The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1913-04-25

REV. M. w. WITHERS.
their souls. The tribe of religious
tramps are not without multitudes of
representatives in our time. In this
our day, these tramps go about hear
ing the last new preacher or the last
experiment in church choirs or to
something new in architecture, until
they know the rounds of the churches
better than any body else in town.
These tramps can taste more SER
mons and get less good out of them
than any one in the city.
They get to be practically religious
Migrants, who go tramping about
getting lodging for sermon or a
services here and there, but neither
receiving nor doing good.
The Psalmist says, l was glad when
they said unto me let us go into the
house of the Lord, our feet shall stand
within thy gates, o Jerusalem.
Notice, he says stand not CAD about.
Again the Psalmist says that it Is
those who are planted in the house
of the Lord who are furnishing and
fruitful. If you were to plant out a
young apple-tree in the spring, and
then take it up and plant it in some
place else every week, it wouldn't be
long until it would be to dead to
sprout any where. A great many peo-
pie are that way in their religious
life. Many of them have their names
on the church record at some one
church, and are seen there on great
occasions, but for the most of the
time they go gadding about after
every new sensation that comes
along. Such people are not really
planted in Gods house, and they are
always shrunken and shriveled and
dried up at the roots spiritually. l
never knew one single man of that
sort who had any real spiritual in
fluence anywhere.
In the book or Revelation the Say.
ior declares that it Is his purpose to
make those who are conquerors in
his name pillars in the house of the
Lord. A pillar Is a very stable sort
Of a thing; it does not CAD or tramp
about the church or to different
churches. The idea then is for a per-
son to establish him or her self in the
church and in the work Of the church,
so that he or she Is always on hand
Sunday morning and Sunday night,
and at prayer meeting, and at any re-
vival service that may be held who
can always be counted upon to do his
or her part-and the pastor can al
ways count on such one.
Religious tramps are never of any
services to a church. They do not
stay long enough in one place.
Church life Is a growth. A church
1t like the human body: 1t has head,
and heart, and digestive apparatus
and muscles, and hands, and feet. 1t
Is all the time taking in people, and
it 1t can, digesting theim into the
strength Of it's working force. But q
great many people remain on its
hands undigested. They are not d.
gestible; they do not give themselves
up reverently and earnestly to the
work Of the Lord.
Therefore they get no real good
they give no real part of their per-
sonality to the church, and because Of
that the church has no opportunity to
be Of any great comfort or blessing
to them.
why gaddest thou about so much,
to change thy way?" says the Lord
in our text.
Here in Minneapolis you may not
have the privilege Of going to As
syria or Egypt. But these tramps go
to the following cities (a) The city
of "Huffity and Muffity." (b) "rhe
city Of Laziness." (c) "The city of
temper or tempersville." (O "The
city Of Cosby" (e) 1.-THE city OF
Irreverence to God" and (g) "The city
OF neglect" have not space 10 de-
scribe each Of these places where the
religious tramp often go. There is an
old phrase belonging to the church,
which iaears a great deal II used in
its full sense. To give ones self up
to the church so that a spiritual home
Is found there, spiritual garden In