The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-03-14
Interest In Revival Is Increasing and
ALI Opposition to Sunday
Disappears
(St. Augustine Record.)

of meetings here is increasing with
every day and what opposition there
was to him is rapidly fading into in
significance. The total number of
converts from the revival to date has
passed the 200 mark many OF these
being tourists who come from down
the East Coast today and are gone
tomorrow. Many of these have heard
but one sermon and taken stand
for God at its close.
Monday night the Rev. Billy Sun
day preached his well known sermon
on the objectionable sin taken from
the 31st verse of the 18th chapter Of
Wherefore l say unto you
All manner of sin and blasphemy
shall be forgiven unto men; but the
blasphemy against the Holy Ghost, It
shall not be forgiven him, neither in
this world, nor in the world to come"
Some men claim that the unpar-
donable sin is one thing and some an
other" said the evangelist, but at
ter studying the Scriptures and read
ing every sermon and paper have
been able to find on the subject I will
endeavor to tell you what | think
it is, who commit it, how it is COM
United and why God doesn't forgive
it. There are those who believe it
was only committed during the life o.
Christ on earth, others that only
drunkards and blasphemers can com
NIT it. / believe that Thousands are
in danger of committing it and my
J message is for htem.
! ITO my mind the objectionable sin
is the constant, continuous rejection
, of Jesus Christ as your Saviour and
the repetition of sin until it is too
late. The Bible says, My spirit shall
not always strive with men. That
doesn't mean that the Holy Spirit
will cease to strive with mankind on
the earth, for when that happens i.
J will be the end of time here; it means
that the spirit shall not always strive
with any one man or woman. No
special form of sin is the unpardon-
able sin. Any kind Of sin may be
: come objectionable If one continues
} tit may be anything that keeps God
/ out Of your heart. In another place
the word of God says, They shall
seek me and not find me- The un-
pardonable sin is the saying NO to
God until the Holy Spirit ceases to
move you-the refusal Of Christ over
and over again.
Truth constantly resisted eventu-
ally loses its hold on the mind that
resists it. Every time you hear and
say, No to the same truth that your
mother taught you at her knee, it be-
comes easier for you to say it. am
telling you just what she told you.
that faith in Jesus Christ is the only
salvation for man. A lot of you have
so often steeled your hearts against
the Holy Spirit that you now can
scarcely hear its call.
who can commit it? used to
think that only the profane and the
extremely wicked could commit the
objectionable sin. But Christ told the
Pharisees of their sins and held them
J up as examples Of sinners, and they
, were the best church people of those
D times, that is they were generally
< supposed to be. So, law-abiding,
I church-going people may be guilty of
\ the objectionable sin. l never was
8 much for these death-bed repent
< ances. am trying to live so that
Z will not have to spend my las. hours
! whining with some preacher to help
: me save my soul. The Bible only
{ mentions one death-bed repentance,
4 and that was the thief on the cross !;
! and he had never seen nor heard of
! Jesus Christ. till that day, Most of
- you have been hearing of Him since
you could understand the words that
came from your mothers lips, and
some of you have been denying him
just that long
The above are scattering sentenc IS
taken from Mr., Sundays sermon
published to give the reader a gener.
al idea of the message it contained.
He illustrated each point with strik-
ing examples and drove home his con-
illusions with characteristic force and
eloquence. His premises were sound
and we'll stated and his logic SEEM
: ingly, unanswerable. all substantiated
= by various passages of Scripture that
he quoted from time to time.
II In the course of the sermon Billy
Sunday said that the Lowest down,
most trifing and miserable creature
in the world was the fellow who