Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-14
TEMPLE BAPTIST HAS
"WIN ONE" SOCIETY
DR.. J. W. BR0UGHER INAUGUR-
ATES EFFORT
One Thousand Respond to Call to Try
to Induce at Least One to
Live Christian
Life

Much enthusiasm was manifested at
the morning service yesterday at the
Temple Baptist church which formed
the basis of organizing a win One"
society. At the call of Rev. j. Whit
comb Brougher the new pastor of the
church, for those in the congregation
who would win one each to lead a
Christian life during the next year,
about 1000 persons arose to their feet
from all parts of the temple in re-
sponse to the call.
Winding Your Own Business" was
the topic of DIR. Brougher at the morn
| ing service. He said in part:
Someone has tersely and concisely
said: Christ alone san save the world,
but Christ cannot save the world alone.
Jesus Christ said to his disciples:
| AS the Father hath sent me, even so
l send you. We know that Jesus Christ
came into this world to seek and to
save the lost If We are to carry out
the mission of Christ in the world,
then the chief business of a Chris
tian is to seek and save the
lost. A good many Christians act as
if they did not believe. this for they
make no definite effort to win souls for
Jesus Christ. There is no business in
the world today that men undertake
with greater de1iberation and pursue
with so little enthusiasm and energy
as the Lords business. Men will get
up early in the morning and sit up
late at night in order to pursue with
energy and tireless zeal their daily
business in order to make it a success,
but these same men frequently pursue
their Christian service with more or
| less indifference. In politics they may
manifest enthusiasm and zeal; and in
the commercial world they may go alb
solutely mad with enthusiasm, but the
Christians business is either neglected
or pursue with the most formal dig
nifty and frigidity.
Regarded as MeddIers
"The ungodly sometimes regard the
personal worker as meddling in other
peoples business. Soon after Mr..
| Moody became a Christian he began to
speak to individuals about their souls
salvation and a man threatened TO
knock him down If he did not mind his
own business. Mr.. Moody replied as
did John Vassar on one occasion: This
| is my business Whenever Christians
come. to believe that soul winning is
| their first business in life, the ungodly
| will accept it as such, and VIII no
| longer regard the personal effort to win
| them to Christ as an iInpertinence or
unwarranted interference in their at-
| fairs.
| 'Inere are MANY TedSOHS why tllS
| Christian should be a winner of souls.
Jesus Christ made that the business of
his life. If we are to be followers of
| Christ we also must be soul winners.
| In the next place, Jesus Christ COM
manded us to go and preach the gospel
| to every creature. If we are to obey
| his command, we must see to 1t that
every one in the world has the claims
of Christ pressed upon him.
Value Placed on Souls
If Christian men and women put
| the same value upon souls that Christ
did we would be more anxious to work
| for their salvation. If it were possible
| for us to go out into the streets of this
| city for the next hour and gather up
stones that could be transformed into
diamonds, within five minutes l would
not have a congregation. Every one of
you, old and young, rich and poor,
learned and unlearned would go out
Immediately to scratch into the mud
and pick up stones. BY so doing you
could gain great wealth. Yet. Jesus
Christ has said that a soul saved is
worth more than all the world. and he
has made 1t possible for us to reach
unsaved men and women to let him
transform their characters and make
them what they ought to be. Yet we
pursue the almighty dollar with greater
zeal than we do the saving of souls.
That man was right who said: I would
rather save a million souls than to save
million dollars In the last place,
seeking to save men personally is the
plan by which Jesus intended that this
whole world should be saved. IL there
was only one Christian in the world. to-
day, and that one should save one soul
in twelve months, and then every
Christian should go on saving one In
twelve months, this whole world could
be evangelical in less than thirty-fve
years.
1T want TO have in the Temple l3ap-
tist church at least 500 this year who
Will pledge themselves before God and