The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-03-17
SPLENDID RESULTS
ATTEND EFFORTS of
REVIVAL WORKERS

Ten penitents remaining after the
dismission of the evening service,
and eight additions to the church in
the regular service, six of whom
were for baptism, with two profes :
sions in the after service, is the i'm
mediate result of the great meeting
in the First Baptist church last ev
ewing. Many others have asked for
the privilege of conversation with
the evangelist and pastor along the
lines of the work now being done,
and even greater thigs may be eX
pected.
DR.. NJ. E. Dodd, Of Shreveport,
La. visiting evangelist, delivered
a most powerful sermon indeed. last
evening, on The Convicting Power
of the Holy Ghost" He said in
part: "In Johns Gospel. the eighth.
ninth and tenth verses Of the 18th
chapter. are found these words, And
when He Ii. e., the Comforter) is
come, He will. convict the world of
sin. Of righteousness and of judg
ment." The world may have many
classes, rich, poor, medium and
many others, God sees but two class
es. the saved and the unsaved. Just
as to the physician. professionally
there are only two classes, sick and
well. II man has tuberculosis. he
has tuberculosis. no matter whether
he be rich or poor. educated or a
fool Just so, with God all the
world is divided into these two
classes, either you are saved or you
are lost. No matter what your
other conditions may be, II you are
lost YOU are lost. Now. for each oi
these three classes the Holy Ghost
has three fold work. With the
saved hs work is to teach, guide, ant
take control of in their service
with the unsaved his work is to con
vict them Of sin Of Righteousness
and Judgment. We shall see only thu
first two of these this evening.
! To convict OF sin. One thing |!
necessary before man can b'
helped; he must know he needs help
All the preaching in the worlt
would not save a man II he did no
know he was lost. The work OF th'
Holy Spirit here touches all kinds o
men. The moral man who is spokel
of as living such a clean life. tn
lvirtuous man. the Holy Spirit come
Ibefore that man and convicts him o
his sin, because II he has sinne'
once. or in only one Of the com
|mandments. he is a sinner. don
know whether you believe in tota
Idepravity down here or not. BY to
tai depravity we do not necessarily
lmean that man as race Is al
wrong but that the entire humai
trace is guilty OF sin before God
You may not believe that. but wal
tin you've been the father OF twin
for about four years, you'll chang
vour mind. You don't believe in In
her;ted sin? Where does 1t com
from then? Either 1t must be In
berited or else II comes from no
where. That is the spirits bushes
to show this old world that 1t
lost and condemned before God. HI
work ia to show us the awful pic
ture of our lost condition. the near
est approach to which | think
found in a prairie fire. Of the west
Those great flames miles and mile
long that sweep everything befor
them. Oh, the horror Of it, seein
a line of fleeing humanity and AM
NAL life stretching for miles an
miles across the plains before tina
rushing fire. In their mad figt
they come to a great canon or guicf
; !, Is lust fifteen feet wide; the onl
, hope is to jump that canon. Or
man Jumps nine feet and falls to II
bottom; another twelve, anoth'
: fourteen, but falling to clear Il
, ffteen feet they are each one los'
Ia not the man who failed by or
foot as much lost as the man wi
. failed BY twelve feet? Certainl.
Another man Jumps fourteen fe
and eleven inches and three-oua