Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-05-20
SAYS WORLD IS
OEvOT|NC MORE
THOUGHT TO COD
Speaker at Baptist Conyen-
ton Declares Men Are Pay
ng Less Attention to Gold
and Pleasure

(AeeOeiatPh Press correspondence
MINNEAPOLIS. Mimi, May 1.-THE
>torfhern BAPTIST convention which
tnday opened a weeks session here,
listened this evening to Symposium
an Evangelism" a feature Of the
nrogram being an address by the Rev.
mr. Thomas j Nillers. Of Detroit, who
suolte on "A Call to Organized Evan
pelism Of the Local Church Di.
Villers is chairman of the convention
committee on evangelism which viii
trv IN add one millioQ converts TO the
churches within the next five years.
tomorrow he will make his annual
report
evangelism were Rev Herbert ).
Johnson. who spoke on The EVange-
netic power of Consecrated Person
atty and Rush Rhees, OF Rochester,
\ ". who talked Of "EVangeli2iue
Education
Dr. Villers said in part;
This topic assumes that the MEM
hersbjp of the local church have a
clear understanding Of their supreme
TASK namely to continue and COM
netc the mission of Jesus. What
that mission was He has plainly told
MS In the synagogue a Nazareth He
declared that he was sent TO eVangel-
We The poor. to heal the broken
hearted: to emancipate the captive;
to restore the blind; to liberate the
bruised and to proclaim the Lords
accertable year And all of us whom
lie has commissioned and equipped,
even as the Father commissioned and
enuinppd Him, does He send to live
the same life to bear the same mes
sage. 10 continue the same ministry
Of eyangeizing, healing. emancipat-
ing. enlightening and consoline.
tro insure the largest results, the
forces Of the church must be organ
lied instructed, Inspired, directed
This can and will be done. il a pas
sion for souls burns steadily in the
nastors own bosom. II he kindles q
big eVangelistic fire in the pulpit,
iced Indifference viii thaW in the
pews.
4The call to organized evangelism
is the call of Christ IN a world crisis
Humanltys heart is bleeding tonight
as never before. The unparalleled
death graphic of the nations has
thrown over our people solemn
hush. enabling us To hear other voices
than the bable of Mammon and sum
moning MS To other achievements than
the accumulation of wealth. The
period covered by our five year pro-
gram will mark crisis in the life OF
our churches, as surely as was that
night in the life of our Lord. when
looking out upon the morrow of his
crucifixion. he said Father the hour
is come For lis the hour has come
Ia choose between the sacrificial and
the selfish TO watch with Him in ms
new Gethsemane, or TO sleep WINE
he prays alone. to he the Good Sa-
marian to be a robbed and wounded
world or to pass by IN disregard OF
our neighbor's physical suffering ano
spiritual need, to mobilize our FORCES
for immediate and aggressive con
quest, or to lose irreVoc1bly the most
inviting opportunity that the church
as an cVangeli2ing agency mas ever
been given.
This call to organized evangelism
is also the call OF men in q SOU crisis
once to every man, as wen as To every
nation, comes the moment to declde.
Multitudes are now in the valley o.
decision. In the new awakening they
have learned that they are something
more than bodies something more
lUhD buluitS VI Bli1oiNei NfN''N'
woes that within every mans BODY
is a thinking. loving. aching some
thing which he calls himself that
this something has q hunger when
can be satisfied only with the bread
that came down from heaven, a thirst
which can be quenched only al Tue
fountain of immortal drink
Men tonight are more approach
able on the question OF personal re
ligion than I have ever known them
to he at any time during my MINIS
try They revolt at being lust mere
money grubbers and pleasure seekers'
They do not want to feel that all god
like passion for eternals IS quehched
In the light of the life which lies be-
yond the sky line, they are trying 10
assess earthly pursuits and posses
sions at their true value They nave
expressed to me, some Of them a
yearnine to give themselves for others
and so far to repeat in themselves
here and NOW the perfect lite Of Jesus
even though they know that an thS
fires of hell were quenched ana an
the fountains of paradise were drleG
up. They are fired. great numbers oi
them with an ambition to DO thc
things which will make this life worm
while, as we'll as to make heaven
SUfpr heritage