Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1915 — Christian Church Revival. [ARTICLE]

Christian Church Revival.

Another goodly audience assembled at the Christian church wvangelistig meeting Monday night. The sermon was entitled: /The Man Who Laughed at God.” Tin, Speak er dwelt upon the life of Belshazzar, King of Babylon and the handwriting on the wall. He sakHin part: '

Belshazzar was not found wanting in his own estimation. He was not wanting in the estimation of his friends for they thought him a good fellow. But God weighs every man in His own balance!. Many a man who thinks himself all right and who may listen to the silly plaudits of his friends may come far short of manhood as God views it. God gives us in His word the balances in which we are to weigh our lives. In Exodus, 20th chapter, they are to be found. Here are a few of them: Thou shalt love the Loyd thy God, etc. 'What is a Man’s ‘God? It may be money or gold. Many a man falls prostrate upon his knees before the altar of gold. He sacrifices honor, life, principle and all that te sacred and holp. Of all dust blown Into the eyes of manhood the most blinding is that of gold dust. Thou shalt keep the Sabbath bay.. There is need to heed this message of God. We Are prone to forget the sacredness and beauty of the Lord’s Day, and to fill It with things that will desecrate. Notions that have crumbled in the dust have been nations which have forgotten God and the Sabbath. You Christian people of Rensselaer, rise up and strike against anything that will rob us of God’s Day. Honor thy tether and thy mother, etc. Oh, how much need there is for this. We speak so lightly of sacred things. Children speak of father and mother as the "old man” and the “old woman.” The greatest man is the man who honors, loves and reveres parenthood. “Thou shalt not swear.” No man has the right to take the name Of his God in vain. Yet go where we will we hear it. A man might just as well speak lightly and disrespectfully of his mother than of his God. Don’t let us make our city a profane eity. The sermon tonight will be on “Sowing Wild Oats.” It will be of special interest to parents- and young' men. Prof. Altbelde will hgve his chorus in fine fettle tonight and musie will be a good featifre.

Women suffragists fighting for a federal constitutional amendment enfranchising their sex will concentrate their campaign upon the White House again Wednesday, when a delegation of democratic women will asa President Wilson to support their movement, ( which is to he taken up |n the house on Tuesday. Jam* J2th.