The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-03-26

kONSt lh1In- 4O0A AA~~s4A6S Will kLOu
In interest, the attendance will increase
and great good viii be accomplished.
Prof. Towner and wife sang "When
NV Final Farewell is Given"
Mr. Moody then closed the discussion
with some interesting remarks. He said
that he once heard celebrated colored
preacher, and as he proceeded with his
discourse he carried his audiences with
him in his VIVID description to the
beautiful world above and was picturing
the beauties of the celestial city, when
he stopped suddenly and said. this will
never do, we must return to the things /
that are practical; and so thought when |
the brother and sister had finished that |
beautiful song to which we have just |
listened, We must now return to the |
things that are practical.
There are great many people In this |
world who are possessed with the idea |
that the church is q sort of hospital
and that all they need to do is to come
and be n1rsed. This is not right; it is
all wrong. You must come into the
church, but you must come TO work. In
the Sunday school we should have a
council who shall decide where this one
and that one should labor. If the
boys Of 10 yea.s are out of Sunday
school, something is wrong, not emily
with the boy but with the school, and
| when the boy is out he is soon in bad
| company, and then he spends his Sun
days playing cards IN some back build
ing.
There is always some one in the church
that can interest the boys, and that per-
sons services must be secured. Boys
are very wise from fifteen to twenty-one.
After they are fifteen they are boys no
longer. You must never speak to one of
them as "boy" or "bub," for If you do
Eyou will make him angry.
| 1 was passing through Indiana not
long ago and heard of town of 1000
inhabitants, and al hough there were .
great many young men there, no one of
them attended church. l could scarce
lister from the same town and he reafarm-
ed the statement 1 had heard. Just
think of town of 1000 and not young
man ID all the churches. l told the
minister that l would hire one young
man, just one, if could secure him in
no other way. to attend church every
Sunday in order to sweep away the dis
grace.
If you are looking for something to
do, there is no better field open to you
devote your time End study to do good
for these young men, and in the future
they will rise up and call you blessed
, There are many in the church that car
do as much, if not more than the minis
ter. Watch then, say, and do not le
/ the boys take the first misstep, for aftel
that is taken the downward road Is &c
easy.
While in Kansas City the other day,
saw a young man on trial for murder
, His good Christian mother had conn
from the far east to see her wayward son
) He SAID he would rather walk into thu
court room and take his sentence TO
. twenty-five years than see his mother
; | OOE UOJ 41O hdN AolAOA ShSO O0NA WA
pany and tins was the result.
i A young friend of mine in Chicago
f and a man of business, did excellen
3 work fer the church in this way
. When he was dealing with a younI
: man he asked him where he attende,
5 church, and if his customer attends
services anywhere. il was all right, bu
!, If not he would give him cordial inv
7 tation to his church where he had rente
: an entire pew for just such purposes. 1
: this way he soon filed two pews.
e you had few young men like that L
T your churches what great work 20
8 would accomplish. See to it, then, the
s you get the young men interested. CT
= them to attend church, and my word fo
d it the young ladies will come also.
Mr.. Moody then asked the audienc
to rise and siLg, "Only an Armol
8 bearer" the men singing the last vers'
The topic for the 10 O'Clock meetln
: was Chow to Promote REVEALS of Re
lig1on."
The first speaker was Rev. S. NJ. Dav
of Newton. In his remarks Mr.. Dav
q defined revivals and said TO promo'
q them we must believe IN them. TIC
many think REVEALS q human seTvic
\ They are of God. The true conceI
- ton of a revival is life out
life, not life out of deaf
Before they can be perpetual they mu
be frequent. The agencies employe
e are both human and divine. We shoul
labor for rewards in an intelligent, bus
. ness-like manner. The pastor must p1
himself In the way of success. E
must be the center. AS leader he mu
never be taken by surprise. congrat
lated myself one day during a reviV
that we had nothing to divide the int
est, but the next day learned that b
Satanic majesty had appeared
lie the form of a willy clap-trs
81 charity ball. He seen
le just TO have issued a new patent to affe
protracted efforts. 1t Is called progre
IS sive euchre. Lyman Beecher said
le never had a revival without tuss
le with himself, the world, the church al
u the devil. The preparation must beg
u with the pastor but it must not end wi
IL him. 1t should permeate the who
church. The speaker spoke further
: the kind of preaching, praying, al
o. working necessary to success.
- After the singing of hymn by Pro
Towner and choir aud congregatio
Mr.. Moody briefly discussed the abo
s subject. He illustrated the variety
- ways in which men were saved, by t
g methods used by Christ while on earl
In his address he said, If you can't 6
men to Christ in the regular way, 6
them there in an irregular way. Ii y
can't get them through the doors Ia
them through the roof. We are not
dictate to God how to sa
men. No two are say
alike. Some people are kept aW
- from meetings because they object
excitement 1 have seen more excl
p ment at horse race in England than
: ever saw in any other meeting. CT
- scented to preach at the race track. T
men had too much horse IN their hes
to get them to think about religion.
saw more more drunk men there th
-, ever before in one day. Let corn
Kansas go up so per cent and you "
see excitement; let real est
advance rapidly and there "
:. be excitement. Never was
= country SO stirred az Palestine under I
preaching of Christ and John.
o. There Isn'L denomination on the ia
his of the earth that did not spring out of
an. revival. The Catholics and Episcol
he hans cialm apostolic succession IN
IN. founders were converted on the day
.. Penticost. The Methodist church orr
! natad Nth 1ha Weslevan ravivsIs.