The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-02-05
REVIVAL GROWING IN INTER-
EST At SEVENTH-DAY AD-
vENTIST CHURCH

Printed program, covering the next
ten days Of the revival now In progress
in the Seventh day Adventist church
here, were distributed yesterday by
the corps of workers who are assist.
idg Evangelist Parmele in his work.
The program is as follows:
Tonight, THE Rise and Work of the
Papacy," Feb. s. THE End of Turkey"
Feb. 7, "Armageddon;" Feb. 5, THE
Two Covenants" Feb. 8, The New
Testament" Feb. 10, Sunday Sacred
ness" Feb. II, A Woman in Heaven"
Feb. IL, THE United States subject
of Bible Prophesy";; Feb.13 Angel
Messages" Feb. H. 1.-THE Seal of God
and its counterfeit" It is expected
that the meeting will continue for
several weeks yet, and it is likely that
it will close with the dedication of the
church building.
Pastor S. E. Wight Of Nashville,
Tenn. spoke on Wednesday night OF
this week on Gods Measuring Stick"
taking his text from Rev. Ill He said
in part:
ut is necessary that there should be
some standard OF measurement. There
are number Of kinds OF measures,
but each has its particular standard,
fixed by the Government. There is a
liquid measure, a linear meSSure, and a
meaSuee to determine weight. God
did not direct in this text that his
people should be measured with any of
these, but he wished their characters
to be measured. But in order that
character may be measured, it is
Necessary to have rule of measure
ment. Has God such rule?
1--WE all know that the law of God,
the ten commandments is the rule by
which character is measured. And
just as long as there is yet a character
to be measured, so long must that rule
by which character is measured endu, e
Some people claim that Christ abol.
ished that law, but if he did, by what
rule must character be measured now?
No, Jesus did not abolish the law for
we read in lisa. 51;6 to that the law is
not to be abolished, and IN Psalm Iii;
Z and 5 that the law stands fast for
ever and ever
1.-The attitude that Christ would
maintain toward the law is stated in
lisa. 1921 thus: 1.-THE Lord is we'll
pleased for his righteousness sake;
he will magnify the law, and make it
honorable. A good Illustration of what
this means is shown in the use of this
StereoptiCon. The picture that appears
here on this screen is greatly magni.
fed by the tense. Nothing is added to
it, and nothing is taken from it, but it
is simply presented so it can be seen
more plainly. So Christ came to live
the life. demanded by the law, and to
teach its principles, that by both pre-
cept and example he could present it to
us more plainly, and then he died for
its honor, suffering the penalty as a
substitute for the transgressor.
Mr.. Parmele spoke last night on
-Four Great Monarchies. He took the
position that all portions of scripture
are literal unless there exists good
reason for believing certain texts to
be Symbolical. His sermon was based
on the seventh chapter of Daniel,
where wind is represented as striving
upon the sea. as result of which four
beasts arise. Since the angel says
that these beasts represent kings, he
said, "it is evident that this chapter is
dealing with symbols" The wind in
the chapter he endeavored to prove
represented war, the water people.
Thus war among the people produced
four monarchies, Babylon, Medo. Persia
Grecia and Rome.