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The Detroit times., 1916-09-18

life until | die. Apply that more
10 your religion and you will have
he devil In the hospital with peri.
tonitis.
Work Here for Every One.
Here are some tremendous facts
There are 100000 churches in the
United states: about 26.000 900 com
municants in the churches equally
divided between the Catholic and
Protestant. there Is seating capa-
city for $1,000 900 in our churches (;
IN America. already one-'hird OF the
people are processing Christians. not
quite. but nearly that. and all they
would need 10 do would be for each
one 20 win two souls To God In a
year, 5000 600 people In this country
who are not members OF any church.
We talk about My Country 'Tis OF
Thee We stamp In God We Trust
on our coins That's hot air
1T is a downright hypocrisy to
pray for a thing and not be willing
10 work for IL, Your prayers are
worth no more than you are willing
10 redeem them az in works. and I
am not going 10 keep anything back
in this city for fear OF anybody in
this place.
Listen 10 me. have tribunal 70
which ! must answer when I am
through with this world. and that's
God Almighty and the word
Not a Magician.
II toll YOU YOU have got too many
folks that call themselves Christians
because they belong 10 a church. |
am told you can pack q room or an
auditorium il YOU announce min
strel show. a cantata, or dance.
while II YOU can scare up dozen or
two AT a prayer meeting YOU think
you are going some
81 am no magician or sleight-of.
hand performer. I'm just ar old
fashioned preacher OF Calvary. Don't
think youll have good revival by
just weeping and praying. Get out
and do some work When YOU think
OF all the drunkards in the streets
~ this city, all the hell-holes and
rotten dens OF vice. the rum soaked,
miserable wretchos and drug fends,
all the iicentiousGess. al the graft
and greed that permeates this city;
get Out and do something
"Thcy can't be- moved By a little
biz OF weeping and hoping Take a
piece of chalk and draw ring
arouad yourself and say Here Cod.
start with this lobster In the ring
It's hypocrisy TO pray cod for some
thing and not work for it,
Gods hands are tied and God g
chariot wheels are CloGged through
the Indifference Of the church tOdav
The people had mind 10 work
God could convert any one he
wanted. but ne prefers TO work
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Said I'm From Missouri Come ASSoW Me- According 10 William

| through human hands. Some one
must carry the message TO the con
vert lf thing is desirable or un'
desirable. IL will meet with results
If We work for Il Look a tho liquor
traffic Does il succeed because II is
desirable, are any of it's purified
vomiting. illsmelling saloons, brew
cries. hashy bartenders, cursing
broken. down wretches. subsidized
politicians, all working for the over
throw OF good; are any OF these
things desirable? No, it's because
that bunch works for It's results. II
family Institution like that gets
along by working. what can't we dc
for Christ IL we work?
God Wants Workers.
God demands human laborers. He
could have sent an angel here "a
preach. That is not Gods way. God
said. 'Bill, want you 10 do It, God
could have sent the angel Gabriel
down here to lead, but God said
'Rody, you do IT. God could have
sent angels for this choir 10 do the
job. but that is not Gods way OF do
ing God wants workers. not critics
he wants builders, not wreckinR
crew. ] will tell you folks there is
2 CRYING need today FOR leaders who
will lead, preachers who can preach
teachers who can instruct in the tre
mendous odds that confront us.
Membership cannot be depended
upon. All denominations are failing
10 reach the great. rushing seeth
inn "a aA a
rushing to hell like cattle.
Last year $500 churches made re
ports; not one accession on confes
sion OF faith Any Of your churches
among that number? II that is not
IN insult TO the grace of God. you
come and show me. Young men
are leaving the ministry. Mighty
few Young men are entering the semi
naries The seminaries are VI
against H. Take one Instance; In
1910 thirty-three congregational
churches in Boston spent 100000 for
expenses they had 420 join the
church in thc course OF the whole
year In Chicago the Congregational
churches. numbering 73, spent for
current expenses s250,000. and they
had S76 join their churches for a
year. All the Congregational churches
in Boston and Chicago had In one
year 1906 come into the church.
"ln ono year there were only 1906
come into the churches, and | saw
oveS 20O0 people take their stand for
Jesus Christ in one day in Columbus
o. Oh. Of course, am crude and
illiteratc, and there is Il safe and
sane eTanColism that we hear sc
much about nowadays.
When ser what I'm UP against
It's wonder I'm so easy. Almost
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No sooner does the work begin
than criticism and opposition arise
Emergencies not only make men, hut
make eXpediencies as well. We
didn't make Roosevelt: didn't make
Schley; didn't make Admiral Dewey;
u simply gave them chance 10 un.
veil themselves 10 the world
In Australia everything is back
ward When YOU so north you are
going south. Christmas Is the hot
test day OF the year and the Fourth
OF July the Coldest. Somebody once
said Australia was land that God
started. but got called off the job
before he could finish il.
They tell a story OF Michelangelo :
he went into a building where Raph.
ael had painted some cartoons. and
Angelo looked at them, and his praC-
iced eye told him that they were
too large for the wall space; they
were ont of proportion. and he took
his brush and dipped il In the paint
and painted a cartoon OF tho size
which he thought It ought 10 be. And
some one said Why did YOU &c
that? Why didn't you call Raphael
attention 10 it, And he answered
end said, 4, Angelo, oriticise by crea
ton, not by finding fault So, if any
Of you here tonight think YOU can
preach a better sermon than I. butt
in here and I'll get OFF the Job II
some old elder or deacon thinks yoJ
can DO the job better than the preach
or. than asS him TO resign and yor
climb up in the pulpit and DO H. Any
of you can criticiSe. but il requires
brains 70 do things. II You don,
Ike IL, go home II OF put anything
in the collection. I'll give IL bach
10 you.
81 was in Connecticut ono time
New London. and | met apromineui
man who told Of man they had haC
in their church he was always
grumbling and complaining, anC
finding fault and kicked about every
thing; he didn't like the sermons and
he never did any thing. So at a church
session some one said What will
We do with Drother Brown Some
one else said Have him prayed
for Brother, will you pray for him E?
Not on your lifo' Brother. viii YOU
pray for him. '%o Finally they
found one fellow to say he would
They agreed th9t he would do II on
Wednesday evening, and when Wed
nesday evening prayer meeting came
he got Up and ciearei his ,hroar and
said: .Lo. d. thrros 5rotN~~ E'own
who does nothing himself. bat "a al
ways grunbl.ug and complaining. al
ways growing and hnding faul,. and
oh, Lord, We hago fiyeH tho matter
earnest confederation, ard vo have
como 10 the prayerful conclusion
that the best ,h.nE you can do fc'
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Sunday Afternoon Sermon.


Work was the subject OF the
Sunday afternoon sermon.
I'm the Book of Nehemiah. fourth
chapter, sixth verse. THE people
had a mind 10 work
Nehemiah was the cup bearer 20
King Artaxerxes. ard he heard that
the city was In deplorable and di-
lapidated condition. his beloved Jer.
usalem. This news was brought 70
him by a friend, who had been to
Jerusalem and seen for himself
When he walked into the presence
Of the king the old monarch noticed
that his countonance was sad and
troubled, and he asked him what was
the reason, and he told him It was
because he had learned about Jer.
usalem. and he asked the permission
OF the king 10 return 10 Jerusalem for
the purpose OF rebuilding the walls
The king not only readily consented,
but gave him an order upon his for.
est for timber and upon his quar-
ries for stone.
He got 1900 men and returned TO
Jerusalem. and in the seemingly in.
credible time OF - days the walls of
the city had been rebuilt and the
yates hung upon hinges. and this was
accomplished because az the words
found in my text There Worr no
loafers on the job. The people had
a mind 10 work There were others
In captivity who knew as much about
Jerusalem a. did Nehemiah but they
were not concerned about h. En-
thusiasm for God Is like the measles
or the smallpox If you've got IL
somebody else will get It il they go
near you
1T is one thing To know what TO
do and another thing 20 do il. The
trouble is that the people know what
10 do. but they do not do II because
they are too lazy 10 do H. Know.
ledge IL OF no value unless YOU use
II. II is useless 10 those depending
upon YOU for bread and butter un-
less YOU use your knowledge You
may know about God. yet YOUR know.
ledge OF God and Gods cause Is no
good unless vCu take the knowledge
and put II into practice Religion
IL the most common-sense thing I'm
the universe
Who you arc and WIN YOU DO
is OF vastly more Importance: not
what YOU know, If YOU simply use
the term knowledge IN the abstract
Must Believe Work.
The world isn't SLOW 20 discover
a fraud. Whether or not the church
meets It's purpose and that Is 90 save
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souls for Jesus Christ. depends on
whether or not YOU do your duty.
Some people pretend TO believe.
but they never work az H.
christianity consist in neither
believing alone or doing alone. but
IN both II you believe, wake up and
do something. Show you believe by
what YOU dp. James said Faith
without works iR dead In other
words, I'm from Missouri. come
across; let me see
III YOU believe. work out your sal
yation with fear and trembling
have got salvation through Jesus
Christ now that ! have got a., let
me work II out. Don't sit around
and rap The most successful preach.
crs against Christianity are not the
saloonkeepers. but inconsistent pro-
fessors of Christianity.
The bad sermons YOU preach with
your life are more powerful than the
most over-mastering sermon that
any man can preach with his lips.
You pray with your lips, and cheat
i'm horse trade You kneel ~ a
communion table and then YOU op-
press the poor and make them live
below the hunger linc. You sing for
the glorifcation OF God and then YOU
put the wrong figures in the day
book.
What is the inducement that
makes student stick TO his books !?
Graduation day Why DO men prac.
ticc law or medicine? To be paid
for their si,ill--the skill he has ac-
Quired AZ law or medicine by years
of study and practice.
IT Is said OF Louis Kossuth that
he made up his mind TO spend a
year in sunny southern Ia belle
France When the government learn.
ed OF his decision they sent courier
ont into the bay 20 refuse him the
permission TO land. Thousands and
thousands oi people had assembled
at Marscilles to bid him welcome,
and when they learned Of the de.
cision OF the government they were
disappointed and their diSappoint.
ment knew no bounds There was
one Frenchwwn who was not 10 be
discouraged or outdone even by the
government, and he jumped into the
bay and swan mile out into the
bay and clawbcred up the rope lad.
der and stood dripping and shivering
in the presence OF the great exile
kosau kossuth said 10 him: How
In the world did YOU ever manage 10
reaCn this vossclf IlC replied
There are no difficulties TO him that
willis kossuth said Say that
again he again repeated, 'TGere
are no difficulties 10 him that wills
Kossuth said 10 him Thank fou
for coming That shall be my motto
as well as m inspiration for all my
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any hog can root into the church il
he has a word OF orthodoxy and four
suits of clothes.
1T cost $500 for every soul that
Joined the church i'm indianapolis
New York. s545; Boston, $40; Den.
YER. $i25. Chicago, S42O: New Or
leans. $50; Atlanta, Ga, SO: Louis.
Vile. Ky, S65: Philadelphia S20S.
Fifty two percent OF the men who
live south OF the Mason and Dixon
line are protesting Christians, north
or the Mason and Dixon line "a per
cent: along the Pacific coast only 6
per cent. aad YOU can put a question
mark after the names OF most OF
them. II there's anything this side
OF hell they haven't got a slice OF
out on the coast want TO know
what II is.
There are three kinds OF people
in the church; the | Wills. who try
10 accomplish everything. the won'ts,
who oppose everything the can'ts.
who do nothing Hear me. The
world wants men and women with
nerve and grit. who will work and
wait whether they are applauded or
whether they are hissed Chiseled
on the monument of Miss Lyons, who
founded the school for girls at Mount
Holyoke. Mass, there is this inscrip.
ton: There is nothing in the uni.
verse that, fear except that | may
not know my duty, or. knowing my
duty, may not do it,"
Reveals Critics Character.
There is nothing in this universe
that ! am afraid Of except that ! may
not know my duty. or, knowing II,
may not do II. The people know
what 10 do, but they DO not do IL.
The people had mind 10 work.
Every time lazy man looks up into
heaven think that God closes the
windows
The people had mind 10 work ;
not 10 criticise, and they did work.
Whenever YOU begin any work OF
this kind there is opposition; that's
always the way. The devil is always
on the job with his gang of maraud-
ers and rag babies Start 10 do
something for God and see how the
devil begins TO howl That is the
best evidence in the world that you
are hurting his business.
Listen 10 me. A mans criticism
Is n revelation OF his own degrade.
tion o. the one whom he criticises.
Listen 10 me. Criticism Is n public
revelation i will put il this way
is a public revelation OF the moral
latitude and longitude OF the critic,
and il will give you an insight into
his character Criticism. my friends,
is public revelation of the char
acter OF the one that does the knock
ing. The people had a mind TO work
and not 10 criticise
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him and for all the community Is TO
take him 10 heaven But Brother
Brown jumped up and said. I won't
go, ! won't go. won't 60.
Sc a Booster Rooster.
After a while another fellow got
mp and said. Lord, we think the best
thing YOU can do is 10 take him 10
hell Somebody got up and said
w hat do YOU want 10 make a prayer
like that for He said, I'll Tell yax
II the devil got him in he'll. he'd
either run he'll or break il up. one
or the other Every preacher has a
few members that he wishes were in
one place or the other. III tell you
that.
The people had a mind TO work
Don't YOU know there are lot OF
people who sit around grumbling and
growing like brooding chickens,
knocking every good thing down:
don't be that kind OF cattle. no.
they're no use on earth--be a booster
rooster. crow and boost for ali you're
81 orth. Your town needs the best
booster, don't hold back and see II
some other fellow is willin'. jest sail
lils Auic NNAtiNl y llFEs
"A working Christian never has
any doubts. You go up 10 man
and ask him. Are YOU a Christian -
Yes. thank God, | am Go up 10
another. Are YOU 2 Christian? Well,
! | hope 60. Brother sunday. in my
weak gay | am trying TO serve the
Lord Pray fer me II some one
asked, Mr.. Sunday are you mar
| ried?' Yes. | hope SO, ! am trying
TO be- And yet ] am just as sure
that | am a Christian as that | am
married What sort Of mutt would
I ! be- IL ! said / am trying to be mar
ricd Here rs a song a Christian
ought never 70 sing:
r. a uoirt long TO know
Much II gives me anxious thought;
10 i-E" Inc Lord or no.
Am | Ills or am ] not;
a Christian ought never 10 sing n
song like that know Him In
whom I believe like that kind Of
/ religion. ! will give YOU a recipe:
! Make out prayer list before you
so TO sleep tonight. write down the
names OF every man or woman,
every boy or girl. make a list OF 20
or )0, OF 30, and pray for them; be
fore you know Il that cold feeling
| has gone and you arc up TO the face
OF God with 20 or 70 souls, praying
Tor them day and nirht.
IN woman CAME UP TO me one dav
ard 2aid: Mr.. Sunday, havc you
read this novel; I said No She
said. YOU ought 70 read it, | said,
I cant. haven't got time She
asked If | had read When Knight
hood Was in Flower No Have
,ou read The Crisis by Winston
CiugchilI?' No. Have you read
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freezing to death. He is just a. big
thief.
"The employer that makes the
working man work for wages that
keep him on the verge OF starvation
ana don't begin TO pay him for the
labor he expends il thief; so is
the working man that doesn't give
his employer an honest return for
the wages he gets a thief. The gam
bier that bets and wins Ia thief.
the gambler hat bets and loses In
fool Every gambler is either thief
or fool, or both The church that
holds a lottery Is a thief. too.
II don't care If am in cauldron
of industry. The monopoly or the
trust that will corner the nations
fuel supply or oil or bread supply or
any other commodity, which we must
have in order 10 1.-Two, and then make
us pay their rates for that supply or
else freeze or starve TO death. is
dirty low-down thief. THOU SHALT
NOT STEAL
ouis Gossiplno and Lying.
p, THOU SHALT NOT BEAR
= FALSE WITNESS know some of
you in here don't like what I'm say
ing. but that don't worry me bit.
I'm handing you out the straight
truth. and truth hurts, that's ALL
Here's one for your sister; There
are three ways to spread news
telephone. telegraph and tell wo-
man
You run into your neighbor's in
the early morning. You have a fas-
cinator on. your hair is il curl papers
and your hands are covered with
dough. You say. Good morning,
Mrs. j., have you heard the latest
cbGu, Mrs s? | feel 30 sorry for
the family You are miserable
old liar. FOR II YOU Fet sorry you
would Eocp your old mouth shut. You
nliserablr old gimlet-cyed. pigeon
toed thing. | tell you. The devil is 80
afraid OF some OF YOU women he
wouldn't get within - feet of YOU.
Yes. and some of you old he-gos-
slpers thar can loaf in a livery stable
OF n booze joint and rip peoples rep
utaiiCrs TO q shred and YOU don't
stop 20 find out whether II is true
or not. THOU SHALT NOT BEAR
FALSE WITNESS Quit lying about
people.
"iHOU SHALT NOT COvET THY
.NEICHBORS HOUSE NOR HIS
MAJ SERVANT. NOR HIS MAID
SERVANT. NOR HIS ASS. NOR HIS
OK NOR ANYTHING THAT Is
THY NFIGHBOR'S That means his
automobile They JidN't have them
then. or Moses woGli have put one
in Ncr bie Tubbor-tired carriage.
They didn't have those. either. Nor
r'o Honr yacht, nor hls private car.
"THOU SHALT NOT COVET.'
"rHOU SHALT NOT COVET
THY NElGHBOR'S HOUSE You
have some beautiful homes in De-
troit. I have seen many OF them.
40. I don't IKE the town. I want
20 live IN The country. THOU
SEIAIT NOT CONET THY NEIGH
rORS no 81. NOR HIS NAN SER
Want. NOR HIS MAID SERVANT
40 l.! YOU nelghbor has girl that
is q good cook don't go nosing
around ard ass how much they pay
her week and then offer her 2S or
50 cents more 10 get her II your
friend has good, nice delivery boy
who doesn't booze or smoke cigar
ettcs. don't 20 nosing around and
offer him more money! THOU
SHALT NOT COVTT THY NEIGH
rOR'S HOUSE. NOR HIS MAN SER
J WANT. NOR HIS MAID SERVANT.
NOR HIS OK. NOR HIS ASS, NOR
ANYTHING THAT is THY NEIGH
BORIS
MANY man would like to have
his neighbor's wife You let her
alone keep your eyes for your own.
Keep your love Tor your own. THOU
SHALT NOT CONET' See how you
go up against the word OF Godg Get
tContinsed on psse sssb
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Cidl reform that are not built upCU
the Ten Commandments. and Nrcn
7 say 10 you that stand firm and
Gu1re on the Ten Commandments
md when this old world is burned
10 ashes, | Will have foundation
as sure and enduring A. the God
upon whose law ! stand tonight. II
you don; ooey them, yuu'll be-
damned just as sure rs you live
and breathe
What is \ mans god9 Anything
that ~ thinks more of than he does
Of God With some people it is
MONEY They worship money.
MUn"" is just as truly their god as
u thcy would hang p fifty or Eu7-
drcd dollar bill framed on the wall
and pray 20 l. before they get into
bod Thew do thinKS in business
because there f. money III II. and
rhey don't care whether they break
iAc law Of God or man 10 make
money
"Monv 4 man viii s0ll his con-
ec'orc, ard sacrifce he honor 10
pat 2 few dirty hundred dollars or
moro I'm the bank IN a wear than he
possibly could pGt in il if No had
ohevcd rhe laws or God and man
Some viii lie and cheat. slandcT and
gun under your nose. Why What
for? For their lcve OF money.
Other people are worshiping so,
clety. They do things in their social
life. in their dress and 60 70 places
because society demands II. and II
they didn't they would lose their
standing. You put society first.
You slap Cod in the face jus, 70
please some old. double-chinned
phleEma:ic. dogmstic. goutmGtic ole
hen Of society leader II you put
God al all, he has 10 come tagging
along after somc beer, wine or
champagne.soaked society leader,
and Cod has 70 play second ldile.
and be trailer to every Jack rab-
bit proposition that comes along.
We're making money by nc
buckets full in this country. but
we're going TO hell In carload lots,
freight prepaid. IT'S good thing
10 have money and the things y can
buy but It's also good thing ~
SIT down once In awhile and think
OF tho things we might lose which
mouev can't buy.
whisky Is many A mans god.
He thinks moro OF whisky bottle.
keg Of beer or case OF wine
than he does about God. oh. there
are men here who. n they werc 10
die you would not need 10 preach
their funersl sermon. Embalm
them. put them In coffin. carry
them here. then SO down 10 the
booze Joint md get bottle OF
whisky or Champa gne and put II In
their coffin. That Ia the story OF
their life. All they have lived for
n 10 booze
"Thcre are men here n they
would die you would not need 10
preach their funeral sermon Put
them I'm their cofin. carry them IN
here. buy pnck OF cards md n
faro bank md some red and white
and blue chips. put them in the cot
An, md they VIII tell the story ~
their ives That's all they have
lived for. the dirty. blaok.legsad
gamblers,
There are some women here 10.
night n they would die they woul'
not need TO preach their funera'
rermon Put YOU in & conn. go 20
your home, get your jewels and
your clothes and bring them IN
here, pat them on your coffin. All
YOU have lived for T. tn show on In
society and oil you think YOUR body
Is for is 10 10 n fashionable franc
upon which 10 hang fashions gar.
with witch 90 Eormandize upon all
the viands that rich husband can
60 you