The daily sentinel., 1913-10-27
SUNOAYWASBUSY
DAY FOR REV.
CROSS
Evangelist Preached at Three
Services; Big Crowds Heard
Him on Main Street.

Sunday was a great day in the SER
les of revival services at the Chris
tian church. Evangelist Cross
preached three times to large audien-
ces with more than his usual fervor
and enthusiasm. The large choir and
the orchestra helped to make the mu-
sic of the day especially strong and
inspiring. Two hundred copies of
the new hymnal, Familiar Songs of
the Gospel" arrived Saturday and
were used for the first time in the
meetings Saturday night and yester-
day.
The meetings in the Sullivan
building Saturday night and Sunday
afternoon drew good crowds and
demonstrated that at least one
church in Grand Junction is suffi-
ciently anxious to reach the nom
comfortable building and go down
on the street where the people are.
The Sunday faternoon lecture to men
was on the topic, Selling the Birth
right" II was a stirring appeal to
men for clean lives and high ideals
of manhood
"All of u.s." said DR.. Cross, have
or ought to have the birthright of a
clean body. The old curse of Jeho-
yah in which he promised to visit
the sins of the fathers upon the
children unto the third and fourth
generations, most certainly referred
to the results OF impure and unclean
living. We Americans delight to
boast of how we can lick the world;
but do we realize that today we have
in our army the most rotten body of
men, physically and morally, that
I.r.. .xT Al al,
of earth / know whereof | speak.
As an officer of one of the best reg
iments of national guards in the
South, / have had ample opportunity
to observe the life of Uncle Sans
troops"
The evangelist gave startlingly
graphic description of the decline and
decay of Rome, and likened her vic
es to those of the present day. Then
he told of the barbarian inyasions
moving upon the weakened city and
empire with relentless force. The
lesson which he impressed upon his
audience was that history repeats it.
self. and that if we expect to endure
as a nation We must work startling
and speedy reforms or we shall fail
when the testing time comes. He
plead with the assembly of men that
they should hold fast to their birth
rights of clean body, good name
and a pure conscience.
The Sunday night sermon drew a
crowded house. The theme was
What Does 1t Take to Save Sin
ner?" Rev. Cross maintained that
several things were essential. and
took issue squarely with the old the
illogical dogma that maintains that
salvation is by faith alone. He quot
ed scripture with readiness and
rapidity that amazed his audience,
giving book, chapter and verse; to
substantiate each affirmation. To
make his position clear, the evange-
list used the illustration of fisher
man, who boasting of his string of
fish, attributed his success to his
line alone. But, his comrades re-
minded him, "you could not have
caught them without the hook, the
rod. the bait, the reel, etc" Just
so," insisted DR.. Cross, 1--WE cannot
attribute salvation to any one iso-
lated thing. Each of ten or more
things enters into the regeneration
of a sinner The Bible plainly teach
es that we are saved by each and all
of the following blessed means:
grace, the blood OF Christ, the gospel,
the preaching of the gospel, faith, re-
pentance, confession, baptism, love,
works and hope. The apostle Paul
sums up these qualities in ! Corin-
thians, 18th chapter and says that
the greatest of these is love- and
yet how many preachers do you hear
today proclaiming love as essential
to salvation? We must preach and
believe and practice full. we'll
rounded gospel. or We do injustice to
cur Lord and Master"
The meetings continue through
out the week at 1880 each evening
in the Christian church. The sub
/ iect tonight iS THE Foolishness of
Cod The "Wednesday night lecture
this week will be on, Wanted
Man."