Omaha daily bee., 1915-09-15
Sunday Pleads for More Workers
to Help in the Church of the Savior

Billy Sunday preached at the Taber.
nscle yesterday afternoon on how to win
souls to Christ.
His text was:
Prov. 1:90: He that winneth souls is
wise"
There are many people who want to
win somebody for Jesus and they are
willing to be told how to do It, believe
there are hundreds and thousands of
people who are willing to work and who
know something must be done, but they
are waiting for help; 1 mean from men
and women of ordinary ability. Many
people are sick and tired and disgusted
with Just processing religion; they are
tired Of trotting to churcn and trotting
home again. They sit in a pew and lis
ten to a sermon; they are tired of that,
not speaking to anybody and not engag-
ing in personal work; they are getting
tired of 1t and the church is dying be-
cause of it, there is nothing TO that A
lot should wake up and go to the rescue
and win for Jesus Christ
PersOnaI Work Mt Home.
l want to say to the deacons, stewards,
vestrymen, prudential committee that
they should work and the place to begin
is Mt your own home. SIT down and
write the names of five or ten of your
friends. and many of them members of
your own church, and two or three OF
those not members of any church; yet
you mingle with these people in the club
in business, in your home in a friendly
way. You meet them every week, some
Of them every day, and you never speak
to them on the subject of religion; you
never bring 1t to their attention at all ;
you should be up and doing something
for God and Gods truth. There are
always opportunities for u Christian to
work for God. There is always a chance
TO speak to some one about God. I am
not going to theorize: we are dealing too
much In theories and speculations. This
or that Interpretation of some dogma or
doctrine is not going to give you spiritual
power. You carry your religion with
you by the bare truth. Be out and out
for God. Have a heart to heart talk
with some people and win them to Christ
The first recorded words of Jesus are
these: ''Wist yet not l must be about
My Fathers business?" He was lost
and they found him sitting in the tenn
pie and he had the old Pharisees and
doctors of the law tied UP in a bunch.
That whole bunch had brain fever trying
to keep up with him and he was only
twelve years old. His mother found him
and said: "Son, don't you know we have
been searching for you?' He answered,
"Wist yet not l must be about My
Fathers businoss?" and from then until
now he has been calling us to go forth
nd Il "A n
with their children, and they in turn
should plead with their friends for reli-
glon.
Church Too Indifferent.
The trouble is we are too lackadaisical
in religion, Indifferent and dead and life
less. That is the spirit of the committees
today in the church. think the multi
tude in the church will have TO get con-
Nerted themselves before they can lead
anyone else to Christ. 1t is my firm
conviction after sixteen years of exper-
ience In the work that half the people
in the church have never been con-
verted, have never been born again.
take up bottle of water, uncork it and
take a drink. That is experimental
One sip of water can convince me more
of It's power to slake thirst than 1000
quinine is bitter because you have ex-
perimented; you know fire will burn be-
cause you have experimental; you know
ice will freeze; it is cold, you have ex-
perimentsd.
A man must experience religion to
know God. All you know of God is
what you read in some book or what
you heard somebody else talk about;
you haven't lived so that you could
learn first handed. so most OF your re-
ligion is second handed. There Is too
much second hand stuff in the church.
It is your privilege to know and TO
have salvation. Jeusu said to Peter:
when you are converted strengthen
thy brother" You are not in a D. ST.
ton to help anybody else unless you
have helped yourself God doesn't save
on the installment plan. A man Is
either on the roadito heaven or on the
road to hell. God doesn't do things by
halves.
Need bible in Personal Work.
II has been said that God made the
birds without wings and they hopes
and crept around. but didn't sing. and
after a while God put wings on them
and they commenced to sing. Mt on
sSNA Nhcu NOu NAc - IL .
he made them all God does not have
TO double on the trail and back-tra X
When the Lord does a Job he finishes
IL right and you can't improve on it.
The trouble with a lot OF you church
members. you spend too much time
dreaming over The Lady OF the Lake, ."
Milton. Bacon. Shakespeare, Chaucer
and lot Of such things-you can quote
Shakespeare by the yard for the devil
and he will give you the ha-ha. II
you take the word OF God he will take
the crown So many church members
know nothing about the Bible. A
preacher will take a text from the Bible
and set as far from Il as the east II
from the west. A young prea her ~.
out q the seminary said: "Must'f con-
fine myself. my preaching. TO the Bible?''
Just Ike a little schrmp would say
''must I eonfine my roaming to the At
lantic ocean" Imagine a little Eninnow
sayingi Must 1 oOnfine myse.f TO the
Atlantic ooean7' Must 1 eonfins my
sslf - tAs Biblsr' Just as u his in