Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-11-15
AUGUSTA LOCALS
HARRY TAYLOR breaches
ANOTH Err POWERFUL
SERMON AT CITY HALL

Considering the fact that it was a
cold and disagreeable night, a good
crowd attended the revival meeting in
City hall, and those who stayed away
missed something. The music was as
fine as ever, and a prayer and praise
service led by Harry Taylor started the
meeting off right. Then they all sang
Il Need Thee Every Hour" and the
big choir rendered "Glad Day" in a
resounding chorus. In starting his les
son for the evening, Harry Taylor
said: Our mems meeting last week
was a mighty power. Many said it was
the strongest religious meeting they
ever saw. Naturally it excited COM
ment. When / related the incident OF
a Snowman and mems club / had NO
local organization in my mind"
He took for his text the story of the
dead boy whom Jesus restored to his
mother, the lesson being taken from
the 18th chapter of Luke. I'm this les
son of the incident at Main, where a
funeral was interrupted and sadness
was turned into joy. the division of my
sermon will not be firstly, secondly.
anG so on the division will be the dead
boy. his Borrowing mother and the
living, loving God" said MIR. Taylor.
anG went on to compare many people
81 today with that dead boy.
This girl has been dead Is minutes.
this boy has been dead 10 hours. and
this man has been dead four days. but
will you say she's dead and he's dead
er, but he's the deadest?'" said the
evangelist. There are not any degrees
of deadness. If you are dead you can't
be deader, but there are degrees of
corruption. For that little girl, dead
only few minutes, why, I could kiss
her still lips if she was my daughter,
and that boy. dead few hours. but
that man, who has been dead four
days, is so corrupt that no one could
kiss him.
This boy in the city of Main was dead
and was being taken to the city of the
dead by the pail bearers, and as he hadn't
a chance to protest, and my friends were
fast leading me to the city of the spirit
ually dead, and I had no chance to pro-
test, either" said Mr.. Taylor. and he also
said IF there Is anything that sets man.
kind above the animal kingdom it is the
fact that he has a chance to choose for
himself
II don't see any possible hope of my
having become Christian except for my
mother" he went on, and then paid his
mother a wonderful tribute, telling how
she stood by him even when he went far
astray, and prayed for him to be saved
until he was saved when it comes to
downright affection and love, giving the
last drop of blood for the loved one, who
can compare WITH a mother. and why IS
it that so many Of us heed almost any
voice but let her plead in vain?" There
isn't a hint anywhere in my Bible that
God will ever damn anybody, and thers
isn't a church in this city that says He
will. What we say is this II man re-
fuses to accept God and His salvation he
damns himself"
ct isn't any wonder the boys and gins
60 wrong when mother doesn't care. The
mower of the church Is gone II the moth
ers don't stay by the affairs and pray for
their wandering boys" he stated. When
Jesus spoke the words Of life that young
man sat I'D and was restored to his motn-
err. There were no fireworks. no noise. no
Jesus was not a magician.
He didn't look around to see II the re-
norter was recording His deed. but He re-
stored him to his mother.