The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-01-21
After the Evangelist leaves
and the Pastor Will Do the
Prea ching Then. lS

The meeting at ST. Paul's Meth
|odist Episcopal church, South. CON
ttnues with interest unabated. The
pastor announced that the Rev. Mr..
McEldowney would leave Saturday,
put the meeting would continue In
definitely, and he. would continued
az long as men wanted to be saved.
"a number asked for prayers last
night, and there were five who made
definite decision for right. The Rev.
Mr.. Foglesong preached yesterday
afternoon. as the evangelist was sioS
during the day, but the latter was in
his place last night and he preached
from q text found in the Gospel OF
st. Luke, nineteenth chapter and
tenth verse: For the Son Of man
liz come to seek. and to save that
which was lost. "a
First Of all, want YOU to know
you are lost now, not will be lost,
but are lost as you SIT there In these
pews. Jesus Christ has sought ey-
cry man in every place, In the howell
and In the palace, the learned and
the unlearned, the rich and the poor.
but though He seeks. and has sought
All that does not mean that all will
be saved. You do not want saliva
ton, or you would accept 1t. II N
offered q hungry man food and stel-
ter who was perising. and he wotld
not accept It. would believe he was
either contrary or foolish, and SO n
think of the man who says he wants
salvation, and vet will do nothing to|
receive 1t.
Men have lost their way and can
not md the way home to God. You
have lost your way from the field OF
truth You have followed after new
tangled Ideas until you have become
lost. You have run after Russelism
and Other isms and you have no real
Knowledge of the truth. hate al
doctrine that never makes convert,
but feeds and fattens on others: one
that Sunseats and unsettles the mem
bers Ola church, and have as little
sympathy for a man who runs after
strange doctrines as / have for the
scoundrel who 1eavs his. wife, and
runs away with another mans wife.
Y on say you were wrong in your be-
lief then, and you are right now,
and satisfied with your new cult.
Well. how do know but what you
We're right then and wrong now, and
you will run after the next new thing
that comes down the pike.
Men have run aster strange doc
trines. and wrong ideas and conse-
uuently you have lost your peace,
and you wander blind and miserable
in forbidden ways. I know" said
the evangelist. what 1t means to be
lost. \ was lost in a blizzard on the |
great American desert; know how
1t feels to put YOUR rand in the flow
ing water. and not be able to tell
which way the current flows; know
how 1T feels to believe the snow Is |
weaving the white inantel for your
shroud: to feel the blood -congeal in |
your veins. to- have to, pull your fro
zen eye-lids open WITH your fingers;
to have the tears freeze on your
blanched cheek: / suffered from
the. effects of that experience. II
know how It feels to hear the voice
of your rescuer. and to have him tie
your arm to the pony saddle, and
take you where there Is warmth,
and put you in a warm bed, and I |
know what I am talking about when
preach on being lost.
I'VE all know what it Is to be lost
in the valley Of sin. and few. II any,I
will look for us. In the fifteenth
chapter of the Gospel you will read
OF a man who lost sheep, and
search was made until he found 1t,
and he carried the lost sheep home.
II was worth SIS. In the same chap
ter a woman lost a piece OF silver.
an ornament, 1t had fallen from her
reckless. and she searched with
lighted candle until she found the
piece Of silver that. was worth sixteen
and two-thirds cents. and she called
in her neighbors and gave them
feast. She had found what she had |
lost. In the same chapter a boy was
lost: left his home and went away. |
and no man looked for him. You will
look for lost dollars, and lost orna-
ments. but the boys 20 to the devil
and we fail or forget to look for
them.
q sprang from passenger trainl
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