The Washington times., 1918-01-08

going so fast that you can't see them
for the fog.
| "oh, Lord, revive thy work" and il
, Is manifest a revival is needed, when
, IL is manifest that the church is sunk
en- low down. degenerated into a third
rate amusement house bureau, and
when you can scare UP a bigger crowd
at leg show than you can at a pray
er meeting. There is something
wrong. Usually the fellow that
( sleeps the soundest in church is the
widest awake in a leg show. And
when you see men and women with
ing the hosts of the devil, to perdi-
ton?
Keep On Doing II.
l have put my fist under the nose
of that dirty bunch for twenty years.
and 1 expect to do It until go home.
l want that gang to see there is no
one OF them can put one over on me
and browbeat me. ! know a lot of
them. They are the biggest bunch
of liars this side perdition. II they
ever told the truth have never heard
of it.
A revival is needed when the wick
ed triumph over the church, and then
when the sinners are careless. II is
as much the duty OF the church to
arouse herself and work and pray
for the salvation OF the unsaved as it
is, my friend for the fire depart
ment to respond when the alarm
sounds. What would you think OF
the city fire department, II, when the
alarm is sounded, they would sit
, around and talk and gas, my friends,
. and play cards, and let the city burn I:
/ What do you think that God thinks
of the church when he has sounded
. the alarm. raised the banner. and ask
ed that every man and woman that is
worth living or worth killing to get
under it and show their colors-it
Is as much your duty to respond to
this call, as II il, my friends. for the
firemen to respond when the alarm is
sounded. 1t is o much your duty to
respond TO the call OF God as IL is for
men and women. to respond when Con-
gress declares war, and the declare
ton Of war without guns and men to
back them US is es asinine as a base
ball game without a ball or a locomo-
tive without steam.
Don't Mind Sometimes.
When may a revival be expected?
Well, when the wickedness OF the
wicked grieves and distresses the
church. Sometimes people don't
seem to mind the sins OF others. Can
II be that you can see the ways OF
sin crowned with the flower OF our
land: can IL be that you can see men
staggering and Keeling, and vomiting.
and jabbering, and muttering and
spewing into the arms OF their wives
- - -
see the wrecked manhood and woman
hood and girls selling their virtue
with the dew damp on their brow
young IN years and old in sin-and
know more about dabbling in sin
when they are seventeen years OF age
than their grandmothers did when
they were seventy years OF ago-they
haven't sprouted long skirts yet,
either?
when Church Is GrfeVed.
When the wickedness of the wick
ed grieves the church OF cd. revi-
val is needed. So many people.
when they speak OF II, It is in a cold.
callous, porhyraceous kind OF way.
Oh. but IL you are humble and right
with God, then you will fall on your
face and shed tears OF anguish over
the fact that other men and women
are enslsved. and brutalized, and de-
monized. and stupefed by the ours
ing, corroding powers of sin which
stir your hearts. II you are free
from the sins that cnslaved Adam, in
the name of God don't sit down and
fold your arms and let them go to the
devil and you do nothing TO try and
rescue the perishing.
You are a fool II you do that. God
f. looking for the men and women
who are willing to go Down into the
slums and help to rescue men ana
women for the name OF Jesus Christ.
Spirit of Revival.
Now, when may the revival be ex-
pected? When Christians have the
spirit of prayer for a revival; not talk
and the spirit OF grumbling because
something may be said that you don't
like. Well, that is the evidence that
that is the thing you needed or you
would have liked IL. So / have got
your number. sis. II ] say something
you don't like, take a tip from ME and
keep your mouth shut, because other