The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-06-23
ENCAMPMENT Opens
With LARGE
CROWDS
EIGHT DAYS MMETlNG OF BAP-
lists BEGAN SUNDAY AT
IMMANuEL CHURCH.
SERMONS BY DR.. CRUTCHfR
Featured First Days ExercIses-CIass
Work Began In Earnest This Morn
ins-Dr. Meelathin Spoke on Life
and Character of Moses.

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Local interest in the South Mis-
sissippi Baptist Encampment was
marked Sunday by the large crowd
that assembled at both the morning
and evening services held In Emmanuel
Baptist church on the opening Of the
eight days encampment
The published program for Sunday
was carried out except that in the ab-
sence of H. M. King the sunset SER
vice at 7:15 was conducted solely by
Rev. j. e. Byrd, of Mt. olive, who
is the field Sunday school secretary of
the State Baptist convention, and
president of this encampment; and
that L. P. Leavelrs place on the pro-
gram was supplied by Arthur Flake.
who Sunday night spoke on the B. Y.
P. U. work, of which he is general
secretary.
Dr. G. H. Crutcher state secretary
of the Baptist board of missions for
Louisiana with headquarters at
Shreveport, held the close attention
of the audiences at both morning and
evening services by his strong, vigor-
GUS sermons expressed in the most
earnest and polished language. The
subject of DR.. Crutcher's sermon in
the morning was "-1ife Sun in Eclipse"
The Scripture used was an account of
SIMPSONS visit to Casa. He said
that the meaning of the word Sampson
is "a little sun" Emphasis was laid
upon Sampson's devinely ordained
mission in life and the fact that as a
Nazarite he was forbidden forever to
use strong drink, that even before his
birth divine command to his mother
forbade her even to eat a grape. He
spoke of how the liquor forming habit
was often the result of giving a toddy
to the baby, and advised parents to
beware of the use of that in the care
of their infants, which may lead 10
evil habits. After saying that it is
no difficult matter to live a correct,
pure life at an encampment, such as
this, the speaker said that the boy or
girl who expected to have any influ-
ence in a community must stand
against those counter influences that
tend to destroy the moral character
DR.. Crutcher took up the life of
Sampson and related the story in mod
ern language. and by it's simple tel
ling impressed the truths he sought to
teach. He said the first thing Samp-
son did was to go down into Philistia
to get a wife and added, "one way to
get into trouble is to marry into it."
Take the advice of your parents
when it comes to this important mat
ter of marrying" said he.
Referring to SIMPSONS conduct when
he got down into Philistia, he compar-
ed it to the too common habit in Amer
lea of enforcing every declaration with
Il bet you" He said also that Samp-
son wanted to be "the whole thing"
and said this was mistake made by
many a preacher who instead of de-
church workers in his con-
gregation by giving them something
to do, he too often wanted to do
everything. The preacher who does
the most is not the one who does
everything, but the one who gets ev-
erybody else to doing something.
When Sampson was caught, bound
and carried as helpless man before
the standing Philistine army they re-
joiced at his helplessness, but while
standing there, the object of their de-
rision and his sun eclipse, the spirit
of his God came upon him and realiz-
ing that it was his sin that had brought
him there. he would teach his enemies
that 1t was not their god who did SO,
hence he picked up the bone lying
near and put to fight the enemies of
the Most High God.
The eclipse of the sun suggests
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