The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1891-02-19
CHURCH LOCALS
AND RELIGIOUS NOTES OF GENER.
AL INTEREST.

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eral way. Let it be in the spirit o.
love. The boys have their eyes on
you. They are studying you
Think of yourself as boy, studying
the men around you. The boys
near you are doing just what you
did. You may impress :hem and
save them with bright face and a
kind word.
See that man lodging, hiding.
with furtive glance. He has no
church home. His church letter is
dying perhaps dead. He goes to
all churches and attends all services,
but his own He is in hiding. He
is far from being hid. He is not
only seen and known of God, but
also Of men. "The backslider in
heart shall be filled with his own
ways"
AS strange thing as it IS, yet it
is true that there are those who are
afraid to join the church-will
withhold their certificate of mem
bership," because it will cost them
something, Such vainly imagine
that such way pays. How sad the
delusion. We knew one such man,
who Withdrew from the church to
save the money it cost him-said it
was too expensive to be in the
church. Ia less than one year his
whisky bill was double the cost of
the church. ''He went to the dogs"
The disciples "could not cure
him." The father brought his son
to them, possessed with a deaf and
dumb spirit, as the only possible re.
lief. "They could not cure him."
They tried to do it. They desired
to do it. 1t was their one work
their mission in life. Yet they
could not cure him. Such are
brought to the church to-day. The
hope of the world in the church is
at the vanishing point of all things
else. Like the disciples then, the
disciples now, fail to cure the sick.
The simple course is lack of power.
Jesus was absent then as He is now,
and always, in such failure. There
ought to be cures always and fail
ures never. Is there power enough
now in all the churches, in our lit
tie city, to cure one such possessed !
You were not at your prayer
meeting Wednesday night. Was it
because you could not or because
you would not? You withheld your
influence and your example, in one
of the most Important duties of your
religious life. Amy one can 90 to
church at IL o'clock Sunday. 1t
calls for an experience necessary to
usefulness, if not for personal sal
walton, to attend the night service
and especially the prayer meeting.
Brother, be careful. You are IN
danger when neglecting such duty.
Not only do you lose great spirit
ual good, but YOU rob yourself OF
power to do good. You will be
ashamed at the Judgment to make
the excuse you have now. "And
he was speechless."
The Methodist prayer meeting
last Wednesday night was we'll at
tended, considering(?, There were
near seventy1fve present. A spe-
cial "circle of prayer" was formed
of seventy-one members. II you
want to know what is meant by the
above statement. ask the pastor.
Find out quickly and enter this
circle.
eve have not wrought any de-
liverance in the earth" So sadly
complained the prophet. We are
in the world and in the church lust
to this end. This is the work OF
life. Failing in this, we fail in life S
mission. We are to make the world
better. We are to make the people
about US happier and purer and
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any deliverance II the earth. "
Why? Because We have not lived
right. Because our service and de-
votion and love to God, has been
formal, powerless and inactive. We
have followed Him at distance
and warmed at the enemy's fire"
Now the end, having wrought no
deliverence in the earth, there is
no deliverance wrought for us. AT
tend your PRAYER meeting.
The past Sabbath was very rainy,
sloppy, cold and disagreeable. The
congregations at all the churches
were small as to numbers. So far
as We can learn our Presbyterian
friends had the largest attendance
at both hours, than any one of the
others.
Rev. ]. 2. Burgess, OF Hickory
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