The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-06-30
REV. F. T. RICE
TA[KSON EVILS
OFPRESENTOAy
SAYS MISSIONARIES IN FOREIGN
LANDS ARE Numbered BY THE
INCONSISTENT LIVING OF MA
TIVE AMERICANS.

E. E. Rice preached at the West
Hill Baptist church Sunday, using for
a text words in Amos sc: But they
were not grieved for the affliction OF
Joseph" He said in part.
The verses in connection with this
text describes a people who were Nv
ing upon beds of ivory, eating lamps
out of the flock, at east in Zion, drink
ing wine. anointed with ontments,
chanting to the sound of the vioL' 1t
is said in verse seven, Therefore now
shall they go captive with the first that
go captive" Another account much
like this is in the twenty-hrst chap
ter of Job, Wherefore do the wicked
live. become old. are mighty in power;
They send forth their little ones ike
a flock and their childIen dance. They
take the trimbrel and harp and re
ioice at the sound of the organ. Ihey
spend their days in wealth, in a mo-
nent go down to the grave. They say
unto God depart from us; for we de-
sire not the knowledge of thy ways.
What is the Almighty that we should
serve him? and what profit should we
have if we pray unto him." THESE
scriptures seem to describe the same
class of people. The only difference
perhaps is. that the ones Amos speaks
of, may have had their names on the
church book. It's bad enough to drink
wine dance. and do such things as de-
SCribed in the lesson, when out of the
church, but it is worse when in. For
then it is said you shall go captive
with the first that go captive"
This reminds us that it is SAID
Judgment will begin at the house Of
God" It is bad enough to just be al
ease in Zion, but it is worse when you
add to it the things above mentioned.
The world may call this society, but
the Scriptures call 1t wicked.
THE TURKEY TROT.
We read of people cOndemning the
turkey trot." That's right, but why
stop there? I do not believe a man
can hug a strange woman in any kind
of a trot, to the glory of God. In
little booklet just gotten out by the
general evangelist of our home mission
beard it says, AS many as ninety
per cent of the fallen women of some
states went down through the ball
room"
The prophet says of the people he
described, but they are not grieVed
for the affliCtiOn of Joseph This is
the saddest note in the lesson. How
many today whose names are on the
church roll living this life that the
lesson describes, and are therefore not
grieved for the affliction of Joseph.
Their own child or brothers are in the
pit, but they are not grieVed. Their
church may be placed in a bad light
by their conduct, but they are not
grieVed. Our missionaries even yonder
in heather lands may be hindered by
your inconsistent living here. For it
is true if the missionaries could point
to their home land as an example of a
nation that accepts and proves the
Gospel the uplift of heather lands
would soon come. But as it is the I'M
Christian conduct Of So-called Chris
tians are a standing reproach which
our missionaries have to face. Yet
they are not grieved for the affection
of Joseph.
Avoid mere professions of faith.
these people to whom the prophet
wrote had that, but they were divorced
from morality, and perhaps to great
degree didn't know it. How easy it is
today for a generation to come forth
as did this one, and history to again
repeat itself.
Are we becoming at ease in Zion,
until we do not know sin where we
meet it?
Meet it, we will. We are not to be
taken out of the world. Yet we need
no. be of the world. We should be
transformed and not conformed to the
world. If there is a turkey trot,''
any other sinful trot across my path,
need not sit down and watch it if there
is another place to sit.
Blessed is the man that walketh not
in the counsel of the ungodly, nor
sittieth in the seat of the scornfuI"