Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-02-01


II there ia prayer and sin Acknowledged
a mighty blessing will follow.
EVIDENCE GOD HEARS.
What evidence does God hear7 First
His word, Where two or three have
gathered together in My name There
should be a union Of the churches to
preach. His religion, to preach His Cos
pei. You show me a church that don't
want to 20 in and l will show you a
church that hasn't enough religion 10
stand It around the corner. Capital
unites to fight labor. why can't Gods
people united to light the devil that
curses God. The man doesn't live on
Gods green earth that can slap the
cause OF God In the face and not get
n solar pleXus blow right bach from me.
AT the dedication of the Bunker Hill
monument Daniel Webster was sitting
upon a platform, against which the mob
surged and crowded around, despite the
efforts Of those in charge to keep them
back. The crowd became worse, heed
less OF the weak, apologize cry OF the
chairman that they were ~endangering
their lives. Suddenly Daniel Webster
arose. drew himself UP and with the
mighty voice that made the Senate listen,
RaId: Men, l command you stand back.
Nothing is impossible at Bunker Hill.
stand backl' One man became 10 I'm
power and carried the surglng mass back.
with God and the Holy Spirit here
and n union of churches, | tell you there
is no power on earth or In hell that can
stand up against the Church of God AL
mighty. 1t is an inspiration to me to
know what God has done. II there Is
anything on the face or Gods green
earth that needs enthusiasm It is your
churches.
Nothing is impossible for God. Let's
20 and take this old city for Christ. II
you can't do that. let's rip the signs
from our churches. There are too many
unclean people today trying to represent
n clean gospel.
We must get right with God. That is
the first thing we must do. II you
would spill a drop OF acid on a brass
fender and stoop down instantly and
rub 1t Off 1t will not leave q mark, but
IL you would leave that drop on all night
1t would emain there. Theltrouble with
you is that when you sin and do wrong
you don't confess IT, II remains there
and eats into your manhood and woman
hood.
GET RIGHT WITH GOD.
Get right with God. Then keep right
with God. Confess Christ as your Saviour.
Confess your sins to Him and YOU will
be saved.
81 read of three confessions in the
Bible. First, confess Christ as your
Saviour. Second, confess your sins.
Third, confess your faults. If we would
start out to write the faults of others,
no book would be big enough to con-
tain them. Write your own faults first.
II was In Bloomington. ILL.,, with Doc
tor Chapman, who had peen preaching
there for about two weeks, but there
had not been n single conversion, no.
body would come forward and everybody
would sit spellbound by his words. He
became discouraged and said to the min
listers, Look here, brethren, 1t is evil
dent to me that the church is not com
ing out to help in this fight, and 1 serve
you notice l am going to 1eave here after
the services Friday night. i have preach
ed against sin as hard as I know how
The ministers said: Doctor, we are
just as much concerned about this work
as you can possibly be. We nave been
inquirtng what the trouble Is. We have
never heard SO many people talking re-
ligion, but we don't know what is the
trouble. He said: 'TroupIe7 The only
trouble is that the church Is not right
with Cod They asked him to stay and
they would try and locate some OF the
difhcutlies' as they thought they knew
where the trouble was. He said he
would stay until Sunday night. saying
that If they know where the trouble was
and If they were sure they could remove
1t, he would stay.
The next morning n Presbyterian and
Baptist and Congregational preacher
started out and they went down into the
office of Judge NJ, who was chief usher
In the meeting. They said to him: There
Is something wrong; we have never felt
such interest and seen such audiences.
but Doctor Chapman is going to leave
Sunday night If the difficulties are NOT
removed. We have heard certain things