The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1915-07-17

factor 10 the people, either in the pulpit editor OF
paper, or as political speaker, is who goes in ad
vance of the people and leads the people, and who has
thoughts to that just the opposite what the
people usually think.
People knowledge of the Truth
1t is my desire that you get hold of these thoughts
There the trouble with Chicago today there the trouble
with the State of Illinois, there is the trouble with the
United States there the trouble with the world general
The greatest need of America today the need preachers
who have message and who will deliver it, of newspapers
that will tell the truth and that will not be merely of
mammon; of statesmen who will go forward present
that which is righ-no matter if people rise up and mob
them.
When the Lord the Christ sat down in the old
Synagogue at Nazareth after He had read the scripture les
He looked at them and said T tell you of TRUTH many
widows in Israel in the days of Elijah when the heaven
shut for three years and six MONTHS when great
famine throughout the land but unto of them
Elijah sent unto Sarepa, city of Sidon, unto
who widow And He further said to them
"Many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the
prophet but of them ceansed saying Naaman the
Syrian And when got through talking to them they
ready to kill Him.
And that kind of clear forcefu preaching is just what
is needed in Chicago today and when does speak the
truth he will not be received Wilbur Chapan-but
John Alexander Dowe was at Hammond, and at Oak
Park and the West Side; and people generally not only
do not want the truth in Chicago but they ready kill
any who will preach the truth to the people,
God Has Always Had People for Witnesses
God has always had a people,; He has never yet left
Himself without witnesses. say boldly this afternoon
that there church the City Chicago that would
stand straight Gospel for thirty minutes; John
the Baptist would not get along very well in Chicago neither
would Paul. Now that is the way He talked to those fell
lows and that is right and the best friend that you have
the who will tell you the truth.
BRING FORTH THEREFORE FRUITS MEET FOR
REPENTANCE"
That is, reformation of fe-prove by your life that
you have repented.
I say that there is only Movement on this earth
today that has the message for Chicago and that Zon
When account of the Chapman and Alexander meet
ngs out in print the ministers themselves declared
that those meetings practically failure Why Of
they were and if you pitch into those
congregations for their obaccousng and their whisky and
beerguzzlng and their theaergoing, and their dancing
and their pride and their envy and their jealousy and their
covetusness and their unceanness they would be ready
once to rise up and throw you out at the door.
is he Proof of TrueR Repentance
Jesus said to them
Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance.
"And think not to say within yourselves, We have
Abraham to father for unto that God is able
of these to raise up children unto Abraham Mat
thew 3:8, 9.
That is a very remarkable portion of Scripture.
A
| will read to you from the third chapter of the
Book of Revelation We living in the last days.
my hearers. This which about to read is message to
the Church at Laodicea. I will read the fourteenth and
fifteenth verses
"And unto the angel of the Church of the Laodceans
write These things said the Amen the faithful and true
witness, the beginning of the creation Of God;
81 know thy works, that thou art neither cold hot
/ would thou vert cold or hot
Is there sitting here this afternoon
who does not know that pile evidence mountain high
CLEANED from the secular papers, and the church papers,
and from the latest standard bookstha according to their
admission, the socalled churches dead without
power and without influence for good? If you to blot
from existence the majority of the churches in Chicago
would not know the difference far any active
gec aggressive warfare against inquty is concerned
They have the form but power they have the engine
but They have their magnificent buildings and
fine pipe-organs and hghsalared preachers, and beau
fulytraned choirs-bu where is the power? WHERE IS
THE POWER! There is absolutely power there. Then
what the for preacher to get up and whine around
about the liquor traffic. and then trot off home and take
bottle of Hoods Sarsaparlla, which contains four times
the amount of alcohol that there in beerwhat the use?
What the for womenwho ought to be at home at