The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-07
Head Volunteers of America Filled Pulpit at the First
 Methodist Church
HEART-TOUCH SECRET
 OF VOLUNTEER WORK
"We Need Better Churches, Not More Churches" Said Speaker, "for Real Christians Pleasure Is
 Helping Others"

Gen. BallingtOn Booth at the FIrst Methodist church yesterday morning at the II o'clock service when he oc- cupied the pulpit by invitation of Dr. George R Stuart, the pastor
 Not through reason do men be- lieve, and I care not how you reach the heart-when or where-that is the. post that you have got to reach- it is the crux--you have got to reach that point before you can be success full in reaching the man."
 General Booth had been asked by Dr. Stuart to tell his story. To tell the large audience how he reached men when all others had failed. How he brought them up after they had fallen to the lowest depths. The above was his story in brief.
 q am not here to criti0tse education. theology or headology-for if l had hundred consecrated young men today with education-even as much as a high school education, I would send them where angels would covet them. But do say that headology without heart 
 reliance placed upon science and educa- ton, as well as theology. What we need is men who teach that Jesus Christ is the Savior of men.
 HEART TOUCH
 T was standing on Fifth avenue in New York when parade of whole division passed. The boys were in line to embark for overseas. There was little woman standing behind me who said: oh, I will never see him. Oh, will never see him; he can't see me- And I gently put her in front of me where she could see. And she said: It's my boy that want to say goodbye to- and then everybody gave her room. Here they came, and she cried out: 'Oh, Sam, look here, sam; it's your mother. Wave at me, my boy, and it looked like sam could not hear, and would not see her. I have big voice, so l called out to Sam, and he looked over, and smiled, threw his mother kiss and waved hei goodbye. There was not a dry eye anywhere around there when the inci- dent had concluded. It was the heart touch That little touch went to every heart around that little mother just like an electric shock, and they all felt moved and were reached by the same flash that went from that boys breast to that of his mother.
 "Whcrever the heartology is preached, there cones with it the heart touch; there comes that influence that no pow CT can picture or describe, but it is that touch that men feel. It is with the heart that men beliefe unto righteous ness.
 ,'.There is a reason for the unohurched of this country-and it is being sup piled. Do you mean to tell me that the boys over there only want amusement? They do not look to atheism or infdel- ity for their power. They are not going to give U their dugouts of Christianity for any experiments. When one young Sammie was asked what was their power over there, and where it emanated from, he promptly replied, The Cross That is it That is the power at the front today.
 BETTER CHURCHES NEEDED
 What we need is not more, but better, churches. One of the fighting men in trance WAS dShcQ uy oiC VI ehS iOii gious workers what they wanted first. motion pictures or religious services. TO he'll with the motion pictures, he answered, i've want religion.
 Jesus Christ presented in humane. compassionate way, will reach man if it has the heart touch. It has got to have this ingredient if it lands the masses. the great masses of this world. There is no man on earth so low, so debaseo ~f tcf presented, won't touch. You had as well tell me there are no pearls in oysters. that there is no timber in the forests as to tell me that
 DOING FOR OTHERS
 eff ycu are going to succeed in the fields to which you have been assigned -tne great white fields--get your hearts right. Every living man has an ideal. Have you reached yours? There are lots who will never reach theirs with out aid. The Christians greatest pleas- ure is in doing something for others not for self.
 "The instrumentality of heart is the best religion get your heart right Sc that YOU can give the heart touch. That is the way we have worked with men, are working and will continue to work = in the slums, in prisons and wherever we find them in need of Jesus Christ.
 Buy a bond tomorrow and lift up with all the faith you can and get the heart touch through this action.