The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-10
sundays EvANGEUSTC MEETINGS
SHOW GREAT WAVE Of KEEN INTEREST
Evangelist Smith Talks to Great Crowd of Men in After
noon and Bishop Brewer Speaks to W~omen-Young
People Have Union Service and the Night Meeting Is
Attended by Largest Crowd of the Series.

best and unqueStiOnably he made a
most favorable impression. This was
the first of the meetings for men to
be held each Sunday afternoon during
this month. Next Sunday Mr.. Smith
will tell the story of the rescue Of
Win Mcclure, a railroad engineer.
The men of the regular chorus made
up the choir for the afternoon meet
ing n the special music was rem
dered by a quartet composed of
Messrs. Smith, Gilmore, Klingler and
G. A. McAllister. This made a splen-
did vocal combination and the selec-
tions of. the quartet were beautiful. In
his sermon Mr.. Smith said. in part:
Many Of you were here last Friday
night when 1 spoke on the subject:
How Can l Know the Bible Is True
You will remember that at the close Of
the address I asked all who believe the
Bible is the Word of God to stand
From where / stood l could not see
that anyone remained in his seat. I
am told there were some, but there
were only a few But nearly every
person in this hall stood Now, any
man who does not believe the Bible is
the Word of God is not to be con-
graduated. He Is like a ship in a
storm without a rudder. He is like a
pilot without chart INC compass.
THE fact is that nearly everyone
does believe the Bible is the Word
Of God, Now, men. we are going to
stand by the Bible today. And we
are going to measure ourselves by this
book. Let us not deceive ourselves.
We can deceive others and ourselves.
Some men try to hide their sin from
others under the CLOAK of church
membership. Some men make them
selves think they are safe, and are
deceiving themselves by their cloak
Of responsibility. They are to be
pitied.
, The man who is a clean, upright
citizen, but Is not a processing Chris
tan, is the man we are to deal with
this afternoon. He Is the hardest kind
of a man to lead to Christ because
he is so clean and is living so nearly
right that he cannot see what Is lack
ing, especially when he is con cared
with some church members. But If
he refuses TO accept Jesus Christ he
will fail of attaining eternal life as
surely as If, desiring to go to St.
Paul, he were to run to catch the
train and then refused to step on it
after he reached it. Every man must
take the last step.
John Mcneil, the Scotch preacher.
had lived a high moral life and often
became angry when anyone old him
he was a sinner. But finally he saw
that though he was not guilty Of
every sin, he was yet guilty of some
sins, and had sin in him.
These moral men do much harm.
They have great Influence in keeping
men out of the church and away from
Christ. One such man will keep more
people from becoming Christians than
all the d~runkards and thieves in town.
The devil helps some men to be moral.
He can we'll afford to-"
To illustrate his the speaker told
a story about a faithful old slave in
the south who was a Christian. His
master was a southern gentleman.
with ancestry clean and fine in his
life, but not a Christian. Sam often
told his master he ought to be a
Christian. But his master would reply
by asking Sam to explain how it was
that he, a Christian. was often tempted
of the devil while he himself never
had any such experiences. This was
always beyond Sans reach. Blu one
day when they were hunting ducks
they fired into a lock and killed one
and wounded another. Sam started
for the dead duck, but his master
said: Sam. leave the dead one he
will stay there, and go get the wounded
! one" Sam pursued the wounded duck