The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-02-19

and for the people, and they say GIVE call you to be
PASTOR and agreed to pay you the of twelve hundred
dollars year, and if you do not preach to suit then WE
will butt you out" And they do it, too.
Now, there may be people here who will go out
and say, He did not tell the TRUTH Well, if you talk like
that then you liar, because have told the absolute
truth-and you know it just we'll as [ do-and every
preacher and every newspaper in Chicago knows it to be
the truth, and every wellnformed knows it. If had
the time could pile up clippings this high ndicatng) from
parts of this and other lands showing that the churches
dead, and that they do not know what to do next
Think of the midweek prayer meetings in the churches!
remember the last pastorate that held N.Y. what mid
week prayer meetng Just two present preacher
and the anitor (f the jantor happens to be
little handful and far going out and doing active
work for God and humanity is concerned how much work
will they do?
Why do these wealthy churches clean up the Red
Light Disrict? Why do they not clean up the dirty, filthy
down novels in which thousands of people live? Go
around the City Chicago and the wreched novels and
the wreched dens in which muttudes of people have to
ve-that not fit for pigsties; and yet they
owned by and of them owned by
the churches themselves and those people will the
bloodoney out of the poor people and then Sunday
will get ready and put their fine clothes and strut into
the church and sit there and listen to little ditty by
wretched apology for old who calls himself
then they home and they call that Christianty You
know that what am saying is true.
tell you, my hearers, in the light of Gods Word,
bad the saoOns-they not sending half many
people to hell are these wretched dead formal worldly
churches.
Dr. Horatus Bonar-one of the most righteous
who lived who had his hand in the Hand of
Christ before his death, said among other things:
IT looked for the world and found it in the Church;
looked for the Church and found sitting in the lap of
the world
Dwight L. Moody of the greatest preachers of his
time in of those moments of inspiration sad and his
sermon has been published far and wide:
"May the chariot wheels of God sweep on! We
down into the very toes of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Image and
there thousands of churches that respect
able clubs"
could spend hour after hour in giving you quotations
from others.
THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY TO BECOME A CHRISTIAN
Modern revvalism it is not of God, it is a sham, a
deluson and snare If is elocutionist, he
excite the and make the people he make
them laugh and he sway audience he peases
and the people are simply deceived
How to become Christian
IF YOU desire to become Christian then the first thing
for you to realize that you awful sinner and away
from God Don't you know that people generally liars
and thieves? There not person this congregation
who would dare to stand up before God, and say that he
or she told lie in his her life; if you would
would say that you the biggest liar in Lake County
There not of you sitting here who would dare before
Cod stand up and say that you have snnedNo
Then the only way to get to Cod through repentance
REPENTANCE! There is no other way