Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-02-09
Billy" Sundays
Sermon Today
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-, Arst chapter and the 18th verse;
-, Nc and Will Make You Fishers
q Mem"
.r..us did not say follow Me and 1 VIII
.ts YOU feeders Of sheep In many
s'..s s.hss nine-tenths Of the expended en-
-. IN feeding the sheep. Fifty weeks
~ ,sar are spent preaching to sheep
~. cburcb and two weeks to the people
outside. .r, .noon ,eoa 90 be
LII tbey?' surely, but the best way
~, ,sod uv the ninety -and-nine is TO forget
y and 20 out after the one that is
lost. -. III 80 ,,n t,,,,o
.ar,inp its doctrine and membership
~, become an evangelical church, put
~. cvanrelistic church The church
~. e. simply evangelical is the church
w 49, the church that is evangelistic is
,bs church on fire.
.A church couldn't be evangelistic with
.,,t being evangelical, but a church could
- evangelical without being evangelistic.
,urhere are thousands of church mem-
80. who seem to think the preachers
sols duty is to provide them with predi-
sssted religious food, which from sunday
= sunday they may be able to bolt, being
themselves relieved Of the process OF mas
siratIon and digestion. That's the reason
y many who take this attitude toward
~ ministry die Of fatty degeneration of
the soul.
stesus did not say, Follow Me and 1
vill make you feeders of goats and yet
certain men seem under the delusion that
~ one great task of religion Is to take
,hs GOAT. TO feed and cultivate 1t that he
vlll ultimately become sheep in the mas
,er,a flock You cannot convert a goat
into n sheep by any process of diet or
culture.
mo COOKIE ROUTE"
,The thousand and one makeshifts the
peo.le now use in the place of atonement
are we'll and good in their place, but
their place is not here. You cannot bathe
anybody into the Kingdom of God. You
cannot give people a cracker, a cookie, a
plate Of soup and cup of coffee and
ret them into the Kingdom. You can
not change their heart by changing their
sanitatlon
II have no quarrel with social service,
sducation or the institutional methods In
which the modern church engages, pro-
yIded such work is not put in the place of
the real work of the kingdom, that of
saving souls.
''If have to yanle down my standard
because you let these things interfere
with your belief in the atonement, well
fight right there. If have to yank down
my methods of preaching to please Some
old chap with his collar buttoned in the
back of his neck, then I'll stop. I'll go
cut and sweep the streets for a living be-
fore I'll do that.
Il have never been in sympathy with a
Y. M. c. A. with billiard room. I'm for
the Y. NJ. C. A. and think it's one of the
best institutions on the face of the earth,
but I'm against the billiard room. 1 con-
slder billiard room or a pool room the
second cousin of the saloon. I'm for the
gymnasums and the libraries and the
swimming pools. but I'm against the
billiard and pool games.
ut is an entirely good Christian thing to
give the down-and-outer a bath, a bed
and a job-it is an entirely Christian thing
to establish and maintain schools and
universities. but the road into the King
dom OF God Is not by the bathtub, the
university, the gymnasium or social serV-
Ice, but by the blood-red road of the cross
Of Christ.
Someone says human nature is radical
" good, that the power to uplift and abil-
fly to rise to the highest excellence is in