The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-04-19

| VIII never itVtht 'h'e "NFt'
Another may ask. what about the
experiencei OF the map who entered
the vineyard TO work at the relev-
enth hour. That man was stand
ing idle because no man had hired
him. and he went to work at the
first opportunity. but YOU will never
repeat that, experience. Most of you
lhave been raised with the open BIZ
bic and many of you Mere raised by
praying fathers and mothers. and
you have hal many opportunities to
know the truth !" 1851 bali =
/ lie said some tpeople mi ebt ask
! II the crime ofsmurder. was pot the
|sin against the lholyf ghost. He DEF
elarcd IL was not and that the lnur-
derer could have ihis sins forgiven.
He told the story of how man In
one OF lis meetings. in Ioyas came
fdnderg deep conVctton and netntglft
fstbod iups in the ,aud1eneei an,ls con-
Efe1sed to aAniarders cpmnlittsd in
Kansas a few years before. He was
later taken back to Kansas, tried
for the crime and sentenced to life
Imprisonment. He said II fhet man
was still living tand he. Was a few
years ago. you might 90 to his cell
in The prison and ask him, if It pays
to Confess Christ and you will shear
him say. 'the Kansas penitentiary
beats hell all to pieces. Man. peo-
rle, declared the evangelist, are
choosing between the penitentiary
and hell
lie spoke of the skeletons in some
lives and said 1t was better to drag
the skeletons out than to hear the
Kisses OF hell while eternity rolls.
"The time is coming" he said,
when the skeletons will be dragged
out and that will be fearful day.
lie declared that there are dark
or crimes than staining ones hands
with the innocent blood of a fellow
| being. II believe every man and wo-
4
man who has reached the age or ac-
countability," he said, land rejects
Christ is q darker criminal than the
man who has done no more than
battle his hands in the blood OF his
| fellowman. Which is the darker
crime. killing of human body or
| the murder of a human soul? IL by
| my inconsistent life, by ridiculine
| and scoffing at religion | cause my
brother to disbelieye the Bible and
reject Christ | have cut off his soul
for time and eternity and l am
! guilty of a worse crime than muir
der for / have murdered his soul
| II you were to enter my home and
| STAY my loved ones | would have
room in my heart to forgive you
but If you were to enter my home
| and cause my loved ones to disbe-
| lieve this old book and reject Christ
| would have no place in my heart
to forgive you, for you are a soul
murderer. | had rather come before
the Judgment with my hands
stained with blood than TO be guilty
of the murder of soul for which
Christ died to save
In the concluding remarks of his
sermon the evangelist declared that
the sin against the holy ghost is un-
belief and rejection of Christ. He
said the objectionable sin is not only
a sin that God refuses to pardon
but we are coming to the place
where men refuse 10 be pardoned un-
I'll the last invitation is passed ant
the door closed.
He declared that more than three
| fourths of the christians were con
lverted before they were nineteer
years old.
The evangelist asked all the chris
tians in the audience to stand, anC
then he asked those who were con
verified before they were 20 years old
to sit down. Not more than dozen
were left standing in the audience
and one of these was converted after
he was fifty years old.
He declared that people. lessen
their hope of heaven in proportion
to their resistance to the pleadings
of the holy ghost.
Cottage Prayer Meetings.