The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-02

fresiuent ana congress uiu not lnlen,i that that order should prevent anyone who is old or infirm from coming to church who has been in the habit nf getting here that way. 1t is a recognized fact that the church of God Is an es- sential. and the government expects the church work to go on. Then, too. this stroke was intended to get the Sunday cars for essentials.
 REFERS TO BREWERS
 While they were taking this action can't help but wonder why they did not think of the brewers who are burning up millions of tons of coal. using thou sands of cars and -rotting millions ,f bushels of grain to make the stuff that they are sending all over the country. and lay the hands of the government upon that devilish gang of fellows first T am going to preach this morning from John iii-6, and have never preached a sermon on that text before in my life. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that you | should not perish, but have everlasting | life
 The love of God. the gift of Christ and eternal. life are in that verse of Scripture. You can always tell the size
 of man by the size of his God. You can judge his religion by the size of his ideals You can form an estimate with us all is that we use the wrong kind of measure. If we were to get Up by real big man we would look like fox terrier standing by an elephant. Now we are getting away from the Alabama, southern, American idea--its a world idea--'for God so loved the worid.' wish that I could make you kick your self and think on a bigger higher plane. What do you knows about any country, It's religion, it's customs, its resources We think only of ourselves l thank God that we are coming to the world
 idea-the idea that God loves.
 GREAT WORLD PLAN 'If we had to make heaven, how would we make it? Your idea and mine of i, heaven. is our province in which we live and it's people. I preach to you of a great world plan--with the worlds view. 1 It is this provincial little idea that we have that is cursing the world today,
 
 idea we would not be at war today, for l it is the idea of caste. If you were mak- ling a heaven you would not have any l Germans in it. would you? What we want is a great big, broad brotherhood 1 Of Christianity that deals fair with all men. Think of the world as one great common brotherhood and deal with them fairly as children Of God-thats the world idea.
 For God so loved the world-not Ala Ibama-the world. I know it is hard to | think of a German getting to heaven, | for if I was keeping door there I don't | know whether could let one in or not l but that's about far enough on that sub 1 feet But we must realize that God loves the whole world. Of course you will say | that Germany needs licking, and she does, and she will get it, but I have been on the train many times when right near me sat child that needed a licking. too. and I would have been glad to have done the job-but l did not hate the child While we are realizing that Germany must be licked we must plan l a campaign of education that we must give her after she is licked and work l for her good and not for her destruction. We must plan to bring her to the world ideal and remove the little German ideal | that she has always been taught and which she is now practicing.
 CHRISTIAN VIEW
 / we must take this brotherly Christian view of the case, for it is whole world situation. Think of what God did, gave His only besotten son to die--when He knew that He was absolutely going to die for us-not the hope of Him coming back with honor and glory, but to die. Wben we think of our boys~-those in their teens-going across to participate in l. this struggle. we have hopes of honor and glory with a safe return. It was different with God.
 | s.When I get sick, I don't think about dyng-I send foY a doctor. for l don't want to die. I had rather be George stuart than any angel that I know of. l for want to live forever. want to | live 100 years. The investment Is too ! great to give up, so We must live 50 1 that we are assured of eternal life. i pr. Stuart told in the beginning of hia sermon of the good times he had tn south Georgia, where there was plenty of I fried chicken, corn and watermelons. He spoke of the great airplane factory ol the Wright Brothers and how they were shooting the air fighters out every day. and how good it made him feel to see 1 if and that it did man good to get | away and see things. He contrasted the mar who never got away with the one whc did. and stated that it was not rest | a man needed so much as the change o1 i iobs scenery and surroundings.
 If there is a single vestige of truth t., tha pihIe' he concluded ssthArA if