The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1908-03-09


the trouble to g0
to It and climb the embankment you
will get good drink The evangellstic
church is reservoir of pure water
with pipe To every heart in the conn
munity and every nation In the world.
Evangelical may mean truth on ice;
evangelistic means truth on fire.
Evangelical may mean a bombDroof
for defense; evangelistic means an
army on the march with every face
toward the foe
Evangelical sings Hold the fort.
for am coming eyangelistic sings:
storm the fort, for God is leading
The need Of the church is not evan-
gelicalism as thing to fight for but
evangelism as force TO fight with.
The evangelical creed merely held
and defended becomes fossil. only
thing Of interest. but the evangelistlc
life which feeds upon evangelical
truth Is a force against which the
gates Of hell cannot prevail
An evangelical may be a mere for
malist and there is no recognition %
him In the New Testament, except as
he ID rebuked; but New Testament
evangelist is a man full of the life Of
God and making alive those to whom
he ministers.
What Il Means.
1t is certainly more than inducing q
person to join the church. That is inl-
portant. There are too many believers
who attend churches and refuse to be-
come an organic part Of any one.
They are spiritual pleasure seekers.
They are gospel tasters. They look
at the papers and 90 where the sub
ject or the music seems most attraC-
tive. AT best they are only bush
whackers'' and ought somehow to be
pressed into the regular army One
shall chase thousand, and two put
! ten thousand to flight" that Is, two
= together are ten times stronger than
one alone. Organization multipiiea
= your influence by ten. You have no
\ right, therefore, to remain outside the
2 organized church Of Christ But you
7 can join the church. be baptized and
i partake Of the Lords Supper without
- being a Christian We may make our
churches so worldly In spirit that
y worldly people win feel perfectly AZ
!. home as members Of them. They be-
= come adherents. and adherents. you
y know, are barnacles that help to sink
z the ship. The real convert has be-
come a "partaker Of the divine ma
- ture." q Peter LAD He has been
~ born from above" (John a:s)
: You Must Accept.
Conviction Of sin. however, is moi
!, enough. "As many as received him,
= to them gave he the power TO become
81 the sons Of God, even to them that
y believing on his name" John 1.2)
= = There must be acceptance Of Jesus
= Christ. Even turning from sin is moi
n sufficient God did not tell the bitten
- Israelites merely to look away from
- the bite of the serpent, but to look tt
It the serpent OF brass uplifted in ths
~ camp. Reformation is simply turning
y from sin; regeneration Is turning from
sin unto Christ Reformation is white
- - washing; regeneration is washing
~ - white. To reform Is to remain DC
- =. formed; % be born again by faith i
q u the uplifted Jesus -is to take into GU
" hearts the life that will make Christi,
-s' character
You Must Have New Birth.
~ Jesus said: Come We after ME an
&. ~ / viii make you to became fishers q
M men. Now, it ID not our mission t
~ feed fish, that Is, 10 cultivate the na
,on ural man until he has SO greatly In
~ proved that he may be labeled
~ ~ Christian. The fish that live In th
MA M. lower realm OF darkness, grub an
gravel must be transformed by th
i new birth into sheep fitted for th
-ad higher realm of landscape. sun an
~ sky The Babel process. OF reaehin
~ heaven by building Up from beneal
-. ~ is not the New Testament metho
80 ~. "Ye must be born from above Geors
W ~ Whitfield preached over 300 tim.
~ from this text. and when asked WI
= he had preached so often from Il
same text, he replied: because
must be born again" Christ can q
e,,n ter the hearts Of the vilest and nal
ana them sons Of God The need OF Il
,oon day Is a re-emphasia Of sudden.
, "a stantaneons conversion, crisis with
avail view to a process OF growth
aed The Secret Of Power.
Back or real evangelism Is prayii
not church. Back Of the reformation
wa the sixteenth century were the q
sodn loused knees Of Philip Melancthon d
weu the 'Bene .orasse est bane studisa
,und Ito have prayed well Ii 10 have skl
for isd weli) Of Martin Luther. 1t VI
] nr not the thundeFbolt OF Luther's ii
thema, but the power Of persiste
prayer that gave a new sunrise
the church Of Christ. The habit
rub. John Wesley was TO rise for pray
the aud meditation every morning at to
sink. There never was a genuine reEh
be Of Christianity which did not have
roots in prayer