Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-08

I VOuE WOlN anu EiAfh NNti thN ANANNAa -
hours OF the day or night the rest Q
the week.
aff YOU want 10 break up church
don't come; II you do come, always come
late. II It's too wet, or too dry, or too
cold, or too, or too windy, don't com,
TO wood and varnish Don't imagine th'
front seats we're intended for you people
I might think you were conceited
you don't know I used TO IRE on Q
tailroad, and we used TO put the loaded
| cars In front and the empty cars behind
TO pull easy. when you do come, come
| bound to find fault, and don't for the
| world ever think about the pastor or
| church; you will help him II you do.
| Don't sing; Just sit around like a bump
on a log. Good music viii give the devil
| cold feet. suppose that Is the reason
so many scraps start In the choir loft,
Don't attend prayer meeting, and II you
do. don't take part. You can always
Justify yourself by saying: Paul says
that women should keep still In meet
Ing
TELLING FAULTS.
We'll that doesn't apply any more to
you today than wearing sandals on your
feet Don't encourage the pastor, but be
sure to tell his faults to everybody at
meeting. II his sermons help you, never
let him know. but II he says something
you don't like, be sure you tell him about
Il. II you see a stranger in the audience
don't shake hands with him; IL you do he
might come back again. Give him the
icy hand, the marble heart and Klon-
dixie stare.
Don't try to bring anybody TO the
church. The church might be filled that
way Let the pastor do all the work. he
has nothing special to do. Preaching is
n picnic: he has nothing to do, only two
new sermons TO get UP every week, run
prayer meeting, marry people and bury
them. make church calls, pray for the
dying, take the church subscriptions;
nothing to do but Just wait on you and
come and visit you. See that his salary
is always behind. He doesn't have to eat
like the rest of you. God sent the ravens,
and he's got plenty yet. If he doesn't visit
you as often as you think he should,
treat him coldly. He has nothing partic-
ular to do but call on you. If there Is
anybody that Is willing to carry on the
work of God. be sure to find fault with
them and call them bold and forward.
IN YOUR OWN HOME.
Don't be particular how Gods church
looks. Be sure and have your own
homes fine, with Persian and Administer
Jugs, bric-a-brac. candelabra and every
hing of the finest. Be sure and have |
your own home fine. Don't care what |
iod's house looks like. Don't care If |
t looks like a rummage sale or junk |
Ihop. God Is entitled to the best church |
hat can be built don't believe in wor- |
shipping God in little chicken coop, un-
painted chicken coop.
You will spend three or four thousand |
lollars for an automobile, and don't be- |
;rudge you that-I wish everybody had |
IN automobile that can afford 1t. But you |
Won't put anything In the collection box
You women spend more for a hat than
'ou would give to the cause of religion
n a lifetime / don't begrudge you the
lat but when you sweep down the aisle
With $50 hat and a 5000 dress and put
Dluggedj cent in the collection box l do
'egrudge you that.
II want to tell you God don't stand for
hat kind of thing either.
"Insst on your views being adopted In
IL things; don't give in to the majority.
his Government is ruled by n majority
Government We run this Government by
majority and 1 would like to run every
ody that way, too. But the Church
sn't run that way. Let the tail wag the
og.
GET BUSY AND FIGHT.
"Then, again, If you see that everybody
, working harmonously, get busy and
tart fight,
"If the minister wants quartet, you
1sist on a choir. II the minister wants
choir, you insist that a quartet is the
hing.
Services rendered in such opposite d.
sctions could not meet with the same
nsult. This old Pharisee comes sneak
lg into the synagogue; 1t was open all
ne time like this temple, and they meet
lere and discuss all the questions of
elIgion and Jesus at little reception
r wedding watched that bunch OF high
rows coming in and sweeping down and
liking conspicuous places, and Jesus
aid: Come down from your high
better way is to come up
igher than go down lower. 1t is better
find qualities that will enable you to
t up higher than go down.
",rhese fellows were always training to
et in the llmellght, and they came to the
,nagogue and got conspicuous places,
nd so this Pharisee came into the syna-
ogue and he prayed, Il thank God that
am not as other men are, plunderers,
adulterers and publicans. 1
st twice a week and give tithes of all
y property and he went out-that was
s prayer. 1 think that after the record
q angel got that he dropped the pen
nd threw up the sponge I can imagine
lot of people sitting around the church
Id saying, That is my idea of relig-
n, that is 1t; I am no sensationalist; 1
mt want anything vulgar no slang
'hy don't you use a little, Bud. so that
mething will come your way? And 1t
i'll come as straight as two and two
AXE four
COME OUT IN THE OPEN.
"Then in comes this old publican and
says, God be merciful to me sinner
Id he looked down at the ground. The
her fellow, I thank God that am not
other men are, plunderers, murderers,
lulterers and publicans. 1 fast twice a
eek And In comes this old fellow and
% Phairsee said, Nor as this publican
me, a sinner That Is my idea of re- !
sion. Make the confession as public as !
q transgression. If you hit the booze
I'd stagger down the street, then say,
m a booze holster, God Do the thing ,
public; settle with God Almighty out
the open. God don't like men who ight
hind ambush. Come out in the open.
iat's the idea That's what believe In.
Il was down in a town in Indiana,
1ctor Hays, where the Presbyterians
luld not kneel down when asked them {
get down and pray. The Presbyterians !
ouldn't kneel for fear the people would I
ink that they were Methodists. And
cir leader got up and tried to apollo
se, and / told them that they had the
vii In them and they wouldn't apollo
Sc for that-he ought to go and skin
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