Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-09-13

gical operation, probing a man
heart and showing him his sin, but
no. the world likes the you-tlcSle me
and-Ill-tickle-you kind best" Was
one of the first septences which
Gypsy Smith fired into the big au,
dience which packed the huge tent or
upper King street last night.
Repentance was the theme for the
evening, the text being taken fror
Mark 1:15. The sermon may be sum-
married. as follows:
'The adoption of repentance is the
doctrine of the New Testament. All
the letters in the New Testament
show the necessity for repentance.
But repentance is so unpopular that
we ministers don't like to preach
about it, and in our enthusiasm to
get people into the church we've low
cred the bars.
"We're counting heads instead Of
hearts.
'It's not an easy thing to be fol-
lower of Jesus Christ. Any old dead
dog can float down the Potomac, bur
it takes live one to go up.
"You try to follow Jesus Christ
24-hours and you'll find it's war
fare. find spoil every day live
thro' wounding someone by what l
say, or doing things l ought not TO-
To be real Christian means being
willing, if necessary, to be called
fool and be ostracised for Christ.
No. it's not an easy thing to be
Christian and the man who breaches
such doctrine breaches mongrei
doctrine.
"Christ never made it easy He
said if ye would be my disciples take
up my cross and follow me- Ard rs
not an easy thing to follow Jesus.
"a minister over in Pennsylvania
said they'd had good revival i:'
his church. He was askei i;o.' many
members he took in. NO oue.' pc
replied. shut We got rid Of 72.'
"Another preacher said ne kad ia5
members on his church rcil-a,3
could depend on %!
Judas sold out and got Slo."o Tor
it. Some of you have sold st ard
haven't got as much.
"Jesus' first message was repent
and go preach the gospel. Bst some
of us ministers are afraid of our
! pol uarity to preach as W. sh',H--
afraid we'll lose some monied man
frm our congregation. Bit it pays
to live right. 1 don't want to live
right Just to keep from he'.. won't
to live right because it is right.
"a man is taken sick, afraid hell
die. sends for the minister. If be
. crtS we'll he soon loses the .2lc which
termed him to God and goes beck
asa;r Do you think God "'ants MS
lust because we're afraid Of hell?
The man who accepts God thro' fear
will generally backslide.
"It's one thing to know what is
right, but it's another thing to do it.
There isn't a man of you in this
tent but knows how to do right, but
do you do it?
"a man in New Jersey, a neigh
Dor of mine. came to me after / had
preached on 'Righting the Wrong
and told me that his firm wanted him
to do every day of the world things
that he knew were not right. l TOLD
him to resign, but he stays on. He
has sold out his soul for business
He is convicted, but he hasn't re-
pented.
"It's one thing to be convicted
it's another thing to get away from
your sins. It is Gods message that
YOU live on the square. Your man.
hood and womanhood demands anc
God calls upon you to live an honest
upright life. And when God tells
you what to do, and you obey, he
will give you the power to do it.
Repentance is not conviction. You
know when you're wrong. That:
conviction.
Listen to me. Repentance is the
most unpopular doctrine in the Bible
Every time You hear sermon on re
pentance, you hear twenty or thirt!
on the love of God. But John the Bap
tist preached repentance. He didn'
tell Herod of the love of God; he tolt
8 him it was unlawful for him to hav'
that other mans wife beside him, 1
John the Baptist had preached th'
love Of God. Herod wouldn't hay,
turned the key on him, and he would