Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-23
Sundays Sermon Today

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whole lump. When he mentioned leaven,
every woman who was present knew that
he was talking about bread-making and
sat up and listened to find out whether
He had his dope right He had, too. You
know how leaven works-put Just little
Of 1t into mass and pretty soon II will
have the whole mass working, and will
make It like itself. There are many kinds
OF leaven in the world. The leaven OF
the Pharisees was working when Jesus
was on earth, and he wanted Gods leaven
| to be the stronger, If we are the right
kind of leaven we will leaven the whole
lump and make the world as God wants
| It to be.
"If this old earth were lump of dough,
we could just drop a little leaven of
Christianity into 1t and change the whole
| mass.
KEEP LIGHT BURNING.
''Your light may not be as big as some,
but II you keep 1t burning as brightly as
YOU can God will be satisfied, When you
have done all that you can do. that is
| enough. I'd rather be n match that's
burning than 50-candle power lamp
! that has gone out. The smallest light win
drive away lot of darkness. If come
into this tabernacle at night and not a
| light is burning and take a match from
my pocket and strike It the darkness will
be broken away back to the corners.
You may not be able to do as great things
as others. You may not be able to speak
we'll, but you can let your light shine by
working for the Lord so that people will
know where you stand. What II you
can't sing or preach or pray as we'll as
others, you can live right.
you are bright before God only as His
light shines through you. The real light
isn't the thing l see out there in the
pews. What / see Is only the house you
live In. 1t isn't you that dies and falls
down and gets pale and cold. 1t isn't you
that the undertaken placed in a coffin and
buried. It's only the house you have been
living in. You don't see me here up on
tho platform You only see me by what
l make my body do, We only live in
these bodies, and when God tells us to
mcvc out, we move-that's all We are
only tenants at will, and it's not your
will either.
"You have seen how this light over my
head is an effect of a cause. You see
man who has been drunkard but is
now q sober man. You see a man who
has blasphemed God and who now re-
spects his name. There you see the eff
fects. The cause Is the power of God
to save. Skeptcs may try to tear down
the Bible all they choose, but Christian
You can't get away from that
MUST HAVE A LIGHT.
1--WE place too much reliance upon
preaching and upon singing, and too
little on the living of those who sit in the
pews. We expect a great deal from the
leaders In the church, and mighty little
from ourselves. We think the preachers
1o, hot
the Sunday school teacher ought to be a
wingless angel, and that the deacons and
elders ought to be strictly upright, but
too many of US think that the people in
the pews live like the devil. God doesn't
call the preacher to a higher standard
of living that He does you.
Listen to this: You must have light
before you can let 1t shine. If you aren't
right with God you haven't any light.
Have you been born again? I don't ask
you If you are a church member
Christian and church member are not
synonymous. If you have not been born
again, If the Holy Spirit isn't in you,
| you must get right. If you are not right,
| you know 1t.
Morality isn't enough to give you a
| light. Morality is only the polish on the
candlestick-it isn't the light itself. You
may be moral, you may be true to the
may practice philanthropy, but that isn't
enough. You must be born again. It's
the light you want, not the candlestick.
TITS the polished moral sinner who is
the most dangerous. The society woman
who has no religion has a bigger drag
for the devil than the girl selling her
virtue in the red light district. People
will follow the example of the society
woman more than they will that of the
poor fallen girl. It's because the devil
can transform himself into an angel of
light that he has lasted SO long. He
talks from the pulpit in the garb of an
orthodox preacher.
Are you keeping your light from shin
ing because you are ashamed to own
Jesus?
you ought to be proud to belong to
the kingdom of Jesus Christ.
1.-THE very first place in which you
should let your light shine, Is your own
home. The members of your family
ought to be the very first to know that
something new has come into your life
It ought to make your homes happier
and brighter places. so that everybody
who entered would be glad you had
found light and were letting it shine.
There is something wrong with your
religion IL II doesn't maze your home
happier and better. The trouble is that
we are killing 1t with formality and
rituals. Let your light shine. so that
other people will want to light their
tapers at yours.
Don't be afried to use your light.
Don't turn 1t down as you turn down the
gas to keep the meter from running so
fast. I hate to visit in home where