Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-02
SUBJECT. oCOMpAssIoNY

bODJ ECIs TCOmBASSION'
For seeing the multitudes, He was
moved with compassion. Pray ye.' He
said, the Lord of the harvest that He
would send forth laborers unto the har-
vest Matthew tx, 36-3s.
We are getting so far ahead Of the
Lord nowadays: we have the crowd
which says there is no disease i'm the
world, but the Bible says there is, we
have the crowd which says there is no
devil, but the Lord says there Is. I
am led to take up this subject for sew
eral reasons; because of an inspiration
from a book I read, the study of the
Bible with this object in view, and [
heard a preacher say, when n family of
six Joined the church, they will add
numbers but not wealth or social in
fluence to my church.
AFTER RICH DUCKS"
You make mo tired trying to get the
rich duclSs>into the church and passing
by the ordinary crowd. You make me
sick. Some people seem to think that
after Jesus Christ left the world He
would have nothing more to do with 1t.
Jesus Christ lives today and is able to
help you as If He walked by your sido
over the hills of Ga1ilee. God doesn't look
at anyone's pocketbook or social stand
ing before He makes UP His mind to re-
ceive them.
THE soul, to be born again, must be-
lieve on Jesus Christ and no soul will be
saved unle3s the owner docs. No such
thing is possible. You may love God and
then turn your back to Him and Insult
Him. You say you love God, but do not
believe that Jesus Christ is His Son;
you're the biggest fool living, The soul
that Is born again, that turns from sin
and feeds upon the word of God, Will
have fellowship with the Lord,
SCORES CHURCH MEMBERS
Some of you don't know what Chris
tianity is; half the people in the church
never had a religious experience; I be-
lieve half the people in the church have
never been converted. One of the first
evidences OF Christianity Is reaching out
for the unsaved. 1t is by doing things
for Christ that [ grow. Use what you
have. and your get more. 1t is not like
moncy-hoard 1t up to get more-but give
out what you have and God will give you
more. That's the reason some people
have so little. They haven't as much
Christianity now as when they entered
the church.
Suppose the man with the withered
hand whom ! told you about, had wrap
ped it up In Il napkin and kept it in his
bosom until the next Sunday, week after
week, taking it out on Sunday to see how
nice it looked. How long do you sup
pose lie would rave been able to use it at
all? That's the way some of you do with
your religion. The matter with lots of
Gods people is that they nave wriggle-
tails in their experience. They get a
little religious experience and wrap 1t
up until Sunday, going to card parties and
drinking beer, wine or champagne dur
ing the week.
SPIRITUAL LIFE.
There must be spiritual life before
work of which God approves. There are
a lot of things done in the church today
which God does not approve. What does
He care for these rummage sales, oyster
suppers. etc? There must be spiritual
life before He approves the work.
"The church today has it all wrong. a
lot of people i'll church were never con
verified. First give yourself to God. He
doesn't care about money, Jesus Christ
is not bankrupt. He is not hitting the
free lunch counters to get something to
eat. One of the biggest curses of the
church today is putting unconverted peo-
pie to work, You'll find them IT, the sun
day schools, among the teachers, among
the trustees; I've known of trustees of
churches who were not even members of
the church; they nave no business to
touch the work of God; you wouldn't al
low any one not a member to do anything
In EOlr lO6Hrpt Won can SEQ than1 in the
choir; one-half the church scraps start
In the choir loft; lots of people sing for
money, for show, or for compliments and
almost everything else except to sing peo-
pie into the Kingdom of God.
WON'T RUN AFTER THEM.
II have received letters from people In
this city, saying, My daughter sings so
sweetly, wish you would have her sing
some night, and others, saying, Mrs. So
and-so doesn't 20 to the meetings, but
she is a fine singer and if you'd ask her
to sing | am sure she'd come She'll have
gray hairs before I send for her. They
needn't think I'm going TO run after
them.
IF there's anything gives me the shiv-
ers II is to hear some mother say, Don't
you want to hear my ugh play the
piano?' and then you listen to her play,
and say, That's fne,' whe II Is the worst
you ever heard.
Jesus went about the cities on Gods
business; He vas not stalking out claims
on Jupiter. He saw people as He went
from place to place as no one else could
see them. He saw them from Gods
standpoint, and His standpoint was to
have them saved. If you are saved
you've got to look at the unsaved multi
tudes like God did. He did everything to
bring people into the Kingdom of God.
You've got to do what He did or get out
of the, church.. If you have no compassion
for sinners you're not His follower, you're
of the devil.
PHILADELPHIA'S DAY.
Jesus Christ can do something for this
city. This is Philadelphia's day not this
"a hours. but the period of this campaign.
Jesus Christ saved all sorts and condi-
tons; He saved the publicans. the har-
lots. the booze fighters, the gamblers the
Ilbertines, the adulterers and adultresses'
5-ASTHMA SIMPSON.