The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-11-01
DESPITE RAIN GOOD
SIZED AUDIENCE At
HEAIA c SERVICES At
BROADWAY BAPTIST

Rev. K. l.. Davidson, pastor of the
broadway Baptist church, spoke to a
good rainy night audience Sunday
night on the theme. The Souls
Thirst from the text; "As the hart
panteth after the water brooks. so
panteth my soul after Thee. O. God.
my soul thirs,eth for God. for the
living God"
He said in part: "All nature thlrsts
after something else in nature:
flowers after rain, the harvest after
sunshine, bees after honey, the hart
after the waterbrooks.
Soul Thirst
Every human soul has a thirst that
is Unsuitable at earthly fountains. No
man can be satisfied within himself.
nor can he be satisfied with things.
He cannot feed his soul on the dead
husks that lie around him-wealth,
position. learning, honor, fame. Every
soul either consciously or uncon-
sciously thrsts for God A living
man must have a living God to love
and worship or his soul will perish
in the midst of earthly plenty and
will thirst and die while the water
of earthly delights is running all
around him. If the heart would be
at rest it must soar through all the
divers regions where its love may le-
Ultimately tarry for while, until
1t reaches the sole and central throne
Of h. ,.t,ft
cease its flight, and fold its weary
wings and sleep like a bird within
its nest.
Natural and Acquired Thirst
Thirst for God is natural and
not acquired. There is a radical dis
tinction between the two. Whatever
is natural admits of legitimate salts
faction. Whatever is acquired grows
by what 1t feeds upon until it works
the mans ruin. The natural thirst
of the. body for water may be so per-
verted as to send the man to the
grog shop. The natural thirst of the
soul for God may be so perverted
as to send a man to glded puddles
that beasts would spurn TO taste.
Fountains for the Thirsty
"God invites thirsty men to drink |
freely at His fountain. Ho, every one
that thlrsteth, come ye to the foun-
tain and drink. God will not mock |
His creatures by giving them long
ings that cannot be satisfied. Before
He gave fish fins He made water
in which they might swim: before He |
gave birds wings, He made air in |
which they might fly. Before He gave
a soul thirst He provided the water
Of life by which that thirst might
be satisfied.
Soul Thirst in Eternity
Every soul will carry its thirst
with it into eternity. Ny soul thirsteth
for God, for the living God. Father
braham, send Lazarus. that he may
iip the tip of his finger in water,
and cool my tongue. There may be
two thirsts, the one natural and the
)ther acquired. The one, the longing
Tor God. which satisfied. is heaven;
ne other, the longing for quenching
IF self-lit fires, and for one drop OF
he lost delights OF earth TO cool the
thirsty throat, which. unsatisfied, is
hell No more intolerable torment
IAN be conceived than that of the
eternal perpetuation of the acquired
usts and passions and appetites OF
his life with no opportunity to sati-
lte or satisfy them. Every mans hell,
will be largely one Of his own Gre
alton. He will take it with him into
he eternal world in the form of thirst
or things which belong to earth
md earth only. Then harken, o soul
If man. to the invitation of God; Let
him that is athirst come, and whose
.ver will let him take of the water
If life freely Christ said: He that
lrinketh of the water that | shall
rive him shall never thirst"