Pocahontas star herald., 1925-07-23
A Great Revival


Editor, by your permission l will
speak through the Herald telling some
thing of our revival meeting. The list
Sunday of July our pastor, Rev. w. e..
Benbrook began his revival efforts
Monday night our presiding elder, Bro.
Sherman. came to him and for eight
days they did faithful work. True
outward demonstrations were not what
we had hoped, yet Eternity alone will
reveal exact results. True Gods chill
dren never meet to serve and worship
Him but that satan sends his groups
to counteract the labOrs of the faith
full few. But we know that however
much he and his force may try, they
cannot thwart Gods plans and the
peoples work only as the true Chris
tians yield to satan's temptations to
doubt the faithfulness, earnestness and
zeal of each other.
The meeting was indeed a great sue
cess. If we have not been able to see
results as we hoped, we need not be
discouraged Sometimes our eyes need
to be opened to the realization of our
spiritual blindness.
Our pastor is somewhat handicap
ped Being a school boy causes him
to fear he is not doing pastoral work
as he should, yet he gives us strong
soul food and we all love and honor
him. True, he need not expect TO
preach like Bro. Sherman with so much
more practical experience yet each has
work. God has a plan in each hui
man life but some people allow satan
to thwart Gods plan in their lives and
many in the church fail to do duty
when urged by their pastors to work
and pray and talk and they lose many
blessings. The meeting closes leaving
them lean of soul.
| said our meeting was a success.
When l say that a man past go years
of age. who had so long been trying
to plead his good work and depending
on that for salvation and after all
these years came trembling to the altar
of the church for prayer and accept
Christ as his only salvation, why would
not any Christian say the meeting was
a grand success? l have known Uncle
Billie Davis for near 40 years and real
ly believe if honest, upright actions
with our fellow beings could have saw
ed a man. any man, his good deeds
would have so saved him. l do thank
God thar even at this late hour God
sent man with the message which
opened the eyes of his understanding
and let him see Jesus and let him
know that whOsOeyer VIII may be saw
ed through the merits of our Christ.
If everyone who attended that meet
ing did not hear a great message sent
by our Lord it was their own fault.
am so glad that nothing but our own
failures can separate us from the love
of God which makes the love of souls
of all and hate and try to destroy sin
everywhere and anywhere. Hence if
the devil temptS us to yield to Saul's
spirit, thank God he is willing to give
us the needed grace to resist the devil
and sin not Bless the Lord for his
willingness to pardon and make and
keep us clean every moment if we sub
NIT all to him who knoweth how frail
we are. knowing He has all power in
Heaven and earth and will not allow
satan to tempt us more than His grace
can keep us from sin if we make a full
and complete surrender to Jesus.
SO let's pray the Lord to help MS
who think we stand, take heed lest
we fall For if St Paul had reason to
fear lest he himself might he acast-
away, how much more should weak
ones watch and pray that we may in
fluence others to see Jesus. l once
heard a Baptist preacher, Bro A. Lin
coin, say that if every professed chris
tian in Ravenden Springs were living
as God wants us to, this town would
be christianized in three days. Let's
try it.
We had two other professions and
three accessions to our church. Why
not rejoice Mrs j r. Edwards