Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-16
IND THEIR WORKERS ACTIVITIES OF ALL DENOMINATIONS
SUNDAYS SERMON TODAY

was BIedter tnan any MOSAIC law, sure.
He touched the leper and said, BE thou
clean, and he was clean-'and He
wouldn't come down when we asked Him,
so won't go a step. No, sir
so Martha went and learned some
things she never knew and then Mary
learned 1t from her. She got 1t second
handed. That's the trouble today, You
never have any personal experience.
You're getting your religion second
handed. You never have any personal
experience.
80 she came to Jesus and she said:
If You had been there he would not
have died. But the Lord said, He will
arise oh, know she answered, on
the day OF resurrection. Then Jesus said.
I am the Resurrection and the Life
and asked her II she believed She ans
wered, Yes, Lord, 1 believe that You are
the Son Of the Living God That's the
way today. When we say that, then see
what power we will have. Then Jesus
said, Where's MaryP and He was told at
home He said, 90 and get her. And
see what happened then.
TOOK ONLY EIGHT WORDS.
ut took cnly eight words to get Mary
then. The Master is come and calleth for
thee Go down and meet Jesus and then
you won't have to talk yourself black in
the face to get that old whiskey-soaked
husband to come to Him. All the family
got interested right away Martha went
Mary stayed at home. And Martha had
her friends, and 1 can imagine them as
they saw her going out to meet the
Saviour, saying. There must be some
thing in It, for there goes Martha And
Mary also had her friends and they
would say, Il didn't like his jargon and
tumble and his idlosyncracies and eccen-
tricities,' and Mary belongs to our liter
ary society and she isn't going, o, Mary
had drag, too.
80 Martha went to meet Him and
Mary stayed at home. He said, 'Where
is Mary?' and Martha said, AT home
Then in the 3Oth verse, Now Jesus was
not vet come into the town, but was IN
that place where Martha met Him. 80
Martha had gone clear out of the corpor-
alton limits to meet Him. Jesus said,
where's Mary? She said, AT nome.
Didn't she send for me with your yes.
Didn't she know I was comingF Yes
Go tell her / want her. and poor MAR
tha had to trudge back through all OF
that dust and get Mary Remember,
Martha was the cook and Mary stayed
at home. And Jesus stayed right where
He was, So Martha hurried home ana
said TO Mary, The Master has come anu
calleth for thee And when Mary ana
Martha both met Him He came In.
don't believe that He would have come IN
or raised Lazarus IL they both haont
met Him. ,,.,.,
"That's the reason God isn't showing
His power any more today with halt OF
the church playing cards and gadding Off
to card parties and cheap skate SHOWS
That's the trouble all over the country.
The churches are not in one accord IN
one place.
TAKE we away the stone. Take ye
away the stone. Oh, but this Is such
a hard town. Take we away the stone
and see. Don't object. You're trying TO
butt in on Gods business. You do your
part and God will manifest Himself and
His power. Remember what you have to
do and then God will do Remember
blessings always follow obedience.
'Worldlness, indifference. Take ye
away the stone. Absence of love, bitter
ness. Take ye away the stone. cold
ungivlng spirit. What, me forgive her?
Never! Take ye away the stone.
Here's my sermon. I can preach 1t in
two minutes. The other has been intro
ductory.
Twelfth chapter, 18th verse. because
that by reason of Him many of the Jews
went away, and believed in Jesus
Here was Jesus. He used to walk
down FIVE or six miles to Bethlehem to
Lazarus home. And then He would go
up to Jerusalem and preach and once
when He was a long way off He walked
through the field and plucked corn. And
the Pharisees saw Him ard began to find
fault. o. I'd like to have been with Jesus
and helped Him. But 1 couldn't and I'm
fighting the same dirty bunch now. Well,
he was long way off and Lazarus took
sick and then sent for Jesus and He re-
mained for two days and then came up.
Martha went to meet Him, and, but
Mary, don't forget Mary was loating on
the job. Jesus sent for her and when she
came Jesus came and asked where they
had laid him and they said, Come and
see,' and 1 imagine Mary looking around
behind Jesus back and asking Martha
what He had said, because she didn't
come to meet Him. And then He said to
roll the stone away
'Pm called to preach; 'Rodey' to sing;
Ackley to play the piano; the choir to
sing; you to do personal work. What will
Jesus do? He will save, And when they
saw the body they wept, and Jesus wept
with them, Why did Jesus weep? Be-
cause He sympathized with them. He
knew He could raise him, but He sympa-
thized. That's the way today, He will
sympathlze with you and help you. And
He said, 'Lazaraus, come FORTH and he
came out and Jesus said, Loose him and
let him CO.
NOW, there was a bunch of Pharisees
there Some said. Thou art the Christ,
the Son of God But others said; Let's
kill Him. Let's get Him out OF the way,
or He'll have everybody coming His way
$50 these meetings make some glad, and
others are damning me and the meetings
and you.
80 the first thing is to get Jesus here
with you and, when you get Him, then
you will have influence to bring the sin
ner and Jesus together. Then that poor
wife who has been beating a path TO and
from the church door for years will go
home with her drunken husband and she
win be made happy"