Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-02
SUNDAYS SERMON TODAY

the BkcptiCS and the mtdelS. lie sees
them all today as you do. Wry aren't
YOU moved? You're a member Of church?
Yes. Been baptized? Yes. He was moved.
then why aren't you? II your life rs
lighted by Jesus Christ you will be. If
you are not moved, get down on your
knees and say: Il am a big fraud and q
four-nusher. 1 see people going to hell
and never open my lips
DEVIL MARRIED MAN.
you're made in the image of God, but
look how the devil has marred some OF
you. You can see 1t in the grogshops, the
red-light districts, the gambling dens,
everywhere see the mars the devil has
placed on man.
Jesus knew the devil had never made
man. Jesus came to this world to re-
veal God to man, and the highest revela-
ton I have of God came to me through
Jesus Christ. The Bible Is the revelation
Of Jesus Christ, and Jesus Christ reveals
God to me. Jesus came to reveal mar
to man. In Jesus Christ we have Gods
revelation of what He wants you and me
to be, what I am preaching to you for
you to De.
Jesus Christ saw limitations Of the
people because OF sin. That's the reason
some of you haven't got n better job;
limited by sin. l believe, had there been
no one in the garden of Eden, there
would have ben no limitation, physical
or intellectual. Now we live so many
years.
POINT OF VISION.
what we see depends upon our point of
vision. You can't sit around and play
cards and then weep because Philadel-
phia is going to hell. You can't sit down
and drink beer, when no champagne and
look at God through the bottom OF a
glass and then weep because Philadel-
phia Is going to hell. Get on your knees
and see the sinner through the word of
God and then weep. 1t all depends on the
point of vision.
Jesus Christ was not looking at that
crowd through opera glasses that had
been lined UP on a leg snow In some
cheap theatre.
REAL COMPARISON.
'If some of you women would stop CIV
ing card parties and weep because your
son is going to the devil, you'd know what
compassion Is. It's when the heart aches,
and the eyes fill with tears over another's
wrong that you have compassion.
How does a crowd affect you? If you
could nave seen that crowd of men Sun
day afternoon. The tabernacle was filled
and as many more could not get in. Many
stood outside pcering through the win
dows, eager to hear what might come
through the walls. The world is hungry
for Jesus Christ, and think of some of
you sitting around playing cards and
gambling and protesting to be followers
of God. 1t is an insult to God. Do you
get angry when you come to the taber-
nacle and find some one In the seat YOU
had been occupying night after night?
IN. lp yn1l vino your hands of the crowd
and say you are not responsible for their
lives? Some people see money in Il crowd.
The politician sees votes in a crowd. As
to what effect a crowd has on you de-
Ponds upon your point of view. If you
are a Christian you will be moved to tears
and compassion and wan the crowd
saved. l have been around over Philadel-
phia and up on the hills and looked over
the city. I never do that but what l feel
like Jesus Christ as He looked over
Jerusalem from the hilltops and cried out
to that city because 1t had not turned to
Him.
The Rev. Sunday told a story of the
, Y. NJ. c. A. life in Chicago. He had the
saloon route and he said he could nave
stood upon the roof OF the Y. NJ. c. a.
and with a revolver shot into more than
three score saloons. He had the privi-
lege of selecting his companion and chose
Il big fellow.
81 didn't want any little dissatisfied
ltllOW WHO u let IIe no all lllt llEIlllllBt
for it sometimes happened we had to
fight our way through. | wanted a fell
low who could go so fast you couldn't
see him for dust. l don't let people make
a cuspidor and doormat out of the church
of God If 1 can help it.
zone night we counted 1862 men going
into one saloon In 62 minute We had
become separated, and when l found
my companion he was leaning against a
sign in front of a saloon, crying bitterly.
What's the matter?' l asked, Has some
one insulted you? Tell me where he is
and I'll lick him. But he said, Bill, /
think you and me are the only two men
i'm Chicago trying for Jesus Christ TO
save the thousands from going to hell
l don't think anything has ever affected
me like that did. And right across the
street was a theatre crowded to its
doors, and more than half the people
in there were protesting Christians.
PREACHERS ALL RIGHT.
.Now don't crane your necks to see how
the preachers take it. 1 preach to them
the same as to you, and II you have as
much backbone as they have you'd go
some. If they LAY a yellow streak in
them ! haven't found 1t yet. and I've
been looking close, too. If they don't be-
lieve in everything l say they have sense
enough to keep their mouths shut. GOD
doesn't want any one whose heart Is not
In the work. He doesn't want anything
to do with you.
ALREADY SIF"TED
''Some one says How that will sift the
! ranks of the church. They're already
sifted. 1 knew of a church with 2OOO
members, and when 1t came down to a
basis of personal workers there were but
$50. I knew of another church of about
1000 members which never had more than
200 who attended praye meetings,
.'some one says. My, how that will
change Methods Every church ought to
be an asylum for the lost, a refuge for
the harlot, the drunkard and the out
cast. If it is not, then tear down your
sign. Tear down the sign which labels
us children of Jesus Christ, and II you
nave lost all compassion for the unsaved
get down on your knees and ask God
! 10 give you compassion. 1t is yourself
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