The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-06
Evangelist At kahoka Attracts Large
Crowds to His Most
Interesting Revival
Meetings
JASPER BLMEs REPORTS
People Of Surrounding Towns Are
invited to Attend the
Religious Services
There.

KAHOKA, Mo-, June 5.-The tab
ernacle revival meeting at this place,
continues in power and In generous
attendance and interest. On Sunday
evening the tabernacle was filled
and overflowed by the people from
all around for many miles. The peo-
pie respond generously in support OF
the meeting. and Evangelist Holcomb
and Song Evangelist Clotworthy are
in good working order. On Sunday
afternoon, a special service was
held for the men only. and an atten-
tive audience was present. The
singing at this service was especially
strong and effective and OF the old
time congregational style, when
worship was devotional and not so
formal and easy, as at present. Church
choirs, solo affairs, and forms In
cline to limit freedom and ALLEVIATE
general working in unison of the
audience. 1t is a solace and a de
light to have some of the good old
time religion return and have its
clear right OF way, a clearing Of the
deck for vigorous movement upon
the citadel OF sin. During the week
there will be special meetings held
for Sunday schools. families. county
officials and other classes, and on
Sunday afternoon Evangelist Holcomb
will preside at mems meeting, and
will have as a subject, The Horse
Race. People OF Keokuk, Warsaw,
Alexandria, Wayland. MediH. and
other towns are invited to all these
meetings. Come praying.
The following are quotations from
the sermons:
When this old world which has
righteous shall come forth into life
everlasting, and the wicked shall be
damned with all the nations that
forgot God Some Of you will have a
hard time getting by the judgment
bar OF God You will What all the
poor lost sinners need is mercy, Gods
all Astounding mercy. God be merci-
full to me, a sinner. You can't
cover up your sins or forget them.
You may travel from city to city in
every state OF the union, and at last
roll up at the bar OF God, and there
your sins will condemn you. Your
sins will trace You up and down the
world and az last viii destroy your
souls. l tell you. there is not a
speck OF forgiveness at the bar OF
God. At the bar OF God there will be
a place of justice. Jesus Christ will
no longer be mediator pleading for
sinners. No, He will be the Judge
who will pass the decisions upon lost
souls, and the sentence will doom
you forever You remember that this
old book says that without holiness
no one will see the Lord I never
waste my prayers on Mormons. l
don't care for fellow VINO prays for
me in public and doesn't help me in
private.
You keep your mind off Of sin. and
you VIII never put a national bank
in your pocket and run over to Mex
leo. If you keep your brain clean.
your life viii be clean. Now then.
there has been evil conception In
your life. and this brought on sinful
action. I'd rather be shot than to
shoot. A fellow does what he has
been thinking OF for months and
years. There's nothing that grows
SO rapidly as sin. 1t grows faster
than grass or weeds. / have the
most profound respect for man
whose word is as good as his bond.
The pitiful part about sin Is that we
don't know how 1t will break out OF
when it will break out Some one
said to me that if we are to have
illegal selling of liquor in Kahoka,
we might as well have open saloons.
Hold on, my fellow. You are wrong,
and the makers OF liquor will con-
firm the statement that their sales
are 80 reduced ~ to cause them to
make the most false statements that
were ever printed. They will tell
you privately that they are uttering
the most fragrant Of falsehoods when
they print that their sales are as
large as ever in dry states. The old
drink devil is being crowded out.
and his business is no longer COM
mon or popular The American peo.
ple want better laws and better
order and better society. II you have
places in this town where Illicit sales
are going on, what you need to do Is
to roll I'D your sleeves and go into
the drug stores and pool rooms and
blind tigers OF all kinds and drag out
the fellows and fine them and put
them out on the rock pile. When my
home town of Nashville voted dry,
one rich old dealer declared that
they couldn't make him quit, but We
fined him and put him out on the
rock pile with the negroes, and he
soon was glad enough to quit. And
now when yo1 go to Nashville you
will not find shim there He skee
daddled. You can talk of the wealth
er when you can't talk Of anything
else. These good men and women
win be sorry when leave It's the
sinners who don't want their sins
exposed. these are the ones who OPP
pose me and threaten to run me
away. Truth, Oh how that brings
on a war. The truth will find you
out. The defaulting banker In
Charlotte said that the farther he
went away from the place Of his
crime. the more his sin haunted him.
Conscience, What an accuser AS
the tree falleth, 20 shall it lie and be