Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-26

dirty people trying to preach clean Ros-
pei have known men that have
preached the truth and God has honored
the truth, although their lives were not
as they should be- But God honored the
truth and not the people who preached
the truth. But II they had been Chris
tlans themselves then God would have
honored them more, because He would
have honored them and the truth.
''lf you don't believe me, then believe
the truth itself. BY their fruits we shall
know them. You bet your life the devD
had nothing to do with my coming here
He had nothing TO do with sending me to
| Philadelphia. Nor the devils gang
brewers, the saloonkeepers and the gam
blers. That gang didn't invite me to town.
! They had nothing to do with Il. They
have no use for me; nor for them.
Prayer. Three-fourths of the church
| members have no family prayer. will
| bet my life against cancelled postage
stamp today that half the people here did
! not read the Bible nor pray before
| you came here. You wash your hands,
wash, your face, comb your hair. dress
yourself; you get your breakfast, your
dinner. your supper. Yes. Did you read
tho Bible? No. Did you pray7 No. II
| you cared for the physical manhood and
| womanhood the sarne way that you care
/ for your spiritual manhood and woman
hood, you would be just as dried up and
| useltBB ana WeHk pnyBlCHny as you are
| spiritually. l have a physical nature that
demands food and care. Then, too,
have a spiritual nature that demands food
and care, and the Word of God. You
let your spiritual life starve. That Is the
reason your pews are full of drlftwood;
that Is the reason that religion Is but
mirage.
ASK GOD FOR POWER.
pray God to give you power. Pray God
to give you power to carry on His work
after you have become converted. don't
preach sermon that don't pray God
for help, and never finish a sermon that
I don't thank God that have preached
It, I never finish a sermon but that ask
for power to carry on the work strength
to carry II alorg. So get ready by pray
ing. I never preach a sermon that 1 don't
soak 1t In prayer.
Pure hearts. II I have any inquity in
my heart the Lord will not come in. We
need wise head. We need horse sense in
preaching We need horse sense in what
we do. ] think God is constantly looking
for a company of men and women that
are constantly alive. There are too many
dead ones He needs men and women
that are always at II, not only during the
revival we need to be full of faith; dead
in earnest, never give up, bulldog tenac-
ity and stfclS-to-it-veness for the cause of
God Almighty.
That is what God Ia looking for. Men
have done things just for the applause of
the world. Newton would study all night
to get sentence to embody a thought.
Reynolds would sit for 36 hours without
food to get the right word to write an ode.
Wesley used to travel from 5000 to 1000
miles year on horseback in the days of
itlnerant Methodism and get most of his
EpQ pb in Rpn oh
Cartwright. an itnerant preacher in Ill-
nols in the days OF Lincoln, Travelled from
Cairo to Heland, ILL.,, riding horseback
what would he do? He used to have to
swim rivers FIVE to seven times a day; he
would have to find foot log. take off his
clothes and leave them on the opposite
bank, come back and get his horse and
swim across; night would overtake him
and he would sleep on the prairies lying
down there without anything to eat.
CHURCH APATHETIC.
1.-THE church of God has not smelled
gunpowder for $50 years; that Is what is
the matter with it; 1t has become proud,
naughty, arrogant, self-centred and apa-
thetic to mems lost condition; there Is
not a church in Christendom that has not
occasion to thank God for Lyman Beech
er, He preached and John Newton was
converted. Scott heard Newton and
Scott was converted. A peddler went to
a home and sold Bible where there was
little boy named Richard, who read 1t.
Richard Baxter wrote Saints Rest
Philip Coleridge read Saints Rest and he
wrote The Rise and Progress of Re-
ligion.' Wilberforce read the Rise and
Progress of Religion and he wrote 'Prac-
teal View of Christianity Doctor Chal- |
,F Iriu tfa,, ,st,rBI
and he wrote the "Expulsive Power of
New Affections Doctor Chalmer got the |
idea for his book when riding in a West |
ern stage coach, and he noticed that the |
driver whipped the off mule whenever he |
came near projecting ledge or rock
when they were going along the gorge
20O0 feet deep and he beat him. He said, |
Why do you abuse that mule?' and the
driver pointed to the ledge of rocks in
the path, I'm afraid he will shy and fall |
over and II l beat him just before we
come to 1t 1t takes his mind off 1t and he |
goes by and thus Doctor Chalmer got |
the idea of expulsive power of new af- |
fections, Get Jesus Christ and the cards |
will go out. Get Jesus Christ and you
won't need to do the cheap skate leg |
shows Let the Bible come in and the |
novels will go out.
CLASSES TO HELP.
There are five classes OF people, and
this classification will touch every man
and woman in Philadelphia, New York or
London. Many work in every COM
munity who cannot attend church. II
you get in a railroad town there are lots
of people who must work on Sunday.
Certain work must be done on the Sab
bath. Christ recognized that fact when
He walked through the cornheld and
plucked an ear of corn and the gang
that walked after Him, seeing Him pluck
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