The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-17

1 of them, though I recall Dr. Henry
 Moore once telling me that he heard Sam
 Jones preach a most dignified and won | derful sermon on the beautiful text, God l Is Love- No slang, so sensationalism 1 was infused after the sermon, Dr.
 Moore said: Why don't you preach in
 that vein and tone all the timer Sam Jones replied: If I did, I wouldn't have 1 any more people to hear me than you l do' He realized the efficacy of his methods.
 l 'In my own work I employ no sensa- tional methods" Dr. Weber continued. q am in the strctest sense a pastor, not an evangelist although I suppose 1 con- duct perhaps more revivals than any other minister in our church. My audi ences are usually composed of the Chris tian people of the church. The average professional revivalist is compelled to re- sort to sensation; his work is necessarily limited to a very short time and every moment counts I am, as l said, strictly speaking, a pastor; my church numbers a thousand people, consequently 1 under stand church like the Highlands Meth odist church. and while l do not indulge an sensational methods I do3 strive to
 touch the emotions; there's very fine
 distinction. First I believe in appealing to the intellect; then in presenting the facts>to the will for decision.
 s"There are those" Dr. Weber contin- ued who confound emotion with the manifestation of emotion. Now, there are
 just as many kinds of emotion as there
 are temperaments. We are all emotional,
 although we each manifest our emotions
 in different ways. In religion we should
 be perfectly honest and let our emotions
 manifest themselves honestly. The old
 fashioned old time Christian shouts be-
 cause he was brought up on old-time
 methods; the modernst is trained in
 different method. He Is trained to re-
 pression and the mere pressure of the
 hand means as much to him as more
 vivid expression. And his small manifes-
 tation is not to be discredited All emo- tion should lead to something if it doesn't then it is useless.
 Right here let me say word concern ing the theatre" Dr, Weber said. 'The emotion stirred through the theatre IS mostly wasted, although there are some good plays. The very genius of Chris tianity compels emotion to express itself in deeds.'
 Just here the question suggests itself, observed, ''as to the ultimate good or revivals and those converted under stress of great emotion
 l 'Tf It were not for revivals churches would die. Some very good srevivals re- suit in very few additions to the church, but they conserve the church life make | it alive, put 1t to work. Human nature is just such thing which when freed from stimulus, decays and church mem-
 bership needs continual stirring up and a revival is the only thing that can do it Statistics show that more than half the
 converts received in the church come through revivals Sunday schools con- tribute largely, and church services then quota, but to repeat, more than one-half come through revivals. When church discontinues it's revivals, it's work is use l less.''
 q believe that we are on the eve Of the greatest revival" Dr. Weber said, that the world has ever known. do not limit this statement to America, but to the world. There seems to be wave going all over the country, military | camps, churches; things outside the l church a swell as within-a sense Of good a sense of God, of Gods need. The war, of course, is largely responsible for | this and it is making us look into the
 causes of this great clash, making us feel
 our dependence and Gods great oppor- 1 tunity Here in America there is scarcely
 home that is not affected by the war 1 My boy has gone, and I'm glad or II.
 wish I had a half dozen to send. If l