The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-03-22
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While Rev. W A. Sunday was preach-
meeting q, the taesrnseie last evening
Rev. a. X. Peacock. MIR. Sundays as
sistant evangelist. Was preaching 10
their husbands. fathers. sons and broth
living n Christian life and pointing the
way 20 Jesus Christ and salvation at
the meeting for men held in the Fourth
Street u r. church on Chspline street.
In one of the most powerful and i'm
pressive sermons ever heard In wheel
Ing Evangelist Peacock made an earnest.
entreating appeal for volunteers TO Join
! In the personal workers movement. and
| at it's close over two hundred men. by
| going forward and grasping his hand.
signifed their intention and promised
! God that they would not let snythine
work. and that they would not miss an
| opportunity for bringing souls to
I Christ. In addition to this number or
men who pledged their support ana IN
3 fuence to the Personal Workers league
/ eight others publicly accepted Jesus
Christ as their Savior. and their names
We're added TO the list OF converts.
Choir Director Roceheaver and Plan
I ist Ackley, assisted by choir COM
/ posed Of male members. led In the sing
ing. a collection was taken for the
/ benefit OF the women OF the Sunday
party.
Personal WORK.
! Just preceding the sermon Mr.. Rode
HEAVIER made an appeal for personal
workers to enlist in the movement. and
I in part said: a membership campaign
/ has just been closed by your board OF
trade. II w@s conducted by 100 Of the
| business men Of this city.
| Evangelist Peacock ennouced his text
from Zachariah 9:12-"Turn you 10 the
stronghold. ye prisoners OF hope: even
to-day do declare that I will render.
double unto thee" He began by say
is how can SO many people. saved
! through Jesus Christ and the Holy
| Spirit. good men and women knowing OF
the salvation from sin, can sit still and
| do nothing to save others.
! Claim Reward.
| Il do not propose to preach tonight
/ about the men who have been dead for
| so or 100 years. They. were born. have
| lived this life. Erasped or failed to
grasp these opportunities died and have
gone TO claim their reward. Neither do
] intend to preach about the people who
I will live 30 or 100 years from now. who
are yet to be born. are yet 10 live this
I life. are to meet these opportunities and
! when death comes are TO go TO claim
1 tn ctr reward.
The great question OF the salvation
I OF souls OF others God and the Holy
! Spirit ~ presenting TO us-to you and
| TO me IL seems strange that so many
| men and women are interested in the
| work OF salvation and have no more con-
| Germ over the souls OF other people than
II they We're not concerned at al. l
| can't understand how Jesus puts up
| with II when people are so careless and
indifferent about the spiritual welfare
OF others.
| All Must Die.
y do not attempt to preach as does
| Mr.. sunday. ! can't express II in the
lures and illustrations But I am going
TO preach In = straightforward manner
every day facts that you all know and
| everybody can understand. You all
know that everyone must die. Every
one here is one day nearer his home in
heaven or eternity in hell that at this
II Is appointed once unto every person
TO die and then cometh the judgment OF
God. The Wheeling cemeteries will tell
look at tomb stone without the thought
| that every one must pass down throug II
the valley Of the shadow OF death That
/ should be enough 10 turn people away
| from sin 90 God
In the word OF God We hnd but two
people have left this earth without
death-Enoch and Elijah. The Bible
says that Enoch was no more. for he
had gone 20 God. and that Elijah as
/ cended into heaven in chariot OF FIRE.
/ Those two men are the only ones re-
1 corded IA the Bible or any other book.
/ Remember that none are gdoo in the
| sight OF God except Jesus Christ unless
they accept Him as their Savior. You
are not what you ought TO be. We nave
all sinned No one lives who hash {
sinned In thought. word or deed.
Swearing.
a lawyer in Lynchburg where was
preaching one time was insulted when
! ] said that lie said I'm an elder IN
the Methodist church, and ! haven't
sinned IN IS years. I'm Spiritually sane.
tIaed Why. couldn't SIN ~ wanted
to He Just spoiled a good sermon by
saying that lis son-in-law. the cashier
% a bank and a good fellow. told me
about 80 aud how TO get the old man.
so the next evening when he came "a
the meeting l asked him how about
the time when. two weeks before at q
business meeting in the church when
he tried 10 oppose something and an
rather person championed the cause and
carried 81 through. N he didn't lose his
temper and when he met the other fell
low ~ TIE door after the meeting " he
didn't curse like q fool lie replied that
he had forgotten all about swearing lie
said that he had been comparing him
SELF with himself. and not BY the stan
dard OF Jesus Christ. and until I made
that comparison he DID not know that
was
1t doesn't matter ~ you don't owe
anybody anything. II you aren't a booze
should 20 win souls for Cnrist you will
have 10 account for g. You say you
can't enssgs In personal work because
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