Evening journal., 1916-01-07
Story of a Great RcviUal
Sermon Preached Tabernacle yesterday by Lyon

that were very much alive. A saint
Is one that is set apart for Gods
work. We are all called to be saints,
not. like Simeon Stylites to pose upon
some pedestal or pillar apart from
the people, but rather to spread
abroad the influence of divine love
among the scheming. swearing, scot
ting multitudes. sodden in their sins.
There are a good many people which
the church has canonized who, IL they
had had their deserts. ought to
have been cannonaded- Santifica-
tion in the scripture sense is to lay
all you have and all you are upon
Gods altar and then take your hands
Off.
The king begins this special service
with most earnest prayer of confess
sion and intercession for the sins Of
the people. There is no petition that
so quickly reaches the ears of God as
an Acknowledgement OF your trans
gressions. "Our fathers have for
saken God" said the king, they have
turned away their faces from Him
and turned their backs. they have
shut up the doors and have put out
the lamps and have not burned in
cense nor offered burnt offerings in
the holy place" How expressive a
description this is OF the present day
religious conditions both in the
church and in the individual lifel
Family worship has become a back
number in the great majority of pro-
fessed Christian homes.
Is IL any wonder that it is So hard
In la To L n frff fuI
interest among the young people
when the parents influence and ex-
ample so often are not a help but a
/ positive detriment? The spiritual
cleansing must extend also TO the
church, Garry forth the filthiness
l out of the holy place" The larger
I the kitchen in the church usually the
smaller the prayer meeting. In the
place of it being a gospel OF Jesus
+ Christ. it has often degenerated into
I a gospel or chicken pie. No church
can grow and prosper merely upon
bazaars and festivals. Many also in
the membership are bringing shame
and reproach upon the cause. There
is needed a genuine, Old-fashioned
house-cieanirsg in many churches
People have plenty of money 10 spend
on worldly organizations and the
church is allowed to languish. II
there was not a single addition tC
membership for the next five years
but every church member could b,
brought to realize his privileges anC
responsibilities. it would mean tn
greatest ingathering of souls il
twenty centuries.
Along with this exhOrtation thl
leader declared that the wrath of th'
Lord was upon Judah and Jerusalem
Carlyle well said. "The beginning ant
the end of what the trouble with Vi
is that we have forgotten God"
am not a pessimist. but il is well 70
us to look at things as they are. w
are either going TO have great re
vival of religion that will sweep owe
our land from the lakes TO the gull
from Maine to Texas. or else yer.
soon property is not going to b.
safe. the lives and welfare OF ou
loved ones walking on the streets o
day or by night will not be safe
There is needed a call to repentance
TO restitution to reformation, to re
generation. Well. If our America
republic heeds this warning befor
p it is TOO late, and our civilization fol
lows in the path OF destruction lik
unto all the nations that have gon
before.
In response to Hezekiah's earnes