Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-10-07

prayer meeting Is to open or to close
and you have been asked to lead
meeting on Sunday night. If this
gets noised around that you are
leading a meeting, every fellow in
the country will bring his girl over
there to make fun of you. Don't go
very far away You are going to
make a miserable failure in the at
tempt to be a Christian. You have
no Christian influence in your home.
You have very few relatives even
who are Christians. There is scarce
| ly Christian young man in this
community and young man cannot
hold out any how unless he takes ii
kind of slow and easy. Don't go very
far away"
| Brethren, tell you the devil very
nearly got me that time, and do you
know how l whipped him out? l
went three days Journey to hold a
feast for God 1t was before the day
of the telephone in that community
and ! saddled up the old horse and
rode all over the country for three
days. Friday, Saturday and Sunday,
And invited every family and every
man ! met to come down Sunday
night to prayer meeting. / told
them l was just beginning the
! Christian life and had been asked to
lead the meeting and didn't know
about how to do it and needed their
help.
told them of our meeting the pre-
ceeding Thursday night and express
ed my surprise at not seeing them
there. When Sunday night came we
/ ND an oil try
church. You ask how / got along
leading the meeting? The saddle
and the old gray horse did the work
on the three days march. The meet
| ing led me. | can't tell you exactly
what we did, but we had prayer
meeting, and il marked the begin
ming of most successful revival.
Don't go very far away" is the dew
IFS second compromise. God forbid,
brother, that you should accept this
delusive compromise in your attempt
at serving God.
III. DIVIDED FAMILIES
Let us now see the third comprom-
Use. Moses and Aaron went out from
before Pharoah and more plaques
came. Finally Pharaoh sent for Mos
es again and said, go now, We that
are men and serve the Lord but there
is no need being so foolish as to take
your wife and children along. For,
said Pharaoh, presumably, Women
have no souls anyway and children
don't know anything about serving
the Lord You just leave your wom-
en- and children here and let all the
men go out and serve the Lord" He
didn't require that they serve the
Lord in the land nor did he demand
that they go only a little distance
away, but he did not consent to the
entire family going. The devil has
turned his tactics these days. He
seems to be more willing now that
the women shall go and worship the
Lord and he wants to keep the men
and children,
Pharaoh said, You take the men
and go but leave the women and
children with me-" / rejoice in the
fact that the day has come that more
and more men are becoming active
in Christian service. ! tell you it
had about gotten to where the wom-
en- had the whole responsibility of
carrying forward the kingdom of
Christ. The fact is the Church has
just about been run for the past
twenty years by the Ladies Aid and
lemonade. God bless the host of
Cody women that we have IN our
churches. Remember now that Mos
es was not eloquent and was a
man of slow speech. / wonder what
he will say to this third compromise.
Listen I'VE will go with our young
and with our old, with our sons and
with our daughters with our flocks
and with our herds will we go; for
we must hold feast unto the
Lord"
Do you know there is not a single
verse in the Koran" the Moham-
medan Bible, that invites or offers
hope to women and children but our
Bible invites them all? The mission
and hope of the church is to save the
children. How can we get our boys
in Sunday school? l tell you, boys
are hero worshippers. The average
boy makes his father his hero-until
he comes to know him better. The
trouble is men have fallen through
the net and made such large holes
the boys get out easily. God forbid
that we should accept this third COM
/ piohiioc AlCClln6. lICI uS tame
our children with us when we go out
to worship God.
Jesus eblessed the children when
he was here. They make devoted
Christians and -are called soul-win-
ners. "A little child shall lead them"
A little girl was converted in reviv-
al service some years ago and went
home and asked her worldly mother
If she might not unite with the
church, The mother would not con-
sent. but she lovingly PERSISTED until
the mother finally acquiesced. And
now" said the little girl, Would it
look well for me to join the church
while mother stays away? Won't you
accept Jesus and become a Christian
too?" This touched the mothers
heart and they knelt together and the
mother surrendered, herself to the
Lord. That evening the mother and
child persuaded the father to be-
come Christian and the next Sun
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