Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-14
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SERMON TOFLOCk
NEW BOYLE HEIGHTS M. {.
PASTOR IN CHARGE
LARGE CONGREGATION eREETs
REV. DIR. w. E. TlLRoE
Comes to Los Angeles from McCabe
Memorial Church In Chicago to
Succeed the Rev. F. D.
Sheets

Rev. DR.. w. d. Tilroe, the new pas
tor of the Boyle Heights Methodist
church, preached his initial sermon
yesterday morning before a congrega-
ton that taxed the seating capacity of
the church auditorium and Sunday
school room.
DR.. Tllroe, who succeeds Rev. B. D.
Sheets, who served the church for
three months, comes to Los Angeles
from the McCabe Memorial church of
Chicago and has already made friends.
DIR. Tilroe began his pastorate fol-
lowing the morning sermon with a
series of evangelistic services which
opened last evening, to continue
throughout the week. A large chorus
choir, under the direction of DR.. Pal
mer, will take part in these services.
Yesterday morning DR.. Tilroe
preached an eloquent sermon on the
topic, 1.-THE Pot or the City," taking
his text from John 4:2S, 1.-THE Woman
then left her water pot and went her
way into the city"
Old Revival Recalled
1.-THE Jews had no dealing with the
Samaritans, but the Lord did," said
DIR. Tilroe. "You will remember the
parable of the man who fell among
thieves and a certain man did what
the priests and Levites did not do.
He was a Samaritan and as long as the
Bible is read we shall remember the
Good Samaritan.
I'VE read in the Acts of the Apos-
ties that when Philip went down into
Samaria there was a great revival and
a great church builded up there. A
great many people had taken the word
of the woman by the well and had be-
lieved in Christ. The class meeting
often converts a good many people
where the pulpit does not. Others
were directed. That Is a good thing to
do--if you cannot convert person take
him to some one who can.
Some people say, We had a great
revival in our church and haven't got
te mover 1t yet The devil invented
that expression. Any revival that
doesn't make il last into the next isn't
the right kind. A revival should make
another easier. Here we are 1S40 years
or thereabouts after the event occurred,
reading about the woman at the well
and that wonderful sermon preached
by the Master. The whole world has
been stirred for eighteen centuries by
the story of the outcast woman by the
we'll.
Left Little Things Behind
"The second great revival in Samaria
was because that woman had wit
enough to leave her water pot and
go into the city. The water pot was a
little thing, but the city was an i'm
portant thing, and the woman left the
water pot, the small thing, for the
city, the big thing, and because OF
that, that woman has had a large part
in the Scriptures.
There is no use in telling lies be-
cause you are preaching. Water pots
are all right and the thing that they
stand for-housework. If the woman
hadn't attended to the water pot, which
symbolizes housekeeping, her home
wouldn't have been cared for. She
doubtless went about her housework
afterward, and did it just as well,
only a little later. But the water pot
had stood for the opportunity, the right
thing at the right time. So many peo-
pie make a failure in doing the right
thing at the wrong time-everlastingly
doing the right thing at the wrong
time.
when the call CT God comes to you
to lay down the water pot and take
hold of the city, be a sensible man and
take hold-the woman of Samaria had
wit enough to do that.
Causes Many Failures
"How full the world is of failures
Because people don't learn that les
son, but everlastingly do and think
little things.
"Take the tragedies of the preachers
Iaif- he phnrG n1VinR at
tention to the little things when they
should have their thoughts on the big
things.
"Do you imagine the ability to talk
half an hour twice on Sunday is the
large thing In the life of preacher
If Thought that, I would be doing
the little thing, tinkering around with
the water pot When the great COO mas
a city before me.
What does it matter whether the
pastor parts his hair on the side or In
the middle? Or recites poetry or tic
kles you with oratory that looks good
in the newspaper? What is this sla-
very to public opinion, anyway? The
large thing with the preacher of God
word 1t, Does he take his people to the
Master to lift them up? 1t is not
simply to talk prettily twice on Sun
day. The great God never made any
thing bigger than man. When he made
man he made the biggest thang, and
when the preacher does his work In the
molding of men, that is worth while.
Big Things Count
"The preacher man must have wit
enough to leave the water pot. the
beautiful sermons and poetry-lay
them aside to do the larger things
He must be willing to forget the lit
tie things or the big ones-if not the
public will say that he is an orator
and forget him in year. Get busy
with the big things.
1.-THE official board of church usual
ly thinks ii amounts to something
Running church Is great PROPOSE
tion to every board that ever saw. IT
isn't Nearly all are business men, US
ing their brains. An official board is
competent to do its work in short
time. What is the large thing Is to
run the church so that men and women
may get nearer to God; become more
religious and a little better prepared
for heaven. To get people into the
new and get their money out of them
is the little thing, but to get them to
listen to God, that is the great thing
To get han to God is different from
getting him to church. You have IL
live straight or that man won't listen
You can't be caught In any little
craft. 1t is big thing to live straight
for year. 1t is a great thing to live
in this wicked world so as to please
God and bring men to him.
"Find your water pot. Stop and
think what you have been potterine
at. Not the wrong things, but the lit
lie things. Stop being a person of lit
tIe things--a 2x4 man or woman. God
viii help you to the big things"