Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-05-13

Some Of you seem to think that
church work consists in baking a
cake or in getting up an. ice cream
social when your turn in the alpha
bet comes around, but If the church
spent one-tenth of the time and en-
ergy for Jesus that they do for the
things of this kind they would bring
souls to Jesus Christ literally by the
thousands
The trouble is we're not concerned
about the things that concerned Jes-
us Christ, although we profess to
have His Spirit and call ourselves
Christians. We're willing that souls
should be lost and the cause of
Christ go down in defeat If only we
can live In comfort and convenience
and compromise with the world.
THE Meanest Man in the World"
DR.. Biederwolf spoke last night on
the theme THE Meanest Man in the
World
The meanest man in the world"
he said, lis the man who won't do
what he knows he ought to do, and
! the coyardliest man Is the man who
Is afraid to do It,"
The sermon was not addressed en-
tirely to any one class of people, but
In Riederwolf's hands was made to
touch every class of people in Perth
Amboy Biederwolf is at all events
a fearless speaker, and does not hesi-
tate to hit out wherever he sees the
need of 1t, whether the person who
gets the blow be church member
or scoffer The evangelist is evil
IDENTIFY a good reader of human ma
ture. for he has an uncanny way of
I n hfrnur h. AZ
tells He seems to be able to probe
deep or merely to serape the epi-
dermis, but in either case It seemed
to be done with good purpose, and
not Just for the pleasure of the
thing.
II the people Of Perth Amboy
average up with the rest OF the
world, he said, some of you would
make good bargain IL you would
swap some Of your brains for a little
backbone This world always has
and always Will take off Its hat to a
brave man, and here he told the
story of General Esssssss-t the close ni
] the ltsiSFm -wssS;-s.He was solneless and
penniIess Ana was.ss1asE,proached W the
promoters or fhe L0fisla1Hf Tot ssasS5
who offered him 10000 a year fts 81
for the use of his name as presidentS
Lee said, Gentlemen, my name is
, all | have left and that Is not for
sale. Good morning"
| ''The BraVest Man"
| THE brayest man God ever made,'
he cried, lis the man who will do
! right at any cost when he knows
what is the right thing to do. I'd
rather have Just a thimbleful of
brains, If they were of the right
quality, and have a moral nerve OF
the proper size as Its base, than /
would to have the brains of Solo
mon, Solon or a Socrates all COM
bined. and be wishy-washy, weak
kneed, jelly fish in my moral make
Iup.
II don't believe there has even
been man among the heather or
civilized who has been without a
glimpse OF the truth, and in whose
inner nature there have not been
strivings or compunctions of charac-
ter which were calculated to lead
him on coward the thought which
was in the mind of God concerning
him, and just so far as he has neg
lected or trified with them, has come
under the condemnation of this text.
'The very consciousness !. of me-
elected duty will be your greatest
condemnation and you, my brother.
who are neglecting to accept Christ,
the very knowledge that Christ died
to save you. II it does not lead you
to yield yourself to Him, will rise
up in hell to make your Judgment
more intolerable when the day Of His
wrath has come"
Text Applied to Hypocrite.
The speaker applied the text to
several different kinds of people
First: 1T applies to the man who
not only knows how to do good. but
processes to do it, whose life is de-
liberate denial of his profession.
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