Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-01-01
'AfTERDECISION,
WHAT? TITLE OF
BRIGHT BOOKLET
Personal Message to Those
Who Have Just Openly Ac-
cepted Christ as Leader

After Decision-What?" is the title
of an interesting booklet which Is be-
ing distributed in Honolulu as part
of the follow-up work of the Brown
Curry eyangelistic campaign.
During the big revival, nearly 1000
adults and about half that number of
students and other young people sign
ed cards signifying their intention of
taking a higher stand for Christianity.
What shall be done after making this
decision? is an all-important question
to those WHO have decided Eugene G.
Foster answers the question in SIN.
cere and interesting way in the book
let
He says in part:
You have come to the forks of
the road. Two ways were open to you,
and you have made your choice. Be-
cause of that choice, / am writing
this little message to you.
II wish ! could grip your hand and
tell you how much / admire-and 9TH
ers do, too-the fellow who comes out
squarely and says, Count me a Chris
tiann ! like to meet young man
who enters his life in a real contest
that's going to cost him something.
1T is contest; and when a young
man stands up to be counted among
those who honor Christ his battle has
just begun. He has a fight ahead,
that is certain. and it's going to cost
him the investment of the best that's
in him. But say-it's fight worth
whilei
But I'm thinking about tomorrow,
and the next day, and next week.
What next? There are other steps
besides starting to be Christian.
We'll, I've thought 1t all through
and I've seen II worked out one way
or another in good many lives, and
Pve come to the conclusion that in
nearly every case the very next step
ought to be to unite with the church.
Why?
I'm the first place, the church needs
you. The church is made up Of indi-
viduals, most ofswholn are the best
people on Gods earth and some-weli.
some are hypocrites or weaklings or
nonentities. Now IL all the people
in the church were good as the church
members / know best-well, that
would be a different story. But as
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who don't add to its strength, you
with your young life. with your sin
cerity. with your determination to do
the right thing-you are needed.
do not believe you will ever be a
hypocrite or weakling.
In the next place, you need the
church This game of life calls for
team play; you can't win it alone. |
There will be times when you will |
need all the human backing you can |
get-and that's what the right kind |
of church gives.
And I'm sure a number of other
worthy tasks, will suggest themselves |
to you. Perhaps someone very near
to you needs the very touch of kind |
ness which Christ in your life will |
give you: or some duty-like study /
or work-needs to be done honestly /
or thoroughly, where before you have
shirked it. There are so many ways /
to live Christ il one really takes Him
into his life.
And then? But these next things
should have, been at the very head
of the list, OF course, would es.
tablish the fixed habit of prayer and
of daily Bible reading. Cant get far
i'm the Christian life without them-be
sure of that know many who try
to, but they are not real Christians.
They may wear the name of Christian
but they don't honor it. The Old
Book has the wisdom of the centuries
in il, and is the revelation of God; l.
yet it's up-to-date with the latest life
lived. / never knew a Christian who
counted one, in the real sense OF
Christian manhood, who didn't live
close to his Bible. I'm assuming that
you want to be Christian who
counts; then the Bible must be part
of your daily life.
After you have done these things?
Well, am glad to say that the road
is uphill all the way. / lived in the
mountains for a while this summer
with a red-blooded, lively boy who
was just crossing the threshold OF
manhood. My, how he loved the noun
tain paths! His eyes just fastened
themselves ON the crests and ridges
of those everlasting hills, and they
seemed to be beckoning to him to
come up higher all the time. Some.
how | like to feel that the Christian
life is one where a fellow must keep
right on climbing. Nobody wants to
stay on level ground very long when
there is a higher point right ahead.
And so, without knowing just what
your Christian life will be, am sure
that if it is to amount 10 anything !
it will be a case of getting higher
all the time; today higher than yes !
terday. tomorrow higher still That
is a prospect that appeals TO real
man. know not what these other
steps will be for you but / am sure
that you will find them and ! am sure
they will call cut the very best OF
your manhood as the days and months {
go by.
May your life truly reflect honor
on the new Friend who has come te I
be your personal guide" i'