Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-09-09
notwithstanding the threatening

NOLWlJilSIdlihiliS siiS
weather "Episcopalian night" at
tracted a good sized audience to the
revival meeting last evening. Mem
bers of the Episcopal churches were
out in large numbers. The song ser
vice was followed by prayer by Rev
w. J. Morton of Christ Church,
duet by Mrs. Sherman Fowler ant
Prof. Cole, and solo by the evange
list.
Among the forcible, striking state,
ments which arrested the attention
of the people were these:
':If the city editor of the Gazette
were called up on the phone tonight
and told that some of you had passed
away, what could he say about you!
Have you lived to yourself? Have
you spent your life simply trying to
make money? I'd rather live so that
when am laid out in yonder cemetery
they could say of me, I'm glad Smith
lived; he led me to Christ
"Yoa say you don't like revivals.
The spring is only a revival of ma
ture. Why not find fault with that!
DO you mean to find fault with people
who try to do good simply because
they don't do it your way? If we
can get hold Of one man and make
him sober for year it will be worth
all these meetings cost.
II know of church members who
don't know Jesus, Christ.
"You people who play bridge
whist for prizes, how dare you go to
communion? What is the difference
between the gambler who plays cards
for money or the woman who plays
for prizes? The principle is the same.
'If the fremen of your city were
to sit and play cards while build
ing burns down you would condemn
them, wouldn't you? Well, as a
messenger of Jesus Christ, have
the right to condemn you, for you
are letting men die without trying
to save them.
When some of us get a vision OF
ourselves as God sees us We'll want
to slink away out of sight.
.I know some of you think min
listers are crazy. / used to think so
too. but when I was willing to con-
secrate myself, I changed my mind.
'1'm pleading for the best in your
life. And you'll never be what you
can be until you give Christ the
right OF way"
Gods ability to save the lowest,
most fallen of His children and turn
them Into instruments for his use,
was the thought of the sermon.
The evangelist took for his scrip
tural lesson the story of the Samarl-
tan woman at Jacobs well, who, al
though her sins had debarred her
from society, God gave her the spirl-
tual water of life and caused a re-
vival in the Samaritan town IN when
she lived.
The revival in the Samaritan town
was caused by the woman telling the
people with whom she came IN con-
tact that "there is man at the well,
who told me all that ever did"
when : the woman changed her
heart said the evangelist, there
was changed place, And that is the
experience every Christian has. he
first changes his heart, and then he,
changes the surroundings. If this
revival is successful in changing Al
exandria, then it is along the lines
God would have it.
"When the Samaritan woman
changed her heart, she began, to tell
everybody about it: and she brought
many persons to Christ. So must
you do. There are persons in this
city whom no preacher under Gods
heaven could touch with sermon,
but whom you could bring to Christ,
To have revival in ones life there
is one thing that is necessary; a heart
to heart and face to face talk will
Christ, stated the evangelist.
eft is said that We have four per
sonalities, namely: That which peo
pie outside of your home know; tha
which the people in your home know
that which you know yourself to be
and that which God knows you to be
When you are willing to find on
what God knows you to be, then
the beginning of a change in you
life, of change in your home.
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