Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-03-14
FORCEFUL SERMON ON
THE END OF TINE"
Fourth Week of Faulconer Evan
gelistic Campaign Opens
FavOrably.
MONDAY NIGHT CONGREGATION
MIR. Bennett Sang Beautifully The Old
Time Religion" ---Will Sing
Every Night

The fourth week OF the Faulconer
union evangelistic campaign opened
last night in the First NJ. f. Church
under the most favorable conditions.
There was a congregation present
which completely occupied the main
floor of the church and more than half
filed the galleries.
The people listened with an absorb
ing interest to the stirring sermon OF
the evangelist, and when the invitation
was given 10 come forward and there
by indicate an acceptance of the
Christian life, nearly a score Of peo-
pie responded. Such a congregation
and such results after the strenuous
day of Sunday with its two long serv-
ices and its crowded congregations,
may be taken to indicate an unusual
interest in religious matters.
II may be truly said that Annapolis
is being favored with a wonderful re-
viyal. The appeal of the evangelist
is made. not so much TO the emotions
OF his hearers as TO their reason
There is something in the appeal
which is reaching our people, espec-
tally the young men of Annapolis many
of whom have gone forward. The peo-
pie who believe in prayer and the op-
Grafton of the Divine Spirit in the
heart say that this n yement cannot
be accounted for but by saying that it
is of God
Mr.. A. W. Bennett is back with Mr.
Faulconer for the weeks meetings.
His singing has been an interesting
and helpful feature of the evangelistic
campaign. Last night Mr.. Bennett
sang very effectively THE Old Time
Religion" He will sing one or two
solos at each service this week The
meetings will begin each evening al
730 o'clock, and Mr.. Faulconer wiz
preach.
The sermon of last evening was one
that Mr.. Faulconer had intended to
preach in the early part of the cam
paign, but had not given il because the
character of the congregation az that
time seemed to make it inappropri-
ate. 1t proved its appropriateness last
evening. as the result already referred
THE End of Time" and the text was
taken from Revelation 10 6, There
shall be time no longer" We DO not
know when the end of time will come.
Only God Himself knows, who has
been from eternity and who gave to
time It's beginning.
The evangelist said that he intended
to speak of the end of time as applied
to each individual life. The end Of
time is the end of the recovery Of the
fallen nature Everybody fell IN Adam
What we see today of the human race
it what was left after the fall God
made man perfectly holy and happy
and pure; he walked with God and his
will was in accord with the Will OF
God Now man is either grunting or
hungry or sleepy al the time
Suppose that my child had never
seen a locomotive. Suppose that a
wreck should occur on the railroad,
and | should take my child and show
him the smashed engine He would
have very poor idea of what splen-
did locomotive is. So man is man
only in sense This life affords him
opportunity to recover his fallen ma
ture. The end of time is the end of
the means for the recovery OF the fall
len nature Whenever the sinner is
convicted of his sins and saved, it is
God who does ii. None can fogive sins
but God only Can anyone believe
there is grace in he'll or the grave
II is likely that the sinner viii find
more help in hell to get him up to
heaven than he finds here on earth
All the means that have been provid-
ed for salvation are means that are
to be used here. The grace of Christ
will not reach into hell where Christ
did not die They who die without
Christ are without remedy How could
the devil and the lost help a man Out
of hell?
"The end of time is the end OF pray
er. The Bible pictures q man in he'll
who prayed, but whose prayer was not
answered II takes more than an
evangelist from hell to persuade peo-
pie to repent Repentance is not just
feeling sorry drunken man viii
feel sorry to sober up and find that he
has struck his child. but he viii get
| drunk and do the same thing over
again. Repentance is quitting. turn
| ing from sin TO God The end OF time
is the end of repentance. God says Il
him who has come to the end He that
is fiylth let him be filthy still
The end of time is the end of amuge-
ments. Mr. Faulconer said that ht
| has often wondered what the people
will do through eternity who have
| spent all their time in seeking pleas
T, ures. Did you ever see a corpse
coming from a dance2" You have seer
some people that looked like corpses
except that they did not have OF
enough clothes TO make a decen
shroud People who live for pleasure
live for Just what a hog lives foi
when he eats corn; they never &c
anything out of life 1t is simply Il
live
What is it that will make the EN-
OF time so bitter 10 many2 < viii b