The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1914-06-30
Mcconnell Romps on Foulser Of
Christian Science, Pastor Rus.
sell and Other Critics Of
Orthodox Doctrine
IMMORTALITY OF
SOUL TONIGHT
Sermon Last Night Sends Many
to Their Knees to Seek For
giveness Pray for Sal
walton Of Others

Hundreds of men and women with
hearts yearning for the salvation OF
loved ones dropped to their knees at
the loot of the tabernacle rostrum's
steps and prayed pleadingly and
earnestly last night The wide space
in front OF the platform was congest-
ed and aisles were choked Individual
petitions were freely sent up in voices
Of anguish, and Lincoln Mcconnell
closed the service with remarkable
] prayer The scene was impressive
to Che point of tears. as parents pray
ed for children, husbands for wives,
wives for husbands. children for par
ents, friends for friends.
4 Evangelist Mcconnell had just fin
ished painting striking picture of
hell, the existence of which he had
declared after conducting hearing In
which his chief witnesses were God,
the Bible and Jesus Christ. He touch
cd upon the coming separation and
entreated the unsaved to prepare for
Gods Judgment so that they might
not be cast into the place of punish
ment where memory would scar and
burn eternally. The demonstration
followed. hundreds going to the front
of the tabernacle and kneeling while
they urged the Almighty to touch the
hearts OF those they loved.
To maintain the line Of intellectual
and theological thought which he has
followed this week. Mcconnell an
nounced he would preach tonight on
the subject, rs Man immortal Win
Man Live After Death?" It will be a
sermon especially calculated to inter
est thinking men and women. and the
speaker expects to prove satisfactor-
lily, aside from the testimony contain
ed in the Bible, that human facts are
sufficient to develop the truth Of
mans Immortality. of mans life after
his mortal death.
Sermon on He'll.
Mcconnell said people had abso
lutely sneered and laughed and sworn
hell out Of mind that 1t was used SC
much as by-word its terror was lost;
u that scholarly people sometimes
o preached no hell because they pre-
; tended not to think loving God woult
a send them there. and more ignoran
q people tried to disbelieve it becaus'
o they didn't want to go there. He salt
the church was largely responsible fo
this condition, for it was much like I
mother who, anxious if she saw rlm
1t pie on her childs face never warne'
At her offspring against the danger Q
e. going to a place of eternal punish
rs ment.
e Mcconnell conducted court, intro
re ducing first the ordinary rules of evi
IS dence governing witnesses and thei
i'd credibility. These rules of commo
as law are; First, What opportunity ha
rd the witness for knowing that whie
Id he testifies; not his opinions. but h
W actual knowledge? Second. What pc
IS sonal interest has he in giving n
o. testimony; what profit may accrue
ke him in giving the evidence he does
sli Third. What is the character of IL
ci- witness?
Infidel. agnostic. scoffer, all the'
declare there is no hell. ingerseh 4
so but, Mcconnell said. Ingersoll a
mitted he had no knowledge of Il
original Hebrew, Greek or Latin, tn
Is he had no opportunity for knowil
anything about the truth or falsity
80 the Bible; that he had only an OPT
ion; that he was not sufficient
at scholarly to translate the original =
brew. and that his opinion profit
him at least $500 per night. McCo
nell left Ingersolrs character to {
Judgment Of the congsc cation. He sa
no infidel on earth spoke from actr
he knowledge but merely expressed
les opinion. and that the infidel chars
len ter and life we're such as to make b
the an undesirable witness.
Ior- Mcconnell asked those pulplteers
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