The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-09-28
Thursday Afternoons Sermon.

n lie lhAi MlnntIn Souls is wise,
was the text. and personal work the
theme of Thursday afternoons ser.
mon.
Christ said Follow me and
VIII make you fisher OF men said
/ Mr. sunday. The medical school
teaches YOU to be a doctor the law
school teaches you TO be an attorney,
/ and the church should teach people
TO save souls II YOU do not, then
/ YOU are not fishers Of men, or YOU are
trying to make Christ out liar.
ANY church that does not believe
in the divinity Of Jesus Christ heav-
en- or hell isn't authorized by God
and if church isn't authorized it
degenerates into a third-rate amuse-
ment bureau.
The majority Of the Christian PEG
pie never speak about Christ TO 9th
ers want to urge everybody to en-
i gage i'm personal work Each Of you
write down i've names of members
/ OF your own family and ask how
many Of them belong to the church.
Some Of YOU may find one or two Of
that number are church members.
why arc so many people outside
/ the church? The church Is at fault
Each OF YOU should be a fisher Of
mon.
THAT IS why we have Christian
/ Science tho holy rollers and so
forth The preachers are chasing
+ fads instead OF souls / like 20 see
peopIc afraid I'm talk religion That's
INV business That's Your business
The trouble is the last thing people
give 10 Christ ie their tongues
lis your business TO be q Chris
titan II Won are lawyer. YOU are n
I LAWYER 10 paw expenses and your bus
mess "a 10 be- a christian. II YOU are
a doctor YOU are a doctor 10 pay OK
penses. but your business lis 90 be a
/ Christian.
Regard fife as an opportunity to
7 DO good and hr.nc somebody from
sin. Your business is 10 md the
lost rs NOT the chwch's business
TO educate people LIS their bust
mess 20 save people
"Thnusands ef o4lloEe GRADUATES
Tarc going rs fast as they can
straight to hell. If ! had a million
dollars I would give $ga9,999 TO the
/ church and ono dollar 90 education.
4 Not that / boiittl, education bui ]
/ believe that it's not intellect but re-
|ugion that will save men
"Tbo church is WRONG today when
/ 1, praachoq go weeks I'm the year 20
IthG church members. and two weeks
to those outside. II should be two
week. 10 the church and 20 weeks to-
AutElLnrA- And ono person can
sol a church ON fire for God
81 TEN YOU the church OF the fu-
turo must have personal work and
r-aypr The trouble with some
cbur,he4 Il. that they think tho
preacher is sort of ecclesiastical
+ locomotiye who will snort and puff
and pull the whole bunch through to
glory.
."Tbe poorest stick in tho world to
do pcrsonal work is the young
preacher lust out of the seminary.
! Wbvo pscause they minimize and
7 IQITh nHFAffnNl
nary Two-tbirds OF the theological
teachers never had any experience in
soul saving We are preaching PEG
ple 10 death. At the prayer meeting
the preacher gets UP and gives his
scripture lesson and maybe one elder
( or deaconess or somebody makes a
Ipravcr but the only reason We know
/ it's a PRAYER meeting is because II
comes on Wednesday night
- Ell all the Methodist preachers
would each save soul in "A month
there would be 10000 souls saved
year. n all the Baptist preachers
would each save a soul month
there would be- 100000 souls saved in
a year II all the other evangelical
preachers would save a soul a month
there would be l,425,o00 souls saved
in year over 1000 Protestant
churches last year made report OF no
accession on confession OF faith.
Christ said TO preach the gospel 10
all the world and that Weans every