The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1914-07-01
Temperature at Tabernacle Due Ia
Rise Tonight = Mcconnell An
nounces Topic Of Sermon
Warm One Promised
HOLD DAY SERVICES
9 A. M. TOMORROW
Immortality Of Soul, Subject Of Ser
mon Last Night 'Big Bill'
Conducts Mems Meeting
at Bank


Lincoln Mcconnell delivered ser
mon last night on mans immortality.
setting forth the assurance of life
alter mortal death. and 1t engaged the
rapt attention of the congregation.
The versatility of this preacher viii
be further eyideaced tonight when he
will speak on s'The DEVILS Decoy
Ducks in Chickssha" His decoy duck
sermon Is said Tito be scathing ar
raignment. of sig as presented under
the guise Of pleasure and amusement.
and is highly Sensational. 1t will nit
the social target iiss Chickasha
| It was announced shat beginning to-
morrow DR.. Mcconnell will speak at
day services at the tabernacle at 9 a.
m. The hour for the cottage prayer
meetings is changed to 2:3O p. m.
Mcconnell last nigat rected several
striking texts or declarations from
the Bible that indicated to all Chris
tians the certainty of hereafter. such
as 1T is appointed for maM once to
die-and then the Judgment" We
must all appear before the Judgment
etc; Every man shall give an account
Of himself to Cod" and he Ment on
to declare that il there is i world
hereafter mans happiness is possible
only because in that world thare will
be nothing having the power OF dispo-
sitin1 to disturb his happiness: that
man would be perfectly happy here if
there were not something around him
pot conducive to perfect happiness
Bodily and mental imperfectinns do
not make for perfect happiness, he
said.
The suicide sometimes thsnks he
can get away from trouble BY dying,
but he cannot get away from himself
by what is called death, Mcconnell
asserted Man himself will be wher-
ever he goes and circumstances and
surroundings will not change him. He
said a French scientific group nearly
half century ago met In Paris, and
the president of the organization pro
claimed from the platform that sci
ence must believe man was simply
physical being which, when Sdisorgan-
ized. became useless and vsjid THIS
speaker compared man to$ia locpno-
tive, which, when its part@ were sep
arated, could no longe rsarve Its plar-
pose.
| But twenty-five years 1ater the same
organization-dif nieaibers. Oh
course met in the sassle placa and ths
new president stated gfe1n the same
platform thet no resaly scientific man
could entertain the Fdea that man was
merely materials being and that
science could no Ienser claim the phe-
nomenon of life wsis accounted for on
basis of parts. 81 No scientific body
OF any repute atE@mpts to dispute
mans spiritual beiEig, Mcconnell said.
and there is ample ground for believ-
ing man is spirit.
Mcconnell said the universe was
composed of So simple elements. SO
materials, and that nearly everything
was composed of two or more OF
these.
Mcconnell emphasized the attitude
of science. which holds that matter is
eternal. that it cannot be got rid Of.
that 1t can be separated but not amir
hilated. Fire may be believed an an
nihilator, the preacher said, but It
merely reduces to the original gases.
Mcconnell said man is spirit. not
that he possesses a spirit or soul, but
he is a spirit himself. He said he was
speaking then to the soul or spirit OF
his congregation. to that soul which
uses the senses and possesses the
power of intelligence and mentation.
He insisted the brain does not possess
abssyae.jog raasog, ,conscience and
will but that it is merely the organ
through which the soul operates, Il Is
the only. thing people think with.
'The brain doesn't work when you
are gone" Mcconnell asserted. He
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