The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-01
JASPER BLINES
TELLS OF REVIVAL.
Evangelist Holcomb at kahoka Be-
lieves There is Heaven
and He'll.


devils headquarters is hell. I be-
lieve hell is just the kind of place
which this old book says it is. And
l believe that heaven is just the kind
Of place the Bible says it is. In
heaven there are angels, and in hell
there are lost souls who are weeping
and crying in awful agony" exclaim-
ed Evangelist Holcomb in vehement
voice at the large tabernacle in Ka
hoka, Friday evening. Heaven is the
place for good people and good peo'
pies place is in some church. You
better be careful about making light
Of miracles. l believe that there are
some who lived in this town who are in
hell tonight, and they just talked an
acted like you do. And l believe If
your loved ones could speak to you
tonight, they would warn you to live
different life All the loved ones
in heaven are wanting you to come
there, and all our loved ones in hell
are not wanting us to come there. At
Moberly the engineer who died under
his engine, cried out in agony and
despair in his last moments, I have
lost my SOUL 1t all depends on you
accepting or rejecting Christ. l be-
lieve it is SO that some of you people
IL
ners to go to hell. believe that you
who live out of the church, and claim
ing to be christians, are also making
it easy for sinners to go to hell.
am glad that we have consecrated
preachers here in Kahoka, faithful
and true and Jealous in their high
calling. An old codger criticised CIV
ing to evangelists and preachers and
asked where the poor came in for
share 1t was Judas who complained
about the value of the ointment, you
remember, saying that the money
should be given to the poor, not that
he cared for the poor. but because he
was a thief. Unkindness. Who can
estimate it's awful effect? Some of
you who are acting unkind and talk
ing unkind, are digging valleys in
hearts and souls which may never be
filed I am well aware Of the fact
that many around this town are say
ing that all the devil we have Is with
in u.s. Well, will not take the credit
to myself to say that am my own
devil. Some say that the devil is
only a bad influence. Well. where do
you get your bad influence? Influence
emanates from bad source. l be-
lieye in personal devil and a real
hell and a real heaven. The old devil
has some imps around this town. If
it were not for the devil there would
not be bad influences. You know it
is said that opportunity knocks but
once at anyone's door, but 1 believe
we can make opportunities. Did you
ever hear that Judas sought an OPP
portunity and made opportunity to
sell his saviour? If we make an OPP
portunity God will help us. But do
we shall reap in due season. And as
we have opportunity, let us do good
unto all mankind. Why wait any
longer to get right with God? Some
of you have waited already too long.
Some of you may never have a chance
again to hear the warning. fhe poor
boy who was drowned in Fox river
failed to heed the warning to repent.
Delay is dangerous. Lost opportuni-
ties fill world with failure and woe.
oh. IL we had only obeyed the call
to repent and be saved, what wreck
age there would have been prevented
all along the stream OF time. Lost
Lost souls! A lost
world"
On Sunday at the eleven o'clock SER
vice, special place in the tabe-nacl
was reserved for the members OF the
VIM. Mckee post of the Grand Army
of the Republic, and twenty old vet
Grams were present. As viewed
these heroes of the civil war,
thought how steadily their ranks are
growing thinner year by year. They