The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-03-02
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YREv.MR. RICE
CONGREGATION AT EAST HILL
BAPTIST CHURCH LAST NIGHT
HEARD SERMON BEARING UPON
AN IMPORTANT suBJET.

L. E. Rice, in an address on Home
Missions. Sunday 1t the East Hili RaD~
fist church. said IT part:
Gov WoodIfw Wilson. now our
president in a Serruor-2 daress at Den
yer, Col. in 1911 on the subject. The
Bible the Hope of America" said:
"The Bible has stood n the back of
progress. That Is The reason that re-
form has come, not from the top but
from the bottom. Il you are ever
tempted 70 let a government reform it
SELF, l ask you TO look be OK in the
pages OF history and nnd a government
that has reformed Itself. $" We
do not judge progress by material
standards America is not ahead OF
other nations oE the world because she
is rich Nothing makes America great
except her thoughts. except her ideals,
except her acceptance of those stand
ards of Judgment which are written
large upon these pages OF revelation
He closed his address by saying: La
dies and gentlemen. l have 4 very
simple thing to ask OF yOu. ! ask -
every man and woman III this audieDT5-
that from this night on they will real
ize that part OF the destiny Of America
lSS III tiG4E tLa-tt lt't t4Ss.A - LlAAS CO.
book-that if they would see America
free and pare they will make their
own spirits free and pure by this hap
tisnl of the Holy scriptures"
Surely theso words Of Mr.. Wilson are
worth more Than just a passing
thought.
Girls at Work.
There are thousands of girls from
the age of fifteen 10 twenty with sore
throat and lungs bending over the mn
chimes i'll the work shops of cur couI-
try. who will, after a while become mo-
theirs with no strength for the baby;
for the factory has robbed them OF Il
Yea there is something behind tie fac
tory that is at fault. The curse OF
Cod rests upon an industrial system
that has no work for father ana bro
Their but forces it upon mother and
sister She should not have to compete
with men in this way. This tends TO
destroy home.
Another Curse OF Horne.
Another curse to home and nation is
the liquor demon. It X a blight. Wins
key! The very word Itself has in il the
hiss OF the serpent. See our large jaiis
and heavy tax The prayer in Prov. ,
3O:9: Give me- neither poverty nor
riches. lest [ be full and deny thee or
lest ] DE poor and steal, will never be
answered until these evils are done
away. And these evils will not be done
away until enough people Of our ma
ton become not only mon Of head and
hands but men % heart. Except "a
man be born again IL cannot see til"
kingdom of Cod" Seek first the
kingdom OF God and al these things
will be added TO YOU
Nr. Wilson has suggested the rem
edy as the Bible. Paul long ago said.
Christ was the TCWer q. God and the
wisdom Of God Ii" ~ the trans
forming and tCauSmijtirG power. 1T
fdeis ana iRGdal papers viii only rt--
tard.
1t IS impossible - over estimate the
influence the churches and missionar-
les have had on American If: already
Back of every enlightened civilization
has been the man Of God. Of tho first
f19 colleges IN the United Stats 104
were Christian colleges. In 1890 %
the +l5 t)lleges 3t6 were, Christian col
leges, owned and controlled by some
religious denomination
Why mas China slept and India been
rooed in darkness while Europe and
America has advanced Echo answers
back: Paul and thu Gospel went west
instead of east" In the last few years
the churches have had many problems
in America. In 1911 one III every TWEEN .
II IN the United States lived II cities.
Today one in every - live IL cities. !
Cities have always been the nest for
vice and crime. ono has said: Hell
Is ! city much like TorJor." Nc have
many Lordons in the United states.
New Frobien13 Made.
Foreign immigration has made new
problems, certain class Of them
know no Sabbath These. together with
others who are jnfiueUced by a cttys
vice, cry Give Us n wide open town. !
with beer and Sund1y baseball ana
such other things as some think makes
a city great. I repeat again the words
of Mr.. Wilson: Nothing makes Am
erica great except her thoughts, except
her ideals. We do not Judge progress
by material standards"
Give us cities made free and purc
by our spirits free ana pure ana this
Mr.. Wilson says "2Iust Dc done by the
baptism of the Holy Scriptures" and
world wide problems will be solved
and solved right. &
l believe 1t IS coming. InfldeIs may
retard its onward march. The cities
may check II. \ foreign clement may
have to be converted. If it is brought
IN no other way It will be brought to
pass by Jesus Christ in person. All
POWER has been given to him and he
said: GO unto all the world and
preach the Gospel and 7 will go with
you"
Let us be on business for the King.