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CUAttLOTTiJ DAILY OBSERVER, MARCH 4,1007. THIS II0LCOMB MEETINGS FORGET THE THINGS BEHIND. Rev. Walt Ilokomh Begins a lro traw! Mooting at the 'Pryon Street Methodist Church Paul Was the jUggest Mn of tho Immediate 1VU lowen of Christ He Haw Somo thine Wrong; About Hlnwelf That no ' Cne Blue Had ftn The Preacher 1 Itokea a Fall Out of Tom Dixon For Writing "The One Woman"-Inter-eating Sermon. ,r .", ,..;.'(. : Yesterday morning marked the beginning of a.' series of protracted serrlces in Tryon Street Methodist church. i As has been announced from time to'. time '.for several .weeks thia protracted meeting; is to be con ducted ' by ' Rev., Walt Holcomb, en evangelist who nan met with much success in meetings of this kind in a large number of places liv various States of the Union. v Before Mr. Holcomb began preach- g yesterday the pastor of the hurch, Rev.'H. K; Boyer, made sev eral announcements with regard to the services. Among other things he said that a service would be held every morning at 10:30 and every evening at 7:45. and. he urged every one to be prompt In. attendance at the services. In speaking of Mr. Hol oomb ho said that It gave him great pleasure to Introduce him and to have him conduct the meeting. He said that he had known Mr. Holcomb for twelve years, and that he knew him to be a .high-toned gentleman and Christian, and a preacher who would preach a clean, pure Gospel. He ask- "Edwin R. ed the people not to think too much about the appearance of Mr. Holcomb and Mr. Edwin K. Rmoot. his singer, but to enter Into the meeting with the right spirit, and work for the salvation of souls. ' Before announcing his text Mr. Holcomb said that he waa glad to be In Charlotte to hold a meeting, and that he was glad, too. that Mr., Boyer had asked the people not to think too much about the appearance of the preacher. He said when he was con ducting a certain meeting In Ken tucky and disappointment was ex pressed regarding his looks that he told the people that they must be looking for beef instead of brains, as they said they expected to see a much larger roan. Ho said he told them what he would say here. If they would give him the people to preach to he would give them something to think about in what he would say each day and night. Large congregations heard Mr. Hol comb yesterday, the church being till ed both morning and evenintf. He spoke earnestly, and many were the favorable comments regarding the preacher and his sermons as the con gregations left the church. A large platform for the chorus choir has been erected. Mr. Smoot, the leader of the singing, has a clear, strong voice, and his solos were much ' enjoyed, especially "He Lifted Me," which he sang yesterday morning. Mr. Holcomb announced as his text these words: Brethren, I count not myself to have npprchended; but this one thing I do, trRcttlng those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which aro before, and press toward the mark for the prize of the high ciTiIng of God In Christ Jewus. i'hll. 3:13-14. He said: "I want to know how you folks here In Charlotte are getting along. Physically you look Just about like other folks. Intellectually, you are Jut about on tho plane of other cities. FlnuncUlly you arc not quite It. Socially you are in the swim; but spiritually you seem to be poorly. Now I am not Interested In your ma terial welfare. I am glad you are getting along as well as you are, but what I am Interested in especially Is your spiritual welfare. "This Is a day of races In Nashville, Memphis, New Orleans and other cities- Tho people who are Interested In such things are getting ready for the spring races, and they are putting their tlms and ensrgy Into them! and In some Instances they aro costing oven the lives of those men. I like that spirit in people who are Inter ested In such things, and I only wish that we all took as great Interest In the race of the Christian life, "The Hlblo docs not tell us of the failures of others In order to en Mcoureire u In our own failures. And et'0-,ften hear men who are fall lntw tne Christian life try to Justi fy i Jmselves by saying such things as thche, 'Paul made mistakes, and you surely don't expect me to be bet ter thsn he was.' 'Peter told a He, and I don't claim to be stronger than Peter.' This last Is one of the fa vorite excuses of a Methodist who-Is about 'petered out' spiritually. "Paul was the biggest man of all the Immediate followers of Christ, and yet he saw something wrong about himself which no one else saw,, and the same thing Is truo of each one of us. We all know of something that Is wrong In our lives that no. one else knows of but Qod, and not until we acknowledge this and get It right can we get oar lives right. "Paul recognised his falling, and he we ft a step farther he forgot the 7 things that were behind and pressed forward to the mark of hi high call- ' Inf. "In the Christian life every one Is ''""i straggler or tffcfgu. nd eery one remains a straggler until religion gets to be the first and the one thing In life. A straggler Is like a ship without a compass, and a struggler Is like a ship with a compass. "Paul forgot the things that, -were behind. We are prone to remember the things that We snould forget and to Jorgot the things that we should remember. "Sometime ago I waa talking" on a street in Nashville to a man and I was praising Teddy. . I believe I was the , first preacher In the South . to boost Theodore Roosevelt, for I have been for him from first to last. I was telling this gentleman many of the good things Teddy had done for the country, and' was thinking the man would, soon come around to; my opin ion, when he said: 'Well, you have told me a good many things 1 never knew about him before, for about all I did know wa that he ate with a negro ; ,--.".' ;'"" ';' - " "Thls is often the case with all of us; we remember one thing that we ought to forget, and forget many things that we ought to remember. That man I was talking to about the President had remembered that he took lunch with Booaer Washington, but had forgotten the many good things he had done for the, country. - "In ther Christian, life there are many things we ought to forget. One thing we ought to forget is our fail ures. ' "When I was a young boy about my only fault was profanity, and when I became converted I promised God I never would swear again, and I felt that I never would; but the very next Smoot. morning while going to the spring I stumped my toe and dropped the bucket I was carrying for water, and as soon as this happened I swore the worst that I ever had. Suppose when I met with that failure that I had given up and never had tried again to overcome that fautt, but had re membered only my failure, where would I have been to-day? "Yes, we must forget our failures If we win In the Christian life. I have a profound sympathy for the man who falls In his effort to over come his faults. "When you rise above failure you are on the ground of victory. "Tom Dixon 1 don't like much. He said In Atlanta the other day that he would be willing to go to hell if he could be successful In writing a cer tain book he wanted to write. I don't know but what he will get scorched for having written 'The One Woman.' He said one thing, how ever, that I like. He said: 'Take away my coat and I will get another that is better; take my shoes from my feet and I will get me a better pair; deprive me of my reputation, and I will establish a better one, and throw me Into bankruptcy and I will get more money. I like the spirit of the man who never countenances fail ure. "Another thing we must forget in the race of tho Christian life Is sor bow. There Is a living sorrow and a dead sorrow, and many a person has been knocked out of the race by remembering sorrow. "The great effort of God Is to get you and me to heaven, and I don't know how much failure and sorrow it will take to get us there. It may be the worst Is behind us. It may be that we are already able to say with Bradbury: 'My latest sun Is sinking fast. My race Is nearly run, My strongest trials now are past, My triumph Is begun.' "Let us get In the race to win, and by the help of God have tho victory." THE NIGHT SERVICE. Ills Subject: "What Is a Pm-pomo?" Was Ills Kuhjivt The Subject of the? Meeting Sermon "Tills One Thing I lo," the Text. Last night Kev. Walt Holcomb preached on the subjuot of "What Is a purpose?" and his text was, "This one thing I do," found in Phil. 1:14. Viewing the large congregation present and the many strange faces at Tryon Street church, and faces that would be strange In any church, except at a meeting conducted by an evangelist, some one remarked that some of them had In all proba bility not been sen In a church since the last meeting held by an evangel ist In Tryon Street, which was several years ago, and that one form of good to he secured from a meet ing conducted by an evangelist. In addition to the larger good, was to get these people to come to church, for there are people In every town who rarely ever hear a sermon by a pastor will come In large num bers to hear thoie of an evangelist. And the same Is true of singers. In a meeting conducted by an, evangelist there are people who will entor heartily Into the singing who never are seen to move their lips In song In an ordinary service Last night It seemed for a while that It would be difficult to fill the seats In the chorus choir, but Mr. Smoot. the leader, told the congygatlon that before the week had panned It would be very easy to fill them. He said further thai th singers might as well make up their minds to like him; that they would have to like him, whether they ranted to or not. and that he waa not nearly so bad a fellow n he looked. After thsse remarks the COTTON AND WOOLEN. MILL MACHINERY AND. POWER PLANTS v; --'...Cftarlott.N. -Ci- Have Been Fortunate in securing another lot of 21 Pete Revolving Top Flat Cards in good condition can be seen running. . Also 40-ich Pickers and Drawings, with metallic rolls. Greensboro Supply Company Greenboro, N. C. ising the EVERYTHING READY. 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