Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-19

nasiums. do object when they make
that the prime thing, putting in pool
tables and such things. The church ana
the Y. M G. A. and the Salvation Army
are getting away from, the fact that the
salvation Of the soul is the supreme end
! want TO see the salvation of the, soul
the supreme end Of the world
Here IN Pennsylvania they had a mine
caveI think you feel different N II is
your boy or girl-they had mine cave
and the people were rushing there 10
help. Up came an old miner, 10 or 30
years OF age, tired, tottering and OK
hausted. He threw Off his vest his coat
and hat and picked UP pick and shovel.
Some OF them stopped him and said:
What Is the matter? You are too old; /;
let some OF the younger ones do that
stand back The old fellow said My
God, got two boys down there. So you
see II seems to make all the difference
when you've got some boys down there.
That Is what you would do. Sit around
and fold your arms.
'T remember In a town there was
funeral The casket contained very
beautiful maiden 1t was being borne
from the home. The family didn't live
far from the graveyard and most OF the
mourncrs walked Well, they all stood
around until the minister said. Dust to
dust, and ashes to ashes Presently a
cal cries. They led her to her carriage
and she was driven to her home. The
minister noticed her crying and asked
her what caused IT. She replied i
taught that girl for four years. I noticed
that she was getting careless and going
to publia dances with young men whose
character was not of the best. | didn't
say anything to her, but I was sure that,
az minister. you did. The minister said,
4 thought you being her Sunday school
teacher, would attend TO that. You are
woman and could speak to her better
than I could Well, they finally said,
Let us go see her mother and ask her
about It.
CONFESS YOUR NEGLECT.
"They went to the mother. and she re-
piled that she knew the girl was getting
careless, but she thought that her Sun
day school teacher or the minister would
attend to that. There was a girl who was
gone n witness against her mother, her
Sunday school teacher and the preacher.
There must be a confession of sins. Con-
fess your sins of neglect The sins OF
neglect, those are the sins. The curse Of
the church is the sin of omission. There
must be a confession of the sin OF un-
forgiveness. Confession isn't loving
card party more than a prayer meeting.
Confession is not loving a good novel
more than you do the Bible.
Leave not the world; neither the
things of the world Gods green grass,
flowers and tTees?-Certainly, they were
made for your admiration; but the things
of the world never.
Nothing is too hard for God to do.
have n friend, Doctor Broughton, of At
lanta, Ga. When he was young minister
hp n holm another minister I'm a
series OF meetings. He said that he never
preached to such a lfeless. indifferent
lazy, indolent, critical, petrified, stiff, stale
bunch in all his life They never smiled,
Just sat there and listened to him While
he was there one night he said: Is there
any man or woman here who would like
to see anybody converted? Is there any
mother who would like to see her son
saved, a wife a husband, a husband
wife. n friend, a business man, clerk?
Anybody who would like to see somebody
saved?' Nobody lifted hand He
preached the next night and repeated the
invitation. He said: is there a woman
present who would like to see her hus-
band saved? Is there husband?' A lit
tie boy, IA years OF age, lifted his hand.
is there a husband a wife The boy
raised his hand. Is there a sister wants
to see a brother saved?' and the boy
lifted his hand. lie reversed the question.
The kid lifted his hand
DEACON DROPS IN.
After he reached his hotel he heard
a rap at his door. He opened ii. In
came one of the deacons 1t was a Bap-
tist church. Stroking his long pious
whiskers, he came in and said: 'Howdy,
doctor, My friend replied: How do
you do deacon; sit down. Powerful good
meeting. thought it war my duty to
come up here and tell you, Do you know
that boy down there? What boy? You
mean the one who was lifting his hand?
Yes We'll, that boy amt overly bright
and I thought that I would come and
tell you that he is making n fool of you
and of the members of the church. My
friend replied He is not making a fool
OF me, but of you and the other MEM
itual life than the whole crowd of you
put together Well, 1 thought 1 would
cell you-you can do what you please
You better tell him to stay away My
friend said: I'll pay him $40 a day to
come. He Is the only evidence of life
see here. If you think / am going
to turn the hose on that, you don't know
me-
MY friend preached the next night and
nobody moved but that boy. That night
the pastor spoke to him. by the way,
have got to go away in the morning. I
was going to preach on Sunday morning,
but I want you to preach for me. I wish
you would throw the doors OF the church
open and ask If there is anybody that
wants to join Join what?' Why, the
church My friend said, You don't need
an evangelist hero; what you need is an
undertaken
THE next night, when he got back 10
the hotel OCnock), Come in And then
comes this old deacon. 'Howdy. DOCTOR
'How-do, deacon; sit down He says,
You're going TO preach Sunday Yes
Well, II ] were you I wouldn't throw the
doors of the church open for any liners,
cause there amt any My friend said:
Deacon. look me straight In the eye. Did
you ask me not to throw the doors open
because you knew there weren't any sim
ners, or because there was only one and
you did not want that one to join the
church because you wanted TO keep that
one out7 You knew there would be some
one, and you did not want the some one