The Washington times., 1918-01-08
WHY SUNDAY
7 THINKS CITY
NEEDED HIM
+. AND REVIVAL

copyright. 1917. by william Ashley sunday.l
; The prophecy OF HabakkuS. third
chapter. second verse: 20 Lord! re
vfye Thy work in the midst Of the years :;
in. wrath remember mercy
The question that naturally arises
in your mind is. What is this lie
vival the Prophet is praying for ana
Realized the people needed:
We'll, a revival is a purely phtlo-
sophicaI result of the right use OF
dfvinely, appointed means.
When ! cat food when l am hun
CRY; put warm clothes on when / am
cold; build a fire when i am freezing
that is the right use of the divinely
APPOINTED means. God didn't eN-
pect me to warm myself with cake
of ice. And so ! take medicine when
am sick. That is the right use OF
the divinely appointed means.
Farmers the Right Way.
The farmer plows the ground and
, plants the seed. That is the right
use of divinely appointed means, and
il you don't do 1t you won't have
potato TO stick your fork in or loaf
OF bread to cut a hunk of Of
II God didn't melt the SHOWS in
March and kiss away the icicles, and
cause the green to come, by next
. spring we would be done. That is
how much dependent you ART n God.
and yet some Of you never thank God
: for a meal you shovel down your old
esophIgus any more than hog drinking
sIop.
Now. / will bet my life a u'titude
Of hara to-day have eaten
Z breakfast and dinner. and you haven't
thanked God for a morsel Of food that
has kept your old carcass alive. to this
day All right! II other people who
profess to be your friends treated you
with the same Indifference and ingratl-
tude that you do God. you wouldn't have
any friends on earth.
Not e Minute.
80 Lord, revive Thy work. 1t is
not a miracle. There is a faIlacy preva-
lent today. and that is the opinion that
promoting religion is something peculiar
in itself. and cannot be judged by the
ordinary rules OF causes and effects.
4 Above my head there Is a cause and
an effect. What is the cause? The
dynamo. When you are sick. why that's
/ a cause What is the effect? Find out.
Remove the cause and you will get well.
! When you have a headache. don't rub
! some dope on your head. Ninety-nine
times out Of hundred you are digging
! your own grave with your teeth. The
| trouble Is in your stomach, not in your
bean. So remove the cause and you will
I get we'll. So the wise physician now
adays hunts around for the cause and
I he removes that and puts the bloom
. Of health on your cheek
IL Wand Starve to Death,
Suppose we walked out and
preached to the farmers and we said,
''weH, God is a Sovereign
I All right! That is true.
And God will give you crop
only when he plesses TO give you a
crop, and for you TO pillow and plant
as though you expected the crop, 1t
I Is wrong"
And suppose the farmers were
fools enough to believe il, and they
acted accordingly. We'd starve to
death. It pleases God to give the
farmer q crop when he pIows the
ground and plants the seed, and IL
pIeases God to give him nothing when
he is too darned lazy TO do IT.
qses God to save souls.
when you are man enough to do what
! God wants you to do. and II pleases
GOQ not 90 IL "HtH you oOu 10
your part. In other words, God
won't give a man a crop and let him
loaf around under the shade and fan
himself. and sip lemonade and say.
20. isn't II hot?"
Has TO Get Out and Work.
God expects him TO get out and
pillow the ground and plant the seed.
dig up burrows, and shoot gophers and
skunks.
Such results are sure TO follow In
The churches If they can be persuaded
that promoting a great religious and
moral awakening isn't something
mysterious and has no connection be
tween the means and the end. Here
Is the end; the means, the dynamo.
And so there IS a connection between
the means and the end. If there
wasn't there wouldn't be any end. and
IL the dynamo wasn't running there
would be no lights. And so. there
fore, the effect is always in proper
tion to the cause, and the cause in
proportion TO the effect. Here is the
effect. The dynamo is the cause.
So IL you have got the itch there is a
reason for it See, II is all true.
i. So a revival is the return OF the
church from her backslidlngs, her
Indifference; and il leads to the sal
vatfon Of the unsayed.
And It also includes, first OF all
conviction of sin on the part OF the