East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-03-07


reasons that people give me and the
workers for not being Christians right
here in Pendleton. and seek to ans
wer them.
G) II would like to be a Christian
but / can't. You ought to spell II
wont, cant. Salvation prepared, and
invitation given and yet you cant. God
don't do business that way. Mr..
Moody invited a convict to a banquet,
but being in the pen he couldn't come.
But the sinner Is not In that position.
In judgment his reply will be--being
contented in my sins would't come.
Then you can obey or pay the pen.
atty.
(2) II would be Christian but
am afraid / can't hold out. You
either can, or you cannot hold out.
When you really get sick Of sin then
you will come and hold out too. for
Jesus will do the holding. just as he
did with backsliding Simon Peter.
What we need is force of character.
1t is a manly thing and a womanly
thing to be Christian. What men
are in the lime light today, they are
Christian, Theodore Roosevelt, Will
liam j. Bryan than whom no greater
and purer and cleaner and more
Christian men ever lived. They have
met more temptation in their high
places of life than the average man.
but strength of character comes at the
same time. Can't hold out. What
kittens you must be. ! was out to the
Indian church today and a great big
fine man welcomed us and exalted
his Savior. Yet / was told that to
have called that man drunken hobo
and bum few years ago would have
been a compliment to him. Yet now
clean and manly.
go Don't want to be converted
under excitement, when the meeting
is over l will unite with the church.
Who has seen any excitement around
here? There ought to be. with hum
dreds Of men going to hell. Neither
do believe in excitement and have
been criticised by Billy Sunday and
DR.. J. WILDER Chapman because
don't have enough excitement.
Though II you are converted here and
wait to go into the church, you would
seem to be getting goods under false
pretense. / don't want to count noses.
But your example in coming will help
some one else and make the whole a
success for Jesus Christ. Don't be-
lieve in revivals / hear another say.
is in the way right now, as the trees
and plants burst out Business must
have a revival. Think of your great
business revival. the Pendleton Round.
Up, which brings in thousands of dol
lars to your city. Lodges, politicians.
even some churches have an annual
revival by law known as Lent Oh.
consistency thou art a jewel. 80 per
cent Of all the people in the churches
come in during a revival
At this point Dr. Bulgin took a side
step to rap the modern rag dancing
and especially the tango. and to COM
mend the Catholic church for its
stand against it. Said he, A fad Is
what lasts for day. The dance is not
fad, it don't come and go, it is of
the devil and the devil don't turn such
fine thing. so corrupt and corrupt
ing. and immoral as these modern
dances, and parents are at fault to
allow children to indulge"
"A revival is good or bad for you.
II the church is good il is good for
you now. The apostles didn't keep
their religion a secret. You can't be
a secret Christian. You are not much
of a Christian If you can't make a
public confession of it.
II have doubts and intellectual diff
ficulties says another. God has made
the way plain. but you will have to
get at 1t through his laws. Physical
things through physical laws and
spiritual things through spiritual
laws. God don't destroy our inteliects
to believe him. John 7:17. IF any
willeth to do his WILL he shall know
of the teachings" Unbelief is dis
, honest and shuts the eyes. An honest
doubter is reasonable, and Jesus will
meet him as he did doubling Thomas.
Abraham sent his servant to a far
country to get a wife for Isaac. II
was n hard journey and a difficult
task and he raised many objections,
but Abraham made him swear to start
Then when he was on the way God
| did the leading and prospered the
journey. 1t is just the same with
Christians in Pendleton. The last big
objection Is, there are too many
p, hypocrites in the church. Yes there
are, but they are going to hell just
like you are. SO why pick them out
for standard. II you are no better
, than these weak ones. you are no,
very good. Black on black don't show
much. but when a Christian fall.
down and blackens his white life then
all see it and say. See the hypocrite
when he may be just an erring child
Of God, and sorry for it and is trying
to do better. When the same thine
done by a sinner would never be not.