The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-01-20


the greatest possible progress with
the forces Of Heaven and Earth Rt
our command.
saaIl CAasayt TAia.
There are many places where the
church has had unrestrieted opper-
tunity and yet is not the controlling |
or dominating factor In its economi- |
cal. social or political life.
Indeed we have the habit OF con-
graduating ourselves when we are
not actually declining and the state
ment that Eve are holding our own"
5sTSS !:.s::Ssss..so !!Ss:Ss.o sa.!zeacttS. zecttS.
It is falsey 70 suppose that be-
cause we have q working church We
have o progressive church, hence we
need TO bear In mind that aetiyity Is
not always E7ogress. fhe man rum
ming five miles an hour on top OF a
freight. train running five miles An
hour in opposite direction, maintains
his relative position TO the stationary
thing about him.
!. The Noisy Church.
"A noisy church is not necessarily al
progressive church. A friend OF mine
invented rotary engine and invited
me to his first Demonstration. The
OF p great cotton mill. He connected
his engine with the boiler and turned
on the steam. Soon, the engine was
flying and dense clouds OF steam
boiling from every direction. found
a convenient place behind a large
| steel column where could the more
| safely congratulate my friend on his
tremendous success, when saw him
advance through the cloud OF steam
end with the friction OF his lead PEN
ell brought to stop his great invention:
He must have, O valve he said to keep
this steam from escaping when he
turned It on. This engine would not
| do TO turn tie great wheels % menu
facture and could make no, contribu-
ton TO the worlds commerce. r5ls
Tho, time has come when mere ae$
i ttyity or the kissing OF escaping
steam cannot be accepted Of God in
| lieu OF a proper adjustment Of the.
dynamics of Grace and of power TO
the great social order for which, the
church has responsibility: : so
(, Good Alone IL Not Enough.
We preachers must make an assault
on. "The goodness falaoy." The effi-'
cheney test is applied in every sphere
OF life save in the realm OF church
life. We have seemingly preached
that if man were good that God re-
Quired nothing more OF him.
We demand that our photographer
shall be able to make pictures, nor
gardner ::ccssss Se eahie IN grow Eslnnfs
as we'll as well as good intentions.
man at the the throttle of the locomo-
tive engine ought to be o! good man
be must know how to run the engine
with ell my confidence In the piety
Of my brethernt here wouldn't trust
myself hundred yards from the
shore In q eat-boat With. either one, OF
you. The banker ought TO be good
man he mnst be efficient. II I wanted
a5Sf;it 0S clothes Ipauo would not
present it 20 the ministerial unions
or the Ladies Aid society. z Neither
viii goodnesB! alone: atruhjeQ qua1S
ity beyond that scrptiny or
? 6meaanrmenGSto 20 sbe proper srbstitnte
for that godneBs which can be seen
j and counted and weighedI In the effl-
Client adrninistgstio oe the affairn of
Someone must cay that no man. is
: good unless good for something. We
are not fully revealed tfil revealed
IN aUIiUu DoTn va IIuv' niII. tSUr WIii
: feelings. sentiments or principles TN
. expressed remain GS permanent pos
session. Not until eternity viii II be
known. what Il has cost God OF. .hu-
; naenity. tha4 Christie teachings have
been made to bolster the doctrine
: Shht S06d intention 5aa 5s EcasssiS ssi;t iS.ss : :
IN substitute for achievement.
But we say "Have not some been
saved" and have not the angles re-
joiced bver the one sinner3 that has
been saved? The angles have both
Iejoiced and wept for God has never
- q. Al.
untruth, that one unit whether OF
|, souls or dollars is equivalent 20 q
! hundred units OF the same kind.
Nor did he teach that we should
: spend ali our time In thS. east hunt
: ing for the one sheep lost * We by
!, the same investment OF energy and
time could have found twenty lost
sheep in the vest. The church or In
! Jividual that: spends O lifetime osten.
isibly. seeking without finding has
!. poor reason to expect the -hw well-dpne
s OF Cod. 's'si s.'il,' 9 - st>s,5.s,
i 30, our system or ssatistics Is ali
4 wrong. We report our numbers with
{ pride,gwe report the few accsSsfons
, and conversions, but nowhere does
our report show how many OF the59 %
Il wandered out OF the fold waii5s We
n were seeking the one, our report does
! not show how many we passed in the
q search for, the one who might have
been saved with an efficient admins
tration OF Christian effort.
With our tremendous .resouf we
muat Justify ourselves OF Ia oIiF neg
!, lect be particeps criminia with the
enemies OF God. as,,is
] The Son OF Man came to seek ana
TO save, that which was lost. Ser
mons about the lost, or theories OF