The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-12-06

tell this story of Nettie Littleto1
wherever you go" and the great Fri
day night crowd relaxed from the ten
sion in which they were held during
the recital of one of the mos
dramatic stories of modern society
life in which wealth, high social stand
I ing and mothers indomnible will
brought rarely beautiful and ac-
complished girl to ruin. 1t was a
mothers cry out of the depths that
cried to the evangelist that other
mothers and girls might not fall into
the same pitfall.
The Scripture lesson was taken from
% of Matthew, the ten virgins. AS
usual the evangelist took up the diff
ferent lines of criticism and dealt
with them in logical manner, bring
ing a fertile mind stored with a
knowledge of the land and the book
to the incident and the barbed arrows
of the enemy fell before they reached
the mark.
The sermon text is Watch there
fore" from the incident related. A
Young man in a wealthy church, put
ting his rich members under the spell
of the narcotic influence of untruth,
tells them this incident teaches that
there is a chance after death for the
sinner to be reclaimed. The deduction
is made because the five foolish viz
gins were told to go and buy oil. DR..
Bulgin asks at the close of the ser
mon from the rear of the house when
question box was opened, why the
five foolish did not get into the we'd
ding. The question was considered
as not applying and the evangelist
was told to sit down which he obedi-
entity did. But the falshood was dem
onstrated. The ten virgins came
from the bridegroom's own city and as
testimony that he was clean young
man. They bore torch in one hand
and the vessel, an open one, was car
ried in the other hand. Many thought
the oil represented justification by
faith as did Luther. Wesley thought
that the oil represented holiness. B.
F. Myers Of London saw in this par
able situation like the division in
the Episcopal church in England.
Moody looked upon the oil as CONVEX
sion. TORY thought it must be the
milling of the Holy Ghost. "They
are all wrong" said the speaker, and
added with broad grin, 81 am right"
"The oil in the parable represents
Christian character. Were they hypo-
critics? Oh, I would not call them
They could look down
into their vessels and they knew they
had no oil. They followed on taking
a chance but were shut out from the
feast | will call them pro-
tracted infants. Then followed
story of woman who was injured at
a dance A child came into the home
later who at 10 years was yet a little
child Of 20 pounds. At Jennie's death
DR.. Bulgin went to the home upon in
vitation to comfort the mother and
spoke of the going of this poor, mis-
shapen creature as not unfortunate
while the splendid daughters of the
home who were in the university Of
Ann Arbor were spared. The mother
was mortally grieved and the evangel-
st for the first time saw clearly what
i mothers love was. "The great heart
If God loves you poor, crippled, mis-
,hapen and undeveloped creatures in
he church." DR.. Bulgin thought that
he equal division, five foolish and five.
wise, was about the percentage in the
;hurch today. He is speaking on his
'irst contention that here is shown
character in contrast. All the virgins
ooked alike, had same color of hair,
anne height, dressed alike but.
lis second argument was that char
lcter is revealed in crisis. Salvation |
ONES instantly but character is built
Up. He gets at the root meaning of |
he word and makes it highly illumin-
ting. You can't form character on