Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-07
BOOZE ONCE MORE
RUNS GAUNTLET IN
CHESTER REVIVAL
Evangelist N ich h o S o n
Again Arraigns Liquor
and Pleads for Temper
ance-Message Of Cheer
Is Sent to Brumbaugh.
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CHESTER, Pa, April THE First Bap'
tist Church of this city held a capacity
audience this afternoon when the Rev.
William Z. Nicholson stepped to the pull
pit to deliver his first afternoon sermon
of the week in connection with the Mich
olson Hemmngcr revival campaign. The
evangelist announced his subject as "Thc
Holy Spirit" taking the text from the
18th verse of the fifth chapter of l1phe-
SLAMS:
"Be not drunk with wine, but be filled
wit hthe Holy Spirit"
"Somc of YOU church members" he said.
Imagine that because you profess Chris
tlanity YOU are filled with the Holy Spirit
but that isn't true, and | want to show
you this afternoon that n Christian who
is not blessed with the Holy Spirit Is liv
ing an incomplete and inconsistent life.
I'm my next text drunken mau is
spoken of in connection with one filled
with the Holy Spirit and although it may
seem strange to you there is IL similarity
between them.
I'm the first place a drunken man and
his actions are incomprehensible to those
who do not drink but the man or woman
who Is filled with the Holy Spirit Is no
less mystifying to those who know moth
ing of It. In the second place you can't
keep drunken man quiet nor can you
keep man filled with the Spirit of God
from telling of his JOY, and lastly you
cannot discourage either from doing that
upon which they have set their minds and
hearts.
IF you don't believe that person filed
with the Holy Spirit Is a mystery just
pick such one out, better a newly con-
verted person. lie will no longer play
4 ~ to I,ut will
spend his time at church in prayer and
study of the Bible. You may call him an
eccentric crank, but that doesn't change
the fact that he is manifesting in every
action the mystery of the Holy Spirit
The Rev. DIR. Nicholson and other men,
bers of the revival campaign party We're
delighted this afternoon upon receiving
word from Milton, Pa, that more than SOC
persons had become church members in
that city since the evangelist completed
his campaign there on March II.
The city Is buzzing with local option talk
today as result of a temperance demon
stration at the NcholsOn-HemmInger
tabernacle last night, when a resolution
presented by Captain Frank X. Hyatt, of
the PENNSYLVANIA Military College, indOrs-
ing the pending local option bill, was
adopted by more than 1000 men and tele-
Eraphed to Governor Brumbaugh at Iar-
risburg.
EVERY seat IN inc lapefnaCle WAS otCu-
pied last night when the Rev, william
p. Nicholson stepped to the platform
Among the delegations present were 300
employees of the Gimbel store of Phila-
delphia, who had come to this city by
trolley and marched to the tabernacle I'm
a body, singing BILLY" Sunday revival
songs, They presented the evangelist
with a large bouquet of Killarney roses.
THE Secret of a Defeated Life" was
the topic chosen by the revivalist for the
evening service, but he deviated from the
subject from time TO time to attack sins
prevalent in society life and to denOunCe
hypocrtlcalJ Christians. He brought the
sermon to a close with an appeal TO the
unsayed to come forward and grasp his
hand as n pledge of conversion. Forty
persons responded to the invitation.