The Daily Missoulian., 1913-02-27
DAY FULL Of INSPIRING SERVICES
BY EVANGELIST SMITH AND WORKERS
Morning Meeting Is Held the University and Both
ternoon and Early Evening Meetings for Women Attend
ance Is Good-"A Sure Thing is Evening Theme.

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i but it makes great difference wha'
You think about 1t.
| Major Whittle was a great evan
gelist and was associated with MT
Moody a good deal in his work. Major
| Wnittle used to relate an incident that
happened at a depot in a large city
Each one had to have his ticket
punched by the gatek eeper before he
was allowed to go to a train Upon
| this particular occasion the crowd was
| large and impatient. Some wanted
through who had no tickets and some
were in hurry They scrambled and
scolded, but the gateman remained
cool and firm. When the major came
not seem to be popular with this
crowd tonight The big fellow looked
down in scorn and said, No, am not
popular with this crowd, but l am
popular with the general superin-
tendent of this railroad My friends,
we are too often anxious about what
the crowd thinks, and on that account
we fail to value things Alright.
"Again-and this is the most i'm
portant point of alive must observe
to do. we shall lose what we learn
unless we put it into practice. Truth
must be done. young Indian went
from his tribe in Oklahoma to the In
dian school at Carlisle Penn. He did
well and gave great promise of useful
ness. Indeed, he was an honor stu
dent. But what happened to him? He
went back to his tribe and did moth
ing He lived his old life and made
no effort to do the things he learned.
And worse yet than that, he became
murderer We can see about us every
day such tragedies. There is nothing
sadder than the results of failing to
improve opportunity and of failing to
do what we have learned.
Afternoon Meeting.
The meeting at the Presbyterian
church was unique. The older people
were the guests. Before the Bible
reading Mr.. Smith called for testi-
monies from the people who have been
Christians 40 years and more. No one
could have seen and heard those old
saints speak of their JOY for so many
years in the service Of Jesus and of
their living faith and radiant hopes
without realizing that these old people
have something un-Christian people do
not have. Some who spoke have been
Christians over 70 years.
1t was a most impressive meeting.
The evangelist told them they were
Ia nf
list who has over a hundred people
who have been Christians over 70 years
praying for him every day.
The prayer meeting committee gave
each of these older people a carnation.
A Sure Thing.
BE sure your sin will FIND
you out" Numbers 80, 33, was the
text for the evening sermon. Said
the evangelist: "This is another text
from which you have heard many a
sermon, but never too many, for there
is not truer one in the Bible. In
fact, you may doubt all the rest OF
the book, but you cannot doubt TINS
portion Of it, for there never was
prophesy more true and none more
surely fulfilled. Sin has voice which
will be heard. 1t comes first of all
alluring and enticing, yea, even as an
angel of light at time, leading us on
to sin, then it comes with its awful
voice of retribution, remorse and
revelation, giving our sin to the world
in the most unlocked for moment. You
know that this is true whether you
are a Christian or not 1t does not
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THE Bible is full of illustrations of
the text. Our first parents proved
it to start with and cursed the race as
result, and then their elder son
slew his brother in a moment of anger.
and when the Lord asked Where Is
Abel, thy brother? he attempted to
cover the one sin by another and
said: I know not; am I my brothers
keeper And God said: Thy brothers
blood crieth unto me from the ground,
A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou
be in the earth. It was sins voice
coming to mock and condemn, proof
that sin cannot be covered.
King Saul furnishes another illus
tration of the text. He was command
ed by God to utterly destroy the
Amelekites. He disobeyed by saving
the best of the sheep and oxen, and
when the Prophet Samuel, the mouth
piece of God came, Saul said: I have
kept the commandment of the Lord,
but just at that moment the sheep
began to bleat and the cattle to low,
and Samuel asked: What meaneth
then this bleating of the sheep and the
lowing OF the oxen which / hear"
Sauls sin had found him out. Sins
voice will be heard.
David another King, committed
black sin, and he supposed he had II
hidden, but the Lord sent the Prophet
Nathan, who told the story of the lit
tie eve lamb, and David in anger
said: The man that hath done this
thing shall surely die,' d Nathan
said: Thou art the man. and David's
sin had found him out: and he cried,
I have sinned against the Lord
King Belshazzar sat feasting and
drinking with thousand of his lords
and in the midst of the debauchery
he called for the golden vessels which
had been taken from the temple of
God. and proclaimed them, and in the