The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-04-08

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q delightful song service was given by
the choir under the efficient leadership
CT Mr.. Mitchell AMI assisted by the
congregation. Marked improvement is
rcred each service in Inc choir The
West Virginia Hills" was practtced
lgstnight and the choir will sing this
song at an early date.
Mrs. eoweIl's Solo.
Mrs. Grace PcwelI in her usual
pleasing style sang u Love Him, Be-
cause. He First Loved Me-" to the IA
milinr tune OF "Oid Black joe" The
congregation gave the most rapt atten'
ton during the rendition OF this song.
street Meetings.
The announcement was made Mon
day night that on Wednesday street
meeting would be held in charge OF
Mr. Pltzer. Announcements as 10 the
time and place OF this meeting will be
made tonight
Tile neighborhOod prayer meetings
will begin Wednesday morning when
services will be held in the various
districts beginning at $3.50 o'clock.
White flags will be placed upon the
houses in which the meetings will be
held
Wednesday afternoon the afternoon
tabernacle meetings will begin,
DR.. Lyon told his audience how To
Prepare ye the way Of the Lord aud
make his paths straight" in most
forcible and convincing manner and
among other things said:
DR.. Lyon preached from tho theme,
Prepare We the way OF the Lord and
make his paths straight" Luke BAD
LET me tell you" he expended the
Word OF God has to come 10 man be-.
fore he can give it to an one else
ard You must open your heart 10 g'!.
a blcss:E; if you would c2eu your
'ieart 10 set blessing!
The work and mission 81 I"hB wd&
preparing for the work Of Christ ana
tie portion OF man is to make opera
:ivc, and effective the workings OF God.
There are two things that sand ont
in this: first, the man, anI second,
the message. They come in this
order for what man il is greater
than what ne does. We want TO learn
the lessons Of Johns life and his Cos
iel tonight and take them unto ou&
selves for our guidance in tbs work
that We are Ia. do with God" said The
rrearheiH
First, JOHN had the elemen. Of nil.
mility, one of the taires; Jewels in the
crown of Christian cllaraGLHr Where
there is great strength in Il lie there
is apt TO be also great weakness.
Where there is power the'e iSsapt to
be great arrogance. There are lots of
us whr won't argue that we're great
pecple--we admit it! It c0rsn't'take
much 10 make most of us believe lnat
we are something beyond others.
Pulled Up Like Pup.
DR., Lyun then told Of man to
whom he recently addressed inc Gues.
ton "Are YOU Christian The
answer camr hack, no, don't think
so, but there are lots of things that
Mr.. SOandso does that wouldn't
think Of doing, but he calls himself 4
Christian Pured up and crying like
load Or poisoned pup! a lot seems
big until it sees plain. the hills
seem great until they are ovcrShadow-
eG By mountain. Oliver Wendell
Holmes tells us that We can only
Judge thr success or fixture Of our
lives by Il comparison Of our fame
with the successes and failures of
those with whom We started cut in
life.
But you cant apply thar standard
at the Judgment bar OF God; when
John cOntrastcd his greatness and
goodness with that Of Jesus he said
that there was TO come One whose
shoes he was not worthy TO uniatch.
John had the clement of unset
nshncss," DC ,lared the speaker. He
was willing TO be simply II preacher
in the wilderness. He might have
been arrogant, but he wasn't. and you
and | ought TO have characters like
that, but we haven't. Some people
believe that religion depends on beef,
much as they believe that Jack
johnson is greater than 4 Napoleon.
One young lady at a revival meeting,
and she had more mint en- her face
than sllO had brains in her head. turn
ed to her companion and said. Wasn't
the speaker beautifully drossed% |
pray that you maybe SO interest in
the messages of this revival that you
will forget all about what the preach.
er looks like"
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