Evening star., 1918-01-23

| dSeePl Jesus SHTiSt! 1ou BET your AIe,
"And. If there were only fifty weeks
year to the saints and two weeks a
| year to the sinners. Now it's not the
are thousands of graduates going down
| to he'll! The church's business Is to save
people from hell! Let the state do the
educating Let other institutions do the
educating, my friends.
If had million dollars to give away
tomorrow, I'd give nine hundred and
ninety-nine thousand dollars to evangel-
istic Christianity to where I'd give one
| thing against it. for haven't, and 1 be-
| lieve In it with both hands up All the
power in my heart and life! But you can
| get all the education on earth and all the
| learning and all the knowledge out of all
the books in all the world. and that won't
save your soul: while if you know what s
| in the Bible. that will save your soul. :
Institutions to Educate.
"And it's the church's business to save
the people. Other people can do the
other part, There are other institu-
business. That's what I do to win peo-
pie to God. Because If everybody in the
nation knew everything there is to
know, and didn't know God, what would
be the condition of the people in the
community? So f1ty weeks ought to be
spent in going after the unsaved. and
two weeks year talking and preach
ing to the church, and we want soul
winners in the pews and the platform
and the choir loft. One person can
set a church on fire with holy zeal for
Jesus Christ, the same as one match
could burn city. And the church
OF the future must work more for sin
ners or it will stop: and it must work
for all, rich. poor. great, small, learn
ed or. illiterate.
Everybody Can Help.
1t is something everybody can do. and
God Will bless you whether you have
got much or little, whether you wear
homespun or silk. whether you ride
IN an auto or whether you hot-hoof 1t,
whether you have got a servant to wait
on you or whether you have to wait on
yourself, the Lord can honor you, and
will. If you will do His will and help
bring somebody to the Lord.
Ihere was time when a preacher
was looked upon as sort Of an ec-
clesaastfc locomotive, and they thought
his whistling and blowing Off steam and
clnders was enough to bring the whole
punch to glory. 1t won't do it! Every
body's got to do something to help.
Now the majority of Christians never
speak word or do a thing to bring
the interests of religion before the mind
OF the individual. Personal work is the
business of every minister and deacon
and every member of the church. and
you ought to begin at home among your
own friends and your own family, too"
breaches From Story Of David.
The evangelist preached on mo Man
Cared for My Sour At last evenings
meeting. He spoke In part, as follows:
ut seems strange to me that any
man in any period of the world could
kn hot
honest expression of the utter and abb
solute Indifference Of the world as TO
whether he went to heaven or went to
hell. But more than passing strange
with all we understand, and with ali
the opportunity to do good and serve
God. and with every incentive to do 1t
any man or woman with q scinti1la
OF deeeney or reason would stoop to
assassinate your manhood and electro-
cute any high and noble am mbition, to
stoop to do. anything that the devil
wants you to do, and then want peo-
pie to respect you.
"tNo man cared for my SOUL Did
you ever note the concern We manifest
In people in times of physical distress?
When the wires brought us the news
that San Francisco lay supine and help
less and that fire had broken out and
our hands into our pockets up to our
elbows and stream Of gold flowed to
the Pacific coast until nearly $4,000, 900
had been sent to supply the people with
of life, who had thus been so rudely
driven out and their homes wrecked
and covered with incinerated ashes.
And when the earthquake shook Italy,
the United States was the first to load
vessels to the waters edge and send
them with provisions and clothing and
tents and lumber to build temporary
homes in order to house those whose
homes had been destroyed by the
forces Of nature. It made you feel
meath the Stars and Stripes and that
we were always the first to respond
when people are in danger and need.
"Great concern was manifest for peo-
pie in times of physical distress. Let
the shrek and the scream and the cry
Of child be heard. you will forget
business, you will forget discussion.
you will forget everything. and
you will rush to render aid to those
who may be crying in their helpless
ness.
"Perhaps there may be in your own
home-perhaps you may have your
own husband whom you have never
spoken to-, OF your own children or
words of my text and say OF that you
don't care for their souls.
You may think you are unworthy
and it may be true, and that is the first
thought toward getting worthy with
God Almighty, to realize that you are
unworthy You know people estimate
religion by what they see inthe lives
of those who profess to be Christians
Your life may be far from what It
should be, but your life, my friend, is
what you want It to be. for I believe
IL you want 1t to be different, God AL
mighty gives you every incentive in
order to change 1t. to have It the wav
God wants 1t to be.
"You know a sermon given to an an
dience will do it's work. God saws NV
words shall not return unto me void"
MUTT AND JET