Evening journal., 1914-02-16
EVANGELIST
AFTER SOULS
Tells Preachers to Resort to
Modern as Well as Old
Time MethOdS
WANTS CHILDREN
IN CHURCH EARLY

Urging Methodist preachers to pray
FOR the old-timo evangelistic power,
as we'll as for Gods newest method
Of converting souls, the Rev j. B
Con, evangelist of the Philadelphia
Conference. delivered ringing ap-
peal for the new method of converting
lie human race to Christ at tho meet
ing the Methodist Preachers Asso-
citation in Grace Nj. b. Church this
morning. Mr.. Con is conducting a
series Of revival meetings at Grace
Church and had been meeting with
great success.
His plea this morning was for the
the new method OF going about evan
gelistic work-the personal method
OF as he called it, the 'reaping"
method Mr.. Con declared that the
way TO reach people and make the
greatest number of conversions is by
having men and women in the church.
Sunday School teachers and everyone
! possible who are willing to do per-
sonal work, to get out and work.
] "Laymen." he said, "are more will
/ ing TO do personal work than we are
! to put them at IL. / believe In
! many cases the unsaved are more
/ wiling to be spoken to than we are
/ willing to speak to them
Mr.. Cor spoke Of holding group
meetings where the teachers OF the
{ Sunday school are urged to work
personally for conversions and the
method by which these are worked
He declared that the preachers should
ask the man or woman to be con-
verted 10 come To Christ before COM
ing TO the altar. and that with con-
ditions as they are today the personal
or reaping method is the method
that Is used most successfully.
"The history of the onward march
of the Christian church." said Mr.
Gof, "is the history of evangelism
He declared he would not blame a
man for not returning to church
should the pastor call for the con-
gregation to rise and then state that
all Christians would please sit down
Placing men in such embarrassing
positions, he said, would not do, an,
such matters should be left 10 the
Judgment of the preacher conduct
ing the service.
children, he said, SHOULD be-
come members of the church early
II is as cruel not to give then
spiritual education as It is not to give
them any other education" He citeC
the words of Christ az - years o
age, 81 must be about my Fathers
business" in support OF his conten
tion.
The order Of the day was a dis
eussion of "SOme Methods OF Evan
d gelism," by Dr. George Edwarl
J Reed, who spoke fcW minutes d
evangelism and thea Introduces Nj
D Goff. He declared that the churc
|, must rely on the sD''1t OF God an
4 the powerful soTking of tn Eel
G Spirit. which can be secured
enough people viii devote themselve
( TO the cause. He advised the preach
! ers to preach more on the HOi
Spirit, to magnify the Holy Ghost an
J 10 secure men who are willing L
e work with the people.
In speaking of his own conversion
q Dr. Reed said lie went forward Z
- the altar when q -oung man Just be
cause he said he never would.
Every conversion" said Dr. Reed
sis a crisis in the life cf the indi
4 vidual, but once Jesus Christ ha
i been acknowledged the confesso
will never forget it,"
"A Before the order OF the lay Nj
!, GrOff sang two hymns in yer.
pleasing manner. Reports were ais
r. received from several ministers Ol
Il the work in their churches yegter
day.