The Washington herald., 1918-01-09

Dutch windmill. I said. whats the
matter?''
Two society women had been scrap
ping for three or four years to see
who would be recognized as society
leader. He said:
THAT big fat woman is a Methodist
and the one sitting down is a Baptist.
They are trying to settle the scrap"
l preached, nothing happened. The
next day l had as q day of fasting
ana prayer and that afternoon two
women who hadn't spoken to one an
other Tor four years got into the same
home to pray. They spoke to every
body there and were cordial to every
one except one another. 1 heard about
1t and I mentioned the fact.
stampeded Onto Trail.
I said, Its a disgrace and I'm
ashamed to hear it." One woman sat
in the back. near a post, she got up
and she said. 'Brother Sunday. / feel
horribly chagrfned. I'm one of the two
to whom you refer. / made up my
mind that am going to get right to-
morrow"
I said. isis, you'd better do II now.
You might die before tomorrow, and
you'd be in hell" She got up and
beat II.
That night when 1 gave the invita-
ton, fifty-seven men and women came
weeping down the aisle, hundreds were
swept into the kingdom OF God. They
built a Methodist church out Of IL
that cost hundreds of thousands of
dollars, the Baptist church commu-
nifty was stirred. oh. the spirit of God
flees from strife and discord.
A revival is needed when there are
prejudice and feuds and factions and
fusses. And a revival is needed when
there is a worldly spirit 1t isn't
necessary to do something grossly in
consistent with the standards of mo-
rality and decency. No, A shin will
ride the waves until the water gets
into her: she was made to ride the
water and not for the water to be in
her.
The church is all right as long as
she's in the world: she's an wrong
when the world is in her. and one Of
the troubles OF the church today, my
friends, is that she's Joined the world
and that's the reason why the world
won't join the church, has lowered
the standard of 1t in the universe. Oh,
the world is lousy with humbugs to-
day-absoiutely.
And the churches are full OF sour
faced religious crabapples that are
trying to hand God a lemon.
You bet that whoever works for the
devil will get his pay from the devil.
He will give you hell here and hell
when you are through. and you play
both ends against the middle. You're
big fool to follow the devil I tell
you religion has done too much good
for this old world for any buck-oys-
ter and sawdust filed fellow to
knock. Don't forget that No. sir!
There are some men in some churches
who are bigger rogues tran some of
the convicts in Sing Sing. You bet!
just HE'LL, Hell.
Live the way you ought to live for
God. He'll is seldom preached nova
days and that may be one reason why
we've gotten so much hell here on
earth. It's net preached enough. We
don't preach enough OF il to the peo-
pie. II you don't want to hear about
hell don't come around here. ! don't
believe in Gahenna or Hades, / be-
lieve in plain old-fashioned HE'LL,
hell.
1t s. no argument against religion.
my friends, that there are black sheep
in the flock. Please remember that
the devil at one time lived in heaven.
He had a chance, but he passed 1t UP.
So. II you will mind your own faults
you will have less time to find fault
with other people. 1t will keep you
busy looking out for YOURSELF!
20 Lord, Revive thy work" A re-
,, vival Is needed when there is spiritual
desolation among the multitude.
read in the paper that 5000 Presby-
terians went to New York and back
slid and you couldn't find them with a
fine tooth comb. or a search warrant
Lost. Not doing a thing for the
church Of God!
You will find them in every denom-
ination-the Episcopal. the Methodist,
the Baptist, the Lutheran. the Re-
formed and all! We have 10000 900
population in the United States and
there are 100000 OF them that are
not identified with any church, Catho-
lie or Protestant! And last year 800
churches made reports that not one
accession or confession of faith did
they have. They're a lot of dead
ones lot of dead ones. That's
what's the matteri
oh, we need a panic in religion.
The world doesn't need reforming.
the world needs Transforming by the
blood OF Jesus Christi Mighty few
people are being saved. Every church
has its constituency. Some men go to
church-you, a Methodist: you. a Re-
formed; you a Lutheran; you, an
Episcopalian; you, a Presbyterian
why? oh. your wife goes there. your
mother was a member there. your
children go to that Sunday school. So
you've got your property and your
religion in your wife's name.
Few Children Won.
Every church has its constituency
whenever you go, you go there. II you
feel at home under these circum.
stances, all right. Take the Sunday
school. How few of thu Sunday
school scholars are being saved and
brought into the church! How few
people are being saved, Most men
are touched by church influence some
time, but they are allowed to drift
away-no family affairs in cur homes!
oh, we are letting our children grow
up like wild ASS colts today! No
family altar, no wonder they are go
ing to the devil. No wonder that,
with the dew Of youth on their brows,
your girls feed the red light! No
wonder the age of the prostitute in
the last nine years in this country has
fallen from g and 2e down to Is and
II. That's the average age OF the
prostitute today-15 to IL! Ten years