Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-09-29
nc MASS MEETING FOR MEN
10 BE HELD At > O'CLOCK
THIS AFTERNOON.
TOO MANY Church babies
People Who Haven't Rcllgious Dis-
erection Are the Curse of
Christianity.

Everybody may not get TO heaven.
but two thousand persons are going
to begin reading the Bible or begin
reading II more than they have been
reading It heretofore At any rate.
that IL what they told Evangelis.
George Stuart in the big revival tent
last night.
That was the only proposition pu.
up to the audience by the evangelist
more And would all of those who
would read II more please stand
Certainly the congregation thought
they ought 90 read the book "A whole
lot more than they ever did after tina
preacher got through with them, ana
they would stand and thereby declare
their intention OF getting more food
out Of Gods word. Food Is what tho
evangelist called it--too many babe.
In the churches, he said, so many
folks who were stil using milk and
hadn't grown up TO that point where
they ought to begin getting something
solid out OF the Bible.
The evangelist spoke from the last
verse OF the second epistle Of Peter:
"G}ut grow In grace and IN the lSnowl.
edge OF our Lord and Saviour Jesus
Christ" For the past two weeks tho
preacher had been talking to the peo-
pie out Of the church, he said. Last
night he talked to those In the church
as well as to those not IN the church.
II don't talk like a cornstalf fire"
said he. There isn't enough left.
Sometimes an evangelistical meeting
Is worse for a town than before It
was held. There Is whole lot OF
difference In gathering fruit. One
fellow will go out and gather ten
baskets while another man gathers
two baskets Of fruit. but the fellow
who gathered the ten baskets likely
has bruised fruit and has left the trees
torn and mangled 80 that he may
never get another crop for twenty
Is to leave the pastors OF the Tulsa
churches in as good condition and
more strongly entrenched than before.
Their work is OF the hardest kind,
while We evangellsts get up and go
away, but the pastors must stay. We
want to leave everybody In better
shape, don't want to abuse the
churches, although we may go after
some OF the crooked church members.
MANY persons think II they don't
sin they are all right. But to be
negatively good Is not enough-you
want to be positively good. You
don't want to be neutral, like the old
woman on the prohibition question,
who said she was just going TO 10
nuisance on the proposition. Yol
Everything projected on plan Of lif9
Is projected on a plan Of growth. life,
food and exercise Is tho basis.
Everything In It's Infancy Is
troublesome. A baby is apt tc 70
anything and walk away anywhere.
and the babies in the church are apt
to do the same thing. Church babies
are just as apt to get hold Of a deck
OF cards as they are to get hold ot
the Bible. and just as apt to go to
the theater as they are to go to prayer
meeting One OF the curses Of Chris.
tianity IA that ii is full Of babies. poo-
pie who haven't religious discretion.
"We have entirely too many doc
tors who profess Christianity but VINO
practice medicine; too many lawyers
who profess Christianity but who
practice law; too many merchants who
profess Christianity but who practice
and too many Mrs.
Societies who can't stand the eXcte-
ment OF revival worl-weak hearts.
An, the whole world Is full OF suc-
cesses everywhere except IN tbs
church Of God. What the churches
need are grown up men and women
who will continue to grow IN grace.
We are babies in Christ. and Il looks
Ike some OF Ms never get out Of the
milk stage. We need to be born
again. Some Of us are not regener-
ated, and regeneration is so simple
that we stumble over II. II you VIII
walk square up and settle It with
God, he'll settle It with you.
"And tho whole world Is starving
TO death for food. There's not half
)f you who have Bible You ssy
you have family Bible. Well.
suppose you have family tooth
brush and n family parasol and family