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

there Is a fussy woman following you
around turning down the gas Let your
light burn full and bright, so that every
body can see It.
oYom ought TO live so that every one
about you, every one who meets you
knows that you are n Christian. DC
your Does your niilkman know that you
are a Chrstian7 Does the man who
brings your laundry know that you are
Christian? Does the man who hauls
out your ashes know that you are n
Chrlstian7 Does the newsboy who throws
| the paper on your doorstep know that
| YOU are Christian? Does the butcher
know that you are Christian?
OUGHT TO BE RELIGIOUS.
"If you had to get into heaven on the
testimony OF your washer woman would
| you make it? If your getting into
heaven depended on your religion, would
| you land7 If your husband had to get
| admittance to heaven on the testimony
| of his stenographer, could he do IL?
| If his salvation depended on what his
clerks could tell about him, would he
get there7 A man ought to be as re-
ligious in business as he Is in church.
He ought to be as religious in buying
and selling as he is in praying.
Let your light shine in your neighbor-
hood. Every church should be n refuge
for the homeless, the drunlard and the
fallen woman. They aren't, though. Half
of you would freeze them up by the
way you look at them
"You should love your neighbor as
yourself. Love your neighbor that way.
Feed him when he is hungry Give him
a drink when he is thirsty. Treat him
as you do yourself.
Nhn nxRy
crowd gathered to hear Jesus and saw
that they were hungry, they were
scared. They went to Jesus and said:
Lord, send them away. We can't feed
them ALL But Jesus told Philip to
have the people seated, and he said:
why, we haven't anything to feed
them with. Two hundred pennyworth of
bread wouldn't feed that hungry crowd
But Jesus looked around and saw
little boy whose ma had given him five
biscuits and n couple of sardlnes, and
said to him: Son, come here; the Lord
wants you.' So the boy came to Jesus.
and he took the biscuits and sardlnes
and fed that whole crowd, and they had
all they wanted and when they got
through there were IL baskets of frag-
ments left.
ALL CAN BE LoAvEs
you can't all preach, and you can't
all do great things. You can't ell be
Peters and Jameses and Johns, but you
can all be barley loaves and fishes for
God. You can all wipe away the tears
from the eyes of sorrow. You can all
go to church when 1t rains or looks like
rain. That's when the preacher needs
you. No man can be eloquent to wood
and varnish
Don't look as II religion hurt you.
Don't look as If you had on a num-
Der two shoe when you ought to be
wearing number five. Don't look as II
you were wearing a % R. &; c. or Prin-
cess Irene, when you ought to have on a
30. L see some women here this after
noon who look as If they had the tooth
acne. That won't win any one for Christ.
Look pleasant. Look as IL religion made
you happy when you had 1t.
Don't think that anything you do for
God is too small to be worth while. Do
your best. That's all the angels can do.
Nothing you do is little If what you did
was the best you could. If a little thing
Is all that you can do then that little
thing is great deal in the sight of God.
God only expects every one to do his best
lou won't be judged on basis of COM
parisons. He expects us to serve him ac-
cording to the talents that are given u.s.
The widows mite is Just as great as the
rich mans big contribution. If a mite is
etil you nave TO give, ana you give 1t,
you've given all you could-and that's all
that God expects. If you give a cup of
cold water and that Is all that YOU can
do, your reward will be just as great as
IL you had been great preacher.
WANT ALL THE GLORY.
"You must remember that Jesus tells
us to shine for God. The trouble with
some people and preachers is that they
try to shine rather than letting their light
shine. Some preachers put such a big
capital Il in front of the cross that the
sinner can't see Jesus. They want the
glory. They would rather be a comet
than stars OF Bethlehem. Don't try to
shine yourselves. Let your light shine
which Is very different thing How can
you let 1t shine? Well, If you are a
banker, be better banker than that mis-
cradle old sinner across the street If
you are horseshoer, be the best horse
shoer in town.
Take and build yourself castle out
of promises of God, and move into it, and
then, when the devil comes to tempt you
invite him to come in and show him
the pictures on the walls. Tell him that
those are pictures of what God is going
to do for you, and he'll get out in a
hurry. Just show him the pictures.
Determine that you will make sue
cess In Christianity, even if you fail in
everything else. But II you succeed as a
Christian, you won't fail in other things.