The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-12-31

Evangelist Honeywell last night paid
his respects to those who have failed
to line up behind him in his work and
made general defense of revivals
standpoint
'The most effective way any one can
show his utter insensibility as a citi-
zen and his Indifference to the moral
and spiritual welfare is to oppose a
work like this that has fer its only aim
the saving of men from hell 2 This
holds true whether the enemy turks in
the pulpit, the pew or the editorial
chair
I'VE have revivals in dress. We have
revivals in politics. Every four years
political evangelists go up and down
the land preaching their own pet doc
trines until the country is all aglow
with political revival. We have revi-
walls in business, pleasure and pig iron.
Tells of Pentecost.
"Revivals originated on the day of
Pentecost. Some people argue that re-
vivals are only temporary. Pentecost
was only temporary, but there is not
a church in Christiandom that does
not feel it's effect A rainstorm is only
leHlpOTdTY, sDut WHO uOSS uOI leSl IT'S
abiding results?
The evangelist then turned to the
foundation of the various religious
denominations and showed how the
Lutheran church was born of a revi-
val under Martin Luther, how the Con-
gregationalists sprang from Puritan
revival in England, and the Presbyter-
ians from religious awakening under
Calvin and Knox.
"The Quakers rose from the revival
under George Fox. Methodism was
born from the great Wesleyan move.
ment and the Baptists sprang from the
persecution and revival which gave
Jchn Runvan and Pilgrims Progress
to the world
Many Join at Revivals.
Millions have been fitted for Heav-
en- in work of this kind-were in fact
trophies of revivals. The man who OBJ
jects to revivals ISLANDERS two-thirds of
the Christian people of the city as at
least that number came to the church
In a revival
1T frequently happens that the
church spends more energy in money
making business than in soul saving.
The Bible way of raising money for
the Lord is clean, that of offering. But
clap trap on the face of the earth, from
kissing frolic to a cake walk to get
money for the Lord. / would rather
have some folks prayers than other
folks dollars.
Church membership alone will not
save you. Some people act as though
church membership gave them thor
ough ticket to heaven in a Pullman
palace car and that the porter had in
structions to wake them up when the
train reaches the pearly gates. But
they will be side tracked one of these
days with a hot box, long before the
train reaches it's destination.
Membership Not Enough.
s'You can so to hell just as quick
from the church as you can from a sa-
loon or from house of shame,
MIR. Honeywell then called upon his
hearers. practically all of whom were
church people to straighten out their
differences at once as the revival can
be productive of no good as long as
there are factional differences in the
churches.
"The trouble with the church is
that it is running after the world. The
church is all right when it is in the
world, but it is all wrong when the
world is in her. The world has gotten
into the church and brought reproach
on the cause We profess to love. My
friends, you will never win soul to
God until you are right with Him and
right before the world"
Congregation Patient.
Fully an hour before the evangelist
took the pulpit the seats were occu-
pied by 1000 people. While the ser
vices begin at 7:30, the Rev. Honey.
well thus far has not commenced his
discourse until an hour later, continu,
ing it until after $50.
The patience of the congregation
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