Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1925-02-19
REVIVAL MEETINGS
CONTINUE TO DRAW
LARGE CROW DIS
Masons and Eastern Star Members
Were Special Guests At Tabernacle
On Friday Night

OF the Bob Jones meeting. MT. Jones
said at the beginning of the service
that the meeting was getting well und-
er way and urged the cooperation OF
every one who really wanted big re-
vival IN Fitzgerald He said "hold on
to God and do your duty and we will
have a great meeting" Il want to talk
tonight about a work everyone can
do, Mr.. Jones said. After the sermon
an invitation was given and about 100
to 125 men and women, boys and girls
came to the altar for prayer. This
meeting was indeed great spiritual
uplift and numbers were brought closer
to God
The regular service at all the chursh-
es was held Sunday morning and all
the churches report good attendance at
the Sunday School and at the Church
service. -.
Sunday afternoon Mr.. Jones spoke
to 900 men at the Tabernacle and at
the same time Miss Andrews spoke to
a full house of women at the First
Baptist Church and Miss Rhodes spoke
10 boys and girls under IA at the Cen
trail Methodist church. All these meet
ings were inspirationa1 and the spirit
CT AJOu Was llldllllSol IA NoSli Vi eiiS
audiences.
Mr.. Jones spoke on the subject "The
Aims of Men,. His text was BE Not
Deceived, God is not Mocked for
whatsoever a man seWeth, that shall
he also reap"
He spoke in his usual forceful way
and held the large crowd of men spell
bound for an hour and half. He said
won can't live in sin very long, makes
no difference how shrewd you are with
out being detected" ''You cant tool
people. folks are hard to fool"
Mr.. Jones said 'the devil is not in
hell, he is in Fitzgerald. He goes to
church. he sits by the side of good men,
he don't bother much with bad men:
Don't have to- Mr.. Jones said "he had
no patience with men who will tell you
there are necessary evils" "A man can
live as clean a life as woman, he said.
The women are getting tired of this
double life some men are living. He
has no use for man that will stand
around on the street corner and tell
dirty Jokes. He said "any man who
will stand around on the street corner
and tell dirty jokes and talk about
women. is CT ooked."
He said he never could understand
why a fellow wanted to curse. There
is some excuse he said, for man
gambling or stealing because there
was some hope of reward, but for
cursing, a man had nothing to gain,
but had soul to damn"
Some fellows always "cussing"
around home. "You curse because you
are black inside" he said. You curse
at home because you are coward.
He said "a gambler was worse than
a thief" If you take his boys money
you simply leave him without money
but if you gamble with him you get
his money and his character too, and
usually ruin his soul.
He said ''if character is better than
money, a thief is better than gamb-
1er
In speaking of the present mode of
womens' dress, Mr.. Jones said 1T was
ridiculous the way women were dress
ing these days" and the day is soon
coming he said when men have got
to put their feet on womens dress" "
They have carried through other re-
forms and have gained wonderfully ov-
er the sinful and damaging things of
the world and they would soon have
to take the matter up of our womens
dress.
Mr.. tones said politicians had gotten
to be so rotten and immoral that it
was disgusting the way they get things
muddled up. He spoke of the Demo
cratic convention held in New York:
He was there until he got disgusted
and left. They messed things UP" and
they will always mess things up when
Al Smith dominates, as he did at this
convention.
He said he was so disgusted that
he didn't vote and he didn't cry when
the news came in that Calvin Coolidge
was elected, although he had always
been a Democrat. because his father
was.)
"The lines are being drawn tighter
and tighter on the liquor violators he
said. The "wet gang" have had their
day in America. People have made up
their minds that "ro wet crowd Of men
can run this country" The bootleg
gers can be put out of business If OF
ficers will do their duty, they ought
to be kicked out" He favored getting
the big guy first too. .
Mr.. ZONES spoke very highly of
President Coolidge, as man who was
in favor of enforcing the laws and es-
necia1lv the prohibition laws of this
country. He said the liquor bunch just
as we'll acknowledge defeat. Every
Congress is getting dryer and dryer,
and there was no hope for the liquor
crowd
At the close of the afternoon service
hundreds of men said they wanted to
live better lives from that hour and
numbers of them came forward tor
prayer.
ed in the building. This was the larg-
est crowd present at anv time OF the
meeting. An inspiring song service was
conducted by Mr. Storrs, leader OF
the large choir. Miss Andrews sang
"Wi1l YOU believe and Jesus Receive"
very swcetly Notwithstanding the
LARGE crowd present a stiffness almost
of death prevailed while she was sing
ING. Each one was anxious to catch
every word.
Mr.. tones spoke from Matthew 90
And Tesus passing on thence, saw
man called Matthew, sitting at the tax
office. and he said to him, follow me.
This was a personal invitation. he
said Zacharius had a personal invita-
ton when Jesus told him to come
down flom the sycamore tree. You
can do what you ought to do when
YOU possess Jesus, he said. mo man
on Gods earth, that wanted to get to
God, but what could find way, and
Cod never asked you for your head,
he wants your heart. He did not want
vour head because there was nothing
in it"