The Sentinel=record., 1915-04-06
EASTER SERVICES.
Central Methodist Church Fund Mate rially Increased at Special Offering.

Central Methodi st Church Fund Mate
 rially Increased at Special Offering.
 Easter Sunday was great day with the Central church people. The Sunday school exercises were inter. esting and profitable, the best in some respects this school has ever had Dr Theodore Copeland the pas tor, preached at 11 o'clock on "Hhe Last Enemy" taking for his text First Corinthians, fifteenth chapter and tWenty-siXth verse. The doctor said in part We are in d world Of enemies enemies Of soul and body. Some of them are stout, and stubborn, and cruel and hard to overcome None may be entirely subdued and conquered without assistance-with- out divine grace Our souls have enc mics all about. inside of us and out side of us, and they are dangerous. And our bodies have enemies in the earth, in the sky in the air, in the waters everywhere.
 "The great enemy of the soul is sin, for all the different forms of evil, ana foes of humanity, with all their diff ferent phases, and characters, and classes, and degrees, when aggre- gated and considered, may be pro- nounced in one word--Sin.
 "The body has lustful passions, and libidinous propensities, and carnal de- sires, and pains, and aches, and many infirmities-all leading to and result ing in death, According to the teach ings of the text the last enemy Death shall be destroyed, shall be finally overturned. But death ca"- not be destroyed by there being sim ply no farther death; death can only be destroyed and annihilated by gen. eral resurrection Then if there be no general resurrection, it is most evident that death will stail retain his empire Therefore, the fact that death shall be destroyed assures the fact that there shall be a general res urrection; and this is proof also that after the resurrection there shall be no more death
 -'The resurrection of the dead is no new doctrine. It is toreshadowed all over the old Testament. The New Testament is full of it.
 This doctrine was derided by the Greeks. When Paul, Gods great apostle, appeared in the celebrated Grecian city, Athens, and stood on the renowned Areopagus or hill of Mars, in the midst of that pompous court, confronting the learned infidel- ity and false philosophers of the age, and preached Jesus and the resurrec- ton, a sublimer exhibition of moral heroism. and intellectual grandeur, and unflinching nerve the world never saw.
 The resurrection of Christ insures the resurrection of human kind. Now is Christ risen from the dead, and be- come the first fruits of them that slept. For since by man came deatl, by man came also the resurrection Of the dead l thank God for the resur- rection of Jesus Christ
 MT. Copeland spoke of the order of the resurrection. He said the dead saints will be raised first. For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout with the voice of the archangel, and with the trums of God, and tine dead in Christ shan rise first.
 Then we which are alive and re main shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air; and so shall We ever be with the Lord.
 When the wicked do come forth, it will be to shame and everlasting contempt
 sThey that have done good. unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation."
 Then the preacher spoke of the ua- ture of the resurrection body Ii will be incOrruptible, not subject to de- cay. It will possess glory and power '1Sown in weakness raised in power"| He went on to say it will be a spir- itual body, 'fSown a natural body, raised a spiritual body" The resur- rection will be a victory over mans last enemy
 The house was packed The ser vice was thoroughly enjoyed by all, at the close of which ten people were taken into the church on profession of faith. At night another large con- gregation assembled to hear the choir and congregation sing and the pastor preach. It was a service never to be forgotten. MT. w. s, Sorrells and Dr. Copeland lifted a collection for the new church. getting in cash and good subscription S4,200. It will not be long now until these good people are in their new church, which is located on Orange and Central.