The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-06-23
Choir Leader Cook on the Job;
Juniors and Seniors Organized;
Old Hymns are Rendered
with Vim
CONGREGATION IS
GROWING DAILY
Four Conversions, One Reclamation
and One Addition Last Night;
Dr.Scarboroush Delivers
Two Sermons

Not only the preaching. but also the
singing at the First Baptist revival Is
OF high order. The choir leader Chas.
0. Cook, is on to his job and gets the
people to singing with animation. His
forces are organized into junior and
senior choir, and then, too, he gets the
| congregation to singing with a vim.
For the most part. he sings the old
church hymns. which have spirit and
power in them.
Increasing congregations character
ize the meetings daily. The crowd fasr
night was the best of the meeting, with
the exception of Sunday night. There
were four conversions and reclama-
tions and one addition to the church.
The theme for the morning discourse
yesterday was Gods Spiritual Law
of the Harvest" Ps. 126:4-5. "The
spiritual harvest is not always certain.
Too much rain, too little rain, the hail.
the hot winds, all these render the
harvest uncertain" said DIR, Scarbor-
ough. There are at least throa
thoughts to which want to call your
attention. They are these:
81. We must go. avs ONE in the
home of a deacon. He had three cul-
tured children who. we're grown. He
was smoking his cigar after dinner and
| said to him, Your children are lost
He said, oh, my children are all right
But insisted that they were lost Fin
ally | got him to see what it meant for
his children to be lost. He got arous-
ed and in less than three days he had
seen all his children converted.
90. We must SOW. We must SOW
the word Of God. In this day of books
and magazines we need to come back
to exalting the Book of God A cow
boy was dying. He turned to his com
panion, protesting Christian, and
said, Tell me something from the
Bible He could not recall single
verse from the blessed book. Oh. we
need to know the Word, and give it to
the people.
''3. We need to weep. AS sure as
we live, we will have no harvest II we
have no tears. jeremiah was the
weeping prophet. Jesus himself wepr.
The pastor who does not weep over
I
his sermons will have nobody weeping
over their sins. Your friends will not
be moved towards God until you are
moved towards them once was Wis
tied by a Sunday school teacher AS
she came in, I invited her to have a
seat. She did not speak word.
! finally said, What is the matter?' She
said, My boys, my boys She had
class of "a boys and before the meet
ing was over every one OF them was
saved, and they all said 1t was due to
the weeping and sowing OF Miss
Mabel"
i Evening Service.
AT the evening service, the text was.
Prepare to meet thy God" Amos
i 4;12. Among other things the evan
gelist said
. This text is a commandment and
also an invitation. Every man must
meet God There are at least three
spheres in which We must all meet.
God We must meet Him
81. In life For one to be living and
( he confronted with the opportunities
: and responsibilities OF life is most
: serious thing. Some one has said II
4 is serious thing to die; but it is n
!. most serious thing to live. We must
5 give an account to God Of the things
( of this life
+ 20. In death There is coming .
time when medicine will have lost It's
power over us. Disease win waste us
/ away. said the other night that some
9 one would die in this city during this
Y meeting. Already the arrangement
& have been made for the pastor to con
, duct the funeral tomorrow morning. u
II the more than $50 meetings ! hav'