The Sentinel=record., 1918-02-07
STEPHENS URGES PEOPLE
 i TO MAKE A DASH
USES A QUOTATION FROM " COBB TO IMPRESS HIS HEAR
 FRS WITH THEIR DUTY.
Announcements.

Business women's supper tonight a six o'clock in ;he Central Methodist church, given by the churches of tue city. All business women invited to be present Employers are asked to give their employees the opportunity Of attending this supper by closius a It. tie early
 Tonight win be High school night at the tabernacle All High School pupils and the young people of the city will have special seats reserved for them. Mir stephens will speak upon a Home Run.
 Friday afternoon at 2:30 Alr. Ste phens will deliver his message to T massmeeting of the women of the city. Girls under twelve are not invited. His subject will be, The Modern Woman ys. the Idea; Woman" Yesterdays Exercises. ] Yesterday was visitation day in Hot l Springs Inspired by the tabernacle services women all over the city car ried the invitation to every home and family. It manifests the deep interest pervading Hot Springs that so many workers gave their time and effort to this and that their reception in the different homes was so cordial. Last nights audience contained many who had come for the first time to the l tabernacle through ssese invitations.
 AS usual, the song service that pre- ceeded the sermon was inspiring. The large chorus choir of several hundred grows better each evening and under the d.rectorship of Harry Storrs cer- tainly supplies excellent music. The party quartette also sang before the sermon the title of the song being 80 Near to the Kingdom of Heaven.
 The Sermon.
 | Introducing his sermon, Mr. Ste lphens declared that hundreds in Hot Springs were very near to the King dom lie showed the folly of putting Ioft decision year after year, Tyrus Cobb, the great ball player, was askel as to his success and replied that il was because of dash. While others think about it I do it, 1t is the fel- lows with dash that succeed in busi- ness, religion and all the activities oi | life.
 | The text for the evening was He brews 3:7, Today if ye will hear His voice harden not your heart There are great days in every life just as there are great days in national life l. Of all of these the greatest day ls when one gives his heart to God 1 There are first thines in life and last things. There are the first flirtationg the first booze drinking Watch ou for these first things these first step in life, for they are important Tine first things of sin ruin So also there are the last things; the last coupon clipped, the last thought the'last hear beat Above it all God is saying, "To- day if ye will hear His voice harden not your heart"
 F is precious privilege to heal Gods voice. l know that God, by His Son and His Spirit is talking in this city in mighty way You near of II and see it among many who have never entered this tabernacle.
 How does He talk? By His word. His Providence and His still small voice God is crying through the city. Prepare to meet thy COdN
 God speaks his word nightly. Mr. Stephens spoke of many who had reached a decision for the better life not through sermon or song but through the simple quoted word of God.
 God speaks through World Cdlami- ties. Great disasters have always called men to God He is speaking to the world today through the present var. He is"not ae author of war and He hates war, but He speaks to you through these things. He speaks first in mercy, but when His mercy Is unheeded lie speaks in judgment l would rather hear Him speak in mercy and be found praying for the worlds sorrows than to await His call in judgment
 God speaks by His still small voice He speaks in the still hours of the night He speaks i'll the great mo ments of life Among these MT. Ste phens referred to marriage and par enthood as times when God spoke lIe wonders how any man or woman could be unmindful of that voice in these solemn moments. With his first born in his arms it was a time for prayer for strength to guide the new life rightly by precept and example.
 NIT. Stephens closed his sermon by showing the danger of hardening the heart against these speakings of God Of all kinds of heart the hard heart was the most to be dreaded Better have double heart, d dirty heart or q tUnppifful haurf fbup