The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-04-03

a song recital Is 10 be given nj
7.30 this evening in honor OF nr
and Mrs. Horace bishop Rchearsals
for this event were held at the church
this afternoon al $3.50. A splendid
program has been arranged and il
will no doubt be greatly enjoyed by
all lovers OF music The program
viii include songs by the chorus
choir. male choruses. duets. quar-
tet;es. sextettes. quintettes and
solos. Following this song service
the evangelist viii preach.
sunday Night sermon.
Those who went to the meeting
Sunday night expecting TO hear
something spicy and snappy were not
disappointed. Tho evangelist was
unsparing in his criticism OF those
people who give as an excuse for not
accepting Christ that there are too
many hypocrites in the church. he
declared that this was the most un-
reasonable excuses that could he Civ
en-. DO you know what the differ
ence Is between Yourself" he asked.
and the hypocrite? Well. will tell
you. The hypocrite Is a man who
! has rejected Christ. and YOU have
fatty denied Chriat. 50 both Of vJu
are in the same crowd How do like
your crowd? If you stay away rom
Christ because OF few hypocrites
in the church you are running with q
crowd of gamblers, thieves, liars.
murderers and the saloon gang
Which do you think would be better
for you, TO spend few years on
earth with the best people In the
world and few hypoerites or spend
eternity with the crowd have des-
cribed?"
The evangelist read as a scripture
lesson the eleventh chapter of Mat
thew, beginning with the thirteenth
verse He selected as a text for his
sermon the 18th, 10th and Goth
verses of the fourteenth chapter of
Luke
The subject of his sermon was
Excuses" and he devoted most of
the discourse 10 a discussion of some
of the modern excuses that are keep
ing men away from Christ.
He said that next 10 the creation
of man this was the oldest subject
In the bible. He said that the first
man God had anything TO do with
had an excuse, end he expected the
last man he has anything to do with
will have an excuse.
He said that when man is ar
raigned before the bar OF justice he
might have an excuse that was salts
factory to himself, but the question
was whether the excuse would satis-
f. the judge and jury.
when you shall be called upon
to give an account for the deeds done
in the body" he said. at Will nos be
left to you TO say whether your ex-
cuse Is valid, but it viii be left to
the judge
He said the first excuse offered In
the text was by a man who had
bought a piece OF ground and he
must go and prove 1t. THAT sounds
all right" said the preacher, but IL
the ground belongs 70 him what's the
use to be in hurry to go and sec
ii since he already has it Daytime
is the time to go look at land, not
at night, as these invitations were
sent out for the evening. When a
fellow wants an excuse the devil al
v avs has one that will fit the occa-
sion"
He said another fellow gave as an
excuse that he had bought some
cxen and he must go and prove
them. what was the use TO be In
such q big hurry TO go and see the
cxen when he had them already" he
asked. "And then besides he could
see the oxen better in the day than
in the night time
| He said the third excuse was the
most pitiable OF all The man had
just married and he could not come.
He said If the invitation had been
to a funeral instead OF a feast there
might have been some excuse for
not going. He said the man ought
to have been glad TO have gone and
TO have taken his wife with him.
"But he's just like a lot of other
fellows" declared the evangelist.
"he took his wife everywhere she
wanted to go before they were mar
ried, but took her nowhere after
their marriage"
He told the girls they had better
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