The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-11-12
u. S. saved BY
WILSON---DR. ST0UCR
Continued From First Page.

yON haNo IL VI JOu ain I.
The miracle of redeemed lives is the
greatest advertisement Of the church.
A lot of churches take in members
to make Christians out of them, and
never finish the job
The crowd that goes to church on,
dress parade Sunday morning and
passes up the evening services are not
Christians, only church members.
Your pastors should have but one
fervent prayer, "Lord, don't give me
any more church members like some
I've gotten.'
There is no bigger job any city
could undertake, than to convert The
Legislators who are coming here in
January.
Ii a man s married he knows it. He
doesn t have to look at his marriage
certificate every day.
Some of you lost your religion long
ago, and YOU amt missed it yet.
believe the easiest person to reach
for Christ is not woman, nor a child,
but man.
a lot of you women crawl in bed to
say your prayers, and then say half
of them in your dreams.
A woman l knew once who used TO
kneel at her bed to say her prayers
told me her husband fred his shoes at
her, and that sort of discouraged her
m not excusing the men, Just wait
I'LL | get them ON Sunday afternoon,
II lam the life out of them.
Some of these high brow members
of the church are crooks.
Instead of growing up to be deacons
and ministers, your boys are learning
how to dance the tango and raise the
devil in automobiles.
Not More But Better Churchmen
After declaring that the greatest
need in the world to-day is revival of
religion, the evangelist said that the
church is the only agency in the world
which can promote such revival, as
well as the only agency which can stip
it. He said that he believes in eek
perimental religion,' that what sinners
need in a new birth. that church mem
bers who have never been "'born again -
are as truly unsaved and lost as If they
had never. Joined the church, and that
the church needs not more members but
better ones.
He asserted that there are too many
nlep who are carrying their religion
IN their wives names, and are only
brothers law of the church. that
women have used the church too much
in the past as lodge or club, that
If woman has lived with a man ten
or fifteen years and made "no impress
sion on him for God, - there is some
thing the matter with her religion, and
that some preachers and Sunday school
teachers are "raising children for the
devil
Climax Of Sermon Reached
''We are using the word Christian
too much as prefix shouted The re-
vivalist at the climax of his sermon.
We say, Christian business man, Chris
tion lawyer, Christian mother, and so
forth. We ought to say business man
Christian. Every person S business in
life is to bring the world to Jesus
Christ Anything else that we do, we
are doing only to meet expenses. If God
made you a merchant, use your counter
as your pulpit. If He made YOU teach
er, use your desk as your pulpit If He
made you a farmer, use your plow in
His service. If He made you a mother.
use your home as your parish. Whoever
you are, He expects you to be the best
kind of a preacher. -
Narrowing of Sympathies
In conclusion, the evangelist remon-
strated with the church members for
narrowing their sympathies to their own
separate denominations. He said that
church members have too much the feel
ing, "We re loyal to the Methodists.
but the Baptists be hanged" or "We
love the Baptists but the Presbyterians
can 90 chase themselves.
''There is danger that our only little
sect may become the horizon of all our
sympathies and compassion. What we
want in this campaign are ten thousand
converts, and we don't care what
church they join
United Brethren Are Anxious
At the preachers query. ''How many
of YOU would like to have ten thou
sand converts?" nearly all hands went
UP. Then he put the question, Glow
many Of you would like to get ten thou
sand converts--and have them all Join
the United Brethren Church9' and all
the United Brethren in the audience
raised their hands, but not as many of
other denominations as before, on which
the preacher s comment was, "Poor old
human nature.