The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-02-28

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70 II and climb the embankment yF I'll
will get a good drink. The eyangehSt \.
church is a reservoir of pure wat'
with a pipe to every heart IN the COZ
munity and every nation in the "ofi .iI
Evangelical may mean truth on ice 8'
evangelistic means truth on tire. iL
Evangelical may mean a bomb-pro'
for defense: evangelistic means
army on the march with every Lay III
toward the foe. t#
Evangelical sings: Hold the for H#
for am coming" evangelistlc slngskI
"Storm the fort, for God is leading 8H
The need of the church is not eva NJ
gelicalism as a thing to fight Tor p' n
evangelism as a force to fight "ith. Y
The evangelical creed merely me- II
and defended becomes a fossil, only
thing of interest; but the evangelist III
life which feeds upon eVangehc' III
truth is a force against which u
gates of hell cannot prevail. Fiji
An evangelical may be a mere 10
malist and there is no recognition
him in the New Testament, except
he is rebuked; but New Testamel 1.
evangelist is a man full OF the lie
God and making alive those to WhoIs
he ministers. III
What Ii Means. Ii
# is certainly more than inducing II
person to join the church. ina. Is III
nortant There are too many belieVetF
who attend churches and refuse 10 %
come an organic part OF any Oh
They are spiritual pleasure seehet
They are gospel tasters. They ioq
at the papers and go where the SUI
, iact or the music seems most attra
: tive, At best they are only %Dasf
! wbackers" and ought somehow 10 !
: dressed into the regular army. w
shall chase a thousand, and two p'
:. ton thousand TO fight" that Is, wv
J. together are ten times stronger Una
e one alone. Organization muitipie
d vour influence by ten. You nave !
L. right, therefore, to remain OUTSIDE u
Organized church of Christ. But yt
h can ioin the church, be baptized al
e, nartake of the Lords Supper vino
10 baina a Christian. We may make O
30 churches so worldly in spirit tn
". worldly people will feel perfectly
es home as members of Them Ihey
81. come adherents, and adherents, y
er. know are barnacles that help to 81
tn the ship. The real convert mas
fe come "partaker of the divine
ture" g Peter 1:4) He has be
ut "born from above" (Jqhn $3.50
he You Must Accept.
SC Conviction of sin, however, is
lat enough. AS many as received n
he to them gave he the power to oeco
ne. the. sons of God, even sto them t
nd believing on his name" (5ohn i
ex. There must be acceptance OF Je
Christ. Even turning from SIN 10
sufficient. = God did not, tell the bit
. IsraeAtes. merely to look away q
- tha bite of the serpent, but to looi
N the serpent of brass uplifted IN
camp. Reformation is simply turf
from sin; regenerationis turning I
the sin unto Christ. Reformation Is WI
naa washing; regeneration Is was
y. white. To reform is to remain
line formed: to be born again by iait
@ne the uplifted Jesus is to take into
Jour hearts the life that will make Cnr
t0". character.
9 - You Must Have New Birth.
Jesus said: Come we after me
i'sr T will make you to became ffshel
"a'' men," Now, it is not our mlsslas
'o'D feed fish, that is, to cultivate sss
'ural man until he has so greati!
-. proved that he may be lapeie
u s Christian. The fish that live IL
Inv lower realm of darkness, grub
,soo gravel must be Transformed os
jaw new birth into sheep fitted io'
,.oa higher realm Of landscape, sun
,.rrv sky. The Babel process oi iea
loot heaven by building up from DC
,n ros. is not the New Testament mt
~ aye must be born from above u
whitfield preached over 900
from this text, and, when asked
con. he had preached so often froI
.ecent same text, he replied "Becau
at the must be born again" Christ G.
v and Ter the hearts of the vilest and
no to them sons of God. The neea
On o day is a re-emphasis OF sudd'
stantaneous conversion, Crisis
Ia Sig view to process of growth
, over. The Secret Of Power.
: hook Rack of real evangelism Is a p
shout church. Back Oh 'ne 49, =,
!, over the sixteenth century were
ulders. loused knees Oh f'iihp sana az,
,,tated. Ito ITO have prayed well is to hay
q chill. To-, h weld of Martin Luther.
oseIves mt the thunderbolt OF Luther
90 the thema but the power OF PEI
unseen prayer that gave a new ", sun n
.minent the church of Christ Inc
ct he. Tohn Wesley was to rise for
,,s .ona ond meditation every morning