The Washington herald., 1918-01-16
Single Moral Standard
Americas Crying Need
For Both Man and Woman
THE EVENING SERMON.
"BACKSLIDERS"

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When you leave the world you leave
something more than an epitaph on
tombstone. You leave regrets in the
hearts of people whom you have lifted
toward God because you yourself had
known something OF the Lord.
A little girl was asked why she fell
out OF bed. and she said, '1 went TO
sleep too close to where 1 crawled in
We don't get far enough away from
the things OF the world.
Out in a Western State they had a
strike on the railroad. They filed the
strikers places with any kind of an
engineer, whether locomotive or sta
donary. They put an Irishnaa up in
the cab of a locomotive and he did
very well. He brought the engine on
the turn table and he saw she was
going through, so he started back on
the turn table, and repeated this sew
eral times
Pat, why don't you shut her of
and keep her in there?' said a fellow
workman.
why don't you shut the door and
keep her IMP he replied.
A friend Of mine was preaching in
a Southern city and in the middle OF
the sermon he asked: How many OF
you people once knew God, had any
experience. and now don't pray and
have grown careless in your life? Are
you willing to admit it?''
Acknowledge Neglect.
Forty or fifty people arose and in
that mute way acknowledged their
neglect and their carelessness. and
A., as they sat down he said:
Now are YOU willing to go a step
GuUr-NE N,1l a
you to lose your touch with God
and why you left the gospel train?"
One man said: We'll, thought 1
could keep my store open on Sunday
morning to accommodate a few strag-
Cling customers and then close it in
time to get around to the church"
Nothing doingI You can't cut the
week up into seven parts and spirit
uaHze~ the secular by trotting out to
church on sunday morning and look
ing a little more piouS than you did
on Saturday. Not on Jour life.
say a man that will keep his store
open on Sunday, in my opinion Is an
anarchist and he can't have a dollar
z of my money. Not a dollar!
He mightn't go into bankruptcy IL
he didn't have my trade, but he can't
have it; he tramped Gods law meath
his feet
Presently young lady arose and
she said: ''WeI, a young lady friend
Of mine gave a card party and 1
thought had to give Il bridge in re-
turn and. among those l invited was a
young man didn't know. and when
he arrived at my house, he left cha
grined and Mortified to imagine that
thought he'd stoop to do that and he
took his coat and hat and left the
T 10 Ind hot
long as ] did that was not worthy
TO be a member OF the church That
is why I drifted away, trying to ape
other people"
Voted Booze Ticket.
Another fellow said: Il backslid
when L voted a whisky ticket"
You bet your life he backslid before
he voted or he never would have voted
for that dirty. low-down business. and
in my opinion n man can't stand spon-
sor to that dirty business and keep his
manhood ten minutes. Make up your
mind, The saloon is the bitterest
enemy to virtue, to home, to educa-
tion. to childhood there is on God AL
mighty's dirt, Don't you lift your
hand and look a decent man in the
face when you stand sponsor for the
most damna5le institution that ever
wriSgled its carcass out of hell-the
liquor traffic,
It is one thing to be a member OF
a church, another to be a member OF
the body of Jesus Christ; although
they ought to be synonymous, but
C.sey are not There are thousands of
members of the visible church-the
Methodist. Lutheran, Presbyterian,
ngregationalist-they are members
of the visible church. but not members
OF the body Of Jesus Christ, for they
have never been born again. There will
be lots of church members in hell. Lots
OF Protestants in hell, lots of Catholics
m hell-they never were converted,
they never had a change OF life, never
were born again.
Can't Beat Devil
You can't beat the devil. sister;
he has been preying on this old
world for six thousand years; he
never has rheumatism or appendi-
citis or peritonitis. II you get to
playing tag with the devil in his
door yard he will hit you on the
back and say. Tag, you are it." You
can't put 1t over on him.
Some church members have the
hoOf and mouth disease: they run
around the neighborhood and wind
Jam about their neighbors and talk
about them.
preach against certain amuse-
nnents; you will be aware of this
fact before L leave this city. l
don't do it to arouse your antagon-
ism I am not crank. You can
come here and sit and listen to me,
and am not q crank about any
thing, and nv warfare is for the
interest and virtue and morals of
men and women. I don't care three
whoops who 1 have to antagoniZe
or what institution or corporation
/ have to fight to make II easier for
men to get to heaven and harder
for men to get to hell!
find more people in the church
that are kept out from communion
with God, and more people kept
outside than are coming in. II you
live wfong you can't die right, so
make up your mind what yeu want
10 do. Emerson said:
Half Done Things
What you are, speaks 30 loud,
cannot hear what you say"
1 tell you life Is chuck full Of half
done things Things started and never
finished; trades begun. then abandon
ed; education started, then stopped;
until 100000 boys drop out of school
IN this country at the end Of the
eighth grade Foundations laid, build
tngs never built on them; church GO
&. ing begun. then dropped Life Is
chuck full Of half-done things and
there are multitudes of things In the
life Of every one that were intended
to be done that haven't haa, dnfshad