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Ideal Weather Once More Brought Capacity Crowd to Tabernacle Thursday - Evangelist Gives God's Picture of a Sinner Asleep, and Urges Men to Awake and Be Saved. V. G. T. 0. DELEGATION GUESTS OF HONOR THURSDAY NIGHT. * Tfrctity-Four Accepted Christ as Their Savior Thursday? /ones Tells of Request of Anonymous Letter Writer?Af? ternoon Subjc* t Was: "He That Believeth Not Will Be Damned." ? --? from Ths Daily Item. May 14. Wttkj Ideal weather conditions again prevalUnff last night, the Dub Junes Tabernacle was crowded almost to ca? pacity by a large audience, which In? cluded the Woman's Christian Tern peranoe Union delegation, the guests of honor of the evening After the usual Inspiring musical program had been ssndered by tho choir, "Touch Not, Taste Not" was sung by request of the* W. C. T. U. Mr. McKentie then sang a solo. "Jesus Will Ulve Tou Ifcrat Twenty-one converts sought the Mercy Seat last night, who. with three who accepted Christ at the Business Men's Prayer meeting yesterday, makes a total of twenty four who declared for the Saviour yes? terday. It is s noticeable fact that, ae the meeting progresses, those who have %>een putting off the important step ajre one by one making the decis? ion to get right with God. At least one parson to whom Bob Jones had previously made an unsuccessful per? sonal appeal came forward and made the decision voluntarily last night af? ter the sermon. Tho sermon last eight was well cal? culated to awake the unsaved to the responsibility which rests upon them, tie text being taken frum the 6th chapter of Ehpheslans, "Awake thuu ? hat sssepeth. and arise from the dead, snd Chris* shall give thee life." Ca) I tig attention again to the won derful ooratructlori of biblical liter? ature, the etaqgc' <*r showed how this passage was particularly wonderful in that. In one short sentence, the sinner was addressed, described, snd salva? tion offered. Bald Mr. Jones: "If you ran write a book equal to any one book In the Bible. I'll give you a mil? lion dollars for the copyright." Another thing about the Bible Is that all through It there runs the note of warning tu the unsaved and the plea to cume ever on God's side. Hod's picture* uf the sinner are not beauti? ful. He calls them the most vltuper.i tlve names imaginable. In order to Impress them with the awfulness of being unsaved, and yet some people get angry because an evangelist makes what Is. compared to tho lan? guage of find Himself, a mild denun? ciation of those who have refused to ?wv ept the Saviour. In this conin n, Mr. Jones said that he received an aanonymous lotter yesterday re? questing that he "hold up a lovely Meal to the people." and not a picture of degradation, mid that this would be more pleasing. "Well," aald Mr. Jones, 'Hod's own picture of a soul asleep la a corpse, and what can be more horrible than that." Further, the evangelist naked that anybody ..dse who wished to write htm u letter be game enough to sign his or her natu ?. sa he didn't like to get "no name' lePats. Although (?od hasn't anything ni ? (o say of slnnern, he loves them, und shows It by ttytsg] to awake them to the Vouch of Die Mus|Of*| hind You are(a?ake to boot neos possibilities, why Is It you are asleep r.. the awf'il nees of slo-'I'here are men Who are ^sleeping on the brink of lo ll." You sre asleep in that same world to which ? hi 1st cum*, in which he lived In the midst of trials, in which he died. In which he was hung on the cr< -? ' r sake, and to which Hi |e surely coming back some day. M m of tjday Is sleeping In a world full of Judgment* Tin ino-o nwful suocm ston of occurrences In the world's his t'-ry are taking pin OS cvny day You are asleep In a world full of rhitrrhes. In a community which has united to bring a revival to your very dufr to wake you to the necessity for accepting Christ if you want to so sa fed. "and yet you sleep through nil Mn| ?"here Is such a thing, however, sa1 s Hob Jones, as a men who g< is up and yet Isn't awake, as In the case of a sleep walker. Just so church no Mi? ners go along from dsy to day with? out the fellowship of Christ?"lle llajon wont save yon |t Is possible to wake up and never get up Yoi n illse that it's time to *et tip hut you i?? tr it off "Hsj4 awhMe longer." "You ought," said the evan gcllnt. "to wake ui> to tho consequences of Impending judgment, and you'd get up this very night." Then there Is such a thing as a man waking up and Intending to get up after uwhlle, but the longer he puts it off the harder it will be to do, Just as It is bard to take a dose of medi? cine after waiting to "think it over." It takes nerve and grit to march down to the front, said Mr. Jones, but considering what a worthwhile step it is in a man's life the deed is well worth the effort. And it is dangerous to hesitate taking the step because you are "dreaming you're np, when you're really still in bed." "You bit? ter woman," said the speaker, "criti? cising me for talking against card playing and dancing, you think you're all right, but you're only dreaming. ' And so, lots of people die while they sleop. "Show me how you live and I'll show you how you die," or in other words the man or woman who sleeps, dreams, or only Imagines being awake, will In all probability die in the same state without having experienced the saving power of tho hand of Jesus. For many w*io "put it off" will find when the death angel touches them on the elbow and reminds them that the time has come for departure from] this life, that It Is "too late" then to | awakrj un<t l<c saved. Thurxluy \fternooit Service. A "scrlpturs lesson'" service, with a x.uinhur of Bible quotations, given by various persons In thl aurtlonce .vas a feature of tho service at the taber? nacle yesterday afternoon. The evangeilst took his text from tho 16th chapter of St. Mark, "He that belleveth not shall bo damn? ed." It Is a lie, the evangelist said, that "it matters not what a man be? lieves, if he lives right." Jesus Christ himself uttered the words of the text and his word ought to bo tuken, be? cause 11c is the friend and not the ene? my of mankind. He said this too af? ter Ho had hung on the cross, and suffered the tortues of the dumned himself. . The sin of unbelief, according to Mr. Jones, is ono of the worst sins that can be committed. In the first place It pours contempt on God's wisdom. He .11.1 that man could not save him? self, and If Christ's word is not taken when Ho says that we need His sav? ing power, His word and wisdom is discounted. And the way of tho cross Is the only way to heaven. The sin of unbelief pours contempt on the love of God. He offered sal \atlon out of love for a sinful world, and If His offer is not accepted he can? not but feel hurt over the slight. Failuro to believe pours contempt On God's sovereignty. Certainty since He treated man. He ought to have the right to make kaWl for man. with the expectation that these laws would bi ol>e>t d. He devised the plan of salvation and offered It free and not to accept It Is to Insult Christ. Contempt Is poured on the media tOttnl work of Christ when unbelief exists, because God has said that the only way to heaven is throug.i Christ. Cnbelb'f pours contempt upon the sufferings of Christ. "It Is nothing to you." said Mr. Jones, "that t'hrlst htini gpon I cross, and died in shame for your sake?" And, it is evidently MOtBins" to the man who does not btUoi ?? .11 Ma*4 onty reward for all his suf? fering! is the reward of saving souls. He Is anxious to save because that is fbe tiling for n-hlch Ho died, ami how must Hi fool or hon man refuooo t?> believe, "it takes the erown il ol Jesus' brow." Prom The Dnlly Item, May IS. Putting himself temporarily In the place of the nein \n ho offers one c\ ( get and another for not becoming ? Christian Mob .buns last night preach? ed a normen on MBacnoea/1 which bronchi II to the Mercy teal el Its OlOOO. Nine bad declared for Chrtsl a? the atterimon s??r\ice which made yosterday's total of converts 7 1. The railroad men of Sumter. Im lml ing the employees of Ihe Western I Talon and Pootnl Telegraph Comp?? Inies und Ulf ?Southern Express Com j panics sent delegations to the taber? nacle last night, and ' Take the Name of Jesus With You" was sung at their request, the railroad moil singing one chorus alone, Mr. McKenzie caused some amusement when he introduced the delegation to the audience, saying "Theso are the fellows who kill us sometimes, but they haven't given me a scratch yet.'* Mr. Jones took his text last night from the 10th chapter of Genesis, where Lot was warned by the angels of God to Hoe from the city of wick? edness, the particular words of the text being "Escape for thy Life." The evangelist said in beginning that his remarks would be addressed only to those who believed in the Bible, tor of course those who did not would scurcely be stirred by a sermon built up about one incident in the Bible. It Is, to go back to the text, surprising how loath Lot was to leave the city, as requested by the angels, when he knew that they bore him divine mes? sages. And, yet, said the evangelist, men today ignore a practical common sense plea for the necessity of getting right with God. Men of today give one excuse and another for not taking this step. "Let me think it over" is what some men answer when asked to ac? knowledge Jesus as their Savior. Theer ought not to bo any thought necessary where a matter of doing right is concerned .and besides Jesus has said: "Now is the accepted time," showing conclusively that there is no time to be lost. You say; "1 don't like revivals," you prefer to accept Christ in the reg- j ular service of some Church without any "flurry and excitement." "Well, you haven't done It all these years," said Mr. Jones, and if the revival has influenced you so that you now feel like taking the step it would be base ingratitude for you to refuse to ac? knowledge the Saviour in a campaign which started you on the right line of thought. You may say "I don't like j the way that evangelist preaches," or that you have been mistreated by j hyprocrltes. Well, this is a poor ex-1 cuse for turning Jesus down when He ! hasn't mlstrsated you, but instead! has treated you better than you de- ! serve. When a man gives "I don't feel j like it" as the reason for not bccom- j Ing a Christian, Mr. Jones says this is, OH the face of it, a "child's excuse." I Another excuse given by some is) that "I'm afraid i ll be eritleieeaV1 This is a weak ex use to give, that you ' will fosr what some, little "ahuPow brain, who Is not entitled to the re*j spect of a dog" will say, so much that ? you will let him keep you from doing right." "Well," say some others, "Im not good enough," and "when I get on my ffect I'll do it" "You ought to get down on your face and sur? render to the will of Almighty God" was the way the evangelist answered this excuse. You mlgh' as well tell the doctor "Wait till I am well, and I'll take your medicine." Some folks, says Bob Jones, are j "waiting for the other fellow." Sup- I post- he never conies, do you want to be lost because somebody you know j didn't have tho wisdom to lead the j way? Then there is that peer of excuses. 1 "There are too many hyprocrltes in UtO church." And the man who gives} this excuse goes about with a superior | air, said Mr. Jones, that conveys the I impression that "I won't ever fail if i I decide to take the stand." Mr. Jones' I I mimicry of tho "airs" of this kind i of excuse giver, brought a storm of applaUOS and hearty laughter. "You'll j never get rid of the hypocrites; the 1 only way you'll ever get rid of them is by going to heaven." "You might as Well try to enforce a rule for having i every train you ride on to prohibit the j hauling of drunks, "cussers" and oth- I er degenerates.'' Yet another excuse of many is that. > "I don't think God will damn MB." | This said Mr. Jones. Is about as much t of an excuse as the little boy gave w ho ?Old "Mama won't whip me for pull i ing the rose, she loves me too much." ' ?"Well, the dirty little scoundrel j ought to have been drowned in the ' Atlantic ocean." "I'm not sure I can hold out" i.^ the plea a certain Class put up, and It's a poor one because a start must be Riads some day, and "there are men in this town on the brink of hell who ought to have started twenty yoafi mo." And, last but not least comes the wail "There is so much to give up.' Bald Mr. Jones, "you rather run a lit? tle two by four, hug ami squeose af? fair of a dance like some young smart alecs have done since this meeting, than to live in the kind of enjoyment that Christ offers." God doesn't ask you to give up anything but the things that will ruin you. and "when over you glVO op something that's n?I worth having God gives you some thlm In return that's worth having.' In conclusion Mr. Jones stated thai .ill through this revival Ihc cry has i been "not tonight." Me said he ivn* I tired oi bearing tins, for any practical I matt o4lffl)t to know thai the longer the step was put off the harder it was 't.. lake, .ind "the further away >???? tare from Heaven.*' Bonie of you ate going to sleep one night too many i without God. When the invitation was given, 02 responded, as stated j above. The Afternoon Service. Before beginning the regular ser ! vice yesterday afternoon, the congre? gation had a "season of prayer," lur i , ing which prayers were made for var? ious persons named by member! of ! the* audience. j Mr, Jones took his text from the 8th phapUr of St. Luke: "If the son, therefore, shall free you, ye shall be ; free, indeed." While the United States j is the greatest country in the world j today, said the speaker, still we are j slaves to certain customs and appe? tites. What we call the "freedom of Americans" is a great thing, but tho most wonderful freedom of all is the freedom of the Lord Jesus Christ. "The freest man in the world is a Christian." He lives just as he pleas? es, but the mere fact that he is a Christian makes him pleased to live with the idea of serving Christ. A Christian does not need to stum? ble toward Heaven. He walks along in a firm, sure faith and "He that is born of God does not commit sin" Mr. Jones said that the word "com? mit" used to worry him in this pas? sage, but he found that the original reading was "practice sin," which of course means that a man living for Christ does not do the things he knowi will displease Christ. A Christian would not take any amount for his belief in the Bible and its teaching. They mean too much to him. Christ sets us free from the power of doubt. "At the root of ev? ery human doubt is sin," is the way Mr. Jones put it Jesus sets men free from the sinful habit. He can even save a dope fiend from ruin, if the proper trust is plac? ed in His guidance. Jesus can cure the infidel, if he gets a chance at the heart of the man?"He doesn't go at you through your head but through your heart." Jesus Christ can free you from the power of the devil. The devil Is no enemy to morals, but to faith. He has some men hypnotized and all that can "break the spell' is the power of Christ's touch on the doomed sinner. From The Daily Item, May 17. An audience that taxed the taber? nacle to its capacity and almost put standing room at a premium heard Bob Jones last night preach a scorch? ing sermon on the rejection, of Christ and the penalty U merited. Festerdaj Djltajtoooit's crowd while not ??* large] as tgfj night audience, Ailed practical-! iy < very scat Ui the tancrnnele. Au excursion train from Summiertem brought a large number to Sumter, yesterday, helping to swell the crowds at both of the services. The extreme heat yesterday taxed the evangelist's strength to the utmost and all the fire I of his ? earnest eloquence expended | temporarily yesterday in two of the most brlllinat sermons ever heard here, left hton tired and worn at the conclusion of the evening service. The day's record of converts was forty-one, a good majority of those who acknowledged Christ yesterday being young folks. At the evening service Mr. Jones set a good example for the personal workers by leaping from the pulpit and bringing three men from seats in the right tier to the Mercy Seat. The music yesterday was up to its usual high standard. Choir Master McKenzie now having his choir "at his linger tips," so to speak, and able to change their songs or jump from o?.e song into another at a moment*! notice .thereby intro? ducing some very pretty effects. Some of the songs yesterday were "1 Would bo Like Jesus." "I^ord Plant My Feet on Higher Ground," "I'm a Pilgrim'* and "Somebody Knows." At the night service, an incident happened, which brought a wave of thunderous applause from the aud? ience After the invitation for con? verts had been closed, Mr. Jones said: "I just want to tell you folks who came in on that excursion train that the engineer who pulls the train has given his heart to God." Just before the sermon began last' night Rev. R. S. Truesdale, who Is al? ways a welcome speaker to Sumter people, came to the front and made a j short talk. Mr. Truesdale said that Sumter people were enjoying every minute of the tabernacle services and would sadly miss them when the re? vival has closed, but that they could ? look back with pleasure to the meet? ing, and that for months and months the good it had accomplished would be observed all around. Sumter people, j said Mr. Truesdale, have a way of, pleasing Others just as they please] ithemselves, and wo ought to please Hob Jones by giving him a handsome free will offering next Sunday, his last day in Sumter. The good which Mr. Jones has already accomplished can? not be paid tor. said the speaker, but we can at leasl give Bob Jones a good offering to show our appreciation of his service!. Mr. Jones'.; text for the afternoon came from tlm 24th chapter Ol Acts, where Haul stood before Fell* and pirupllla. To use ;* modern day ex breast on, Paul wns "In a tlt;hi place." Hut Haul was a diplomat, He Could have flattered the woman Druaitta, could have told Felix "Yes I defended 'Jesus Christ, hut your religion is just as good us Iis," but instead he had the grit to tell this wicked couple of [(heir sins and what would come to ' them it they would not repent. Felix (and Drusilla had sent for Paul because Felix hoped tu make some money out of Paul, and besides time hung heavy on these sinners' hands. And so, to? day the world is sin and pleasure mad. And pleasures that suit the modern generation won't suit the next. The tendency is downward as the progress of the dance methods has shown. Instead of denying his .Saviour, Paul said "I don't know anything among men save Christ, and him crucified."' Christ was enough to satisfy Paul's heart, even if he was a "blue blood," because Christ always satisfies the saved man's heart. Thus Paul spoke to Felix, so that he trembled, but he said that time to hear such things was not now "convenient." Paul was bit? ter in his denunciation, extremely bitter, when it is remembered that he was only talking spccillcally to those two, and they, rulers. For, says Bob Jones, it takes nerve and backbone to talk straight to two or three sinful "high lights." But Paul did this. He didn't do any "love preaching," but told the simple truth, for Paul was a hero for Christ, and "the heroes of this country are the men who are willing to represent Jesus Christ any? where under any circumstances." 'Td quit my ministry and go to ploughing a one-eyed mustang before I'd give up my manhood'?Paul didn't give up his. Felix and Drusilla had the chance then, offered by a fearless man, to turn from their wickedness and get right with God, but they threw away this chance. Still Felix can't, be blamed as much as many a man of today, fbr Felix was a settled man before he ever heard Christ's name, while you have been raised with the influences of a good mother, with a Bible in the home, with churches all around and other Christian influences, and yet, said Mr. Jones, "you come to this .tabernacle and have the chance offered this afternoon and throw it away." Going back to the Bible reading from which he drew his sermon, Mr. Jones called attention to the fact that no reference was made to the wo? man's having trembled. This charac? teristic on the part of so many women hoWs tfoert t^day. Mr. T^r>e?< said, for st tue of the most bittei crftlcltfttts. and J some of the' most unfair criticisms 01 I the meeting he has heard nave COUP from ijle lips of women^ "There* are men in this city who would come to Christ today if their wives would." But Felix and his wife told Paul: "Its not convenient." Probably, as some say today, Felix might have added "I don't believe in excitement or revivals, I want to think it over, don't want to do anything on the im? pulse of tue moment." "Well,"' said Mr. Jones, "those are all lies, and you can tell any man you hear give any excuse but one for not accepting Christ that Bob Jones says he is a liar ?and that one excui 1 is sin." And generally, its one particular sin thai has mastered them that keeps men away from God. "You stand today," said the evange? list, "at the crossing o? the road; one leads to Hell, the other to Heaven. To? day is bound to be the final chance for some of you just as it was for Felix and Drusilla a "last chance." You may never have another time like this in your life. Just here Mr. Jones made a personal plea, without call? ing names, to "two men in the right hand tier of seats," saying that he firmly believed that the service was a service of destiny for them, and urged them to come. So far as Is known, they did not respond when the invitation was given. The Night Service. Using the parable of the marriage least as set forth in the 22nd Chapter of Matthew, as a basis for his sermoj last night, Bob Jones drew a striking parallel between the man of that time who refused to put on the wedding garment, and ti e man of today who refuses to put on the saving grace of Christ. Giving a brief analysis of the par aide Mr. Jones said that in the olden time every guest at a wedding was of? fered a garment at the door, that this was a Axed custom and everybody was expected to adhere to it. However, this one man who refused to put on the garment and henee incurred the wrath of the king evidently offered some argument. Perhaps he said "I ? in not responsible for being at thll feast, I came because I was ordered to do so, and I don't sec why I am re? quired to put ??n any special sort of garment." There are men today who will srgue that they are not responsible for being In the world and that dod won't damn them for this reason. This is no ex? cuse for not accepting Christ. Coal created a perfect man and to be per? fect this man had t<? have the power of choice, ami God offers him the op? portunity ami wants him to choose Christ for his Saviour, ami hence God is not responsible for the man who 'Ignores Christ. Probably the erring man at the feast might have argued, "Well, my clothes are as good as yours, which is like the man of today who says "I'm a good man even if I am not a Church member or don't take much stock in religion. Some men say "I do right. Masonry is my religion." Said Mr. Jones in this regard, "if Masonry hobis the key to Heaven, Masons are crimi? nals for not giving it to the world." Hut, of course, they do not. Jesus Christ holds in his hand the only garment that ever admits a man to the feast of heaven. And this holds good for Jew, gentile, black or white man or w hatever castes exist. It is true that the Jews are God's chosen peo? ple, and a judgment has come to ev? ery nation that ever mistreated the Jews. Mr. Jones pointed out Russia as an example of this fact According to the New Testament, said Mr. Jones, any man who dies in rebellion against Jesus Christ will go to hell, and "I don't intend to think above what is written." So far as this world Is con? cerned, sinners often get on as well as Christians, in fact kings and rulers are often sinful men, and Christians lowly people, but things will be made right in the next world, and the eyes of Christ which have followed you everywhere will look at you in the judgment and decide your fate. In the parable, the King asked the man, who didn't wear a wedding gar? ment, have you any any excuse? This is what Christ will ask when you come to judgment. He will ask if you have ever seen a cross, if you have ever been to church, maybe Ho will even recall to you the revival meeting held by Bob Jones in Sumter in May, 1915, and if you are com? pelled to confess that you let all these enhances of accepting Jesus pass by. He will have you cast out into outer darkness, as did the king in the para? ble. Mr. Jones says he believes in a lit? eral hell, and although no man knows exactly what hell is, from the Bibli? cal description it can well be imagined to be a ghostly haunt cf demons and degenerates where liquid fires creep up to tortue the memory haunt? ed sinners who suffer already the in? ward pangs of remorse. "I believe in a literal hell," Mr. Jones repeated, "and if you go there you'll have te ample over your mother's prayetj and wade through Christ's blood." The picture of hell is a picture of abject hopeless? ness, so ? hopeless a place that even tbero a man will not repent. It is a place where shame i* poignant "the ?e of hell can't burn out the ehar.e of the BOUt." COTTON CONSUMPTION IN LUE AS? KS. American Mills Csc More Cctton Than Last Year. Washington, May 14.?The govern? ment census report issued today shows that 513,610 bales of cotton were consumed in April, against 499,646 last year. SUMTER COTTON MARKET. Corrected Dally by Ernest Held, Cotton Buyer. Good Middling 8 3-4. Strict Middling 8 5-8. Middling 8 1-2. Strict Low Middling 8. Low Middling 7 1-2. Staple Cotton, Nominal. Now York Cotton Market. Opened. Close. May. ?20 July.9.32 9.43 October.,9.68 8.81 December.9.92 10.03 Some of the patrons of the Curb Market are dissatistied and are criti? cising the manner in which it is be? ing conducted since it becomes neee sary to erect a shed tor the use of those farmers who sell fresh meet. The eritics take the position that the farmers who are using the shed are conducting a regular grc^n grocery business in competi? tion with the regular markets. This is practically the situation. The farmers who are selling fresh meat in the shed are paying a city license to do business and, the county having de? clined to build a public shed, a p t vate citizen put it up for th^ farmers who are paying him a nominal rental fo. it. This condition can not apply, however, to the Curb Market proper and farmers are still privileged to sell their product?vegetables, eggs, poul? try, etc?on the open street and it is that department of the Curb Market that is of most benclit to consumers and producers, and it should receive the continued support of the public. The sale of fresh meats is a business proposition pure and simple?if tho farmers can sell as good meat at lower prices than the regular markets they will bo patronized. otherwise they will not. They are paying a city license to do tiiis business and stand on the same footing as the establish? ed markets. The reports from the small gra n crop throughout this section are now quite encouraging. The rain came in time t<? insure a fair crop.