The Detroit times., 1916-09-13

men and children will be brought
nearer 10 God.
IF you had baby and IL was
sick, and the doctor by his skill saw
ed the life Of that baby. though II
| lived but for year, yet IL would
be worth every dollar you paid that
doctor II ! can send a man home
sober for one year longer 10 his
wife TO kiss her. to buy good things
TO eat for n year, and IL al the END
he drops off the water wagon. isn't II
worth every dollar to give her hat
happy time?
"The history OF the church Is the
u stoi" OF REVEALS | can't see for
the sake OF my life how a man has
the audacity 10 call himself minis
ter OF the gospel. and oppose reviv-
ais He is a disgrace TO religion.
YOU AK the fellow that sits by you
when he was converted and you will
flnd that seven out OF every ten were
converted in time OF revival. And
when you sncer against II you put
your infinite small pusillanimous per
sonIlity up against the omnipotent,
omniscient God.
Some say, 'Revivals are undue ex-
element repeat for the third
1 time, II is "A lie
Various REVEALS Recorded
Listen 10 me. In the economy OF
nature God provides for an occasion
al copious downpour Of rain. You
would be n fool 70 growl because II
I didn't rain all the time. God has ar.
ranged his spiritual kingdom so that
he has a copious downpour of spir-
itual blessings God is rolling in
spiritual wealth as we'll as material
II is not thought unwise to have
revival in business. oh. no-eyery
town has It's commercial club. II is
not thought unwise TO have a revival
in politics no.
Some people are scared 10 death
that somebody might be saved from
hell by out-of-the- ordinary methods.
Political leaders Will hire leaders.
newspaper editors. publishers and
will spend money for votes--in order
10 get those who are Indifferent TO
the political situation interested
that is nothing under heaven but 4
political revival and YOU don't lear
anybody growl about it,
In the business world. listen In
the business world men must make
~, market as well as the goods for
the market. He must make thu
goods. then he goes into the market.
He's cot TO do both. You've got al
these institutions 10 create a demand
fer the product--these are business
vals--you have auto shows. they
are auto revivals- you have county
fairs which are nothing but revivals
where they show cows, pigs, chick.
ems, bread, butter, horses and all the
products of the farm. Then what the
revival is 10 business. what the cleo
ton is TO politics, the revival is 10
religion; what health is TO the indi-
vidual the revival Is to religion. Mar.
tin Luther saved Europe from spirit.
ual death-a spiritual revival under
Martin Luther was the cause OF the
Reformation, nothing but a revival,
and why any Lutheran will snap,
snarl. growl about a revival when his
church was born Of a revival don't
know.
Wesley and whitefeld saved Eng.
land from tho French Revolution
Edwards. Finney and Moody lifted
America from degradation by reviv-
ais Of their day The prophets were
all evangelists; John the Baptist. the
greatest man ever born of woman,
was an evangelist. The church OF
pentecost was born in religion In a
time OF revival You turn ND your
noses at q revival when the very re
ligion which you love was born in o
time Of revival. wonder God
doesn't knock you over Paul was
an evangelist, and whenever he Paul
was TO preach or wherever ne went
they had to call out the police to pro.
tect him; he had a revival or riot
everywhere he went. You cut the
day of Pentecost out OF history; you
cut Peter, James and Paul out ~ his
tory and what you have left would
not make a decent rummage sale.
Any Fool Can Sheer
ANY boy can throw a stone and
break a stained glass window. but Il
takes an artist TO make one: any
fool can build fire and burn
building, but II takes skilled me-
chanic 10 reconstruct IL. mob cru
Gifted Christ, but II took God 10 raise
Him from the dead: any fool can
sneer at a revival: any fool can do
that, and you are a fool II you do.
But you say by and through re-
vival We acknowledge we have back.
Sudden Well. you don't put the
community in possession or any In.
/ formation they have not already got.
You say II is temporary; so was the
war, but the slaves are free today.
| You say IL is temporary 40 Ia rain,
yet nature feels its refreshing power
for weeks afterward. Exalt the evan.
gelist; II does nothing OF the kind.