The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-11-29

MORE THAN FIFTY MEN ATTEND
ED ELABORATE SUPPER GIVEN
IN BASEMENT OF FIRST RAP-
list CHURCH AND HEARD AD-
DRESS OF SECRETARY or MEN
AND RELIGION MOVEMENT.

More than fifty men of the First
Baptist church were present at the
supper given last night in the base
ment of the First Baptist church and
listened attentively to George E.
Moody, of Jacksonville, executive sec
rotary of the Men and Religion Move
ment, Jacksonville. who made an adj
dress on the object of the Men and
Religion Movement in this country.
Mr. Moody spoke of the good work
being done by the movements in other
cities of this country. OF the general
objects of the movement Mr.. Moody
spoke as follows:
Address of Mr.. Moody.
1T is, to me-, a most inspiring
thought that men of this generation
do not apologize for this enlarged plan
of service, but they believe in it as no
other preceding generation of men. II
you ask me to give you the grounds
of their belief, I would place at the
threshold of the fundamental reason
that they feel their obligation to
preach Christ, and to preach Christ
means TO preach Him in daily life
more surely than to preach Him from
the rostrun-
why do men today feel their obli-
cation to preach Christ? Because all
men need Christ. Drunkenness, vice
and squalor carry on their internal
business right under the shadow of
our churches. Men in this gospel
freighted land of ours are living in
open rebellion to God and the laws or
the country.
America is in danger; the man is
blind who doubts it. America may yet
be lost. He who denies 1t does not
keep his eye on the swirl and trend
of things. He has never put his ear
10 the ground and heard the Subter-
ranean fires which seethe and hiss I'M
der the thin crust of our civilization.
He has never stood at the center VI
our great cities where Vice has built
her splendid places, and Wickedness
has thrown up his long lines of forts;
where the rulers of darkness of this
vvorIj have massed their cohorts be-
hind ramparts well night impregnable,
and felt upon his cheeks the breath OF
worlds internal, and been awed and
subdued by the glitter and scarlet. the
majesty and power, the horns and
crowns of the beast against which the
lamb must wage war
"As James Russell Lowell used to
say, Democracy is only an expert
ment,' and the experiment is not yet
completed. The Star-Spangled Banner
may yet be torn to tatters by the fierce
waves which blow from the human
heart.
sIn the United States there are 1SS,-
900 churches with q, 100000 members.
These churches seat 57,000,000 persons,
almost equally divided between Catho-
lie and Protestant; room in the
churches for two thirds of the entire
population Of the country. In 1900 the
census gave us 1s, 000, 900 men between
the ages of Is and 80; 100000 of
that number were not church men,
bers; 10000 attended church oc-
casionally, but 100000 never darken-
ed church door.
Il heard Billy Sunday say that in
800 churches in Minnesota there was
only an increase of 81. In Indianapolis
1t cost $625 to save one person; In
Chicago. $3e0; in New Orleans, SIS,
and in Louisville, KY. SIS.
Human Agencies.
God will save the world through
human agencies. Man can do moth
ing with God, and God can do little
without man. An angel appeared unto
Cornelius telling him that Peter was
in Joppa and that if he would send
to Joppa, Peter would tell him any
thing he wanted to know. Why didn't
the angel tell him? That was not
Gods way of doing business. Gods
way of saving the world is through
you bringing someone to Jesus Christ.
We pray that the world may be saved,
but it is hypocrisy to pray for some
for. The next time that you place
the communion cup to your lips, pledge
yourself to God to bring another per-
son to Jesus Christ. 1 suppose that
God would convert man on Buffalo
Mountain, but God doesn't work that
way.
THE Lord sends the winter and the
cold to freeze the ice, but He doesn't
send His angels to cut it. He puts
the gold in the hills, but we have got
TO mine to find it. God put wool on
the back of the sheep, but We have
got to shear and weave it into cloth.
God causes the cotton to grow, but
If We want to wear cotton clothes in
the summer We have to gather the
cotton and manufacture 1t into cotton
cloth God will do His part. He is
only waiting a chance. No one can do
the work that God has marked out
for you. Ask a man if he is Chris
tian and he will reply, I have started
Some people have never gotten three
miles from the starting point and they
have been travelling for years. Ask
woman IL she is a Christian and she
replies. I hope so, Mr.. Moody. l am
trying to be; pray for me- Suppose You
come up to me and say, Are you mar
ried, Mr.. Moody and l say. I hope so,
] am trying to be-
I'VE must now speak of the message.
At the beginning we can say that it
Is as comprehensive as the purpose
and plan: Boys Work, Bible Study,
Evangelism. Social Service and Mis-
sions.
Boys Work.
I'VE begin with the boy. The best
way TO win a man is to catch him
when he is a boy. AS seventy per
cent of the boys in their teens are
lost to the Sunday school. 1t is evil
dent that We haven't gotten hold of
the man at the right time. If we solve
the boy problem of today we solve the
problem of tomorrow. So we begin
with a program Of Christian Education
that is as broad as his nature and
need.
In the United States there are TO-
100000 boys, fully one-third Of which
are members of Protestant families.
OF that number 100000 never attend