
come in.
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