The Washington herald., 1918-01-09

many a man that God honors anc
blesses as the pastor of a church who
would be a fizzle as an evangelist. Or
the other hand he viii bless an evan
gelist who would be failure as pastol
of a church. I never was called a;
pastor OF a church but once. when a
man offered to give $500 a year to.
ward my salary. but didn't accept
| IL. II ! ever did make up my mind
to do II, I'd buy a round trip ticket
take II from me! But you can bel
I'd skin the gang while was on the
job. g.
A revival is a conviction of sin ir
the church. Backsliders are aroused
sinners are brought to Christ through
a revival. and your faith Is strength
ened. The average man or woman
today Ia blind TO these conditions
PrayI Get your own heart and life
right, then you begin to yearn and
long to see other people right fol
Jesus Christ and for his truth. Oh
the truths of the Bible are a dream
| they are a mirage to a great many
people today. They never become q
reality to them because they are in
such a backslidden state and condi-
ton themselves.
An Iowan's Calves
I was in a town out in Iowa. preach
ing in a little tent, and an old farmer
a rich old fellow. asked me to go out
to his house for dinner. 1 went out
with him one time and we sat in the
parlor and he was pulling his bird-tail
whishers and trying to hit the spittoor
, thirty feet away-like that. And pret.
, ty soon he got up ard walked across
the floor, reached up on the wall and
took down a copy Of Jayne's Almanac
and he began to turn the leaves. He
/ said 'I am looking to see when the
moon changes"
I said, what for7'
He said. Il want to mark my calves;
I cut the Sits out of the ears Of some
of them and they bled to death" HE
said. "I was told IL I marked them
in certain time Of the moon they'd
be all right"
said, do you believe that?"
He said. Yes. I've had one Of these
years" I said, That's queer that
kids, and IL you'd put them on the
mar net lOlllOliO" NAlCy
as much as one Of those black polled
steers you've got out in the field"
The trouble with people is that they
spend too much time getting theii
hogs and cattle ready for market ant
too little time getting boys and girls
ready for heaven.
Revival? Get right yourself! You
begin to realize that without Jesus
IN. a A-sN
from Christ and his truth. 20, Lord
Revive Thy work, in the midst of the
years in wrath remember mercy"
when Revival is Timely.
When is a revival needed? When
religion is not ideal. Christianity does
not consist in certificates of church
membership. Christianity does moi
consist of trotting out to church SUM-
day morning, keeping little spots sew
enteen inches square warm for a hall
| hour, listening to a sermonette, put
| the collection plate and then singing,
when the Roll is Called Up Yonder."
A preacher came to me out in lowe
and he said to me, "Bill, thought I'd
done my duty when 1 held up the
bleeding form of Jesus Christ ant
dilated upon his precepts. 1 find now
that/Tve got to preach agaist sim"
| Right!
There's many a man-oh, he isn't
fit for the balm of Gilead until you've
given him the good old-fashioned cur.
ry-comb of the law and then he will
begin to realize he needs Jesus Christ
and something besides soothing syrup
Therefore. revival is needed wher
there are feuds, factions. quarrels.
I owe more to DIR. Chapman than
to any other man that ever became
preacher. travelled with him fol
two years as an assistant. He picked
me up out Of the corn rows of Illinois
We went to town up in Kansas one
| time to conduct a series Of meetings
We were accustomed to have union
meetings. but in that place. when we
arrived on the scene, we found that
they could have had a union meeting
had II not been for a quarrel with the
Presbyterian church. They, had hac
a fuss and there were a few people
alive and awake. up-to-date, who said
they'd withdraw. So they went dowr
to the bank of the river and they
built a church, they had good live.
wire preacher there who was coins
at a good gait all the time on bigf
gear. while the other fellow had ths
brakes set.
Meets Rival Preachers.
| We were being entertained in the
home Of this preacher in whose church
We were holding the meeting. These
two preachers lived side by side or
the bank OF the river. They had q
high board fence right on the line, nine
feet high. so the kids and wives
couldn't scrap back and forth. 1 sale
to Doc one day, 'Td like to meet the
pastor of the other church. the Pres.
byterian church."
He said. 'sWell, perhaps"
So we were strolling down the street
one day and his white necktie was
Tapping back and forth. in a silk hat
ltwirling a cane. and he said, "Yondel
COMES the pastor Of the other church. >
I.said. I'D like % meet him.