The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-04-02
EVANGELIST SPEAKS ON
SUBJECT OF HOLY CITY
A Large Audience Was in Attend
ance and There Were Four
Conversions During Day.

There we're hundreds of tear
dimmed eyes at the Central Presby-
terian church last night while Mr..
Il Do" The words of this song were
written by DR.. Sullins, the father
in-Iaw of George Stuart When Mr..
Catrer had finished singing the song
! he asked the congregation to siag
the last verse with him, and 1t
seemed that almost every voice in
the house joined in this hymn of
praise and victory.
The attendance last night was
equally as large as tAat OF Sunday
night and some estimate it as being
larger. The aisies and the floor
space in front of the pulpit were
filled with chairs and all were occu-
pied.
| The song service was good and It
| Is HOtlCeu that 6fSdtSi uuhECi III
the congregation are taking part in
| this feature of the service. The
song service closed with Il An
Bound for the Promised Land" and
when 1t had been finished by the
entire congregation Mr.. Carter said
You go ahead and lead it, Brother
Whitehurst," said Mr. Carter, adj
dressing the pastor of the church.
Then Rev. J. Edward johnson was
asked to- lead the song for the Bap-
lists. Row, Brother Parker, you
and your people sing it." said Mr..
Carter to the pastor of the Main
Street Christian church. Mr.. Parker
caused a hearty laugh by asking
the evangelist If he wanted him to
sing solo.
The prayers during the prelimin-
ary service were offered by Rev. J.
Johnson and Rev. ]. A.
Whitehurst.
During this service Mr.. Carter
sang "The Holy City" and Il Want |
to Go There, I Do"
Evangelist Hendrick said he had
two texts for his sermon on
THE Holy City The first was He
brews 1914, For here we have no
continuing city, but we seek one to
come.n Second text, Revelations
2, And / John saw the holy city,
new Jerusalem, coming down from
God out of heaven, prepared as q
bride adorned for her husband"
1 I'VE read in Revelations 22:14.
said the preacher, that blessed arc
they that do his commandments
that they may have right TO the
tree Of life. and may enter In
through the gates into the city.
! In beginning his sermon the
Evangelist said that great cities
| We're prominent feature In the his
| tory Of the world. The history OF
italy clustered about Rome and the
history of ancient Greece conferred
about Athens. Future historians
who write the history of this coun-
try will no.-doubt make prominent
mention of the important cities.
He said the cities of this earth
are not permanent and continuing,
All things are subject to decay and
there is no safety in a city. We have
no continuing city, he said, but we
seek one to come. He said he was
not going to speculate about this
city. 1t is a real city, permanent
abiding place, place where there
is JOY and gladness. The city of God
will be no less real to the chris
tians than was Palestine to the chill
dren of Israel. 1t is not only real
city, but it is a holy city. Nothing
unclean will enter there. "How do
you think an unredeemed soul
would feel there?' he asked. But
there will not be single unredeem-
ed soul there"
He told story of a drunk man
going to sleep on boat and the
boat was chartered for a Sunday
school excursion. The singing of the
| children on the boat awoke the
drunkard and when he found out
where he was and who he was with
F., he asked the captain to stop the
boat and put him off. THAT fellow
must have been wretched," said the