The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-01-26
WONDERFUL RESULTS
Tabernacle Meetings and Religie Us
Work In Connection Proving
Power for Good In City
and County.

| III thS PICdCu-
ing of Rev. DR.. Honeywell and the
services at the tabernacle in this city
has increased from day to day during
the entire four weeks just closing
and hundreds of men, women and
children are either beginning a Chris
tian life or renewing their pledge and
enlarging their view and labors as
Christians.
On Thursday night of last week
Odd Fellows and Rebekahs of the
city, school teachers and officers at
tending the county institute were
special guests to the number of sew
oral hundred and most impressive
sacred song service was followed by
short but helpful sermon.
DIR. Honeywell in a preliminary
talk expressed his pleasure at seeing
so many of the Odd Fellows and Re-
bekahs and such a large number of
teachers out for the meeting and af-
ter paying a tribute to the Christian
principles of Odd Fellowship, and
sterling character of the tenets upon
which the order is based, devoted a
few words to the teachers calling.
He spoke of the ministers of the gos-
pei and the teachers as two classes
whose work is of the highest import
ance because it means the most in
shaping the future of our land, and
yet as the poorest paid for their ser.
vices.
In what the school teachers are
making of our boys and girls, he said,
is to be found the answer as to what
the nation will be tomorrow, morally
and mentally.
"What Think -Ye of Christ Matt.
22:42," was the evangelist s text.
He evolved from it after propound-
ing it to his audience in manner to
rivet their attention, sermon that
was powerful vindication of Christ
and Christianity, or rather one that
showed clearly that man needs only
to reflect to realize that Christ and
Christianity have vindicated them
themselves.
Friday evenings sermon was a
powerful appeal to large audience
to accept Christ and had the effect
OF bringing many to a realization of
the best way to live. The tabernacle
was nearly filled with members of the
three Methodist churches of the city
and their families, the special guests.
The choir consisted of nearly two
hundred voices and sang with great
spirit. During the sermon DR.. Honey
well said:
81 drank the cup of pleasure dry
in my unregenerate days." he said
in different tone than that which
had searched every corner of the big
building. 81 wouldn't exchange my
hope for eternal life for deed to
this earth. | thought once that to
be Christian would mean to sacri-
flee veiything that made the way
bright. Experience has taught me
that Christian service is all that is
worth while. | have had the time of
my life since | entered the service of
God.
81 have made a study of this city
and have determined that the princi-
pal trouble is that your people eat
too much. that you women sleep too
well while your husbands, daughters
and sons arc travelling the road to
hell. While you are having good
time in society and Fat places of
amusement, your loved ones are tray
cling the pace that can end only in
damnation.
Sunday was the most interesting
and successful day of the revival so
far, the union service Sunday morn
ing being attended by al the taber-
nacle would hold. At this service the
financial matter was practically dis
posed of. In the afternoon DR.. Hon
eywell preached a strong and convinc-
, ing temperance sermon to several
hundred men and in the evening he
preached to an immense crowd on the
"Unpardonable SIM" Over 200 peo.
pie declared during the Sunday ser.
, vices that they intended to leaC
, Christian lives in contrast to the live:
of sin or indifference to religion
{ which they had lived
, "This objectionable sin is moi
murder, it is not drunkenness, moi
adultry, nor swearing, nor stealing
These sins may be forgiven but it i,
! the constant and final rejection o.
| Christ that is objectionable. 1t il
the ignoring of God S representative
The Holy Spirit is the only means o.
5 escape that God has let down to thi
| sin-cursed world, and yet some will
: refuse to grasp this rope, until thei
r doom is sealed. Those who r&nail
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