The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-03-08

so must we, when we get glimpse
of the suffering and death OF Jesus
for our sins, fall at his feet ana
worship him, forgetting all else.
Evening Sermon
aye are the salt of the earth: ouI
if the salt have lost his say
our, wherewith shall it Oe salted =
Matthew 5:13.
With this as his text Bishop hllgo
at the evening service preached a
nowerful sermon in which he showed
| that leadership belongs with the
| prophets, and not to statesmen or
| Educators or authors. The voice OF
tho prophet marks out the way anu
any age that fails to heed the proph-
ct will grope in darkness.
| History VS.. Records -.
| No history is made except under
the direction and supervision OF Goa.
Records are not history; surface ag-
itation is not movement; fermenta-
ton is not sign of progress. Cae,
sar created a great commotlon, put
he did not make history. Paul made
history. He uprooted old faith, IL,
! Illuminated darkened minds, ouickened
energies. Luther, John Knox, Wyck-
lift, Wesley, Asbury, Jonathan Ed
, wards-these made history.
Surface Currents ~
, The Church of God holds the lead
5 ership, always has held it and al
! WAYS will hold it. Surface currents
2 dash and roll, but underlying all your
human currents are the channels de-
2 termined by the will Of God. There
: was never a better example of this
than now. Germany, the home oil
science, started out to make world
more splendid than this, and the re-
f suit is blood and murder and ter
? ror and rape and hell turned loose
d in the world. We have been told
g that "kultur" is the mother OF CIV
It ilization, that We must have supreme
= regard for schools. Horace Mann
e said if We would build enough school
d houses we might tear down all our
T. jails-and now we have more gamo-
s ling houses, more .Sodomy,, more
it w;ckedness than we have had in p
900 years. .>-..
= They thought they had so much
n "brotherhood" worked up that there
a could not be any more war. They
1t were going to hold a meeting at
n Constance about it-and half of them
'o did not have time to get to the peace
S, conference before the worst war in
st the history of the world broke loose,
n and those who did get there had to
le beg like dogs to be allowed to go
t. home and were hauled out like cat
IS tie.
u They built a house for arbitration
,, at The Hague. Men gathered there
and made speeches and read papers
re and hung around, until "Mr. William
l. Kaiser" said he believed he had
enough of it and filled Europe with
"a scraps oil paper.
Id God Laughs at This Age
to If God does not laugh at this age
lie he has never laughed" declared the
is bishop, "and his laugh is awful.
re There is not a philosophy Or creed
rs that has not gone down."
ID The bishop withered with fine scorn
s. those who say that the Church ought
81 to learn the methods Of business
~ that the trouble is the Church has
G. not got on to advanced business
y methods. A laymen's movement wa;
- started to teach preachers.
't,t Conservatism
Ut A type of the shallowness of the
Sc thinking of this age sthat the pop
VI ular notion is that conservatism is
5e vice which we should labor to de-
ID stroy. 1t is one Of the great quail
e. tiles Of God. All progress has it,
T. roots in conservatism. What is the
Re have not the power of conservatism
m to hold it? What's the use Of go.
s. ing forward il you cannot stay there
II when YOU get there? God has pro
p, vided His Church as the great con
n servative power of the world. The
=. Church has sense enough to know
n when it has got something and t.
hold on to it.
Moving Pictures :.
ne The bishop thinks moving pictures
ne are another type of the shallownes
en- of this age. sIf they were not NOV
TO ing you would not go to see then
'ee: at alp, he declared "There is no
II enough conservatism in the home TO
ny a man to stick to one wife,.
ay :. Men Who Have Led
no And the churches want progress
ne sive preacher. "Have you got a Gag
re to put him in when you get him >
RS he asked. So-called advanced me-
less are not worth anything in the grea
10 world history God is working out
m Not the "advanced" men but men VIII
have rebound old truths are the me
ia VINO nave leu. join Tile DdpIlSI, Luti
lio err, John Knox-these men found moth
o. ing new. It was not something ne'
ne ne that made Wesley the prophet Q
.ne the 18th century. If it were not fo
oury the conservatism of The Church
.ll- where would the Bible be-? What ha
Sc; Germany zone with the Bible?
ETY. "I don,t ill., Tho naw.;scno n;ooe
lna nor tho newA;sSna white fo1ks-fhe
Mt hove sn;r;t,,ol e. V;+,,s danno A.
don't like the new-issue preache
He is so nice, so sweet, I don't kno
al. what to do with him except to wra
g I him up in paraffin paper and sen
' L. him back to his mother by pare
ne post"