South Bend News-Times, Volume 34, Number 41, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 10 February 1917 — Page 3

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IN THE SOUTH BEND FIRST WEEK OF People of Today Have Gold Dust In Their Eyes Children s Choir oj 50 is Heard at IVestminster Wordly Pleasures Conducive to Religious Sleep Says Minister Sill FIRST ÖTEP 0 WORLD'S CRISIS

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Three Other Churches Will Begin Services Next Week Interest is Growing.

Revival w-rvire- in 13 Fouth Bend t'liurrhe l.t?i er.im,', markf'l the close of th" l:r.-t w-ek of the !-irniiI-taiR'ous atup.iin which will continue for the next two weeks. Kxnctly 24 churches were encased in a t-itnilar reu;.l lat year, but this Near. owir:r to s-eral reason, print. pally flu- roM weather, about fix I as tors d,l not enter the ramtiaih'n. The First 'hri.-ti.in. S. Paul's Methodist and the f;ra-e M. K. churches v f re ar .'iit; the nr?-t to withdraw. Iurin the first week. st.rvict-s were eaneelh-.i at the Stull Memorial ehurrh h--aiise? of sickness In the -oncreati'n, at the WYsleyan M. K., on account of improper heatint? and nt the Fpworth Memorial. However, th eampaiu'n will be started Sunday In all thre hurches, the pastors conduct! n:; the services at th Stull I. i:. ami the Wesleyan M. i:.. two evanpeli-ts-, Rev. Its. . Alpin and Klliott. having charge of the Kpv. orth Memorial. ttendanre whieli was poor the first several nights. has increased considerably despite cold weather. At one time pastors of a few churches seriously considered the adviseal.ihty of discontinuing the meetings is; th-ir respei'ti churches. Tracer Meeting Held. I'raypr me-tlns hehl at the homes of women of the Westminster Presyt rian and River Park M. II. churches, have done much to stimulate enthusiasm, sis the lare attendance at these churches picnify. Members ff the River Park church held services Friday afternoon at the Immes of Mrs. Frank Miller and Mrs. Jackson I'.vans. Appeals for personal work on the part of church members are provju fruitful as the demonstration Thursday venine: at the Westminster Presbyteri.au church showed. Rev. A. Christy P.rown, tho pastor, called for personal workers, nearly ;ill the congregation rcpondincj. Spoci.il nitisir by chorus rhoir of mixed voices, is adding rmioh to the interest in the meetings. Ixal talent well as pome outside vocalists h.ive appeared on the programs at hff ral churehes. Ie.lie Whitcomb, j-on of J,. C. Whitcomb. and who is .attending the McCormick TheoJocical institute in Chicago has rendered vocal solos at tho Westminster hurch. Mixed choirs ranfflntr from 2 1 to To voices, arc doing especially tine work at irny local churches, atnon the?i the Kiret P.aptist dlrected by the pastor. Rev. Charles A. I 'eck er. and the Indiana Avenue Christian choir, besides the Westminster Presbyterian mlved proup which Is under the guidance of L. . Whitcomb. Thni arc Converted. Three youns; men were converted Thursday evening, two of the conversions beinr made at the First Prethien church of which Rev. A. K. Themas Is pastor and Rev. J. A. McIntuff. evangelist. The other eonvert is claimed by Rev. Henry I. Ia!s of the First Methodist church, who is conducting his own services. Rev. A. Thomas of the First Hrethseii church anticipates several more conversions Saturday evening, his church beim? the only one to hold a nicotine on that evening. Resides the local pastors in chnrpro of their own revivals, the following vanuelists sire entrapred in the campaign: Itcv. J. A. droves of Warsaw. Rev. .1. A. Robinson. Rev. Irs. M'-Alpin sind Flliott. Rev. Jesse Hemic. Kfv. rhirlcs K. Watkins of Mun' ie. Rev. l. A. Shirey. Rev. J. A. McIntutT and Rev. II. P. Punhp. IloM sor ice. Tonight. lwell Heights M. F.. chinch will ' one of the few sit which serice.i will be held this eenim;. Services will be held even' Saturday ni-lr. at that church. Monday evening to be the nly one of the week when :.. meeting will be conducted. A special horns of children will furvih the nuis'a- tonight. Three evangelistic services will h held at the l.owcll Heights chureli S unlay, meetings rein scheduled f'.T the niorninc. afternoon and evenmi:. The afternoon services be f. r men only and the evanpelist. Rc. R. I. 'hanipion. will preach on "Hawk or Ihizzard." Meetings w ill be held Tuesday and Thursday afternoons for women only and on l'riday :--f terr.oon a service will bo heid for the children. 'Why Men Should .Vot Swear", will he the subject of the sermon at a meeting for men only at the First M. F. church Sunday after--non. Rev. Henry I. Pais. pastor of he church, will preach on "Hell: Sh -.11 We Relieve In It" Sunday oven;r.;X. pr. V. P. Hairer led the choir at lr.st nisht's sei-vices. tTiiMrin Take Part. At a special meeting :it tb.e Hope R: csb terian h apel b.eld riday afti ! 'hioii ihm! ly 100 children w ere ! te-.-nt ar.d participated in tb.e serU e. which were conducted under t!.- dirtion of Rev. 11. P. Punloj. . i d his wife, who i assistlnt; him in hi- .itni'-'iu m tb.e city. It was ,ii;i)n!ii; ed at the rek;i:lar rn-etin that tber be a speci.il sermon o i S , : 1 1 1 i . t - afternoo'n for the men. Tb.e ui'j-c! hosen by the prc.icb.cr ' Tl I'ovii S'juare .Man "' In the hv('1I!!U' Rev. Hunlop w ill sj.t aU .n th- sub;', t "Piepare t( Mv t thy ; od." S.-rv i will be held ir. tl)- main ., '!d!lor;um of tb.e Fir-l F'. :ir,;. heal n ! -li ! .(!.: t pa--r..r. Kev . W. H. l'n -hbv. Iw the Uioiuiji he will &ifk on "Repe Hiera e " and in

"Why does fjod not coavert men?" jskeil Rev. Henry F. Davis, pastor of the First M. F. church, last niht. '"The reason is that He must have , the attention of men. (Jod stands at I the door of men's hearts, knocking

and seeking to be admitted. Peopln of today are seekers of wealth. They hiave cold dust in their eyes." He said that people today Rave little or no attention to the reading of the Hcripture. He asserted that the k1 of lust, pleasure and revelry was in the hearts of many. He then told of man's dual nature and how the word of Cod was cast aside like the heathen who bathed in the ?llthy Ian'-res river, when shown by the aid of a microscope the erms contained In one drop of water, broke the instrument sind returned to his hathinp in the foul river. "Those who are not clean ami ignore the voice of CJod are like the heathen who shattered the mi-cros'-ope," Rev. Davis said. Dr. V. D. Hairer led the choir. An altar service was held after the meeting. The subject for the Sunday evening sermon will be "Hell: Shall We Relieve in It or Xot?" A meeting for men only will he held Sunday afternoon, the subject beinjr "Why Men Should Not Swear." CED TO AY SIN'S WAGES Innocent Suffer While Wrongdoer Imagines He is Having Good Time. Consequences oT sin from the individual ami social standpoint were discussed by Rev. A. Hunter Kenna, pastor of the Fpworth Memorial M. E. church, in a sermon on "Sowintf and Reaping" last nißht. The text of the sermon was taken from the Rihlical quotation, "Whatsoever a man soweth. that shall he also reap." "Three loses may be the individual onsejuence of sin," Rev. Kenna said. "First, he will lose the fellowship of (lotl. Ood is perfect holiness and cannot look upon .sin with much allowance. The result is that the individual alienates himself from (Jod. Secondly, the man who lives a. wicked life will cut his fellowship with the highest, tho truest men. lie might be in company with them, hut there is not a wsirmness of feelinR for him. Although the individual may appear, to be associated with the best of men. the true fellowship is cut. "Ioss of fellowship with his better self is the third consequence o? sin to the Individual. This is just as tracic as any of the others. A man may live a hermit life, if he hps money and a house. He may isolate himself as far as others are concerned, but no man can main tain his own self-respect and do the things that sire wroiifr. "The second Kreat result of sin is the social aspect of it. 'Xo man hveth unto himself alone' and the mmi who lives a life of evil ieonardizes the liv es of his ow n people j i ai : l . l. i . . , ..:.. ami i nose w h u w nom ne is asstu aaied. The youn?r man who lives a wicked life may think he is havincr a pood time, but he breaks his mother's heart ami makes her premsiturely old ami pray. J "Another result of sin from the social standpoint is that the tendencies toward wronjr-doins are in- ! creased. It becomes easier to do wronar and harder to do risht. If he persists he separates himself from Cod. I do not know what becomes of him. but I do know that he loses God's love." "PRIZE FIGHTERS" WILL BE MINISTER'S TOPIC Gol Can Ssuc 1. No Matter How Tar We May lx Involel in Sin. "Salvation to the I'ttemvost" was the subject chosen by the Rev. J. A. Mclntuff last evening for his ser-! mon delivered at the First Rrethren church before a larj:e attendance. Saturday evening he will tsike for his subject "Prize Fighters." The evangelist said that according to scriptures all those who i ome to God through Jesus shall be saved. Coming to God. he explained, means the living of a Christian life continuously, the giving up of our sins and the loving of God. He showed by quoting text that God can save us to the uttermost no J matter how far we may have been involved in sin in the past. From another text, however, he drew the inclusion that there is a limit to Ged's mercy, and once a person teps over this dead line he can not J be saved because it is impossible J tor him to will to be saved. jth evening on "The PeviTs Task." J Rev. W. A. Rrundsixe will speak on "The Four Fools" on Sunday at the Indiana Avenue Christian church and at the First Church of the j Rrethren. Rev. J. A. Robinson "will ; speak on "Christian RaptNm." Re . J. . Mclntuff s;m .U on j "Prize l ights' Saturday at the First Rrethren church.

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Foundation of All Libraries Can Be Found in the Bible.

"Christians are horn, not made." declared Rvamcelist D.- A. Kaley In his sermon on "The Word of God, and Different Kind of Hearers." last nisht at the Mizpah Evangelical church. Taking the parable of the sower ns a text, the speaker elaind vjy analogy, what the word of God is. its influence, and how people accept the word. "Retween the coverr of the P.ible ou will lind the foundation of all lil raries. whether you are seeking science, philosophy, drama or other subjects." Rev. Kaley said. and pointed out that "Dur laws are ever chanffin and imperfect, but the laws of (tod are perfect and unchangeable and will brinp the soul back to the creator." The great effects of conversions of heathen lands was illustrated by the inauguration of right methods of living- in India and China. Our knowledge and hope of personal salvation is learned from the Rible, and the evangelist asserted that "If the Rible was closed to the understanding" of men, we would o to our graves In despair." "Most of our Rible study doesn't So any fsirther than hell and that is a foot and a half too high," complained the preacher. Referring to the parable of the sower and the speaker compared the seed t-" the word of God, and man's heart to a Karden thsit required diligent cultivation and where sins, like weeds, flourished if not uprooted. To get results the seed must be planted, so likewise Christ and man must come together. Rev. Kaley declared that in order to live a Christian life, our weak human nature must be brought under the influence of God, the designs of the devil must be thwarted, and had companions must be forsaken. "The devil is not only an influence but a person," the speaker said, and went on to characterize those who heard the word of God. ns those revival Christians, wno have so much spirit at services thov are unable to keep their seat, but a week later a request for a dollar for the church will drive all Christianity out of their soul, those who refuse to follow the precept "love your enemy" when it incurs self sacritice, those who have too much wealth and desire for pleasure to have time for religion, and lastly those people who hear the word of God, accept it and practice. The latter resemble the fertile soil that brought forth the bountious harvest, and the speaker dwelt on the beauty of a life exhibiting the virtues of a Christian spirit. Preceding the services Miss Rhinehart and Mrs. Whitmere sang solos. There will be no services at the Mizpah Evangelical church Saturday night. Sunday the themes of the sermons will be. in the morning, "Spiritual Drought." in the evening, at 7: SO o'clock, "Fire a Type of Sin." URGES THAT CHRIST BE MADE BUSINESS PARTNER Rev. Mchin C. Hunt Declares He Will Return 10.000 Percent Returns. "Make Jesus Christ your business partner." urged Rev. Melvin C. Hunt sit the Trinity M. E. church last night. "If you take Christ into your business, success will surely "oyou is. Ho will repay you a hundredfold, for He has promised it. lie has promised you 10.000 percent returns. Then why hold back?" Quoting fhe story of the miraculous haul of fishes from the Rible, Rev. Hunt proceeded to outline several instructive points from this psirable. "People today lack Christion daring, the holy heroism of early days; they all want sure things. Xo big undertaking ever succeeded without faith. The willingness to dare, to strive to risk things is missing in the tnakeup of the modern Christian. Nowadays we want not only a blazed trail, but paved trail. "If I thought people did not hunter for Christ now as of old, I would juit the ministry, but the heart o, -.he world still hungers for the Lord. Men in these days are familiar with everv thing but the Rible. God has promised to help you understand His word, yet multitudes pass it by. Were Christ to enter the pulpit today. He would pass by the alluring topics of the hour. lie would speak in the twentieth century as He spoke in the first, the word of God. "Do not open only the Sunday room of your heart to God. Open every room to Him. Give Him every day of the week. People are sifraid to consecrate themselves to Jesus Christ, but He is an indulgent master and we should not fear Him. Rieak away from selfishness, from fear, from smallness of soul, that ou may see the glory of the heavenly visions." Rev. M. H. Appleby, superintendnt of the South Rend district of tb.e Methodist churches. led the prayers. Rev. Door W. Siilaway gave a solo and was in charge of the choir, which rendered several numbers. An exceptionally large pum'.'-r atfiob-d tb- M-rvices last ni-ht. Rev. Sillawav will gio a violin solo Sunday moinin.

Music by the reiTJlar choir and a children's chorus of 10 voices marked tho revival services at the Westminster Presbyterian church last evening. The mus'c was directed by Leslie Whitcomb, who also sang a solo. The discourse was given by the Rev. A. Christy Rrown, his text being "Turn ye from your evil ways for why will ye die." Rzekiel. chapter 3?. verse 11. "God warns us to stay far from sin and to change our evil ways if we wish to be saved. He forgives us our sins because he told his apostles, Repent and he baptized.' God knows we are immortal and responsible beings with a free will and we can either be saved or doomed. Knowing this, God appeals to us to change our ways and be saved. "To be saved we must repent. Repentence is not conviction and it is not sorrow, for some people profoss to be sorry for their sins but at heart are not. Neither is repentence a promise to be good In the future. These are but elements of repentence. To repent we must come to God in true penitence ar.d He will meet us and forgive us our sins."

COD'S LOVE F Those Who Have Experienced Bound in Duty to Impart It to Others. "Some of us know the length and breadth and height and depth of God's love but do not impart it to others. If we know anything as good as that and do not give it to our less fortunate fellow beings, we have faltered." said Rev. C. O. Shirey or Kort Wayne in closing the first week's revival services at the Trinity Presbyterian church. Rev. Shirey took his sermon from Ephesians. 3:17: "That ye may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the depth, length, breadth and height and to know the love of Christ- which passeth all knowledge." The speaker developed his sermon point by point from this passage of scripture. "Have you ever thought of tho length to which Christ has gone to save this world?" he queried. "Christ's hands are scarred and His side Is pierced and yet you and I have gone on without thinking of that. Yet this is the sign by which we shall one day know Him. Christ's love is as broad as the universe. He loves us no natter where and we cannot drift beyond His love. There are many who are lenely but this can be easily explained. The fact that the love of God Is like the river and lakes of the mountains explains it. They are of little use when we only know of their existence, but when we utilize them they turn the plane into a beautiful paradise. We must find the love of God in the same way. We must seek after it and use it." The evangelist then showed that there are a number who believe in Christ but do not really know Him. He explained how Christ will stick closer than a brother, how He knows us and knows our inner selves in a way that if we knew, we vould be disgusted. In closing, Dr. Shirey added. "I do not think that we ought to desire to die. We have the chance to live and do so much good for others, but the time is coming when we will have to face death. If we have prepared to meet the last enemy we have accomplished something." A supper was served for the teachers and othcers of the Sunday school before the services. Dr. Shirey and the pastor. Rev. John S. Burns, gave short talks and praised the people for their work. TENDENCY IS TO PLACE THE BLAME ON OTHERS Cry of "Am I My Rrothor's Kcoior Still Heard in the j Ii ltd. i "Are you goinc: to let that man ith whom jou are daily associating go in sin. and at last wake up in hell?", asked the Rev. II. P. Dunlop at the Hope Presbyterian church last night, taking as his text. Genesis four and nine. " m I my brother's keeper?" These are the insolent, irreverent words of a wicked man who has slain his brother. Today, men are just as ouick to deny responsibility and even Christians are no exception to this." So claimed the evangelist speaking of people's tendency to always place the blame on others-. Rev. Dunlop spoke of the great j responsibility, which can.e to the prophets with their knowledge of future events. He said, "You and I read God's wondeiful revelaion, the Rible. and learn what God thinks of sin. and what duties He requires of man. We know God through salvation in Jesus Christ, and with this knowledge comes responsibility." The Hohenzollem fortune, which totaled P.fion.nno when tb.e gcratgraitd fat b.r of th prrs-ut Kiumt died, i now estimated at .sevtu times that figure.

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Things of Today Become Things of Tomorrow in Orderly Manner.

"The coming of Christ was a crisis, but God had been preparing the way for that crisis from the very first." Rev. Jesse Parker Rogue .aid in a sermon on "Progressive Religion." the fifth of a series of 12, at the Rivr I 'ark M. K. church list night. A special song service by the choir, led by Russell Hubbard. preceded the sermon. There will be no services at the church this evening. "The things that are today grow OUt into and heoimie th. thimw nf tomorrow in an orderly manner! ar.d not by accident or any happenso manner." said Rev. Rogue. "That i- the essential fact of e volution and that is God's way of working in human life. A revolution is but the climax of a Jong evolution. The coming of Christ was a crisis, but God had been preparing the way for tiat crisis from the very first. He even sent John as a "fore-runner" for Jesus. "We must approach the mark of the Christian life as exemplified by Christ progressively. "The man who chums to be perfect has never seen the life of Christ, nor his own little life. It is a life-work to become a godly person. It is also a very practical task. We must have a scientific sense to realize for ourselves what we are. We must have an idealizing sense to know what we ought to he. We must have a manly ser.se to shoulder the responsibility for the condition of ourselves rather than weakly and cowardly shift that responsibility onto the devil or some neighbor. Then we must have the spiritual power to constantly move forwaid and upward from what we ale to whit we ought to be. To

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5Tvlshirg fktrts. clos caresses and dainty steps to the tune of modern wishy-wahy selections in South Rend's ball moms create an atmosphere especially conducive to spiritual sleep, according to Rev. W. II. Freshley of the First Rvangelical church. "And spiritual sleep," asserted the preacher at the revival services last night, "is a contemptible if not a damnable thing." "Sleep"' was the subject of the sermon, anJ the text. "Awake, awake, awake ard put on thy strength, oh Zion." "Sleep, in its proper sense," Rev. Freshley informed his large congregation, "h one of nature's sweet restorers of strength. It gives health, wealth ar.d vigor of mind and body. He who cannot sleep well and sufficiently cannot be best at his work or play, but he who sleeps too much is alsc not best at his daily tasks. "In the Rible we read of the prophets calling the church to awake

know what we are and not what we ought to le is despair; to know -what we ought to be without V nowing what we are is fanaticism; to know what we are and what we ought to be also and still have no rower to make the transition is suicide." CHRIST'S DIVINITY IS PROVEN BY PROPHETS "The Roily of Clirtst" is Suhjrx-t of Sermon by Ilev. J. A. Robinson. "The Peity of Christ", was the subject of the sermon given by the Rev. J. A. Robinson at the First Church oi Rrethren last night. The evangelist set out to prove the divinity of Jesus by showing what would be true if He were not the Son of God. "The message of the prophets t

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from Fhimber. They icnd the warning for a spiritual awnkenlr.y. but unless you of modern time.s bt) alert you hear them net. The professed Christian who is a Christian Is sometimes spiritually asleep or dead. Spiritual sleep is a forerunner to death. "Just as insensibility to slight impressions is a sign cf natural jdeep. so is spiritual insensibility a sure sign of the soul's sleep. When would-be honest-to-good ness Chrisians fail to get anxious about tlnir neighbors, the backsliders, who tend church Christm a and Kaster or perhaps not at all, then there purely isa whole lot of spiritual sleep ai.,ong our church-going members, 'i hey must be a sleepy lot. "Spiritual sleep, like natural sleep, is all right in doses, but there Is always a temptation to take too much. That doesn't pay. Life Is the time to awaken and be doing; now is the time for the spiritual harvest."

would be false and deceptive; the plan of salvation would be thwarted and defeated: our Rible would be no more than Aesop's Fables: our religion would be no more than any other; our hope -would vanish as tho mist before the sun, and Christ would have been the greatest I imposter that ever lived. "Being divine", he said. "God has opened the way into the Holy of Holies for all men; he has given man a hope eternal in life and death, and he has redeemed the world from the curse of sin." He then showed that the divinity of Christ has been proved by the prophets, the angels, the devils, and in his own life by his birth, by the proclamations in hir, baptisms, by his own ministry, ard by his death and resurrection. "If Christ was not devlne we might just as well burn our churches, destroy our Ribles and dispense with religion." and can make; over next 0

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The Unpardonable Sin is One of Unbelief Won't Learn From Others.

Tikin for hl tert. ' Th- Sia of Fnbellef." Genets, " 1-7; I--or to the Herren c. ?. rhnr ' vor", the Rev. Georg K. Wntklr. evnngejjc from Mürel. delivered strong sermon at th Fin-t Ppf! church Friday ever.inr. The atterdar.ee at th First Raptit church his notably increased in the ;at few das. in p'rt, .Mr. Wat iuris "The Rook of Genesiv :s the so.-d plot o the Rible. From it we bun about the life, about th.- N -riming ar.d creation of .ill thir.:; and of th .--.Ti. which has its W-rinning in doutt. Sin is the f.r.-t step away from God ar.d the end of sin is d-ath. Thö Unpardonable sin of the Rible ithe sin of unbelief. Man sinned, b-jr God was merciful ar.d h sent down His i-on Jesus Chrl-t, vbo redeemed the world. When mm sir.r" the world has changed. "The Spirit of Truth Mm. Tb..Holy Spirit c:mi ar.d convicted tlv world because they did not beliew-. Fvery man who commits a sin. do so because he doubts in his out. judgment. II turns away from those who are telling !;im ab,;t his wrong, lie turns a d.-af ear to thoe who are endeavoring to p. rsuad. him from doing wrorg. Man does not care to learn friin others vi that he miv avoid committing sin "P.efore a boy take- his fir? drink, he must doubt the words of his father that ; uch :i n act is a wrong one. Recaus. men .ubt and disobey God when He ha.s plalnlv set before them life and death, th punishment will be greater. Th crowning sin cf all 1 th" sir. of unbelief." si S - V

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