Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-09-27
EVANGELIST SAYS MOTHERS MUST ANSWER
Sufficient Money Taken in to Pay Expenses Amounting
.ho,,+ 90 250-six Hundred Women Attend Al
PRAYER Meetings Held Yesterday
.rb .,ide interest manifested in Che

eyangeliStic meetings. "aS ~
shown again last night. AS early as
o'clock every seat under the big
+ent was occupied and a large crowd
standing on the outside, the sides
of the tent being raised so they could
listen to the songs and sermon.
The town of Warrenton sent over
a delegation of some rs or more.
The railroad men of the city and the
letter carriers were also present, each
coming in a body.
Evangelist Smith announced that
no more. nightly collections would be
taken as a sufficient amount had been
raised to pay the expenses incurred,
nearly $2,25O in all, it is reported.
He also stated that prayer meet
inps were held yesterday in 40 homes
IL the city, were attended by 643
ladies, and that it was the greatest
record he had known in all his ex-
perience. AS he referred to it his
face beamed with pleasure and ne
spoke with much apparent gratlh-
cation.
AT the conclusion of the song SER
vice, prayer was offered by Rev.
Edgar Carpenter, of Grace Episcopal
Church, following which Professor
Cole sang as solo "Life's Railroad
10 Heaven Evangelist Smith then
took as his text for the evening the
fifth chapter of Mark called the
chapter Of incurables-in which oc-
ours the story of the man with the
devils, the woman with the incur
abla disease and the girl that was
dead, whom Jesus healed and brought
back to life 49,
Said the preacher: "The first OF
these persons we would have sent to
the insane asylum, the second to the
hospital and the third to the grave.
But not 20 with the Great Physician.
az ran: across man in Leesburg,
who said he didn't believe IN per.
sonal devil. If that's so who Is car
.rying on his work in Alexandria? l
got a letter from a lady here In the
city telling of a girl who has just en-
tered motherhood by the wrong door.
Who did that devilish work? Who
caused the arrests made mere last
Saturday night? Some say there are
lots of little devils around. If that's
SO then there must be an old one too.
"If you SOY there's no devil then
] saw you've never tried for "a hours
to live according to the Bible. The
devil is not a fool-he's master OF
his game and you can't fool with him
without going down.
sfWhy, the devil; would turn Aiexan-
dria into a universal hell if he could
have his way! But Pm here tonight
70 tell you that whatever devil possess
es your life, Christ is still lord over
devils and can give you power to
become victor over the devil. AND
however brilliant you may be, you'll
never be the man or woman God
wants you to be until you take your
stand for Christ.
Here the evangelist told the story
of the redemption of John Callahan,
now at the head of big mission In
New York city, but formerly a pris-
oner in Joliet, Ill, who breaches
nightly to a thousand or more buns.
81 don't care if you're the worst
man in Alexandria, Jesus can cure
you!
"The woman in the text had tried
many physicians without help. And
some of you women here have been
trying about everything. You've
tramped to every church and revival
you could hear of-until most of your
religion is in your heels. If preach
ing could have saved you, you'd have
been saved forty times. What you
need is Jesus Christ. Not these
meetings, Or the choir or ministers
but Christ, the great Physician. He
has never lost case!
while my father was holding
meetings at Ocean Grove, N. j., .25.
years ago, lady told him there was
not an evangelist in the country that
she hadn't heard, that she had at
tended meetings and all that but that
her heart was still aching. He told
her to cut out tramping to meetings
SO much and get down on her knees
with Jesus.
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