The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-09-10
FRIDAY NIGHT WAS
HIGH SCHOOL NIGHT

On Friday night the High School
was Che special guest Of the revival
lists. ~The entire membership was not
present as many OF the boys and girls
had stayed out of school until this
4norning because they did not relish
the idea of being imposed on by being
forced to pay ar illegal matriculation
feeA. However, goodly number were
there.
A collection was taken among the
student body for money to decorate
the tent and every post was graced
with the high school colors Of purple
and gold, as was the choir platform
ard the pulpit. The choir was hardly
needed as the boys and girls furnish
ed all the music necessary by singing
their beautiful school songs.
Bob Jones declared that education
was a splendid thing but was no sub
stitute for salvation Your brain
won't take your soul to heaven. Your
heart must be educated too. If your
reliance is on your brain, your relig-
ion is your brain because religion is
reliance Your reliance should be on
Jesus Christ.
When you are hungry you eat a
wheat field in the form of bread.
When your soul is hungry it must be
satisfied by God Christ is God in
loaf form. in a form in which it can
be taken
Some people trace their ancestry
back to the Mayhower and are proud
as peacocks. But if you are born
again" through salvation, you become
the child of God and your ancestry
is traceable directly to the beginning
of time, to the birth OF God. Gods
children are the aristocracy of the
universe, they are OF the oldest FAM
lily Gods children do not have a
scat in the house of lords as a heri-
tage, they have seat at the throne
Of God.
Why become a Christian? There
are five reasons. 1t is the right thing,
the safe thing, the grateful thing, be-
cause of the Uncertainty of human ex-
istence. and because it is either Christ
OF He'll for you.
It is right because it is right to be
good. 1t is safe because you win
both ways, for even if there is no
hereafter, the beautiful dream you
have in this life is worth the sacrifice,
and the Christian is happier in this
life. If there is hereafter of course
you prefer Heaven to He'll. 1t is
grateful for after all that God has
done for you it is dirty mean way to
treat Him not to love Him. The un-
| certainty of human life, you may die
tomorrow, or tonight, or any time,
then be sure of your hereafter by
being Christian and anyway, it is
a fine thing to have someone to lean
on in hours of sorrow and need. FL
nally, there is no middle ground Your
answer must be either yes or no, your
choice either Heaven or He'll
The evangelist then gave the invi-
tation for converts. AS the choir
sung cloud of uncertainty seemed to
hang over the people No one came
to the front at first The evangelist
prayed again for the people. He said
that never in his career on the evan
gelistic platform had he felt SO GER
tain that God was with him and tina,
His spirit was helping him fight.
Then high school girl walked ur
and gave her hand to the speaker and
her heart to God Then high school
boy did the same thing.
| The ice was broken. The penitents
came in a stream. Nearly hundred
mostly school boys and girls, had &C
cepted Christ before the invitation
was closed. 1t was undoubtedly the