Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-08
SUNDAY CONTINUES
ON PERSONAL WORK
SAYS THAT THEREIN LIES THE
POWER OF THE CHURCH
OF GOD.
REAL CHRISTIANS ~
WILL SAVE OTHERS
10 Talk Religion is the Business Not
Only Of the Church But Of Every Az
srsssive Christian - Soul Savers
Needed in the Pews-AlI Can b.
Power For God.

Taking as his text the same one as
on Thursday afternoon, Rev. Mr.. Sun
day Friday afternoon continued to ex-
hort christians and church members
and preachers to get out and do per-
sonal work for Christ. He said that the
christian and the church who were do
ing nothing to bring others to Christ
had no excuse for their existence.
His text was "He that winneth souls
IS WISE" and his sermon was in part
as follows: "Soul winning is the work
of the church. If we are following
Christ we are winning souls for Christ.
The aim Of every church should be to
save the lost. If it is not doing that it
has no claim on the world.
It Should Be Your Business.
"Many Of our churches are in bad
shape. They are just holding their or
ganization, they are not power. Too
many preachers are chasing after this
and that fad and ism instead Of
preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ.
ITO talk religion-that is the
church's business. It's the business Of
the christian business man. It's every
christians business. think the
churches have the thing all wrong end
to in the world today. Too many of
them spend two weeks a year preach
-ag for sinners and the rest of the
time preaching for the church mem
ie no ya1on m
amuse people. 1t is the church's place
to save pepole from hell. So we want
soul savers in the pews. One man or
woman of the right kind can set a
church on fire for God.
Soul Saving a Lost Art.
There was time when this work
The church of God has got to wake up
to the saving Of souls, or cease to ex-
ist. Soul saving has become almost a
lost art In the church. Every Sunday
school ought to have class where
nothing else is taught but the training
of people to do personal work.
"The bible says, go We into all the
world and preach the gospel to every
people, That's not meant for the
preachers alone, it is for everybody.
Tho great majority of people never
tthink o; speaking of christianity to any
one they meet at the lodge or in sos
ciety. Day after day they meet sinners
everywhere but they never ask them to
become christians.
Individual Has Real Power.
1.-THE real effective religious power is
in the individual. You would be sur
prised to know how susceptible peo-
pie are to the bible. So therefore speak
to people and talk to them Of their
souls salvation. Your love for God in
your heart is not enough, you have
got to let your love show itself in your
work. The love must breathe itself in
battle You have got to get on the
firing line for God if you are going to
win in this fight against the devil. You
have got to live right II you are going
to bring people to God.
Can Not Servo God and Mammon.
"You can not serve God and NAM
mon. That's what is the matter with
lot Of you church members, and it
makes you not worth picayune In
the work for the lord. You can not
go to prayer meeting one night, and to
some little old leg show the next. You
can not go to prayer meeting one night
and to a card party the next. believe
the law Of God allows child of God
every liberty regenerated conscience
desires.
u have found this to be true, that
every one who is not doing personal
work has some sin in his or her life.
Personal work is about the last thing
the devil will let you do. He will let
you go to church, and to prayer meet
ing, and he will let you sing in the
choir and wear badge and pass the
plate. ~,
DO No Work; Dry Up.
'eWhen you stop winning people for
Christ, you dry up. That applies to
ycu, to the preachers, and to the
church. Some churches are Just dying
OF dry rot.
"You ask who is wise? Some might
say the captains Of industry, others our
senator, or governor, or mayor, OF
school superintendent or principal, OF
the pleasure seeker. I'LL ask God, God
who do you call wiser He will say
-he that winneth souls is WISE
God says to the man who lives sim
ply Tor money, or for political power
or to the woman who lives only for so
ciety, thou fool this night thy soul
shall Nbe required Of thee
The lack Of personal work Is the
one greatest weak point Of the church
Too much Of the work for Jesus Christ
IS like squirrel turning wheel
There Is q lot Of exercise and move
nent In 4, but no progress. ut does
not require spiritual strength to hold
Q rlmmage sale, or give an oyster
supper for the church, but 1t does re-
quire spiritual strength to bring souls
to Christ.
Al: &c. DO Persona! Mycrk.
All can do personal work, but al
can not preach or sing. We can al
talk to some one of Christ. How nany
protesting Christians are there in thii
city? z win tell you the percentage Ii
small. as small as any city evel
WAS In.
You can do PERSONAL work an,
place. and wherever you are. You car
reach all classes by personal work. "A
lot, Of people in this city will not com.
to hear me. but you can talk to them
You can reach all classesy and O, wha'
= power YOU can become.
I He told Of the sinking Of the steame,
Lady Elgin In Lake Michigan, Of
YEvanston. and how q student OF North.
western University saved seventeen
4 lives from the wreck. only to- so com
pletely break his health that he vii