Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-12
SUNDAY CONTINUES
On PERSONAL WORK
EVANGELIST PoURs SOME HOT
SHOTS At NoN-cARlsrlAN
CHURCH MEMBERS.
CHURCH NEEDS TO
GET STEAMED UP
Urges Enthusiasm and Sympathy in
Personal Work, and Says That the
Success of the Revival Depends on
the Churches Going to Work-Gives
Instructions to Workers.

Instructions to Workers.
Taking the same text that he had |
for last Thursday and Friday after
Moons sermons, Proverbs 1880, 'He
that winneth souls is wise." Rev. Mr..
Sunday preached the third of his SER
mons on personal work Tuesday aft |
ernoon. The evangelist had an audi
ence of 500 which heard the best SER
mon on that subject he has yet
preached.
Returning to his work after day
Of rest Mr.. Sunday, with all the vigor
and force Of which he is possessed,
prodded the church members and in
active christians to activity for God.
Do Gods Work.
His sermon, in part, was as follows:
He that winneth souls is wise. BY
doing so he is doing what God wants
him to do. He is wise. The sinner is
not, he's a fool"
Referring to people who merely went
thru the motions of christianity, with
out putting any earnestness or vim
into their lives for Christ, he said, IT
have watched people go to church, and
go thru their weekly maneuvers. They
will maneuver into their pews and
their jaws will drop and shut as they
go thru the service. They are simply
going thru the motions of religion;
they are not saving any one.
The Plan of Salvation.
| I'm carrying out the plan of saliva
ton every soul saved should become a
saver of men. You say you were a
fsinner bound for hell when you were
converted, and you have never told
any one about it? do not believe you.
If you had been filled with the spirit
of God you would be out saving your
brother
Referring to the only priceless things
in Gods sight, Mr.. Sunday said, "You
can take nothing to heaven with you
but souls. You can not take your
house, or your automobile, or your
merry widow hat, or your jewels. You
can take nothing but souls.
Do Something for Christ.
II want you to do something for
Christ. There is nothing you can do
for man that will mean so much to
him as winning his soul for Christ. It
requires effort to save people If men
realized their loss the work would be
easier, but they do not. To convince
them of what they are losing by being
in sin is the hardest thing to. do.
"To do the work Of God you need
courage. do not believe there is a
harder thing for the average church
member to do than to speak to some
one about his soul. You can talk
about everything else, but as soon as
you do that the demons are on your
back.
"You will need courage. You will
need enthusiasm. If there is anything
hate it is convervatism. The man
who Is conservative for God is usual
ly too cowardly to fight and too lazy to
run. Nothing is ever achieved without
enthusiasm. You need it in the church
Stand Up for God.
"Stand up for God and Gods truth
God is never wrong. The church is
never wrong, but some of the Holsters
in 1t are wrong. We need more enthu.
siasn. You show it in everything else
why not in Gods work? Warm up tt
God and the truth. The devil delight!
in GOODNESS and conservatism in the
church member"
Speaking of how hard it was tt
reach some people for Christ, thu
evangelist said, "You have got to e.
at some people with a prod with thu
of In Wi oh hoI
way of getting at a lot of old pachy
derms who have sat in pews SO Ion!
they are mildewed. When the churcl
Of Christ will shorten the distance be
tween itself and the sinners it will in
crease its usefulness and build up
new constituency for itself. BY doin
so there is a chance to break dow
the barrier that has stood between tn
church and many in the world.
Personal Work Defined.
personal work in that part Of til
church's work which deals with the in
dividual rather than with the masse
The hard part is not in getting the sin
ners to come to Christ, it is in gettin
the church on its knees and to get
out after the unsaved. Whether or nt
this revival is a success depends O
how much the church Does
ITO do personal work you need syn
pathy Sympathy is the loveliest ira
in human nature. 1t gives drink to til
thirsty and food to the hungry II
person who lives for self alone I'll
world is not going to weep over whe
the undertaken puts him in a coffin.
III you are Christion walk dow
and take that prostitute by the hal
and help her up to the pedestal 4
which you stand. Go down and lift tn
old booze-f fighter out Of the quagmil
Church Needs Steam.
each of you have a mission to pc
form, so go to work and labor viii
these meetings are going on and y
will have something to be proud ],
The church of God has been lu1nberil
along all these years. What 1t nee
Is to get on a full head of steam a.
the devils and demons will begin
duck and hunt their holes. Most pc
pie in the kingdom OF God today we
won by personal work"
He said that one trouble with I
church today was that many OF the
were made up Of a worldly. .scrappi
bunch, who were constantly in str
~ wanting to. run things". their W
or why who would do nothing to +,
. Their the cause of God.
"Then you wonder who souls are !
saved. A great many people hold the
IN selves aloof. They say what'ss4he ,