Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-02-09
Sundays Sermon Today

dependent Of any external force-somc-
thing inherent within us. The Bible de-
clares that human nature Is radically
bad, and that the power to upllft Is pure
ly external. Man has not the power to
suppress vice except as he develops vlr-
tue. That power is not in any man or
woman or system. It Is not in Harvard,
Yale, Princeton, Milton. Bacon, Shakes
peare or Emerson, but by the blood-re1
road Of Calvary,
REMEDY FOR WORLDS WOES.
ION comes the statesman. He says the
remedy for the worlds misery and woe
is to change conditions by wise universal
system of government. He assumes that
vice flows from ignorance and economic
conditions; that virtue is the offspring of
knowledge and plenty. It is In the power
Of constitution and laws to restrain and
protect, but not TO change mans nature.
The law can, punish for breaking the law,
but the gospel of Jesus Christ steps in
and takes out of the heart that which
made you break the laws, and puts into
| the heart that which makes a man keep
the laws. The gospel of Jesus Christ is
the remedy for the worlds woes.
'All Governments have failed. Take the
fraternal government of Jewish days--it
failed. Take tho Roman Governmental
failed. These countries did not fail be-
cause they had any particular form Of
Government but because they were with
out the right kind of religion. The Gospel
OF Jesus Christ Is the hope of the world
OF today. SO you can understand why
I've got to fight with you when / see
you're taking the wrong path. Are we
any better than Russia and Turkey
Sometimes think that we lead the whole
world, and I am always proud that / was
hGpf L., AYtNa lat fr1ntfR hpn ~
ache when think the United States leads
the world in crime, divorce and social
evils
THE scholar says the remedy for the
worlds vice Is a universal system of
education. He assumes that people are
made purer in proportion as they are
made wise. Did the children of Israel
wander 40 years in the wilderness because
of intellectual error?
knowledge didn't save Solomon. Bacon,
Poe or Byron.
Are people going to hell because they
don't know? Are they becoming drunk
ards because they don't know? Are peo-
pie libertines because they don't know
better? The question we must solve Is
not one of intellect. but of morals The
world is not dying for want of knowl-
edge. but for want of Christ
"The twentieth century has witnessed
two apparently contradictory facts: The
decline of the church and the growth of
religious hunger in the masses. The
world during the nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries passed through a
period of questioning and doubts, during
which everything In heaven and earth
was put into crucible and melted down
into constituent elements.
MooRINGs LOST.
During that period many laymen and
preachers lost their moorings. The def
mite challenging note was lost out of the
life of the ministry. The preacher today
is ofttlmes human interrogation point,
preaching to empty pews The hurrylng,
busy crowd in the street is saying to the
preacher and the church, When you have
something definite to say about the issues
of life, heaven. hell and salvation, we
will listen; till then we have no time for
you.'
"I believe we are on the eve of a great
national revival. The mission of the
church is to carry the gospel of Christ to
the world
1.-The whole movement toward mothers
pension, anti-chlld labor laws and the like
have been started by the Church of Jesus
Christ.
For every reform started by an agnostic,
800 have been started by the church.
IF man won't do Gods will he will
be stripped of his power. The Lord is
with thee to save. What do you want you
fools?"