The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-02-23


they thought a. much of Gods cause
as they do OF their own welfare.
they'd plan to Be- here The Disciples
had business just the same as the
men Of wheelinx. Time devotes 10
Gods work Is never lost. The decip-
lee were there and they stayed
throughout the meeting. And II was
no lukewsrm meeting. either. There
was no shaking hands with two fng
ers. No danger OF catching cold by
sitting down In a seat just vacated
BY a member of the official board.
Your Formally makes me sick. VIVA;
We need Is more tobacco sauce and
pepperino.-
1T matters not whether the meet
ings are held in the cathedral or this
building. You must come with one
accord. The place is nothing.
Accord 10 Everything.
At the revival OF Pentecost every one
went with one accord. Every one
took hold OF God in earnest and pray
ed for the same thing. No one ever
criticized OF round fault at the revival
of Pentecost. wonder IL we will ever
have another like It, We have never
had since and We never will have I'M
til we move with one accord.
THE Holy Spirit will remain for
ever II the Holy Spirit remains for
ever. why won't the power remain
forever? The church of God hasn't
as much power today as % years ago.
There are about 26.OOO.000 church
members, both Catholics and Protest
ants. but we don't have the power
they had at Penticost with 40
people"
"Why don't we have the powerf
ri tell you what's the matter
with you. You people are playing
hide and seek with God and tag
with the devil. You think more
cf high steepIes. fine kitchens and
pipe organs for your churches
than you do Of fighting the devil.
You spend more time in the
kitchen making oyster soup to get
men to the church than you do
in trying 20 learn Of Jesus Christ.
You can't fill the church with
oyster soup and ice cream and the
more soup you have to give TO get
people to the church. the faster you
are going to the devil. You pay the
preachers salary with oyster soup,
but you have men in The pews who are
Lousy With Money.
you need To be with one accord
You have an opera singer in the choir
who scrapes the calcimine from the
ceiling. You have n singer who runs
the chromatic scale like n squirrel
climbing a tree.
cit would be better II you had
more people with patched pants
In the church seats instead Of peo-
pie with 'cultsh.' Then you would
be no discussions. no denomina-
tional fuses. no baptismal scraps,
no second blessing disputes or any
other internal dissention.
Ten or fifteen years ago Christian
ity was openly assaulted by infidelity
Now the devil has disguised himself
into an angel of light. into the Gift oi
tongues. holy rollers. holy jumpers
and wash me feeters' I'll tell YOU
/ Il would take more religion than Zee
got 10 wash some of their feet.
Il want you TO take this home. Al
the disciples knew Jesus They knew
Z Him after the flesh and they knew
Him after the Spirit had gone forth
after the crucifxiOn. Every one OF
the 100 present ut the revival knew
Jesus by experience and perhaps were
'f'h AiAhfbAfu W illul lOI HOIi1t oil fiIs
! blessings. The leper was there. the
\ blind man whom Jesus had given sigh
was there. the paralytic. the noble
/ man and his son. the man with Tho
withered hand. Jarius and his daugh
ter. the centurion and his servant. Iii,
I disciples. Mary. Martha and thei,
brother. Lazarus. and Mary Mara
| lene, from whom the seven devils wer,
I cast All
Him. They knew Him from up-to-dat,
I experience
IF that revival were today some OLD
| woman would getup and say
The Lord Is My Shepherd
! and then tell about something tina,
| happened 40 years ago. What Vol
want To tell about is something tina
happened two hours ago. The peopl,
I don't know Jesus Christ. They know
OF Him. but they don't know Him. Al
tthose in that gathering did not know
him in the same way. but they al
knew Him And they showed tina
they knew Him. II n stranger had en-
tered that meeting he must suddenl,
De hiled with a desire to know o
whom they spake.
We need the atmosphere OF tina
Ilme 10 know Him. We lack PRAYER
Ihen there was no gadding about. n,
reading Of novels and running TO car,
parties. no Sunday ball gaines. an
not against baseball. but 7 am
Against Playing on Sunday.
I ''od prom Missed that We hould rccatv,
power after the Holy Ghjxt had com.
upon US. God wants Us To have nou,c,
W" need REVEALS that Will no
only add members 10 our church.
but make better Christians ON, 81
th"s" already IN H. our churct.
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