Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-11-03

1 hlnSuoll or neaNen neau TfSt' ne gets
in through his spiritual or emotional
| life. All the wisdom of the world
cannot shed light on the identity of
, God; he must be revealed by an en-
tirely different process than mechani-
cal or mental means-he must be re-
/ Nealed on the emotional or heart line.
Angel Compared With Prophets.
God is not after the head of man,
| he is after the heart, which is the
real man, and God uses sensational
methods to reach mans heart. Talk
| about sensation. We're not in it; l
Will plead guilty to the charge of
being sensational, but l am not cir
cumstance to the Bible prophets; I'm
an angel compared to them"
! "All the great reformers of religion
were most sensational in their day;
remember John Wesley and how he
! had to dodge brick bats and rank
cabbage while he was delivering =
sermon. (Here DIR. Slough fell over
his pulpit stand while illustrating the
cabbage lodging and broke the top
board from the upright.)
Take for example Gideon in the
Bible who was an ancient Bull
Mooser' with his pitcher brigade of
500 men, with which he impressed his
enemies as being a force of 100000
what could be more sensational than
that?
maids boy who had a bigger cinch
on the throne of Egypt than either
Mccormick or BrumNaugh have on
the governoTShip of this State, and
look how he gave ii up in a sensa-
ional way TO lead the Children of
Israel out of Egypt.
Preached Lying on His Side.
I Remember how the prophet Jere-
miah lay on his side in the ditch and
preached repentance TO the people of
! Jerusalem. Here DR.. Slough
sprawled on his platform and rolled
around in imitation of Jerry" while
the audience all over the tabernacle
! roared.
! Among other examples of the SEN
sationalism of the Scripture DIR.
/ Slough said We're the story of Abra-
ham Offering up his son Isaac on the
altar and preparing To kill him with
! a butcher knife" Hosea who picked
\ up street walker and married
| her; Isaiah. who preached on the evils
/ of the women of his day and took
some liberties in describing u lady's
toilet that would not be tolerated in
modern times on the part of any
preacher.
"Isaih's sensational description.
explained the evangelist. tells of the
/ naughty women, their wanton eyes,
/ their tinkling feet, their nose rings,
/ their bonnets with everything on
| them from a conservatory to a ga
rage. their mincing steps and their
| deceptive ways. If l talked in that
way here 1 would not get out of town
alive.
/ John the Baptist got 'chucked in
the jug for calling the politicians of
his day a generation of vipers, and
1 King Herod a libertine. Jesus him
self used some of the most sensational
..Slethods and used the strongest Ian
/ guage in denunciation of the evil
| dcers of his day. James and Peter
i did some things that 1 can never
! beat.
II am not trying to reach those who
are safely on the road to heaven, hut
those who never come to church, and
anything that helps me reach the man
on the back seat. so help me God
IN do II. I'll be q gentleman and
use kind and courteous language in
sofar as 7 am able. but I shall also use
some language that may Shock some
of your tender sensibilities.'
SpoOncr Groans.
He gave an example of the polished
preaching often heard from the lips
of the highly educated ministers OF