The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-30
REV. ]. A. BRYAN AT THIRD PRESBYTERIAN
Breaches on 'The Responsi-
 bility of Christians"
TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS
If the Lord Is With Us We Suc- ceed." Says the Minister. Work Without Christ
 Too Often

The Rev. I. A. Bryan, pastor of the Third Presbyterian church. last night delivered sermon from a text from the last chapter of the Book of John. The pastors theme was "The Responsibility of Christians" He told of the resurec-
 tion of Christ from the tomb and of his
 appearance to the disciples thereafter. He told of the miracles performed by Him while on earth. stressing that of | the telling the disciples to cast their nets on the opposite side Of the boat after a
 night of fishing without success His ser
 mon In part follows;
 The disciples went fishing. They nshed all through long night and when the
 dawn came. cold and gray they had not
 caught fish. They were disheartened
 and as fl grew light they noticed some ope standing on the shore. They asked who it was and John answered them,
 saving. It Is the Lord. They called out
 to Him. He asked of their success and
 they told Him of the long, weary night in which they had caught not a fish
 He told them to cast their nets on the opposite side of the boat.
 There is the point They had been
 fishing all night without Jesus. God had not been with them and they had caught nothing. He came, told them to cast
 their nets the opposite side of the boat. They did so and when the nets
 were drawn they were so full of fish that
 they threatened to break. The Lord was with them and they succeeded.
 50 1t is with us my friends. If the | Lord is with us we succeed If we have hn ar1 xr{t Ia succeed Sometimes roll and toss | through a long night, weary in spirit anc body, distraught: when I ask His
 aid 1t all disappears. He helps me This
 same Lord stands ready and willing to
 help all who need His aid those who are
 sore in spirit. He wants to help those
 who are in trouble He wants to help A
 man that has dark day: He wants to teip the man who has not a friend in
 the worldI this blessed. sin-forgiving Christ is always ready to help us and
 the secret of our non-success Is that
 most of us are toiling without Christ.
 The reason we can't lead more men
 to Christ is that we work without Him. tell you. gentlemen, the responsibility
 rests upon each of us for lost souls. We must work with Christ and save them. You and I will be held indivld-
 ualy accountable for the souls we do
 nut save and we must account to Christ We are responsible for the men in ths gutter and we cannot shed our respon-
 sibility; we must not shed our respon- | sibility. If a man drifts. you and I arc | responsible to God. We are responsible for the fact that there are hundreds of
 men and women in this country without work and starving, anc we cannot shed the responsibility. If we would go bacl to the diet with which Jesus fed the dis oiples. just plain, substantial food, vi would have enough left to feed the thou | sands of starving men and women a | this, country. and we are responsible Il We do not do so.'
 | The pastor closed his sermon with an l appeal to those present to confess Christ | asking them to accept Him as their Sa- | vior.
 One particularly beautiful feature of l the service was when the pastor asked | all the little boys and girls in the church | to step forward to the rostrum and sins | Bring Them In The little ones nono I of them more than years old. and most
 of them under '. came forward quietly, took their places, and sang the song | excellently. They were unaffected and
 the sight of so many staring eyes seemed
 to bother them not at all.