Mower County transcript., 1906-04-04

is responsible for much Of the crime
Of our day. Some Of our best and mob
lest citizens were Graded across the
sea, but many land on our shores with
Just money and morality enough to
effect an entrance. If they will not
take up with our laws, our principles,
our system of education let them 60
back to Europe where they were ken
neled. Crime has increased four, times
faster than our increase in popula-
tion. In no land on earth can a Grim
inal escape SO easily as in America
and crime is therefore on: the increase.
This is somewhat due to fifty years of
negative preaching which has poison
ed the fountain heads and never be
fore. has there been such a reaching
out and such crying out after Jesus
Christ as there is today. ~ >lsS5#5: sS35 4
1 Our ministers. build sermons on
book reviews. They preach evolution
so you can hardly tell whether man
came from the Garden of Eden or. a
geological garden. I used to think
there was a heaven and a he'll but
modern preaching has changed all
that. Sermons that bring compliments
from the crowd are the. popular ones
nowadays. A cowboy who had always
fought shy of sky-pilots went, to, hear
Ea fashionable elite sermon: After it
was over as they crowded up to the
minister to tell him what, a fi,neyeser-
mon it was, the cowboy also pushed
forward and said: 1--WE listened to
good many. sermons but want to
tell you that you monkeyed less with
religion, than any one / have ever
heard" %S:@
They have taken away my Lord and
I know not, where they have laid
him. The old woman from the coun-
TRY, who visited her fashionable rela-
ltives in. the city, did not finish her
visit butt early announced her deter
lmination to return home. '"But we
haven't showed you half the sights. y
they explained. tsNo, but you have
taken me to hear Robert Collier and
he has taken away my Jesus. You
have taken me to Bob Ingersoll and
he has taken away my Bible, You
have taken me- to Jenen Miller and
she has taken away my corsets, now
I want to go back to the farm where
with my chickens and pigs,%f can wor-
ship God. .'':s '. 49, :. -, *:1. - H.;
: This accommod dating ." placidity
which has settled over; Us has Slapped
our religion, what made Wesley, knox,.
Jonathan Edwards great was their
fearlessness. What we need is SER
mons that save, not glittering gener-.
Ealities,. drum beats before the battle:
not rhetorical nicities.. We need to
hear the sterner side of the gospel, the
necessity of repentage.< The vision Of
a true God is fading out of our land: );
We are teaching salvation by charac:
ter, salvation by giving: We must
get back to, Jesus, back to Pentacost,
back to tears of repentance and sor-
TOW for sin, back to a religious awak-
.ening. Creed will not save: us, the.
SO articles Of faith will not save us,
money will not save us, character
will not save us, confession, will not
save US. It is Jesus, Christ that will
save us. %r. . ~s:s's 4
. sssWhat. shall we do with your body,
was once asked of a dying Scotch SOL.
der. s"skin me, take my hide to the
tanners. Have it made into, drum
heads and go up and down the land
beating them to say # still live and
testify for Jesus Christ" Wesley
preached free will, Chas. G.. Penney,
the greatest man since the days of the
apostles, preached the sovereignty Of
God. Moody preached the love of
God and moved men by his preaching,
What we need today is to preach that
the victory is. just in proportion to-
the evangelism of Il the church. You
can: rot the church with dry rot. Every
member can be a college graduate and
every communicant q multi mill ionaire
and vet fail in its mission. Il, is not
mere culture or more money that we
want, but that our preachers get back
to the old cardinal doctrines Of the
Bible. .:s4 a
we need & evangelical preaching.
The Presby yterianss nearly died out
until my friend Chapman preached Its
revival. The Methodists nearly lost
their Amen 4 and the Presbyte terians
have picked The Congregation
.alists have been nearly wrecked BY
alisml and UnItarianism. The
Episcopals are waking and realizing
that its the devil u men that IS doing
the mischief The doctr1ne that
drunk Is 8 disease that Z burg
lar has disease of the mind that
lfl,ertfne l1aa disease sof the mind is !!