Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-29
cause somebody cares and is concern

cause somebody cares and is concern
 ed about them.
 I... don't know what you do in Nor
 wich when you have an election, but in London we divide the city up into 1 wards, and put captain in charge 1 ofaeaeh ward, and it is the business of that captain and those underneath him l to interview every voter in that ward and to find out just how he stands with respect to their candidates. They go to the voters home, and if he isl not there, they go again and again and
 again until they find him home. Then they see him, they admire the canary ] in3s the cage. and admire the sprig of l geranium in the window, and go out and praise the poultry and swear that. is the finest strain they have ever seen, then they take the children on their knees and play with them and
 kiss them. They don't care how dir I ty they are, and meanwhile, they press < home the claims of their own candi- ' date. When the day of election comes l around they don't even wait. for him
 to come to the polling booth. they ] driyeIout in an automobile and show i hiIn into the polling booth like an ! English lord, and after registering his I vote, they take him back to his home, l or the shop or factory or office. Is that an exaggerated picture? I don't | think 1t is at all, yet, when you want
 to save his soul for time and eternity 1>what do you do? Why. you hire
 janitor to pull an old piece of rope with J a piece of metal on the end, and then you wonder why he doesn't come ! There are men and women in this town Il who will never darken a church door | and will never be won for Christ or ] the church unless somebody loves them and goes out after them. II This. story in the second chapter I of Mark, is the story of one man who never could have got to the Master, and would never have been healed un- ! less somebody loved him enough to have, gone out of their way to get
 him to the Master. I have often i'm agined what kind of fellows they were,
 and sometimes. while thinking of them I have named them. The first man, have called him Mir. Love. He is 8
 great fellow to have in the church.
 and your church work and all your
 business around the church Is only
 so much fuss unless you have Love.
 The disciples looked around at the
 multitude and said "ragweed." Jesus
 said Harvest" It takes Love to see.
 don't know of any harder thing un-
 der the sun than to try and win a
 man for Jesus Christ, unless you are
 moved with the same motive power that moved the Master. and that was
 compassion. Love sees beyond the ex-
 terior. Love looks behind all the ug- liness and bitterness Of life and sees
 the soul that Christ came to save.
 The next man at the next corner of the couch. I have called him Mir. Faith. Hegis another big man, and you d you couldn't do anything without faith. You remember great crowd followed Jesus Christ one day all through certain city and they won
 dered why He did not do any big
 things, and then they followed Him ;t out of the city, and according to them . He hadn't done any big thing all day and the reason He did not was be-
 cause He could not. because of their unbelief. Unbelief builds a wall be- tween you and Christ. Faith is like q trolley pole on an electric car. There is the wire full of power and the troI. st ley car full of people but It isn't , until the pole touches the wire tha ) the car can move. That is a great II. l illustration of faith. God is on Hi. 3 throne. There is all the power ther, f for two worlds. We can clai-l 1t b- 7 faith. and whe1 we reach up the DOW [ CT comes. This story teaches us : that we can have faith for the heal 2 ing of our friends, and claim then as fuliilment of Gods promises | whether they have faith for them |, selves or not.
 T The next man. at the other cor T ner Of the couch. I calle him MT. Per
 fistency. He is fellow that neve lets go. In spite of obstacles, in spit
 of discouragement, in spite of alnos I. failure. he hangs on and refuses to le go. The next man was a great fel = low, too. When Mir. Love cared enoue ;. to stat this business he said, "T'
 ga. and ret MT Faith because he
 always hef.eving that souethtag i going to be done." and then they bot said i've will go and get Mr. Persis tency. beca ause he never stons push ing" and then they went out and 20 o"other man and they carried the: fiend up to tho great crowd whic \ ti1ronged the houses o-Id court yart Fand streets where the Ma ete~ was, an t would seem as thouell +he;r rfa was going to be defeated. There the were. but the crowd was between ther a"d the Master. and Mir. Love sait Wen, I have given ID my day Mir Faith said. T heUA,7a still thq somehow he vii ha healed. and NJ Persistency said q have pushed an pushed until this crowd Is begfnnin I to be 2, Ettie t1uchhy." They sa | they have. bean here longer than ifn \ iI is a case. of first core. first eeryed iland then tie other falnw said I ca \ RifiEtrn M ': Ingenuity. "Roys. we can \ kget throiigh this crowd. and we. can T l-get through the door" Well, what