Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-26
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There ore many people who want 70
win somebody for Jesus and they are
waiting TO be told how 70 do IT, believe
there are hundreds and thousands OF peo-
pIe who are willing to work and who
know something must be done, but they
are waiting for help. mean from men and
women Of ordinary ability. Many people
ars sick and tired and disgusted with Just
profassing religion; they are tired of trot-
ting TO church and trotting home again.
They sit In a pew and listen to a sermoni
they are tired OF that, not speaking to
anybody and not engaging in personal
work; they are getting tired Of It and the
church is dying because of III there is
nothing to that A lot should wake up
and (go to the rescue and win for Jesus
Christ
''I.want to say to bhe deacons, stewards
vestrymen, Prudential Committee, that
they should work, and the place to begin
fs at your own home. Sit down and
write the names of five or ten friends.
ard many OF them members OF your own
church, and two or three of those not
members of any churon; yet you mingle
with these people In the club, in business,
In your home In a friendly way. You
meet them every week. some OF them
every day. and you never speak to them
on the subject of religioni YOU never bring
II to their attention at all; you should be
up and doing something for God and
Gods truth. There are always oppor-
tunlties for Christian to.work for God
There is always a chance'to speak to
some one about God. I am not going to
theorlze; we rare dealing too much In
theories and speeelations. This or that
Interpretation Of some doEWa or doctrine
Ia Fsnf tkulN,.
COME OUT FOR GOD. ~
You carry your religion with You by
the bare truth, Be |9pt. aud out for, God
Have a heart to heart; talk with some
people and win Them to Christ The hrst
recorded words of Jes1sS are these, 'wist
We not must be about my Fathers bust
nessT He was lost and they found. Hin
sitting in the temple and He had the
old Pharisees and DOCTORS of the law tied
up in a bunch That whole bunch had
brain fever trying to keep up with Him
and He was only IL years old. His mother
found Him and said: Son. don't You
know we have been searching for YOU?
He answered. 'Wist ye not. must be
about my Fathers businessT and from
then until now He has been calling us
to go forth and do His work. Mothers
should plead with their children, and they
In turn should plead with their friends
for religion.
''The trouble is we are too lackadaisi-
cal In religion, Indifferent and dead and
lifeless. That Is the spirit of the COM
mittees today in the church. think the
multitude in the church will have to get
converted themselves before they car
lead any one else to Christ It is my firm
conviction after 16 years of experience
5 H. ,1.lr halo he t., 49,,
church have never been converted, have
never been born again. I take up bot
tie Of water, uncork 1t and take drink.
That is experimental. One sip of water
can convince me more of its power to
slaI5e thirst than 10000 books written on
the subject. You know quinine is bitter
because you have experimental; YOU
know fire will burn because you have
experimental; you know ice will freeze:
1t is cold, you have experimental.
"A man must experience religion to
know God All you know of God Is what
you,read in some book or what you heard
somebody else talk about: you haven't
lived SO that you could learn first-handed,
so most of your religion is second-handed.
There is too much secondhand stun In
the 5church 1t is your privilege to know
and to have salvation. Jesus said tn
Peter, When you are converted strength
en- thy brother You are not In po-
sition TO help anybody else unless you
have helped yourself. God doesn't save
on the instalment plan, A man Is either
on the road to heaven or on the road ito
hell. God doesn't do things by halves.
NEED BIBLE IN WORK.
"It has been said that God made the
birds without wings and they hoped and
crept around but didn't sing and after a
while God put wings on them and they
commenced to sing. Not on your life.
when God made the birds He made
them all. God does not have to double |
on the trail and back-track. When the |
Lord does a Job he finishes 1t right and |
you can't improve on 1t. The trouble
with lot of you church members, you
spend too much time dreaming over |
The Lady of the Lake, Milton. Bacon.
Shakespeare, Chaucer and lot of such
things-you can quote Shakespeare by the |
yard for the devil and he will give you |
the ha-ha. II you take the word OF God
He will take the crown. So many church
members know nothing about the Bible.
A preacher will take a text from the
Bible and get as far from at as the east
Is from the west young preacher just
out OF the seminary said, Must / con-
fine myself. my preaching. to the Bible?
Just like a shrimp would, say, Must L
eonfne my roaming to the Atlantic
Must confine myself to, the Atlantic
Ocean?' Must I confine myself to the
Bible? Just as II his intellect would
exhaust 1t in two or three sermons;
I'VE have cut loose from the Bible, and I
any man who Is living contrary to the
Bible is a sinner. whether he feels like a
sinner or not. Every man who is living
contrary to the laws is a criminal,
whether he feels. like 1t or not. A man
who breaks the law OF God is a sinner,
and is on the road to hell, whether he
feels like It or like a saint. Jesus came
into the world to reveal God to man, and
man reveals Him to man. The only
revelation we have of Jesus is through
the Billie. You have got to know Jesus
70 know God; that's how I get through
thefe. There is no revelation for God 10
make OF himself greater than He has
made through Jesus Christ 1t Is not
possible for the human intellect to have
a sreater conception OF God. Every man
needs Christ Jesus Is the Saviour that he
needs and he has got to know the Bible to
show what II is that makes Jesus the
Saviour. He needs saviour and now Is
thes time 70 accept the Saviour and be
saved. That's what the Bible says
HOLY SPIRIT NECESSARY.
'sThen you need the Holy Spirit with