The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-01-21
BUILDER OF TABERNACLE
HITS THE SAWDUST TRAIL
Contractor Baum Among the Thirty
Six Who Responded to the Gall of
Evangelist Miller at Mechanics
burg Last Night


ing there were reservations in the tab
ernacle for three visiting bodies, the
business girls of the town, the Men Is
Bible class of the Church of God, and
delegation from Ebery's Mills. The
girls of the shirt factory presented
Evangelist Miller and his party with
vase of carnations.
The opening prayer was offered by
the Rev. Mr.. Huggins, of Eberly s
Mills. BY request the choir sang Hail
lmmanuel," and just before the SER
mon, with the tabernacle in darkness,
except for spotlight thrown upon the
open Bible upon the pulpit, the choir
sang softly, Lead Kindly Light
Mr.. Miller preached on Revelation,
S:2O: Behold, i stand at the door and
knock, If any man hear my voice, |
will come into him, and will sup with
him, and he with me" E" He said in part:
'This text, the words of Jesus, indi-
| Gates that there was a lack in the
| church then. There is the same lack
in the church now. The church does not
lack numbers, or money, or social
standing, but is filed with selfishness,
with Christ outside instead of inside.
Jesus wants to have a place, the chief
place, in your heart. You may say, Il
have never heard Him knocking at my
heart; but there are many evidences of
His knocking. One is that you are here
tonight. You long for Him; you can
not be happy without Him; only
heaven can satisfy you. 1t is the cas-
lest thing in all the world to be a Chris
tian. Just step to the door, and saw,
Come in, and He II come in and YOU III
be Christian. 1t would not be cour-
teous to just call come in to the friend
who knocks at the door of your home.
1t is not courteous just to call to Him,
come in and make no move. Go and
open the door that's when you surren.
der your will.
He knocks at your heart in the in
stltutlons of Christianity, in the power
or the word of God. Every time YOU
hear the church bell ring, every time
you see your wife start to prayer meet
ing, every gospel song you hear sung,
every sermon you hear offered, Is His
knock at the door of your heart. The
sight of this tabernacle springing up
was Jesus knocking at your hearts.
What more could God do to break the
heart of the world and bring them
back, than give His Sonl Yet men
have been walking over the cross for
2,oo0 years. You re doing a worse
thing than piercing His heart with a
spear when you bar Him out of your
heart. The act of the soldier dying on
the battlefield, who reused himself to
| shoot dead the enemy who had just
given him drink of water from his
own canteen, was an act of nobility
compared with you, barring your heart
against Jesus Christ who has made
you what you are. This will be the
last call for some one tonight. If
you refuse now to exercise the privi-
lege of opening the door, your cry
through all eternity will be 20, if |
/ only had, He won t break into your
heart. If / knocked at your door over
and over again, and you would not
open, INwould at last turn my back
and go, and that's s what He will do
some day. But tonight He is still
knocking. Won t you let Him in'"
During the singing of "There's a
Stranger at the Door, and other invi-
tation hymns thirty-six persons came
forward. Among the number were two
elderly men, number of younger men
and women ard some children. One of
| the men was H. A. Baum, the con-
tractor, who superintended the building
of the tabernacle. His Christian wife,
a member of the choir, came down and
joined him.
This afternoon was Mothers
Day at the tabernacle. This evening
the G. A. r., the Woman Is Relief
Corps and delegations from New Kings
ton. Shiremanstown and West Fair
view will attend. Interesting and in
structive Bible readings are conducted
by Mrs. Bowman each afternoon in the
| tabernacle.