Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-08-21
NEGRO PREACHER
 TEACHES THAT SIN .
 ALWAYS RECORDED
Declares Impossible for Mankind to Escape Sins
 Consequences.

night, Evangelist Dr. R. A. Adams an- nounced as his texts. Fec. 12:14. For
 God will bring every work into judg- mont, with every secret thing, whether it be good or whether it be evil;" Dan 5:1 "In the same hour came forth fingers of mans hand and wrote over against the candle stick" Rev. 20:12, And the books l were opened
 "These passages declare three great truths, i. e., that God takes cogniz- ance of every secret thing-the most secret activities of mind and heart and life; that there is kept an accur- ate record of these things; that the | time will come when the books will l be opened, and men must sand face | to face with God and face to face with their own records " said the eva1ge~ list in opening his address.
 "I am thinking of Belshazzar's feast It is swell affair."; the lords and nobles are there, with their wives and dheir servants; the men are dressed as only nobility can; the women are attred for the occasion, and if they were like the swell folks of today, the women were half naked, having the goods trailing on the floor, when they needed it over their bosoms to hide, their nakelness; I See them amid the dizzy whirl of the dance; I hear the clanking and click ing of their wine glasses; they are having swell time.' Now, the old king comes in and the cry is raised. long live the king; long live Belsnaz- zar!' Now the old king, full of wine Spiked wine, 1 spect-decided to delft the God of the Hebrews, and, accordingly sends for the golden vessels taken from the temple at Jeru- and his concubines begin to drink from these golden vessels. Suddenly the king looks up, lifts his trembling finger and cries, Look! Look' and as they look they behold the fingers of mans hand writing on the wall."
 "So my friend, wherever we may be, whatever we may be doing, there is hand writing, not on the walls of some kingly palace. but on Gods rec ord book, in characters and with fluid which eternity can never fade. In the judgment, we must face our record.
 '.So our deeds are recorded,
 "There's hand that's writing now.'
 "Nhus sings the poet in that sooth- ing hymn "'rhe Handwriting on the Wall," but we are to remember that the hand is not writing on the wall, but on Gods record book. I heard a woman say, I have always lived a good life, and have never done any thing that I would mind having writ ten on my forehead that the world might read it. My respect for wo- manhood prevented me from calling her liar, but if she could have heard me thinking, she would have heard me thinking, You're a liar as fast as lightning We may be living good straight lives, now, but there are some things committed at some period of our lives which we would not want the world to know. There are some skeletons in almost every family closet, and if there should be an effort to drag out all of those putrid, grinning, foul-smelling skele- tons, the people of Pine Bluff would faint faster than the doctors could revive them. Yet, my friends all these things are known to God and recorded on His book.
 Many crimes are committed under the cover of darkness, when no eye beheld the perpetrators; yet, at every s;ep, curing every moment, there was a sleepless eye watching and a tire less hand writing. These criminals may never be brought to justice; they may escape the laws of the land !; murderers, robbers, thieves. adulter- CTS, seducers, assassins may escape punishment by men, but. in the judg- ment, the awful judgment, when Il l will be too late to repent. each and every one will stand face to face with the record of all of his deeds of dark ness, when everything that is hidden shall be revealed, every dark thing 1 shall be brought to the light, every mystery shall be made plain, wher the books shall be opened and every man shall be judged according to the things found in the books"
 Moody Makes Appeal
 1 Pastor o. l.. Moody of the St. Johr A. M. E. church yesterday issued the following:
 "To The Generous Public: Oul Evangolistic campaign will close neX "Wednesday night, and it is acknow. ledged by all that the services con ducted by Dr. R. A. Adams, in whici more than sixty souls have beer saved, have been of inestimable ben eft to the people-all the people-o Pine Bluff. There has been tho greatest awakening ever witnessed among our people. here, and mucr more good will most certainly be ac complished before the close
 Because of the excessive rains wt have fallen behind in contributions both for the expense of the campaign and compensation for the Evangelist; therefore. I am requesting tho friends. white and colored, of right eousness and truth, who approve ot l the work and appreciate what is being done, to assist us in this ex. pense fund. tt "You may place contributions i. the hands of authorized solicitors ol if you prefer, mail check to the pas ,krNkI