Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1909-05-03
THE NEED OF HEART
RATHER THAN BRAINS
The Greater Importance of Religious
Enthusiasm.

Rev. Henry Martyr Campbell yes
terday morning preached at the First
Presbyterian church on Religious
Enthusiasm" using as a text the
thirty-second verse of the twenty
fourth chapter of Luke: did not
our heart burn within us, while he
talked with us by the way and while
he opened to us the scriptures" The
following extracts from the sermon
give the outline of the thoughts pre-
scented.
Il wish that We might get hold OF
the truth that lies in the expression
"a burning heart What is the mean
ing of 1t? l think it means the very
essence of religion. Someone has said
that the word religion comes from
the word lego TO read and then to
reread. We know that the thing that
should be read is the word of the
Living God. Religion is to know God
as to his power, character, nature
goodness, truth, love, greatness; to
know God in his relation to man
man as to his sinfulness, his help
lessness, and his need. Religion is
to know the Lord Jesus Christ. These
disciples were thinking of Christ, and
that was the reason for their burning
hearts.
Let us take as our theme then
Religion and Enthusiasm, consider
ing the relation of enthusiasm to
our religious life, and then how We
can come into possession of more
enthusiasm in the service of the Lord
Jesus Christ
"B. B. Tyler, the great Sunday
school worker, has criticised Gypsy
Smith because his methods are too
emotional, saying that faith is the
foundation of our religion. By no
means. Faith has a part to play,
but your religion and my religion
in the truest sense Of the word, is
founded on the Lord Jesus Christ,
and yet / am here to say that in
this age of the. world there is a
great deal more need of enthusiasm
in the religion of Christ than there
is of knowledge. This is an age in
which intellect is giorified and the
heart is dethroned. In all the word
of God the word brain is not found,
while the word heart occurs over
one thousand times. With all respect
to intellect, the church is more in
need of enthusiasm in the work of
Christ than of learning.
How true it is that our success is
by enthusiasm, and one of
the faults we have most to fight in
order to, succeed, is apathy. The
reason the wheels of reform turn so
slowly is that men are Indifferent
and forget their responsibility. They
seem to think that wrong will right
itself. Strike while the iron is hot5
is a good motto; but we should go
farther as Cromwell did and make
the iron hot by striking i am sure
that / may say that the church has
advanced just in proportion as her
have been enthusiastic in
their purpose. Noah, Joseph, Elijah,
Peter and Paul were enthu-
siasts. The Master was an enthusiast.
OF him they said he was mad and
had a devil. But the Lord Jesus
Christ was sane and sound, and be-
came the worlds Redeemer. You and
| will succeed just as We are en-
tllusiastic and jealous We talk about
the latent power in different things,
but that latent power is nothing
with the latent power that
there is in the church. The church
needs enthusiasm that she may never
waste her power.
How may we get this enthusiasm?
| can answer that question more
easily and more readily by answer
ng the question as to who are some
1f those who have had enthusiasm
No one ever had more enthusiasm in
with the work of Christ
than the Apostle Paul. AS proof of
his read of his perils and suffer-
ngs in the eleventh. chapter of Sec
md Corinthians. Paups matchless
faith led him to go through it all.
He said, I know whom l have be-
ieved,' and so was ready 10 work,
and IL need be die for the Master
can stand against the be-
lever. Yonder is Charles Pace, the
noted criminal, going to the scat
old Beside him is the chaplain
who wants to tell him of the hope
lie may have in God, in spite of the
act that his past life has been full
If sin. After listening to the chap
ain he turns to him and says, Why,
4 l believed what you say you do,
would be willing to crawl clear
across England to tell that to men,
he was not far wrong. If we believ-
ID in the eternal verities as we
should, that God is good, that he
ives, and rules and reigns, that
Christ came and found man in sin,
hat he saved us by going to the
ross through the garden, that he
,urst the bands of death and sits as
,ur intercessor, why shouldn't we be
such men as Charles Pace said he