The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-01-12
WORKERS
ASSIST EVANGELIST
WITH HIS PLEADING
Throng Stands While Reviv-
alist Urges Men and Wom-
en- to Come Forward.
SHOWING GRATIFIES
EVANGELISTIC PARTY
Says There is No Excuse for
Person Who Neglects to
Acknowledge God.

To crowd that packed the taber-
racIe from end to end last night
Evangelist Honeywell preached a SER
mon on, How Shall We Escape II
We Neglect So Great SaIvation?" and
at the end of his discourse thirty
persons, the first fruits of the meet
Christ.
The meeting last night was a de-
cisiVe showing of the impression Mr..
Honeywell has made on his crowds.
For fifty minutes he unioaded his
heavy artillery into them and then
for forty-five minutes he conducted
an after service which resulted in
bringing the thirty converts to the
front.
During the last three-quarters OF
an hour, the big throne stood pa
tiently on its feet while Mr.. Honey
well from the platform, and personal
workers in the aisIes pleaded with
men and women to 90 forward. The
result was the first indication OF
acuta conversions accomplished and
everybody in the evanselistic party
was we'll pleased with the showing
and declared il triumph. Great
meetings are expected this week.
Sunday afternoon. Honeywell
preached sermon to more than 5000
men. in which he scored the vices of
the masculine portion of Richmond.
/ His hearers evidently were impressed
with the force Of the evanseists re-
marks and arguments.
After reading his text from He
brews %, Mr.. Honeywell Sunday
night said:
There never has been a time in
the history OF humanity when %
many thoughtful people believed in
the truthfulness OF Christianity as to-
day. Gladstone once said that he hal
sixty of the master minds OF his age
and that fifty-seven of them were do
Won't and earnest Christians II is al
most waste OF time to try to prove
to an intelligent audience today that
the Scriptures are true The brains
OF this old world are on the side Of
: the old Book. Some little two-hy-
four, one-horse Carping critic, not
known outside the country. who can't
tell philosophy from a game OF ping
ping will peep out The Bible contra
diets itself Yet the dean of the Har-
! ward law school said the Four Gospels
represent the best evidence to be
found in the world
neglect and be Lost"
In order for YOU 10 be lost il is
not necessary for YOU TO be an open
and blasphemOus sinner. numbering,
stealing. getting drunk. cursing the
| Bible and the churches. What shall
| do TO be lost? Neglect. More peo-
pie are lost in Christian lands by neg
, lect than any other way. You don't
! need to Go anything to be lost if Won
are not 4 Christian. You are lost al
ready. If YOU do not do something
and do il quickly you will be lost for
ever What must YOU do TO be lost?
{ Nothing. Nothing. And you would
, have nobody TO blame for your dam
nation buty Ourself. You have heard
wagon-loads of sermons and yet you
are unsaVed. There are millions in
he'll tonight that heard plenty of ser
mons to save them. had they only
needed the warming voice. You will
not be in hell five minutes before YOU
will regret and bitterly regret your
! folly and neglect
There is a hell Men today try 10
eliminate hell from theology They
think they could not be happy in l..
They think they could be happy +.
hell We're only fitted up like a club
with brussels carpet. and a refriger,-
tor and ice-bON, and Amheuser- Busch
decks of cards. and some twenty-five
cent straights. and some electric fans
and some easy rockers, they imagine
they might be happy But YOU viii
have to take il as God gives it And 7
am going TO preach il as l find il in
the Word OF God. | am not the author
of the plan OF salvation. II Is my
duty to preach ii as | find il here:
and il is up 10 you. II you don't ike
il don't find fault with me Settle
your quarrel with God
If there is no hell I'll never preach
another sermon. If there is no hell
preachers are the biggest lot OF hum
, bugs on earth. II there is no hell why
build churches. why send mission
aries. Why print Bibles? O. say, We
need few old time prophets OF God
to come and emphasize the cardinal
doctrines of the Word of God. The
men who preach hell are the ones
leading most souls into the kingdom
| am more sure of the existence OF an
eternal hell than | am that the sun
Will rise tomorrow morning Id
rather pin my faith to the Word OF
God than to any scientists or philoso-
pher.
Tired of Liberals"
Hell is as much a manifestation OF
Gods love as heaven. get sick and
tired of broad and liberal I'd rather
be not so broad and have some depth
( to my reasoning. AS Uncle Sam loves
! his citizens though he has built pris-
| ons into which to put his law break
/ ers so does God love all men though
! he has built hell into which TO place
/ His law breakers. IL you have half
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