Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-09-08
STORY Of MAN Let DOWN THR0' ROOF
FOUR ATTRIBUTES NECESSARY TO SUCCESS
Evangelist Delivers Stirring Sermon to Large Crowd on
..Presbyterian Night Tells Processing Christians
Some Plain Truths.
Several inspiring, delightful songs

Several inspiring, delightful songs
were rendered by the choir and audi,
ence in the service which preceded
last nights sermon at the tent OF
King street. Rev. j. l.. Allison Of
the Second Presbyterian Church lee
in prayer, Prof. Cole sang, Just :
little help from YOU, after which
Evangelist Smith spoke from word:
found in the second chapter Of ST.
Mark, concerning the story OF the
man who was let down through the
roof and healed by Jesus. Among
other things he said:
HsThere are two great key-notes II
Christ's gospel which strike out the
'loudest. They are, Come unto me
all We that labor and ] will give yor
rest and GO We into all the world
and preach the gospel, to every crea'
ture,' One is as important as the
other, but want to especially en-
phasize the second one, tonight.
This command is not only for the
clergy but for the pew as well.
'Last year there were over F,oOo
churches in America that had not
one added to their membership.
You try to blame the preacher but l
blame the Indifferent crowd in the
pew. We have large crowd In the
church today who know nothing OF
Christ except what some preacher
has told them. What we need is an
experimental knowledge of the
Christ we confess. We may have the
finest fishing tackle that we can get
but what good will it do if we never
90 fishing. How many people have
-ye -yes-spclsen- to about Christ during
the last year? I won't say during the
last month nor embarass you by
asking you to answer, yet you can
talk about everything under the sun
except Christ.
"This is the story of man who
had friends who cared for him and
were interested in his healing.
"That was wonderful service
they had that day. They advertised
it. Advertising plays an important
part in all our business today. Great
gums of money are being paid annu-
ally for advertising. Yet when we
want to advertise risen Christ, and
when we realize that men are lost
with Him, we hang out little boaN. |.
which says Services, Sunday, 1880
a. m. 7:3O p. m. and cold lunch on
Wednesday night In Caperraum it
was noised abroad that Jesus was
in the house. They crowded and
thronged Him wherever He3went and
they have been doing so for COCO
years. And when it is known that
you have Christ's men in your pull
pit and pews, you will have no
trouble in packing your church.
sI have a often wondered what
kind of men these were who car
ried this man to Jesus and in lmag-
ination I have named the first one
Mr.. Love. You can't do anything
without love. The reason SO many
of us have such hard time in our
church work is because we do not
love it, but do it from a sense of duty.
The world is looking at Christ
through us. Do we make the world
love Him?
ssThe man at the second corner /
have called Mr.. Faith, a great fell
low to have. Some folks say they
will not accept anything they cam
not reason out. Sir, you are not
consistent. You cannot explain the
first principles of life. You cannot
explain these lights nor the seat
you are sitting on. Our whole mar
riagc system is built son faith =
and some of you had to have a whole
lot. Our great postal system is built
on faith. Faith is like the trolley
pele on the street car. Through ii
the power comes down from the wire
through the controller. into the mo.
tor and the car moves. By faith we
receive power from God to propel us
in our Christian life.
81 think the man at the third cor.
ner was Mr.. Persistence. We don't
have many in our churches today
usually the President of the Ladie:
Aid. We need persistency to sue
ceed. Sir George Williams, one o
the greatest religious workers tn
world has ever known, was won owe
to God by the efforts of young girl
The girl asked Sir George to com
to her prayer meetings and he prom