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Show GALLING SINNERS TO REPENTANCE Dr. L. D. Lamkin Begins His Series of Revival Services at the First Baptist. "Christianity is a science, whose purpose pur-pose ls to regulate each Individual he-art and direct each individual life to the end fon- which God designed It." Thia striking phrase was the proclamation procla-mation of Dr. L. D. liamkln, the famous fa-mous evangelist, who is here for ton days to conduct a series of revival meetings in the First Baptist church. The sermon was delivered to a crowded congregation lost night. Dr. Lamkin i an . earnest speaker, with a good delivery. de-livery. He Is eloquent, and his subject matter, judging from his discourse of yesterday evening, is just the right kind of preaching for his purpose, for at tho end of the service twelve people came up declaring their intention of acting up to the spirit of the sermon for the future. fu-ture. The text was talcen from the flrat book of Chronicles in the twenty-ninth chapter, at the flt'th verse: "Who then, is willing thia day to consecrate- his service to the Lord?" In the course of his sermon Dr. Lamkin Lam-kin emphasized the nature of the service serv-ice to which God called his people. "It is chiefly to carry his- message of divine di-vine grace and love to a dying world. It must bo a willing service. It must be an immediate service. You can not postpone the saving of your soul, you can not say 'It will do later,' or I have no time to think of that now. If it is the right kind of spirit that moves you there will be not tho slightest inclination inclina-tion to procrastinate for ono instant, you must come immediately. "In the third place it must be a consecrated con-secrated service. The real inner moaning moan-ing of the consecration of tho service must be emphasized by the completeness complete-ness of the rendering of oneself to one's Creator. So few of those who call themselves Chmaians, and who in the depths of their hearts are sincerely convinced con-vinced that they are real Christians are in nny way consecrated. This reminds mo of an anecdote that Dr. Granfell, the well known editor of the Baptist Standard Stand-ard in Texas, told me. In his early days he was editor, business manager and the whole staff of a little country paper In Indiana. It was a weekly publication, publica-tion, and according to Ills own verdict, it was also a weakly publication, and many was tho time when he would bo glad of even a dog fight for a news item. Ono day they received the news that a Mr. Jones, who was quite well known In the town, was very sick, so he made a paragraph to that effect. Just before going to press he heard news that Mr. Jones had died. So he said to the printer: 'John, we'll have to alter that; just put in dead, instead of sick. So it was altered in that way. When the paper came out. It read: 'Mr. Jones is lying at his house very dead.' In tho course of my travels I have found that the Christiana of the country coun-try are like Mr. Jones, they are dead, very dead." Tho last point that tho speaker mado was that the service must be individual. individu-al. In concluding, Dr. Lainkln urged all who were present to come to the meetings, and bring their friends. The noonday meetings will be held in the Mining Exchange at 12:1C and business men are specially urged to come. Dr. Lamkin hay been especially renowned for the good results that he has obtained ob-tained with business men. and is very anxious to get in touch with as many as possible during his slay in the city. For the 3 o'clock service today he announced an-nounced that the subject would be "Obligation "Ob-ligation and Preparation for God's Service." He was especially desirous of having all present at the S o'clock service tonight, and promised that the sermon would bo of great and vital interest. in-terest. The subject will be "The Devil and Tom Walker." |