Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-28
Sin The WORST
THING In CITY,
IS HIS VERSION

There were five baptisms at the
close of the service at the Christian
church last night A large audience
heard Dr. E. E, Violette on "The
Worst Thing in Douglas" His scrip
ture text was from Gal. and John
3. The subject sounded somewhat
sensational but DR.. Violette's preach
ing was far from sensationalism.
In discussing his subject he BROUGHT
out the THOUGHT that w-len ne was
boy he heard preacher describe
the old devil Of the middle ages
in such horrible pictures that he
thought no ore would De attracted
to such a monster.
The EVANGELIST indicated that no
one could doubt but there is some
wicked Influence in this world that
has left its trail of woe in every
heart and in every age "You may
call it what you will said the
EVANGELIST. ''but we know that the
worst thing that men have to deal
! with is sin. Some say. there is no
devil. A professor was asked the
difference between nodernist and
fundamentalist. The modernist
says. There is no devil!' and thu
| fundamentals saws, The devil, there
isn't answered the professor"
DR.. Violette said that all sin was
caused by the devil being within
the individual The devil cf hatred
I the devil /of infideIity, profanity and
,1icentiousness. is sin in the heart
1t uses the tongue to SANDER, blights
the bloom of the land, it's shame
is that the innocent must suffer for
the guilty." said the evangelist.
"I heard Lrgersoll once pay q
wonderful tribute TO Jesus" said DR.
VioIette. ''but Tngersoll remarked that
he would challenge God if Christ.
the pure innocent cne, was allowed
to suffer for the wicked. And that
is just what Christ did, declared the
evangelist, because that is always
the case. The innocent suffers more
from the sin of reprobate than
i the reprobate himself" He then
described how q young husbands sin
had been responsible for the birth
Of child that was blind and diseased
! and said, "Who suffered most, that
wicked husband or the mother Of
the child?"
The preacher called attention tc
the scripture that whatsoever a man
sows he shall reap, and described
| how an infidel farmer challenged
the law and prepared his soil on
a Sunday in March, sowed his grain
on a Sunday in April, reaped it on
Sunday, in July, Stacked it on a
Sunday in August, and thrashed it on
a Sunday in October and then wrote
the editor in Illinois that ne raised
the finest crop in the country and
asked him where was the judgmerr@
upon him. The editor printed the
letter and printed a big line Just
below the letter saying, "God does
not make full settlement in October 2
'"Sin is responsible for all the wars
i and woes of earth. You may call it
! a mental error and sweeten it. if you
please, but the transgression OF
| the laws of God and the wages of
sin is DEATH"
The subject tonight at 7:3O will be,
"The Land and the Book Illustrated =
Read Genesis 12 Pictures of the
Holy Land will be thrown upon the
screen to illustrate his message. It
will be a 1ecture-sermori
1 Sunday at IL a. m. his subject
will be, "Shall We Abandon the
Church?" Acts 5. Sunday afternoon
at $3.50 the second lecture on Inter
national Relationships" will be de-
livered,, "America's God.'' Sunday
night at 7:3O, Goods Great Gift of
Love-" John third chapter.