The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-01-26
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went by that tree that you didn't
see lot of broom handles and
clubs up there. Well now, you take
lot of Christians, and they want to live
right on the line, with one foot in the
world and one foot in the church. They
get more clubs than any one else, you
know. The world clubs them. They say,
don't believe in that mans religion"
Why, II you were sick they are
the last men you would send
for to help and comfort you. And
the church clubs them. They get clubs
both sides. Now ii Is good deal better
to Feep just rs far from the line as you
can IL you want power. The man that
has the most power is separate man.
Some OF you look cross, you don't like it.
Are You getting cross? The
reason you look cross is because
l have hit you. Well, that is what
am here for The man that is living
worldly life ought to feel cross, because
he hasn't found In the Christian religion
what he expected to find. But you come
clean out. / have often said e. young
people who are converted, "Stay in the
world, or get clean out of it. Don't try to
serve both worlds, because you can't do IT,"
"Oh, well!" they say, "don't be SO mar
row minded. Don't be so bigoted. Don't
be so puritanical. You will lose your in
huenoe II you do" | would like to ask
this question-who had the most influ-
ence in Sodom? Abraham who was out OF
it, or Lot who was i'm it? / tell
you! You have got to be out
side the world II you are going
to protest against it. The mirth that
cheers and makes the world happy will
freeze Christian. The kiss OF Judas
wounded the heart OF the Son of God a
good deal more than the Roman spear
did. The wife that let's down the standard
in order to reach her hus sband always
loses ground. have heard of wives who
have made a bargain with their husbands
that they would go to theaters with them
IL the husbands would 60 to church with
them. The wife goes against her con-
science to the theater and he doesn't have
half the respect for her that he would
have had IL she had stood firm. Is 70
right? That is the question. II il is
right go into the world II not
keep out Of IL. But you say, "welI, my
husband Is very bitter" Very we'll, let
him be bitter. You will win him il YOU
take high stand and just walk in fellow
ship with God. But IL you just come down
to his level, you will loose your testimony
and influence.
Now, let me turn TO a passage that per-
haps you are all familiar with-llth
chapter of Numbers, 4th-7th verses "And
the mixed multitude that was among
them fell a lusling; and the children OF
Israel also wept again. and said, who shall
giveus flesh 10 eat? We remember Che fish
which we did eat in Egypt freely;
the cucuinbers, and the melons, and the
leeks, and the onions, and the garlic; but
now our souls are dried away. There is
nothing at all, besides this mama, before
our eyes" Think OF that. They remem-
bercd the onions and the leeks and the
garlic, but they forgot the old task mas
ters with their whips, making the bricks
without straw, he hard, bitter bondage, but
they did remember the onions and leeks
and the garlic. Now, what caused IL? The
mixed multitude; and wnen you see a
Christian minister making the ungodly
people in his congregation his society,
look out for him. When YOU see n
man or woman I'm your church that would
rather be with the ungodly than with
Gods people look out for their picty. II
isn't skin deep. IL Is n sham. When you
see young man that will hang around
disreputable places, look out for his Chris
tianity, for II is a sham. II you would
rather go TO a place where Christ is
sneered and jeered and scoffed at,
than TO 20 where Gods people are, there
is something radically wrong. II YOU
are linked with the world and wcridly
things there is something wrong. God