Omaha daily bee., 1915-10-03
"Let Your Light So Shine Before
Men, is Sundays Afternoon Text

! tianity is the salt Of the world. 1t will
kill that germ. SO IL you sneer at re-
| lgion you are a fool.
The only power that keeps Omaha from
rotting into he'll is Christianity. That's
why I want to bring it here.
Jesus tells us. too. that VIC are a
/ leaven, and lie means us to lcaven the
, whole lump. When He mentioned leaven.
| every woman who was present knew
that He was talking about bread-makins
and sat up and listened to find out
] whether lie had His dope right He
! had, toe, You know how leaven works
put JUST a little Of It into a mass and
He intended us to prevent 1t from rot
tenness.
pretty soon II will have the whole mass
working, and will make 1t like itself.
There are many kinds Of leavcn In the
world. The leaven Of the Pharisees was
working when Jesus was on earth. and
He wanted Gods lesven to be the
stronger. IL we arc the right kind OF
leaven we will leavcn the whole lump
and make the world as God wants IL
to be-
IL this old earth were a lump of dough,
we could Just drop a little leaven OF
Christianity into it and change the whole
mass
Your light may not be as big as some,
out II you keep it burning as brightly
as you can God will be satisfied When
you have done all that you can do. that
Is enough. Ia rather be a burning match
IN the right place for Jesus Christ than
an arc lamp that MS gone out The
smallest light will drive away a lot OF
darkness. If come into this tabernacle
at night, and not light is burning. and
l take match from my pocket ana
strike it, the darkness win be broken
away back to the corners. You may not
be able to do as great things rs Others
You may not be able to speak well, but
you can let your light shine 10y work
ing for the Lord so people will know
where you stand. What II you cant
sing or preach or pray as well as others.
you can live right.
Banks ON God.
suppose people criticise you. It's none
Of their business. And what business
have you to criticise my so-called slang?
The Lord knew about 1t long before YOU
come on the scene. and He's standing
LOT IL, L Dank on God.
Just because. you get your name on
a church record and continue to live
like the devil. it doesn't 1ean you're
serving God. So what r.snt have you
to cridcise my way of serving God?
You are bright before God only as
His light shines through you. When
look at you l don t see the real you
there in the pews. What l see is only
the house you live in. 1t isn't you that
dies and falls down and gets pale and
cold. 1t isn't you that the undertaken
pumps full of embalming fluid and is
placed in coffin and buried. It's only
the house you have been living in You
don't see me by what 1 make my body
do. We only live in these bodies, and
when God tells us to move out, we move
that's all. We are only tenants at will,
and it's not your will, either
You have seen how this light over
my head is an effect cause. You see
man who has blasphemed God and
who now respect His name. There you
see the effects. The cause is the power
of God to save.
Skeptics may try to tear down the
Bible all they choose but a Christian
life is living proof of the power of
NOhs lOu Ndh btl away lTOln lHdl.
The true light of Christianity is as much
proof of God as this lisnt above me is
of dynamo. Your Christian living is
just as necessary as my preaching or
"Rodys" singing.
We place too much reliance upon
preaching and upon singing and too
little on the living of those who sit in
the pews. We expect a great deal from
,n ~, IA fgbt y
little from ourselves. We think the
preachers life ought to be without
flaw and that the Sunday school teacher
ought to be a wingless angel, and that
the deacons and elders ought to be
strictly upright, but too many people in
the pews live like the devil. God doesn't
call the preacher to a higher standard of
living than He does you.
Listen to this You must have light
before you can let it shine; if you aren't
right with God you haven't any Light.
Have you been born again? 1 don't ask
you If you are a church member
church members and Christians are not
always synonymous IL you have not
been born again, If the Holy Spirit ism
in you, you must get right. II you are
not right, YOU know II.
Polished sinner Dangerous.
Morality isn't enough TO give you
light. Christianity is the light Morality
is only the polish o nthe candlestick-it
isn't the light itself. You may be moral,
you may be true to the vows you made
to your husband, you may practice phil
anthropy, but that isn't enough. You
must be born again. It's the light you
want not the candlestick.
It's the polished moral sinner who is
the most dangerous. The society woman
who has no religion has bigger drag for
the devil than the girl selling her virtue
in the red light district. People will fol-
low the example of the society woman
more than they will that of the poor
fallen girl. It's because the devil can
transform himself into an angel of light
that he has lasted so long. lie talks from
the pulpit in the garb of an orthodox
preacher.
Infides have been vomiting and spew-
ing and splitting out their heresies that
Christ is not divine Who is liar but
he who denies Jesus Christ?
IL all the world is against my Christ,