The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-02-21
Tabernacle Enlarged to
Accommodate the
Large Crowds.
MESSAGES APPEAL
TO ALL PEOPLE
The Large Number of Men in At.
tendance Is Most Gratifying
Music Il Always a Pleas
ing Feature.

ing Feature.
The Union Evangelistic Campaign
is gaining in power day by day. The
interest is growing as the plans Of the
campaign unfold. Evangelist Ray
burn is preaching splendid sermons
that appeal to men and draw good
audiences.
The music is one. Of the pleasing
and enjoyable features Of this cam
paign. Prof. and Mrs. Wickland are
adding to their friends daily by the
pleasing manner in which they do
their work. These good people spare
no effort to make each service more
attractive than the preceding one. If
there was nothing to hear but Prof.
Wickland's solo singing at any one
service it would pay to go. He has
message in each song that one can
not fail to get. We have heard from,
many people that they look forward
to this part of the services with pleas
ant anticipations and are never dis
appointed.
We give here brief summary of
each day since our last issue. Mon
day the daily will appear and give
much fuller account of the program
of each day.
Thursday
Thursday was day Of much inter-
est. The evening sermon drew a
large crowd. The subject was "Rais-
ing the Dead" Mr.. Rayburn found
his text in the account Of the death
and bringing to life of Lazarus. He
spoke of the great stones that are in
the way Of bringing to spiritual life
the spiritually dead today, indiffer-
enceA worldly interest, and prejudice.
There was no question but Lazarus
was dead physically. There was no
possibility Of his bringing himself
back to life. Neither is there any
possibility of a man spiritually dead
to save himself.
Friday
Friday evening Mr.. Rayburn spoke
on "Revivals," taking as his text the
sixth verse of the eighty-fifth Psalm.
The conditions necessary in order to
have revival were discussed and ap-
plication of the truth to local and
present day needs made. Revivals
will always be necessary. But not
only in religion are they necessary
they are necessary and we have them
in business and social affairs as well.
We have had them in learning, the
renaissance is an illustration of this
fact and it is defined by the great
scholars as "a revival" A revival in
religion reveals a passion for new
spiritual life on the part of the peo-
ple
Jesus came from heaven "to seek
and save the lost" That was the mis-
sion of the son of God and we follow
in his footsteps when we have the
same passion and do this kind of
work. The Bible has accounts of
many revivals. The text voices the
desire of the people to return to God.
Saturday
This was the day that the taber-
nacle had to be enlarged. The work
was planned for on the preceding day
because it was feared that the tab
ernacle could not hold the Sunday
audience. The men. responded to the
call for help in the same enthusi-
astic manner characteristic of them
in all asked for by the building COM
mittee.
The east side of the big building
was moved out eighteen feet for the
whole length of the tabernacle. This
space was filled with seats and thus
the seating capacity of the building
was increased to sixteen hundred.
It was cold day butthe men were
there in force and they finished the
work in record time.
Saturday evening Mr.. Rayburn
preached a splendid sermon on the
"Promise of God" The large Sat
urday evening crowd was surprise
to all. The cold did not seem to have
been able to discourage very many
from attending. Those present were
well repaid for every effort put forth
for the message was one of excep-
tional power and beauty.
Sunday Red Letter Day
Sunday was a red letter day in the
religious history of Liberal. The
Sunday school met as usual in the
tabernacle and the attendance was
good. The opening exercises were
led by Mr.. Franklin of the Christian
Sunday school. The Sunday school
in the big tabernacle has been inter-
esting and inspiring and the increase
in numbers has been encouraging to
those that have the work in charge.
The morning service began as usu-
al at 1920 a. m. It will be long re-
membered by those present The
sermon was one of exceptional power.
The text was in /. Corinthians Az.
The subject was "Faithfulness."
Three things Mr.. Rayburn made clear
4 in this splendid presentation Of the
truth of the text, that a steward is
required to be faithful in word, duty
Land loyalty. The message gripped
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