Arizona republican., 1907-12-09
DR. HENRY HAS
 BUSY SUNDAY
His Address to the Young
 Men of Phoenix
A Large Audience Greeted the Evangelist Yesterday Afternoon.

At the First Baptist church yester- day morning the audience more than filled the pews. Rev. J. A. Elliott and Chaplain Scott were on the platform with the pastor and pr. Henry. Two fine musical numbers were given, one by the male quartette and the other a solo. The Unanswered Prayer" by Mrs. Camp Of Fl Paso. pr. Henry's sermon was an original and heart sprching interpretation of Rev. 3:20- Behold, l stand at the door and knock" He described in graphic words the condition of a church which had driven Christ from the throne to the doorstep. He painted such a church as il is seen today. Its characteristics are riches and prosperity respecta- bility and self f-satisfactiOn. IL has not voted Christ out but He has gone and strange to say the church does not know He has gone-driven out by worldliness. selfishness ana unbelief. He will come back only in answer to prayer; in response to a desire which nothing else will satisfy.
 MT. Mohler sang a solo at the close of the service. The mems meeting in the afternoon was great success. About four hundred men gathered to hear pr. Henry's address on "The Slaughter of Young Men" The fol- lowing is a synopsis of the address:
 The text was Jer. 4S 15, His chosen or choice young men are gone down to the slaughter" Dr. Henry said: Tn the passage We have a graphic de- scription of the destruction of the kingdom of Moab. The prophecy of its complete overthrow reaches its cul- minating point in the slaughter of the chOseh young men of the nation. The young men represent the strength and power of national life. This direful prophecy is being fulfilled in our own day Vast numbers of young men are being despoiled. The proofs of de- graded manhood are much in evidence, and the wreckage is everywhere to be witnessed. Fathers and mothers have shed bitter tears over the ruin Of their sons. and a little farther on these scalding tears will full upon untimely graves. The most appalling testimony is at hand as to the manifest decay and moral destruction of our young men. To SOW to the flesh means cor ruption, and the harvest must be reaped. The husbandry of habit is a law as inevitable as the movements of the stellar world. Lord Bacon once said that the surest forecast of any nation was the unprejudiced opinions or its young men. In the light of this declaration, what is to be said as to the future of even the most Christian nations of our time? In the United States. out Of nine millions of young men. it is estimated that not more than 15 per cent are even attendants upon public worship; leaving & out of every hundred who seldom or never enter the church door. Not more than six or seven per cent are actual mem bers of the Christian churches. and perhaps not more than three out of every hundred live active godly. and consecreated lives. In the United Kingdom, out of five millions of young men, fewer than five hundred thou sand, or less han one out of 10 are identified with the Christian churches. Out of the remaining nine-tenths are to be found three quarters of the crimin- al population, the vast majority of gamblers and drinkers, loafers and li- bertines, secularitists and sensualists. Much has been done through the influ- ence of the Y. NJ. c. A. and kindred organizations, young peoples societies. etc, so that at the present time. or fifteen years after the other statistics given, about 8 per cent of the young men of America are actively identified with the Christian churches.
 The condition has greatly improved in Great Britain during the past few years. During the period of the South African war three out of five of the young men who volunteered for serv- ice were rejected as physically unfit to pear arms. In the vicinity of Man chester. only three thousand out of nearly twelve thousand were accepted. The sins of the flesh are telling upon the physical stamina as well as the moral muscle of our young men. In round numbers. for every total ab- stainer that dies, two moderate and three free drinkers bite the dust" The history of achievement is the history of youth. The young men Of today are 10 be the fathers of tomorrow. Among the gateways through which young men go down through sin to the slaughter must be mentioned, first of all, the curse of strong drink. Intem- perance is the most prolific source of
  negie says: ''The first and most se- ductive and the destroyer of most young men is the drinking of liquor" It has hurled kings from their thrones. ministers of God from their pulpits, crippled the influence of missionaries and evangelists, and betrayed the Lord Jesus into the hands of his enemies times without number. Lincoln. the first martyred president or the Unitsi States. said: Victory shall be com plete when there shall be neither slave nor drunkard on earth" The pledge alone never saved anyone. but Christ is able and willing to save everyone who will come unto God by Him. This solution of the drink problem is simple safe, sure.
 Another pitiless power working for the destruction of young men is impur- ba yot,hlip- dnag mi ef.l nc