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:x"7iY c: d FilLSTEiuV..;:) Thousands Hear Sermon Faith and 359 Respond To Altar Call. on THOUSAND BEANS HIT THE TIN PANS day afternoon ' the McLendon was packed , full, , run over, , cur thrown up all around, and the 1 became the auditorium. It 38tiiated that more than eight .aousanfi people were there. Every street opening towards the graded whool Mras lined on both sides for incounteU blocks. About 350 persons esponded to the altar Vail, and the jllection for the exnense fund ran ound a thousand dollars. On Sun y night as well the tent overflowed d about fifty responded to the call. People were here from several ms in South Carolina, and delega te from Lincolnton , Charlotte, kingham and all adjacent towns, he party was augmented by the ence of Mrs. McLendon and Dana B. F., Jr., from Bennettsville, and nd Murray from Clinton College, of the evangelist, who spent the nd were introduced to the audi- ght the meeting will be for Friday afternoon at 2:30 there a meeting for women, nd Fri rht for the children. Mr. Mc preached four times Sunday, rat church in the morning, at onroe, and twice in the tent, ifternoon sermon , was on id the night sermon on sin, moon sermon was as follows: :ertain there Is nothing more and perhaps nothing we little about as faith.. You read Hebrews 11:6, "But faith it is impossible to m, for he that cometh to Relieve that he is, and that warder of them that din : him." nothing can take the plate man may have morality ;ood works, and many e qualities, but without impossible to please him. definition of faith " is brews 11:1, "Now faith is je of things hoped for, of things not seen." You he substance, and is the iie verjrthing hoped for, an , evidence the vi s not seen. ' ' jo come to me and say, t your definition of what it would be: ing what God said, because God said it. an acrostic of .faith ne, and not ohly me others. , 1 the word faith has I-T-HU-f . stands ake; A' stands for nds for the word r the word Take, ord Him. FQR AKE HIM. Now, ou reach the place ) forsake all as the ification and take th. Whenever you hope of your sanc Him, you have of God. ' i is so important, ally arises, "Is it a gift of God!" the gift, of God i the gift of God. ower to breathe ou something to not breathe for sriven to us the ; will not believe J a to do your own Tsays, "For.with iveth unto right-, the mouth con salvation." Now, . e understand the ility and the will. u to see is that .this matter of will to believe Jan will not to ' need of a man eve," for we are can believe if me up here on this book and and as high as faith might be hand and our ft hand. Now race on condi 1 upon it with presents faith; i arm of faith alyzed by ' sin Creach up and 'au me, all the S right arm -to, nes. is holding t must I do? is the bless th your right faith, but my ' cannot reach ered blessing, nother hand the free use " ' so' I place my ider my -right ,. paralyzed by n, I will, I do ti the l . irr .... jnd by the u-e -.So when the 'that vo'i hive ' nd c t from 1 t do, 1 e dt.. . I'jelieveir.T sving it I ikes It f -i thoug' : ord.. lid : . . Bo;. -i ' seer' i .'to r t - "What Ma says is so, even if it ain't so." So God's say':g rat 5 it so. Faith cometh by hearir" i.od'hrar irrg by the Word of God. iere is the secret of faith. , Faith cometh by hear ing and by hearing the Word of God. Persons who know how to exercise faith know the Word Of their God. The Word of God is the .fulcrum or base upon whidh faith must rest Faith is simply the-lever. I am quite sure we frequently confuse seekers at the altar when we urge them to simply believe, only believe, while the poor soul, not knowing what to be lieve is trying to believe they have something they know they do ". not have. That would be very difficult Believe 'you feel awful good when you know you feel awful bad ; an other very difficult thing to ask. Be lieve you are all right when you know you are all wrong something else they , cannot .do. Then what must they believe? . Believe what uod Has said about your case, - But how can they believe what God has said con cerning their case . if they . do not know what God says. Well, here is' a sinner seeking .pardon. .You say to him, "Only believe." Now, what should he believe? Listen: The Book says "Let the wicked forsake his wav and 'the unrighteous man his thoug: and let him return unto the Lord an I he will have mercy upon him and to our God for he will abundantly pardon;'- i v vc v. .'y Now what should he believe ? He should believe if he turns from his sins and turns to God that' God will do exactly what He says He will do that He will have mercy upon him, and pardon horn, remove every sin is far as the East is from the West, buried in the deepest depths of the ocean, to be remembered against him forever no more., v - - , Coming Up to the Scratch In like manner, here is a believer seeking' the baptism of the Holy Spirit. What should he believe? He should believe what God Bays.. The Book says the altar sanctifieth the gift Whatsoever toucheth the altar is holy, and he should believe if he makes a complete consecration, puts everything on the altar, time, talentj friends, foes, what he knows, wnat he doesn't know, every faculty of his mind, every passion of his soul, ev ery blood corpuscle, nerve, bone, sin ew. He should believe that God. bap tizes him with the. Holy Ghost. Why? Because he shed crocodile tears, shouted or jumped, or had some great emotion or wonderful sensation ? Iso, but because he has paid the price. He has come up to the scratch; he has fulfilled his side of the contract, and heaven and earth may pass away but God's Word is sure. , j Now, thousands have trouble con cerning the matter Of feeling. I want you to understand that I believe in a heart-felt religion. I believe in the old, backwoods, calico, tellable; know able, tastable, feelable, seeable, hear able religion that makes you red hot, sky-blue, blood-red,, snow-white, as transparent as glass and as straight as a gun barrel. But listen. A man cannof feel something "he. does not hn vo nnH hp rnnnnt obtain these "blessings tratif he first exercises faitbl uoa never told us to leei, ana no mat ter what your experience is you will not always feel the same. Your feel ings" may-vary, but God's promises ever remain the game. But someone says, "Mack, I am seeking for a witness." .v We insist the Holy. Spirit cannot witness to something you doi not have and you cannot receive the blessing until you believe, God." In I John 5:10. it. says. "He that believ- eth on the Son of God hath the wit ness in himself." Now I want you to notice faith precedes the witness. The witness is on the divine side of the question and when you have met all conditions, come up to' the scratch, fulfilled your side of the contract and trusted Uod with all your heart, tie will attend to the matter of feeling. Where is Jones? I hear that he is sick and I go overto tee liim. " His fact! is bale, lips ashen, and I say, "Jones, what's the matter with you?" He says, "Mack, "I have an awlul case of flu and I am desperately sick." Well, I know exactly what wiiriure you. A few years ago I was down in the Indian section of North Carolina and an old Indian gave me a remedy and it sure touched the spot I tell him what it is, he sends a boy down to the drug store and he returns with the medicine. He hands it to me and says, "Was that the kind you took?" "Oh, yes." I go away and in a few days I return and Jones is no better and very weak and I say, "Old fel low, I thought you would be conva lescent by this time.'V "No, if any thing. Mack." I am worse."1 "Did you get the medicine told you about?" "Certainly I did. ; You were jright here when the bo- brought it', in." 'Wen, Jones, did xou take it?" "Oh, no. You said it maae you feel a great deal better right (at once and as I didn't feel any better I did not take it". Now that is exactly the way that people are, treating 'the Lord Jesus Christ .They watt the feeling before they take the medicine. r Hotel Crowd Didn't Like It Sometime ago .1 . was in Atlanta, Ga., holding a 'meeting in the Congre gational church. The Saturday af ternoon that arrived they took me around and put me up at a little ho tel on Whitehall street, a kind of a society-gadding, dancing, card, play ing:, fudje-eating, rookery. I noticed that vening in the dining room that all, of them sat up on one end and they put me down at the other. They seemed to get a lot of Jevity a!il 1-fciHure out of something"that' I did y.it understand, but IuUt on I found it was betake the preacher was be- r entertained there. I ' had be'ii 4 a wet end we were- havip - a down at t crooked ; ces, a 5 l.at reper' -wr vus a tt nse '. t'.e emif-her- i ro- tipc pd l in to tUe call of God. tie k'l ..1" of the srul. Andldynan; :!, lacerated, shelled the woods, preach ed restitution, reconciliation, confes- 'Sion. v hen I wastnrougn mere wus a lot of emotion. People crying, some shouting, and when I got back to the hotel they were standing in vhe lobby discussing my sermon with the "dis" left off. One df the women, who was considered a society leader in Atlanta, and wrote the society news for one of thd leading dailies, had her gab-carburator working k overtime As I walked in she. said.'Preacher, we heard you tonight," and she seem ed to think that I ought to feel high ly flattered that they had suffered my presence. I said," "Yes, I saw tyu there." "Why,", she said.'No one could ever ' be Christian . the way you put it, you make it too hard. I am a member of -one of the first churches h this city (and she put the emphasis on the "first") and that shouting and crying down there to night was wiitt nre ana eninusmBiii. f anatism. I cannot understand how cultured people would do anything of that kind." I went on to my room. Same Coven "on Same Roost the next night the same covey came ii and sat on the roost where they were on the night before. 'I had not grown any better with age and sin was making sin appear as sin and holding them up before the blazing light and scorching presence of God Almighty's purity and telling them churchanity wasnt Christianity., activities were not spirituality, relig iousness was not righteousness,-and morals were not substitute for the new birth, that there was no alter native, that "ye musi De porn b?'": When I closed my message I said if there is any man or woman here, live or die, sink or swim, survive or per ish who will .turn from their sins and come to God through.the atoning blood accept Jesus as their saviour, con fess him before, the woijld and live in accordance with that confession, walk down here and take my hand. To my surprise -and everybody else s, this woman rushed out from the pew dewn the aisle, take it from me, she came on high gear. : Just as she reached out to take my. hand,, a shine broke ove her face, her eyes scintill ated like diamonds. She threw up her handstand shouted, "Glory, I,m saved." She rushed out , from the church,' down 'the street to the hotel and she mopped up -that whole com munity. Her husband was a promi nent railroad official. She ran into the room, dropped ori her knees by the bed and said, "Oh, husband, I have been a member of the church for years and I have been ig norant of salvation. I have substitu ted churchanity for Christianity aftd activities for spirituality, but tonight I was born again, I halve been chang es from nature to grace." And while she was there, the tears stream ing Hnwn her fare, her little bov that was lying on a cot over in one-cor ner of the room rose, up, wiping nis little eyes, and about half asleep, said, "Hh Pn vmi have slwavs said Ma was going vcrazy.; Now she is .cer tainly... gone!" . ' .. ... ;saw it wuicniy Now here is what I wtfTit to con vey to you: That woman told me I had not been preaching fifteen min utes before the light broke into her tovlrimort smil ' fiha tow that she had never been born again, and there :wt . c and (' a wet.. i r- viv i'? and X t i (' e i .1 t f t ; c ti and e : v' i Ore at cu A yoursr Tnn it i oi : -e tf t n t i r I r t .,;-? ( tais ; in a rt,. i ecu i; 1. .T I 21st - ay o .larch, 1 of t . at w 1 given t nottj' thert.ii mentis. having been made upon ne tv v j holders thereof, I will on F v, THE 22D DAY OF DIX;.:... ;i, 1923, at 12 o'clock- M, at the the courthouse door in Monroe, N C., of fer for sale the following described tracts of land, lying and bsing in Vance township, Union county, near the' town of Stallings, bounded and described as follows: . First Trast: Lying and Being in Vance township, beginning at an iron in P. D. Dry's Jine and runs N 45 W 2.75 chs to an iron pin; thence N 2 E 25 chs to an iron pin in center of pub lic roads; thence S 46 E 16.85 chs to an iron pin in the road; thence S. E. 3 chs to an iron pin in'Irby's lin; thence S 43 1-2 W 18.38 chs td the beginning, containing 24 acres. See .deed recprded in Book 64, page 623, Registry of Union county. . Second Tract: Beginning in the center of. the C. C. Railroad in the center of Ma?n Street Road at Stall inigs station, and runs with said street road S 45 W 900 ft to a bend in the road; thence S 67 3-4 W. 1392 ft. to a stake in the road and in M. L. line, and runs with said line N 12.45 W 1630 1-2 ft to an iron stake 82 ft. East from the Jim Helm's stone cor ner; thence with the Baker old line S 88 1-2 E 1838 ft to center of C. C. Railroad; thence with said railroad S 25 E 670 ft to the beginning, contain ing 56.35 acres, less the schoolhouso lot and the railroad right-pf-way Third Tract: ; Lying and being- in and near the town of Stallings on both sides, of the C. C. Railroad, beginninz 1 at an iron stake by a P. O. and' .runs with z of T. B. Hoover's lines: -st, S 7 E 1252 ft. to a stake by a large pine tree; thence S 9-1-2 E 1475 ft to a stone in D. J.' Hemby's line; thence with, four of his lines: Ni73 E 486 ft. to a stake on East side of Crooked Creek; thence N 74 E 1425 ft to a stone; thence N 39 1-2 W 478 ft to a stake; thence N 45 E 304 ft. to center of C. C. Railroad; thence with John Gurley's line,.N 8 1-4 W 906 ft to a stake; thence with P. D. Dry's line,v Easterly side of said rail road. N 45 W 1848 ft to an iron (stake; thence with W. W. Smith's line S 45 W 640 ft. to center Of railroad; thence with said railroad 78 ft; thence 225 ft. to a stake; thence S. 72 W, 278 ft to the beginning, containing 113. 23 acres. ' , - ' - Fourth Tract: Adjoining the above tract and beginning at a stake in Dry's line and runs S. 44 1-2 E. 2.S8 chs. to a stake; thence S. 45 W. 4.35 chs. to an iron pin; thence N. 32 W, 3.25 chs. to an iron iin in Dry's cor ner; thence N. 61 E. 3.70 chs to the beginning containing 1 1-5 acres, be ing land conveyed to M. T. Stallings by W. W. Smith, deed being record ed in Registry, of Union county. ' Fifth. Tract: Adjoining the 66.35 acre tract above, and lying on, the East side of .the C. C, Railroad, be ginning -where Main Street crosses said railroad and runs with said street N. 250 ft. "to 'railway stftetr ther.fco with said street S. 45 E. 377 ft to' a stake : thence S. 45 W. 250 feet to the railroad; thence with said railroad to the beginning, containing nearly two acres. Terms of sale Cash. 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