El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-04-04

dOned people need someone TO aSso-
! ciate with them, lift them up and
: people say that the church wants to
go with the world into these places
{ of amusement and SO sanctify them
I Some people profess to honestly be
lieve this. They say that the church
wants to get the spirit OF the age
I MOI The spirit Of the age is in direct
opposition to Christ. What the church
needs is the spirit Of Christ"
Take Siam Mt Shams.
Lot got on down IN Sodom- He
had been elected Judge and was a
prominent citizen He took part In
the church: financially he was a pill
( lar. but spiritually he was a pillar
were high heeled slippers and low
heeled dresses. Sister Lot didn't be-
lieve in revivals; she said they were
all fox fire and unhealthy excite
ment, and she never attended them
Sister Lot didn't 60 to prayer meet
ing. She was a "Once'r-Went TO
church on Sunday morning when the
weather was right If you wanted
TO have an oyster supper or pink
tea social to buy new carpet for
the church, she was right on hand
to help. But she didn't 90 to church
on Sunday night, and she didn't be
lieve in reviyals nohoW; all fox fire
and unhealthy excitement
Laugh Brings Preachers query.
In his description Of sister Lot and
her failings the speaker made most
effective use OF repetition, so that the
whole house laughed at the naughty,
self sufficient dame he recalled be-
fore them. What are you all laugh
ing at2" he then asked innocently.
sister Lot didn't have family altar
she took no interest in the spiritual
work Of missions, and she didn't be-
lieve in reYivals"
He told Of preaching about sister
Lot in a fashionable city church on
Sunday morning. did IL maliciOusly,
he said, and described how the min
lister sank lower and lower in MS
chair, and after the service rushed up
TO him and said, Good Heavens, man,
there we're 20 Of her sitting right in
front Of your
says RevivaIs Make Churches.
'If there is anything makes me mad
beyond the power OF utterance," he
said, 1T IS TO have some persimmon
headed. backslidden Methodist say he
doesn't believe in revivals. They made
the Methodist church And they made
every other evangelistic church that
is a power in the world for gOOdi
When 1 began to preach, it hurt me
10 hear church member reported as
saying they didn't believe in revivals,
and ! made an 1nVeSu cation OF lot
Of these people. If / lived like the
people I know who don't believe in
reVlvals, please God / wouldn't be-
lieTe in reYivals either! I was con-
verted in a revival. an ignorant, il
literate boy. 1 stand before you to-
night nothing outside Jesus Christ
but in my years OF work 1 have seen
10000 people confess Christ, and 4
challenge any revival hater TO lay
his record alongside minei God speed |
the time when the Protestant churches !
nT the Tn~Nn will Get hack IN Hha did D
time holy ghost religion.
Life Is Flash OF Light.
''The biggest fool who walks the
earth is he who forEets that life is /
but a flash OF light between two /
eternities, and though he have mill i
lions piled up, there's no one so poor
as he who stands before the judg- /
ment seat without Christ II you 4
don't believe in revivals, before God \
what DO you believe in?"
God never intended Christian pa
rents 10 give their children in mar
rage to those who mock and sneer
the things OF God When Lot was
convinced that Sodom was doomed, he
tried 10 bring his married daughters
away with him, but they thought him
crazy, slammed the door in his face
and went back TO bed Lot had lost
his testimony. Parents. have you lost
your testimony Look outi Look
0uti7
No Sunday Morning Meeting.
Mr.. Brown then led his audience in
prayer and dismissed them. There
VIII be no morning meeting Saturday.
but a particularly large meeting
saturday night. There will be no sun
day morning meeting at the taber-
lacle. as people viii go 10 their
churches.
Sunday afternoon at 2:3O EVANGELIST
Brown will deliver a sermon lecture
n rHHH sH~~
ng for high school girls, in charge
1f Mrs. Slower, viii be Immediately
after school, about $3.50 Thursday, in
The Central Baptist church.