The Washington times., 1918-01-09

ing him over the mountains. He was
hungry and he rushed into the temple
and there the bread was on the shew
table. II wasn't lawful for anybody
but the high priest to touch II, ana
David grabbed il UP and bit . hunk
off of IL and began to eat It. ana Goo
didn't strike him dead. And why
Because David's ceremony was Dig
ger than a priests. That's the kind
oT a Lord you've got. God is no three
carat proposition.
And the blind beggar was there.
And in the ninth chapter OF John
gentlemen, when I get to heaven he
is going TO be one OF the first rel
lows am going to look Up. And the
paraIytic whom they let down through
the roof. There IL scriptural authority
for doing things out OF the ordinary.
They couldn't get him in through the
door. and 50 they ripped off the roof
and lowered him down in 'front.' OF
Jesus. So II you can't do 1t one way
do IL another, bat in Gods name DO
it. So he was there.
Centurian There.
The centurian. with his servant
that Jesus cleansed. was there. Yes
and the man who had lain at the
Pool OF Bethesda for thirty-eight
wars waiting for the angel to come
doTn. and Jesus beat him there.
Jesus came along and said. TAKE up
vour bed and walk" And he was
there. And the disciples whose hearts
burned within them as they walked
ON the way to Emmaus. They were
there. Mary. and Martha. and Laza-
rus. they were there. And the woman
taken in adultery-in the very act
and Jesus said. Neither do l con-
denim you. 60 and sin no more.
And Mary Magdalene, out OF whom
he cast seven devils, she was there
praying as earnestly and as fervently
a. any Of the others. Everybody at
that little meeting knew Jesus Christ
and every one Of them had an up-to-
the.minute experience, and II you'd
call for a testimony meeting you
wouldn't have to nag and pull ana
beg and tease and coax for five min
utes to get somebody to their Feet.
Then some good old saint would
stand up and say. THE LORD Is my
shepherd. ! shall not want" On
nv goodness! They'd all want to
SCNek. IneN all hdA oOAASNatA''6
saw. Something had been done for
ali Of Them. That's the reason why
wave got so many dead ones in the
church. I don't believe that half the
church members have ever been con-
verified. 1 don't believe half OF them
ever had any religious experience.
I'll bet my life on 1t.
One Reason Why.
One reason why It is so hard TO
have REVEALS Is because there are so
many people in the church at the
head Of things that don't know Jesus
Christ. They know something about
Him. but they don't know Him. No.
cir! And they don't know his voice.
They are not at home with his sheep.
That is the reason why when you
have a prayer meeting. my friends,
you can nnd more church members
down in some leg show than you can
at the church on their knees.
II is said that only 10 per cent OF
the church members Of Washington
ever darkened a church door Sunday
night. Only 10 per cent of them.
Only about so per cent of the 10 go
Sunday morning. Some folks never
go near. ] never could understand
why Gods sheep want to leave the
Lords clover patches and go up the
back alley and chew rags and tin
cans with the DEVILS billy goats.
what Moody Learned.
It is said that IL Moody had his life
to live over again he would go into
a town and preach a month and never
give an invitation to the unsaved.
preaching to arouse and stir up the
dead back to church. 1t took Moody
all his life to learn. my friends, that
that should have been, done today.
He used to go in and preach and the
frst night give the invitation to the
unsaved. Later on he discovered that
Il was wrong. lie ought to have
spent all his time preaching in the
church and getting them before God.
and then they would go out and do
IT instead of expecting somebody else
&c wear his life out doing IL.
Now, what is needed to produce a
revival is an atmosphere where every
body is in sympathy and praying, and
know Jesus.
] know preachers that are preach
ing more tonmy-nt and falsehood
than ever David Swing, OF Chicago,
preI he'd when they kicked him out.
] knoH, Methodist preachers that are
preaching ten times more tommyrot
than DR.. Thomas preached when they
kicked him out. None are immune.
know Congregationalist preachers,
UnitaEians, and every other denOmi-