The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, May 22, 1915, Image 5
Second Coming of Christ
Was Subject of Brilliant
Sermon at Tabernacle
Bob Jones Monday Showed Why Chris?
tians Were Expecting Second Coming
of Savior at Any Houn
PASTOR RUSSELL AND FALSE RELIGIOUS SYSTEMS FLAYED.
Evangelist Says "Side Issue" Doctrines Are Inventions of the
Devil First of Two Sermons on Atonement" Preached
Monday Afternoon--Delegation of Electric Company
Employees and City Nurses That Night.
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try sataa aatd
Ftpsa the Dally Item, May 18.
?J"wo special delegations visited the
tabernacle laet night, and these, to
se>asr with the regular crowds which
uln to stream in around the hour
bI eight o'clock, comfortably filled
mi big roomy church building. Mr.
sfcKhaste'a choir was at its best inst
algrft, end sang a number of the reg?
ular selections, na well an two "Spe?
cials** for the visitors, the Sumter
F.lectrle Company * employecM und the
Nursea) of Sumter. The electricians
wanted 'Yield Not to Temptation."
ant "Will There be any Stars*' was
T ? Vj
Sung for the nurses, the young ladles
themselves singing the chorus. Af
tsr having the delegation of nurses
stand. Mr. McKensle told them "Well,
if 1 had to be sick at all. I'd Just as
soon be slek in Sumter." "The Ninety
sad Nine." by repeated requests, was
sung by tht? choir director himself at
the eight service.
Mr. Jones' subject for last night was
the second coming of Christ, and he
handled hie theme with the same
tho/roughneaa and descriptive power
that characterised his sermons on
"ata,/ "hell" aad other typical studies.
The test of the evening came from
the Ith chapter of Hebrews, than sev
i\ ?erase of which, according to Mr.
si none mors wonder
f i ble. The description is of
Uoody sacrifices tJ the
ifertor to thn dignity Mal
p^f^Mon of the blood and aeei
Si ? hrlat. There are, eald Mr. Jonee,
three fundamental* of the Christian
religion which are typified by the 22d
lid and 14th psalms, respectively,
thlsee three fundamentals being
' (Ihr 1st hath appeared on the cross."
"fj hrlat doth apear In Heaven" and
"Ehrtet shall appear In glory" The
devil hates these three things, and ht>
Is'evejr trying to make you forget
IsW Moat of all he is trying to
make you forget that Christ died on
this cross for you. There are relig
loae "systems" such as Christian
?stance. Invented by the devil to help
you forget the atoning blood of Jesus.
The devil -trUs to have you ignore
thA^fnfcll of Christ's being in heaven,
but tf-yem helleve. you can have access
to heaven through Christ's influence
In four behalf Just as easily as any
prlejpt.
T%e devil has sought to have you
dletfjllave the fact that Christ Is com?
ing Jlo earth for a aecond time. For
a ttins almoat every man who talked
y length about Christ's second
eg waa labeled a fanatic.
of you who have Pastor Itus
books In your hnmoi tonight
t to aet lire to them, for they
kee. Pastor ltuasell Is a fake
If. and waa exposed as a grafter
e Brooklyn Kagle. because he
"miracle wheat" to deluded fol
of his. Aa the head of the no?
us "mllleniiil ilnwn" religion,
principles are absolutely false,
s done ?reut h i rm.
few folks are looking earnestly
*hrlat. however. You will notice
r*ad along carefully that every
veree in the hible ?peak? of th.
d coming of Christ, and that's
every twentieth Meinem should
by ffghts t.it (his Hul>)?Tt] it is BjajS>
ie< tj}ri loo much
"1 know of 160 old testament
pio|hedea. said the evangelist, whieh
be vis been fulfilled, among them be
Ingifhe prophecy of the place of Jesus'
bireV the fact ta#t his mother sjaejM
be a virgin, that He rgfJSjM lb- In a
maS^ger. that He would be Hold for
tblHjr pieces of sliver, and so on. I
eoiJd name them. The point Is, if all
thafe prophecies have been fullllled.
not look for the second coming
which la prophesied In mo many
throughout the MMe\ Boat!
de aay the the prophecy is not
It literally, but you'll see it will
Iterally fululled. Kven the t?rtho
Jf?n t 11 ?? \.- that ii King H yel la
only they of aeajyea settees thai
lenelah Is coming to be King, ami
dleve that Jeaua Christ is th.it
ilah.
? Is fofulng (|i 4?e/S4?n. Ue?o in
r>?elthat passiKe of scripture "The
' fj.J&WM ~I^U The Uis
clplte knew and recognised this fact.
sell
whl
There is nothing to lend us to believe
that He la coming in a figurative way.
And when Jesus does come he will
change the vile bodies of those who
have accepted Him" (this literally
means "change the humiliated
lK>dlee") so that we shall be like the
Master. The citizenship of Christians
la in heaven, anyway. They are
strangers in a strange laud down here.
Another thing to remember, Christ's
coming will be a bodily coming. He
foretold this Himself when, alter W?
had risen, he said, in effect: "Don't
touch me for I have not ascended."
He meant that, as was the custom of
the high priest. He must protect his
body from being defiled by any pos?
sible means until He had presented In
person the sacrifice of His blood to
the Father In heaven. Of course, af?
terwards Ho appeared again on earth
and called Thomas to put his fingers
in the nal. holes In his palm, as a
proof that He was indeed the Christ
A passage that gives us a striking
proof of Christ's bodily coming again
is that "This same Jesus shall s?.
come In like manner ns ho went up,"
and Jesus in a body now, sitting at tin
right hand of God.
Christ's coming will be a visible
coming. John told us this, and His
corning >vlli n*? both sudden and lines
pected. as ib.- H.bb- r.tys bke ']<.?:.<<
lug4' Jests IsM fommanh'd us t<
watch md although no mar. oajl gi ?
a dale for the Master's coming, th?
rapid fulfillments of prophecies, par?
ticularly as regards earthquakes am
"wars and rumors of wars" leads to
the belief that the second coming oi
Christ to this earth is not far distant
"If you want to live right begin t<
expect Christ," said Mr. Jones. Jesm
is coming to judge and to reign and
those Christians who remain on earth
at his coming Shall arise to meet Him
and be like Him. "No saved man will
die If he's alive when Jesus comes."
And those Christians who are dead
will have the honor of arising first |0
meet their Lord and Saviour. In this
connection Mr. Jones told a touching
story of a young college boy who died
some time after having been convert*
od under Mr. Jones' ministry. The
mother asked the evangelist to point
her out the most comforting passa^?
in the Bible. This was the pasage In
showed her: "J'.ut I would not have
you to be ignorant, brethren, concern?
ing them which are asleep, that y<
sorrow not, even as others, which
have no hope."
When the Invitation was offered
twenty-two came to the Mercy Seat.
The> Afternoon Service.
Many of the business houses of the
city having closed tor the four o'clock
service yesterday, a crowV v.uch larg?
er- than usually comes to the taber?
nacle in the afternoon, assembled to
fiear Mr Jones speak on the subjert
of the Atonement, or, as it Is often
rendered "ut-one-mcnt." And it was
an atonement by blood. The liible
stresses this by lifting the sacritlce ol
Christ far above that holy sacrifice ol
the old priests, w ho Offered the blood
of bullocks and oxen as a sacritlce.
And Christ, through the power of the
atonement is our mediator witti Qod,
The d'Mth of Chriat, said Mr. Jones
Is more magnified than any oilier
event in His life, and despite the cries
of some against "preaching a blood)
gospel," the cleansing powar of the
blood Of Christ is (b>d's Only remedy
for a man sick In sin. Jesus Ctirlal
Himself said "I tame to this world,
not to Hvc, I.ut to die.1' ||e died on
the cross to s;t\e souls, and wv should
not shrink from the fact ol bis Id.I\
sacrifice, made in our behalf, be?
cause that is the only thing tb.it ein
redeem a pOOf lost soul. And Christ
Intends for those who have oomc to
him by \s.iv of the cross, to give out
the Joy thai tiny have received to
h. ip others along life's nay, Like a
?roll from nhleh no water pomes i
the man who says he is a Christian
UllU does |iot tell of the joy that hat
hlessed him
Chrlpt knew that people would for
get many Ihfcnga that occurred in Ills
stay on this earth. In fact, i.\
thiiiK? thst orcuiiHd wer?, umvr M lit?
ten, but He stressed the point that W?
should not forget that 11 tiled for uh
on th? 11 oss, whatever else we might
lose eight of.
The way of the cross is the Only
way to (?od. Despite the Raying of
some that all nature points the way
to God," this is not true, "The cross is
the bridge that spans the way between
our own helplessness and the saving
grace of Qod, The way of the cross
leads home."
At the uonclusion of the service
the invitation was given for converts,
and three persons responded.
Keferences for afternoon sermon:
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Leviticus 17:11,
Hebrews, 9:11,
Gallatians 1:14,
Kphesians, 1:70,
Revelation, 1:5,
1 John, 1:7,
Matthew. 26:26,
Revelations, 5:9,
1 Corin. 15:1,
Romans, 5-.6,
1 Corin. 11:23,
1 Corin. 2:2,
1 Corin. 1:23.
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Frdm The Daily Item, May 19.
A thunder cloud which came up
about the time the services were to
start at the Tabernacle last night cu\
down the crowd considerably. While
the rain pattered on the roof Mr.
Jones delivered what he announced
would be 'the simplest message yet."
It proved to he a message that went
home to the hearts of his hearers
and brought six people to the Mercy
Seat.
"The harvest Is passed, the summer
in ended and we are not saved" was
the \erse which the evangelist se?
lected from the 8th Chapter of Jere?
miah, to be his text. The harvest
time for Christ, like the harvest time
on the farm, Is the time to get down
to business. The pastors sow the seed,
the preachers do the work and the
evangelist r,caps the harvest are the
stops outlined by Mr. Jones for the
saving of a multitude of souls for
Christ.
"There are only two classes in the
world, the auved and the unsaved.
Jusus Himself said "He that is not
with me Is against me." If you have
never repented of sir., If you hev?
nevei been coi.vorteu. bom again, you
are lost, by God'i own word to one
of .he bent man of his generation,
pTicodeinua, Just a** Nie od emus had
to face the issue and select one of two
propositions so in this day every man
must decUle. for or against the Sa?
viour. "How you can grope your way
along without Christ, how you can
do without Ilirn in your t?ouble, how
you can solve your problems without
hlH aid is more than I can under?
stand," the evangelist said in thlscon
necton. "God can help you solve
your problems; there are men listen?
ing to me tonight with storms in
their hearts that would sink a ship
at sea.'' And Jesus could ease these
troubled hearts. Rut if it is a com?
fort to have Christ save you from
troubles on earth, how much more
satisfaction ought there to be in the
knowledge that you will be saved in
death. And the saints, said Mr.
Jones, die a different death from the
unsaved. Even the doctors have ad?
mitted this.
"You can live wlthont God, but you
can't die without Him," the speaker
continued. You've had chance after
chance, an 1 thrown them away. In
the beginning, God never planned for
one man to have more than a certain
number of chances, hence the oppor?
tunity for accepting Christ Is bound to
pass at some time. 'And, it is not right
to ask God for a better chance, lb
has given you good chances, and
it is not right to ask God for a better
chance, and every time you have put
off taking the step means that the
next time the opportunity is offered it
will be harder still to accept.
The successful men are the men
who have accepted Christ, Bob Jones
says, for the measure of a man is not
Iiis worth in money but in the spirit
that wants to make him work for the
Master. The commercial spirit is the
controlling spirit here and in other
pl u es, and men are putting business
Drat when they ought to realize that
they can better afford the poorhouse
than they can afford to put Christ in
a secondary position in their lives.
The same thing holds good In the case
i
of a well educated man. As an ex?
ample Mr. Jones pointed out the
untimely end of Rlbeii Hubbard, fa?
tuous tor his unique Juggling with the
Bngliah language, but "a failure if he
died without ("brist."
Thinking of the cost of salvation,
the evangelist said that while he has
no objection to others wearing cross
he never wears one himself, for it
bringt back to him that face in agony
in the (l uden, anil the picture ol
naked shame as the Master hum; on
the cross and died for tin' sinners on
1his earth.
In concluding Mr. Jones said that
I the tum- to he saved was when the
opportunity was offered "and tin
chance is here tonight. ' six, as noted
above accepted.
The Afternoon service.
One of the best afternoon crowds,
numbering perhapi three or four hun?
dred' persons, listened with attention
to tho second of two sermons on the
subject of the atonement, yesterday.
Previous to the evangelist going into
the subject matter of his sermon a
"Bible quotation service" was held,
during which members of the aud?
ience gave quotations from various
parts of the Bible. Speaking of the
value of consistent raiding of the
sculpture, Mr. Jones said he had been
asked by some society women who
had become converted since his com?
ing here: "What can I do to occupy
my time?" His answer was "Read
the Bible."
After reviewing the preceding ser?
mon on the atonement, Mr. Jones,
said that the death of Christ is "sub
stitutional and vicarious," in the sense
that Jesus Christ, on the cross, was
treated like a sinner in our place,
that "we might be dead in sin and
alive in righteousness," and the only
way that we can get to heaven is by
way of the cross. A further state
ment bearing this out is from 2nd
Corinthians, 5th chapter and 21st
verse; "For He hath made Him to
be sin for us, who knew no sin, that
we might be righteous." How great
sin is was amply illustrated by the
way God refused to look at it, even
when it was laid on Christ at Cal?
vary. When can we forget that face
of agony which looked up into heaven
and cried "My God, my God, why hast
thou forsaken me."
With His blood Christ redeemed us
and Paul says in effect, speaking of
the love that the Father has shown
for poor sinners: "He that deliverco
His own Son, showing this great love
for us, will give us all things." John
says: "I write you because your sins
are forgfven, for His name's sake."
The atonement mak*?s God just end
the Justiller of everyone who accepts
Christ, and repents. Jf Jesus hadn't
died for us, God couldn't save a single
sinner, because He couldn't compro?
mise His holiness.
The devil himself is the accuser of
>the,saints at the throne of Christ, but
his accusations ave unavailing for the'
very reason that the atoning blood of
Christ comes between the sinner and
God. When Christ died for us on the
cross, there Grace and Truth, Mercy
and , Justice met and embraced. "If
Wtt Confess ouj sins Ho is faithful and
tust, t i forgave >is.
A? Interesting opinion or. the ac-!
tlcms of Christ in the Garden of!
G etil ee roans waa expreoged by M.r*j
Jones just before closing the after?
noon service. It was while the evan?
gelist was speaking of the willingness
of Christ to die that poor lost souls
might be saved, as pointed out in tho
passage which tells us how Christ,
with his eyes on the distant cross,
went'>flrmly towards Jerusalem when
he could have gone elsewhere. Jesus,
said' Mr. Jones, was not trying to
dodge, the awful horror of the cross
when he prayed to God in the Garden
that: "If it be possible this cup might
be taken from my lips." Instead he
was speaking of the cup He was
drinking right at the time In the Gar?
den, the cup of loneliness, His dis?
ciples having gone to sleep, the cup
of depression which he would natur
ally be suffering at such a time. And
this opinion said Mr. Jones is* held by
many eminent students of the Hible.
From The Daily Item, May 20.
Like a page from Arabian Nights
was the interesting story of his own
experience with a spiritualistic me?
dium, related by Boh Jones yesterday
afternoon at the tabernacle, in connec?
tion with an interesting sermon on thu
subject of "False Religions."
Despite the continued Inclemency of
the weather large crowds turned out
yesterday afternoon and night to hear
the evangelist. In the afternoon the
sermon was Interrupted by the noise
made by a heavily descending rain,
and a vote was taken to see whether
the sermon should be finished, after
waiting for the rain to cease, or
should be postponed. The majority
decided on waiting for the finish,
without any postponement. As an ln?]
formative lecture on the principles in?
volved in the Christian Science re?
ligion, "Mlllenial Dawnism" (Pastor
Russell) and Spiritualism, Mr. Jones'
I sermon well repaid any one fot at?
tending, not to mention the good to be
derived from it in learning what bear?
ing these "false religions" have on the
progress of the religion of Jesus
Christ
in beginning his sermon Mr. Jones
drew some Illustrations to show that
all Protestant religions are practical?
ly the same. The fundamentals are
agreed upon, and these things ought
to be magnified, so that Uta churches
would t?e ?tili closer nod work In
j more harmony, just as they are doing
Jin the present campaign. However,
there are false religions which are en?
tirely at variance with what we g?-n
erally call the Christian religion, and
dn announcing these "lai.n- idlglons"
aa, tiie subject of his talk, Mr. Jones
?gld that the subject should really be
"The Devil," since it was the devil
who Inspired these false religions. The
devil, said Mr. .loin s, was according to
the Bible, a cherub originally, hut fell
because of his anarchistic tempera?
ment. Now he is god of the world,
even if a usurper, and the devil de?
ceives people by performing miracles.
Next to God, the devil is the most
powerful person in the universe. No
man can overcome the devil alone;
Christ was the only man yet who has
been able to trample him underfoot.
The devil seeks to be worshipped.
Hence he has invented a religion to
suit most every temperament. In
New York und Berlin have been found
societies called "Devil Worshippers."
They gather in a darkened room, and
clasping hands, dance around in a
fiendish spirit of worship of the devil,
because they are imbued with the
idea that the devil will some day over?
throw God and whoever has paid the
most homage to the devil will then be
his "right hand man.' The three
principal "devil inspired" religions,
however, are "Millenial Dawnism,"
"Christian Science" and "Spiritual?
ism."
It was while he was telling of the
damning effects of spiritualism on true
religious tendencies that Jlr. Jones
gave his interesting story of his own
experiences with a medium. In ef?
fect, Mr. Jones' story is as follows:
"It happened in San Antonio, Tex.
At the time I had just passed through
a great deal of sorrow, and I was in?
duced to visit the medium after hav?
ing a talk with a woman friend of
mine, highly cultured ami well edu?
cated. In fact, she possessed one of
the most wonderful libraries I have
ever seen, and she 'lived with her
books.' She told me that she had
lost sometime previous a valuable dia?
mond brooch which detectives and po?
lice had been unable to find any trace
Of. She went to Madame Scurles (the
medium.) The madam toll my
friend that her brooch had been stol?
en by a negro man, had been sold to
a jeweler in Lockhart, Texas, and
broken up into several rings. The
facts were found to accord exactly
with the story of the medium, upon
investigation, and so my friend re
covered the rings and the shell of
her brooch. Well, I went to the me?
dium. A number of people were
there, and in the semi gbaom we
clasped hands and sang "Nearer My
God to-Thee," which by the way is not
a Christian song?all spiritualists use
it-*-<ind pretty soon some of those rn'
the circle began answering "questions
u Strangs way. n?-m to me was a
womsn Who said that she W'?s from
the sorth and bad ? ?mi out of cu?
riosity; just about this time she was 1
Called upon to anSWCT some one and
talked right along. I began tp wonder
if I'd be the next one, and sure
enough I felt something in the na?
ture of an electric thrill, and before
1 realized it I said: 'Well, who is it.'
(Hemember the medium did not know
my name or where I was from.) Any?
way, in answer to my question some?
thing purporting to be my mother's
voice began to say certain things
about my 'Aunt Annie.' I answered
that I had no aunt by that name. Hut
the voice insisted that I did, and that
Aunt Anne had died when I was a
very little fellow. Later Investigation
proved all of this to be true. And
other things the voice told me on dif?
ferent occasions proved to be true.
Then one day It said 'Son, Jesus
Christ was nothing but a man with a
wonderful power like this medium
has.' I knew then something was
wrong. I went into my room and ask?
ed God to explain to me the mystery,
and when I had finished praying I
went to the Bible and found the solu?
tion, that this Madam Scurles was a
demon possessed woman, working for
the devil, who had had me at her
feet. That is the one true explana?
tion for mediums; there is no doubt
that a real medium has a devil given
power.' Remember the demon pOSi
sessed Cananites who were complete?
ly exterminated. 'You quit trotting
off after fortune tellers and spiritual?
ists. If you want to know things, get
down on your knees and ask Almighty
God, and He will tell you all you need
to know.* In 'Cultured Germany,'
alone, Mr. Jones said statistics show
there were in 1910 10,000 spiritualists
and in North America 16,000,000 spir?
itualists.
Rapping the principles of Christian
Science Mr. Jones says that God never
intended a woman to be the head of
a religious system, that there have
been previous to Christian Science
many false religions with a female
head. Mrs. ECddy's book, according
to Mr. Jones "reads the same" any?
where you happen to start in and the
whole silly scheme of it revolves
about one of its lirst statements that
"God is Love" and therefore "Ix>ve is
(Sod." Christian Science contradicts
the fundamentals of the Hilde. It
says there is no matter, prayer to a
personal God is only a hlnderance,
devil is no person, no such thing as
sin. all of which can ho contradicted
by specific passages of scripture.
"Every Christian Scientist, consciously
or unconsciously, is a demon worship?
per." said Mr. Jones.
lv is wonderful the sudden influence
of the Pastor Russell books on "Mil?
lenial Dawnism.' says Mr. Jone.s.
Probably his wife was the author of
them before site divorced "the pastor"
for Infidelity. A.iJ Russell, by the
way, admitted that despite his boasted
knowledge of the Bible he was no
Creek scholar and he was denounced
and exposed by the Brooklyn Ragle.
Ha denies, drat of all that there is
any hell, but most infamously of all,
im ennlNlates Jesus Christ, one of
Iiis statements being that wh< n Jesu*
was in the tomb three days He was
nothing but a "dead man," in the
same sense as any other man would
have been. Kussell not only denies
that Jesus Christ was God incarnate,
but makes other announcements
equally as startling. For instance he
renders "dead" everywhere in the
Bible as "ceases to exist." The non?
sense of this can be appreciated by a
translation of "RusselHsm" of "She
that liveth in pleasure is dead \ hlle
she liveth." This would read: "She
that existeth in pleasure has ceased to
exist while she existeth."
"Every demon worshipper," said
Mr. Jones in conclusion, "is a low
down, dirty infidel." The way to steer
clear of devil inspired doctrine is to
study God's word and pin your faith
to the Bible and you won't go wrong.
The Night Service.
A beautiful explanatory reading of
the 10th Psalm was given by Mr.
Jones at the night service, and appar?
ently an unusually favorable impres?
sion. After the reading, the invita?
tion was extended while the choir
sang "Jesus is Calling today" and
eight souls declared for Christ.
The Winthrop Daughters wer* the
guests of the evening, and Choir Mas?
ter McKenzie had his usual fun at the
expense of the delegation, telling tho
ex-collegians "You're a pretty nice
looking bunch of college girls; it used
to be my ambition to run a female col"
lege. I'll tell you, girls, I used to
board across the street from a fe?
male college and I never got a chance
to study my lessons. Of course, all
that happened before I got married.
This brought a wave of laughter from
the Winthropites and the audience
generally. The young ladies came
prepared, and when .Mr. McKenzie
asked in his usual joking manner "Can
you sing us a song ?" the college girls
answered that "they could," and they
1 did, and would't allow the choir to
help either. The song was "Beautiful
Isle," which Mr. McKenzie recalled
'Was one of Sam Jones' favorite songs
And was sung at the noted evangel?
ist's f' rak other xoncrs last ni^ht
wore 'ne Glorious Tidinf," and the
well j\vn whistling song. 'If Your
Heart eeus P:*-hi." The choir made
rathei - feilere of the chorus at met
'till Mr. McKenzie told them, "Well,
you can't whistle and grin at the same
time," and the difficulty was overcome.
Heading along in the 16th Psalm
Mr. Jones enlarged upon the Psalm?
ist's claim on God. The sinner, said
Mr. Jones, really h&s a right to pray
but one prayer and that is to be saved,
but the child rn of God have the right
to pray and expect an answer to pray?
ers for temporal blessings. In this
16th Psalm the personal claim is
made in the words "My Lord" and
Just as the Psalmist claimed God for
his own so every Christian can make
a personal claim on the Father. And
the man or nation ffliO goes after
other Gods is bound sooner or later
to come to grief. There is such a
thing as going astray after the God
of Commerce. That is what is re?
sponsible for the European war to?
day, Mr. Jones says. And the same
thing will be true of America if she
desecrates the Sabbath and follows
worldly amusements. Again, the same
thing applies to an individual. The
rich man, the society woman, that is
those who seek riches and society
above everything else, will come to
ruin finally. There is no such thing
as a poor man in the Kingdom of
God. Don't mind mockerv on this
earth If you are secure In the knowl?
edge that you will live In heaven
hereafter.
You can't have a glad heart either
until God enters your life, but if He
does, even your body shall rest In
hope whether it lie on the battlefield,
In an ocean grave, or in the quiet
tomb.
The psalmist speaks of the "path of
joy." He is talking of the narrow way
to heaven. It Is "narrow" because so
few can travel it in comparison to the
many who easily are led down the
broad path to ruin. But the "narrow
way" is an old path, a path that has
been traveled by saints for years and
years, and a path that we ought all
to try and climb. The roads of earth
lead to nowhere. Practically speaking
they run out finally against a brick
.vail. Take for instance the end of
tlie gambler's road?ruin; the end of
the giddy dancer?a wrinkled face
and stiffened limbs. But the heavenly
road does not have a "blank* 'ending.
Instead those who have made the
paaaage in safety find themselves at
tile foot of the throne clothed with
the Righteousness of Jesus The Sa?
viour.
In mentioning those from Sumter
who will graduate from Winthrop
College in June the name of Miss
Adelte Pitts was unintentionally omit?
ted in the notice. Miss Pitts is a grad
, uate in music as well as in the regu
, lar normal course.