The Washington herald., 1918-01-09
1ndQy Wildly Pictures Today Need OF Revival

opinion he's a disgrace to the church
II he's your preacher you can tell
him so: I don't care whether he but
tons his collar In front or behind
Can't Have Rain Always.
You ask the man or woman who
sits by your side, when did you turn
from sin to Jesus Christi" and you
will be dumfounded TO discover that
about seven out OF every ten will say
AT q time of q special awakening.
take issue with you right there.
The economy of Nature provides for
the occasional copious downpour OF
rain. but you'd be q fool to grumple
because it didn't rain all the time.
1t isn't unwise 10 have revivals in
business-oh. mol ! never heard OF
a community or a commercial club
saying they were doing too much busi-
ness. It isn't unwise to have a re-
vival in politcs-not at ail!-and the
spends millions of dollars
on educational buildings and books
and teachers. and once in four years
We hire halls, newspapers, editors
and orators and this re-
public becomes a university in which
to train voters. A number of the have
and therefore some Demo
Gratis are going to vote the Republican
ticket, and some Republicans are 60
ing to vote the Democratic ticket;
some are utterly indifferent, so we've
got a political revival, and they have
q political evangelist chasing up anc
down the country spouting their doc
trines from the rear end OF train
It's nothing but a great political re-
vival. or awakening. that's being had
that's all! And so, all through, nc
matter what It may be.
In the bushes world you've got tc
make a market for the goods as well
as to make the goods. A man may be
an automaton and make the goods. but
1t takes a higher grade Of intelligence
to make q market for the goods than
to make the goods. The highest grade
OF intelligence you can find today In
any one class is the travelling man
for he has to be a fellow with a good
bean on him to sell the goods.
Luther and Wesley.
30 every community has a Chamber
a business revival. We have an auto
show-that's nothing but an auto re-
vival to show us the new designs and
all that We have a horse show
that's nothing but a horse revival to
show how magnificently we are de-
veloping horse flesh to a standard OF
Colleges observe COM
mencements-that keeps up the spirit
Of loyalty. What commencement is
to colleges. revival is to religion, what
health Is to an individual, revival Is
to religion; what education is to cul-
ture. a revival is to religion.
Martin Luther saved Europe from
spiritual death and Wesley saved Eng
land from the infidelity of the
French Revolution. Jonathan Edwards,
Charles g. Finney and d. L. Moody
lifted America from moral death, The
prophets were all evangelists. They
appealed to heart, to head, to emo
ton, to passion-anything to make a
man or woman sick and disguised and
with sin.
John the Baptist, the greatest man
born of woman, was an evangelist
He had a great revival. The church
was born in time of revival. Paul
was an evangelist and they had to
call out the cops to rescue him, and
he went either he had a
riot or a revival.
Christ as Disturber.
Jesus Christ was a great disturber
Of his day. He disturbed the self COM
placency. of that. pliable, plastic bunch
"a at II. AzVa1 a
bunch where to head in. Now IL in
his day there had been a society or
ganized for the expression Of criticism,
Jesus Christ would never have Joined
Il. No. siri The Jewish authorities
Of his day were intent on maintaining
things as they were. and Jesus Christ
produced an element of unrest in the
hearts Of the people until they threw
off the yoke of their ecclesiastical
bondage and they followed Him, to
the cross. And his church has done
the same thing ever since except when
she has lost sight of her Master. 1t
Is the church's business to create a
spirit of unrest in the hearts of the
people and disgust them with sin SO
they will forsake their iniquities and
become as God wants them. That's
the mission Of the church.
You cut the day of Pentecost out
of civilization; you cut Peter and Paul
out Of civilization-what you've got
left wouldn't do to make a rummage
sale.
II a man opens his soul toward busi-
ness. he becomes business man; to-
ward politics, a politician; toward dis
honesty, a thief; toward the saloon, a
booze holster; toward Jesus Christ, a
and my challenge to you,
sir, is this: Show me your faith by
your works.
fanking Leaves From a Rose.
Oh. a boy can pick up stone and
break the cathedral window-yes, but
II takes an artist to build 1t. A fool
can light a match and burn down a
structure that takes a skilled con-
tractor and architect to erect. oh.
anybody can yank the leaves from a
rose, but 1t takes God to make 1t and
kiss it with the sunlight. A mob spat
N the face of Jesus Christ, nailed
him to the cross, but God wakened
him. and he rose from the dead. Let
hose who sneer at revivals find some
hing that has produced a blessing and
benefit equal to that in a revival of
religion before they open their old
Jaws.
Horace Bushnell. one Of the bright
est tutors that Yale College produced
for forty years, was pastor of the
First Congregational Church of Hart
ford, Conn. Horace Bushnell said If
any man expects to carry on the cause
Of Jesus Christ on a steady dead
level, fearful lest the axles of Gods
chariot might kindle into a flame. he's
too big a coward to be a leader of
the Lords hosts. When the preach
ing is faithful, when the prayers are
when the lives Of the people
are pure, a revival will follow as nat
urally as the sun will shine.
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