Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-09-16
SUNDAY TELLSOF
SOME STRAY DOCS
IN The CHURCHES
Worship on the Sabbath, but They
Are Ready to Follow Most ANY
Master that Happens to
Come Along.
TOO LAZY TO WORK FOR CHRIST
Idea Preacher Is Going to Pull His
Entire Congregation Through to
Glory Wrong One.
MUST WORK TO WIN SOULS
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TODAX'6 MEETINGS.
Noon Azeetings-Alfred Bloom COM
pany, M. 4. Smith Co., Hydraulic
Pressed Brick company. Leaders, Q. +.
Robel, MRS. Asher, AGr. Rodeheaver, Mr..
Brewster.
IL a. m. to 2 D. m.-Business women's
noon meetings and lunch, 15o9-11 Far
nam street. Miss miller.
2 p. m.--Sunday at Tabernacle.
D. m.-Hible class at Tabernacle,
Miss SAKE.
3:l5 D. m.-south side High school
girls, First Presbyterian church, South
Side, Miss Miller. .,.
3,45 .. m.-Boys' and girls meeting,
Florence Presbyterian church, Miss
Gan,lin.
1880 p. m.-sunday at Tabernacle.
"Dollar night" First call for strait
hitters."
p. m.-Bible class, olivet Baptist
church, Miss SAKE.
BILLY" Sunday scolded his hearers
yesterday afternoon. He told them
they were all sorts of undesirable
things and they warmed to him as
he scolded.
Hetold them that lots of them are
STRAY dogs" in religion, ready to
follow any master.
you lazy loots, you never work
for Christ" he cried. THE church
must be more than a great big, gor-
geous religious club. The poorest
stick you ever looked at as a soul
winner is the young preacher, just
out of the seminary. He has been
taught to build sermon, but not to
win a soul.
About the hardest job on Gods earth
is to be pastor of the average church. You
grumble and growl, and you're lazy and
stingy. and it's an awful Job.
Preacher Can't Do 1T All.
THE old idea that the preacher is a
sort of ecclesiastical locomotive and that
his putting and whistling is going to pull
the whole bunch TO glory is wrong.
God says that He who winneth souls
IL WISE. You've got to win souls If you
want to do what God wants The money
makers, the statesmen, the great doctors,
the great men In all worldly affairs of
twenty years ago are forgotten But he
who winneth south shall shine like the
stars forever and ever"
He suddenly shook his fist at the audi
ence and shouted:
You old DEVIL you can't go to church
and pray on Sunday and then go out and
vote for the whisky gang on Tuesday.
You've got to be careful of your actions,
Paul said, If meat make my brother to
offend / will eat no meat while the
world standeth,' ana he threw the meat
he had just bought on the floor of the
butcher shop and yellow dog grabbed
it and ducked up an alley with it.
IF there's anything makes me sick,
tired and disgusted, it is to see a fool
preacher with the society bug In his bon
net and his fool of an empty-headed wife
leading the bridge whist crowd and his
daughter taking dancing lessons.
Work VIII Do IT.
do you know what work will do2 II
every Methodist preacher in this country
would win just one soul to Christ in a
month that church would win 100000 in
one year. If all the preachers Of all de-
nominations would win one soul month
we would add 10000 to Christ's army in
a single year. Too much church work is
like a squirrel in a cage. lots Of action
but gets nowhere"
call by Rodeheaver for the hands Of
all those in the audience who came from
outside Omaha brought an astonishing
show of hands, II being estimated that
one-third of those present we're from out
of the city. Presentation Of Ma" to the
audience brought great applause.