The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1917-02-27
COMMANDMENTS FOR
CHURCH MEMBERS ARE
BROUGHT UP TO DATE
Good-sized Monday Night Crowd
Greets Evangelist Ridley ;Jolly's
Solo a Feature; Afternoon
Meetings Begin Today.
,By Rev. I,andolph Cook.)

thy Rev. Randolph, Cook.)
T. Thou shalt brush the dust from
thy Bible.
H. Thou shalt not put thy clubs
and thy lodges before the church. lest
thou lose thy soul. and thy followers
perish with thee.
III. Thou shalt do no tango. nor
fox troi, nor bunny hug, nor grizzly
bear. nor any abomin8tion Of the
heather. lest thou become a stumbling
stone unto the sunday school scholar.
and thou become u hypocrite " the
sight Of thy ncighhors, aud an alb
sentee in the revival meetings OF the
church of thy God.
". Thou shalt neither cut or deal
the cards, lest thy children become
enamorod thereby and fall into the
gamblers pit, Tor the jackpot and
the cuchre prize are condemned by
the law In the land and the CONF
mandments of thy God.
V, Thou shalt not look upon the
stage when the spotlight moveth IL
self Alright. lest thou cOmeth to love
the baldheaded row" more than thou
lowest the house of God, and the songs
of Zion.
vi. Thou shalt not knock thy city.
nor thy church. nor thy minister. Tor
the Lord hateth a knocker-but re-
member that thou canst not saw woo
With thy neighbours claw hammer.
VII. Thou shalt remember thy
mothers God, that thy days may be
long In the land which the Lord thy
God giveth thee.
VIII. Thou shalt not lie nor be a
t~ale-bearer, nor a gOsaip-ncithcr
shalt thou be a false witness against
thy evangelist nor his helper. nor his
singer, nor his pianist. nor the ianl;"t
MOI the committee. for the Lord ths
God Will nip thee in the bad.
IN Thou shalt be a booster" for
thy town. thy church. thy ministcrins
servants. and everything which Is thy
heritage; thou shalt boost" for thy
religion that 'comforteth thee AMI
thy church that makoth thee respect
able.
y. Thou shall put away "hooze' %
from among thee. lest the iniquitics
Of the saloon and the redlight be
visited upon thee, and thy children.
even unto the third and fourth sem
GRAFTON
The above is the revised version Of
Evangelist Ridiey's sermon last night
IN the armory to the good-sizcd Mon
day night crowd that gathered to hear
him. OF curse, ne may NJ, recognize
II. after the printers devil has boiled
II DOM, and served II up a Ia mod,
but, a. We said. this 81 she re-, isc1
version, aud the doctor Ia not to ne
blamed FOR all that happens To be-
exact. the scrmon topic wa. "Whgt
the church owes" and before hc got
through, It looked a. though the
church had % pretty big obligation
on her shoulder. To specify, h, said
First-Thc church owes an obliga-
ton on herself or she can't br re-
spected. and this takes two forms.
first. the obligation To- grow, ard. Sec
Ond, the obligation to work. People
should be born .uto the kingdom At
every service. In the "a .ly vh.gSh. Il
Is said there were added unto the
church daily, and a little later. that
the number Of disciples was gTtujiy
multiplied Thus the church grew
in influence, power. aud strength. You
don't know what YOU can do because
you have never tried
Second-Thc church owes something
to a lost world. II sou were lost, ,ou
would not want someone TO come
~fdrouud and lecture you on thr phuusu-
ply of the uneasincss OF ucius lost
what you desire is t. know TIA way
home. We have hell-fire enough nos
without preaching any more, What
We need to do IS to teach that the
Father loves everyone. ana lbs heart
: goes out after the lowest
Third-Thc church owes something
to God, and It's Umc wc were dCiI <
what he .ays.
Mr. Jolly sang at the .losr "'ics
Counting ON You. and after the col
lection IA taken, as b. the ri-inm 90
! church folks, the meeting adiourned
until . o'clock this dftcrpo %, when
Or Ridley commenced a -crics II
talks on the Holy spirit rut Whic'
will bc continued cach al rrruuu at
the same hour
Yes. thrrr viii %, servircs tonight.
and something doing every session