The Washington herald., 1918-01-11
WELFARE OF NEIGHBOR
SHOULD INTEREST EVERY
FOLLOWER OF CHRIST
AFTERNOON SERMON
Personal Work Proverbs

Some people think IL is beneath their
dignity. Then you live on higher
plane than your Master. for He went
about doing good wherever He was
In the world
A lady said TO a friend OF mine.
DO you think my blindness will
hinder me?"
Ny friend said. 1T is a misfortune.
but don't know. i have the opinion
that II will be a help 70 you. because
people will come up to express to you
their sympathy for your lack Of sight
and that will give you the opportunity
to speak Of Jesus"
oh" she said. Il don't mean in
an effort like that, but to stand on the
platform" She thought the only way
to serve God was 10 get in the spot
light, not to be doing something with
the people that you might shake
hands with day by day and in your
home.
Now, it's a dificult form OF work;
it's more difficult than preaching; it's
more diffcult than attending conven-
tions: more dificult than giving goods
to the poor and when you do give
goods 70 the poor. don't wait until
the moths have eaten holes in them.
and when you give them away don't
cut all the buttons and braid on. Poor
folks like them as well as you do
That's no act of charity because
you've taken OF all you want, then
turned them over TO somebody else.
No! No, The angels never record an
act like that. You will never see III
when you get to heaven, and you will
never get TO heaven IL you have an
easy time.
oh, you can pin a badge. on usher
people to their seats, pass the col
lection plate, be an elder or oea-
con or a steward. and go 10 church,
sing in the choir and be members
Of a Home or Foreign Missionary So
ciety-the devil will let you attend
Bible conferences. but the minute you
begin to do personal work 70 try
to get somebody to take a stand
for Christ, all the devils in hell will
be on your back, for they know that's
a challenge 20 the devil and his
forces And / hope that the work OF
the leading Of people 70 Christ by
personal effort always will be hard
Lack of ChurchEOers.
1 have no sympathy for folks that
are looking for something easy.
Get out and do something. He
isn't my boy" That same spirit
Of letting people go TO the devil be-
cause they don't eat at your table
and because you're not married 10
them! Oh. there's too much Of that
today in the world. He that win
meth souls is wise"
1t is the personal effort that God
will honor and that God will bless.
ASS listenl Let me tell you some
thingl There are 100000 young men
in this country between the ages OF
Is and 3. Fourteen million Of them
are not members OF any church. Cath
ole or Protestant. Seven millions OF
them attend church occasionally.
Nine million Of them never darken
a church door from one years end
to another
After the Iroquois FIRE in Chicago
the Iroquois Theater b U n d-So
people burned to death-a girl about
Il years of age fought her way
through the fire and the smoke and
over the dead and the dying, and
through the great torrents OF blood
and crushed and charred and baked
flesh, her hair singed. her eyebrows
burned of, her face and hands blist-
tered, her clothing hanging in char
red rags. She got on the street car TO
go home and she was moaning and
signing, she'd wiring her hands and
say, 20 God, o God!' A lady next to
her said,
We'll, you ought 20 be thankful
that you got out alive"
She said, Il am but I didn't help
anybody else out. II was all could
do TO get out" and what she was
moaning about was the fact that
others had to die because she didn't
help them. Yet she was sitting by
people who had not thought Of help
ing others-letting them go 20 hell.
oh, he that winneth souls Is wise. IL
wise! You'd feel different. perhaps,
il it were some Of your own. but re-
, member. IL it's not your flesh and
blood it's somebody else's
Must Confess Sins.
And IL Il isn't your boy. it's some
body else's. II II isn't your girl. it's
somebody else's. Take my advice.
That's the trouble with the world
today We don't care q rap what
becomes OF others so long as we get
through the world. Now you may
soon go, you may die and they may
die and you may live and they may
die. / die or you may die; both may
live and both may die but no matter
whether you 20 first or last you've
got to meet at the judgment. That's
settled! You've got TO do that,
He that winneth souls Is wise"
He is wise!
And so there must be a confession
Of sin The sin of neglect-confe -
that; and the sin OF unforgiveness.
the sin OF indifference. David said.
IF regard iniquity in my heart. the
Lord will not hear me-" oh, you get
the light Of Jesus in your heart! Jesus
Christ is able, my friends, TO reveal
himself to the agnostic materislist
like he did TO Balsam, until he knew
Jesus Christ. Oh, he can flash the
deity Of Jesus Christ into the brain
Of the son OF the orthodox Unitarian
Of New England as he did the son OF
Edward Everett Hale. He is able TO
knock the scales from the credulous
worshippers of Mary Baker Glover
Eddy until you will find that matter
is existent and not an Illusion OF the
mortal mind.
He that winneth souls is wise -
that is my message.