Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-03-06
WEIGHED IN BALANCE
And FOUND WANTING
"Belshazar's Feast" the Theme of
Evangelist Faulconer's Sermon
Last Night.
DIGNITY DEFINED AS A CORPSE
If Annapolis We're As Beautiful Nor
ally AS ii is Geographically it Would
be the Pretiiest City On
the Map.


Telling bis congregation OF the
prospect OF having Bill3 Sundays great
singer here tonight Mr. Rodeheaver
for fhe evangelical meeting IN the
First d. r. Church, telling them that
oven Billy Sunday himself may come
10 Annapolis and cross oratoricai
swords with the Offutt-Lee oratorical
combination against the State goine
dry and telling them a few other
things. Rev n. NJ, Faulconer preach
ed a sermon last night on Belshazar's
Feast
Mr. Faulconer talked at as we'll
as to- the crowded church the con
gregation being composed of all de-
nominations of Christian people in the
city Every seat i'm the gallery as well
as the auditorium was occupied and
additional chairs were brought in
The evangelist said he did not eX-
pect everybody 70 he pleased at his
preaching. A person that does lot
OF kicking in these meetings is he who
is living wrong. Nobody could love
Billy Sunday, he said snd so to hops
The reason you are so delighted witt
The sermons is you are getting IL IL
the neck You pay me- the highest
compliment to go out of here and teaI
me 20 pieces and then tear the pieces
TO pieces The spirit of God never has
becn poured ort upon a church that is
full OF humbugs The water of life
has been flowing for thousands of
years, but YOU can't take it out of q
/ church fun Of microbes We are
weighed as church members. We are
weighed ard found wanting. There are
so many dere,icts ON the sea OF human
life today, thar they are wreclSing 9TH
er human lives bY the thousands.
Speaking Of Annapolis. the Evange-
list said. il IS q beautiful city, so quaint
and picturesque, and If it were as
beautiful morally and spiritually. as Il
is geographically, and physically, II
would be the prettiest thing Oh the
map Isn't il grand to live in city
without clubs, with no champagne shot
Hnder your nose OF All the sinners
on Gods earth the worst to associate
with is the Christian sinner II were
better for sinner to wear rags than
be dressed up in silks and satins ano
buoadcloth The Evangelist said he
was not here to speak against "Sas-
siety." bat against the devil Let the
men and women OF today stand up for
God those OF refinement nnG culture.
end be Hlled with the Holy Spirit and
there will be a mighty outpouring OF
the Spirit Such people are qualified
TO work for Christ's kingdom Have
you been weighed? DO you object to
an evangelist telling you that you are
worldly mindedo or are you one OF those
who sit up straight and stiff in church
on Sunday, throw nickel in tfe. bas-
ket and say Farewell Brother Wat
lSiits"
Churches are LOO stilted. too digni-
fed. What is dignity. asked the Evan
Eelist Can you define it The most
digniied thing is a corpse. whether in
coffin sitting up in a church OF in
the pulpit God help the corpse in the
pulpit whose voice is like drum that
is beaten IN one place and never
changes. You might as well go out
and ring bell and expect il TO do the
preaching. Suppose God should weigh
YOU tonight after the Ten Command
ments? no Won believe that when Je-
sus Christi died he abolished the Ter
Commandments What was wrong when
your grandmother was little girl. Is
wrong for you to do today The Ten
| Commandments have not oeen change
The Evangelist took the First Com
I mandment. Thou Shalt Have No Other
! Gods Before Ne You don't have "a
\ bow to a golden business. the
/ Etre, cards. liquor. balls dances ANY
thing you put before God is sim Ii
I YOU put these things before God. you
don't weigh enough We must elm
mate everything in our lives that
stands in-tbe way of God and heaven
i If people stay away frons church on
Sunday night to be with the family
they pat the family before God
policeman viii come down the
4 street with a small colored boy under
I arrest-for what Shooting craps. vet
( there are women today playing cards
4 for a vase or a cut glass pitcher this
same shinG as shooting craps Men
said the Evangelist Thou Shalt No
! Take the Name OF the Lord Thy God IA
1 Vain no you do it, DO you weigl
J enough Man. made after the image
I Of God. 20 take the name OF his Make,
! IN vain He viii not hold YOU guilt
less Thou Sl1slt NOT Commit .Aaul
/ terry. another commandment. Here,
where the ball room comes in Tn.
+ very iools. the lust Of the heart, is CON
mitting adultery The very worst thing
! the Evangelist said. IS for marries
men and women 10 dance together
4 There ale hundreds Of meL and woraeS
today who are leading double lives
II IS impossible FOR men 10 ges int,
the attitude of these modern dances
anl 10 10 lust Whenever yea cal
come MP TO a lyeg Of powder and throw
+ fire into it. ana il viii not explode
/ there is something wrong with TIL
/ powder All women who have gon
| wrong VIII tell you tllree-fourths O