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LARGE ATTENDANCE:
At REVIVAL SERVICE
Rev. Hugh Wayt Speaks On
Topic, Where Will You
Spend Eternity?'

Attendance at the Vine st. church
revival services was back to normal
and beyond Wednesday evening The
special numbers given by Mr.. clark
and Miss Sells, were Couldn't Hear
Nobody Pray" "Swing Low, Sweet
Chariot" a solo by Mr.. Clark, 1.-THE
Old Rugged Cross and where Will
You Spend Eternity" also sung by
Mr.. Clark, during the invitation which
followed DR.. Wayt's sermon on that
subject. The accompanimentso of Miss
Sells to these songs, especially the me-
gro spirituals, are striking and orig
inal. Miss Sells usually gives a piano
selection while the collection Is being
taken. Tonight a delegation from Dan.
vile will attend the service. Baptism
will be administered Friday evening
at the beginning of the service.
On the question, where Will You
Spend Eternity DR.. Wayt said in
part:
ut will not be many weeks until
you will hear the young people of the
community asking each other the
where will you go to spend Decora-
ton Day." and little later on they
will be asking each other the question
Where are you going to spend the
Fourth of July?" or where are you
going to spend your vacation?" come
to you with question far superior to
any of these, far more important to
the young people Of this country
where are you going to spend eterni-
ty? Where we shall spend eternity de-
pends on where we spend our times
and what we are doing today and to-
morrow in this life. That decides
where we shall spend eternity. There
are two classes Of people in the world,
those whose hearts are right in the
sight of God and those whose hearts
are not right In the sight of God. These
last need a change Of heart, what the
Apostle Paul means III Corinthians,
SID when he says, If any man is in
Christ Jesus he is a new creature, old
things are passed away and behold all
things are become new There must
be new birth, about which Jesus
talked to Nicodemus and made 1t so
plain and clear that we must be born
again (John 3:5).
DR.. Wayt used numerous compari-
sons and examples to illustrate the
fact that only a regeneration of the
spirit can avail in the sight of God, for
man looketh on the outward appear
ance, but God loOketh on the heart
and neither education, nor culture, nor
a new suit Of clothes, nor new plaster
on an old house, nor new painted
pump in fever-laden well. will reme-
dy the real trouble. There must be-"
he said,' as Jesus told the woman of
Samaria at Jacobs we'll (John fourth
chapter) "a well of water springing up
into everlasting life.'
Suppose we had an X-ray machine
here, and I announced that it would be
turned upon this audience, and every
thought and purpose and motive that
is In the very heart and mind here
tonight would be flashed upon the
wall of this auditorium, every secret
sin that there Is within your life, so
that this whole audience can see and
know every secret that there is in
your heart, and I would say, before we
do this, il there are any one here who
does not want to stand the test, they
may retire from the building. How
many, do you think would get up and
leave the building? How many do you
think would be willing to stay and
stand such a test and have the secrets
OF their hearts and lives thrown on
the walls of your church here tonight