The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1920-07-09
TWO FORMER PARIS
MEN PREACH HERE
Rev Ashley Chapel, Former Grove
Principal; And Rev P D T
Roberts Here Sunday.

Rev Ashley Chapel, the first prin-
cipal of Grove School and at present
pastor of Methodist church in Ard
more, Okla, which has a membership
of 500 and is planning to erect .
100000 church, delivered an elo-
qGent and beneficial sermon at the
First Methodist church here Sunday
morning. Rev P ID T Roberts, a
Paris boy who has made good and
now has charge OF one of the grow
ing and influential churches in Mem
rhis, and who incidentally was a
member of the second graduating
class of Grove, supplied the pulpit at
the evening service.
The return of these two former
Parisians attracted large crowds to
both services. Rev Roberts dis
coarse ON ''He That Endureth to the
Enc, the Same Shall be Saved" was
forcefully and impressively given.
He bids fair to become one of the
leading preachers in this conference,
and to emulate his former professor,
who held his audience so tensely in
terested at the morning service ON
GUS conversation between Peter and
the Christ, when Jesus said, son This
Rock | Will Build My Church, and
All the Gates of He'll Shall Not Pre-
vail Against 1t" and when Peter in
answer to his Lords question, 'tBut
when say ye that | am?" answered,
"Ih5u ant the Christ, the Son of
God"
The speaker dyelt OH Peters con-
fes Thou Ant the Christ--as the
foundation of the church. He ex-
planned that Peters remarkable an
swer was not the result of any COM
merciaL financial, social or inteilec-
tual standing, but was revealed to
him because of his beautiful asso-
citation and acceptance of the Father
Himself.
"A church thus founded on Peters
faith in God through His Son, shall
endure forever" said Rev Chapel.
In discussing the remarkable re-
sults of faith, he said it was, almost
unbelievable that few common men
fishermen and the like, should or
ganize and project an institution that
all the corners of the earth should
not move, nor the g; tes of hell pre-
vail against-the institution of the
Christian churches begun by the dis
ciples of Christ.
He introduced historical reference
to strengthen his theme, telling how
empires. thrones, Kingdoms and dy-
nasties had hurled their curses at the
church, how the very gates of hell
had been opened and all the Satanic
horde turned loose to srend their
force against it. but how it had stood
always as solid rock on such faith
as Peters. How Greece, Rome,
Austria, Russia, Germany-'the most
powerf hl empires of the world have
come and f1ourshed, tfen crumbled
into dust; how the gorgeous Jewish
nation was scattered to the four
winds; how Caesar, Alexander, Ma
poleon--the mighty men of the world
and the mighty things of the world
had, had their day and then the
wheels of Time had buried them all
in oblivion, but how the church has
stood and still stands as the greatest
factor, the mightiest power in the
universe.
"From it's teachings have sprung
all our civilization, all our laws,
all our benevolent institutions and
enterprises, that have benefited and
elevated humanity" said he in clos
ing. "The gates of hell, the power
of tie sword. the tragedy of war, the
curses of the Reds and Bolshevists
hurl their hatred against tlye church
but in vain. She stands as the
city set ON hill, the light house ON
the troubled and tempestuous sea of
human endeavor. it will stand for
ever"