Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1915-12-02
|S|NNER SEES HIMSELF
AS He REALLY IS
Evangelist Faulconer breaches Con-
vincing Sermon in the Pres
byterian Church.
CANNOT COVER SIN AND PROSPER
Evangelistic Services Nightly This Week
and On Sunday Night---A Force
full Preacher.

'No man is saved from what he is,
or what he has done," said Evangelist
Faulconer in his sermon at the Pres
byterian Church last night.
"All are like sheep and have gone
astray. God can save a man on the
gallows as well as in the pulpit. If
you don't believe the truth, it does not
hurt the truth; it hurts you. but it is
the truth all the same
The Rev. Henry n. Faulconer, of
Kentucky, Presbyterian Evangelist,
sent here to conduct a mission at the
Presbyterian Church, grows in popu-
very large and representative congre-
CATION assembled to hear him preach.
The singing service began at 7.30, as
usual led by Mr.. Bennett, who also
sang two impressive solos. The SER
mon was at 8 o'clock.
The Evangelist took Tor his text
Proverbs, 2Sth chapter. 18th verse:
HE that covereth his sins shall not
prosper, but he that confesseth and
forsaketh them shall have mercy"
Also the S5th Psalm, 3rd verse, Thou
hast taken away all thy wrath, thou
hast turned thyself from the fierceness
of thine anger" Regarding the first
text the preacher interpreted it in
this wise: "He that covereth his sins
shall not prosper in covering. or hid
ing Them" and he said the prosper"
alluded to did not mean should not
prosper in this worlds goods" AS an
illustration he used the sons of Jacob,
who sold their brother into Egypt and
| dipped his coat in blood that their
father might think his younger son
had been destroyed by wild beasts.
Year after year passed and he did
| believe that, and mourned for his SON
| but between the fifteenth and twentieth
| years, their sin confronted them on
the throne of Egypt, when there was a
famine in the land Thy sin shall be
| revealed, uncovered, if not today, OF
! tomorrow, or next week, or next year
i'm fifteen or twenty years to come
| Adam tried to cover his sin by blam-
| ing it on the woman she shifted it upoT
+; the serpent, and men and women have
been shifting responsibility and sir
| ever since. A man who drinks blames
| his ancestors. Oh, yes, his grand
| father liked a mint julip, his father al
ways liked an eyeopener, it is in his
blood to drink But did you ever hear
asked the preacher, any man or woman
giving their ancestors credit for th'
good deeds?
1t is hateful thing to hide behind ;
| hypocrite What consolation will /
be in the ages to come to say we die
not belong to church because hypo
critics are church members Do yol
ever hear man say he won't vote, be
cause hypocrites vote, or he won't ca
turkey on Thanksgiving Day becaus
| hypocrites eat turkey. 1t is about tn
same.
Sin is covered only in the spotles
robe of the righteousness of Christ ant
everybody who goes to heaven wear
the same robe. Anybody who goes t
heaven goes there perfect. The fruit O
salvation is a holy life. Don't tall
about your election to heaven until yol
are holy people.
The preacher dwelt upon the lacl
of holiness and sanctity today among
Gods people, and said "the world cam
tell a sinner from a Christian comiHi
up the street. because they walk s.
much alike"
There will be evangelistic service
and a sermon tonight and tomorrow
night and Saturday night; also OF
Sunday night. All are invited