Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-03-17
ANNAPOLIS STIRRED BY
EVANGELIST FAULCONER
Wonderful Effects Accomplished
in This Town.
YOUR SIN WILL FIND YOU OUT"
Sermon Last Night Convincing Appeal
to Conscience of Hearers--Re-
suits to the Churches of This
Community.

Annapolis is passing through a re-
yiyal of religion in which each night
seems so wonderful as to be unsurpass
| able. only to witness the next Mig
| scenes that are greater than any { III
| have occurred before The present
| week has been an unbroken succession
! OF marvellous incidents With two
services of last Sunday when one hun
dred persons made confession OF
Christ, the revival began to assume
large proportions All through the
week the interest has deepened. while
men and women have been stirred to
the depths OF their nature and have
been transformed into their lives.
Some of the sights at these meetings
have been deeply impressive. Sons
and daughters have gone forward lead
ing their fathers and mothers; fathers
| and mothers have brought their chill
| dren. There have been young men
and women, as we'll as those of olGe
| years. Besides those who have for the
first time made a Christian profession
there have been scores of church mem
bers who have devoted themselves
with new purpose to a more consist
ent and faithful profession.
There will be services tonight at
100 o'clock, when it is expected that
remarkable scenes will again be trans
ac,ed. Mr.. Faulconer will preach the
rmon, and Mr. Bennett will lead the
singing and will himself sing gospel
solos. Everybody ought to avail him
self of the opportunity of attending
the meeting. Tonight and Sunday wiz
bring the evangelistic campaign TO q
close The present week belonged 10
another series of meetings elsewhere.
which Mr.. Faulconer is to hold, but the
people, when they heard of the move
ment in Annapolis. yielded the time to
the work here. The pastors of our
churches feel that they cannot ask
these other churches to wait longer for
the coming of Mr. Faulconer and MIR
Bennett According to every present
prospect the Annapolis campaign viii
close with the services of Sunday.
There will be two services on Sun
day, at o'clock in the afternoon and
at 100 in the evening. The evening
meeting will be of a general character.
Announcement will be made at to-
nights meeting concerning the plans
for Sunday afternoon. Mr. Bennett
will sing at both services.
The sermons which Mr. Faulconer
has been giving to the people of An
napolis have been most convincing.
He has not minced words. but has
spoken right out in a way that has
either won his hearers or made them
/ mad. The evangelist says that when
people get mad at what they hear, it
is the best proof that something is
wrong in their conscience.
The sermon of last night. which
dealt with sins consequences. flayed
with mighty strokes the people in the
churches and out of them who are
given over to worldliness and sin
Mr.. Faulconer spoke direct TO the
church people, saying that they know
that the people of the world have no
confidence in them when they can see
no difference between these church
| people and themselves. If Annapolis is
! not a better place after these meetings
/ it will be because the eyes of people
| have not been opened to the truth ,tut
! because they refuse to see the truth
The text of the sermon was
BE sure your sins will find you out, :"
4 Numbers, 1928. ut is difficult to get
/ people to believe what God says. Some
1 OF the things seem too good to be true.
/ Other things disturb us, especially
4 what God says about sin. The implica-
/ ton of the text is that people have a
/ tendency TO cover their sins. and 70
imagine that they are hidden People
lay the blame of their wrong doing on
| others. or they complain of the hypo-
critics in the churches, or they are de-
ceived by false view of God
Some folks try to do away with hell
Everybody knows that the best deter
rant against wrong is The fear OF pun
ishment, the fear of prison. If it were
not for the certainty that there is a
hell, this world would be impossible to
live in. We have sense enough to
know that there is hell from the way
we feel now. He'll is already begun in
some folks.
'We believe that sin will find US out
because God says so. The very best
I
taking the Bible just as il is. Do you
believe what God SAYS Then you are
a fool if you go on SHINING, for God
says that your sin viii find you out"
The evangelist pointed his hearers 10
the success with which detectives run
down wrong-doers, and reminded them
that we are constantly in the presence
OF God who sees everything we do,
and does not have to play detective.
He then proceeded to show the many
ways in which sin finds the sinner out.
naming first the results of sin in the
human body
Sin finds US out, Mr. Faulconer
went on 10 say. in the moral life. We
cannot live without the lie coming
back al US. Cheating in business, read
ing bad books and all other sins are
sure to find US out. We cannot go to
the theatre and look upon the scenes