The Climax-Madisonian. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1914-1917, 1915-05-12

Hamburger steak with French fried
potatoes, saying that he was neutral.
and ordered Limburger cheese.
There are lots of cheap fourfushers
here who let blatant old beer soaked
intidels laugh them out of their re-
ligion. You are excess baggage and
false alarms People of that kind are
mean, contemplate, even If they have
been baptized, sprinkled and immersed
every fifteen minutes
"Amenr' shouted a man in the front
rows
1.-Two can't windjam at once, broth
err" said Sunday. LET me do it.
you hear nowadays that the Holy
Ghost is an influence. Away with such
a miserable doctrine. You can't grieve
an influence. have read that dove
will tremble merely at the sight of a
vulture's feathers. | do not know that
this Is true, but l do know that this
represents the sensitiveness of the
Holy Ghost, which is grieyed. and
wounded every time that you do any
thing that is wrong.
Many Are DEVILS Children.
81 do not believe in this cant about
the universal fatherhood of God and
brotherhood of man. We are not the
children of God unless we are Chris
tians. There are people in this world
who are the children of the devil. All
who are not saved are the children of
the devil. You may say that all are
creatures of God. but so are the beasts,
so is the hog at his trough. but there
is a heap of difference between being
a creature of God and the son of God
Faith can tumble mountains into
the sea. You remember when Joshua
was fighting the enemies of God, and
had a big job on his hands, he saw
the sun declining in the skies and
called out to God that, if he would stop
the sun and give him more daylight,
he would whip that rum soaked, idol
worshiping crowd to FRAGILE. Then
God gave word to the sun to stand
still until his servant Joshua gave him
the high sign.
There are three kinds of Christians.
The first is those who become members
of church as insurance against eter-
nal burning. The second is those who
talk such trash as latent power, God
and the Holy Ghost are not in the
church for them, and to them the
church is but a third rate amusement
bureau or a fashionable club. The third
is the class from which the prophets
of God come, from which Moses and
Gideon came, from which Daniel came
when he refused to hit the booze of
Babylon.
Gods Word Lost In Sham.
Now, don't want you to think that
am a pessimist. am an optimist-
believe that there never dawned in the
United States a brighter day than this
for true religion. | believe there was
never a time when the people were
thirstier than they are now for true re-
ligion, but there certainly never was a
time when they We're more disguised
with religions in which the meaning of
the Word of God is lost in sham, form
ula and ritualism.
Some people come to me and say.
Bill, the trouble with the churches is
that they need organization Oh, they
are organized to death. The machinery
of the church Squeaks when you turn
on the steam. but there is not enough
of the true oil of faith in them to
grease one axle in the chariot OF the
Holy Ghost.
"Why, we have all the societies
and organizations in the world. There
are the Y. NJ. G. A, the S. L., the Y. P.
S. c. E., thew. c. T o., the W. F. NJ. s.
Oh. yes, and there is the ]. E. L. L. Y
too. Why, they've got every combina-
ton in the alphabet.
81 believe that great moral tide is
sweeping the country and that you can
no more stop it than you can dam up
Niagara with toothpicks and cambria
needles.
But no church door should be open.
ed. no sermon should be preached, nc