Show LARGE ATTENDANCE A AT BOTH SERVICES I Rev Louis S Bowerman De Delivers DeI livers Able Sermon at Im Imm Immanuel m manuel nuel Baptist Church A POOR RESOLUTION STRONG LESSON IS DRAWN FROM RICH MANS VANITY An unusually largo large congregation greeted Rev Louis S Bowerman at the Immanuel uel Baptist church at both the morning and evening services yesterday esterday In he morning the sacrament ot of the Lords supper was observed together with the reception ot of new members while In the evening Mr Bowerman delivered a strong sermon on the topic A Poor Resolution tion He took for his text the words found In Ia Luke xii 19 And I will say to tomy tomy my soul Soul thou hast much goods laid up UI for many years Take thine ease eat drink and be merry In part Mr Bowerman said The text receives added emphasis when wo Ne remember that just before our Lord had bad appealed to him to compel a brother brotherto to divIde an Inheritance Jesus at once disclaims an any such purpose He was no arbiter of family feuds or meanly Inter Interested Interested ested in worldly Inheritances This para pam parable ble comes in Immediate relationship with the previous incident Two things at once stand out first the resolution of the man second the an answer answer ot of God There is no question as to the honesty and Integrity of the man His Increase of worldly goods had come In legitimate ways It is not a question as to the how of obtaIning them The emphasis Is Ison Ison on the disposition ot of the same The larger tarns are not to be condemned The Increasing busIness always demands Increasing facilities All growth must ever count upon expansion The resolution resolution tion was poor because the man was only preparing for the temporary and sacrIficing sacrificing the eternal He was making a tremendous mistake in estimating and comparing values Fourfold Mistake The mistake was of a fourfold nature Thorn There was a mistake with reference to the method of at being drink and be merry That more often means gluttony and drunkenness The merry heart and mind are caused by no none no of these thIngs To be merry is something more than these or the bigger house You only get that from a pure heart and a clear conscience e Then he made a mis mistake mistake take In reference to the use of his abundance abundance dance Here was more than he needed That was good Overflowing granaries and fuU storerooms are good There Is no joy In simply making ends meet No busIness man is hilarious over the fact that he has simply held his own This man however Is planning only to use his superfluity for his own gratification There were many widows and orphans in inthe inthe the land There were many causes that needed assistance These however did not appeal to him Soul thou hast best much goods laid up Take Tako thine drink Notice agaIn the failure as to the true gauge of life and its worth First he will spend his life lICe in simply making money Yet we forget that the mere moneymaker is the poorest character in any community You see the reaction The last part of his life shall now be for ease and luxury It In either case Is the absolute absorbing of self In the material things and the losing of the vision of a character of sweetness purity and no nobility We Ve count success also too often by the merely material acquisition God estimates it ft only by character Life Is not In the abundance of things but In Inthe Inthe the formation of the endurIng qualities of holiness Then too the man made a mistake re regarding regarding garding the days of his life He thought He haa ha of many years ears and much goods many titles and possIbly many leases But he had neither title nor lease on life The soul of that man that night went back to God poorer than any beggars beggar a Pool Fool God spoke to the man Thou fool this night thy soul spall bo be required of thee God Is the gIver of life God Is the giver of bounties God holds the man account accountable accountable able for the life and for the bounties In Inthe Inthe the truest sense life Is a loan and our probation Of Gods bounties we weare weare years stewards a and not owners We Va bring are For what nothing we take out used God holds the right as we have loaner to ask for the accounting giver gher or our convenience but at athis athis and that not at good will his own that thatIs 1910 begin with the resolution Let and In Indulgence selfishness not In mere Is hi good received to freely dul ence but havIng freely give ghe examples from froni the lives In conclusion Daniel Ford and of Livingston Gordon D K Pear Pearsons ons wre given |