Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-04
breaches ON MOTORS
AND THEIR DRIVERS
MAN INTENDED TO LIVE AT HIS
HIGHEST POWER
Members of Automobile Club OF
Southern California Specially In
Vited to Attend First Com
gregationaI Church

At the First Congregational church
last night Rev. William Horace Day,
the pastor, preached on Motor Cars
and Men, The Mems league of the
church had invited the members of
the Automobile Club of Southern Cali
fOrnia and all who drive and enjoy
motor cars. DR.. Day took for his text
Kings $3.50: THE driving is like the
driving Of Jehu, for he driveth furious
ly.' Jehu, he said, was a high-poWered
man. He had a reputation for fast
driving. He was just the kind of man
God needed to clean up a nation gone
mad in the worship of the golden calf.
Socially it was good form to worship
Baal, but Jehu brought about a revolu-
ton which settled forever that the
Israelites should worship Jehovah. No
fact in our American life today is more
notable than the number of men of
force and of high power we are turning
out. Nothing is better fitted to typify
these forceful men than the motor car.
Motor cars are made to go, and so
are you. We live in a rapid though
dangerous age. The man who divided
all men into two classes-the quick or
the dead-was right, and what is more
it is just what the Creator intended
men to be. He wants every man to
be at his highest power. There is no
virtue in being slow. When / first be-
gan to drive a car was back in Mas
sachusetts talking to my college room
mate. / told him of the ladylike pace
my car had, but said she was nearly
foOlproof. He retorted that his steamer
was far from foolproof, but was whale
to climb hills. That is the kind of
men this poor old world needs, and it
is a glorious thing when a man has
power to go up hills on the high speed.
The other day l passed a beautiful
car, powerless, beside the road. 1t was
a magnificent machine, but its high
powered engine was of no more use
than childs broken toy. Many high
powered man is in the ditch. One
| owner complained There's nearly al
ways something broke about my car
what is it?" asked the sympathizing
friend. Its me- was the reply. Some
thing wrong when that which was made
to go is stuck on the road.
The danger of life today for our
high powered men is that the mixture
| is too rich. We have too much of the
material and have not grace to keep
| it spirit-filled. If ever men needed to
consider the Masters word it is when
he said How hardly shall they that
have riches enter the kingdom of
| heaven" The peril is great to the man
of force who has made money. 1t is
much too great for the son of that man
who inherits high power pithout self
control and the capacity to endure
hardness.
This is the great question. We can
not serve God and mammon. Every
man must choose. what shall I do
unto Jesus which is called Christ?'
PLATE asked that question and poll
| tics prevented a right answer. A rich
young man faced that question and his
money prevented the right answer. A
scholar and a Pharisee heard it and
Saul of Tarsus became Paul the mis-
sionary. God has given you power and
you know you can do things, but you
have never let Christ take the wheel
and you find life a vain, distasteful
thing.