Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-01-18
LIVES OF MEN ARE
BEING READ BY A
WORLD OF SINNERS
Rev. Johnson Stirs a
Great Audience at
Tabernacle
ARE YOU AN XEsP|sTLE?"
Will Speak Tonight on
Why No Revival Pos
sible Here

Notwithstanding the unfavorable
weather last might the johnson tab
ernacle had only a few vacant seats.
The music of the great shorus stirred
the audience. The male chorus sang
with spiritual power, "The Church in
the Wildwood" Mr.. Piper in his i'm
pressve waiy played a corrlet solo
and MIR. Taylor with his usual pathos
sang, "They led Him away to be Cru
Gifted" Rev. Bob Johnson took his
text from II Cor. 3:2, eye are our
epistle written in our hearts, known
and read of all men,"
The speaker said, in part, that
the church member is the worlds
Bible. The world is reading the lives
of men. The children of this genera
tion are wiser than the children of
light. Man makes his own reputa-
tiom and the world puts the stamp
on it. The place in this world the
most like hell is the place filled with
wicked people.
The preacher, addressing his re-
marks to the Christians, said men
stumble over the Christian who does
not let his light shine. He illustrated
this by the blind man who kept a Ian
tern by his side so no one would
stumble over him. You may not be-
lieve a thing hurts you, but the
world sees how it injuries your life
The minister spoke tenderly of the
home. He said the children are STEP
ping in the parents tracks. If you
are new creature old things are
passed away and all things have be-
come new. 1t 'is bad sight to see
children playing about the home and
the parents going to destruction.
The speaker asked few questions
and left the audience to answer fol
themselves. He asked, "Is the Chris
tioan who will not come to the meet
ing and pray for the lost proper
apostle?" Boys and girls are watch
ing Christians all over this town. He
said whenever people in town viii
earnestly make David's prayer
SEARCH me, o God, and know my
heart: try me, o God, and know my
thoughts" there will be a revival
His direct Questions asked the bust
ness man if he was a proper epistle
and read of all men. Does your clerk
believe i'm your religion? Are you
proper epistle in your home wher
your conduct is a violation of scrip
ture? Are you proper epistle anc
never win soul to Christ? Are yor
proper epistle and never hold pray
er in your home? Are you a proper
epistle when you make your children
rush to school with never a prayer ov
er them? Are you a proper epistlt
He told of two neighbors out in tht
west with a tall fence between then
and one party put large sign on hi'
side "Our neighbors built this fence.
Illustrating evil in Christian neigh
bors. A young man in the west CAM
to a sense of his lost condition AM
said, "My father and mother wer'
the cause of my damnation." In an
other instance Mr.. johnson was hold
ing a meeting and petition was cir
culated for the merchants to clos
one hour and Sunday school super
intendent refused to sign but sa
loon keeper next door signed. Wa
that superintendent a proper epistle?
| The speaker told of another cas-
where a man stumbled seventee
years through the inconsistent life o
professed Christian and closed wit
very touching story of the las
words of Jerry McCauley where h
closed his life with testimonial, 81
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