Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-06


the sins Of Babylon, you will have inc
Judgment OF Babylon.
"Men say the day Of the revival la
over. Fellows harp on that In the M MMetn-
| odist conference. in the PfesDyteria w
.,.nat,,,ss In tbe Baptist associations, IN
| the Conversational associauons-the Gay
| N The revival is over No, It Is not. no
! onIv with the fellow who vomits out the
| sentiment; but II is not over with GOO.
| THE dav OF the revival is over GOO
| Almighty leaned over the battlements o,
| heaven and looked down into tine coal
n,Ines Of wales and said: oh, RobertsV
ana o,t of the depths Of the coal mine
| cane that grimy, soiied man, with dirty
| face. with little lamp In his cap, and
| he said. What is IL, GodT And 600
gaid, Il want YOU TO go and shake up
Wales and he gave Wales the greatest
revival that ever swept over TINS land
since the days of Pentecost. There was
not a college professor or preacher IN
Wales that God would trust WIN ''ie
Job. it,.
"Tbe days of revival are over. they
aaid--tben God called Tony Alexander
and told him TO go, and he went, to ras-
mania. ireland, Japan. China, England
scotland; he went around the world
"The days of revival are over-then GOD
caIied Gin out of nls little tent In Eng
shook New York, Boston, Chicago, Los
Angeles My friends, the days of re-
yival are not over.
"No man has ever heard me say an
unkind word against the minister III
preach against any minister VINO is
preaching false doctrines. l don't give a
ran who he is. I'll turn my guns loose
against him, and don't you forget that.
ANY man who Is preaching false doctrines
10 the people and vomiting out false doc
trines to them will hear from me.
Nobody ever heard me ridicule the
ministry. but I want to say that the re-
sponsibility for no revivals in our cities
and towns has got to be laid at the doors
of the ministry. Preachers sit fighting
their sham battles of different denomna-
tIons through their cussedness, inquiring
into fol-da-rol and tommyrot, and there
sits in the pews of the church that mis-
erable old scoundrel who rents his prop
erty out for saloon and Is going to hell;
and that other old scoundrel who rents
his houses for houses of Ill fame and is
living directly on the proceeds OF pros
titution, and he doesn't preach against It.
He is afraid he will turn the men against
him. He is afraid of his job They are
a lot of backsliders and the whole bunch
will go to hell together. They are afraid
to come out against 1t.
'I'I tell you what's the matter. Listen
to me- The church of God has lost the
spirit of concern today largely because
OF the minstry-that's what's the matter
with them. I'll allow no man or woman
to go beyond me in paying tribute to
culture l don't mean this miserable dog
business, shaking hands with two fingers
The less brains some people have the
harder they try to show you that they
have some or think they have. l allow
no man to get beyond me in paying trib-
ute to intellectual greatness, but when a
man stands in the pulpit to preach he has
got to be n man of God. and the sirit of
grace. He has got to speak with the
passion for souls and II you sleep in the
time OF a revival God Almighty will wake
you up.
"If 1 knew that all the devils in hell
and all the devils in Philadelphia were
sitting out in the pews and sneering and
jeering at me I'd shoot Gods truth into
their carcasses anyway, and propose to
keep firing away at the devils until by
and by they come crawling out of their
holes and swear that they were never
in them, but the old hides would assay
for lead and tan for chair bottoms.
$50 I propose to keep firing away at
the enemies of God and decency and the