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

when Is revival needed A preacher
said TO me in Iowa-I Thought l hao
done my duty when I held UP the bleed-
ing form of Jesus Christ and dilated
upon his precepts, but find that / must
talk upon Elm You bet you must; many
an old sinner isn't ht for the balm OF
Gilead until he ls given a good old
fashioned fly blister and the currycomb
| of the law. And some old pachyderms
will sit In their pews and one shake, like
a fat-tailed sheep in the rain, one shake
and they're dry.
'The Spirit Of God flies from the scenes
| OF strife and dlscord. You might as well
expect mummy to speak and bear
children. you might as well expect hell
to sing the doxology, You might as wen
try to batter down Gibraltar, shooting
green peas with popgun as to expect
that.
"If there Is a woman pity II is the
society woman who lives for few empty
headed, beer-soaked grasswidowers, Tilted
jays with cracked regulations.
WHEN REVIVAL is NEEDED
"A revival is needed when the worldly
| spirit In in the church of God. II isn't
necessary to do something grossly in
consistent A ship is all right in the
sea, but all wrong when the sea is in
her. The church OF God is all right in
the world, but all wrong when the world
Is in the church. Some people come to
church on Sunday morning and on Mon
day morning they take header into the
world and the church never sees them
again until Sunday morning. They
squat and take up n little space In the
pew and stay there and put a little
money on the plate, but you never see
them again until Sunday morning. ! tell
you, believe half of the church mem
bers could die and the church wouldn't
lose anything of it's spiritual force; 1t
would lose them in numbers, but 1t
wouldn't lose anything in spiritual power.
tell you, my friends. we need panic
in religion, the world don't need inform
ing; It needs reforming. We are going
to the devil over culture clubs, as II the
world needed informing; it don't need
anything of the kind. There are people
who go to church and go to certain
denomination because their wife goes
there. They got their religion and their
property in their name. They go to that
church.
Look at the Sunday school, The Sum
day school ought to be constant feeder
into the church. Why isn't It? Because
we have Sunday school teachers who are
absolutely good for nothing; they help
nobody but the publishers They don't
sit down and study They don't prepare
luey 30 " ouIluhy anu Niy "HN
teach and on Monday they are at some
leg show, and on Tuesday night they are
at some dance, and they don't come near
the church again until Sunday morning.
'I want to say If public school teacher
knew no more about the work and
methods of teaching than the average
Sunday school teacher knows about the
will of God she would not be on the
payroll 10 minutes.
go down to the dance halls, the nick
elodeons, the picture show the cheap
skate dance halls-there you will find
young girls with dresses to their shoe
tops. ask you. whyH I'll tell you; the
spiritual destitution of the, multitude,
Thousands never darken the church doors.
A revival Is needed when sinners are
careless, licentious A general revival
of religion has got to sweep over this
country or II will mean the dissolution
of the church, the home of the nation.
don't care a rap how you fortlfy your
shores how many ships you build;
America has got to have a revival.
Wealth and culture never saved Rome,
Babylon or Nineveh, and IL you have