The Detroit times., 1916-09-13

men and children will be brought
nearer TO God.
If you had baby and II was
sick. and the doctor by his skill saw
cd the life OF that baby. though IL
lived but for year, yet II would
be worth every dollar YOU paid that
doctor II can send a man home
sober for one year longer TO his
vie 10 kIas her, to buy good things
10 eat for a year, and IL at the end
he drops OF the water wagon. isn't it
worth every dollar TO give her hat
harry time?
The history Of the church Is the
hstot' of revivals. | can't see for
the sake OF my life how a man has
the audacity 10 call himself minis.
ter of he gospel. and oppose reviv.
ais He Is a disgrace 20 religion.
\ ON ash the fellow that sits by you
when he was converted and YOU will
find that seven out Of every ten were
converted in time Of revival. And
when you sheer against IL you put
your infinite small pusillanimous per
sonality up against the omnipotent,
nmniScient God.
Some say. Revivals are undue ex-
citemcnt.' | repeat for the third
time. II is lie
Various ReViVals Recorded
Listen 10 me. In the economy Of
nature God provides for an occasion
al copious downpour OF rain. You
would be a fool TO growl because ii
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 well as material
II Is not thought unwise to have a
revival in business, oh. no-every
town has it's commercial club. II is
not thought unwise to have a revival
in politics--oh, no.
Some people are scared TO death
that somebody might be saved from
hell by ut-Gf.the-ordinary methods.
Political leaders win hire leaders.
newspaper editors, publishers and
will spend money for yotes-in order
20 get those who are Indifferent to
the political situation interested
chat is nothing under heaven but q
political revival and YOU don't ar
anybody growl about II.
In the business world listen. In
the business world men must make
"a market as well as the goods for
the market He must mako tho
goods, then he goes into the market.
He's GOT TO do both. You've got al
these institutions 10 create a demand
fer the product-these are business
rc,ivals-you have auto shows, they
are auto rcyivals--you have county
70 3v9 xrh gnh a., 10 h,,t l.
where they show cows, pigs, chick
ems. bread. butter. horses and ali the.
products OF the farm. Then what rhe
revival iS TO business, what the cleo.
tiOn is to politics, the revival Is 10
religion: what health is 20 the indi-
vidual the revival IL 10 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 revival when his
church was born OF a revival I don't
know
Wesley and Whitefield saved Eng.
land from the French Revolution
Edwards. Finncy 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
Pentccost was born in religion in a
time OF revival. You turn up your
noses at a revival when the very re
ligion which you love was born in
time OF revival. wonder God
InAgnff EAnZt d. ~
an evangelist. and whenever he Paul
was TO preach or wherever he went
they had 10 call out the police to pro
tect him; he had a revival or a riot
evei ywhere 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 II
takes an artist TO make one; any
fool can build a fire and burn
building. but IL takes skilled me-
Chanic TO reconstruct Il; mob cru.
cited Christ, but Il took God 10 raise
Him from the dead any fool can
sheer az revival: any fool can do
that. and you are 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 OF any in
formation they have not already got
You say IL Is temporary; 80 was the
war. but the slaves are free today.
You say II is temporary; so is rain.
yet nature feels its refreshing power
for weeks afterward. Exalt the evan.
gelist. II does nothing OF the kind.