Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1915 — Christian Church Revival. [ARTICLE]

Christian Church Revival.

Notwithstanding the fact that Wednesday night was stormy, yet there was a splendid audience in attendance. There was also a splendid chorus to load the singing. The sermon was on the theme “Is There a Hell ”

If the Bible is true, which today ( s an undiisputable fact, there must ! t>e a future beyond this life. The Bible speaks in plain terms about the reward of the faithful and the junishment of the unfaithful In iis story of Dives and Lazarus as ;old by Jesus,’Dives went to his reward, and the one thing he carried with him was his memory. Science teaches that there is a hereafter for a man, in the law of the conservation of matter. If matter cannot be destroyed one cannot destroy that which is greater than matter. Man has within him that which Is Indestructible. If a man (has lived on the square hls memory will be only that of noble, good and holy things; if he has sinned and waited his life his memory will ibe as that of Dives. Human life argues in favor of a hereafter. Here is a man who sends many a young' man to a drunkard’s grave; disrupts homes, destroys happiness, and makes a man lower than the beasts. There must be a hell for that man.— Here is another man who is as sMmy and filthy as the creeping serpent, who sends a sweet faced and wholesome life to the depths of shame. There must be a hell for the white slave traffleer. If there is not, there should be.

Things are not on the equal in this old world. One man has to suffer, endure and toil, and another man who thinks nothing of his God or the right fares supmtuouSly In his fine linens. There must be a time when these things will bo righted. God tells a man plainly that if a man lives nobly he will get his reward, and if ignobly he will suffer (for It. Sin always brings its own punishment, and a man begins his hedl here. The sermon tonight will be on “Jesus’ SweetestlStory.” There will (be special music consisting of a duet and 9010. Don’t fail to Come.