The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-20
PROFIT AND LOSS"
SERMON THEME
AUDIENCE HEARS ELOQUENT AD-
DRESS AND TESTIMONY
OF CONVERTS.

1llieu again last evening WIN an au-
dience, not five percent of which was
made up of children, to hear Evan
gelist c.. c. Smith. The musical pro-
gram was one of the best that has
been rendered. The choir sang a
general %favorite, can Hail the Power
of Jesus Name" to the Welsh melody,
BY request Mr.. klingler rendered
Saved" the quartet ang That Beau
tiful Land and Mrs. Harold e. High
sang The Battle Hymn of the Re
public" the choir and audience joining
in the chorus enthusiastically.
A notable feature of the service was
the striking testimony of a number of
men who, having tried a life of folly
n sin, testified to the saving power
of Jesus Christ and to their great JOY
in beginning to serve him. Each one
of those who talked had recently been
converted.
The afternoon meeting yesterday
was another Of great interest and
profit to the large audience assembled.
Evangelist Smith gave his first Bible
reading in a series of three on THE
Progressive Christian Life The spe-
cial topic yesterday was "Separation
From the World or Christian Conse-
Grafton" The main thought running
through the address was the privilege
and the duty of the Christian to rise
to a higher level of Christian living
for his own sake, for the sake of
Others and to fulfill the command of
God.
Evening.
Mr.. Smiths theme last evening was
profit and Loss" He used as his
text I Timothy 4,S-9: For bodily ex-
ercise is profitable for a little, but
Goodness IS profitable unto all things,
having promise for the life hat now
Is a faithful saying and worthy OF all
acceptation." Mr.. Smith said: This
Is one Of Gods many concentrations,
and naturally there arises in the minds
of many the question What is Godli-
ness?' Sometimes the best way to get
at what a thing is, is to look at what
it is not. Goodness is not being good
according to Il own ideas and notions
regarding goodness. Every Cody man
is certainly a good man, but not every
so-called good man is a Cody man.
According to Gods word there is a
far reach between the two. and right
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terribly deluded. Goodness is not
trusting in ones own goodness.
I'm the second place, Goodness is
not trusting in the goodness of others.
BY some it is looked upon as a pass
ing joke for an evangelist to say a
certain man is trusting in his wife's
religion, but it is not joke in more
ways than one. Many a man Is do
ing that identical thing. Many a son
thinks he has a passport straight to
Heaven, because he has or has had a
Cody mother, but this fact only in
creases our responsibility and adds to
the guilt of refusing the real Cody
life in Christ. This, too, is a great
delusion.
Then there are those who have an
idea that going to church is Godli-
ness. l know, and so do you, that
every Cody person win be a church,
goer, but not every churCh-goer is a
Cody person. Here is another big
difference I have no respect for any
so-called respectable person who never
goes to church. Say what You will,
it is a form of heathenism. and I pity
a child born into sue q home, but in
spite of all that, you can go to church
and go to church and not necessarily
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