The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-18
COL. APPL|N MADE SHORT ADDRESSAT FIRST METHODIST Dr. Stuart Preached on "How Should a Christian Spend the Sabbath?" FORGET YOURSELF WAY TO SPEND DAY" God Did Not Intend for His Chil- dren to Be Shut In on the
 Sabbath" Declares
 Minister

Frank Rushton, who has done so much for Birmingham when Birming- ham needed his help, always in the front rank in all movements and good work for the betterment of Bir- mingham and the nation, until the people don't know how to thank or repay him, has asked me to allow Col R. V. K. Applin of the British army l1O minutes of my time this morning to speak to you, and l have gladly consented, for this church is backing the allies in this great struggle" said Dr. George R. Stuart yesterday morn- ling in his pulpit at the First Meth odist church.
 | "The message that I bring you from over there is that you arc not fight | ing to gain territory or wealth. but ! for providence" said Colonel Applin. | Hundreds of thousands of the flower of our men have been killed, sacri- 1 feed for God and right. This war has been prophesied in the Great Book, and it is the war of right against | wrong; God and the devil; Gods peo- ple against the devil, and anyone who l knows his Bible knows that is true. "All of this misery. torture. horror, loss of millions of lives either leads us to the firm belief that there Is no God in heaven or there is an all-wlse l providence that sees good in all things. | You are those people to come to us | as in the Great Book and crush the 1 enemy. absolutely crush the very life 1 out of him, and the great message that bring to you is that all you have I to do is to forget self. put away self | ishness and center self on the one idea--to serve is the noblest thing in
 the whole world. The man who shines | the army officers boots serves his country for did not the Savior wasL ! tho feet of his disciples?
 l SACRIFICE AND SERVICE 1 Do not lot us consider what the ! task Is. for we have Gods work to do to win this war and we have to crush this anti Christ enemy. There are just two things for you to set In your minds and when carried out we have the war won--sacrifice and
 scrvice-and learn to recognize your l leader. do your duty and come forward
 and fight; when you are called say I'll go and when you cut the seam of coal or strike the hot iron at home you
 arc fighting for your country.
 If the whole nation is not together and do not rise as one. then God may postpone this great regeneration of the
 world after all; and if we don't fight
 with our hands and our hearts as indi- viduals and collectively then we can't win this war for Christ"
 Following Colonel Applins pointed ad- dress Dr. Stuart launched into his ser
 mon. taking as his text: How Should a Christian Spend the Sabbath"
 WORK AT OGLETHORPE
 T wished several times last week when I was engaged in religious serv- ices at Fort Oglethorpe among the sol dier boys that I could pull back the
 curtain and let my congregation look in,
 and see those boys hold up their heads and state that they wanted to return 1 to Christ or to come to Him for the l first time, and see them sign the pledge l cards. one end of which we placed in
 a Testament and gave to him, to be I found on him should he fall in battle.
 T received letter the other day stat ing that it would copy off the prayer enclosed and send 1t to number of peo- 1 pie that would receive a reward, and that if I failed to do so that I would receive a curse. This abominable sacri- ligious stuff ought to be thrown in the waste basket. for we don't pray for cro- mos.
 God puts blessings upon Sabbath ob- servers, and curses upon Sabbath viola
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