Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-11-12

the gunwhales with people who were
never converted or reborn, who are as
truly unsaved and lost as If they were
never in the church. 1 don't know
how they got in. unless it was through
the carelessness of their preachers,
who allowed them to Join on the hope
that they would become Christians in
the fold instead of being Christians
before they entered. The church is
cursed with a crowd who attend dress
parade on Sunday morning and never
go to any other service. They pass
as Christians but are only church
members.
law in the church," exploded the doc
tor. II mean men whose wives are
church members. But l tell you it Is
not the women or the children who are
easiest to convert, it is the men. The
women have used the church as a
sort of social club, lodge or sister
ology,' just as the men use the secret
society, but many of them haven't any
religion.
yes, you need to have your feel
ings hurt. There is something wrong
with your religion when you can live
with your husbands for fifteen or
twenty years and not make any reli-
gious impression on them"
He severely criticised women for
husbands in saying their prayers on
their knees, reading the Bible, attend
ing prayer meetings and Sunday SER
vices.
'If you persist in these things, you
will soon get your husband converted
or else get him out of the house.
What you need is first to get square
with God and you will soon get your
husband right. If he is not a Chris
tian and was not when you married
him, you may have pulled him up a
little but he has pulled you down a
lot more"
Raising Children For the Devil
lie also spoke of the parents who
| raise their children for the devil The
next field for Christian influence he
discussed was the business world, de-
claring that the merchant should use
his counter for his pulpit, the teacher
her desk, the farmer his plow, just as
the. mother should her home.
He spoke of the scarcity of the old
fashioned people who were called too
religious" Turning toward the minis
ters. he advised the Rev. B. Fl. Hart
to try to get one of these persons and
exhibit her in a glass case at his
church, declaring that he could there
| by raise enough revenue to pay all the
| church expenses.
He deprecated the petty jealousies
among the different church denomina-
tions. and said that there Is need for a
compassion as wide as humanity.
The qualifications or a soul winner
were defined by DIR. Slough at the at
ternoon service as being not of the
head so much as of the heart. He
impressed the need of sincerity. hon
esty and more true spirituality in the
home and the business relations on
| the part of those who would lead 9TH
ers to Christ.
He spoke of the lack of family pray
er, saying Some homes are run like
boarding houses or ten-cent lunch
counters. There is nothing like the
influence of Cody father in a home.
Nowadays too many young people are
| tangoing their way to hell instead of
preparing themselves for fields of SER
vice as ministers or missionaries.
1.-THE trouble with the church Is that
there are too many dead beats in 1t
who do not pay their debts. AS Billy
Sunday has said. If all the clothes on
folks backs that they haven't paid for
would fall off them in the street. there
wouldn't be enough of rig left in
many cases to flag handcar. There
| are some crooks in the churches OF
this town that should be landed on in
the street IL the preachers did their
duty.
The Hardest Bunch to Win
"The hardest bunch of men to win
for Christ are the retail business men
who have so many dealings with the
dishonesty of professed Christians, and
the doctors who are cynical to religion
because they are so often asked to
perform criminal operations on So
called Christian women"
DR.. Slough made references to the
Capitol graft cases, and also spoke OF
the abundance of educated fools in
publfc and Driyate life,