Show I FIRST METHODIST REVIVAL SERVICES HELD BY EVANGELISTS EVANGE-LISTS YESTERDAY Dr Baker Spoke at Evening Meeting on What Christ Would Doing Regard Do-ing Dancing and TheaterGoing At the First Methodist church yesterday yes-terday morning Dr Dunham the evangelist evan-gelist spoke from John xlll S It1 1 wash thee not thou bust uo part xvlth me Christ he said was ever V a surprise lie was a surprise to the people of i his day and continued tobe a surprise lo the world today The text taught a loxxly lovely humble service for othels aa the washing of feet was a shock lo the false conception of dignity that then prevailed it also taught purity of heart and that such purity wan not optional but mandatory Ihe washing of regeneration and the renewal re-newal of the Holy Clliosl was Uod a plan to which we must submit In the afternoon Dr Raker conducted Ihe I services which Included a short ad drexK a Bible reading on samtltlcatlon followed by a brief altar service Dr Baker spoke In the evening also to an unusually large and deeply Interested In-terested audience from John vii 12 I nm the light of the world Christ he said was more to the world at present than ever before The nearer near-er we followed him tile further we were from the sins of the world The problem prob-lem What xvould Jeaus do was being be-ing earnestly and generally considered It was not consistent to Indulge In th Ihlngs I on which yc could not ask i Christx bhsslng IK touched uprfn theatergoing cardplaying and dancing danc-ing saying rhat if Christ were here he would not be Invited or expected 19 take part In those practices A good teat by xvliich lo judge a diversion wns as to whether It Is a recreation or an exhilaration lie prefurred not lo I mention men-tion I sp < h i thing 85V a rule i but lo nut bcIrP ttiP cOigtgutiOItthie higher anI purer thingsI Ihe positive eBide of Chrlstlanlly for which there was am plo need and demand No one had aright a-right to do or to ask others tv do that which he would not expect Christ himself him-self tOdo Jf he were here |