Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-05-24
DRAWN FROM
EXPERIENCE
Engineer breaches Railroad
Sermon
A RECORD BREAKING RUN"
Evangelist Draws Illustra-
ton From Railroad Life
and Reduces Complicated
Course of Instruction to
Very Simple Formula.

Preaching from text in Hebrews
in which the words let us run with
patience the race that is set before
US" occur. Rev. J. E Green. the En-
gineer Evangelist" delivered a plain
talk last night to the congregation
of the Central NJ. F. church. in which
be gave the engineers views Of the
way To make a run. applying the il
Illustration to the words Of the text.
The sermon preached last night has
been delivered i'm many other cities of
the southwest in which Rev Green
has held revivals. and is widely
known as the railroad sermon A"
Written along lines of practical
thought, and using homely and force
full stories as illustrations, il has had
an influence that could scarcely be
exercised by a discourse cmhodying
more theory and less fact Rev Mr
Green said in part:
The keyWord IF this text is Run
and, as l see il. Run is the keynote
to success in the Christian life The
obtain" The psalmist cries. Il viii
run the way Of thy commandments"
The prophet declares. They shall run
and not be weary" About the most
definite. expressive words ever
heard in a testimony meeting were
those of an old brother in a certain
Texas county. He said. Brethren
ever since I started To Heaven have
been in a hurry or on the run" All
who knew his manner of life believed
it. and felt sure he would make the
trip 10 glory. He had no occasion
IL sing that old song of cold. formal
church members, half-hearted profess
sors:
And shall we thus forever go
At this poor. dying rate
Our love so cold. so faint To thee.
And thine TO us so g-eat?'
Nay, verify, with the high pressure
of a glowing heart he pulled out and
moved on as if he meant to go some
where, and was not too heavily loaded
to make required time All the sue
cessful Christians OF Bible times and
in the annals Of six thousand years
have been similar to this: They have
lived as if they were in earDest-as
if they intended to please God in all
their actions.
Where to run -The race set be
fore YOU" The way surveyed and
graded by Divine wisdom and infinite
skill. The roadbed is love, Gods un-
failing love is the foundation Of our
hopes Of way Of life. The cross
ties are the solid promises all along
the line. The rails are the two tables
of the law, containing duties we owe
respectively to God and men. En-
gineers, while running your engines
up the parallels of shining steel, see
that YOU run your souls up the
parallels of the law. THE path Of
the just that shineth more and more
unto the perfect day" This is the
best way conceivable to mems minds
Some complain of the heavy hills and
hard pulls. saying if it were not for
the trials and temptations they could
easily be religious. The road is none
too difficult In the plans ard specj
fications of the great contract we
read. Every valley shall be exalted,
every mountain and hill shall be made
low. The crooked shall he made
straight and the rough places made
smooth" Isaiah. 1I:4D | grant YOU
there are grades Of trial. but all the
better An inexperienced man might
ride over some of our roads and sec
the engine labor up the hills, and
might say what n pity the track could
not have been made level all along.
An old-timer would laugh at him. He
knows that a level track is the most
difficult to run on. To run an aver
age train on level track requires So
little effort that the draught created
is not sufficient to keep the fire
burning II is often necessary to use
the blower To keep up steam. Let
some grade be reached and the coal
is lifted from the CRATES. There is a
perfect glare in the firebox. You
make steam while using il. SO the
only way to retain spiritual power is
TO freely expend it.
Trials make the promise sweet;
Trials give new strength TO prayer.
The very difficulties make the trip
Interesting and afford special oppor-
tunities for record and reward. Sue
cess that counts always costs. Some
wears ago the Mobile & Ohio road
nut on a fast train. Some of the
large engines couldn't make The time
A little engine was rented from the
A c. to make the run. That little,
first-class Roger engine was the COM
panV's pet. 1t was agreed that the
regular runner should drive her on
the Mobile & Ohio road. Dave Nhita-
ker. a fine man. went over 10 WINS
tier for trial trip. The Mobile
Ohio fellows said: ''Nill you try To
make a coffee pot do what locomo-
tive failed to do? You had better
take her back to Selma" Dave looked
at the time card and was scared. he
saw II meant run. He determined
to try. After coupling 10 the light
train. The conductor came; seeing the
little engine. he said; If that's our