Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-09-09
hot SHOT FOR GAMBLING CHRISTIANS
WOMAN AT WELL USED TO SHOW GODS POWER
Sermon Punctuated With Striking Sentences Whlch
vt Exorvone Awake and Listening -Epscopalan
Night Draws Good Crowd.

I rho artist has retouched the proofs
,re took: he has taken from them all
the bumps, warts, and pimples that
nne.red in the proof. He has made
won different from what you are.
There is not photographer in Amerl-
30 TODAY who could make pictures
like people are and stay in the busi-
ness.
/ "But God gives you only the artist $
! proof; he has no one to, retouch those
He takes of you. All the moral warts
all the spiritual blemishes appear on
the pictures. Gods power only comes
through the studio; person must
first gain Gods idea of him, then will
come the revival in his life.
81 remember we'll when / was only
small child in our home in England.
After the winter SHOWS had melted
we would go out in the yard to the
old plank that lay in the pathway
and would turn it over. When we dld
there always appeared on the bottom
thousands of those little bugs that
love the filth, the slime, the dirt
the bugs that hate Gods sunlight.
at is so in our lives. We may have
the upper side of the plank varnish-
ed; we may add coat of veneer
when the revival comes around, but
if we want to get right with God
we have got to let Him lift the plank;
the dark things of our lives have got
to come out. They have got to be
exposed to the light. There was a
man walking through the shadows OF
forest of trees that had taken on their
summer foliage. He remarked to HIM
self that he was good sort of tel-
low and that he didn't have anything
wrong with himself. But he finally
came to the end of the shadows and
the sunlight struck him. He found a
spot on his clothes, that his shoes
were not shined and his hat was
rumpled. The sunlight had struck
him, and had shown his faults. Come
out of the shadows into Gods sun
light.
"When the plank had been turned in
the life of the Samaritan woman, she
asked for the water of life, and
Christ gave it to her. 1t is so with
us. When the light is turned on our
faults we see them as they are.
"The next step to take after the
plank has been turned is to tell peo-
pie about it. Immediately after the
Samaritan woman had received the
blessing of Christ she hastened to tell
others of it. She spoke to the first
man she saw, telling him to come to
the well, where Christ was. God used
this woman, although she had had five
husbands and was then living with a
man who was not her husband. With
her He shook the whole Samaritan
town.
"There are persons in this audience
who have been wondering why you
protesting Christians haven't come
to them. You can't speak for God un-
less you have spoken with Him.
"There are one or two things you
must know and be to be a true fol-
lower of Christ. First, you must know
that YOU are not the man or woman
you ought to be-you must be hum
BILE; then you must not be selfish.
You cannot plan your own life.
"Then you must give your all to
Christ. If you give ninety-nine parts
of you to Christ, and withhold one,
that one stands in the way of bles-
sing"
Tonight the Evangelist's subject
will be "What is Christian?" Spe-
cial music will be rendered by the
choir and male quartette or chorus.