The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-04-19

Dali. ID TEsA I K
live your very best for Christ and HIS
kingdom Many OF the best men II
II know are members Of some secret
| oTder There is not 4 Mason, ODD
n Fellow, knight Of Pyt hias. Modern
fWoodman or a member OF any Of the:
|iEreat orders W no would gay Theresfs,
not q bad member in our order
H me any Of the great orders that
4 stsnd5 for truth and ri gtit and viii
show You men who ara AZ dIsgrace4tD;
h those orders. Because there: are bad
fmenSin secret orders, you will not dare
II ~ that's the kind OF logic some pen-.
Die uHe toward the church. Because.
ttheF know Of some who are a disgrace
to the chArch and Jesus Christ, they
H brand the whole church as false The
Il fact that men are not all gpodsin secu-
Il lar orders. does not keep men out OF
n them. They say. don't need to be-
H la Shypocrit, l can be true if others are
3 not what they should be- The fact
there are those. who are not true IN
i the church could not Keep out Of
4 the church. There are those who are
true. Christ II true If others;are false.
i Wherever you find counterfeit,
There must always be- q genuine back
Hof5 1t. Don't get your eyes on the coun-
fterfeiL. Take the genuine. Christ Isl
Genuine Let others who will, be false
but you be. true.
he church. Is the greatest asset III
your city
If 4 should go 10. your bankers and
TASK them, What is the greatest as
Iset in your city,? they would not
open their Eanlts and show me the
gold and silver bank notes. they.
would not show me your great fac
tories; they would not show me your
splendid stores, but they would show
me your church. If your churches
would burn down and there would be
| no hope of+rebuiId ing them your prop
icrty would not be worth fifty cents on
4 the dollar. Every thinking man knows
that because OF the church and the old
gospel preached, his4propefay is more
valuable. Morals are better and their
safety more secure. p II. BarnuIa.
the great Snowman, said, Show me
iconmunfty in a civilized country
Where there is no church and 1 will
show you a place where the broken
1 panes in the windows are filed I'D.
4 With old clothes, and where the men
Hhavc the mar Of the devil s wild lands
pictured on their shirt bosoms IN to-
fbacco. spit e James Russell Lowell
fsaid, II you show ME a section ten
miles square where Christianity OK
Icluded, where the lives OF men are
safe and. where women are not in
suited. Z will give it u p.'' 1 do not
IbelieYea any thong htfu1, sensible,
reasonable person can say. Il am not
| follower of Jesus hrist, but I would
like to be. and to please by con-
sciences, and God, and my friends, and
to live for decency, but there are some
IN the church WhoS are not what they
ought to be and that fact keeps me-
away from Christi For one to make
such statement would be declara-
ltion of childishness.
We need a vision Of TIE hatefulness.
\ Christ abhors sin. No one can have
/ a burning love for Christ and not.
| have a burning hatred for sin. Some
ipeoplef are trying to drop sin out OF
4 their yoca bulary. They are trying to
make the thought Of sin obsolete. No
lone can realize the aWfulness OF sin
ithefnre he gets a vision of the infinite
holiness OF God The old prophet
cried, our iniquittes have turned
away these things and your sins have
L
a missionary from Korea recently
said, Nj have seen the floors OF the
churches literally wet with the tears
Eof penitents, seeking the forgiveness
OF God. Why are not men groaning
in and loathing their sins in America
4 like that? Because our tini Equities have
turned away these things from us. Z
hhaye heard many a sad story from the
Hips of faithful, discouraged pastors
lover the condition of their churches
fthey loved. have. heard them tell
EhoN their churches had become SO
honeycombed with card playing. dane
ling, theaterg ding and word1iness that
they had become paralyzed. sind dying
'Eof sin rot. am sure there would BIS
no doubt about a wondrous visitation
LOT God in salvation here if ne would
jendeavpr#to get-ris ht into the heart az
Christ and look throuEh his eyes upon
TOUR sins. our hearts. our Indifference,
tour oIdness, and see our sins as He
SfsaW them when He was sta Eerins
under til e load Of the cross. ana could
see oursins so hideous as to bankrupt
4 heaven; then there would be wall
ling and loathing and confessing our
ms before God. But your niquities
have turned away these things and
your sins have With o1den good things
from you '
We need.a n CIV vision Of Jesus.
A Christ ami His pow ersto save
hear people say, Christ has lost.
4 His. power. We have utgrown Chris
4 tianity There is nothing in it, An
early preach err IN our country said.
Il All infide1s are fools and that he
1Icoild prove any given caseaas such fins
4 ten minutes. man arose and said,
1T Want to interrupt you and take ex
5Iception to that staten nt. j am an
linhdel and don TT 1ink am a fool.,,..
\ Well. said the preacher Do YOU
want us to believe that you are an
Einffd el = do. sir. How much
of an sintidef q am this much Of
Electurins against Christianity for
4 Nv city years and have never be-