The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-05-05


You were glad to so 10 Sunday schco
and tell whatslesus had zone for yo,i
We were seeking opportunities IL
lelp yous pastor and Tell someone
ibout Jesus. Oh, the JOY that you ha6
in PERSONAL acquaintance and ATTEST
On with Jesus. First love first love
irst love,
MY friend, how is it now? Many o!
us are in religion as We are in oui
homes. When you started cut yor
didn't have very much. Just HUSBAND
and wife. But you have gotten Into
society and this club and that organi
cation. and you have business cares
How little time and attention you,
family gets. You get est:anged from
your boy, you scarcely get acquainted
with that little girl. Things have come
into your life, material tnings-.and
sometimes you wish yon were back
where YOU were fifteen or twenty
years ago. in that little house OF three
rooms. where there was that warmth
CT fellowship. and you aa time for
those that loved You better than life.
society's Mad Gait
so it is in religious IRE. society
has come in. You have been interested
in styles. in pleasure in books, in
money making. in the organization OF
this world. You have been so busy
that you have found no lime for The
development Of spiritual LIE. You're
IKE the case OF the little boy who was
asked, rs your papa going TO heav
en-" The liIile fellow answered, "Oh
no, PAPA couldn't leave the store long
enough"
You have been starving and stih
ing the spiritual life. You have been
simply dying at the top. You have lost
your first love-" said the evangelist
as he described a series OF articles ap
pearing in Il popular magazine. writ
Ten by Il prominent psychologist and
leallnS with the DIARY of 4 Neglect
ed Wife" He recounted the story O,
the husbands unfaithrmlness in thi,
narrative, ana the discovery of the de
ception by the husband, who wa.
paying attention to another woman.
Can you imagine the feeling OF
that heart.broken wife as she went
back to her home to eat her evening
meal alone. queried the speaker, rs
there anything more pitiful and ma.
'hetic than TO see n household where
a husband and wife still live in the
same house. eating at the same table,
going through the formalities before
company and society, OF married life
but love dead ?Friends. tim; is hell,
HcIl-the Unfaithful Preacher.
There Is only one thing worse than
that and that is for 4 prca cher of Goo
10 preach week in and week out, ius,
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