The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-02-02
THE METHODIST REVIVAL

Interest in the revival at the Metho-
dist church is growing. Each service
is more interesting and the audiences
are larger each time. Friday night
will be FANNY Night" The music
by the large chorus, led by Prof. Cur
~, and the duets by Prof. Curry and
DR.. Weigle, have charmed the people.
DIR. Weigle preached last night from
Romans 6:23, For the wages of sin
is death" His sermon in part was as
| follows:
In the first seven chapters of Rom
ans, Paul is dealing largely with the
question of sin. In his first chapter
he tells us of Gods attitude toward
sin; in the second chapter he tells US
that God will not excuse sin; in the
third chapter we are told there is no
| difference, all have sinned; in the
fourth chapter he informs US of the
way of salvation from sin; in the fifth
chapter of the atonement for sin made
| by Jesus Christ; in the sixth he warns
against allowing sin to use our men,
bers as instruments of unrighteous-
ness, and the words of my text are the
climax Of all and warn of the penalty
we must suffer if we persist in life
of sin and fail to repent.
The sin message is needed today to
/ awaken the public conscience. Every
where we go sin is seen in all its
FORMS Men have always treated sin
too lightly. Fools make a mock of
sin" They are fools to do this be-
cause sin leads to death. Thefore, We
dare not use soft words in dealing
with sin. AS long as sin continues to
work death as it does now we must
use strong words in referring to it. It
would be murderous for a doctor to
carelessly call a case of smallpox a
light attack of chickenpox.
| All sin has its origin in the human
heart. 1t has no existence apart from
living men and women. An agent for
the Standard Oil Co. in a western
state told me that they advertised va
rious kinds of oil such Sunlight oil,
Electric Light oil and Radium oil, all
at different prices, but they all came
out of the same tank. There are va
rious brands of sin but they all come
out of the same tank called the human
heart. There may be a million differ
ent brands of cussedness but they all
4 90 &ho ~ IF
of them may be called little sins, but
in Gods sight they have the same
quality as the big sins. All sin is re-
bellion against God and leads to
death. God hates sin so much that he
will chase you to the boundaries of
creation if you dare to come to judg-
ment an impenitent soul. One drop
of poison is as certain to destroy life
as a cupfull. A hatpin jabbed into
the heart will kill as positively as the
plunge of butcherknife. The bite of
sin is like the bite of mad dog-it
results in moral hydrophobia later on.
The wages of sin is death.
Sin can be classified under three
heads: gross sins, respectable sins
and the sin of neglect. There are some
sins that are so black the man or
woman who may be guilty of them is
looked upon as a moral leper. Such
sins as dishonesty, adultery or murder
will not only prove fatal socially but
will land many a person in prison or
on the gallows. Some may be able to
lconceal their crimes and so escape the
lpenalty of violated laws, but the sins
brand them just the same and sooner
or later they must suffer them.
Hear me! There are sins In this
town that are terrible! There are sins
in peoples lives they don't want
known. There are sins that have de-
stroyed your rest. If the public knew
all that was going on it would be
shocked. There are sins that viii
blast your home; that will cripple
your influence for good; and that will
damn your soul except you repent.
AS a rule men do not plunge into