Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-09-25

a. have lived here 81 years and !
L., never seen Alexandria SO STIR
red up over religious matters as !, II
;s now" said an elderly lady at the
neetine held for women in the First
Rantist Church in this city yesterday
afternoon.
Others have made statements OF
similar character and the splendid
manner in which the people have sup
norted the evangelistic meetings by
their attendance and interest must
be gratifying indeed to the clergymen
and laymen who have heen instru-
mental in starting the campaign
which has been in progress during
the past three weeks. As a result
316 persons have been influenced to
make start toward leading a better
life.
Saturday Evening Service.
The story of the restoring to life
of the son of the widow of Main,
as related in the seventh chapter OF
St. Luke, was the subject of the ser
mon on Saturday evening, in which
he brought out the fact that Christ
was the great restorer, and sin the
great destroyer. Sin causes all our
sorrow, he said, and that the great
est sorrow is when death comes into
the home and separates loved ones,
"Itss sin that causes all your sor-
rows" said the evangelist. Give me
those three letters and can tell you
why you mourn. If there were no sin
there would be no prisons;no asylums,
no bars on windows; no locks on
safes. With those three letters -
s-i-n-you can see the serpent away
back there IN the Garden Of Eden
It's the undertaken at every funeral.
Don't fool, don't firt with it; for it
isn't safe! Because you say there's no
hell dosn't alter the fact that there
is, and if you go on in that way you'll
only down your life in this world
and the next"
Tho speaker referred to the young
man who takes his first drink and
1 cited his own personal experience
very effectively. Referring again to
the immoral practices of some peo-
pie, he said:
. ""Some of you men wouldn't need
a funeral sermon. All that would be
necessary would be to bring in your
casket and place bottle of whiskey
on it with a pack, of cards, and then
I'd call in your old pals and show
them how you'd lived! And for you
women, they could place on your cask-
ct pile Of clothes and other things,
which I won't mention that would
show up how your life had been spent!
He said he was asked to preach
sermon over certain man and say
some good things about him, but
Z found he couldn't say them, so preach
ed to the living, while the mans
body lay tt<re in the casket as a
lesson to all.
"God only knows when you will
be called Don't blame him if you
haven't lived as you should. The sad
dest sight God can look down upon
tonight is the moral man and wo-
man in this tent who will go out re-
fusing to serve Him!
81 have more respect for Bob In
gersoll than for some of you people
for he denied there was God and
died an honest man. There is no neu-
trail ground, for God has said .'he
that is not for me is against me-.
And at the judgment he will ask what
did you do with Jesus Christi,
The evangelist said there is two
professions passing through this
world and that every person is in
one or the other; that we might have
cur names OH Lne rCHulSH 1oAi anu YET
be in the procession leading to eter-
nal death, said he:.
I seem to see in that one process
sion the drunkard, the bartender, who
sold him the liquor and the people
who gave him the license to sell it,
also the murderer and the harlot,
and last you who are not following
Jesus.
1But some Of you. say you don't
want to- be classed with the common
harlot Tn Tlnl.lJa{l a{dlmit you don't deserve
it, but God says there are degrees in
corruption but none in death. You
may not be as bad as the harlot hut
if you don't accept Christ you are
a member of the procession of death
What will you do with Jesus?