The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-08
SEEING TH|NGS'
 TOP|CO SERMON
 BY DR. STUART Subject Furnished Wide Range for Gifted Pastor of First Methodist Church VISION OF HOME
 BURDEN OF SERMON 'There Are Three Things We Have Got to Get Rid of: Rum. Buns,
 Slums," Said Minister

Seeing Things furnished wide scope for Dr. George R. Stuart to exercise his wonderful ability a human interest speaker yesterday morning in his pulpit at the First Methodist church. ca pacity audience greeted the pastor upon his return to the city, he having been ab- sent last Sunday attending a conference | of Northern, Southern and Canadian Meth odists at Lake Januluska N, C., and l Y. NJ. c. A. conference at Atlanta. There is divine vision entrusted 1 to our near-sighted, short-sighted vision. | That is what we are playing for. The | difference between ethics and religion is what we want to learn. Don't let a fel- l low tell you that because he pays his bills, is kind to everyb body is a good hus- l band and a good father that he has the i right vision. He can go to hell with all l that. Saul. was ethical, but he got krocked down, and then he had a vision. Don't call your brother common and un- clean, but go to him and preach to him,
 is the vision that he got, and he obeyed
 it, too.
 The biggest thing that you can give | where Christ stands and let them get the vision. When I walk up to mem- Der of the church and he begins to 'whitewash' himself. then l know that he has only the human vision. But when God turns His searchlight upon him he immediately stands up and asks us to pray for him, for he is getting the vision of self When we get that, we will stop apologizing.
 VISION OF HOME
 "The vision of home is the greatest of all. If it comes to a decision as to whether I will let the church go down or the home. I will see the church sink first The Christian home is the greatest institution in the world. There is no bet ter way to save anything than to plant the real American Christian home in it. if we planted these homes in China we would save the whole empire in one year.
 Now, I mean the real Christian home. not one of these dancing, card playing Methodist homes. l mean one where the family altar has been preserved. Oh, Lord God, give us the proper vision of the American home and what it means to civilizationr
 Taking a s1 bill from the collection plate, Dr. Stuart dramatically stated:
 You know what that is? That's a key and it will unlock most anything. It IS the key to society, to business, to homes 1t unlocks Now I don't object to mak- ing money, l think it's all right, and that it is the proper thing to do, and every man ought to save somethingh but he should not be a fool about that one thing.
 Every body is a fool at one time or the other for we walk over roads or 1ooi- ishness to wisdom. But you can't keep it takes character. This war is giving us Ia vision of money. Money is to help somebody else.
 EVERY MANS OPPORTUNITY You like to run with rich people, 1t gives you a satisfied feeling, but don | think so much of that now as I used to, for l have found that they are nearly all just common folks, or they were Just a little while ago. But l thank God for that one thng-that man who digs q ditch today may be signing message to ongress from the White House tomor-
 row. That's America. Every man has tLe same opportunity.
 .There are three things that we have
 got to get rid of. though. before we
 perfect our American Christian homes.
 o. are rum, buns and slums. The rum comes first, and the bunghole
 .. opened and let the rum out; then the buns and the slums will slip tbrough the same hole There is no one
 arainst this federal amendment to the constitution except the brewers, the bar
 keepers sports. gamblers, drunkaros, the nan who love liquor and the 20O0,VU Germans Tn America
 II make this prediction, and you marx it put it down where you won't forget if Any man in America who stands for the open saloon 10 years from no" will stand as an obsolete eoi'ioH VI pio- , eressive humanity.
 PERSONAL TOUCH pr stuart told many personal instances u,berein the home had been desecrated
 the family altar destroyed and the mem hars of the family finally returned tc Christ from whom they had biacKsiooeh
 but the most impressive was the one re-
 "a rding himself. He stated that ne got tl
 making money, and that he reached the
 noint where he wanted everything tna' inc saw. and that he never saw anythihe
 that appealed to him that he dld no' ,,ant something just little better. Ht
 related two or three iiistahoes M & arence to his stock farm that showed no" sasv if was to get away from religion
 in the trail of the dollar
 .Mv old mother called me to her ped side al>>l just before she died she sald tf
 me. My boy. you are not as rehslous as vou used to be. and l am afrait that YOU are thinking too mucn apou
 mak,na money Don't forget that Goe raaaa yon to save souls. and not to make n,oney And l have never io. s.. , tbatl I have tried to do what was GU a and to forget about making