The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1922-04-14
REV. BURKE CULpEP-
Per RlCoNT|NuEs TO
BON BARD SIN
breaches Straight from Shoulder
Though There is a Tenderness and
Centleness in All He Says. A
Glance At Some of His Sermons.

## NcntkeneSS IN All he says -
Glance At Some of His Sermons.
The revival being conducted by
s Rev. Burke Culpepper at the Lockett
3 Lumber shed in Grenada, and which
q began on the second day of April,
Is growing in interest from day to
day. Where were no services last Sat
urday, and the minister and his sing
er and secretary. Mr.. Robinson. spent
that day in Memphis at their homes.
S The Congregations at night are es-
+ tlmated all the way from 1900 to
$500 people
NJ Culpepper certainly does give
many things a severe lambasting. He
turks back to the days the older ones
the present tell of when they were
Oung as to preaching-days when
ministers interpreted Bible teachings
to mean reward for the good, those
s who rely upon the Savior, and as
foreshadowing certain punishment
for those who wilfulIy transgress
DIS laws and then turn their backs
the Savior. And il IS remarkable
this kind Of preaching always
the attention of any people.
are those, Of course, who think
preaching too severe and that
ster should have little to say
he personal conduct and habits
@ividuals. Naturally men and
a object to an arTaignment that
in question what they have "a
mt" to do. Yet it would appear
hat from time immemorial men have
hung with bated breath on proclana
tions from the puIpits which riddle |
sin and which have held up mans |
shortcomings as being sure 10 bring |
a visitation Of Gods wrath.
The preacher has taken shot
yes, great many Shots-at almost |
all classes OF sin, but il appears that !
he has given more time TO card play !
ing" bridee"-and dancing than |
perhaps al other matters altogether |
He insists that these Two destroy !
spiritual life, dwarf church activities |
and unfit one for effective religious |
work. He has hardly preached a SER
mon without Lighting on dancing and |
card playing. He seems 20 hold the |
women more 1@1leiy 4'sspo1sst,o fc3 !.
these things. He is severe on gamb-
ling and drinking, and charges that
gambling is worse than stealing.
The service Sunday afternoon to
'men only was one of the best. and |
many hearts Iwere deeply touched
liz SOIO HOtHIUS III I0lS. discourse
which could not be repeated in any
company or which would offend the
most modest Of women. His sermon
"to women only" was very appropri-
ate. His text was, Whose daughter
art thOu?' He seemed to think that
a great many women of the present
are more concerned about temporary
pleasure and certain social duties
than they are about how what they
do viii affect the good names Of their
fathers and their mothers or their
duties as wives and mothers. He paid
a fitting and beautiful tribute to wo-
manhood and gave woman a high
place IN Gods plan for saving the
world.
Mr.. Culpepper thinks this is day
of desecratiOn, defamation and pros
titutiOn'. In his sermon Tuesday
night, he stated that if every father
in town were to get him a hickory
limb and whip everything on his
premises from Is years old down,
that ne would not go far wrong He /
said that children and grownups. too.
were desecrating the Sabbath and /
many other Holy things He said that {
men in high official place at Washing &
ton were brostituting the offices they l
have been named to fill, and express l
ed sadness that some southern Cover
nOrs were bringing shame and dis |,
grace to the people of their states. It
Mr.. Culpepper's sermon in which
he used the text. And they sat and 5
saw him die" was oul-stirring in
deed. 1t was so real and appealing i
that one was made to feela that he S
could almost see the Savior as he t
fingered on the Cross, and to hear the
last words addressed to his mother. t
While Mr.. Culpepper is terrible in V
his arralgnment of sin and of much V
of the social life Of today, yet there S
is gentleness, tenderness and abso-
lutte sincerity in what he saws that S
touches the hearts Of hearers and
gives him ready access to their minds
and cOnsciences.
There have been many conversions v
and many renewals of church vows c
The meeting. will continue. accord
ing to announcement, until next !
Sunday night anyway. The morning a
service is at 10 o'clock and the even a
ing service at 80 o'clock. n