The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-23
1000 At SERVICE
williams Robinson Tabernacle
Opened Here Sunday.
DIR. Williams Preached Strong
Sermon in the Evening.

The Williams Robinson tabernacle
campaign opened up in full force at
Eleventh and Lincoln streets Sunday,
fully a thousand people being present
at the evening service. A chorus of
about sixty voices, shortly to be aug
mented to a full hundred. with "a
seven-piece orchestra, including a
large Grand Knabe piano furnished
by a local music house, supplying the
music. Prof. John Moore, song-lead-
err led in the singing largely of the old
church hymns, that all might have a
part. Today the song book used by
the party will be placed on sale, and
the newer, and more catchy pieces
will be sung.
In the afternoon about five hundred
persons were present, despite the in
tense heat. A number of the pastors
of the city. were on the platform, and
in the audience. The opening prayers
were offered by DIR. B. H. Hobbs, of
the Evangelical church. and Rev. Mr..
Pierson, a Congregational minister.
DR.. ]. K. Hartman, pastor of the Unit
ed Brethren church pronounced the
benediction.
The afternoon service was largely in
the nature of a platform meeting in
which each member of the party took
part. making brief addresses, or rend-
ering special selections in song. Miss
Virginia Shaffer delighted the audi
noon and the other at night. She was
also present at a street service held by
members of the party, and there were
very few perhaps who stopped to lis
ten to her magnificent voice that real
lied they were hearing a thousand
dollar might grand opera singer
from the corner of Kansas avenue and
Sixth street.
Dr. Williams Sermon.
The evening sermon was preached
by DIR. L. Milton Williams. who took
for his text the passage of scripture,
He that committeth sin is of the
devil" He said in part:
"A casual reader of the Bible would
not need to go very far in the book
to see that the God revealed therein
is one who hates sin and loves holiness
and the Satanic character revealed in
the same book, whom we call the devil,
is just the opposite, hating holiness
and loving sin Any person here to-
night can easily locate himself in this
mirror of truth, for if you find some
thing in you causing you to hate sin
and love holiness then you are. Cod
like, but if that something caused you
to love sin and hate holiness then you
are like the devil There is no getting
away from this fact.
Again, the God revealed in the
Bible demands obedience from his fol-
lowers Not in a single instance is it
taught in the Bible that a man can
consciously do that which he knows
to be wrong and retain the smile and
favor of God. This Book says that
God is angry every day with those
who commit sin. And/i it also teaches
that not only does the sin of commits
sion offend God, but that no one can
refuse that which he knows to be
Gods will and keep right with him.
The sin of omission will damn men and
women as well as the sin of commits
sion. The man who breaches a sin
ming religion is a deceiver- But all
up and down this land there is a kind
of namby-pamby, wishy-washy pro-
fession of religion that boasts of its
unprofitableness. But it was the IN
profitable servant whom Jesus said
was to be cast into outer darkness.
Yet we have those who occupy places
as teachers in spiritual things, who
have gone to seats of human learning
and packed their heads with human
lore, but have seemingly made it their
business not to understand the super
natural as revealed in sacred writ
Many Prayerless Homes.
Never has there been a time :. hen
there were more prayerless homes. The
movies and the dance-halls have cap
tured our boys and girls by the null
titudes, while many pulpits are giving
fire, and we are seeing on the battle
fields of Europe today the practical
workings of that infidel theory of the
Fatherhood of God and the brother
hood of man. But there are some who
yet believe in the supernatural birth,
and can testify to having been regeR-
Grated in the divine image of God
that was lost in the fall, for it was
the devil who lied when God said sin
and die, and the devil said sin and
live. A SHINING religion is the DEVILS
counterfeit. Man did die, not losing
his physical life, for then he would
have become a corpse; neither his
mental or Intellectual life, for then
he would have become an idiot, but
he lost the divine image, which can
| be restored only thru a divine and
supernatural birth, Jesus said to Nico-
demus, the greatest ecclesiastic and