The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-31

! is not bughouse. do you know what !
| win do / will tell you.
will go TO her and IN one-half hour
OF realms the old BIbie, and of
! pray er. ner tears Will be wiped away
ana her noGsG from cellar 10 garreg
!" nj be Hooded with caIn4Eoss Ike a
California sunset There is where l
sec The triumph of Christianity. Tney
want God. Iney want Cnrist. They
aon / want your formalisns and your
substitutIons. they don't want il.
I LS-a- ~ A-a~ss -, 49, 4 T..
, as hungry as they are back ia iowa
where 4 was born. Then, let me ask
you a question. Is the church draw
lnS the hungry world to itself? There
ls no lodging the fact that in drawing
the masses 20 the tables, the church
Is facing q great crisis That there is
a breach between the church and the
masses, nobody can deny.
Fit the Cloth.
You take a ss&ia ak down into a dis
trIct CT wealth and refinement and the
church spires are aplenty. But as you
walk on and AS the population be-
comes more dense, church buildings
became fewer. The downtown cnurcn
becomes q sort OF passing proposition.
and by and ~ the old members leave,
and the support of the church be-
comes more and more difficult and at
church meetings you will hear Let's
cut the clothes to d, the CLOTH
Does a wise general reduce his
forces in face of the enexny or does
he bring up the reserves to beat them
back? Why don't tho church do it?
q God. She's been rstreAtinK before
the devil. Let her draw the sword land
become aggressive TOR Jesus Christ,
she has not srnelled gun powder for q
hundred and fifteen years 1t would
do her good
1t is fact that in all densely popu-
lated sections of the great cities Of
America, the church buildings are be-
ing sold for enormous prices for COM
merciai purposes and the money thus
secured is taken out, and they build
magnificent churches farther out and
they become sort of gorgeous religious
clubs for "a privilege. They have dis
charged their responsibility to the
great masses of humanity they leave
behind. when they go down there about
once a year and squirt little rose
water over the fostering mass and
they will sit down and sing, Think
of the home over there" when you
ought to be out in the world at work.
GU should not be more in love with
your present duty than you are with
your future reward. Paul said. For
me to live is Christ and to die Is
gain" His life was to them more use
full. his death would have been to him
more profitable. By dying he could
reach his Inheritance sooner. but by
living. God made his usefulness
greater.
This Is the place to work in. Heaven
isn't the place to work in. Don't go
to sleep In the pew. This Is the place
to do something. Wait until you get
En- ao har, h tt
you want to. But let's get out and do
something for God.
II the gain OF the church ON the
population during the first half of
the nineteenth century was repre-
scented by and during the last ten
years. it'd be represented by nothing
Evidently the birth rate is going on
the twentieth century limited. while
the church rate is going via freight.
Now wait! Let me ask you a ques-
ton. Need the world turn to other
tables than those OF the church for
something to eat? The answer was
this. They came up and said. Jesus.
here's a great crowd, five thousand
people; they are hungry; send them
away; let them go into town
Jesus said; They need not depart;
give we them to eat: you feed EN-
Therefore. need the church. or need
| the world. turn to other tables than
those of the church to get food? Use
the answer that Jesus gave to His
disciples: They need not; you feed
them"
But you are not doing IT, Jesus
Christ said: You feed them: they
need not so farther; they need not
follow all these isms and sisms that
come laundering along. Give We
them to eat: they need not depart"
| The church has the power to feed
this hungry world, thank God. and it
can feed the hungry world by doing
what Jesus did when he fed the five
thousand by wise use of what it
has on hand.
They had that food on hand, so
there they had it right there by wise
use of what they had on hand. and.
second, with the blessing and the
power of God on what they had on
hand. So Jesus took what they had
on hand and God put His power and
His blessing on it. and with what they
had on hand they fed the five thou
sand hungry people.
So the church can do today what
Jesus did. by wise use OF what she's
got on hand and by the blessing of
God on what she has on hand. Then
the question comes in your mind :.
which to feed this hungry world P"
She has two things.
First II has set up principles which
| 1t puts into the practice Of the every
day life of the Individual, or society
and Of business which will solve every
difficulty. every problem OF city, state
and nation. We will solve 1t with the
gospel Of Jesus Christ, all right!
Now, what's she got1 First. she
has truth. The truth is, man is a
sinner. He can't save himself. He
must have a supernatural saviour. Je-
sus WAS born OF the Virgin Mary, cru
Gifted. dead and buried. God IL God,
and the only God. Jesus Christ Is the
Son OF God. Salvation is by repent
ance and faith in the fact that Jesus
Christ died on the cross, became our
substitute, and when l accepted Him
az my Saviour. God put It down to
my credit as II I'd accept the law
through my faith In Jesus Christ
And It has Justice. Capital and
labor will shake hands, capital will