The Washington herald., 1918-01-13
Gods Work Manifest in
Human Agents with Faith,
Work and Perseverance
EVENING SERMON
God Wants Workers

made up his mind he'd spend the re-
mainder Of his days and years in
sunny France, and when the French
government learned Of his decision.
they sent a vessel out into the harbor
to refuse him permission to land lest
his presence would incite the already
dissatisfied peasants to further In
surrection and rebellion against the
old crumbling, staggering, totterng,
moss-covered dynasty Of France. And
the thousands of people that assem-
bled in Marseilles to bid him well
come. when they learned the decision
of the French government, their dis
appointmnt and their protests knew
no bounds. But one Frenchman, not
to be outdone even by Ehe orders of
the government, leaped headforemost
into the Bay and swan mile out to
where the ship was upon which Kos
suth was passenger and he clamo-
cred up the rope ladder that hung
over her side. He stood dripping and
shivering in front of Kossuth. who
asked, How in the world did you
ever do that?'
"oh." replied the dripping, shIver-
ing. smiling Frenchman, There are
no difficulties to him that wills"
Kossuth said. I wish you'd say
that again"
There are no difficulties to him
that Wills"
He said. THANK you for coming.
That shall be my watchword until I
die"
No difficulties to him that wills!
Ally it to religion and you will re-
write the history of the world.
am getting tired of people trying to
climb a mountain to get to hell and
stumbling over q feather to get to
heaven.
Here are the tremendous facts. Lis
ten, One hundred and eighty thous-
and churches in the United States;
about s5,0O0,G0O communicates in the
churches, equally divided between
Catholic and Protestants: seating ca
pacity for nearly T0,0O0,O00 in our
churches, room in our churches for
two-thirds of the population of the
United States; America already one
third protesting Christians. All we
need to do would be to each, my
friends, win two souls to Jesus Christ
and We could save America for God.
1 tell you. sitting there, with 1Oo,-
100000 population in the United States
there are nearly 1000. 900 of them that
are not identified with any church.
Catholic or Protestant. No. sir! And
this old world Is being born five to
one for the devil faster than 1t is be-
ing born to the kingdom Of heaven.
The Presbyterians placed $4,000
names on the suspended roll in the
past few years; they had allowed
their membership to lapse or they had
dropped out or moved away and didn't
take the membership with them. When
| you move to another city, you don't
leave your wife behind. do you? Or
! your children? You even take the dog
with you. The piano, your furniture.
All right-your marriage certificate
I and your automobile, but you leave
your church membership.
American People Pleasure Loving.
| The Presbyterians alone, they tell
me, have nearly 5000 men and wom-
en- in New York that ought to be
/ identified; they went to New York
! with a religion they did have, and
they lost it. There they are, outside.
And evry denomination can produce
! proportionately, I think, the same
number. that have been relegated to
J the ecclesiastical scrapheap.
What's the cause? I will tell you
the cause.-the growing love of plea
! sure in the hearts of the American
people; a disregard for the Lords
/ Day and a disregard Cor Gods word
I both by the preachers and the lay
! member, and the increasing craze for
amusements today.
4 Now / am not against all amuse-
ments, you can't feed a fellow on
prayer meeting all the time; he can't
1 e..
| fire escape. And the modern view
| Of life as preached and practiced by
| many of our secular examinations
\ directly and indirectly sneers and
mocks at God Almighty's require
ments of repentance and faith for
| men and women to be saved.
And children are not trained to go
to church; they are growing up like
wild asses. colts today!
| What is the need? 1 will tell you
I the need. The need is the preaching
more Of the regenerating power of
the Holy Ghost through faith and the
] shed blood of Jesus Christ
And we need more evangelistic
! effort on the part of the church; and
we need less preachers knocking when
| you do start an evangelistic meeting.
And you need to rebuild your fam
| lily affairs; they are torn to shreds by
/ the devil. I'll bet my life hundreds
of you here tonight don't read your
Bible nor pray; you don't have fam
! lily prayer in your home. Rebuild
the family altar in your home, and
then greater care for our boys and
our girls at the time of the formative
period Of their manhood and woman
hood.
Now I am not going to keep any
thing back while 1 am here for fear
of anybody; don't fear anybody on
Gods dirt. 1 have another tribunal
when 1 am through with this world,
to which 1 must account other than
/ private or public opinion. But I want
you people to ask, when you get down
| on your knees-to ask God, why
couldn't we do it? why did we have
to build a tabernacle? Why did we
| have to send for a crude, illiterate
preacher from the corn rows of Iowa
! and the sand dunes of Indiana?'
I'll tell you why. Not because the
| preacher knows more than your
preachers. for am not In their COM
pany enough. It's not that; it's be-
cause so many calling themselves
4 Christians are frauds. fourflushers,
excess baggage and false alarms.
| Why. I'm told that you can crowd
| and pack a room with a leg show
or a dance-there Is one institution
that will rip from hell to break
fast and back again for lunch, for
there is nothing this side of hell that
causes the ruination and the outrages
/ of the virtue of more girls than the
damnable, rotten dance.
FIays Dance Halls.
Just wait until / get on them: 1
am Just giving you time to get your
4 mental adjustment. That is the an