The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-21

the Baptists have danced and played
cards over that line until they have
succeeded pretty well in erasing it. a
person can go to hell out of the church
just as quickly as he can go to hell
out of a bawdy house. And the preach
ers make but little effort to stop them.
They are given dish of ice cream, an
oyster supper and a little present now
and then, and they get to think that
they are just about the biggest things
that ever happened. They very seldom
realize what little scrubs they really
are.
1T is lack of the right kind of work
among church people that keeps them
back. Why, there are enough people
in the church to make America trem-
BILE before God, if those people would
only come nearer to the Almighty
themselves.
Preachers Not "0rnery."
Sometimes the preachers imagine
that | don't like them; that L think
they are the ornerest set of pups this
side of hell, but 1 don't think that at
all-that is. about some of them. The
reason many members of the church
don't get into the work is because their
preachers aren't in it. The preachers
give nice literary sermons, but many
of them are afraid to speak out and tell
the truth They are afraid to do 1t be-
cause some old whisky bloat, some
merchant who keeps his store open on
Sunday, contributes to the church fund
1t might cut off the contribution should
the preacher tell the truth and be fear
less in the expression OF his OPINION Oh
what is right.
Il have never been in a city any
where where there were such opportun-
tiles 10 lead people to God as right mere
in Salt Lake. We ought to get 1000
people into the church within the next
thirty days. And by getting them into
the church 1 do not mean merely TO
have their names on the roll, but TO
bring them right up close to Christ
If we can only get the people away
from this living next to the devil BUSH
ness+that is the great work.
There are altogether too many folks
who don't believe in the devil. It's an
old Greek myth they say, but I'd hate
to be as full of the old Greek myth
as they are. There was never man,
puppy or a preacher who claimed that
there wasn't devil but who had one
in him as big as a kangaroo. There
are TOO MANY people who are filled with
the devil, and yet who are inside the
church. They are the ones who are
lust across the brook from holiness
who give card parties and attend
dances. Among them is the puppy who
goes to leg shows, and the old rooster
who runs blind-pig in drug store.
Why Power Is Lacking.
THE reason many people haven't got
power in prayer is because they don't
nray often enough. They are like an
old threshing machine that has been
out in the snow all winter, and is
brought out to do service again. 1t
is ali rusted. and of course refuses to
work. Well lots of people pray just
like that old threshing machine. To ask
them to pray in pubic is like asking
them to cuss in public The failure or
the church to keep man on the
straight road causes many people to
saw that the work of the church is not
good
..The real trouble is that there are
too many people who live close to the
DEVIL They are not anything. ana
mighty little of that Let the stew
ards stew. the deacons deac, and let
the church dignitaries get down and
dig for all they are worth. Then we
will accomplish some work that will De
worth the while.
.People say. I don't believe in reviv-
als,-neither does the devil. When a
man saws that he doesn't believe in re-
vivals. that man is liar. When
Young girl shippers and says that she
doesn't believe in revivals she is a liar,
too. That same man wants a revival
in his business
Afraid of Revivals.
What he doesn't believe in is hav-
ing his devilment shown up TO the
world. He knows that when an evangs