The Sentinel=record., 1918-01-11

whatever. Only the customary plate collection Is taken and this is wholly a voluntary offering on the part Of
 those present
 Saturday night wiU be a great night at the tabernacle as that evening Is devo,ed to sacred concert. In thee party there are soloists, vocal and instrumental and these are not in the amateur class As with the other services this, too will be without any admission charge of any character The entire city is invited to be pres ent
 Sunday morning all of the co-op- erating churches will hold their own services and at 2:30 in the after noon and 7:30 in the evening the ser vices will be held in the tabernacle. Just a word as to the chorus choir Theae are over two hundred and fifty now in that choir. Before the meet- ing gets under full headway it is expected that this will he increased to five hundred voices All who can sing, or as Mir Storr expresses 1t, ttAA AtlA t ttlAlt III a AOAi bhAhtNl tAt v invited to join this choir It is a
 musical education to be under the di- rection of such a leader as MT. StOrr.
 You will find it both pleasant and l profitable to take part in this feat ure of the meeting in addition to the help you render toward making the service the big success that it is go- ing to be.
 The message of Mir Stephens last night was addressed to those who were already members of the church,
 as all of his sermons thus far have
 been directed He spoke from these words "Of my people which are
 called by my name shall humble
 themselves, pray and seek my face
 and turn from their wicked way then
 shall hear from heaven and forgive l their sins and heal their land"
 AIt. Stephens called this Gods re
 cipe for a genuine revival. He had witnessed again and again it's truth. He spoke of his experience in Austin
 when bankers. teachers and high school boys humbly confessed their
 sins Through prayer and humility
 that town was wonderfully blessed. l"Wouldnt you like to see something
 like that happen in Hot Springs, a
 time when everybody saw God?' He
 declared that the responsibility was 1 placed directly on Gods own people. Theae are many members of the
 church, whose names are upon the records, who have no right to His
 name. To be called by His name
 means something more than simply | signing a card Sometimes it is too easy to get into the church and then it is too easy to get out. God did
 not speak these words 10 drunkards and gamblers. and harlots, but He
 spoke them b His people called by His name. The responsibility for the | ten thousand persons in Hot Springs who never darken the church doors rom one years end t0 another rests ! directly upon the Christian people
 of the city; the pastors and the Ste phens party All the devils in hell
 cannot hinder a campaign waged by
 
 pie can damn Hot Springs and that
 class is Gods people through their | indifference and unfaithfulness.
 Wheneevr the devils gang gets busy and organizes then I am happy, Mir. Stephens declared. for then 1 know
 that something big from God is go- ing to happen
 He declared tLat he was no here 10 fight anybody but to declare the truth of God He urged that amid opposi tion to Gods work the people keep sweet in their dispositions and that they pray He gave his experience in various places, when the meeting he was to hold met with opposition from many sources from the press, from the liquor interests and even from within the church A campaign of vuification was waged against the meeting. Yet after the first few days this was changed by the power of God and through prayer and even the hos tile press began to support the ser vices
 If on the part of Gods people there l is this humility, this praying and seeking His face and this turning from wicked ways then on Gods part there will be His hearing His people l from heaven; He will forgive their | sins and He will heal their land. If we could only see what Jesus sees | as He looks upon Hot Springs: the ] broken, the burdened hearts we would be amazed God is ready to heal all of the sore spots, He is | waiting for His people in the city to humble themselves, to pray and seek sfis face and to turn from their wick edness
 MT Stephens closed with this, though impressing it upon the minds and hearts of his hearers: Let go of sin and of self and let God have