The Detroit times., 1916-09-13
adce of Business Men One of hurchs Curses Cries Billy Sda

The evangelist has his place in Gods
economy as much as the preacher.
God has special men to do special
work in special times. Many man
who is a success as r preacher would
be the worst failure you ever looked
at as An evangelist. The preacher
has his place in Gods economy and
have got mine. | believe God Al
mighty calls me 10 do what I am
doing as much as any other preacher.
could not be a pastor ! have re-
ceived several invitations and have
had some fattering offers of salary.
but il accepted a pastorate. | would
buy round trip ticket. A revival
is conviction OF sin, a conviction
OF sin on the part of the church.
III they wish TO begin anew with
their responsibilities and obligations
10 God. they must begin at the door
Of the church OF God, at the house
Of God. not the saloons and not by
the breweries and groggeries and
red-light and sinking dance halls.
You men are ashamed OF your.
selves even now to think that you
have not done. more for Jesus Christ
than you did. You just beat path
10 the store or office and home. went
10 church on Sunday, and back 10 the
store. and that is all you did. and you
call that serving the Lord
When is a revival needed? A
preacher said 10 me in Iowa.
| thought | had done my duty when
held up the bleeding form OF Jesus
Christ and dilated upon his precepts.
, but find that | must talk upon sin.
You bet you must; many an old sin.
ner isn't At for the balm OF Gilead
until he is given good oldfashioncd
! fly blister and the currycomb Of the
law. And some old pachy dcrms will
sit in their pews and one shake, like
fat-tailed sheep in the rain, one
shake and they're dry.
The Spirit OF God flies from the
scenes OF strife and discord You
might as well expect a mummy to
speak and bear children, you might
as well expect hell 10 sing the dox-
ology You might as well try to bat
ter down Gibraltar, shooting green
peas with popgun as 10 expect that.
IF there is a woman I pity it is
the society woman who lives for
few empty headed, beer-soaked grass
widowers, Tilted jays with cracked
regulations.
When Revival Is Needed
"A revival is needed when the
worldly spirit is in the church of
God II isn't necessary 10 do some
thing grossly inconsistent. A ship
Ia all right in the sea. but all wrong
when the sea is in her. The church
of God is all right in the world, but
all wrong when the world is in the
church. Some people come TO church
on Sunday morning and on Monday
morning they take n header into the
world and the church never sees
them again until Sunday morning.
| They squat and take up a little space
in the pew and stay there and put
little money on the plate, but you
never see them again until next Sun
day. tell you. believe half OF the
church members could die and the
church wouldn't lose anything Of its
spiritual force; II would lose them
in numbers, but II wouldn't lose any
thing In spiritual power. tell you,
my friends, we need a panic in re-
/ ligion. The world doesn't need in
/ forming: II needs reforming We arc
| going to the devil over culture clubs,
rs II the world needed informing IL
doesn't need anything OF the kind.
There are people who 60 to church
/ and 90 to a certain denomination be.
cause their wives goes there. fhey
got their religion and their property
in their name. They go to that
church.
Look at the Sunday school The
/ Sunday school ought to be con
slant feeder OF the church. Why
isn't it? Because we have Sunday
school teachers who are absolutely
good for nothing; they help nobody
but the publishers. They don't sit
down and study. They don't prepare.
They go TO Sunday school and try
to teach, and on Monday they are
at some leg show, and on Tuesday
night they are at some dance, and
they don't come near the church
again until Sunday morning.
II want TO say II public school
teacher knew no more about the
work and methods OF teaching than
the average Sunday school teacher
knows about the will of God she
would not be on the payroll Is
minutes.
Go down 10 the dance halls. the
nickelodeons, the picture show. the
cheap-skate dance halls--there Won
will find young girls with dresses 10
their shoe tops. | ask you, why? I'll
tell you; the spiritual restitution Of
the multitude. Thousands never
darken the church doors. A revival
Ia needed when sinners are careless,
licentious A general revival OF re-
ligion has got to sweep over this