The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-02-03
FORGIVE Us OUR DEBTS
AND We FORGIVE DEBTORS
FROM THIS SUBJECT DIR. BURMA
PREACHED 4 MOST INTER-
EsTING SERMON.
crowds Are Increasing and Interest
l. Growing In Annual Revival
Services nj Trinity
University.

Great interest continues 10 "
manifested in the daily meetings
being held this week at Trinity
University. An increasing number
of town people are coming out each
evening to hear the speaker. At
the MONDAY meeting yesterday Or
Brrma said he was much impressed
with the strong christian atmos-
phere which is pervading the student
body and the meetings.
And forgive us our debts as we
forgive our debtors. For il We for
give the trespasses of men. so viii
your Heavenly Father forgive you;
but If We forgive not the trespasses
OF men. neither will your Heavenly
Father forgive you"
Speaking from this text, Or. Bar
ma said we should be impressed with
the fact that in the Lords prayer
the Lord gave us SO few petitions,
and OF those few the only one He
! commented on Is forgiveness.
| This is because sin /. the one uni
versal fact of the human race. The
worlds heartaches, sickness and sor-
row are due to sin. But for sin
earth would be paradise.
AS universal as sin is. there is a
sense Of guilt that always accom-
panies it. People have gone to any
| lengths to escape the consciousness
of sir and guilt The religion Of
Jesus Christ is the cure for sin. 1t
in sense Of sin that separates be-
| tween us and God. Sin blinds and
embitters the human soul. Forgive
ness means that which separates
between us and God is taken away,
and it takes away that which blinds
and embitters There is no saliva
ton without forgiveness.
II is remarkable that this forgive
ness OF us by our Heavenly Father
is dependent on our forgiveness of
others. The hardest thing for hui
manity to do is to forgive others,
but all can not be right between God
and man until this forgiveness Is
freely given We must get right
one with the other, then we can get
right with God
The Evening Meeting.
Many of tine christian students of
Trinity are praying earnestly for the
success Of these meetings, and q
tender, sacred atmosphere seems to
prevail at each service DR.. Bur-
ma spoke last night from this text:
abraham dwelt in the land OF Ca
naan. and Lot dwelt in the cities OF
the plain, and pitched his tent to-
ward Sodom"
Lot was a cattleman, an orphan,
nephew of the great Abram. He
had good blood in him and had been
brought up in good home
Sodom was in the wickedest place
Of its day ana generation.
pitching his tent toward Sodom
means that Lot gradually moved to-
ward sodom. finally entering into
| she wiekedness Of that city.
Why VIII people so wrong? Be
cause sin has charm and an al
urement that casts its spell over
one. until he walks right into de-
strucdon. There is no reason why
one should so wrong, but there is
always an occasion trivial though
III be.
The time we begin to go wrong
IS when We feel ashamed of some
thing We have done. It is not a
| dangerous thing TO stumble; the bad
! thing is to keep on and not ac-
| knowledge IT, 1t Is the deceltfulness
OF wrong that gets us. To live with
out God IN ones lie is to take a
long chance.
\ person pitching his tent To-
ward Sodom" does not have to con-
tinue in that direction IL he viii
let the grace OF God come into his
life he can fright about face" inn
mediately.
| The terrible thing about going
| wrong is thar We take others with US.
If one is living without God he IS
leading some one else away from
Him